Male Darwin's frogs keep their tadpoles in their mouth to keep them safe. Then spit them out once they're old enough to fend for themselves.
[ It's soft. Quiet. Flat. Followed by a shakey sudden exhale that could just as easily be laughter or a sob and probably isn't really entirely either. It's just an exhale. Just pushing something poisonous out of his body before it causes any more trouble. ]
Glass frogs have transparent stomachs. You can see all their organs squishing around inside them. It's disgusting.
[ And Jotaro is warm and solid and maybe a little bit omniscient and he already knows that last one is going to piss him off for the rest of his life but right now it's comforting. More than comforting. Comforting would just tell him he doesn't have to do it. This is telling him he does, but only ever when he's ready. ]
He's good at waiting. He's waited for a century. I'm ready. I want him gone.
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[ It's soft. Quiet. Flat. Followed by a shakey sudden exhale that could just as easily be laughter or a sob and probably isn't really entirely either. It's just an exhale. Just pushing something poisonous out of his body before it causes any more trouble. ]
Glass frogs have transparent stomachs. You can see all their organs squishing around inside them. It's disgusting.
[ And Jotaro is warm and solid and maybe a little bit omniscient and he already knows that last one is going to piss him off for the rest of his life but right now it's comforting. More than comforting. Comforting would just tell him he doesn't have to do it. This is telling him he does, but only ever when he's ready. ]
He's good at waiting. He's waited for a century. I'm ready. I want him gone.