Phantom Blood
When Dio was just a boy, he was brought into the household of George Joestar after the mysterious death of his father, Dario, so as to repay the debt he owed Dio's father for saving his life. But soon Dio's personality causes trouble for George's son, Jonathan Joestar. Dio does everything he can to shatter Jonathan's spirit and take his place as the favored son, even going so far as to arrange for Jonathan's dog Danny to be burned to death.
Dio is able earn the trust of the patriarch of the Joestar family through deceit (and at Jonathan's expense). However, his plans of taking over the Joestar household were discovered by Jonathan when he discovered that not only had Dio poisoned his biological father to death, but was doing the same to George, all to take the Joestar estate for his own.
Dio puts on and activates the Stone Mask, becoming a nearly unstoppable vampire, able to walk on walls, and regenerate his body faster than fire can consume it. He is able to pressurize liquid in his eyeballs and then create small openings on pupils, eventually creating two fluid jets powerful enough to slice stone and kill living things. He is also able to vaporize his body fluid rapidly enough to freeze anything he touches. He weakness is sunlight or the Ripple, which disintegrate the un-living body. Like all JoJo vampires, Dio sucks blood through tentacles in his fingers.
At the end of Part 1, Dio's body was destroyed, but his severed head manages to kill Jonathan Joestar and together they sink to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
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