miego as a ship is so funny to me because inherently, in my heart of hearts, i do ship lana and mia i think they're good and fit the series' predetermined attorney-prosecutor romantic trope i think they're cool girlfriends and i also think that mia is like. unsmart enough to fully use diego as a point of deflection, both for externalised homophobia and her own internalised boundaries on their (lanamia) relationship. introduce him around as her boytoy. flaunt him on her arm like a trophy wife, technically playing both lana and diego but neither of them mind. refuse to do anything more romantic than stand within a two foot radius of diego while going "yeah he's my boyfriend" type beat.
mia could convince herself that protecting her chief prosecutor girlfriend's reputation precedes any and all selfish desires she may have that are already being acted upon, she just won't say so. some fucko approaches them in public with a slightly suspicious look aimed towards lana and before she can even open her mouth mia proudly starts gushing about her relationship with diego and lana is just sitting there gently patting her arm like babe. babe you don't have to do this i promise but mia is an unstoppable force (gay) and immovable object (lawyer from the aa-verse) all at once
and diego is just so hooked onto having a big tiddie girlfriend he literally doesn't even care if they're not dating. mia would be sweating bullets standing between diego and lana going "yeah this is miss skye whom i admire greatly in a distinctly professional way way and also i think she's incredibly smart and capable and i respect her as a fellow barrister and i think her hair smells awesome and i love how assertive she is in court but also fun to talk to and this is the guy im dating, mr armando" meanwhile diego is just grinning like yeah my girl has epic tits and lana is overjoyed that mia loves her new shampoo, because she's actually too smart to be bothered about the semantics of this dynamic as long as she gets to kiss her awesome girlfriend whenever she'd like to
mia would introduce diego to maya once as an experiment and he'd be like good evening miss tiny girl ma'am i really vibe with your elder sister and mia is like yeah doesn't he, my totally male and totally real male boyfriend who im sexually attracted to meanwhile maya is like lol sis i thought you had a crush on that prosecutor lady and mia is like. brain freeze. it's an intellectual thing and diego is shrugging like yeah they're just like that and he'd fully believe it
(lana could be like you do know your "girlfriend" makes out with me in the defendant lobby right and he'd be like women kiss sometimes. im not sexist. and they'd go on dates and hold hands and love each other earnestly and he'd be sipping his coffee like nice i respect when women expand their scope of interest and don't limit themselves to their male partners as stereotypes dictate)
bonking their heads together like plastic dolls. anyways