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

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You grab the pinky and go out to the side. In the movies they show people going straight back, but it's harder that way, fingers naturally bend further that way before breaking.

[He holds up one hand, fingers lightly spread, for emphasis — and mimes with the other.]

Grab, bend, twist. Or use Star Platinum to just crush them, but that's less...something, I guess.

[He nods, pleased but not terrifically surprised.]

The easier you make it look, the more it gets the point across, generally. Although I'm not really supposed to get my hands dirty like that.

[It's kind of a bummer.]

That's what you have people for, right.

[He pauses, thoughtful.]

Though I guess if you did do it yourself, that'd make a point in itself. You'd have to be pretty serious about it, just to deign to do the job on your own.

[With a sound in the affirmative, he nods again.]

It's an effective tactic. It's something worth spreading around, too, sometimes. That I know what I'm doing, that I'm not just talking about it. But you don't overuse any tools.

I've only done it once in two months.

[ONLY ONE SET OF BROKEN FINGERS IN TWO MONTHS, WOWZA.]

Who'd you do it to? Someone who deserved it, obviously.

[BECAUSE THAT'S CLEARLY THE IMPORTANT QUESTION HERE]

Mmhm. We're trying to cut down on drug trafficking first. For some reason people don't seem to understand that I'm serious. I only broke the fingers of the man at the top of that particular food chain.

[He looks pretty satisfied about it, honestly.]

Makes sense. The important points are the ones you should only have to make once.

[See also: D'arby the Elder second-dealing cards.]

Maybe twice, when people are too stupid to take a hint.

He was smug and horrible. I would've been happy to break more than his fingers if it wouldn't have just been overkill.

[This very evenly, without a trace of anger; then for a moment he's quiet, considering what he's just said.]

. . . I don't want people to fear me, I want them to respect me. But it's a long road, you understand?

...There's a difference. I don't even know if I could tell you what that difference is, what it hinges on, but I know it exists. The one, you're trying to get people to obey. The other is more like, you're trying to get them to listen.

[And then it's his turn to be quiet, reflecting on the thought, what it means, what it suggests. What Giorno means when he says you understand, and what he wants him to hear as he answers, of course.]

You've got an uphill battle for that, there's no denying it. But you're worth listening to, Giorno. So make them, if that's what it takes.

[The relief almost hurts, when he doesn't have to explain, when he doesn't have to say more than you understand. He realizes, too, that he could easily say I don't want any more people dying for me, but he doesn't need to, because Jotaro is already there with him. There are so many things that just don't need to be said, and even for someone like him who's good at words, it's a relief not to have to ask outright.]

[He knows he isn't doing the wrong thing. But hearing it is important, all the same.]

[He exhales slowly and . . . is just quiet for a moment, not thinking, just quiet, because he can be that around Jotaro, just quiet, not leading anybody anywhere.]

You are, too. Worth listening to. Do you know that?

I don't have a lot to say.

[Which is probably a "no", all things considered. Who would've told him — and moreover, who would he have listened to long enough to know it? Bruno, maybe. Bruno and Giorno, even from the beginning they've been linked together because they're so alike.]

I don't know what there'd be to listen to.

You don't say a lot. But what you do say is important.

[He half-smiles then, a loopy and tired smile, but one he means all the same.]

You've said a lot of important things to me already, and I haven't even known you that long.

[Hmm. This makes it twice now he's taken an insomniac out in the dead of night and walked them around until they started falling asleep on him. What a very strange talent to have.

Funny how he's always ended up carrying them home, too. Maybe this won't be any different.]

Name one? Just for the hell of it.

When you tell me to stop being an ass and let people help me.

[Yeah, he said "ass," this is serious, okay. He does think for a moment, though, because that doesn't feel like quite enough, and it really doesn't take all that long to come up with something else.]

. . . When we were on the beach, and you were talking about how all living things deserve happiness, because they're valuable in their own right as living things, not just as accessories or objects of interest.

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