#anali111 asks

[trashcankitty12]

Do you have any headcanons about Diaspro and why she ended up being the way she is ?

Oh boy do I have Diaspro thoughts!

And I have been using them while I write my AUs.

First of all: Diaspro isn't an only child, she has an older brother who is also being tormented by their overbearing parents.

(He's gay and his parents are very traditional, or at least, they're practically pushing him to marry and have children with a woman, but he can have *secret affairs* with men if he is so desperate for that.)

Back when they were kids, they would try to protect each other from their parents by pissing them off when they would go after the other sibling for something they did "wrong".

(Like poor Diaspro was constantly being taught by her mother and the other women of the Isis court how to "act" and "behave" and "look". Her looks were her most important thing, she needed to stay quiet. She also needed to learn how to "properly speak" to "get what she wants" done.)

(Manipulation basically that plays up to male ego.)

Of course, once Diaspro and her brother reached certain ages: 12 and 11, they were separated to truly begin their grooming.

Jasper was sent off to boarding school to learn to be a proper wizard and hopefully a proper prince. (What his dad doesn't know about his time at Coventry won't hurt him, and he knows Nabu won't say anything.)

Unfortunately that meant Diaspro was left alone with their parents and her own teachers. She was taught she had to be "perfect" in looks, brains (even though she was also taught to purposefully downplay her intelligence), and grace.

She's a princess, right? She has to be everything and more.

Her parents engaged her to their longtime friends' son, Prince Sky. Which wasn't bad, he was nice though kind of naive due to his own upbringing. But he'd do, especially since Eraklyon is such an important realm.

(Her mother made it very clear that if things didn't go right with her engagement and marriage to Sky, she'd be considered nothing more than a waste of air and her family would disown her in every way but publicly.)

(Meaning she'd be allowed to live at the castle and show up to events, but for the most part, she'd be just another servant girl.)

(Which is why she gets so wrapped up in "wanting" Sky. She doesn't care about him, she cares about not being cast aside.)

This is why during the first three seasons, she (and her mother) plot to keep Bloom and Sky separated and to cause trouble. Hell, her own mother even arranged for her to be kidnapped in hopes of sparking things between them.

And of course we know that Diaspro accepted help from Valtor.

(It was also during this time that her parents essentially helped her keep Sky away from his own so they couldn't tell that Sky was... Not quite Sky. Just until after their wedding.)

(Jasper however, wasn't part of this and did his best to help Brandon and Sky behind the scenes. His parents aren't happy with him, but they know they can't say anything since it all went public about Diaspro's "obsession" without admitting their own parts in it.)

(Yes they threw their own daughter under the bus when it all came out. "We have no idea what happened! We were spelled too!"

Jasper in the back, rolling his eyes. "Totally.")

All of this has pushed Diaspro so far, and she's so tired of coming in last place.

So she has a new plan: she's going to help the Ancestral Coven take over the Magical Dimension and she's going to destroy her family and takeover Isis as her own realm.

If she can't be a queen any other way, she'll force it. (And okay, maybe she won't destroy her brother, but she will make it known he can't return to Isis without potentially getting himself killed.)