... woah so Cindy's pretty badass. Fuck yeah abilities to cut people and go be badass.

Also omg best. Question ever.

Basically in Last Exile the first world they lived on were ruled by the Guild, who were supposed to keep everyone fine and dandy until they could return to Earth. The world on LE in the series when it starts has the world in a fun mess and war because of the Guild-- one side of the colony is getting hotter and the other having crazysnow and becoming quickly uninhabitable. Because the colony's weather device is broken and the Guild at one point stopped giving a fuck since it didn't bother them, and eventually just forgot how to repair it altogether anyway.

Dio's older sister Delphine is Maestro/leader of the Guild. '-' And she is Maestro because she killed the other Guild prominent families as well as their own father (possibly mother too, but there is no 100% canon on that).

And she is FUCKING CRAZY. This basically tells you all you need to know about how Dio feels about her. Her entrance not only invokes that response in him but the tall dark silent badass captain you learn to love also flips his shit over her being close enough to possibly kill her-- his first real display of such insane rage. She is the big bad of the series. While the people on the ground strive for good quality water she is up there using the best quality water to wash fish off for her dinner and divulges in all of the decadence as much as she can. She's also manipulative and psychologically commandeering so has a hold over everyone. Which is why Dio feared her because whatever she wanted was going to happen or else. And part of that included brainwashing and losing the freedom to fly.

Even her flashbacks with tinyDio are creepy because of the way she treats him. ): Just aaaah and the face scratch from her roses and her "I LOVE IT WHEN YOU'RE MEEK, DIO" it's maestro time no sis no!!

So yeah basically Dio's family life is. Not ... cool ...


Is there any stuff about Cindy before all that? Like before her divorce and stuff.

. . . Wow, his sister makes every wicked stepmother look like a kitten. And roses are not Dio's favourite flower.

Cindy as Cinderella was a bit of derp and naive enough to trust her Fairy Godmother (a Type-A, Well-Intentioned Extremist who believes that torture and compulsory smiling make for a perfect world) and wedded the prince in order to get out of her life as a serving girl. She honestly wanted to make the marriage work out because Prince Charming was in love with her . . . for all of five minutes because that's his nature. So she got rather bitter after the nth time he cheated on her. She was trapped in the role of the princess--even more so than when she was a maid.

You could say there was a major case of arrested development and not much maturation between the time when she was a naive girl and a bitter princess. Hence she can play around with cute furry animals and kill people for her job. As one of the most normal-looking Fables, she gets to travel the world and she loves her job so much because of the freedom it affords her--she really hates the idea of being trapped.

There may be more if they ever do her origin story or cover more of her in the spin-off series focusing on female Fables.

Dio meets your other characters--what happens next?