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I don't know what you did. Something foolhardy I'm sure if you managed to change futures like that.

I'm no longer dead and I want to know why.

because you didn't run off

you were going to, weren't you
in st. moritz

you got pissed off and were going to go to an abandoned hotel
you even started walking toward it
only you were about halfway there when you started to realize you were being headstrong
and then you went back

right
wasn't it something like that

[Oh, he hit the Joestar nail on the head with his accusatory roulette.

Recalling that moment-that new memory in such vivid detail shakes him to the core. It feels wrong and-

It feels right to have lived through that encounter. Both outcomes and paths are crystal clear and he isn't sure what to do.]

It was.

I fought with your grandfather side by side instead of perishing at Wamuu's hand. We defeated them and went home together. Alive and well.

How did you do this, Jotaro? It shouldn't be possible.

yeah
i know it shouldn't be possible
but

okay
you know how the people here
they all say they come from different "worlds"

how some of them are like ours but they're not exactly the same

well
it turns out that there's a lot more of those "worlds" than anybody realized
there are ones that are almost exactly the same as ours
right down to the same people
the same joestars
only something's a little bit different

in one of those "worlds" the joestars lost
and the dio of that world came to ours
he found us
he wanted all of us dead too

[If there's ever a name he didn't want to hear again-that's one of them.]

Dio.

Of course that man's grudge would travel across worlds.

You took care of it, I assume? Beat the vile man at his own game? And that's why this bizarre change happened?

we all did
all of us, in every era
it's complicated but just take my word for it

anyway
do you know how i beat him the first time
did you ever hear what happened

No, I never heard.
I didn't realize he had come back after his first defeat by Jonathan's hand.
He's like a cockroach.

How did you defeat him?

oh
uh
okay you might want to sit down

so
i guess jonathan didn't so much defeat dio as just
kind of sank to the bottom of the ocean with him
but somehow dio stole his body
and got out of the ocean and came back

jiji spent half a decade almost chasing him

but dio wound up finding this arrow that gave him a stand when he was shot with it
but because he had jonathan's body all the joestars wound up with stands too
jiji and me and my mom

which didn't bother me or jiji but my mom's

my mom's was a parasite and it started to kill her
so we had to go kill dio to make it stop

it took us fifty days to find him
he killed three of my friends
he almost got jiji too but i managed to stop him

really in the end it was just me
me and him
finishing what he and jonathan started a hundred years before

[That-

Is pure madness. The sheer tenacity of vampire is nothing to scoff at. He'd be impressed if he didn't hate the guy so much.

But the story is wild. The body snatching, the stand giving, the parasite living in Suzie's daughter and JoJo actually channeling his skills to search for that evil on his own.

It makes sense now-the three dead friends, the sudden life everyone was given and-]

You did well, Jotaro. It was no small feat to go against that monster-you and your grandfather both. I'm.

Glad you saved your grandfather's life. It wasn't his time go. That much I know for certain

Were you able to bring your other friends back?

i mean by now you're probably thinking
"ok but what does that have to do with me"

and the truth is
i just had to tell you that story so that you'd understand the one i'm about to tell you

it turns out there really are all different worlds
some of them look almost exactly like ours
just with little differences

in one of them, jotaro didn't win

he lost and dio killed him
killed all the joestars really
enslaved the world and became its god

and his stand evolved into a stand fit for a god
a stand that would let him rewrite reality the way he wanted it

then he found out about us
that there were still joestars alive in our timeline
that in ours, jotaro won

so that dio came to our world to try to kill all of us too

I thought killing the Pillar Men would end the curse on your family and my own.

But that stone mask's influence persisted all this time in other worlds.

Let's hope Dio's down for good.
But thanks to your victory if he's alive in some other world, you'll have more support.

I'm sure I still talk to your grandfather in the future. I'll fight with you if there's a next time. Don't forget that.

uh
well
yeah i guess you could say you still

talk to him

i mean unless you're taking grandma suzie's side against him
which is usually

then you don't talk to him

If it's between the two of them, of course I would take Suzie's side. I'm not a fool and your grandfather is always full of shit.

Giving him the silent treatment is far better than what he deserves.

You would be wise to remember that too. Your grandmother should always get your support. Your grandfather is a moron.

I DO
jiji's an idiot

you always take my side, too

i'm not your favorite because that's my mom
but that's okay
mom's important so that makes sense

[This is starting to sound-

Well, Suzie's daughter is bound to be an angel. That doesn't surprise him. Jotaro would be a close second, being her grandson.]

Favorite?
I'm sure my family takes you and your mother's side over 'Jiji' too.

Do I have one? In the future?
A family?

[HOO BOY HERE IT COMES, FELLAS. Time for this to get awkward as fuck.]

uh
yeah

you have a daughter

[Jotaro can't possibly understand the elation that surges through his chest like an all too powerful wave threatening to knock him over.

He has a little girl-just like the reality shown to him here. It's now in two futures instead of one and that feeling is-

Well, he owes Jotaro. That much is certain.]

I'm sure she's an incredible woman. All Zeppelis are.

What's the little principessa's name?

[Well, here it goes. No time like the present.

He wonders if he'll be able to hear Caesar screaming all the way across the city? Probably.]

holly joestar

[Oh, he almost crushes his phone.

And oh, he lets out some kind of noise. It's loud enough to wake up the sleeping terror of a cat that roams their apartment and he can hear glassware being knocked off the kitchen counter and-

Oh, he's losing it. What the hell Jotaro??? This is a nasty prank!!!]

You're a bastard just like your Jiji. How could Holly be my daughter? Your grandma and grandfather are her parents.

I'm not as gullible as you think I am. Don't try to toy with me.

yare yare
you're a lot better at keeping your cool when you're an old man, grandpa

all i'm telling you is the future i remember
if you don't want it, then change it when you go back

i never really thought much of it when i was growing up though
other kids had two grandparents and i had three
you taught me how to fight
taught me to make sure grandma didn't find out too

[It's like a hamon infused brick smacks him in face when Jotaro lays it all out.

When he finally understands the implication of three grandparents-of the thought of being with Suzie. With JoJo. Making Jotaro his grandson, Holly his daughter and-

Well, the Joestar line is big. Disturbing and erratically so. It's the monkey's paw of granted wishes.]

Suzie
JoJo
And me.

JoJo.

[There's another long ass pause between texts. Look, he's gotta take a minute here. It's been a tiring couple days. Exhausting. Emotionally draining with all this information coming at him about pasts that no longer exists and futures pulled to the surface.]

I will change this-

Holly Joestar will be Holly Zeppeli.

[He is NOT letting JoJo or Suzie win that argument again in their apparently entwined future.]

I'll still teach you how to fight. You need to learn from someone capable.

this one time he came at you making dumb kissy lips and you punched him in the kidney

anyway
either way she's going to be holly kujo once she gets married
so it's all the same to me

Good. I hope it hurt.

Who is your father anyway? Is he a good man?

mom says they met in new york
she was, y'know
rich
and dad was over there playing in clubs

mom and her friends went to the one where he was playing
she says it was love at first sight
which is a stupid mom thing to say but she's probably right

he's a jazz musician
sadao kujo and the east street moonlighters
he's gone a lot because he tours all over the world
i guess he's pretty famous

[It sounds like something straight out of a cheesy romance novel-the rich daughter of a well off family, a talented musician in some shoddy club, and love at first sight.

It's a shame he's gone-touring around the world is likely time consuming and taxing. He wonders, briefly, if Holly's happy with that scenario.

But it doesn't really matter. He's still not there-pulled from a new time where he hasn't experienced this new future. Holly isn't his daughter yet, even if he feels that tug of familial love as her son speaks of her.]

It's a shame, but he's out earning a living for you and your mother. It can't be helped.

Do you spend time together when he's home? I hope Sado carves out time for you when he returns from his tours.

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