#Diego done

[ladymisteria]

Diego done with Alejandro’s outings + Diego & Alejandro De la Vega’s Moments + Concerned Diego

*Diego walks into the room while his father close the chambers of his pistol and holds it in his hands.*

Diego, sighing exasperated: I don't understand… You're an intelligent man! Surely, you must realize you're not the soldier you were thirty years ago!

*Don Alejandro, with a grim expression, sets down the pistol on a table then stands up - taking a key from his waistband and going over to a cabinet to unlocks it. He then takes out a piece of paper and handing it to Diego.*

Diego, looking at a portrait of a young man: Who's this?

Don Alejandro: Alfonso de la Vega.

Diego, surprised: My uncle?

Don Alejandro: Yes, Diego.

Diego: Didn't he die at the Battle of Guernavarca?

Don Alejandro: He was murdered by one of his own men.

Diego: Cordoba.

Don Alejandro: Yes. When he betrayed the platoon, he shot Alfonso in the back. He was my brother, Diego.

*He picks up two pistols from the table.*

Don Alejandro: Tomorrow, I will finally give him justice.

*Diego, extremely worried, watches him walk away.*

Season 3, Episode 10 - Alejandro Rides Again.

[laurrelise]

i made some tua textposts

[moss-on-a-pebble]

So I've recently taken an interest to @peathepirate 's Wings!AU and decided to make some doodles/headcanons of my own :)

I completely rawdogged the wing designs so don't come at me 🫡

First of all Franmaya 🫶

I feel like Franziska would hide her wings during the growing period but eventually learns to love them (and uses them to add a lil flare to her objections). Don't think she confronted Maya until after BTTT but Maya is smart enough to put two and two together.

Now some Miego

I feel like Diego would have giant ass wings cuz it just feels right. I'd do a Godot design too but my wrist hurts 😔

Then bonus Narumitsu doodle I'm never gonna finish (Nick isn't stupid enough to do this but it was funny)

Anyway bless this AU I love it so much it's like a gift sent from heaven cuz it's my current fixation together with my special interest (birds)

[capinejghafa]

You know what doesn't make sense, Diego actually trained to be a fighter, regardless if that wasn't his powers. Like he was an amateur boxer... his powers have no basis on his ability to fight. His literal powers are trajectory manipulation...

[hackedhearts]

I don't know what I'm supposed to do Haunted by the ghost of you Oh take me back to the night we met

[magsneezo]

[pepperf]

I'm a little puzzled by a few takes I've seen along the lines of, Lila was such a great wife and mother and Diego took her for granted! Because I don't think the show gave us that at all, and I think it relied heavily and lazily on societal norms to get the audience to make that leap. It also ignored previous characterisation, which is why I plan to disregard the season as a whole - because if the characters had been like this from the start, I wouldn't have fallen in love with them.

So, what I mean is: the whole time we see her as a parent, Lila is basically phoning it in. She seems to view her kids as one monolithic, sticky entity sent purely to ruin her day (distinct shades of the Handler there). They're just a list of chores - diapers, dentist, ballet, cake, piñata... And I'm not underestimating how much parenting really is a list of chores to be done - but that's all we see, no love, no fun. She's eager to get away from them, and she's only - finally - desperate to be with them when it's convenient for the plot, at which point we're supposed to buy the idea that her kids are her sole focus (not the relationship that they spent the past two seasons building up). And even then, the focus is not on the reunion with the kids, it's on all the awkwardness of the surprise love triangle. Hell, one of the kids doesn't even get a name.

Their intent might have been to have Lila be the better parent, but like much of this season, it's all tell and no show. We're working off a couple of brief conversations from the points of view of two frustrated, tired, biased individuals who are already at odds with one another, plus the evidence of what they actually do. They show that they’re not communicating well, but they don’t show how that happened, how long this has been growing, if one of them really is more at fault. All we know is that he complains a lot, and she’s sneaking out at night to play secret agent. They tell us that she loves her children (eventually, after seven years apart), but they show her being annoyed and/or bored in every normal, non-apocalyptic interaction. They have her (and Five) tell us that Diego is a bad husband, but they show Lila sniping at his weight, his way of running a birthday party, rolling her eyes at his efforts to impress her and regain her attention - and they show him dadding at everyone (he will turn this van around, so help him), the comfortable love and affection between him and his kids, the Punjabi he learned to speak fluently to his in-laws, him looking for ways to fix his marriage...

Take the bracelet thing, for example. "You hate bracelets," says Diego. "I gave you one for Valentines and you traded it for a Dyson vacuum." I think what we're supposed to take from that is a) Lila stopped wearing the wooden bracelet (uh oh, signs the honeymoon period has worn off!), b) Diego gives thoughtless, stereotypical gifts, and c) he doesn't understand what she really wants.

But an alternative reading is this: a) Lila stopped wearing the wooden bracelet (could not be a clearer or more loaded 'fuck you' to Diego), b) Diego tried to find another way to win her affection (on his pay as a delivery driver, with a wife and three kids to support, he managed to buy a bracelet that was expensive enough to trade for a Dyson?), and c) she rejected that gift as well, without any deeper explanation than 'I hate bracelets'. She's shut down all communication between them and is not telling him what's wrong. She has shut him out so comprehensively that she's got a whole undercover life - for which she apparently has the time and energy! - and yet we're supposed to think that oh it's all on Diego. Why? Lila is not a shy and retiring flower, and she and Diego have been shown before to have some very sincere heart-to-hearts about their relationship. Something changed, okay, fine - but why would we assume it was Diego that caused that?

I think our expectations about What Women Are Like are doing a LOT of the heavy lifting in how the show wants Lila to be perceived. She's a woman, and therefore she's automatically a good wife and mother - that she's emotionally intelligent, the organiser, she'll love her children and would do anything for them, she'll tried the hardest to make her marriage work, just...because boobies, I guess. This is not how you write good parents, or good female characters, TUA! A truly astonishing amount of people actually ARE women, and they know that it doesn't automatically confer any kind of maternal or wifely abilities! These things have to be worked on!

(In real life, women are often socialised to be better at these things, this is sadly true. But an awful lot of us do not have an innate talent for it, and there's no shame in that. And, more relevantly to this post, this is not real life, and Lila is not your average person. She's not normal, and I love that about her. She was raised to be a weapon. Do we really think the Handler installed the 'homemaker' module? Lila herself said that she was scared that she wouldn't know how to be a mother, because she had no good example to base it on.)

I also think the show assumes that, when you get married and have kids, you're automatically granted a house in the suburbs, a bunch of in-laws, and enough money from just the husband's job to get by. And I think that is an incredibly privileged and blinkered assumption. Frankly, unless her parents are financing them, they should be struggling a lot more. None of that is explained, and for me it was a real gap, because these are the arguments that Lila and Diego should be having. Lila caring for the kids versus getting a job. Living with family versus striking out on their own. Diego sticking at a job that makes him miserable and difficult to live with, or taking the huge financial risk of trying to find something better. These are the real life issues they should be facing.

Listen, I think the characterisation of Lila as a parent and spouse in this season is horseshit. I think she would be so much better than they showed - of course she's going to have some low times, she's going to struggle with her own upbringing, but I think she would try her damndest to get it right, and I don't think she'd be defeated so easily. But if we're dealing with what canon actually shows us, she's, uh, kind of mediocre as a mother, and really not that great as a partner.

And yes, I'm sure Diego is no angel, either, he's obviously wrapped up in his problems, and he's probably not much fun to be around when he's fixating on, uh, *checks notes* wanting a more fulfilling job (the fiend). But honestly, he's not that far removed from the Diego we've seen all along, the one she fell in love with. It takes one conversation for him to realise how incredibly fortunate he is, and to convince him to try to work harder on his relationship and stop focusing on the unobtainable. The idea that he's the only one who is failing at this whole gig - the chief culprit in the failure of their marriage, the only one who needs to make an effort to fix things - is bizarre. And it's pretty obvious why they've done it: to justify her thing with Five later and make it all seem more palatable. But there's no real substance behind it.

tl;dr: this season was badly-written, takes some incredibly antiquated attitudes towards the role of women that are inconsistent with the characters they themselves established, and some incredibly classist attitudes towards manual labour, and just hopes that you'll either take it at face value or read the fuck into it, to better sell you a shitty romance that added nothing to the plot.

[izloveshorses]

rebelcaptain appreciation week | day 3: partners

trust goes both ways.

[island-ofthelost]

inside out if it was filmed inside my head

[spenglerstwinkie]

“To the race and to the next part.”

“To the race, and the next part.”

[veinded]

alternate version of viktor coming out in s3

[ladymisteria]

Diego done with Alejandro’s outings

Don Alejandro: Our Andalusians are the ones who stand a prayer of a chance. Come, let's go: we can't lose a moment. Diego: But, Father… Don Alejandro: Don't 'But, Father' me! Our horse was stolen. It's our property. I want it back. Let's go! *He turns and walks out of the library. Diego, exasperated, starts to follow him, but stops and turns toward Felipe, making a ‘Z' in the air with his finger.*

Season 4, Episode 1 - The Fox and the Rabbit.

[scary-monsters]

5k feels like an adequate milestone to host my very first "draw this in your style" challenge, and it feels correct to use my personal take on a modern au diego brando for subject matter 🧡 rules and other stuff under the cut! whether you're participating or not, thank you so much for being here and enjoying my art :')) it means a lot to me

for this dtiys, i would love to see other artists' takes on a modern au diego! please include the following:

something he's listening to (music, podcast, yt video, etc)

something on his phone screen (could be a text, a game, a website, anything!)

a cute little outfit of some kind ("cute" is subjective, i just want to see him in something other than his canon outfit!)

any pose is fine, doesn't have to be half-body, can be a bust if that's all you're able to do! i'm mostly interested in seeing y'all's headcanons expressed through art

if you don't have headcanons as far as any of those things go, no worries! drawing my version will work perfectly fine! in fact i would love that just as much :')) he is dear to me..

additionally, to be considered for a prize:

make sure you tag me in the post, and include the "diego brando" tag as well just to be safe since i actively track his tag on here! i may miss it otherwise, and i would hate to miss anything!

you must post the art on here specifically! if you post elsewhere on other sites i will hopefully see and interact with it too, but it must be posted here primarily

you must be following me!

prizes will be in the form of two sketches and one fully rendered portrait, gifted to three separate people. i will not be choosing based on perceived art skill or personal relationships!! i just want to see other people's takes on my favorite character in the world 🧡🙏��

deadline is currently december 15th!! this may change, depending on my own schedule and other people expressing a desire for more time, i'm not in any rush!

[evie-doesnt-write]

Immediately thought of them

[bambinafangirls]

klaus: let’s talk about your emotions

diego: stabbing

klaus: that’s not an emotion, an emotion is more of a feeling.

diego: well, maybe, i’m feeling stabby.

[lunarsolar1]

You know what would’ve been an ideal ending (or at least semi proper compare to whatever the f was that)

Instead of trying to erase themselves so they can get back to the original timeline, they could’ve saved THEMSELVES and get inside that metro and go to other alternative time lines where they could’ve been happy and have a happy ending. (Maybe finding a way to remove the marigold as well?)

Like, maybe Allison could’ve gone to another timeline where she could’ve been with ray and Claire and start a family there (where they’re safe as well), or Viktor could’ve gone to another timeline where Sissy and Harlan was there and they could’ve been a family.

Luther could’ve gone to somewhere where Sloane is still alive and they could’ve live happily ever after, get married, have kids etc. Lila and Diego could’ve gone somewhere with their family (and WITHOUT FIVE) where grace is still alive or a robot idk and knows Diego (and she’s still a mother figure to him) and they both could’ve been happy with their kids and work out their marriage and be in love again. AND KLAUS, could’ve find another time line where Dave is still alive and they could’ve gotten together again and live happily in their farm (maybe with kids or pets idk).

(Idk about Ben and Five but I’m sure they could’ve find another time line they could be happy and make a life for themselves, maybe five could’ve found someone else to love :) a new love interest:) that is NOT Lila :))

They could’ve done so much for the finale, so many alternative endings that could’ve give everyone a proper beautiful ending where all of them are happy and living their lives in peace and safe from the chaos. But NO, instead they ruined it with whatever that was :) and that is something I will forever be pissed, bitter and sour 😊