ah yes, it's fangirl time

running a tumblr blog is really just being like I’ve become obsessed with this new thing and now I’m going to make it everyone else’s problem

I confess, I've been thinking about this scale for Giorno's character a LOT recently, especially when attempting to tackle a long Giorno-centric fic. I'm kind of fascinated by how malleable Giorno is in the hands of fan writers (pointing to that scale of ICE COLD to woobified meow meow) It's tantalizing because he's complex but his complexity isn't exactly USED to a full extent in canon. I SECOND THE SENTIMENT ABOUT JODIO. Jodio blows my mind because of how much he feels like the final iteration on the 'DIO's kid' character. Anyways, Giorno has really mastered himself, right? He strikes me as coming off the heels of teen glow-up confidence. Popular, secure and charming. Surging with ambition, conviction and a very mature mindset. The anime makes a note about Haruno/Gio and man X having a mutual man-to-man respect for each other. Man X treats him with like an honorable recipient of a gangster life-debt, acknowledging the little guy's fearlessness and repaying him with the kind of protection that would allow such confidence to grow later. That might sound totally absurd given that Haruno/Gio was like, idk how old was he? Five, six? But it's at least how Gio saw it. He had no childhood, so man-to-man trust and respect, as far as he could understand it, helped him grow into that interesting balance of secure and coming from trauma. (The lack of early emotional safety from mom as a baby was the most damaging thing, I reckon, but Man X couldn't really influence that. It was more unseen. But that's another story. Anyways!! Giorno's hero definitely sculpted him from the source clay that Dio and Jona provided and his shitty mom and stepdad all but abandoned. As a side note, I'm partial to a cool-headed, confident, self-mastered Giorno with minimal woobification but I do adore the scale sliding into the middle sometimes where unexpected human backslides and frailties can live.