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[starmark]

. . . Yare yare. What is it? Hurry up and say something already.



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[lapidarius]

Even so, I wouldn't take a risk like that with her.

So with that option off the table, I guess we're back to park monsters.

[starmark]

so like what, go find a warg or something and drive it around like a remote control car?

[lapidarius]

That's putting it a little more bluntly than I would, but that's effectively the concept.

[starmark]

i mean i guess we could start with that, sure

i could go out with you and keep other monsters off of your back with star platinum, and if you were okay with it i could use the world to help keep things under control in an emergency

so i think we could do it safely if that's what you wanted to try

at least to begin with, i mean

[lapidarius]

I

guess we could do it that way, sure

i mean if you're okay with that

[starmark]

you don't sound very enthusiastic

it's not really about what i'm okay with, you're the one who needs to be okay

[lapidarius]

well that does seem like the safest way to do it

i just don't

i'm not sure that's something i'm ready to handle in a fight, on top of everything else.

[starmark]

you mean like having to fight the warg for control? or...?

[lapidarius]

i'm a little worried about that, yeah. i know i can do it under pressure, but

i don't think i'll be able to do it at all if part of me is thinking about the world as well as concentrating on this

[starmark]

oh

yeah that's

...yeah


okay so we need to come up with something else

[lapidarius]

yeah. it's okay, we can figure something out.

[The question was what, if his initial plan was that far out the window.]

Maybe I can ask Giorno to turn something into a rabbit or something like that and start from there?

[starmark]

mmm...no, there's still the problem of if it hurts the thing to do your thing. if it's something giorno made and it gets hurt, it'll blow back and hurt you instead.

i don't want you getting hurt, either.

...hey, uh. how does it...you know. go in, anyway?

[lapidarius]

Oh. That's right, isn't it? I'd forgotten about that--if that's the case I'd rather not risk any backlash on myself either.

How? I think it depends, kind of. Death 13 was just another Stand, so I had Hierophant run directly through its ear through the rest of its body. But a living physical person or animal is a little different; doing that could cause a lot of internal damage, so in that case I can make him semi-intangible and get under their skin.

[how does this not immediately kill people we just don't know, it's jojos]

At least I'm fairly certain that's what I did that time.

[starmark]

like when i had star platinum grab hold of my heart.

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what about me?

you could try it on me.

[lapidarius]

what

no

absolutely not

[starmark]

in little steps. just my hand or my arm. we can go slow.

[lapidarius]

i don't know, jojo. i don't want to hurt you. and i don't want to

[...]

you don't know what it's like to not have control of what you're doing. and i don't want you to know.

[starmark]

i don't know what other options we have besides this one, though

we've ruled out all my other ideas, and a few of yours too

so i guess the last option is to just not do it, but i don't know if that's such a great option either

[lapidarius]

it's not, but i don't think i


are you home right now? we shouldn't talk about this over text.

[starmark]

yeah i'm in the library

our library i mean not the big city one

[lapidarius]

[Kakyoin didn't answer, instead coming to the library five minutes later looking a little pale and nervous.]

...We may be out of options, but I'm really not sure that's a good idea.

[starmark]

[He's sitting at one of the tables, reading books on what appears to be the subject of winemaking, because CRIME, JOTARO!!, apparently.]

So talk to me about it. Talking doesn't mean we're deciding on anything. It's just talking.

[lapidarius]

I...okay. Talking, I can do that.

[He was even very good at it. Usually. So he just had to take a deep breath and outline what bothered him and why this felt like a terrible idea. Kakyoin pulled out a chair and sat down, lacing his hands together to stop from fidgeting.]

I don't want to hurt you. And I'm worried that I don't have enough control when it comes to doing this with a living, breathing person to avoid doing that.

[He glanced away for a second before looking at Jotaro directly, as steadily as he could manage.]

...I know this is stating the obvious, but having no conscious control is not a pleasant feeling and I'm glad I can't remember most of it. I'm not sure I could do that to anyone that wasn't trying to kill me, and I don't want to be the one that does it to anyone that isn't.

[starmark]

[He reaches across the table, picking up Kakyoin's laced hands and covering them with his own bigger ones.]

Okay. I understand all of that, and I'm not going to argue with you about it. Those are your feelings, so I want you to know that I...I heard you. I get that.

You're worried it'll hurt me in two ways. Physically and from giving up control of myself. Right?

[lapidarius]

That's exactly it, yes.

[He didn't pull his hands back or look away, but Kakyoin was still pale and visibly unsettled despite how hard he was trying to cover it.]

You're right in saying we don't have a lot of options. But even so, that's...terrifying.