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[starmark]

biology doesn't explain ghosts

[digiorno]

are you sure?

[starmark]

a ghost is someone's soul, isn't it?

so to be alive you need both. body and soul. a body is one thing but a soul is different.

i don't know. i'm not sure. how can anyone be an expert about something like that?

[digiorno]

luck, bad

and experience

the soul is connected to the body. a soul transplanted into a foreign body would be rejected teh same way a foreign heart would. there is an element of biology there.

[starmark]

i've only ever seen souls transplanted into objects

is that still biology? honest question.

[digiorno]

inorganic objects? i don't think so

[starmark]

a puppet. and poker chips.

[digiorno]

what the shit

[starmark]

don't look at me i don't fucking know

some bastards wanted to play games with people's souls on the line

[digiorno]

that's disgusting

[starmark]

i made them regret it

[digiorno]

good



there was a man

he preyed on the weak

he tried to kill my

a friend of mine

so, he regretted it

people who play games with mine will regret it

[starmark]

i'm sick of people who prey on the weak

sick of people who take hostages to play their games with

sick of people who hurt my friends too

sounds like we've got that in common

[digiorno]

it's what i was trying to do at home

change that

not just with stand users, with everyone

if i'm going to be stuck here then here is where i'll do it but i can't trust these people

[starmark]

who's "these people"

[digiorno]

anyone, at first

the locals especially but it's not as though there's a vetting process for who gets brought in

it's a matter of best judgment

and then a benefit analysis of who is least likely to eviscerate me on a whim

[starmark]

i'm assuming that means you don't think i'm going to eviscerate you

...

i never told you what my stand does

but you'd still trust me to get it back

[digiorno]

you were trying to protect me, that first day

so i think you wouldn't try to hurt me unless i tried to hurt you first, and at that point i couldn't really blame you

[starmark]

...

so

do you think a person's stand says something about who they are?

if i'm a good person, then i must have a good person's stand?

[digiorno]

your question presupposes my belief in the concept of good people

[starmark]

someone who wouldn't hurt you first

that's what i meant

[digiorno]

in that case

i don't know that i can speak as an authority on this matter

i only recently encountered other stand users

but i would say that it's too simplistic to equate an aggressive or combat-based stand to a desire to harm people

similarly, i think it's too simplistic to assume that a stand whose primary characteristics are defensive or even neutral means its user isn't capable of extreme cruelty

the man i mentioned before, who tried to kill my friend, his stand created mold

the man i trusted most in the world, who was the best fighter i've ever met, his stand unzipped things; that's all

and i heal, and create life, but there's a lot of damage that can be done, creating life

so in short, yes, a stand says a great deal about its user

however, without the context of knowing that person, it's almost impossible to interpret what is being said by that stand's abilities alone

[starmark]

do you think it goes the other way around

from knowing a person, that you could guess their stand's abilities?

[digiorno]

i think it's possible, but highly unlikely

it's like assuming that just because you know what values a person has, that you'll know what career they want to pursue

certainly the second is a result of the first, but there are other factors involved, some of which are pure chance

[starmark]

i guess that's true

i wouldn't have guessed an orangutan would have a stand that was a ship

or that it'd have a stand in the first place