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[starmark]

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



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[starmark]

I CAN

IT INVOLVES JIJI

EVERYTHING GETS FUCKED UP THIS FAST WHEN IT INVOLVES JIJI

[lapidarius]

[you know what you're absolutely right]

[joseph joestar is an alignment entirely to himself and well off the chart]

[chaotic jojo]

You should handle talking to your mother. I'll keep him here a little longer even if I have to tie him to the chair and hang him from the ceiling.

And I'll try to make sure Caesar doesn't brutally murder him on the spot.

[starmark]

look he sort of trusts me right now i think

i'm pretty sure he believed me when i told him about who i am

just

he's really confused right now and all this stupid shit isn't going to help things any

[lapidarius]

Obviously. Which is why right now I'm holding a normal conversation with him. But stupid shit is going to happen sooner or later.

Caesar knows how to deal with him at this age. I'll trust him to handle this, so we should worry about everyone else. Right now I don't see any other viable option.

[starmark]

So Caesar handles Jiji, and we handle Caesar?

...and Mom and Nanna and Jonathan and he's only nineteen, he hasn't even come close to fucking up the entire thing with Josuke yet, jesus.

[lapidarius]

I said it was a viable option, not an ideal one. It won't be easy.

Take a deep breath--we'll manage. We always do.

[starmark]

Maybe we should just...see how this goes.

Don't get involved too early, let everyone else do their shit, and just pick it up once all the chips have fallen.

[lapidarius]

I guess that trying to get a hold on the situation too early might end badly, you're right.

I'll go along with whatever you decide, you know that. Are you sure?

[starmark]

...nori i'm so fucked up right now

i don't know how much more of this shit i can handle

[lapidarius]

I know, Jojo.

[Kakyoin glanced up from his watch as Joseph trailed off--sure enough, Caesar had finally shown up. Good, that gave him the luxury of a minute with the attention off of him so he could think. Saying 'tell me how I can help' wouldn't do anything but make things worse, he expected.]

[Kujo Jotaro was the one nearly all of them turned to when things became difficult, in this city even more than back at home. He was a source of strength and their unofficial leader in all senses of the word. So who did someone like that turn to when he needed strength or advice? What had been the word Passione would use for it--consigliere?]

Let's get out of here for a while. Somewhere quiet.

[Someone else had to take charge, even if it was in just the smallest of ways.]

Tonight, tomorrow night maybe. I know it's cold, but let's go to the beach. I saw a lot of tidepools around last time I was there--there were even a few sea urchins.

[starmark]

[At whatever time talking about the ocean would be most helpful to you. That's when I'll need the facts.

Let's go to the beach. I saw some sea urchins.

These two. The other two sides of his triangle, the blond and the redhead to his brunet. They've really got his number, haven't they.]

Not the beach. Too much shit happens there.

Can we go somewhere else?

[lapidarius]

Sure, did you have somewhere in mind? I think I can come up with something if you don't.

[Kakyoin hadn't quite had his number from day one, but he'd gotten it quickly and never once lost it.]

[starmark]

No. Just not here for a while.

Somewhere far away from Dio.

[lapidarius]

Leave it to your most capable strategist. We'll get clear out of the city for a while.

[starmark]

...i don't want to freeze to death in the fucking tundra either kakyoin

[lapidarius]

We won't.

[...he was trying really hard to be smooth and you went and pulled the emergency brake on that so hard there are tire treads all over his valiant attempt.]

[good work, jojo]

Trust me.

[starmark]

i do trust you







i need you

[lapidarius]

Of course. You'd be running around like a chicken with its head cut off if I wasn't here to handle things.

...That's why I'm not going anywhere without you. Ever. No matter what happens, you'll always be able to find me nearby.

[starmark]

i'm serious

i need you

[lapidarius]

I didn't really think about it until a while ago, but I was really screwed up before you got here. Just as bad as Caesar, probably.

Listen, I meant it when I said you're as much a part of me as Hierophant--I can't be myself without you. You're the one who knows Kakyoin Noriaki better than anyone, and I have no intention of ever letting go of what I've wanted for so long.

So you can need me as much as necessary. Because I'm your partner--I'll be here every time things get difficult. Let me support you when you can't handle it alone, like you always do for me.

[starmark]

I know.

Dio found out about me. Who I am, that I have a Stand. His name. He knows that now.

[lapidarius]

I don't know if he can do much with that yet.

[Boy oh boy, how wrong he technically was.]

Are you okay? He knows about Hierophant, too--I told him myself.

[starmark]

no, i'm not okay

i'm not the one who told him

[lapidarius]

What? How the hell'd he find out?

[starmark]

nanna. she told him.