Dima propaganda so y'all at least know who he is.
He is the deuteragonist of the show, the only person who can see Olezha's ghost and the one who helps him move on into the afterlife.
He's a student (unexpected given the show title, I know) and he's broke as fuck. He has NINE sisters, and their mother tries to do everything she can, but it's just not enough.
His dream is to be a rock star, because music is the only thing he remembers about his father, who fucked off into the sunset when he was little. But his band members are a bad company, and they aren't his real friends, just people he hangs out with because he doesn't have anything better.
His first real friend is a dead guy who he met only as a ghost (or, more accurately, remembers meeting only as a ghost).
And I will kill for their friendship.
They are sillies together and we must protect them.
Dima starts off… as an asshole. Of the ignorant variety. But ultimately he's kind and caring, and once he realizes his mistakes he apologizes and tries to fix what he can.
The show tries to tell us he's stupid, but I don't believe it. He's smart when it counts, and he can put two and two together (eventually).
While he may be not stupid, he is, however, a dumbass. And when paired up with Anton, their braincells cancel each other out.
His relationship with Anton is SO funny overall. I don't even know where to start.
Y'all see this bullshit. Because Anton is who he is as a person, he decided that a fencing duel on kebab skewers with a random drunk dude he just met is a great small talk opportunity. And Dima does not back down from a challenge. So after a wound to the thorso Anton drived Dima to hospital. And Dima started hating Anton. Because not only he fucking stabbed him, he was also insensitively babbling about how rich he is while at it! What an asshole!
And ever since then, the entire first season and then some, we saw from Dima the great and hilarious (and kind of juvenile) hatred of Anton. Dima was always comparing himself to him, feeling insecure about his lack of not only money, but popularity. Love and attention of the people.
But even that is not all. I promise, all this is relevant to our discussion.
Because, as we remember, Anton is Diplomator. The local hero of the people or whatever. And Dima's relationship to Diplomator is very different.
He kind of… idolized him? To an extent? Took him as his role model, that's for sure. Because, as many people without a father, he fixated on a random man he saw on television.
When Dima heard some random dude getting his ass handed to him in an alley, he looked solemnly at a Diplomator poster on a nearby wall and run to help the guy. He was scared, but he knew the right thing to do, so he pushed through. Got a punch to the face, missed the last train, but the dude was saved. And that's what mattered to Dima.
It's an unrelated tangent, but arguably Dima is more of a hero than Anton. A better person that's for sure.
The funny thing to me is that when he figured out Diplomator's secret identity, he did not start thinking better of Anton, he started thinking worse of Diplomator. His friendship with Anton comes from another place entirely.
This place being his dead ghost friend. Who is ALSO Diplomator. It turns out. So Dima befriended his hero TWICE without knowing it.
Anyway. Adopt Dima because Dushki basically already did.
If not for those two, Dima would literally die in the first fucking episode. Twice. He NEEDS adult supervision. He's too dumbass to survive on his own.
I don't know how to transition to the next topic smoothly so I won't.
He has a girlfriend, Olya, and they are sweet together.
Not only does he love her, he respects her. (Man was raised with NINE older sisters, may I remind you). And when her brother starts talking bullshit that upsets her, he puts him in his place. I'm sure she could yell at him herself, but like… she doesn't know HE STILL EXISTS AS A GHOST.
And we love men who genuinely love and respect women!
So they are basically Connecticut Clark and Malfina.
He was very understanding about her family, her grandma's illness, and even made friends with her other toddler brother.
In conclusion, he definitely deserves to go as far as he did. And I know we can't compete with the might of his opponent's fanbase, but VOTE DIMA ANYWAY! He would be sooo smug that he won somewhere Anton lost.
And watch My Student Spirit! It's on youtube FOR FREE, and we even have official english dub!
