...Giorno had a monster he had to fight, too. The same way we did. In a group, just like ours, with casualties just like us.
[You yelled for Narancia, the first time I used it.
Stopped time, erased time — either way, how could anyone ever hope to stand a chance against anything like that, a horror like that?]
He told us you helped him kill that guy. So I guess in the future you're a lot of people's hero, not just mine.
[FRIENDS DON'T TELL FRIENDS THEY END UP BEING TURNED INTO TURTLES.]
Then we were talking, and I fucked up. I was talking about how important you were. How you were with me to the very end. I got careless in how I said it, and he figured out that Kakyoin was dead.
...Giorno has this thing about taking responsibility for the people he cares about. Sometimes for things that shouldn't have to be his responsibility, but he makes them his anyway. I'm sitting there talking about how I killed his dad, I fuck up and out Kakyoin to him, we're this huge fucking mess, and he goes — "Nobody here has done anything that needs apologizing for."
He doesn't make apologies for what Dio did to us. Doesn't try to justify it. He knows his dad's an asshole. But I think he needs to understand him, too, or else...how is he ever going to really know himself, if he doesn't know anything about where he came from, you know? Famiglia.
[He shifts a little, leaning his weight against Polnareff just enough for him to feel that it's there, the solidity of his presence at his side.]
He had to tell Jonathan, Polnareff. The guy whose body Dio stole, that he used to have him? Jonathan was here. He had to look at Jonathan and tell him hey, here's what happened to your body after you died, by the way I'm your son too.
I...
[...]
There's no good way to tell anybody. We've done it a half-dozen times and never gotten it right yet. I'm sorry. Whatever you need to say or do or...whatever...I'm here. Okay?
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[You yelled for Narancia, the first time I used it.
Stopped time, erased time — either way, how could anyone ever hope to stand a chance against anything like that, a horror like that?]
He told us you helped him kill that guy. So I guess in the future you're a lot of people's hero, not just mine.
[FRIENDS DON'T TELL FRIENDS THEY END UP BEING TURNED INTO TURTLES.]
Then we were talking, and I fucked up. I was talking about how important you were. How you were with me to the very end. I got careless in how I said it, and he figured out that Kakyoin was dead.
...Giorno has this thing about taking responsibility for the people he cares about. Sometimes for things that shouldn't have to be his responsibility, but he makes them his anyway. I'm sitting there talking about how I killed his dad, I fuck up and out Kakyoin to him, we're this huge fucking mess, and he goes — "Nobody here has done anything that needs apologizing for."
He doesn't make apologies for what Dio did to us. Doesn't try to justify it. He knows his dad's an asshole. But I think he needs to understand him, too, or else...how is he ever going to really know himself, if he doesn't know anything about where he came from, you know? Famiglia.
[He shifts a little, leaning his weight against Polnareff just enough for him to feel that it's there, the solidity of his presence at his side.]
He had to tell Jonathan, Polnareff. The guy whose body Dio stole, that he used to have him? Jonathan was here. He had to look at Jonathan and tell him hey, here's what happened to your body after you died, by the way I'm your son too.
I...
[...]
There's no good way to tell anybody. We've done it a half-dozen times and never gotten it right yet. I'm sorry. Whatever you need to say or do or...whatever...I'm here. Okay?