#everything about them I have to infer from 2 episodes like hakdshkajda

[armandyke]

I'm curious - which of diego's dynamics in the show are your top 3? i rly liked his dynamic w/ klaus n eudora in s1 but i haven't watched S2 yet bc brain broken cannot focus, so id love to hear your take

I think across both seasons my favourite dynamic is probably between him and Luther, and it’s probably my favourite relationship arc across the show so far because they really went from enemies to awkward coworkers to besties hakdsja. Just the whole Number 1 vs Number 2 and Diego’s inferiority complex and constantly picking fights with Luther in s1 and at first it comes across as “oh this guy’s a bit of an asshole and resents Luther for being Number 1″ but then you rewatch it and listen to what he’s saying and realise he’s not angry at Luther for being Number 1, he’s angry at him for not realising how badly he was treated and is like... trying make Luther acknowledge his abuse but doesn’t really know how to do it. It’s so sweet in a bizarre way and kinda goes back to what I was saying about the self-serving thing because Diego’s reaction to his trauma was anger, so from his point of view Luther should be angry too (when actually Luther’s response to the trauma was denial and dissociation), so he constantly tries to goad him and get him to feel angry about what happened and that’s his way of trying to connect with him and I can’t carry on with this train of thought because I’ll start crying but anyway the development of that into s2 when Luther HAS acknowledged the trauma and Diego has had some bad therapy and is starting to try and connect with his siblings and starts acknowledging Luther’s actual feelings instead of just projecting his own onto him and they end up bonding and being best bros I just 🥺

I spent way too much time talking about that HKJADSKA but anyway my other favourites are him and Klaus in s1 because of the implied continuation of their relationship after leaving home in e1 (Klaus seeing Diego leave and asking “are we leaving” implying Diego was the one who drove him there in the first place, knowing about Diego’s vigilante thing and not being happy about it at all, Diego saying he would drop Klaus at the bus stop which again implies he had at least a vague idea of where Klaus had been staying before they came to the house), and just... Klaus getting into a bar fight and Diego being like “alright guess I gotta kick this veteran’s ass now” and then twenty minutes later Diego going off to avenge Patch and Klaus being like “alright I guess I gotta kick these time travelling assassins’ asses now”. The ride or die dynamic these two have. I live for that shit. 

Third is probably Lila because there was a lot that went on in a relatively short space of time and I want an entire spin off show just showing the three months they spent in a psychiatric ward together because I wanna know more about how she gained his trust and what the relationship development was there. But the whole relationship was great because it did a lot to show Diego’s character development after her betrayal. If that had happened to s1 Diego he probably would have just tried to kick her ass or something but instead he could stand there and have a conversation with her about his trust issues and why her betrayal hurt and even after she betrayed him AGAIN he was still able to empathise with her after he found out what The Handler did?? And talked her down from a fight?? DIEGO??? I love that for him. And Lila on the other hand just going through the entire cliche “falling for your hit” storyline that I will eat up absolutely every single time and him listening to her when she opened up about her past and caring for her when nobody else had before and hhhhhh. Also this whole dynamic kinda solidified me diagnosing Diego with bpd because their relationship was literally him going from “I can’t stand you” “actually I’m bringing you with me and introducing you to my family” “you are literally dead to me” “I love you” in the space of about five days like hkajdskh can someone PLEASE give him some therapy.