i fear i have yet to talk about how badly dio wanted jonathan because I REALLY need to get this out even if it's surface level blabbering. likely everything i say here has already been said but dude cmon i'm new to the fandom let me fudanshi out
oh and this is heavily scatterbrained sorry
not listening to your illiterate ass if you think they're brothers btw
EVIDENCE ONE: THE BODY SHIT
So, this part is mainly me being crazy and deranged and obsessed with how DIO reveres Jonathan's body after taking it over in the more physical aspect. But I specifically wanted to bring up the bit before the body thing:
Come on man. Get a fucking room. "Live gorgeously forever," yeah okay man. Sure. That's a normal thing to say about the guy who split you in half and decapitated you. It's not crazy for me to say that there was some physical desire behind his words here, Dio couldn't have just ANY body, he had to have Jonathan's. He had to have the one guy who gave him a run for his money in terms of physical power and sex appeal urhm sorry I mean attractiveness.
Oh, and this:
this part made me insane like okay pack it up we get it. you wanted to touch him. we know. chill out
In Stardust Crusaders, every time he's on screen, he's showing off Jonathan's body. He's touching himself, he's stroking the birthmark, he's just absolutely wild. Specifically showing off the birthmark makes me raise an eyebrow. He's using it as a trophy: "look at me, look what I have." He's taunting Jonathan's ancestors with his body, jingling keys in front of their faces.
My lovely collection of DIO being not subtle at all about how much he likes Jonathan's body. He wants people to be very aware that it belongs to him now.
One of the biggest freaks in animanga history I'm afraid
But still, the relationship between DIO and his new body isn't shallow. DIO, through Jonathan, has a connection to the rest of the Joestars. Their relationship was the most important one Dio ever had, they were intertwined from the moment they met. Jonathan had his father, Erina, and later Speedwagon and Zeppeli. Dio never really had a fleshed out or meaningful relationship outside of Jonathan. People were either tools or means to an end, the single exception being JoJo. Dio taking over Jonathan's body and acheiving a sort of "higher state of being" says a lot in terms of how intense, impactful, and powerful their relationship was. That Dio saw him as something he wanted. Maybe to be, maybe to have, who knows. Maybe both.
EVIDENCE TWO: GIORNO (Tiny little blurb about their gorgeous diva child)
I love Giorno so much for so many reasons. First off, he's a sort of half-and-half of both Jonathan and Dio. Jonathan was meant to be a character who represented pure good, and Dio pure evil. And Giorno is, in turn, a balance of these two.
Jonathan and Dio are both his biological fathers (which I find to be ship proof already lmao) and parts of them can be seen at different points in Giorno. His cunningness and streak of sadism contrasts with his kindness and want to help those in need. His story revolves around a motivation that Jonathan would have (helping and protecting young people) with methods that Dio would've employed. (you know. the killing and joining the mafia and such)
Even though Dio and Jonathan are polar opposites, these opposites made something beautiful. And I think that's pretty romantic.
EVIDENCE THREE: JONATHAN'S STAND
A stand will disappear (with very few exceptions) after one dies. Being a manifestation of the soul, it leaves after death, after the spirit passes on. And yet, DIO still has control over Jonathan's stand in Stardust Crusaders.
I like to interpret this in two ways!
Jonathan's soul still lives on. The awakening of DIO with Jonathan's body woke up Jotaro and Holly's stands, so part of him is still alive and connected to his family.
DIO has a chokehold on Jonathan's soul after death. As if Jonathan now belongs to DIO after taking over his body.
I like to think these ways both work. As said before, DIO likes to have the upper hand on the Joestar family, and controlling Jonathan's stand is having power over him.
Or having him in general.
EVIDENCE FOUR: THE (LITERAL) SHIP SCENE
Dio was messy as fuck for breaking up with a man he never even dated in front of said man's PREGNANT WIFE. Erina should've beaten his ass for that. Utterly classless on his part. Justice for JonaEri btw this is not a safe space to hate on Erina or JonaEri thanks for listening. Not a safe place to hate on any ship for that matter >:(
Are you kidding me. My favorite ship in this fandom sank an actual ship. With the power of hamon, Dio's eye lazers, and of course, love. In this sequence, (Jonathan and Dio, Fire and Ice) Jonathan faces off against Dio for the last time to save Erina and (at least some of) the people on the ship. Decapitated, he needs a new body. And of course, that body must be Jonathan's.
Dio wouldn't be anything without Jonathan. He says it himself. They're two halves of one whole, a yin-yang sort of relationship. Dio is an incredibly prideful person, yet he bares his soul to Jonathan in this way that we only see one other time with Pucci much later on. He doesn't show this type of admiration to anyone! One of two times we see Dio admitting any sort of emotion other than anger or pride, it's towards Jonathan.
I like to think that Jonathan, being the caring person he is, died with some hope in Dio. That his soul lived on in him, whether intentional or not. The final embrace (at least to me) makes me think that Jonathan hoped for Dio to come to his senses.
yay thanks for reading my evil ass rant on these two creatures that have been plaguing my mind for the past few months. maybe this will make me a little bit more normal.
Confessions on the brink of death a character accepts out of kindness because it won’t matter soon anyway, but then the other person doesn’t die, the other person expects them to carry through on their promise to love them and gets angry when they try to back out. Blackmail held over someone’s head just to force them to flirt and make romantic advances on another person, so it looks like they wanted this relationship. Talks about marriage and happily ever afters together as a threat. “I love you, I love you, I love you” as a violation that you’re expected to smile at and be grateful for, because you’re supposed to want to be loved. noncon romance.
adding to this: feeling love against your will. love forced on you by some power beyond you. love that you know you wouldn’t feel if you weren’t blessed (cursed) by it. love that you don’t want and is ruining you and that everyone keeps praising you for feeling. love that everyone around you gets mad at you for rejecting anyway. love that’s made so overpowering that it wipes out any semblance of “you” that there is to make way for a thing that will love someone back.
funniest part of this post is how many people reblog it tagged something like “this sounds aromantic” or “op not to derail but aromanticism” and like well guys you’re never going to believe why i find forced romance such a horrifying concept-
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