#love for the hikari for the metaphorical god in dnangel context is pitiful at best and corrupting and worthless at worst

[dnangelic]

the thing about that panel too is daisuke already learned Not to go ape. the entire azumano joyland/argentine arc was to demonstrate that and the way that daisuke connecting/influencing dark with feelings like rage or serious negativity can straight up kill him. this is a shoujo series not a shonen so unfortunately going nuts and Actually Evil and Really Trying to Hurt people around him will always end up turning around and hurting him in equal or worse measure, especially given how dark works in relation to his body.

nobody makes it through the fairy tale by being cruel, they make it through by being kind and through the returned help of others. for dark too every day is him wishing for a kindness and tenderness he doesn't naturally have and can only obtain through daisuke; it's dark being inherently cruel and heartless himself yet also exhausted and depressed and having no choice but to exist the way he does in a way that can hardly be called living, while begging, pleading, asking and demanding daisuke to tell/show him what other way that he can live.

both of them in their own (unified) ways are so lonely and so oooooo sooo sooo empty and hollow. but dark before daisuke was never so kind. dark before daisuke was never so patient. even if the narrative insists that daisuke's doomed to 'get worse' in lawful aspects, to meet the struggle of his genes and accepting dark as well as his parts as a phantom thief (and therefore becoming yes an even more brilliant criminal, lmao) for dark it's a matter of positive personal change and growth. daisuke is a Nice Boy. it's just that dark will always serve as his fatal flaw and sin, making a fallen angel out of him!!