...I don't really know if that's how it works. I mean...you're right to be worried, and you're also right about mismatched timelines being enough chaos to handle.
[Kakyoin sat down and took his glasses off, trying to put his thoughts in order without giving himself a massive headache. The parallel universes didn't bother him too much, but the timelines sure as hell did.]
Whoever uses that dimension-crossing Stand and whatever its name might be, that power and this city are two separate things entirely. In the case of Johnny's alternate world in particular, it's not a matter of 'a Jotaro Kujo without Star Platinum' or anything as straightforward.
What I'm beginning to theorize is that our counterparts could potentially be completely different; name, circumstances, even appearance and personality. Johnny was nothing like Jonathan, and my only basis for assuming their connection was a similar name and the fact that not a single thing matched up with what I know of your family--in other words, 'Johnny Joestar' himself didn't fit anywhere on the timeline as we know it. It was a wild and largely baseless theory at the time, but now I'm certain I was correct.
[Kakyoin paused, making every attempt to phrase what he needed to say without sounding insane.]
Consider it like this. I'll use your example and say that you went to a parallel universe, but that looking for someone named Nori-...no, 'Tenmei Kakyoin' led you to meet a person you didn't recognize with a Stand you had never seen before. Maybe they still had parents with the same names as mine, or even fought alongside people similar to you and all of the others, but that's all.
What I need to tell you is that I met someone just recently that was visually like someone I knew, but with a different name and apparently even a different Stand. That's how it seems to translate between worlds; subtle similarities, not carbon copies with minor varying circumstances.
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[Kakyoin sat down and took his glasses off, trying to put his thoughts in order without giving himself a massive headache. The parallel universes didn't bother him too much, but the timelines sure as hell did.]
Whoever uses that dimension-crossing Stand and whatever its name might be, that power and this city are two separate things entirely. In the case of Johnny's alternate world in particular, it's not a matter of 'a Jotaro Kujo without Star Platinum' or anything as straightforward.
What I'm beginning to theorize is that our counterparts could potentially be completely different; name, circumstances, even appearance and personality. Johnny was nothing like Jonathan, and my only basis for assuming their connection was a similar name and the fact that not a single thing matched up with what I know of your family--in other words, 'Johnny Joestar' himself didn't fit anywhere on the timeline as we know it. It was a wild and largely baseless theory at the time, but now I'm certain I was correct.
[Kakyoin paused, making every attempt to phrase what he needed to say without sounding insane.]
Consider it like this. I'll use your example and say that you went to a parallel universe, but that looking for someone named Nori-...no, 'Tenmei Kakyoin' led you to meet a person you didn't recognize with a Stand you had never seen before. Maybe they still had parents with the same names as mine, or even fought alongside people similar to you and all of the others, but that's all.
What I need to tell you is that I met someone just recently that was visually like someone I knew, but with a different name and apparently even a different Stand. That's how it seems to translate between worlds; subtle similarities, not carbon copies with minor varying circumstances.