User blog comment:Thomasfan502/Season 8 Discussion Blog/@comment-29197449-20190426223513/@comment-29197449-20190428235706

@AishaNexFan - If I'm being honest, I don't know if Diaspro truly loves Sky. At least in the comics, there's a clearer answer in that she really was frustrated by the whole situation, especially since while she loves Sky, she's equally pressured by her own parents (mainly her mother) to marry into the royal family. She just wants to be with the man she loves (or was raised to love) while her mom outright tells her that Diaspro owes them a successful marriage between her and Sky for all the sacrifices her parents made in raising her up to be his wife. There, she's at least made to be in the same situation as Sky except she doesn't completely hate the engagement.

In the cartoon, I just don't know. Even if she truly loved Sky at some point, which I'm assuming she did given how prideful she's presented to be, then whatever love that was has morphed into an obsession. As you pointed out, maybe she believes that she needs Sky to love her to feel needed. Maybe she's tied so much of herself to Sky because her life basically revolved around becoming the crown prince's wife, and became desperate to ensure that happens. Otherwise, what else would she have to herself? Who would she even be? Again, the comics at least make her a princess and later queen to her own realm; her marriage to Sky wasn't necessary for any of that. Whatever Diaspro's psychology could possibly be, the truth of the matter is that she's nothing but a hurdle in Sky and Bloom's relationship that keeps showing up for no reason other than to keep showing up. And with how the writers depict her, she seems to enjoy it purely because of how much trouble she causes for them, instead of any other reasons like getting closer to Sky or watching Bloom suffer (the latter being made very apparent in S6).