#DECORATED IN FINE CLOTHES AND JEWELS EVEN WHEN HE HIMSELF IS IN SQUALOR

[grimalkinmessor]

NO BECAUSE YES ALL FOR ONE TAKES CARE OF YOICHI BECAUSE HE SEES HIM AS SOMETHING THAT BELONGS TO HIM BUT HE ALSO TAKES CARE OF HIM AS A PRIEST TAKES CARE OF A SHRINE DO YOU UNDERSTAND DO YOU GET IT

[wri0thesley]

I'm super curious if you could give some headcanons about SDC Dio reacting to an s/o who lives really simply? For instance Dio dropping in on them and realizing that they don’t even have a bed in their little apartment, but s/o is content with it?

- Dio has never had the desire to live simply. As a child, he faced abject poverty and never had enough of anything - warm clothes, good food, a loving family. As an adult - and later on, as an immortal being - he wants power and luxury and all of the trappings that come with it. - By the time of SDC, he’s grown used to being worshipped as a God. He has a fine Egyptian mansion and people who are willing to kill for a kind word dropping from those painted lips. He sees gold and fine fabrics and jewels as things he deserves, and for anyone who’s beloved by him to not be showered in these things . . .- Dio isn’t too good at showing human emotion. Love is an alien feeling for him; but for his s/o, he thinks he feels something close. He showers them in expensive gifts and trinkets and jewels, expecting his s/o to fall over him in gratitude with big fawning eyes. When they don’t, he’s not too angry - but he is intrigued. Perhaps they feel his presence is a gift enough? He needs validation to thrive, though, so he plans an elaborate gift and resolves to be at their residence to surprise them. - He’s surprised by its little size, the paint peeling from the doorway - his holy body shouldn’t have to enter somewhere so humble. And yet, he does, expecting to see a room decorated with fine things that he’s gifted his s/o - and he’s surprised beyond measure to see a bare room, a blanket, little else. A mattress but no bedframe, a pile of clothes but no wardrobe - a flash of worry that his s/o is awfully poor and has been selling his gifts to them comes across him, replaced by rage. If that’s true, they could have told him and he’d have fixed things, he would never allow someone beloved by him to exist in this squalor--- So he’s surprised to find, when his s/o returns and looks up at him, that the gifts are in a box. He asks them why they don’t display them, show them off - all things he himself would do - and he’s utterly charmed - and perhaps a little smug - when his s/o looks at him and says, voice soft;- “I don’t need them when I have you.”