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so we’ve got seriously detached dio, what about... too attached dio.

dio is too attached to his mirror son to let him go. to grow up to an equal level. dio is stationary, on the side of the road forever, immortal. he refuses to give his son to time, he controls time. he will not be able to re-create him, so he refuses to outlive him.

dio does what he wants.

while giorno sleeps, dio gently rests a stone mask on his face and smears it with blood with a smile.

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dio’s photo as young giorno’s security object.

other kids have blankets and stuffed animals, but ever since his mother got rid of the photo by carelessly giving it to giorno and saying “here, this is your blood father”, giorno built up an entire daydream about the time his blood father would come to rescue him. He’d look at his starred shoulder in the mirror and be comforted by the fact that it matched the one in the photo.

the night before giorno met the gangster who’d save him from a horrible life, giorno had a dream where he met the man in the photo. he didn’t see his face, but he did feel his hand on top of his head, ruffling his hair.

the next day, the grass around the collapsed man grew faster, and Giorno’s stand had subconsciously awoken.

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reason 94509830853 i love mudad: there’s so much dio can accuse giorno of for getting where he is: his gang was a survival of the fittest and so many died along the way for him to be don. is he really happy where he is? is this the dream he thought he realized? would he have accepted life where he was before knowing the price he would eventually pay? of course, giorno could answer so many ways. no, narancia, bruno, and abbacchio weren’t worth it but he chokes when it comes to having to say it was their choice to put their lives on the line for it. for a better italy.

dio can shake up giorno like a soda can, because dio lives by survival of the fittest and he doesn’t think his son realizes he did, too.

i’m sorry, that was a negative headcanon but i like the Family Strife too. if you need happier thoughts: please imagine giorno and all of his completely alive friends having to take on the mafia task of watching a russian mob’s swarm of beloved borzoi dogs as a favor to their capo in return for more drug trade routes being shut down into italy. the borzoi dogs are stand users, and also good boys. please hire me to write for you araki

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dio noticing giorno flinches when he reaches to touch his head, looks relieved when his touch his gentle...

His stepfather left an unbelievably harsh impression on him even if he doesn’t let it show. Knowing what he knows of Dio, he expects this to be crushing, uncomfortable, painful. He dug everything about him up from SPW’s servers ages ago. He doesn’t know what to expect of his father. He expects violence, he expects a fight, he hopes it’s anything but.

When it’s gentle, his sense of relief is palpable through Dio’s palm. Dio did the child in his heart who grew attached to his photo a huge favor.

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I love your posts about how important it is that Giorno is seen as Dio's son. But isn't it mentioned that Jonathan's body isn't fully under Dio's control until he sucks Joseph's blood? Do you think Dio would ever feel resent for Jonathan for trying to take any part of his son?

Well, I consider him Dio’s son, straight up. And Araki and pretty much all the other development teams consider him so, too. He’s obviously got Jonathan’s blood if he has the star mark and is a Joestar, so I would consider him a hybrid (since it’s specifically mentioned in Part 5 his hair is from his father)

I’m not sure if Dio would be hung up on the matter. It’s the same as knowing the mother had passed on genes too. If Jonathan is in the mix there, that’s just a part Dio can chuckle about. Knowing Jonathan’s son by a fraction grew up to be so much like him.

aka proud dad is proud dad regardless of joestar blood

ps giorno have you ever considered donating blood just wondering

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It’s 1 AM on a Sunday night and this boutique, home to every name brand fashion imaginable, has been silently and quietly broken into.

This is a quiet heist. No alarms are ringing. Only a few necessary lights are on. The doors to the changing room keep opening and closing. Dio tries on a suit jacket but frowns knowing there’s a chance he’ll rip through it despite the nice fit. It goes in his pile anyway. Giorno has a new pair of shoes, he likes staying close to a brand that uses ladybugs as their motif. Dio gives a small ‘heh’, but otherwise doesn’t acknowledge it.

“Be honest, boy. Is this a current-looking outfit?”

“Everything in here is current... they don’t make the kind of money they do selling out of fashion clothes.”

Several things are taken. Dio has a deep distaste of wearing jewelry with someone else’s logo on it, but a set of upper arm bangles feel nostalgic and he piles it in. “How did you know how to get in here?”

“Do you think I could afford these brands doing luggage hustling when I was fifteen? I have practice.”

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Do you think Dio ever gets irked that Giorno is technically Jonathan's child?

I don’t think Dio would think of Giorno as Jonathan’s child. Or at least, he would think Giorno has heritage from both of them.

Dio has spent a hundred years changing this body into his own. By the time Giorno is made, the body Dio has now is under his full possession– it has changed over time from a dead man’s corpse to the shape he desires. When Giorno is conceived, he likely considers any children that come out of it ‘his’. (I’d cite Over Heaven on this because it mentions his children, but frankly I never want to mention Over Heaven about anything)

He sees the star mark and understand that Giorno has Joestar blood from Jonathan. I think that’d actually amuse and endear him somewhat. Something he overtook completely passed on to his child. A little piece of Jonathan still lives in his son. His rival still takes minuscule revenge against him, in some ways, but Dio knows whose spirit Giorno took.