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- Via CDDH, because Hol Horse is Eastern European, he knows some of its languages there such as Hungarian and Romanian, he uses the latter to study up on the country's Vampire lore after learning that DIO himself is a vampire. The country he came from also used to be part of the Soviet Union, hence why it dissolved and became multiple countries in the 1990s.

- This is a little silly, but I'd imagine that Midler is actually her last name while her Eng dub name Rose is her first name, making her full name "Rose Midler", it's just that most of the people working for DIO calls her Midler out of formality.

- All the food stalls Steely Dan worked at are fake, hell he doesn't even have a restaurant license, but he is a genuinely good chef that makes delicious kebabs. At one point he came across(and stolen) a street food-style slushy machine during his previous trip to Thailand.

- Polnareff temporarily lost some of his memories after being freed from DIO's influence, so he didn't remember how long he'd been brainwashed at first. When he did, he was absolutely furious when he realized DIO knew that Centerfold was his sister's murderer and led him on a wild goose chase for nothing.

- I know it sounds a bit redundant but I'm one of the many people who agrees that Jotaro is autistic, he's just THAT good at masking, however you can see some signs of it via stimming by hat tilting and repeated phrases(i.e. Yare Yare Daze), treating his jacket chain like a fidget toy, his annoyance over noises and women being loud, and having a special interest in marine life and "Columbo". This also gets passed down to his Stand who's more outward about it. Jotaro also shows signs of PTSD due to the events of Part 3.

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Noriaki Kakyoin

- A little small compared to the former, but Kakyoin may also have autism as well as seen in his blunt honesty, info dumpling, having a special interest in video games, odd eating habits, self-isolation, and playing with his hair noodle as a form of stimming. It's also implied that he has depression as a result of being very much alone for almost 20 years of his life.

- Via CDDH, Kakyoin was born and raised in the town of Morioh as evidenced by his name being based on a town in S-City(Sendai) and his school uniform's color and overall lax dress code(such as being allowed to keep his earrings and hair noodle). The agents made fun of him over his refusal to wear anything but his uniform even when it's summer vacation.

- He's played all the games his town's arcade has to offer under the alias "Tenmei" and wears a hoodie to avoid getting recognized by his classmates, the owners absolutely despised him for being so goated. He also spends his freetime playing video games in his room, even using his Stand as a gaming partner on multiplayer-mode.

- Aside from his love of cherries, Kakyoin's also a foodie whose tastes grew during his travels, in both the journey and his family’s holidays. He actually developed an immunity to spicy foods after one of his previous trips to China, as well as buying up some Ramyeon during his trip to Korea(he's actually one of the first Japanese people to buy Shin Ramyun after its introduction in 1986).

- Kakyoin used to own a cassette Walkman before accidentally leaving it behind in Egypt when he was brainwashed by DIO, half of his music consists of his favorite musician Sting(both solo and Police era).

- Like Polnareff, Kakyoin temporarily lost some of his memories after being freed from DIO's influence as well, so he didn't remember how long he'd been brainwashed at first. When he did, he was so angry and disgusted with himself over DIO taking advantage of him like that.

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D'Arby Brothers

- T. D'Arby actually wears glasses and needs to wear them, but DIO forced him to wear contact lens because he “looks better without glasses”, it’s only when he has the night off or when DIO is out of the house that he gets any freedom to wear glasses again(It’s also a bit of a small reference to another “glasses wearing character” his Eng dub actor voices).

- T. D'Arby has video game crushes on female characters like any other video gamer, with Street Fighter's Chun Li being his most favorite, even to the point of owning a body pillow and explicit art of her on his Macintosh much to the disgust and embarrassment of his co-workers.

- T. D'Arby actually owns modded game consoles(i.e. Gameboys), as well as games that haven't hit the international market yet. He's learned how to read and speak Japanese that way(along with stealing the souls of Japanese gamers such as poor Tatsuhiko).

- We all know that both of the D'Arby brothers are American gamblers but don't know which US State they're from, so I like to imagine them originally coming from Las Vegas, Nevada, the Gambling capital of the country just behind Macau, China.

- J. D'Arby actually lives in the cafe with a two-bedroom Egyptian flat being built on top of it. The second room is treated as a guest room for visiting Agents or if his brother wants to get a break from the mansion.

- As seen in the anime and manga, J. D'Arby has a pet cat but we don't know the name or gender. So for convenience I'm going to say the cat is male and that his name is "Wildcard", to represent the cat's unpredictably and Daniel's love for gambling, it's also a reference to the 2001 album under the name by Terence Trent D'Arby, his and his brother's namesake. 

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DIO

- DIO is the first Crime Lord in Egypt to be of British descent, the others before him were all Egyptian and/or Arabic.

- Being Bisexual and Androgyne, DIO doesn't really care what other people call him in spite of using He/Him pronouns, but he WILL not hesitate to murder anyone for using queerphobic slurs against him. He literally killed one of the existing crime bosses in the country who called him the "s-slur", and a former subordinate of his who threatened to blackmail him for the same reason. In fact, it's this kind of bigotry in Egypt that DIO managed to easily get some followers to join him, promising safety and freedom of self-expression in exchange for loyalty.

- In spite of growing in the slums of London in his youth, DIO was understandably shocked he first discovered the number of corrupted policemen in the 1980s, even more so when he easily bribes the Egyptian police to look the other way when committing crimes. This eventually became a benefit to him later, however.

- DIO puts Nukesaku in a kennel since he can’t trust him to come along with him and his servants during their trips and holidays.

- Via CDDH, DIO practically "adopts" the Oingo Boingo brothers after their arrival to Cairo once he got wind of their living situation and Stand power, however he doesn't really treat them well as they still live in squalor from low pay. Not to mention that he's more interested in having Boingo join him than his older brother due to [Thoth]'s power being more superior than [Khnum]'s(especially since Rubber Soul can "do better"), but he still took Oingo in anyway due to Boingo being extremely shy and not wanting to be anywhere without his brother.

- DIO has two separate top 10 favorite lists for his servants: one for Agents with great Stand power, and another for Agents he has a crush on, he has Vanilla Ice, Steely Dan, and Hol Horse on the top 5 on both lists.

- DIO actually kept Jonathan's skull as a trophy and a memento in memory of him, none of the Agents(except Enrico Pucci) knew where it came from or why DIO's so attached to it.

- DIO bans his agents from playing Elvis Presley’s “In the Ghetto” in his presence under the threat of being thrown in the dungeon for 3 days because it reminded him of his crappy childhood, under the guise of “because of reasons”. Half of the agents criticized this rule as being very excessive and childish, while the other half believed that it’s because he didn’t like being reminded that his mansion’s located in the poorest part of Cairo. Enrico Pucci's the only one who knows the reason behind this ban.

- The mansion DIO lives in actually used to belong to someone else, but he and his Agents took it by force, all the money he has in the mansion was stolen via robbing people blind as well. He gain enough followers and influence, he started making connections with Egypt’s criminal underworld and was able to move up the ranks as a crime lord thanks to his own charisma, intelligence, philosophies, vampire powers, and Stand users. He owns 3 businesses that he uses for money laundering(i.e. D'Arby's Cafe.)

One mid-late May, Medea saw a classic banana bread recipe in a cookbook in the mansion's library and decided to recreate her mother's recipe(basically the same but with chunky peanut butter instead of walnuts).

So, she started making the bread but had a small snafu when one of the ingredients was written in Arabic and couldn't read, but saw that it looked and felt like flour and assumed that's what it was.

In the oven however, something went horribly wrong and saw the banana bread started burning and boiling over and had to take it out, and much to her disappointment saw that the banana bread didn't even bake properly and just looks like a burnt, liquid, mess.

Afterwards Kenny G saw what happened and told her that the "Arabic ingredient" she couldn't read was powdered sugar, not flour, hence why it boiled over like it did.

When Medea told about her snafu, everyone(but Hol Horse and Polnareff) working for DIO started roasting her for it on a private chatroom*, she thought that Midler's wedding comment was funny though.

Soon DIO heard of the mess to and offers her some packaged banana bread, telling her that she could've just gotten some pre-made baked goods at the store instead. Medea just accepts defeat and eats a slice.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *Keep in mind that this is the late-1980s so the internet wasn't even a thing back then, but there were chatrooms dating as far back as 1973, so the Agents are using a private chatroom made extensively for them, and DIO had Polnareff's account deleted when he turned traitor so he wouldn't snitch to Joseph. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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