Talk about the Broship of Dio and Nani. Also, the newer sexy ship one I'm seeing with Meg?
Tell my muse who you ship them with. Be as subtle or as obvious as you like!
{ The Nani-Dio broship is entirely one of my favorite things ever. I especially love watching the trends in it! It started at Nani’s audition for the role of Sally with Dio very much like “who does this bitch think she is?” but also seeing some real opportunity...for himself. (Chaotic Good is still chaotic, people.) He was genuinely impressed with her talent and took him under his wing, and for a very long time felt super fatherly and paternal towards her. And then he kind of backslid into being her best friend. (Well. He thinks he’s her best friend. You’d have to ask Em who Nani’s best friend is.) I say “backslid” because he was really planning on being like a dad to her--I think he got a little deflated on the idea and let it slack off when she started talking about her real dad.Dio and fathers. He’s...a little bitter.Anyway.Now that Dio’s dating marrying her father, he’s trying to claw his way back up into that paternal esteem of hers. It’s not going so well for him, because Nani just isn’t able to un-see or un-live a lot of the little things that made them friends and not relatives. I think she still respects him like a father, though. Just not to his face, much to our collective joy!
What’s kind of neat about this friendship is that even though we haven’t really RP’ed it there yet, a lot of this connection carries over into our TV!verse! See, Nani actually works as a co-star on Dio Divine!. She’s a recurring character, a girl-next-door archetype in the big denim overalls with the colorful shits. You know the type. She’s not exactly a season-regular, ever, but she is a fan-favorite, and on the show has covered topics like racial diversity, adoption, working together, acceptance of others, and strife between siblings--which is perhaps most notable because the girl playing her younger sister is none other than Stephanie Harvester. Dio and Nani are still very close friends in this verse--best friends, even. They share a very close connection and Dio is always happy to push for greater and greater successes for Nani, even if that means moving past him and going further than he could. (He also does this in our base!verse, but he gets a lot moodier about her “leaving him behind” there than he does here.)
I’d love to give you more on the Meg thing, but I’m as new to it as you are. It just sort of happened?, but that’s life! They’re just a pair of Sassy Sue’s together that...apparently...screw sometimes. I know it’s eventually going to get romantic and I’m excited to watch that part evolve, because I don’t think it’s quite as clear-cut as it looks from the outside. If Dio decides he’s in with someone, everything changes. See also: literally everyone else on this blog he has ever dated. }