Kind of hard not to. It's just... a trend. Not just him.

[Plenty of people don't like him. Gokudera acts like he doesn't care, but him verbally pointing it out? Yeah... he cares. His friends are super cool, but the bomber can pick up that most people around Zuko aren't terribly fond of him. Maybe because the firebender is such a good friend, everyone else seems so much the opposite around him.]

He got his head cut off just as he was going to try and kill me.