#my fiance headcanons diego as argentinian diaspora and they're so valid

[masked-disciple]

I mean, it's not hard to think about. You are Some Guy who was trying to solve a murder that traumatized the hell out of your partner, to the point she refuses to go back to her job where you met, and this is a partner you're planning to propose to.

She has Issues, namely that she isn't as familiar with the rest of the world as one would expect due to being incredibly sheltered as a child, as well as an independent streak that can get her pretty badly hurt because she has no idea how to rely on people, thanks to her abusive family.

You try to help her on this case, you get poisoned, you wake up and it's been five years.

Your partner has been dead for three. The person who murdered her, in jail. The reason she died? Because she wouldn't reach out for help, exactly as you know her biggest issue is half the time. Because she trusted you, and you left.

The only person who might've been able to help is some idiot that you know ate glass on the witness stand, during the trial of the girl who poisoned you (who has a suspicious link to your partner's family), glass that had trace amounts of the poison that destroyed your body and put you in a five-year coma that the doctors might have been able to use to wake you up sooner.

That idiot is riding off your partner's fame and her name, and he doesn't deserve it, and he's gotten lucky. And the girl who almost killed you? Her mother is now trying to kill your partner's baby sister, who you know is in the exact same abusive family that your partner's from, and the only person protecting her is the Aforementioned Idiot who didn't save your partner.

While you're trying to save your partner's sister, trying to pick up what few pieces you have left of your life, some pipsqueak 17yo with a German accent is being incredibly rude to you for no reason that you can see, acting like she knows what she's talking about. You have over a decade of lawyering experience, and this is a child acting all high and mighty with a weapon.

Now, I set this without using any more gender indications than pronouns for clarity, and without specifying the race of anyone involved. From Diego's perspective... yeah, being a dick to Franziska makes complete sense from where he's standing. He's falling apart and traumatized and has every right to be angry, and he's lashing out because of it. Even Phoenix says at the end that he's not sure convicting Diego was the right move.

(Because Diego was right. And not just because I have no use for Misty Fey as a person.)

Like yeah, he's a bit misogynistic towards Franziska, but if she'd been Sebastian Debeste he probably would've just changed his insults for masculine ones and said the exact same thing. I don't personally see his anything towards Mia to be misogynistic, people just see it that way because it falls into the dead-wife-man-pain trope. I would like to know if any of us would act marginally better in his position, because I sure wouldn't.

So I think we can agree people whining about Diego while excusing every other character doing the same thing (Barok van Zieks is a good example, because he's literally only racist because of his trauma, and once that's dealt with he lightens up significantly) are being racist. If someone doesn't like Diego personally, whatever, but the double standard is a bit blatant.

People do the same shit to Raymond Shields, despite his sexism clearly being the writers making a kinda-racist joke about how Americans are over-familiar and weird, and it's not to anyone's surprise because he's one of the few (if only, actually iirc?) Black characters in AA. It never surprised me that Diego gets that treatment when he doesn't deserve it.

But yeah. Diego Armando good. I get why people dislike him being a dick to Franziska, because she's amazing, but if it's just the misogyny claim and they don't hold anyone else to that standard... bruh.

Honest opinion time but I don’t believe people who hate Godot because he’s a mysogynist. I’ve seen waay too many atrociously sexist characters defended kinned and stanned. Either it’s just that he’s boring to you and the misogyny is the only thing you remember, he’s hispanic and therefore doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt, or you felt personally offended on Franziska’s behalf (which is completely understandable and also same).