#snek dio

[daisys-gard3n]

What. Have. You. Done.

I used to be obsessed with the naga Giorno concept and NOW YOU’VE REAWAKENED IT. I’ve only ever found 1 naga Giorno fic, I’m surviving off of scraps over here ;-;

Headcanons? More ideas? Anything?? I beg of you, I need more naga Giorno in my life.

one snek comin up

His tail would be based off of the eyelash viper. Mostly yellow/golden with a few black spots here and there. Like his scales, there will be some beauty marks on body. His hair is usually down for the most part, but he’ll occasionally braid it or put it up when he’s hunting. Green slit-pupil eyes, seems like they’re glowing - studying you and your every movement as he stays still like the predator he is. Has pointed scales coming off of his face to mimic the structure of an eyelash viper.

Quite powerful, getting his with his tail feels like getting hit by a semi truck. One of the few notorious predators in the jungle. His arms are also pretty strong and his fingers are quite skilled - able to weave baskets and traps, catch smaller prey, carry a myriad of things all at once (about a couple of large bundles of firewood), and so on. 

The humans who live in the jungle fear these creatures, referring to Giorno as a ‘deity’ at some points - elders fearing him and claiming tall tales about the ‘golden snake god’ and how he was one to be feared - taking people left and right like they disappeared from thin air. Those who lived through an experience heightened these tales. 

(It was actually Dio who was responsible for all these rumors since he too is a mostly golden naga, and now Giorno gets associated with him.)

Imagine stumbling across this beautiful snake man, living peacefully by himself at his cave - surrounded by colorful flowers and beautiful insects coming by visiting his garden...He looks at peace. Although his gaze occupied, his acute hearing isn’t. Just a little shuffle in the leaves and Giorno is immediately turning to you. Just an intense stare-off, his green eyes calculating and watching your slightest movements as if he was trying to read you like a book...But he’ll deem you harmless and simply slither away.

Eventually, it’ll become routine enough that Giorno will laugh at you hiding - “Don’t you think it’s about time you introduced yourself?”

He’s quite polite, but rather clueless about humans...Since they just run away from him in pure terror, he’s never learned how to interact with one. Mostly just him assuming you like naga things, like offering you raw meat or assuming you have naga customs.

“Oh? You humans don’t pile after one female and nearly kill her in order to breed?”

He’ll get it eventually, and by then the two of you will be happily hanging out on his territory. 

Picks up on your isms and what you like - admiring some flowers? He’ll pick a small bouquet of them for you. Like seashells? He can try and string you jewelry, but he’s really not that good at it. etc.

Makes you sit on his tail when travelling outside of his territory, not wanting you to fall into some other predator’s hands. Good at protecting you, easily knocking over enemies in his way.

Oh...when he enters his rut, he’s screaming at you to run away from him and that he was dangerous. Since he lived rather far from the naga people, he hasn’t had a mate in years...And you’re the closest...breathing...warm...breedable thing he’s been around in a while.

If you run away too late, he’ll be chasing you like the crazed predator he is - like you’re his little mouse and his dinner.

Insanely possessive, dragging you back to his cave and breeding you like crazy. His mumblings about how you’re his, you’re his mate, he wants to put eggs inside of you, he wants you to be completely his, etc. Holding you down tightly and his forked tongue in your mouth.

He can control the amount of venom in his fangs, so when he bites you - it’s more of a numbing agent...You’re gonna need it for his well-endowed set of cocks. 

He’ll go on for hours and hours until you’re mush, scenting you with his mark and coiling you in his grasp as he continued to ramble in his lust. 

Afterwards he is so embarrassed by what he did and apologizing to you immensely.

You’re most likely abandoned by the village because you ‘have the mark of the deity’ and ‘offered’ as sacrifice. Giorno will be there, untying you gently and taking you back to his home...Now your home. He cannot reverse the mating ritual, so now you were solely his responsibility. 

After the whole process of falling in love, you’re pretty much his whole world. Coming back from hunting, he’ll immediately reach to you for your comfort and embrace. He feels...Less like a freak when he’s with you. 

If you are able to get pregnant, you’re most likely carrying his eggs. Giorno would be over the moon, watching you carefully like a fragile flower. Being with you every step of the way, holding onto your hands as delivery comes and you’re left with a nest of around 12-ish eggs. 

Super doting as a mate, you’re his whole world at the moment. Just wanting you to be close and to see your smiling face is enough for him. He’ll tease you with licks from his fork-tongue, being able to easily read your emotions, and is generally very heavy with affection. 

Refers to you as ‘Angelo’ or ‘Amore’, any other pet name and he’ll be flustered.

Melts if you call him any sort of pet name, physically hiding because he doesn’t know how to take it in.

The very end of his tail wags if you praise him or give him affection, will pretend he doesn’t know what you’re talking about if you point it out.

Now that the two of you are emotionally both mates...He’s not hiding his insane sex drive anymore. Coming onto you whenever, possibly almost everyday - he just wants to see you whimper and moan with his forked tongue wrapping around your most sensitive parts. That’ll be enough for him most of the time (kinda a voyeur)...But when he’s pretty much tossing you to the ground and panting, you’re getting resized. 

The aftercare is immaculate tho - sweet words, kisses, holding you closely, collecting enough furs for you to rest on peacefully...His tail coiling around you for that warmth and pressure you can’t live without. 

Ya’ll ever seen a snake so whipped for someone? Giorno having mf heart eyes everytime he sees you, rather affectionate and playful when he’s fully opened up to you. 

#naga giorno #monster au #not sfw #gn reader #jjba headcanons

[rosalinesurvived]

Because I was thinking about him, George II headcanons:

• More of a humorous thought: he broke every single rule in the British Airforce by accident and it was only then that the zombie/captain/Dio realised he was a Joestar and offed him.

•Whenever he had the opportunity, he preferred using Tommy guns to fire with. Just a neat little throw to Joseph

•He had long hair/curls before joining the military. Look, I just know that they make you cut your hair there, and the fact that G had curls is one i wholeheartedly resonate with

•Airplanes was always his interest in, even as a child. He just found them fascinating and was a total nerd over engineering

•The ocean freaks him out. He doesn’t really know why, but he did a lot of shit in the military just so he never had to fly overseas. He knew that his Father drowned but he doesn't know the full story, the sea just stresses him out instinctually

•Most of his close friends he made in the military

• Alignment Chart I'd say Prep-Nerd

•Got into a lot of fights over people saying that Speedwagon was too lowborn to be around them.

•In a Modern AU he'd be the kind of guy who could recite how to fix a microwave off the top of his head and them completely flunk it when trying to fix it himself. Good in practise, terrible in execution.

•He had the ability to use Hamon but unlike Jonathan and Joseph, before he died he never had the chance to release it

•Once Hamon was discovered there was a seriously freaky thing about research facilities and human experimentation that Erina fought to keep G away from and the SPW Foundation fought against

•As well meaning as Erina was she was almost overprotective towards George. She didn't want to loose him. He joined the military half because of duty and half to get away from All That.

•Alright, stay with me here: all thise old-school boarding places rich people get sent to in stories?

•George was sent to one. He poured hot soup over someone's head on his first day for saying that Robert didn't deserve his position

•He will fight a snek for disrespecting his family

•Artist! He loved drawing Lisa Lisa

•I feel like George did the drawings while Lisa Lisa preferred doing the actual painting and colours?? They would just run around London to the most craziest places to paint/draw

#why am i so obsessed over this man #headcanon #hc #george joestar ii #erina Pendleton joestar #erina pendleton #jonathan joestar #robert e o speedwagon #lisa lisa #jojo #jjba #jojo's bizarre adventure #tw human experimentation

[cardsbizarreadventure]

“Joelle!!! Look at what hassss happened to me!” DIO said as he slithered towards Joelle. (dio-of-the-shadows)

“Do I even ask...?“ - Joelle. @dio-of-the-shadows

#jojo oc #jjba oc #Joelle Joestar #dio #dio brando #snek dio #// does this mean snek puns? #//ohoohoo

[dio-of-the-shadows-archived]

"Dad...what happened to you?" Giorno went to have a visit to see his father until he saw him.

DIO slithered towards his son as he revealed his snake features. “I don’t know how thisss happened Giorno, but I hope that it endssss.” 

M!A: 3/5

#Dio #dio brando #shadow dio #giorno giovanna #stardust crusaders #vento aureo #golden wind #m!a: snek dio #ask

[manglednatalia]

Tag Guide

General

Wholesome art - all the reblogged art, including the not-so-wholesome

Animal tags - doggos, birbs, kitters, mah friends (deer), spooders, sneks, etc

MaNa's thought process - me screaming into the abyss

MaNa's creations - my art

Vampurs - vampires

Hunter x Hunter

Synusie - Killua and Gon

Kajtek - general tag for human Kite

Kcyytt - 1999 Kaito

Kycctt - 2011 Kite

Raccoonboy - 2011 little Kite

Kite shipping - all the ships involving the boy (ocs included)

Sea dad - Morel

Ratboy - ant Kite

Dodgeball dad - Razor

Mister Wing - Wing (duh)

Assassin Dilf - Silva

Assassin Milf - Kikyo

Kitou Pitou - Neferpitou

She stole my heart - Mito

Trash man - Ging

See how I glitter - Pariston

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

Dorime - Dio

Mr Sunshine - Jonathan

Genius dumbass - Joseph

Joot doot - Jotaro

Kak - Kakyoin

Polpol - Polnareff

Purple rain - Josuke

Mr Handman hand me a hand - Kira

Golden boi - Giorno

Dolcetto mio - Bruno

Goth Daddy - Leone

Fragola boi - Fugo

Metal dad - Risotto

Mafia Dilf - Diavolo

Mia Dona - Donatella

Babey gurl - Jolyne

Transformers

Honeybee - Bumblebee

Metal husband - Starscream

Metal wife - Windblade

Mein metall Ehemann - Blitzwing

Angry cop - Prowl (except the tfa one)

Papa Megs - Megatron

Robo dad - Optimus

Robo mom - Elita

Kickass uncle - Ironhide

Kickass aunt - Chromia

That bastard with a chainsaw - Pharma

Hot boy Roddy - Rodimus

Pokemon

Badger husband - Piers

Fuzzy goblin - Impidimp and its evolutions

#not everything's tagged tho #ill be adding more in the future

[stupidscissors]

birthday gift

#Dio Brando #ghiaccio #JoJo's Bizarre Adventure #JJBA #Vento Aureo #la squarda #centaur #snake #SNEK #NAGA #lamia #gay #kiss #La Squadra di Esecuzione

[morioh-killer]

monster fucker solidarity 🤝 I have an AU specifically for my monster-loving shenanigans where Dio is a naga too bc I simp for the big snek boys/girls

NAGA DIO NAGA DIO NAG-

[fortune-fool02]

Danger noodle Dio, he a big snek or small?

Very likely a big snake. 

[badbuddhism]

Good shit as always. Luv the new snek. Hope you're doing well. -- sh0shin

Hey friend long time no speak! Noodle is a cutie eh! (And I may or may not have today gotten a crested gecko called Diablo, or DIO for short). I hope you're well and happy!

[llybian]

JJBA Steel Ball Run, Vol. 5 Impressions

You Stop Feeling Things Right Now, Young Man

This Nine-Year-Old Is Extremely Dangerous

Look At Him! He’s Mending Other People’s Clothes! Despicable!

Lemme Just Tie My Foot Back On

Dad Never Went To My Baseball Games—Always Too Busy With Meetings Or Executing People

Joseph Of Arimathea Drew The United States Of America

I Didn’t Necessarily Need To See An Old West Stroheim

He’s Got A Gun Hand! A Hand Gun!

His Balls Dropped

Take That You Crazy German Cyborg

That Does Not Look Healthy

When Bae Is Talking At The Ground Instead Of You

This Is Not My Beautiful House. This Is Not My Beautiful Left Hand.

I Feel Like 68 Is A Large Number Of Deaths For A Horse Race

Slapped By The Devil’s Palm

You Can’t Just Throw Out A Corpse As A “For Instance”

Ulterior Motives Out The Ying Yang

“The ‘Corpse’ Chooses The Person”

“It Is ‘Justice’ For Us To Get This ‘Corpse!’”

Wait. Wait. Wait. You’re Looking For A Corpse… With Joseph Of Arimathea’s Map… And He Is Best Known For Preparing Jesus’s Body For Burial… And… Oh. Ohhhh. Ohhhhh Nooo.

Wait A Minute. So That’s Supposed To Be… (Googles) President Benjamin Harrison???

Am I Seriously Reading A Story Where A Shady Millionaire Teams Up With President Benjamin Harrison To Stage A Horse Race To Find Pieces Of The Body Of Christ Scattered Across America While An Italian Executioner And A Paraplegic Ex-Jockey Try To Save A Nine-Year-Old’s Life With Balls And Fingernails???

WILL THIS BE THE JOJO THAT BREAKS ME

Does President Benjamin Harrison Have A Stand Ability

The Mystery Of The Missing Coffee

And We’re Suddenly Roasting Opera Singers. Okay.

GYRO HAS BEEN RAPTURED

VALKYRIE (GYRO’S HORSE) HAS BEEN RAPTURED

GYRO’S STUFF HAS BEEN RAPTURED

They Took The Horse Right Out From Under Him!

THE HOOKS!!!

Living Under A Rock

Ink Is Not For Drink

Yup. Jyawnee Jyawshter. That’s The Guy.

You Got Some Strong Hair, Gyro

Bugs Can’t Be Trusted

Handing The Hand Over

What Are You. What Even *Are* You.

Toenail Attack!

“My Nails Just Shot Out From My Lame Feeeeeeeeet!”

Conspiracy Theory

“I Wonder If Teeth Taste Good?”

Swimming Through The Desert

Cruelty To Sneks

Horse Sense

You’re Fired

DON’T TELL ME THAT YOU LOVE ME! JUST TELL ME THAT YOU WANT ME! TUSK!

See, That’s A Much Better Stand Name

Boyfriend Bait

Now That’s Cruel

Manful Tears

Handy

“I’m Not Going Corpse Hunting”

Hand To God

It’s Latin For: Dance, Baby, Dance

Let’s Win This Race And Find That Corpse

The Sandman’s A’Comin’ (Also Dio)

#wendy's reading jjba #i am no longer able to even

[acbradley33-blog]

Some character sketches I'm working on, just finishing off reworking Zahra's previously rather janky ACR. This is 7-year-old Princess Yasemin of Tarquesh (in the middle, with her beloved snek Eri) with her 7'5 tigress bodyguard Zahra and her 5'8 zebra tutor Dalia. Yasemin moved to Aludra after her mother arranged for her to be married to the similarly-tiny Princess Imperial, Jirina dio Alud. On the left is the three right after they moved, on the right is after they got settled. In that one Yasemin's got a little flower behind her ear that her wife gave her earlier in the day, and she's very happy because that means they're married and in love! Zahra's from a very conservative family in Northern Tarquesh and her mother was always worried she wasn't sufficiently Tarqueshi, hence her always covering her mouth and ears even though non-hyenas don't really need to do that. While this is in part related to modesty, the main reason Tarqueshi do this is religious: they believe the personification of evil in their pantheon, a mindless but incredibly powerful creature called the Voice of the Desert, is always searching for them, and so they conceal their appearances and don't give their real names to outsiders. The ultimate example of this is Yasemin's mother the Queen, who is only known by her title to anyone outside her immediate family. The inside of one's home is held to be a sacred place (harim) where one is safe from the Voice's influence, hence Yasemin not covering her face around the Imperial Palace after she started to feel safe there: Dalia suggested it, so she wouldn't feel like a stranger in her new home, and argued with Zahra about it before the proud tigress agreed it was probably for the best, even though she had no intention of doing the same. After she was crowned as Empress-Consort she stopped doing so entirely, hoping the gesture would show that all of Aludra was her family now, and being from a sect that believes the Voice has no power outside Tarquesh anyway. Since this doesn't apply to other species, zebras in Tarquesh (the second-biggest group after hyenas) tend to dress as Dalia does here, and don't usually give it a second thought. There was initially a little friction between Zahra and Dalia over this since Zahra thought Dalia was an Indecent Southerner, but they learned to get along. Zahra is former Special Forces and was overall very nervous about her little Princess being in a foreign land, and so turned up with a case of weapons including a general-purpose machine gun and several anti-tank missiles, though after a while she realised she didn't need her assault rifle and full body armour under her robes. On the right she just has a submachine gun and a bulletproof vest on under her shirt. She still carries a two-way radio and never allows it out of her sight: Yasemin has the other handset, it's in the little pouch on her belt on the right. When they'd just moved and Yasemin was having nightmares, Zahra would sometimes spend the night sitting at the foot of her little charge's bed, rifle in hand, or have the complex task of escorting the young hyena to her wife's room so they could read stories under the bedclothes and giggle. She also always carries a water canteen in case Yasemin is thirsty: when they first moved, she used to spread her robe around Yasemin so she could uncover her face to drink. The sashes Zahra and Yasemin wear indicate their clan affiliation: Zahra's is from one of the Northern fortress-cities, while Yasemin's is the royal sash with the blue referring to the coastal capital of Tarquesh, Sarib. The lettering roughly translating to "People of the Southern Water." Dalia doesn't wear a sash since zebras aren't regarded as having any clan affiliation: they often served as negotiators between the states that are now incorporated into Tarquesh. The device on Dalia's wrist is her Everybook, a sophisticated holographic PDA that she uses for lesson plans and as a teaching aid. She mostly acts as Yasemin's personal tutor, but she also tutors other girls in the Palace. It turned out her skill at reading maps to plan educational visits for her little Princess also translates to a talent for reading military maps, and later on she acts as a strategic adviser to Yasemin. Dalia's wearing a little more on the right because Aludra is a lot colder than Tarquesh; in summer she'll still wear variations on her old outfit. The flap on the back of her trousers is because she's used to having something like that under her tail: she feels like she isn't wearing anything below the waist without it. Zahra tends to stand still to listen and Dalia tends to move around when she's talking, which means she tends to walk in circles while Zahra stands still and turns her head: on the right she's in mid-orbit. Zahra's fairly sure she has no idea she does this, and Yasemin thinks it's hilarious.                    

#art #my art #art wip #furry #furry art #tigress #fiction #zebra #hyena #acr #rifle #scorpion evo #snake #snek

[nielelendar]

Asks and requests characters

I want to do fanart! I’m taking your ideas, if I like them :3

Here is a list of fandoms and characters : Bold : hot / italic : nice / normal : I like it

Steven Universe : Stevonnie - Connie - Peridot - Pearl - Jasper - Lapiz - Lars - just any character really @-@

Over the garden wall : Wirt - Greg - the Beast - the woodsman...

Avatar the last airbender : Sokka - Iroh - Zuko - Toph

Legend of Korra : Tahno - Korra - Bolin - Amon

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Pokemon (most pokemons, I prefer Poison, Darkness and Specter types)

Eyeshield 21 : Habashira Rui - Kongo Agon - Reiji Marco - the others ~

Full Metal Alchemist : Greed - Ling Yao - Envy - Yoki - any character I like them all

Shiki : Masao

Yuyu Hakusho : Hiei - Kurama - Kuwabara 

Yuri on Ice : Yuri Plisetsky - Phichit - Georgi

Onepunch Man : Saitama - Genos - King - Snek - Sonic

Bakemonogatari : Aranagi - Senjogahara

Yu-Gi-Oh : Bakura Ryou - Yami Bakura

HunterXHunter : Hisoka - Kirua - Leolio - Feitan - Kurapika

Wolf’s Rain : Tsume - Toboe - Hige - Darcia

Last Exile : Dio - Lavie

Noein : Atori - Haruka - Tobi - Yuu

Eureka Seven : Anemone - Eureka

Tekkon Kinkreet : Suzuki - Kuro - Shiro 

Miyazaki’s movies : Chihiro - Haku - San - Ashitaka - Hauru

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The road to Eldorado : Chel - Tzekel Kan - Tulio - Miguel

Kung-Fu Panda : The 5 - Lord Shen

Rise of the gardians : Pitch - The 5

How to train your dragon : Hiccup - Toothless - the twins - Eret 

Frozen : Hans - Kristoff

Monster Inc : Randall

Up : Dug - Carl - Russel

Inside out : Joy - Sadness

Moana : Moana - Tamatoa - Maui

Lilo and Stitch : as in the title

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Supernatural : Crowley - Castiel - Sam - Dean - Charlie

Sense 8 : Nomi - Lito - Wolfgang - Amanita - any of the 8 actually ;w;

Avengers : Thor - Loki

Harry Potter : Draco - Lucius - Hermione - Ron - Luna - Neville

Lord of the Ring/Bilbo : Gollum - Gandalf - Bilbo - Thorin - Frodo - Sam - Gimli - Aragorn - Legolas

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Also games : 

Chrono Trigger : Magus - Frog - Lucca

Final Fantasy 6 : Terra - Locke - Celes - Sabin - Edgar

Final Fantasy 7 : Sephiroth - Red XIII - 

Final Fantasy 9 :  Vivi - Steiner - Freya - Kuja

Persona 4 : Kanji - Naoto - Yosuke - Naoki

Nier Gestalt : Nier - Emil - Kainé

Odin Sphere : Velvet - Cornelius - Ingway

Baken Kaitos : Lyude  - Mizuti

Bravely Default : Agnès - Ringabel - Edea - Ominas 

999 : Santa - Clover

The Walking Dead (telltale) : Lee - Clementine - Kenny - Ben

Tales of Symphonia : Colette - Lloyd - Forcystus - Noishe

Ghost Trick : Sissel - Lynne - Missile

Hatoful Boyfriend : Hiyoko - Yuuya - Sakuya - Ryouta - Nishikikouji - Shuu - all

... damn that’s a lot. I’ll do shorter list depending on my inspiration of the moment, but feel free to ask anything on it. 

You can suggest pairings and nsfw too ~

#hatoful boyfriend #nier gestalt #harry potter #steven universe #eyeshield 21 #list of fandoms

[cardsbizarreadventure]

Can we get full body image of de snek?

// Sure ^ ^ - Cards. ♠♣♥♦

#Cards draws #cards ask #// mun draws #// mun talks #snek dio #dio brando #dio #// am sorry I can't draw these kind of things too well xD #// I hope I did okay

[dio-of-the-shadows-archived]

Eww Dio stinky

“I will drain your blood, eat your corpsssse, sssspit out your bonessss and burn your remainsss in my persssonal furnace.” 

M!A: 4/5

#Dio #dio brando #shadow dio #stardust crusaders #m!a: snek dio #ask #//someone sent this before but it’s funnier a second time

[eggsinablender-archived]

Hey I got tagged by @badlydrawnpol

Rules: Answer the questions and tag people you want to know better

Nickname(s): Oatmeal, Oat, Marian, Mario

Star Sign: Aries

Height: around 5 foot 1 I think?

Time Right Now: 9:08AM at time of writing

Last Thing Googled: Kono DIO da

Favorite Music Artists: Two Door Cinema Club

Song Stuck in Your Head: Caesars theme ;-;

Last Movie Watched: John Wick

Last TV Show Watched: Jojo DiU

What I’m Wearing Right Now: Pajama pants and a t-shirt

Blog Creation Date: I think like December or November 2016?

What Kind of Stuff I Post: Literally anything that piques my interest, mostly Jojo and birds

Do I Have Any Other Blogs?: yes @bd-doughnut-boi is my chi l d

Do I Get Asks Regularly?: not on here but on my kak blog above I do sometimes

Why Did I Choose My URL?: I was tired and needed something random because I didn’t originally plan on posting lol

Hogwarts House: I don’t watch Harry Potter but sneks are cool

Pokemon Team: INSTINCT MEME TEAM **DABS AGGRESSIVELY** (I actually don’t even play Pokemon GO)

Favorite Color(s): PURPL E and idk, blue I guess lol

Average Hours of Sleep: anywhere form 2-12+ because I’m trash

Lucky Number: I have this weird reasonless love for 4 and 7 does that count

Favorite Character(s): PREPARE FOR A LONG LIST Jotaro, Joseph, Josuke, Okuyasu, Rohan, Reimi, Yuuri and Viktor (g a y), Mabel, Bill, Remilia, Flandre, Sanae, and I’m gonna stop before this is too long but I really love eve r y on n e

How Many Blankets Do I Sleep With?: depends on the temperature but usually one

Dream Job: I’d love to get into falconry :O

Following: 309

I tag @justjojoking @badlydrawnjootjoot and @marinebiologistjotaro because they cool

[happyhalfmoon]

More Fodder for the Deceit Name Theory

After doing some renewed digging after the advent of DWIT, I have some relevant info to share with everyone!

Dante can work really well as a name because of its connection to Roman literary mythology, as is also the case with Virgil and Remus. Virgil is the author of the Aeneid (the national epic and creation myth of the Roman Empire) and the guide featured in the Inferno/Purgatory.  Remus is the brother of Romulus (the founder of Rome and the literary equivalent of Roman in this sense). Remus was also murdered by Romulus, who eventually superseded him and took power. This naming convention seems to be a pattern with the dark sides thus far.

Dante’s major work is La Divinia Commedia, or the Divine Comedy. Of particular importance is the 8th circle for this theory (the 9th circle is Treachery, also encompassing forms of Fraud, but it’s less symbolically relevant except for Satan’s whole deal). The eighth circle of Hell is subdivided into ten smaller sections, each one containing sinners who’s crime was Fraud. Fraud can mean many things, but in essence, it can be equated with words, actions, or thoughts that are duplicitous, blasphemous, or in any way untrue to God, your fellow man, or yourself. This definition comprises pimps and their seducers, people selling fake idols, people who lied to gain status in their church, hypocrites who dressed in golden garbs when their servants starved, etc. 

This circle of Hell also has a few Cantos that feature snakes, serpent-like creature, or monsters that have snake appendages. I’ll post specific quotes from this scholarly text explaining the symbolic and inter-textual meanings. 

https://digitaldante.columbia.edu/dante/divine-comedy/inferno/inferno-25/

“The beginning sequence of Inferno 25 functions as a conclusion to Inferno 24, which ended with Vanni Fucci’s lacerating political prophecy. Now the thief engages in obscene and rebellious defiance of God, in the action of his raised fists and in his speech—“Togli, Dio, ch’a te le squadro!” (Take that, God! It’s aimed at you!] [Inf. 24.3])—until he is silenced by the serpents. As a result of the silencing of Vanni Fucci the serpents become “Dante’s friends”: “Da indi in qua mi fuor le serpi amiche” (From that time on, those serpents were my friends [Inf. 24.4]). Given that the serpents will be revealed to be sinners—in this bolgia sinners alternate between their original human shape and the shapes of many and diverse kinds of serpents—the thought of them as “friends” is quite unsettling. But, then again, so is the idea that we are in a place where pity lives only when it is truly dead: “Qui vive la pietà quand’è ben morta” (Here pity only lives when it is truly dead [Inf. 20.28]). “

“ Moreover, the idea of the serpents as friends sets the stage for the socially macabre aspect of this bolgia, part of the dramatic unfolding of Inferno 25: since the serpents are sinners in serpent form, the sinners are attacked by their own erstwhile comrades. “

“Social ties are evoked in order to be monstrously violated. Thus, it happens that one sinner names another, an event that Dante introduces with the ambiguous pronouns typical of this canto: “l’un nomar un altro convenette” (one of them called out the other’s name [Inf. 25.42]). The sinner who speaks is asking his comrades where another sinner, Cianfa, has gotten to: “Cianfa dove fia rimaso?” (Where was Cianfa left behind?[Inf. 25.43]). This is such a simple question, the sort that occurs in social units all the time, many times a day. But here the question hides a sinister reality: in this bolgia it behooves one to keep tabs on one’s comrades, for a “friend” who disappears from sight may well resurface as a serpent. And, in fact, the simple “Where has Cianfa gotten to?” heralds a sinister outcome, for the six-footed snake of verse 50 will turn out to be none other than Cianfa. “

The entire analysis is very long and not entirely fit for our purposes, so I’ll leave it up to the reader to consider sloughing through the whole piece. But I think a lot of this is pretty damning evidence. Humans metamorphosing into snakes due to recognition of their sins, becoming Dante’s “friends”, the snakes attacking their own “comrades”, social ties being evoked to be violated, keeping tabs on one’s friends to keep watch for any “serpents”, etc. 

Also, I’ll put it out there that Dante Alighieri, the author of the Divine Comedy, is not the same as character Dante. At times, Dante is an unreliable narrator- he lets his biases slip through based on who he favors and who he despises. For example, he had a bone to pick with the Greeks, which is why Alexander the Great, Ulysses, Achilles, and others are there (remember, Dante’s Italian, therefore a descendant of the Romans). He also puts Brutus and Cassius in the lowest level of Hell (9th circle) with SATAN. All because they stabbed homeboy Julius Caesar.  And to be honest, with Deceit’s selective ‘I’ll use this and leave the rest alone’ bit in SvS with my main man Stirner, he’s not exactly a reliable narrator himself, huh? 

Anyway, hope you dudes enjoyed reading this! I’m procrastinating a lot right now, so I thought I’d be all tin foil hat and make another post about Snek Boi. Catch ya later!

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