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[starmark]

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



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[silvercrusader]

sure

1/2

[starmark]

okay

it turns out that star platinum isn't just a powerful, high-precision stand

he has something else, like emerald splash or crossfire hurricane

he's

[starmark]

[Okay. Here we go. It's Polnareff. Polnareff says things that are stupid sometimes, but not when it counts. Polnareff's going to get it. Jiji got it. Kakyoin got it. It's going to be okay.

Everybody keeps saying it's not the way it feels. Jiji believes in him. Giorno understands him. Kakyoin still loves him. It's going to be okay.]

he's the same as the world

i was fighting him in stopped time

when you saw me in the alley i was pretending to be dead so that he'd get close enough for me to hit him

that's how the whole fight went, just holding on as long as i could while trying to get him to get close and let his guard down

i punched a hole in him

i severed one of his legs

i shattered his skull

in the end i hit him so hard it was over in one punch and even now i still don't think i hit him hard enough

he kept healing and it was all in stopped time where nobody could hit him but me

so

i can stop time now

[Once, he would've added "like he did" onto the end of that, but this time he doesn't.]

[silvercrusader]

[Oh.

Polnareff can be stupid, yeah, stupid and clumsy and insensitive-- but, occasionally, he can be clever. He can read between the lines, hear that unsaid little addition-- and god, he'd be panicking if it were him, if he learned Silver Chariot was anything like Dio's World.

Because a Stand . . . it's you. It's you, your soul, an extension of yourself. Hierophant Green, Star Platinum, Silver Chariot, Magician's Red-- they're all extensions of themselves. And to find that some part of it-- no matter how small, no matter how insignificant-- resembles Dio . . .

He's hasty to text back. He doesn't want Jotaro worrying.]

you used his own shitty tricks against him!!
clever as always
i'm not surprised star platinum picked that up he was always really smart

[What else, what else to say . . . he doesn't want to baby Jotaro . . .]

important question: how much have you stopped time in order to beat kakyoin and joseph at shitty games

[There. That makes it normal, like it's no big deal. Which it's not.]

[starmark]

[...Polnareff is so great.

No, seriously, he's obviously surprised when a text comes back so rapidly, and he's admittedly cringing as he picks up his watch from where he'd put it down in nebulous apprehension; he's sure this is going to be one of many, an extended chain of reactions full of sputtering and disbelief and yes, support, but certainly some horror mixed in, too, because honestly Polnareff has every right to be, because he was there and he remembers and he knows.

Except.

...Except this is just it. Like it's nothing. Like it's fine. Like it's a party trick. Like it's Star Platinum's equivalent of the cigarette thing that Polnareff thinks is so damn cool, because he has good taste and it is.

...His face feels weird. He touches it lightly, trying to figure out why, and realizes that he's smiling, just a little.

God, he's so glad Polnareff is here.]

I don't use it around Kakyoin much for obvious reasons but we're working on it.

I used it to make a girl think I could do magic once, though.

[silvercrusader]

YEAH that's the way to use it!!

[This is okay. They're okay. Everything is fine, because if there's one thing Polnareff knows without a doubt, it's that Jotaro's a good guy. Not the greatest man in the world, but a good person. Whatever small similarity Star Platinum has with the World is just a fluke, that's all.]

did you disappear
was the trick just you running away

[starmark]

ASSHOLE WHAT THE HELL

[silvercrusader]

[Can you hear him cackling in the next room over?]

it was wasnt it
you definitely used it to get away from her
did she have a crush on you was that it

[starmark]

no what the fuck

shut up

i told her i'd make some necklace of hers disappear and then just used star to take it off

[silvercrusader]

ahhhh also a good trick
hey if we can't get jobs here you can always do street magic for money
and i'll make coins hover in the air
well make millions

[starmark]

...oh

they don't have money here

...and normal people can see stands, even if they're not stand users

that's both probably pretty important for someone to tell you

...

i sort of own a business now though

[silvercrusader]

[WHAT. Like, what. All of those things raise important questions, and he'll get to them all eventually, but:]

you own a business???

[Jeez, he's out of it for a little while and everybody gets delusions of grandeur. Or at least delusions of being able to successfully operate a business.]

[starmark]

it's a secret

i mean not for that much longer but it's a secret for right now

but yeah i own a pool hall now we can go shoot pool and shit

[silvercrusader]

FUCK YEAH good job jotaro good business choice
i mean apparently there's no money so i dont know how its a business but

[starmark]

anyway it's a thing

i guess there's a toy store attached to it too so if you want toys or something you better start sucking up to me

[silvercrusader]

yeah right
like you wouldn't give anything to me if i really asked

[No, Polnareff, that's not . . . whatever.]

oi, so how do you get food and junk? grow it yourself?

[starmark]

yeah i killed a moose with my bare hands once

gotta feed the family

[silvercrusader]

[Don't even play, bro, he can definitely imagine you killing a moose. Just straight up Hatcheting it.]

okay but am i part of the family
do i have to hunt on my own
these are the questions i need answered jotaro

[starmark]

you don't want to fight a bear?

[silvercrusader]

WANT and ABLE TO are two different things

[starmark]

...are you saying you want to but you can't

or you're able to but you don't want to

[silvercrusader]

OBVIOUSLY that i am able to but that i dont want to
i liked it when i could just buy meat already skinned
i didnt think that was something i would have to give up
but HERE WE ARE

[starmark]

so much for impressing you with my collection of direwolf pelts then

it's how i remind people of my strength to lead the clan

[silvercrusader]

[Okay, see, he was going to wait to do this in person, but he can't resist an opening like this, so--]

ah but its not me you have to impress around here right
i mean
im not your BOYFRIEND

1/who knows

[starmark]

[......what]