few characters are as hilarious as dio. he just came out of the womb evil. he stole his fucking brother's body because he was too nice to him. his first action after chilling in the ocean for 100 years was to fuck and get a spandex bodysuit with kneepads and a heart headband. he has a a fucking mullet. he says his plan is to kill all remaining joestars but all he did was expand his polycule and fuck around in egypt and florida, very not-sunny places for a vampire. his biggest ally is a 16 year old and they build lego mini house sets together. AND he's evil.
As funny as this is in concept, from what I know, there’s no real proof dio “came out of the womb evil”. Dio is evil and has no excuse for his personal choices, but we should acknowledge that dio had a terrible abusive father, who abused dios mom until her death and abused dio until darios own death. It has been shown that children who are raised with more violence tend to have less emotional control and struggle with maintaining violence. Top this with the violence he faced from being in bars and using his wits to scavenge. And the fellow boys he was surrounded by at the time. Now think about how George joestar is responsible for letting Dario, what should have been a clearly despicable man, back out of jail. As great as it is of George to be generous and want to see a man discover kindness and better themselves, this may not come across the mind of an abused child. So your an abused child, going to live with the people responsible for allowing your abuse to continue. It’s just not a good situation. Don’t get me wrong, dio deserved punishment for his crimes, but I don’t subscribe to the idea he was “born evil”. I fully believe this behavior was demonstrated to be the most effective form of survival for him, and he had no one in his life that he could truly trust after the death of his mother to have enough of a connection to him to see otherwise.
