#crosspart

he's the eldest of the kids, and probably the most like him too!! i'm going in with the angle that the mothers and the children did live with him for a while; at least until the crusaders come show up. meaning diego does remember dio more than the other four do.

for the first few years of his life, diego brando lives like royalty. he might as well be. his every whim is catered to, everyone seems to fear love him, and he gets special attention from dio himself!! what's not to love?? well, besides his mother trying desperately to keep him on the right track. dio overrides her a lot of the time.

then giorno is born, and he takes all of dio's attention away. not because a new baby needs attention, that's what the servants are for, but because dio senses that he has so much more potential than diego does. diego hates this! and he hates giorno! not to the point where he'd hurt giorno, but he ignores him. and dismisses him. a lot. and it hurts giorno because he genuinely looks up to diego </3

when donatello, rikiel, and ungalo are born, diego bonds with donatello the most. they're growing used to being overlooked by everyone else, and they bond over that.

jumping ahead a few years... diego, his mother, and the rest of his half-brothers manage to escape cairo with the help of hol horse. dio almost catches them, but he's distracted by the crusaders. they flee to italy, and that's where they remain to this day.

I would like to think of Barbara forcing Jodio to have a picture with Lucy

let's see...

i think lucy's pretty attached to barbara ann. she doesn't have a mother figure of her own, so barbara ann is that for her. she always makes sure to say hello to her whenever they see each other!!

barbara ann thinks lucy's a sweetheart!! she comes over after school pretty often, so that's usually when they talk. she's the type of mom to ask when she's coming over, even if lucy came by the previous day. what can she say? compared to say, paco, she much prefers lucy's presence.