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I get where people are coming from when they say Diaspro in Winx lost the plot for the sake of being turned into a minor villain and that's all once Valtor enabled her to do what she did in S3, but I feel like that was a reasonable narrative choice. It's only a love potion at that point (while I could go on all day about the ethics of love potions, of course, a later season has her straight up trying to do direct murder). She's a noble, guards will do her dirty work, and I understand that she would feel like getting revenge on Bloom while getting back together with Sky. She was promised a position — romantic AND political — she nearly had and then it was taken from under her by a random fairy who wasn't even "supposed" to be in the running. I don't think what she did was nice, but it makes sense for the story and for her character for her to want to reclaim her position in the way she did. Sky's love was an accessory, in part, to her political ascension, and thus he is again rendered accessory and accomplice by the love spell. And, sending guards after threats seems to be the thing to do in the magical universe if you're a disgruntled noble, so it's probably not unfamiliar for Diaspro to have seen occur before or want to do. It's not a uniquely rotten response any more than Radius' behaviour towards the monster (who, he didn't know it, was Stella). If we fault her for this action rather than only the intention behind it, we need to examine how the worlds in Winx Club deal with threats to their monarchs in general, which sounds interesting but I frankly don't have time for tonight. Diaspro did wrong, but she didn't do uniquely wrong there, and Eraklyon has the punitive security structures in place to have enabled that.
Diaspro's later appearances seem to flatten her motives and the symbolism behind why her relationship with Sky was important and what she does about it (who cares what Diaspro's political aims are and how her status might reflect how she deals with problems, the audience needs to see Bloom thrown into fire I guess), but I feel like seasons 4-8 weren't really that good anyway, so I can't even claim this as a fault of the writers doing Diaspro specifically wrong instead of them just doing the whole show wrong at that point. It might be related, and it might be a coincidence, but a lot of the writing choices seemed to become more flat to me right around when the art shifted to that lifeless godawful Flash simulacrum of S1-3's art.
Also like... idk but if some long-haired hottie wizard in a sick coat and contemplative eyeshadow told me he could help me get my promised chance at both romantic and political success back, I'd at least hear him out, yknow, see what he had to say (<- don't trust me I simp for Valtor)
idk there's something so very playing the game the 'correct' way and still losing and then cheating at the game and losing even more that is so compelling to me about Diaspro's romantic and especially political and social situation especially considering season 3. sometimes the powers that be tell you you're a sure winner and then sometimes they set you up to lose, whether those powers are the nobility of Eraklyon or whether it's Valtor or whether it's the narrative itself. And you're not enough of a loser for people to start to root for you but you're not enough of a winner to ever get what you were promised, doesn't that suck?
everytime i draw these two together its a side profile??? Why???
bloom/diaspro please?
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It's kinda implied that was what happened
In s3 Dia says that she and Sky were childhood friends, she says in s2 that she was both raised and trained to be a wife, and in all s1 she's seen with Sky's parents and comes on behalf of Eraklyon. It's very heavily implied that they were raised very close to eachother, and she literally says she was raised to be a wife
The main issue is that the show easily glosses over these things like their normal??? And implies that it's fineee bc Diaspro liked him anyway! Stockholm syndrome much?
And that's a really cool idea!! The reason Sky was acting like that was because he both wanted his own personal freedom (you can't convince me that Sky wasn't also raised to fit into a cookie cutter role too, it likely wasn't as bad as Dia but still), but still wanted to safe guard Dia because he felt insanely guilty for her situation
Cake and eat it too situation maybe, am I interpreting this right?
You know doesn't the water star catcher kinda look like a Charmix gem??? I saw someone post about it and my first thought was "wow this would be perfect for Diaspro's Charmix"
