Probably an unpopular opinion on Diego

Kay, so I just finished reading the part when Tory and Caleb runs into Diego and he calls her a whore in spanish. Absolutely foul. But not as foul as the things he said to Darcy a couple of pages before. Lowkey incel vibes.

But I also feel for him and think the twins are being major fucking assholes for how little they've stood by him when he's been bullied and treated like dirt by the heirs. From earlier reading experience, I suspect we're rearing up to pulling some kind of veil off of Diego to reveal his real identity and intentions, slowly making us dislike him so it softens the fall, but I can't help but feel so frustrated by the way his friends don't treat him as an equal before he becomes an ass.

When the heirs were cruel to the twins, they seemed to support and care for eachother, but it seems like the second the twins started to get to know the heirs, they gave absolutely zero fucks about them continuing to physically and verbally assault and humiliate Diego. Everytime Darcy got angry with Diego for hating Orion I felt "how dare she?!" (and jesus christ don't even get me started on what a douchebag Orion is), she knows that he only knows the Orion that continues to assault him for no reason, that destroyed something incredibly valuable to him and read his diary aloud for all to hear, all because he's a disturbingly jealous and controlling psycho.

All of these men are being absolutely terrible to him because they're jealous over the twins, and they just wave it off. But this scene takes the cake I think, Diego is asking his friend if she please can spare him a minute to talk about something that he's really concerned about, hoping she might prioritise her friend over one of his bullies, but she just giggles when Caleb starts kissing all over her while Diego is being upset, and even after Caleb berates him and tells him the twins don't want him around, she picks Caleb. It's such a "bullied rises to mean girl-status" feeling. Of course he was terrible to Darcy earlier, but Tory doesn't know that, so she has no reason to be this shitty. And Darcy was an asshole first for slapping Orion for saying what he felt for one of his perpetrators. So yes, Diego is showing some awful, awful traits now, but I feel like this is a monster created by negligence from all people near him. But then again, everyone's an asshole in this series. And I do enjoy it very much, even if some of the characters really frustrate me at times.

But fuck Orion, this is a hill I'll die on.