alias v=vim. There, just saved you two keystrokes.

That could break some peoples’ dotfile management, e.g. symlinks or git repos. I’d say deprecation notice and reading from both, at least for a while, is better.

Not quite what you’re asking for, but Dalinor in The Way of Kings is at the very least distruted by his peers and hated/feared by the non-Alethi. He’s not hated by most of the other main characters though, so not quite a loner that everyone hates. We don’t really know why at first, but it ends up being for quite a good reason, and definitely leads to drama and conflict, as well as character development.