A thread concerning the work done on Diavolo

Diavolo is the main villain of JoJo part 5 (duh). Throughout the entire story, he's clouded in shadows, with his appearance remaining hidden untill the very end of the part. His short-term goal is to kill Trish, his long-term goal

is to erase every artifact of his past. Fittingly, his stand, King Crimson, has the ability to erase time. Diavolo is terrified of having his past revealed, and paranoid of every human being around him. He moves around with restless terror as he avoids such a future. No single

person, not even his right-hand Doppio nor his guards, know anything of his identity. His identity is entirely unknown.

However, to understand Diavolo as a villain, and thus his thematic value, requires one to investigate Diavolo's relationship to the concept of identity.

Let's first quickly review the 'body of work' already done on Diavolo, i.e. the video analyses on youtube.

I'll solely look at those made by @adinplore, @MetiNTBG, and @Oceaniz96. Others exist, but these are the only ones of good quality.

The primary topic of Diavolo analysis focuses on his psychological condition. They analyze the relationship between Diavolo and Doppio, and what this means for the story and Diavolo's 'self'.

The question most often discussed is whether Doppio or Diavolo is the original

personality. The analyses generally develop their argument through seeing characters as consequences of psychological circumstances. In Diavolo's case, his behaviour is explained by reference to his multiple-personality disorder.

However, this methodology fails to acknowledge the philosophical nature of art. Behaviour reflects psychology, which in turn is a reflection of philosophy. A person's philosophy determines his view on reality, which in turn determines the manner in the processes of his brain

operate. While Diavolo is mentally ill, his decisions still follow a consistent pattern, and are harmonious with his stated intentions and convictions. All of it can be integrated into a single philosophical idea, dramatized by Diavolo's mentally damaged existence. It would be a

disservice to Araki as a writer to not acknowledge the existence of this idea.

To give an example, @MetiNTBG mentioned in his video that Doppio's/Diavolo's agression at people finding out his past was the cause of his multiple-personality disorder (), yet

failed to explore the philosophical consequences of that relationship. The failing of the Diavolo analyses has been that no one, as of yet, has made an ideological analyses that explains the root convictions of Diavolo. What does this relationship between Doppio and Diavolo

contribute to the story, or tell us about existence? Uncovering a character's psychological framework is an important step, but not the final one. It lacks the final step of integration, namely the integration into a philosophical principle (the final integration of any fiction

would be to integrate all these principles, including the principle that is Diavolo's philosophy, into the story's theme).

JoJotube, thus far, has failed to make this final step. Diavolo's philosophical darkness is still unknown.

Let's look at further examples. @Oceaniz96, during his guest appearance on adinplore's Diavolo video, makes the following remark:

"It's more that he's a representation of all the intrique, mystery, and ominous feeling and terror you can get from this kind of villain."

In one of his own videos (), he says something quite similar:

"And he's also the villain we know the least about. But then it's fitting, considering the entire point of Diavolo is to be mysterious and ungraspable."

These two statements are absolutely true, but also lacking. Diavolo is a representation of the "ominous feeling and terror you can get from this kind of feeling," but what is the meaning of this terror? What idea makes us feel such terror? If Diavolo, as a character, revolves

around being "mysterious and ungraspable," then what does this mean for the story? What philosophical conclusion can we deduce from this characterization? How does Diavolo, if at all, contribute to the theme of Vento Aureo?

Of what idea is Diavolo the living embodiment?

My hypothesis is that the answer resides in a single sentence Diavolo speaks during his first showing, namely:

"I won't allow anyone to threaten my everlasting climax."

This is where the emphasis should be placed, Diavolo's concept of the everlasting climax. The goal ought to

be to understand the logical contradiction of such a climax, form several hypotheses based on that, and finally look at every facet of Diavolo's character until you find the hypothesis that fits his character withou contradiction.

The leidmotif of Diavolo is identity. His identity resides in his notion of the everlasting climax.

To echo @Oceaniz96's "What is Diavolo" video, Diavolo is the chaser of the everlasting climax. Furthermore, he's the chaser of anything that sentence implies.

I won't reveal those implications here. Tomorrow, the ninth of October, I shall upload a youtube video to my channel entitled "Diavolo's Everlasting Climax" (at long last). The aim of that video is to bring this matter to an end, as well as redirect 'Diavolo studies' (lmao).

The script included over a page on Doppio's relationship to Diavolo, as well as the function of Epitaph, but I found these were too repetitive for their size. Ultimately, I made the decision to leave them out. The video solely explores Diavolo on his own, not his relationship to

anyone else. This is partially because I'm not entirely sure about his exact relationship to Doppio yet.

Watch @Oceaniz96's video if you want to know more about this. It's the best video on the topic yet:

The script contains over a thousand unused words. These I'll make the full script accessible later, for reading, if anyone so wishes.

None of the videos I mentioned throughout this thread are bad. They're all good, but simultaneously lacking. This lack I intent to annihilate.

Some miscellaneous topics:

Did Diavolo deserve it? ()
Yes, he did.

Credit to @adinplore for stating the ironic nature of Diavolo's downfall being the result of his own past actions. Also look at this tweet of his:
https://twitter.com/adinplore/status/1137798113920503809

That's all.