[What's weird about this moment is the recognition that he could stop it in an instant, if he thought about it hard enough. There's no question that Star will react instantly to his will, be it conscious or subconscious. But if he doesn't exercise that right, and leaves things open instead, it's a more permissive state of affairs — and that's where he finds his relationship with Star to still be new and uncertain, because when he gives Star leave to act with autonomy, his Stand will still sometimes surprise him...
But maybe that's not so strange, either, because sometimes people discover things about themselves that surprise them, too, and it's only because circumstances had never otherwise brought it out.
But Star is and isn't him, his fighting spirit and his evil spirit, and so it's difficult and curious to try to draw lines around the way he engages with Giorno — when Star grins and he sulks, is that really opposing perspectives on the same situation, or one opinion with multiple layers?
Curious.]
...That's why I don't take it off.
[Among other reasons. Speaking of which, it's obvious bait, but he's got no reason not to take it — so he starts to advance on Gold Experience, rubbing absently at his mussed hair with one hand as he does so.]
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[What's weird about this moment is the recognition that he could stop it in an instant, if he thought about it hard enough. There's no question that Star will react instantly to his will, be it conscious or subconscious. But if he doesn't exercise that right, and leaves things open instead, it's a more permissive state of affairs — and that's where he finds his relationship with Star to still be new and uncertain, because when he gives Star leave to act with autonomy, his Stand will still sometimes surprise him...
But maybe that's not so strange, either, because sometimes people discover things about themselves that surprise them, too, and it's only because circumstances had never otherwise brought it out.
But Star is and isn't him, his fighting spirit and his evil spirit, and so it's difficult and curious to try to draw lines around the way he engages with Giorno — when Star grins and he sulks, is that really opposing perspectives on the same situation, or one opinion with multiple layers?
Curious.]
...That's why I don't take it off.
[Among other reasons. Speaking of which, it's obvious bait, but he's got no reason not to take it — so he starts to advance on Gold Experience, rubbing absently at his mussed hair with one hand as he does so.]