The Thing About Daemon Spade
So, I'll confess, I found out about Daemon long before I actually got to his introduction in the anime and I was fully prepared to dislike him. From what I'd seen, he was an evil, evil man and hated everything that Primo represented. But that's not what I saw when I watched him in the anime. Yes, he hates the ideal that Primo fought for... is what he *wants* you to think. But he doesn't truly. You can see it in the way he looks at Tsuna when Tsuna reveals himself to be similar to Primo. He loves him, he loves the Sky that he betrayed and I think that's why he did it. Daemon saw how the world was changing around them and, more importantly, how it *wasn't*. Primo, for all of his good intentions, wasn't changing everything, wasn't able to save everyone, so Daemon, whose job as the Mist is to cloud the enemy's vision of the Family, took it upon himself to protect the Vongola that he loved so much. Now, before someone says something about Daemon's comments of Primo "disappointing" him, yeah, Primo *did* because Primo couldn't see what Daemon thought was the only solution to the issue: make the Vongola feared so that no one would dare to hurt him, to hurt *Primo*. So yes, Daemon betrayed him, but it wasn't out of hatred for Primo, it was out of a love from a man that felt he was the *only one* who feared for the future where Primo's legacy would be lost. At least if the Vongola were feared, all would remember what they started as.
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