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Now that I’ve experienced all three of these pieces of media, I can make a definitive statement.

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Dio: Oh the ripening fruit of my seed.

Ungalo: Who you calling fruit?

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Head empty only dio smooch smooching

#dio brando #go away freddie murcery ur supposed to be dead #i’m trying to complie a list of cute headcanons for all the SDC guys but #this stupid slut vampire consumes my thoughts 25/8 ugh #feel free to drop requests tho inbox is dry dry

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Got an ask and follow-up re: whether Dio is an “archetypal villain” so doing it as one reply (fwiw I just did a reply re: Dio’s nuance so keeping this to the ‘archetype’ part of the ask).

“so, i seen some people say Dio is simply a archetypal villain, perhaps even flat. what would you say to someone that told you he was without nuance? i plenty believe he has, but sometimes i dont know exactly what to say”

“someone i asked about what was their favorite villain told me he was a archetypal villain. and i think two years ago i saw a meme pic about how Dio fans are obnoxious or something. i mostly got my liking from him by analyses, alongside the fact that i do think personally that he DID change as a character, not completely, but he had some development.”

I partly agree with that, although maybe there’s not one single 'archetypal villain.’ The person you spoke with probably meant that Dio’s is Evil with a capital 'E,’ as opposed to a villain who does the bad things for understandable reasons, or who gets corrupted by events outside their control. Araki’s vision for Dio (in Part 1 especially) is, morally speaking, black-and-white, with Dio’s Evil defined by Araki as an innate trait rather than the effect of his circumstances.

fwiw David Mamet’s got a good list of eight villain archetypes - the anti-villain, the beast, the bully, the machine, the mastermind, the evil incarnate, the henchman, and the fanatic - and I thought for the purpose of this reply it’s helpful to defining Dio’s specific brand of badness. Of those archetypes, two stand out as defining Dio’s *specific* type: the Evil Incarnate and (technically not on the list but inspired by it) the Anti-Hero.

(fwiw you can read my convo here about why Dio isn’t a bully type. I see him mistyped this way especially by people who want to expand Jonathan’s role in the series. tl;dr, basically it comes down to the fact that Dio’s charisma - his most important character trait btw - draws people toward him while a bully actively seeks out confrontation. The bully barges into a room, the charismatic character gets you to barge into a room. Dio is the latter.)

Evil Incarnate’s almost self-explanatory - Dio’s literally called that in the series (邪悪の化身) - although I can talk more about this if you want. By contrast, his anti-hero role’s maybe less obvious … but that designation offers us a way of reconciling some of the stuff listed under Mamet’s 'Evil incarnate’ that doesn’t work with how Dio’s written. Specifically, an Evil incarnate-type villain’s primary role in the narrative is usually as an obstacle to the hero’s journey, ie, as an antagonist. imo, Dio functions instead primarily as a parallel protagonist.

(I’ve written about this before but) Araki’s said this a lot: Dio joins Jonathan as a dual protagonist in Phantom Blood, and Dio’s own story follows a Hero’s rising arc.

(Was surprised I didn’t notice this until I hunted a gif for this reply: while the Part 1 OP features both main characters throughout, it’s Dio alone who’s given a special manga panel mini-montage during its bridge, emphasizing his hero-style arc.)

In a lot of ways Dio’s more fleshed out than the actual hero since Araki had already worked out the specifics of his personality in a prior series (whereas Jonathan was vaguer to Araki, even as Part 1 was being published: “just as Jonathan was unsure how to live his life, I was unsure as to where to take his character.”) Phantom Blood starts off with Dio’s introduction, not Jonathan’s. As Araki puts it,

The title of the series is Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, but first and foremost, I actually wanted to draw Dio.

The hero’s introduction is inserted within Dio’s introduction, as a story-within-a-story recalled in a flashback by Dio’s dad. We don’t get to meet Jonathan on his own terms until the next chapter, and, because of this ordering, if you read Part 1 cold you could start off thinking it’s Dio who’s going to be the hero. Dio’s story’s a riff on your stereotypical rags-to-riches tale but with the obvious twist that he’s written as unapologetically Evil. Like the rags-to-riches protag, Dio’s faced with increasingly difficult setbacks and challenges throughout his story’s progress, and, in spite of these, he keeps moving forward. Araki, again:

Dio moves in a rising direction, like Jonathan. Dio accepts and embraces his evil nature and follows his dark path without hesitation. In other words, both Dio and Jonathan are living life with everything they’ve got, and both always maintain a rising personal arc.

In other words, Dio has his own upward rising arc by design and it’s independent of the hero’s. ofc his interactions with the Joestars throughout the series are significant and their back-and-forths drive the larger story, but the trajectory of Dio’s arc remains largely the same throughout all this.

If you see Dio as a protagonist then you also recognize that Jonathan’s (and later Jotaro and company’s) relentless pursuit (yes, they pursue him, because charisma is a gravitational force) provides the antagonistic force to Dio’s arc. (And going back to the Araki quote, that “without hesitation part” is really important - Dio’s willful embrace of his Evil nature and the intentionality of his actions throughout Part 1 again align him with a heroic type: it’s a positive character trait, just in Dio’s case it’s executed wrongly.)

So call Dio an anti-hero or, if it makes you more comfortable, a Villain who thinks he’s the Hero in the story. This isn’t a unique situation (and probably as you’re reading this you might be thinking, well all villains have their own story arc too)  but imo Araki writing Dio with this specific perspective and intent sets him apart from what we think of as the more generic model of a villain, whose role within the narrative is secondary to the hero’s and whose arc is cleanly set up as in opposition to that hero.

Ofc, a villainous anti-hero is by nature appealing because we know we really shouldn’t root for him. We should hate him … but we still sort of love him, especially when, because of that rising story arc that Araki gave him, he keeps coming back after stupidly impossible odds. Usually when you get decapitated you lose but Dio’s not like that, and there’s something compelling about a character who repeatedly breaks the narrative flow by improv-ing his way through impossible situations.

tl;dr, basically if you’re looking to characterize what 'type’ of villain Dio is (and why he’s attractive), Dio is Evil personified fused with the inconvenient fact of his also being more or less protagonist-identified. Araki wrote Dio with a hero in mind, and that fact keeps him interesting on his own terms and places him in the contrarian posture of a particularly reprehensible anti-hero.

#jjba part 1 #phantom blood

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Broke: Giorno is DIO’s son because he says “wryyyyyyy” and “muda”.

Woke: Giorno is DIO’s son because he, too, cares nothing for the biological constraints of the body. Bricks? Snakes? Vaccines for flesh-eating viruses? One and the same to Giorno Giovanna. Just as his father combined man and cat, and his head and Jonathan’s body, he, too, shall surpass his limits and become the big boss of the mafia. You see, he, Giorno Giovanna, has a dream-

#W OK E #Dio brando #giorno giovanna #jojo part 1 #jojo part 5 #phantom blood #vento aureo #golden wind

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✨Random JoJo Headcanons✨

💐Okuyasu is a really good cook

💐One year Giorno and Trish just got Mista body wash, shampoo and conditioner for his birthday

💐Josuke has Koichi’s name in his contacts as ‘Short King👑’

💐Jouske and Okuyasu taught Mikitaka a bunch of swears and got scolded by Koichi when he found out

💐Josuke and Yukako meet once a month to complain and make fun of Rohan

💐When it’s hot outside and the gang is stuck inside a hot building Wes uses Weather Report to cool everyone down

💐Abbacchio has had to hide the Axe body spray from Mista so the gang could actually be in the same room with him and not die

💐Giorno’s hair is very soft and silky

#jojo part 5 #jojo part 4 #diamond is unbreakable #vento aureo #guido mista #leone abbacchio #trish una #giorno giovanna #yukako yamagishi #koichi hirose #okuyasu nijimura #mititaka hazukura #these are so cute dude!!

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“このジョルノ・ジョバァーナには夢がある” “I, Giorno Giovanna, have a dream.” .

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. This was super fun to draw and giorno’s too pretty to not draw. I especially had fun with the plants growing around him and his hair was so fun to draw, I think I have a thing for drawing blond hair lol

#golden wind #jojo part 5 #jjba giorno #giorno giovanna #BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL BOYYY #Op is such an incredible artist omg! <3

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#kars #jojo part 2 #battle tendencies

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Cute Dio things to imagine for all the Dio fuckers out there(SFW!)

Dio patting your head.

You patting Dio’s head.

You and Dio doing each other’s make up.

Dio giving you a forehead kiss before you get up from his lap.

(Modern Dio AU) You stopping by Dio’s law office to give him a kiss and tell him he’s doing a great job. Maybe even bring him a coffee or tea.

You, Dio, and all his kids playing tea party.

Since its the 80’s, you showing Dio how the hell to use hair curlers and watching his face be amazed.

Organizing his books for him because he reads so much

Matching outfits together

(Phantom Blood, Pre-Vampire) Dio letting you act out all your cottage core fantasies for the weekend at a cottage (with George’s blessings of course)

#//♡headcanon/sceanerio♡// #Trying to clear out my drafts tbh #I wanna do this for other characters too so if you got a character in mind feel free to drop #dio brando #jojo no kimyou na bouken #jojo's bizarre adventure #dio #jjba #dio headcanons #jjba headcanons

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January 16, 1989

#jjba sdc #part 3 spoilers #stardust crusaders spoilers

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fuck it posting my self indulgent art 

#//♡My art♡// #JoJo's Bizarre Adventure #jjba oc #Dio brando #dio x oc

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I love your work. I also am a Simple for the one and only Dio. If its okay, could I request a headcanon or scenario (whichever is easier), with the Girl Dio (PB) has been talking to/picking on sees what he did to Danny, and shuts him out completely? Sorry if that too much 😅 🥰 THANKYOU ❤

HELLO!! Just want to give a huge apology for taking so long to repond to your request!  (And thank you so much for loving my work!! (´；ω；`))

Anyways, I love scenerios where Dio is actually held accountable by others around him. I love Dio but we can’t forget that he is a bad guy. Hope this isn’t too short!!

♡ For some context, y/n was the daughter of another nearby noble family in the country side town. She had already been well aquatinted with Jonathan prior to Dio’s arrival. However, like many another people that Jojo knew, he too manage to separate her and Jonathan. 

♡Thankfully, his means of doing this were not in the same vain as what he had done to Erina. No, he certainly wasn’t trying to scare her away. He seemed to have taking a fancy to her. With some charisma, a bit of playful teasing, and allowing himself to be vulnerable, Dio successfully woo her over. Unfortunately making Jonathan irrelevant. 

♡ However...This was short lived. 

♡ On her way to visit Dio at the manor, she happened to come across Jonathan sulking by the tree that he and Danny once could be found. Y/n approached him, she hadn’t even realize how long it had been since she saw him. She and Jojo talk just as they did before as best friends, soon to find out all that her Dio had done. She was filled with shock upon discovering why Danny was absent.

♡ Y/n decided to confront Dio on this. She was completely disgusted in his actions and made it clear to him. When Dio couldn’t persuade her into believing that Jonathan was lying, his true colors began to show and tried using intimidation on her.

♡ This didn’t work. Y/n name simply and blunt told him they were no longer speaking, just like that, she cut them off.

#also reblogging to boost

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Greetings! I’m making this post to promote/boost my blog! I’ve gone a while without writing or drawing due to a depression slump, but now I want to get back into the swing of things! 

♡∞:｡.｡Brief Re-Introduction. ｡.｡:∞♡

♡ I’m Torie! I’m 20 years old and I go by she/they pronouns.

♡ Though yes, Dio is my favorite husbando character, I also like Jolyne, Giorno, Mista, Kars, Jospeh, and Jonathan just to name a few ;)!

♡ Ask me about my ships °ྌྏ°

Requests for writing will be reopened. I only write for Jojo, so those are the sort of requests I will be accepting. Here is some info

♡ I do headcanons lists, scenarios, fanfiction and occasionally matchups

♡ I always try to be inclusive to all genders and pronouns, so I frequently I will use they/them pronouns. However, if you request certain pronouns I will take them!

♡ I do write NSFW, despite not posting any yet. So if you are under 18, do beware and block 

♡ Even though my page is mostly Dio, do feel free to send me requests for other characters! I love all the characters <3

♡ I also do art!!

♡∞:｡.｡My new tags!｡.｡:∞♡

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More info can be found on my blog. Hope to hear from you all!!

#reblogging my own post to boost. #inbox is hella empty feel free to fill it

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#jojo's bizarre adventure #dio brando #vanilla ice #sdc spoilers #part 3 spoilers

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He would give me life without patrol no matter what

#dio brando #AHAHAHAH LIFE WITHOUT PATROL

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doppio and the terrible, no good, very bad sardinia vacation