So like, everyone loves Nemo, but is their anyone he hates?
Asking the hard questions, I see. This is what my degree is for (it’s actually for media production and cinema and screen studies but-) I’ll answer based upon if he was with my builder, Scout.
Scout and Nemo are meant to be, your honor.
Yan. 100000%. He does not like him at all. He becomes subject to harsh pushing to the side when Nemo accidentally wanders into his path. He’s been pushed off the edge of the stairs to the commerce porch when he was sleeping. Yan wouldn’t let him into the building during a sandstorm when everyone thought someone else had taken him in. But he could bear it. It was fine.
Until Scout adopts him.
While she protects him and he realizes he’ll never know harm and neglect again- he’s been witness to times where Yan has caused her emotional stress. He senses the frustration and her hitting her breaking point despite keeping her features blank as best as she can. And Nemo hates it. He can’t fix it. And he knows that Yan is the cause.
He’ll hold it against him- associate that negativity his owner feels with all the things he knows make this man up. He hates him and begins to growl at him on sight when he’s in Scout’s hold and Yan begins to come closer to her space.
If Scout isn’t there? Nemo avoids him at all costs.
He has though chewed on his hat before and pissed in his shoes.
*photo creds: @sandrockers