Dio Brando & Giorno Giovanna

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Relationship:	Dio Brando & Giorno Giovanna
Alternative name(s):	MuDad; 無駄親子 "Muda oyako" ("Muda parent and child")
Fandom:	JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure
Type:	Parent-child
Canonical?:	Not really; never met in canon; ideologically opposed
Prevalence:	Popular
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Dio Brando & Giorno Giovanna refers to the fanon father-son relationship between DIO and his son Giorno Giovanna, characters in the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure series.

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Some of this dialogue makes me a little emo. You can tell Giorno was always hoping that he could meet the one parent he never knew as a child, after all he carries Dio’s photo in his wallet wherever he goes, and he was hoping that Dio would be a better person than his cruel mother and stepfather.

Which... Dio is even worse, and Giorno seems pretty damn disappointed by that. “I always wanted to meet you, but all I can say now is that it’s useless.” Yet Dio is not an altogether awful person toward Giorno, somehow. And Giorno still desires his father’s validation—even during he team attack you can see how he glances up to see how Dio reacts to him.

Giorno is not a very sentimental person, but he has an attachment to his father that he can’t just discard. And Dio is a selfish hedonist, but his attitude changes when he’s face-to-face with his son: he hated his own father, and would want to be a better father out of spite if nothing else.

Dio seems to have both pride and contempt for Giorno. He sees his own ambition and ruthlessness, a thirst for power and control in Giorno, and he seems satisfied. But then Giorno uses these qualities in ways that are more Jonathan-like... he defies Dio for the sake of his own dreams, he cares for the lives of common and innocent people and will use lethal force to punish those that prey on them for money or power.

Giorno isn’t just a copy of Dio, he is his own person, and his ideals conflict with his father—I get the sense that Dio would (in theory) love to encourage a little mini-me version of himself running around doing evil shit, but he can’t do that because Giorno is genuinely a good hearted person. But at the same time, that’s the exact same quality that he finds admirable in Jonathan, one of the only people he has ever truly respected.

So it’s a conflicted sense of “Yes! Go and do crimes, my son, seek power, be a bastard just like your father” and “WHY did you have to turn out to be such an idealistic little shit?”

It would be really neat to have an actual story expanding on their relationship, more than just cameos in a game...

v, comment on the YouTube video Giorno meets Dio Jojo's Bizarre adventure Eyes of Heaven

Fan Works

Fan Art

• The Coolest Hair in the Kindergarten, ^{Archived version} by Dietersoft

Challenges and events

• MuDad Week Tumblr

External Links

Fan Communities and Archives

• DeviantArt (DA):
• Archive of Our Own (AO3): [ Dio Brando & Giorno Giovanna] tag
• Tumblr: mu-dad, Daily Papa Dio
• Reddit: r/WholesomeMudad