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[starmark]

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



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[silvercrusader]

yes

[No.]

the stand can pack a lot of meaning into an ora i tell you what

[starmark]

did you know he picked me up and ran with me one time

without my telling him to, i mean, he just got excited.

[silvercrusader]

what the fuck
why
where did you go

[starmark]

in search of pudding

he wanted it but it was too far away so he had to take me with him

[silvercrusader]

you need a stash like giorno has
have you seen his pudding stash in his room??
he has an entire SHELF dedicated to pudding

[starmark]

yeah, he hoards that stuff. he gave star a big basket of it for christmas, it's like the first thing they bonded over.

...

there was this one night, giorno was having a really bad time, so i offered to go out and walk around with him to keep him company. and i don't know, i wanted to give him the chance to be a kid, a little bit, so i had star pick him up and carry him on his shoulders.

that's usually what i try to do for giorno. sort of...make it so he can be a kid, sometimes.

[silvercrusader]

yeah

i think his birthday went well
you made a good call with the toys

[a beat, and then, hesitantly (if texts can be hesitant):]

i think he got to be more kidish this last week
maybe its good, if he starts thinking of me that way
maybe he can relax more
start to act his age
not like hes got to take responsibility for everything
you know he actually apologized for sherry?
told me if he was better at what he did he might have been able to revive her

[starmark]

...i think it's hard for him because the things that make it hard for him to be a kid are also the things that make him a good don.

and he's aware of that, so he feels like...like if he lets himself lighten up, he might be compromising his edge as a don, and that's unforgivable because other people are depending on him when he's in that role.

but i think you're right

and i think you more than anyone except maybe bruno, you feel like home for him because he remembers you from there

like how i have this whole huge family here and that's great but you and kakyoin are what feel like home to me

and my mom i mean but that's a different kind of home

[silvercrusader]

not the right kind of home
i mean i get what you're saying but
i'm not who i'll be in thirteen years

[starmark]

...you know jiji made me tell him, about what we did. young jiji, i mean, kakyoin tried to talk to him and it kind of blew up and then i had to go tell him everything. so i told him, the whole thing. start to finish. everything that went wrong. you trying to save me. killing him alone. all of it, i told him everything. even about star.

he's not my grandfather. not...the jiji we went to egypt with. but every once in a while he does something, without realizing it, without trying, and i can tell he's the same person.

usually that's when i need him to be jiji the most.

i don't think the things he needs about you are things that would get lost in thirteen years.

[silvercrusader]

[I hope so, is what he thinks. It's all very well to think that about Joseph, but when applied to himself, when he's staring at Giorno, who looks at him like he's someone to be admired--

But he's never been one to focus on the negative. And even if those doubts and terrors still bounce around his head, what he texts back is:]

did he tell you anything about your future?

[starmark]

giorno? i don't think he knows me in the future.

people have said i go back to university. i get a ph.d. and i guess i get married or something and have a daughter.

1/?

[silvercrusader]

[...]

[silvercrusader]

[Honestly, at this point, he's starting to take it in stride. That Jotaro will always-- not through anything but general goodwill and/or lack of realizing the importance of things-- simply fail to tell him the important stuff. It's just a given. He really has to stop being surprised by now. Whether it's I'm dating Kakyoin or there's a theme park outside the city, it's just going to be something he learns weeks later.]

[silvercrusader]

[--but a daughter, come on--]

[silvercrusader]

jotaro i swear if you don't tell me everything you know about your future wife and child right now

ok done

[silvercrusader]

wait

shit

does this mean you and kakyoin actually find a girl into both of you at once

[starmark]

i don't know

i think the daughter i met is from a timeline where he didn't survive because she hated me for a bunch of fuckups that i've been trying to make sure i don't make but only because i've been here trying to be better about them

and she didn't know who he was when i asked her i don't think

SO NOW I'VE GOT ALL THIS PRESSURE BECAUSE IF I FUCK IT UP SOMEHOW SHE WON'T EXIST ANYMORE

TIME IS BULLSHIT

[silvercrusader]

woah

[Is that-- a thing? Timelines? Polnareff had assumed this was something like a place between worlds-- that someone had intervened and saved Kakyoin, that that same person (or people) had plucked them all out of the same timeline. At different times, sure, but all along the same timeline. The thought that there are multiple timelines is-- disturbing.]

well its easy not to fuck it up
i mean kakyoin is alive
just be on the lookout for this girl's mom and talk to kakyoin about a one night stand
there you go
daughter + kakyoin
what's she like?
besides mad i mean

[starmark]

i don't want to have a one-night stand

i want to be a good role model or some shit like that


holy shit pol she's so great

she's smart and crafty and she's got a mouth on her and she hits like a freight train

and she's pretty and has a tattoo and likes motorcycles and has a stand

[silvercrusader]

[They'll figure out how to solve the problem of Jolyne and Kakyoin later. There's absolutely a solution, he's sure, and between the two of them, they'll find it out.

For now: happier things.]

sounds like your daughter all right
what's her name
what kind of tattoo
WHAT'S HER STAND LIKE
did she punch you is that how you know she hits so well

[starmark]

jolyne

it's a butterfly WITH A DAGGER THROUGH IT

it's strings so kind of like hierophant green except not separate from her, she makes herself into strings and can unravel herself and shit

yes

[silvercrusader]

[...]

2 things
did you name your otter nearly the same thing as your daughter
& about when did you meet her
like
around the same time as when I came here?

[starmark]

IT'S NOT MY FAULT

I ONLY LIKE THE ONE NAME AND THE OTTER CAME FIRST



also yeah, it was around when you showed up. she's tall and lanky and has green streaks in her hair.

[silvercrusader]

i think i flirted with your daughter