[HE'S A JOJO, HE CAN HANDLE BEING SET ON FIRE. HE HAS SET HIMSELF ON FIRE FOR STUPIDER THINGS THAN FRIENDSHIP AND INTIMACY.]
...I don't tell people about Star Platinum's Time Stop. It's...I don't like telling people about it. So only a few people know, people I trust. But most Stand users will ask, what does your Stand do, so I started saying that his power is "self-preservation" — because it sort of is.
Before I even knew what a Stand was, I figured out that I could shoot a gun point-blank at my temple, and Star would catch the bullet before it hit me. Speed and precision, but also — he'll act to protect me. Even if I don't tell him how, or that he should. It's more like...if I don't tell him not to, then he will.
So lately I've been experimenting with it. Giving him independence, within boundaries I set. Seeing what happens if I don't make decisions for him. He's not...he can't think, not the way a person does. But it's more like...when he gets to something he doesn't know, he'll check with me for a cue of how to go forward, and then act on that. Like I'm his context, or something.
...On his own, he's started deciding that there are things that are important. I think that's a subset of his instinct to protect, the preservation thing again. He never lists me because I'm the most important thing there is, that's a given. But he has this...list, I guess. Things that aren't me, that he understands are "like me" in that way, things he should care about. Or try to protect. Sometimes he calls it "things we don't punch".
Giorno fed him pudding one time, and played with him, and he liked it. So now he associates pudding with that feeling, that..."good thing to protect", a thing that's important to him independently, without me telling him it should be.
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[HE'S A JOJO, HE CAN HANDLE BEING SET ON FIRE. HE HAS SET HIMSELF ON FIRE FOR STUPIDER THINGS THAN FRIENDSHIP AND INTIMACY.]
...I don't tell people about Star Platinum's Time Stop. It's...I don't like telling people about it. So only a few people know, people I trust. But most Stand users will ask, what does your Stand do, so I started saying that his power is "self-preservation" — because it sort of is.
Before I even knew what a Stand was, I figured out that I could shoot a gun point-blank at my temple, and Star would catch the bullet before it hit me. Speed and precision, but also — he'll act to protect me. Even if I don't tell him how, or that he should. It's more like...if I don't tell him not to, then he will.
So lately I've been experimenting with it. Giving him independence, within boundaries I set. Seeing what happens if I don't make decisions for him. He's not...he can't think, not the way a person does. But it's more like...when he gets to something he doesn't know, he'll check with me for a cue of how to go forward, and then act on that. Like I'm his context, or something.
...On his own, he's started deciding that there are things that are important. I think that's a subset of his instinct to protect, the preservation thing again. He never lists me because I'm the most important thing there is, that's a given. But he has this...list, I guess. Things that aren't me, that he understands are "like me" in that way, things he should care about. Or try to protect. Sometimes he calls it "things we don't punch".
Giorno fed him pudding one time, and played with him, and he liked it. So now he associates pudding with that feeling, that..."good thing to protect", a thing that's important to him independently, without me telling him it should be.