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[starmark]

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



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[silvercrusader]

we never actually defaced monuments
im not saying DON'T i'm just saying this is a step up from like
smoking in a cafe



i still want to climb the pyramids

sorry i like this icon better

[starmark]

WE SHOULD CLIMB THE PYRAMIDS

FUCK WHAT JIJI SAID

[silvercrusader]

i bet we could
how bad could it be
i mean they're like all worn away right so there's bricks sticking out
we definitely could
we'll do it at midnight
just don't have star punch anything and we'll be in and out with nobody knowing the difference

what else

hmmm
i should ask kakyoin too
i bet he's got a bucket list

[starmark]

you know i can use star to help me jump really high

i wonder if i could just jump to the top of the pyramid

maybe i could carry you guys and just jump it

[silvercrusader]

what happens when you land
not even on the pyramids just
in general

[starmark]

what do you mean what happens

my feet touch the ground???

[silvercrusader]

no i mean like if he helps you jump like i don't know fifty feet in the air
what's to stop you from breaking your feet once you land
or does he do the landing too

[starmark]

oh

no he does the landing too

it's pretty cool it's like i just summon him in my feet so he takes all of the shock and none of it gets to me

kind of like when i summon his fists over mine so i can punch shit

[silvercrusader]

shit jotaro you gotta show me that sometime soon i didn't know you could do that
or well i guess i knew the fist thing i just didn't think you could do it with your feet
can you do it with your eyes too
like read a book across a room or something

[starmark]

i actually figured out i could do it um

back home

you know that night i just kind of




sometimes it seems like star is always able to do what i need him to do

what i ask him to do

no matter what

[silvercrusader]

yeah

[So much of the fight between Jotaro and Dio was invisible to the outside eye, the two men stuttering and jerking too fast to follow. But he can understand the fight a little better now-- why they had stayed suspended in the air for so long, why they'd seemed as if they were practically flying.]

maybe he just adapts
like he couldnt ever do it until you needed him to
so he figured out a way

impossible means nothing, right? that's what you told me

[starmark]

yeah

that's what it is

you know when people ask me what star platinum's power is i don't tell them about...you know

i tell them it's self-preservation

that he's independent the way he is because his power is to protect me even if i'm not outright telling him to do it

so if you think about it that's not really a lie

and it might be how he developed time stop anyway

[silvercrusader]

even if it was a lie it's not like you owe anyone an explanation
but that's a good way to put it

hey
can i ask you something about time stop
or we can go back to fucking around

[starmark]

sure

you can ask me anything you want

[silvercrusader]

do you use it a lot here?

i know you did with jolie and that was pretty casual, so

[It feels strange, asking after it. Not that he can't; he knows he can ask Jotaro anything, because the opposite is true. But there's being able to ask someone something and knowing the right time to bring it up.]

[starmark]

i didn't at first

actually i think the first time i used it was on accident

sometimes it happens if i get startled, but that's because it's like...star feels my startled and takes that as a cue to make everything stop so i have time to figure it out, you know

and it tires me out to do it, i can't just keep using it and using it or anything

but i decided a while back that i wanted to try to...make it mine, i guess

to not be afraid of using it

but to use it in the way that i think is right

so when i do it's usually to try to prevent something, like saving you the pain of dealing with jolie yanking on your earrings or picking someone up and carrying them out of the way of something that's falling

and i try to ask beforehand if i can help it

[silvercrusader]

yeah
i didn't know it was that exhausting for you

[A long pause, and then:]

well if you want you can use that around me sometime
itd be interesting to experience when its not
you know

or getting my ears half tugged off

[starmark]

yeah once isn't so bad but twice in a row and i start feeling like i've taken a couple hits too many you know

and then i think i can do three probably but

i mean i'd probably be down for the count after it so it's not really a good strategy long-term

but if like a bomb were going off and i needed fifteen seconds to carry a bunch of people to safety in stopped time i think i could probably do that

i mean and then collapse but

[silvercrusader]

well when the mansion collapses due to a sea monster or just general lack of structure its good to know ill be safe thanks to you

[starmark]

fuck you i built this mansion with my bare hands it's not gonna collapse

but you're right about being safe thanks to me

[silvercrusader]

its definitely gonna collapse one day BECAUSE you built it with your bare hands

[starmark]

why do you keep saying that

it's like you don't think i have any carpentry skills at all

[silvercrusader]

its not your carpentry skills im worried about its your architecture skills

[But OH RIGHT, carpentry reminds him:]

hey did i tell you
youre not the only one with a building project
bruno and i are going to build a BOAT

[starmark]

what really

that's really cool actually





notice how i didn't just say OH WOW THAT SHIT'S GONNA SINK right off the bat

unlike SOME PEOPLE

1/2

[silvercrusader]

what a great guy
what a champion friend
believing the minimal amount in me