Thread:Uncle Nimu-Dash/@comment-30310866-20170208051709/@comment-27347196-20170209122617

Well said mentor would be like your dad figure now.

Mentor is someone who would shape your entire personality up and shape you to be more as him. Skrillex doesn't look a type to have grown up with his parents, in his teen years he was terrorizing 4th ward therefor I doubt said parents ever existed in his life.

Donato was like hawk when it comes orphans, he could have easy bumped into man at some point and this one decided to mentor him. They do got lot of mannerisms similar, personalty even matches and even the way they torment people is quite similar and even use of their kagune would be quite similar if shape-shifting gets proven correct. But even without it, style of tricking people and their sadism stays similar as they both go for what it hurts person most (Donato drops Mikito to Urie and how Urie wanted to be noticed by him while Skrillex took appearance of Shinohara to trick Juuzou).

Donato does look to me as someone who mentored him in his own craft.

Amon was someone he enjoyed to mess with, his perfect innocent little lamb and he kept him that way. Despite raising Amon he never mentored him as "dad" by trying to make him like him and teach him things he knows, he kept his mind pure and innocent as possible then when Amon discovered him he forced him to keep quite about it (no doubt even help him with his future victims), pretty much Amon was someone he kept for his own amusement.

Skrillex could have been the opposite thing, someone with potential enough to be just as shrewd as him, a perfect pupil. Someone in who he saw future-self. Because unlike Amon,Skrillex had to have that something that showed him more vile since start most likely, something that just was promising enough to Donato to see potential pupil in him.

If we got by this route, then we have to just combine things. Since he doesn't look like he ever had parents present in his life (way he found Renji's "love" for sister odd helps further confirm that this one had no family in his life), then Donato as mentor would have filled that role in his life I imagine. Though their relationship wouldn't be like one Amon and him had in where he acted dad to him (before incident of course), but rather as true mentor and pupil. Donato would be actual Donato around him and as such "kind dad" act is not something that Donato would care to put with him as well as there was no reason to.

So this would be case of extreme closeness (like BFF-s + family way). So Donato would be seen as that father figure to him since he would be someone who taught him everything he knows. So mentor does seem as reasonable type of connection between two and more likely then them being blood related.

Perhaps they could be blood related. However instead of Donato being dad as everyone is pointing out, perhaps someone from Donato's family is Skrillex's parent.

But these are random guesses with no basis and I don't like to go into them. For now, based on what we got, what we know, I would go with mentor as probability and most likely possibility.