I don’t really understand that distinction you make between like and being fond of. Being fond of means having a liking for, an affection for. Isn’t it basically the same thing ? I’m honestly asking I’m not a native speaker. Just because he doesn’t satisfies your standards of love doesn’t mean that, in his own head, he doesn’t feel love for them, yes that includes being possessive, it’s a twisted manifestation of love. It’s heavily implied he still likes Law even though he tried to kill him.

saisai-chan:

like…. i think Doflamingo has a disconnect between actual love and caring and what he thinks is love and caring. (i honestly think he’s a sociopath but i don’t really know enough on the subject to say for certain.)

imo, he likes his family as much as he likes his favorite shirt. he’s fond of the shirt, but he’s not gonna die to protect it, because it’s replaceable, but he will at least try to protect it, because he likes it. does that make sense??

and im not sure he still likes Law. more like he’s desperate for Law to make him immortal. he’s tried, and successfully managed, to emotionally manipulate, abuse, and hurt Law for this whole arc and it seems to me that he just wants to use Law for his own purposes. i mean, that was literally his intent when Law was 13 (”I’ll raise him so he’ll die for me”). sure he saw a bit of himself in Law, but because of Corazon that part is gone. not that it really stopped him from wanting to use Law to gain immortality when he was just a child.

i think he’s frustrated with Law because Law is constantly going against him for his ridiculous brother, and that Law could’ve been his greatest subordinate because they were so much alike before, and he’s tried this whole arc to keep Law alive enough so he could perform the immortality surgery on Doffy. basically, i think Doffy is hung up on Law’s wasted potential instead of missing Law himself.

augh its like 3am i can barely keep my eyes open so sorry if this doesn’t make much sense