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Originally, I didn’t think they were that big of a thing to where a lot of people would
want to talk about them, but after looking back into Stone Ocean, I can understand it.
As you know, this video is going to be on the children of Dio.
Now, I believe that when Araki writes in the offspring of already existing characters,
he focuses on traits and environment.
That’s the reason why there’s so much difference from all the Joestars we have,
because not only are they their own person, but they’re also different for time and
place they live in.
With the children of Dio, I see that Araki had split up the most notable traits of Dio
among the four of the children we know.
We’re going to be going over that here.
The first son I’m going to be going over is Donatello Versus.
Donatello in his youth never had a way to know who his real father was.
He had his mom and stepfather, but home wasn’t a good place for him since he was facing neglect.
He had run away from home with knowing that he would have to go back with him not having
any money.
He looked for a place to spend the night, but it’s possible that running away was
just done to get some attention drawn to him.
Now while he is looking for a place, this is where something interesting happens.
A pair of shoes come from the sky and knocked him over.
This is where his story becomes Holes.
I’m sure many of you know of Holes, but more know about the 2003 Disney movie than
the book itself which was released in 1998.
He faces a judge, but instead of going to Camp Green Lake, he went to Mega Juvie.
The place itself looked like a prison.
He suffered there, he was already mentally and physically destroyed, but along with that
he was bullied by a guard for coming in contact with a knife that the guard was hiding.
He had got infected by the knife and nearly died from the following up illness.
Though it turns out that all the strife that Donatello had experienced was because of his
stand Underworld.
His stand can replay memories stored into the earth, and it turns out that the story
of Holes happened on the street to where he was unfortune to walk across.
Dontello’s misfortune while being a product of his ability, had sculpted him into the
man we know.
His similarities to Dio are what we know him best for because of how evident he makes it
to be.
He’s extremely selfish and it’s due to him believing that deserves the best of what
the world has to offer.
Even to the point where he feels that he should be the one to achieve Heaven, and not Pucci,
someone who dedicated a large portion of his life to Heaven and had done so much for Donatello.
This connects back to how Dio had come into the Joestar home, and instead of enjoying
all that was given to him after this terrible life, he wanted everything possible and no
one else could have it.
Both Donatello and Dio trying to take out those that did so much for them.
There’s also the ruthlessness of Donatello, but there have been countless times where
we had seen the worst of Dio so I’m sure you can connect the dots there.
The next son is Rikiel.
He was a character with no direction until Pucci.
He originally suffered from a condition that that would give him panic attacks, an inability
to keep his eyelids up, and would have his legs go out.
He was unable to function, but not because of the condition, but because of the shot
in self-confidence that his condition gave him.
After Pucci’s help by giving him his stand Sky High, he became a lot more confident and
he had more power in the direction of his life.
I think that how Dio and Rikiel connect is determination, respect, and some say his actions.
I can’t describe the trait that he has when he sets himself on fire to see Jolyne’s
perspective, but I don’t think it’s one like Dio directly.
The idea of putting yourself into the same situation as your opponent to figure out how
they think is such an odd one.
He loves seeing progress, I feel that he focuses on the progress of a lot of things we see
in life due to him being down on his luck, and the only thing he would want to see is
progress for others.
He had also given Jolyne information once he lost, and that was done out of respect
for her.
These are traits existing show the Jonathan Dio fusion that these kids are.
Though only two of the 4 show this.
Rikiel was one the more promising children with the traits that he took up.
The next one is going to be Ungalo.
We don’t get a lot from Ungalo’s origins, but from what we’re given, it’s enough
to know.
Ungalo was a drug addict originally before Pucci got involved.
He lived his life without any guidance and it lead him into that direction.
Not exactly direction, but more so there was nothing in his life to give him satisfaction
and a drive to do something.
Once he started helping Pucci with his given stand, Bohemian Rhapsody, he felt great.
He felt great not only because of his purpose, but his purpose involved hurting those of
the world, the same world that had made him into the person he was before Pucci.
After his defeat, he lost the will to live, realizing that he would just go back to his
original life without purpose and direction.
His connection to Dio can be connected by his sadism, but I’d like to focus on how
he feels when he’s at his all time high.
I’d say it’s reminiscent to when Dio had Jotaro on the ropes after taking Joseph’s
blood.
For the times he’s been sadistic, well there’s a lot.
I think the easiest thing to do is just look at Phantom Blood Dio and see what he’s done.
Now, the children of Dio aren’t just in the part to show that Dio had kids.
Along with fate and gravity, I think the involvement of Dio’s kids was a way to show the worst
of Dio to Pucci.
If we were to think about Dio’s potential back in Phantom Blood and who he became at
the end of it all, it was all done without direction, and more so done through his experiences
over time.
Pucci only knew of the best parts of Dio because that’s where he’s shown to be at his most
mature.
I would’ve love to see Pucci’s thoughts on the Dio he saw when he was fighting Jotaro,
he had access to Jotaro’s memories which meant he at least had a chance at seeing it.
To see this once extremely elegant Dio falling into this sadistic madness that was originally
only seen by Jotaro and those in Phantom Blood, wouldn’t move Pucci enough to the point
where he wouldn’t carry out heaven, but instead be puzzled on whether if he really
knows Dio.
But the biggest thing I think that Araki was getting at, is that Heaven was needed.
Heaven was a way that everyone would know how everything was going to go, and they would
never have to deal with feel directionless because they would know of everything they
were capable of and what they’re fated to experience.
We see this in every one of Dio’s children mentioned, the only one that we didn’t mention
was the one that didn’t follow Pucci since he didn’t need to be guided by anyone, his
heart already knew direction.
Dio knew that there were so many people in the world that needed direction, because he
was one of those people.
The idea of it doesn’t even seem that bad, with the idea of guiding those with no direction
and some will never find it.
While it seems like there would be no reason to progress forward for something that you
already know of, how would we feel about everything being already predetermined.
Is anything coincidence, or is it all fate?
There’s a lot that goes into Heaven, that I want to speak more about later, but for
here I think I’m done.
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