>I'm playing a sphere anger character that is a prick.

Why would you want to do that? I understand that not everybody needs to play a nicey-nice cahracter, and how boring it would be if they did. But still, it sounds like you intentionally made a role that people are going to find obnoxious. Now obviously I know nothing about your role and you don't want to be talking all about it here, so I'm not expecting any kind of conversation about it. I'll just hope that your character is a prick in a way that makes other people think "heh, that guy's really playing a prick, that's pretty cool" instead of "jesus, that guy's a real prick"

It's definitely possible to play a character that's unpleasant to other characters and still make it apparent that you, the player, are not the a-hole. Then again, I know some people have the attitude "I play to have fun for me and too bad if the rest of you don't like it". And I think that's a poor attitude for a game that's so dependant on the community. Not that I'm saying you have that attitude, I don't know who it was who said the words to that effect.