useless101
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[X] "A strong dream. I think I want to help you achieve it."
Dio is the kind of guy who'll eventually have to reveal that he's not nice. His pride won't let him be something he's not forever.
But he's also quite capable of playing second fiddle until he feels strong enough to strike out on his own.
Or at least only sabotaging the people around him a little until the time comes.
Okay, 'little' by Dio's standards, but he keeps a lid on it.
So we'll need to have significant personal power by that point. Enough so that the rest of the village/country/world will put up with us rather than fight us directly, or at least won't succeed in killing us.
Personal power being both that which we are capable of, and what any intrinsically loyal minions are capable of.
A canon example of someone pulling this off would be the Yondaime Mizukage, Yagura.
Actually that's a good goal: Outdo Yagura. Only with the dead people being whoever doesn't bow down to us.
Before reaching that point, however, it'd probably be a good idea to show something resembling the Will of Fire.
We could let it be known we wish to be Hokage and protect the village, but it might be better to underplay it.
The Joestar Shikamaru here gives us an opportunity to have a stalking horse. We support his rise to Hokage-hood as his right hand man. He's clearly smart enough to pull it off if he's talking with us on something resembling an even footing at this age.
The point being that someone whose ambition is to support a friend's bid to be leader is less of an existential threat than one who wants to be the boss themselves.
If he becomes loyal to us in turn, then that's not any worse than being Hokage ourselves, with less paperwork.
If he isn't willing to do what we want, well, the Hokage's best friend taking over after his death and declaring war on those people from (insert name of random nation Dio wants to conquer) who so clearly had him assassinated would be perfectly natural.
Dio is the kind of guy who'll eventually have to reveal that he's not nice. His pride won't let him be something he's not forever.
But he's also quite capable of playing second fiddle until he feels strong enough to strike out on his own.
Or at least only sabotaging the people around him a little until the time comes.
Okay, 'little' by Dio's standards, but he keeps a lid on it.
So we'll need to have significant personal power by that point. Enough so that the rest of the village/country/world will put up with us rather than fight us directly, or at least won't succeed in killing us.
Personal power being both that which we are capable of, and what any intrinsically loyal minions are capable of.
A canon example of someone pulling this off would be the Yondaime Mizukage, Yagura.
Actually that's a good goal: Outdo Yagura. Only with the dead people being whoever doesn't bow down to us.
Before reaching that point, however, it'd probably be a good idea to show something resembling the Will of Fire.
We could let it be known we wish to be Hokage and protect the village, but it might be better to underplay it.
The point being that someone whose ambition is to support a friend's bid to be leader is less of an existential threat than one who wants to be the boss themselves.
If he becomes loyal to us in turn, then that's not any worse than being Hokage ourselves, with less paperwork.
If he isn't willing to do what we want, well, the Hokage's best friend taking over after his death and declaring war on those people from (insert name of random nation Dio wants to conquer) who so clearly had him assassinated would be perfectly natural.
