long-ass post with random headcanons about dio dea (because female villains) and his her children
( Warning: Pregnancy, stillborn, miscarriage, hypersexuality/sex addiction. )
-It took one hundred years to complete, but once Dea had attached her head to Jonathan's body, it started morphing into her own original body.
-She has technically had five children total. The "green baby" from Stone Ocean was her first, born shortly after she took over the mansion in Egypt. The other parent was one of the men on the boat who had recovered Dea's casket from under the sea. The child was born very prematurely, and she didn't even know she was pregnant, nor did she understand that she could even get pregnant using Jonathan's body to begin with. (From self-harm and dangerous hypersexuality, she was not able to get pregnant while she was still alive with her own original body.) She gave birth alone, and very suddenly, in a lot of pain. The baby survived only minutes. They were cremated, and Dea put their ashes inside of the bone that eventually fell into Pucci's hands. Dea had named the child Alnabatia.
-Dea could never go to a hospital, knowing there was no way to communicate that she needed blood for sustenance and was unable to be in sunlight. She also suspected that hospital personnel would be dumbfounded by any test results from her, as she still didn't completely understand how her immortal body worked herself. She was afraid of what they might do with her child if they were born with anything unusual about them.
-Giorno was her second child. His other parent was Aori Shiobana, a trans woman from Japan, who Dea had an extremely toxic (mutually) relationship with (which had mostly been exclusively sexual to begin with). Dea went through a huge personality change when she found out she was pregnant, and Giorno became the only thing on her mind. But Aori didn't want Dea to have a child, and they fought about it. Aori was not fond of children and made it clear that she could not be expected to be involved in Giorno's life.
-However -- Aori did later change her mind. Months later, one day, while the sun was out, Aori suddenly stole Giorno away. Aori's final words to Dea were about how Giorno could never have a normal life with someone who can't bring him into the daylight. Dea was even more devastated after these words, because she knew Aori was right. At the time, it felt like Giorno's best chance was with Aori, so Dea didn't chase after her.
-Although, the absolutely gutting experience of losing Giorno turned Dea even more cruel than she had been before he was born. Worse than how evil she had been towards Jonathan. Giorno had given her an entirely new purpose that had nothing to do with power. Later, when Jotaro came to fight her, much of her violent rage towards him was influenced by the phrase in her mind, regarding Holly, "I need to make someone else feel the torment of losing a child."
-Donatello and Rykiel were twins. (Their father was Hol Horse, of no warm circumstances -- a rather sad, desperate, random encounter in the library of the mansion. His thoughts afterwards were "Well, that was weird."). Dea was heavily sedated throughout Donatello and Rykiel's gestation, during their birth, and afterwards. She doesn't remember much about them, except their names and when they were born. Though, as with all her children, if she had still been alive when they became adults, she would recognize them. Enya saw that Dea clearly was not able nor willing to parent them, so Enya placed them in foster care. They were separated when Donatello was adopted, and Rykiel remained in foster care until he turned eighteen.
-No one knows where Ungalo came from, except for Enya, who didn't know who his other parent was. Dea's usual bedmates of the mansion were asked about it, but they all agreed that, in their circumstances of timing and method and contraception, it was not possible for Ungalo to be any of their child. Truly, it had been someone who was no more than a passerby tourist in Egypt, and Dea did not even know their name. Ungalo, Rykiel, and Donatello had all been products of Dea's grief about Giorno, where she couldn't have cared less about anything, and could barely feel.
-Dea finally stopped mindlessly having children after she got over the initial agony of losing Giorno. The near fugue state she was in subsided, turning to pure rage. Ungalo was her last. She had only been lucid enough to name him, but didn't remember when exactly he was born. She had only held him once, before he was placed in foster care. Vanilla Ice, Terrence, and Enya would recall that there had been absolutely no trace of light in Dea's eyes when she let go of him. When she was lucid enough, Dea had Vanilla Ice use his Stand to remove Dea's uterus completely.
-N'Dour had been by far the closest person to Dea during her life in Egypt, and he would say that, while Dea had been very different while she had Giorno in her care, there had still been a great deal of her soul present. But after Giorno was gone, N'Dour would say, "There was nothing left of her. She had been like a soulmate to me, but suddenly I didn't recognize her anymore. She became a shadow."
-Giorno is transgender and his pronouns are exclusively he/him. Dea and Aori had not socialized him as any specific gender, and he started realizing himself to be male around age nine. He was a rather gloomy child, and still remained mostly that way, but he did start seeming slightly happier once he realized that he was a trans boy. That was when he started being more creative with his sense of fashion, as he overall felt more comfortable in his own skin.
-Dea was actually the one who named him Giorno. Aori tried to rename him Haruno, but he identified much more closely with the name Giorno. Dea had named him "day" because, the moment she first saw his face when he was born, she thought about how it was like seeing the sun again.
-Giorno remembers her, very fondly. He has nothing but good memories about her, and remembers the songs she used to sing to him. Giorno's connection to nature came from how Dea used to bring him into the garden at night and talk to him about the plants, the animals, the sky.
-At some point while Giorno was living in the dormitories at school, Aori sent him a box of his remaining old things, saying she would just throw them in the trash otherwise.
-In this box was a large envelope he had never seen before. Oddly, it had the name "Giorno" written on it. Aori had always refused to call him that, and his stepfather never knew that name. Startled, Giorno immediately opened the envelope.
-Inside were photos of him from infancy with Dea and her housemates who had helped take care of Giorno (Enya, Vanilla Ice, N'Dour, Terrence), and even some very old photos of Jonathan, Dea, George, and one of Dea's mother.
-There was also a very long, detailed letter from Dea herself, explaining everything about Giorno's infancy, Dea and Aori's relationship (how she had never loved her, and the feeling was mutual), the ambiguous circumstances of his conception, and his difficult and uncertain birth. And, everything about Dea's parents and childhood, about Jonathan and George, very much including how Dea had killed her own father and had been very cruel to Jonathan before killing him and his father. She left nothing out about her evilness.
-She sent the envelope to Aori a while after she had taken Giorno, and Aori forgot about it until years later when Giorno was fifteen. Dea wrote at the end about how she would always love him and how he was "her sunshine." But that, if he never heard from her again, it was likely she had been killed, as she had been determined to one day meet with him again.
-Giorno accepted her evil, though he did not forgive it. But his immense love for her didn't change. He read the letter over and over that night, and he fell asleep clutching it with tears in his eyes.
