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notpiercingscw mentions of child abuse and animal abuse+death
OOC INFORMATION
Name: Daniel
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Are You Over 18?: yes!
Other Characters: none!
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Dio Brando
Age: 12
Canon: JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure
Canon Point: while disposing of Danny
Character Information: here’s a wiki link!
History:
✧ Dario Brando discovers the Joestars’ crashed carriage. In attempting to pillage it for valuables, he discovers that George Joestar and his infant son are both still alive. George mistakes the thief to be a saviour and declares that he owes Dario a life debt. Dio is born either shortly before or after this incident; he is around Jonathan’s age, and Jonathan is a baby here, but Dio himself doesn’t have an official birth date listed.
✧ In addition to this life debt and the spoils of his thievery, Dario is rewarded a sum of money great enough for him to open a small inn of his own. This business ultimately fails, however, certainly contributing to his overworking and abuse of his wife and his abuse of his son.
✧ Dio spends the next twelve years of his life in the slums of London and all its roughness. His mother dies early in his childhood from being worked to death by his father, who abuses him both physically and verbally. As Dario drinks at home all day, Dio develops his chess skills sharply enough to bet on games for money to put food on the table in his father’s place. He also develops a number of dirty fighting techniques at some point in time.
✧ Dario falls ill, and Dio acquires medicine to help him recover. Dario lashes out at Dio for this, however, claiming that Dio should have bought him more alcohol with the funds used to purchase the medicine. Dario then demands that Dio pawn off his late mother’s dress for beer money, which enrages Dio to the point where he plans to poison his father to death under the guise of giving him more medicine.
✧ The particular poison he chooses is of Asian origin and is thus difficult to detect in English databases. The poison also creates symptoms of a lesser illness that leads to a gradual, unassuming death.
✧ Just before his passing, Dario presents a letter to Dio - now age 12 - revealing George’s life debt and declaring that Dio will become a very rich man by living with the Joestars. Upon Dario’s death, Dio declares that he will become rich for himself and literally spits upon his father’s grave. It is unknown how long Dio had planned to poison George Joestar for, but it’s implied that he had this plan developed around this time.
✧ Dio arrives by carriage to the Joestar estate. He is immediately greeted by Jonathan. Danny, Jonathan’s dog, also runs up to Dio in greeting, but Dio strikes Danny with his foot in response, stating that he fears dogs. After the two go inside and Dio is introduced to the staff, Jonathan attempts to carry Dio’s luggage for him, but Dio harshly grasps Jonathan’s hand to force it away. He declares that he will not be looked down upon by anyone and that he will be the number one around the place. He also clarifies here that he hates dogs rather than fears them, particularly because of the way they grovel to others.
✧ Over the course of his stay, Dio vastly outperforms Jonathan in all manner of skills, from academics to etiquette to sports, in order to emphasise and exaggerate Jonathan’s shortcomings so that Jonathan may draw the ire of his father. Dio also begins spreading rumours about Jonathan after defeating him in a boxing match in front of his friends, encouraging them to isolate JoJo from their group while surrounding himself with disposable lackeys.
✧ Dio’s efforts to turn Jonathan into a shell of a man go swimmingly for a time until JoJo discovers love in his life in the form of Erina Pendleton. When he notices Jonathan’s spirits lifting, Dio immediately seeks to crush them again, choosing to steal Erina’s first kiss to drive the two apart. Though he’s successful in cornering and kissing her, Erina reacts by washing her mouth off with puddle water, to which Dio - infuriated at the implication that he is dirtier and less than gutter water - smacks her for the offence. Such a violent action without just cause shocks and internally angers Dio, however, disgusted with himself and his outburst; he immediately departs to remove himself from the scene.
✧ Thanks to Erina’s obvious avoidance and the local boys’ jeering, Jonathan quickly discovers that Dio disgraced Erina, and he confronts him in the foyer of the Joestar manor to make him pay for his transgressions. The two engage in a fistfight that Dio seems to have the upper hand in to start, only for Jonathan to catch him off-guard and pummel him until he cries. Taking advantage of this visible moment of weakness lowering Jonathan’s guard, Dio prepares a switchblade behind his back with the intent of stabbing Jonathan when he gets the chance. That chance never comes, for George finally enters the scene and scolds the two boys for their brutal fighting. They’re both sent to their rooms over the matter.
✧ Some of Dio’s blood spatters on the stone mask hanging on the wall, to which it springs off the wall and onto the floor with spikes jutting out of its rim.
✧ CANON POINT: Outraged that Jonathan could actually beat him in a fight, Dio seals Danny alive in a wooden crate and tosses it into the incinerator for a servant to unwittingly burn. He’s pulled while in the middle of doing this.
Personality:
(Something I’d like to state before I start is that the manga and the anime each elaborate on different points in different ways. Between these variations, Dio’s character and motives remain the same; the length of certain events’ explanations simply vary.)
Dio Brando, even at the young age of 12, is an individual sporting many facets of intelligence. He scores perfect marks across his academic work, consistently wins games of chess against adults, and reads what appear to be lengthy books in the little spare time he’s seen indulging in. His capability of putting food on the table by gambling with his areas of expertise indicates a self-sufficiency that most children his age lack; it’s unknown how long his father was bedridden, but it’s clear Dio was the only one earning money for an extended period of time. “Street smarts,” even, are not beyond him: his boxing match and fist fight with Jonathan Joestar demonstrate his knowledge of how much force behind a punch will do how much damage and how to twist his fingers to do some terrible damage. The full extent of Dio’s intelligence, however, is expressed best through the exploration of his other traits and actions.
Dio possesses an exceptional talent for crafting elaborate schemes to further the goals he has set for himself; behind every ambition and action of his is a specially-created plot to drive them. He incorporates incredible detail into every plan of his, covering the bases of both how to accomplish his particular task and how not to get caught while doing so. His thoroughness is best demonstrated by the numerous steps he takes to ruin Jonathan’s life, taking the time to destroy the relationship JoJo has with his father and his friends - and later his girlfriend and even his dog - leaving no stone unturned in search of any source of happiness for JoJo. Dio is especially mindful of the traces he may leave behind that could connect him to his crimes as well, and so he creates his riskier schemes with his escape route as the focus. His plots to murder both his father and Lord Joestar revolve around the use of a poison chosen specifically for its unassuming side-effects and its difficulty to forensically detect as a poison at all. Dio’s selection surpasses finding the perfect hiding place for the murder weapon; he’s choosing a murder weapon that won’t look like a weapon at all.
Direct efforts are only half of his plots, however, and outside of them is a master charade of refinement and respect, acting in manners that best mask his true nature and intentions from his peers and especially Lord Joestar in order to better manipulate them to his needs. Only Jonathan and Erina, the direct targets of his spiteful actions, ever really see Dio for the person he is as a child. Dio’s self-restraint isn’t merely present in the front he puts up for others; it also extends to a fear of becoming like his father. He acts in a way contrasting Dario’s - he is quiet and methodical where his father was loud and brutish - so that he may obliterate all resemblance between the two. With his every motion being so thoroughly calculated, however, even the tiniest slip-up or mistake warrants bouts of self-degradation and rapid considerations of what he can do to sway the situation back into in his favour, afraid that what he’s built will collapse entirely if the stone is revealed for its weakness. This is most obviously demonstrated by his violent outburst toward Erina when she washes off his kiss with puddle water when he reacts in horror at himself upon actually striking her. He freezes as he has his realisation and curses himself for it, stressfully wondering why he’s acting this way.
Violently reactive tendencies still run hot in Dio’s blood despite his efforts. The lengths he’ll go to to wound Jonathan are seemingly limitless and escalate to dramatic levels when less punishing attempts fail. In the moments it seems like Jonathan is experiencing an upswing in his struggle against isolation, Dio retaliates by assaulting JoJo’s love interest and, after losing to him in a fight for Erina’s honour, burning his dog alive, both of which are leagues more volatile than anything else he’d done up to those points. His fear of total failure spurs him to take action in a way that will not only resume Jonathan’s torment on its proper course but that will do so immediately, leaving no room for any chance of recovery on JoJo’s part at the cost of eschewing the concern of personal consequences.
All of the above, of course, is done in Dio’s own self-interest. In the entirety of Phantom Blood up to this point, one never sees Dio act out of the kindness of his heart, every move of his either a necessary act of self-preservation or a calculated effort to raise his own standing and lower Jonathan’s among their peers. His greatest motivator to act is his own vengeance, as he believes those he torments deserve their worse fate, even if it’s only because they have something that Dio believes should be his. Dio’s father was abusive to him and his mother and was completely unsentimental when she passed; and Dio, appearing to have only cared for his mother, felt this was an offence worthy of murder. His torment of Jonathan is largely driven by his desire for the family fortune, but there is evidence in his declaration to Jonathan that he won’t be looked down upon that implies he derives enjoyment from JoJo’s suffering due to their class divide. He believes he deserves the Joestar family fortune more than the Joestars themselves, so he begins his work on a murder plot that will land the fortune in his lap.
5-10 Key Character Traits:
✧ intelligent
✧ self-sufficient
✧ scheming
✧ manipulative
✧ reactive
✧ self-serving
✧ self-restrained
✧ critical
✧ paranoid
✧ vengeful
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, EITHER, or opt for 100% RANDOMIZATION? CONFLICTS please!
Opt-Outs: arachne, naga, pooka, shade, slime, vampire
Roleplay Sample:
✧ Sept./Oct. TDM toplevel
✧ TDM thread with Claude
OOC INFORMATION
Name: Daniel
Contact:
Are You Over 18?: yes!
Other Characters: none!
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Dio Brando
Age: 12
Canon: JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure
Canon Point: while disposing of Danny
Character Information: here’s a wiki link!
History:
✧ Dario Brando discovers the Joestars’ crashed carriage. In attempting to pillage it for valuables, he discovers that George Joestar and his infant son are both still alive. George mistakes the thief to be a saviour and declares that he owes Dario a life debt. Dio is born either shortly before or after this incident; he is around Jonathan’s age, and Jonathan is a baby here, but Dio himself doesn’t have an official birth date listed.
✧ In addition to this life debt and the spoils of his thievery, Dario is rewarded a sum of money great enough for him to open a small inn of his own. This business ultimately fails, however, certainly contributing to his overworking and abuse of his wife and his abuse of his son.
✧ Dio spends the next twelve years of his life in the slums of London and all its roughness. His mother dies early in his childhood from being worked to death by his father, who abuses him both physically and verbally. As Dario drinks at home all day, Dio develops his chess skills sharply enough to bet on games for money to put food on the table in his father’s place. He also develops a number of dirty fighting techniques at some point in time.
✧ Dario falls ill, and Dio acquires medicine to help him recover. Dario lashes out at Dio for this, however, claiming that Dio should have bought him more alcohol with the funds used to purchase the medicine. Dario then demands that Dio pawn off his late mother’s dress for beer money, which enrages Dio to the point where he plans to poison his father to death under the guise of giving him more medicine.
✧ The particular poison he chooses is of Asian origin and is thus difficult to detect in English databases. The poison also creates symptoms of a lesser illness that leads to a gradual, unassuming death.
✧ Just before his passing, Dario presents a letter to Dio - now age 12 - revealing George’s life debt and declaring that Dio will become a very rich man by living with the Joestars. Upon Dario’s death, Dio declares that he will become rich for himself and literally spits upon his father’s grave. It is unknown how long Dio had planned to poison George Joestar for, but it’s implied that he had this plan developed around this time.
✧ Dio arrives by carriage to the Joestar estate. He is immediately greeted by Jonathan. Danny, Jonathan’s dog, also runs up to Dio in greeting, but Dio strikes Danny with his foot in response, stating that he fears dogs. After the two go inside and Dio is introduced to the staff, Jonathan attempts to carry Dio’s luggage for him, but Dio harshly grasps Jonathan’s hand to force it away. He declares that he will not be looked down upon by anyone and that he will be the number one around the place. He also clarifies here that he hates dogs rather than fears them, particularly because of the way they grovel to others.
✧ Over the course of his stay, Dio vastly outperforms Jonathan in all manner of skills, from academics to etiquette to sports, in order to emphasise and exaggerate Jonathan’s shortcomings so that Jonathan may draw the ire of his father. Dio also begins spreading rumours about Jonathan after defeating him in a boxing match in front of his friends, encouraging them to isolate JoJo from their group while surrounding himself with disposable lackeys.
✧ Dio’s efforts to turn Jonathan into a shell of a man go swimmingly for a time until JoJo discovers love in his life in the form of Erina Pendleton. When he notices Jonathan’s spirits lifting, Dio immediately seeks to crush them again, choosing to steal Erina’s first kiss to drive the two apart. Though he’s successful in cornering and kissing her, Erina reacts by washing her mouth off with puddle water, to which Dio - infuriated at the implication that he is dirtier and less than gutter water - smacks her for the offence. Such a violent action without just cause shocks and internally angers Dio, however, disgusted with himself and his outburst; he immediately departs to remove himself from the scene.
✧ Thanks to Erina’s obvious avoidance and the local boys’ jeering, Jonathan quickly discovers that Dio disgraced Erina, and he confronts him in the foyer of the Joestar manor to make him pay for his transgressions. The two engage in a fistfight that Dio seems to have the upper hand in to start, only for Jonathan to catch him off-guard and pummel him until he cries. Taking advantage of this visible moment of weakness lowering Jonathan’s guard, Dio prepares a switchblade behind his back with the intent of stabbing Jonathan when he gets the chance. That chance never comes, for George finally enters the scene and scolds the two boys for their brutal fighting. They’re both sent to their rooms over the matter.
✧ Some of Dio’s blood spatters on the stone mask hanging on the wall, to which it springs off the wall and onto the floor with spikes jutting out of its rim.
✧ CANON POINT: Outraged that Jonathan could actually beat him in a fight, Dio seals Danny alive in a wooden crate and tosses it into the incinerator for a servant to unwittingly burn. He’s pulled while in the middle of doing this.
Personality:
(Something I’d like to state before I start is that the manga and the anime each elaborate on different points in different ways. Between these variations, Dio’s character and motives remain the same; the length of certain events’ explanations simply vary.)
Dio Brando, even at the young age of 12, is an individual sporting many facets of intelligence. He scores perfect marks across his academic work, consistently wins games of chess against adults, and reads what appear to be lengthy books in the little spare time he’s seen indulging in. His capability of putting food on the table by gambling with his areas of expertise indicates a self-sufficiency that most children his age lack; it’s unknown how long his father was bedridden, but it’s clear Dio was the only one earning money for an extended period of time. “Street smarts,” even, are not beyond him: his boxing match and fist fight with Jonathan Joestar demonstrate his knowledge of how much force behind a punch will do how much damage and how to twist his fingers to do some terrible damage. The full extent of Dio’s intelligence, however, is expressed best through the exploration of his other traits and actions.
Dio possesses an exceptional talent for crafting elaborate schemes to further the goals he has set for himself; behind every ambition and action of his is a specially-created plot to drive them. He incorporates incredible detail into every plan of his, covering the bases of both how to accomplish his particular task and how not to get caught while doing so. His thoroughness is best demonstrated by the numerous steps he takes to ruin Jonathan’s life, taking the time to destroy the relationship JoJo has with his father and his friends - and later his girlfriend and even his dog - leaving no stone unturned in search of any source of happiness for JoJo. Dio is especially mindful of the traces he may leave behind that could connect him to his crimes as well, and so he creates his riskier schemes with his escape route as the focus. His plots to murder both his father and Lord Joestar revolve around the use of a poison chosen specifically for its unassuming side-effects and its difficulty to forensically detect as a poison at all. Dio’s selection surpasses finding the perfect hiding place for the murder weapon; he’s choosing a murder weapon that won’t look like a weapon at all.
Direct efforts are only half of his plots, however, and outside of them is a master charade of refinement and respect, acting in manners that best mask his true nature and intentions from his peers and especially Lord Joestar in order to better manipulate them to his needs. Only Jonathan and Erina, the direct targets of his spiteful actions, ever really see Dio for the person he is as a child. Dio’s self-restraint isn’t merely present in the front he puts up for others; it also extends to a fear of becoming like his father. He acts in a way contrasting Dario’s - he is quiet and methodical where his father was loud and brutish - so that he may obliterate all resemblance between the two. With his every motion being so thoroughly calculated, however, even the tiniest slip-up or mistake warrants bouts of self-degradation and rapid considerations of what he can do to sway the situation back into in his favour, afraid that what he’s built will collapse entirely if the stone is revealed for its weakness. This is most obviously demonstrated by his violent outburst toward Erina when she washes off his kiss with puddle water when he reacts in horror at himself upon actually striking her. He freezes as he has his realisation and curses himself for it, stressfully wondering why he’s acting this way.
Violently reactive tendencies still run hot in Dio’s blood despite his efforts. The lengths he’ll go to to wound Jonathan are seemingly limitless and escalate to dramatic levels when less punishing attempts fail. In the moments it seems like Jonathan is experiencing an upswing in his struggle against isolation, Dio retaliates by assaulting JoJo’s love interest and, after losing to him in a fight for Erina’s honour, burning his dog alive, both of which are leagues more volatile than anything else he’d done up to those points. His fear of total failure spurs him to take action in a way that will not only resume Jonathan’s torment on its proper course but that will do so immediately, leaving no room for any chance of recovery on JoJo’s part at the cost of eschewing the concern of personal consequences.
All of the above, of course, is done in Dio’s own self-interest. In the entirety of Phantom Blood up to this point, one never sees Dio act out of the kindness of his heart, every move of his either a necessary act of self-preservation or a calculated effort to raise his own standing and lower Jonathan’s among their peers. His greatest motivator to act is his own vengeance, as he believes those he torments deserve their worse fate, even if it’s only because they have something that Dio believes should be his. Dio’s father was abusive to him and his mother and was completely unsentimental when she passed; and Dio, appearing to have only cared for his mother, felt this was an offence worthy of murder. His torment of Jonathan is largely driven by his desire for the family fortune, but there is evidence in his declaration to Jonathan that he won’t be looked down upon that implies he derives enjoyment from JoJo’s suffering due to their class divide. He believes he deserves the Joestar family fortune more than the Joestars themselves, so he begins his work on a murder plot that will land the fortune in his lap.
5-10 Key Character Traits:
✧ intelligent
✧ self-sufficient
✧ scheming
✧ manipulative
✧ reactive
✧ self-serving
✧ self-restrained
✧ critical
✧ paranoid
✧ vengeful
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, EITHER, or opt for 100% RANDOMIZATION? CONFLICTS please!
Opt-Outs: arachne, naga, pooka, shade, slime, vampire
Roleplay Sample:
✧ Sept./Oct. TDM toplevel
✧ TDM thread with Claude
