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. . . Yare yare. What is it? Hurry up and say something already.

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FINE.

If you didn't know me, just saw me, what would you think about me?

...Oh.

Is this a peacock thing?

It's related.

People have mental shorthand. I use what I already like to turn that shorthand against them.

So you think people won't take you seriously at a glance and let them underestimate you?

Exactly. And a lot of it's cultural.

Do you know the word machismo?

Um. I...think so? Hang on, let me check something.

[.........]

Okay, I thought so. That's "otoko ppo-sa".

...

You're not built to look manly so rather than trying to look it, you deliberately don't and then fuck people up when they underestimate you from stereotypes.

Exactly that. I think in the end it actually works out a lot better for me this way. I'd fight anyone who thought they could beat me, but no matter how satisfying that is, it leaves collateral damage in its wake, and I can't afford too much of that.

I like myself exactly how I am. But it's tactically advantageous, in this case, to be exactly as much of myself as I can. The hair is just . . . well, it's about a third a joke, a third a trick, and a third something I wanted to see if I could do.

...I never take my hat off because I just like wearing that hat.

[THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD...]

You took it down the night we fought. Was that about cutting loose from the norm?

[On the other end, he laughs. Jotaro makes him happy. He likes that Jotaro is the kind of person who never takes his hat off because he just doesn't want to. It's refreshing.]

That was part of it. And because it's a little bit like a uniform. I didn't want to be Don Giovanna then. Or Giorno. Or

[A moment's pause. He could have not sent that, of course. But he did.]

I wanted to be whatever I happened to be. No boundaries. I think that was the other part, as well as I can explain it.