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I think there’s no need to theorize about that one, because the interviewer asked the same question in the Jojonium volume that the picture is from!

The “Just for the cover” response does seem to imply that yes, this picture literally only exists because it’s cute lmao

As for whether Dio likes any animals... Well, we certainly know he doesn’t like dogs, we’ve seen what he did to Danny, and he seems to be in genuine disbelief when George says that Jonathan and Danny are friends, which certainly implies that he views animals as being underneath humans.

He also very casually kills a cat in Stardust Crusaders during one of his time stops, and has killed several animals during his chimera experiments (though granted he COULD have just been using corpses for those)

I think he generally views animals as being far beneath humans, but doesn’t actively hate most of them, just like he doesn’t actively hate humans - he just doesn’t care about them and sees them as inferior. He probably doesn’t even hate dogs THAT much, only Danny specifically, because he was Jonathan’s.

Pet Shop is an exception because he’s not JUST an animal - he’s an animal with a stand, which means that not only is he an extremely rare and intriguing kind of creature, but he is also of much higher intelligence than other animals. It’s not just that either - he’s an animal with a stand, who is also willing to serve him.

I think DIO’s view of the world is kinda like this;

Humans and animals are both considered food at the bottom of the pyramid, hence Dio’s infamous bread quote in Phantom Blood

What makes humans better than animals is that they have a much larger potential to serve him, or be of use to him otherwise. They are also his main food source, though it’s likely that he also can and would eat animals (Pillarmen were able to eat animals, so it’s possible that DIO could also consume them if he wanted to. I don’t think anything is stopping DIO from eating regular food, since he does consume wine.)

The only humans of any real value are humans who can serve him. Some of them have more value than others (such as Enya and Vanilla Ice)

Then there’s Pucci, who was integral to DIO’s Heaven plan, making him more important, because he’s not as easily replaceable.

On my livestreams we often joke a lot about what a woke bae DIO is because he sees everyone as equal(ly worthless), and I’d feel pretty confident to assume that this worldview of his extends to animals at least to a certain degree.

The thing about DIO is that while he has no regard for life, he doesn’t actively go out and kill people just for the hell of it. He’s a very practical person who thinks things through and doesn’t like wasting time on useless things, hence his memed-to-death quote, “Useless”.

TL;DR:

-The illustration with Danny does indeed only exist because it’s cute and Araki just felt like drawing it

- DIO probably views all animals as incredibly inferior to humans (who he views as incredibly inferior to himself), but Pet Shop is a special case because he’s a stand user and DIO’s servant, and therefore of use to him.

- The value of any living being is directly proportional to how useful they are to DIO.

Thank you! I've moved out of my mom's and he still lives with her, so I don't get to take pics of him as often, but he stays at my place every once in a while. This was from yesterday. I've noticed that a few of my old vids of Charlie have gotten a bit of an audience lately, so I'm pleased to say that he's doing well! He's a 10-year-old puppy, forever.

This is the look he gives to all Balls.

WHA….. …. . FUCK, DUDE.. YOURE JUST GONNA KILL ME LIKE THAT?

CAT U DORK SKSHDKSJDGDUDLS

THANK YOU SO MUCH IM 💗💖💓💕💕💖💖💗

i don’t think he was practicing witchcraft, because such a force hasn’t been established in jojo canon

DIO’s weird little heaven project comes across very occult, but it does technically make “scientific” “sense” in the context of a world where stands exist.

his research was based on the nature of stand abilities, as well as an understanding of fate as an existing force.

i think the random words that sound like a spell are essentially like a code - a way for him to ‘lock’ his research from anyone else. being the one to study and invent the heaven ritual, i guess he was able to create a password for it?

basically... the entire research very much does seem like witchcraft, but in context of jojo, stands, and DIO’s plan, it’s more akin to, well.. punch ghost science.

LMAO glad you thought of me!! I could get used to this “trying to answer a JJBA question first thing in the morning” routine I’ve been doing recently....

Anyway, that’s an interesting observation that’s never really explained/explored in the canon but like a lot of things, I think a pretty good assumption can be made about it.

Personally, I was always under the impression that the Speedwagon Foundation probably trained Polnareff in this since they are the main force that studies supernatural things like stands, and we know they are highly technologically advanced and willing to extend their resources to help the Joestars & friends.

We see Jotaro researching arrows and working very closely with SPW in Part 4, so back when he and Polnareff returned to Egypt to look for arrows, they were likely prompted/enlisted to do so by SPW. We know for a fact that Jotaro continued to work with them for the rest of the original JJBA timeline, so it’s easy to assume that Polnareff did as well, as they could provide any resources necessary for the research that he obviously deeply cares about.

(NOTE: Purple Haze Feedback is not written by Araki and therefore not canon, so I’m not taking SPW’s involvement in it as one of my sources)

All in all, I’d say it’s less him being a computer enthusiast, and more him learning how to track and hack out of pure necessity, as he’s not able to do much more in his state at that point. He obviously feels that it's his duty to continue tracking down Diavolo due to his connection to the arrows AND his extremely dangerous stand, but he can’t do that himself anymore, so he had to do whatever he could to find someone else who'd be willing and able to cooperate with him.

So, it’s less enthusiasm and more desperation.