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[billionboy]

OH, SHIT, CAESAR-- [ The voice sounds panicked since he is accesses the telepathy first to get obviously Caesar's attention before -- ] FUCK -- shit -- rocks! Ah! That hur-- ow! How long is -- goddamn hill! Ack! Ow-ow-ow-- shitfuckass!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

...Oof.

[ Long pause, muffled. ] I tripped.

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[girasole]

[...] ... [...he has to think about this for a second.] I never told anyone my family name here. [No. He has not. Who are you????????????] Who the hell are you, you bastard? Jotaro...what?

[billionboy]

[ ................... ]

Caesar, are you a ghost? You should have told me that you were a ghost, man. You're like the third ghost I've met in my life. That's a lot of ghosts... now that I think about it.

[girasole]

Do I look like a ghost? And if I was a ghost then you'd be screwed because then you'd have to hobble back to town because I'm dead and can't carry you.

[billionboy]

Well, no... but I saw some really solid-looking ghosts before...

I really don't want to have to hobble all the way back.

[girasole]

...I probably don't want to know, but I have to ask: when did you see...solid-looking ghosts. [Were you stoned at the time? Again? Dude. Or wa- who knows at this point. Either way they're going to be talking shit NOT via telepathy once they regroup about Jotaro the possible creeper because ??? ??? ??????? ????????????]

[billionboy]

In 1999!

[girasole]

... [...] ... [He's going to just sigh.]

[billionboy]

What are you sighing for? There's so much happening right now!

[girasole]

...no reason. We'll just have a great deal to talk about once I find you.

[billionboy]

My head feels like it's going round in circles, Caesar! Don't you feel that way, too?!

[girasole]

It actually explains a lot, so no.

[Why Jotaro was pissing him off whenever he spoke to the guy, if but briefly, what likely was going to happen before he got interrupted, it's actually kind of nice, if this is true, knowing that the Pillar Men didn't destroy Earth and that Joseph lived on to have children (SO WEIRD) and all in all, this is actually kind of a positive development...him dying aside, but hey, he was never afraid to die...so he's actually surprisingly okay with this, if but really pissed off. It's like Joseph's final gift, from afar, punching him in the face.]

[fivefingerdeathpunch]

I'm his grandson.

[Surprise, motherfucker!]

[girasole]

You can't be his grandson.

[Wait for it...] He's never had a girlfriend. The thought of him... [...reproducing. Marrying? Having a long term relationship? This can't be right. Joseph Joestar reproducing. Really. Really? Him being in a committed long term relationship? Really? The mind boggles.]

[fivefingerdeathpunch]

He and Grandma Suzie got married after... everything. [He's not getting into what little he knows about the Pillar Men in public, and not when Okuyasu still needs help.] They had a daughter, and she had me.

[Is that good enough, or does he need to get in on the mirror selfie action few days late?]

[girasole]

...of course he got married to her. Of course that's why he wanted me to turn around the car. Of course that's why he...

[Sud- well, it's not like he was completely blindsided but it's kind of...

...

At the time he thought, "What the fuck, man, nobody's going to want to-" And then this.] Do you have it. He said that everyone in his family had it. [The birthmark.]

[fivefingerdeathpunch]

Yeah. Hold on.

[A few minutes and a hike to the bathhouse later, there's a video message incoming: one of the mirror shards they were all given, reflecting a second, larger mirror, which is itself reflecting a tank top-clad shoulder with a star-shaped birthmark near the person's neck.]

Mom has it, too.

[girasole]

Ah. [Shit. The one thing that'll convince him, staring at him.]

...well, thank you. Really, that's the one thing I needed to know - I've actually been trying to find a way back, unlikely as it might be...you know how they take things from you when you come here? We're all missing something. For me it was a ring. I don't know what Joj-...your grandfather has told you, but it contains an antidote. One your grandfather needs to survive. I've been trying to think of a way to return it to him before it was too late. And it would've been too late, but if you exist, and if what you're saying it's true, then that means that it worked out in the end.

Honestly, this explains a lot about you as well. Your mother's name?

[fivefingerdeathpunch]

[--Ah, yeah, he's heard a bit about this in whatever simplified version actually got told to young Joestars at all the family gatherings, so this gives him a better idea of when, exactly, Caesar was pulled from. Haha, sorry about your death?

They're gonna have to have a long talk after this. Preferably with beer, if someone has the power to make that happen. For now, Jotaro switches back to voice.]

Her name is Holly. Apparently Jiji picked it.

[girasole]

It's a good name. It's the sort of name he would pick. Hopefully he raised her well. I'd be mad if he didn't. [...they're never going to have that long talk.] What am I saying, of course he spoiled her.

[fivefingerdeathpunch]

I think if we didn't live in Japan we'd never see the end of him. [Said with exasperation, but also real fondness. Not like Jotaro wasn't already missing his family or anything...]

[tropism]

[ WHAT IN THE GODDAMNED -

but that doesn't prove anything. a man has the same birthmark as he does and a stand as well. all stand users are drawn to each other, and this is a fact - so why does it matter if he had the same mark?

facts. stick to facts. giorno grits his teeth. he remembers the coliseum, still. not too long ago he had promised narancia he would bring him home. and he'd seen buccellati ascend like in those paintings in sistine chapel.

he doesn't really believe in fate; but inevitability is -

("i've got to tell my friends back in japan - !")

he can't breathe. ]

Is that mark really so valuable?

[ facts. stick to facts. ]

[girasole]

Yes.

[Not Jotaro, but yes.] My friend had it, as did his grandfather before him, and, apparently, if what this Jotaro says is true, his daughter as well as his grandson has it. Why?

[tropism]

[ why, he asks. "well it just so happens that my father had it. and he was blonde and he died in egypt. egypt, where all those arrows came from. do you know what those arrows are, caesar? remember when i told you about the mafia? what i didn't tell you was that i became the don just before i left, because i killed diavolo. my stand. it turned into requiem. it can manipulate time, just a fraction of it, and now you're telling me that all of this is a part of - a greater destiny.

all i need to know is whether or not you know dio brando. but given what i've heard, how can i trust any of you? you have some power beyond stands, and yet you are part of our world. okuyasu and jotaro have stands. what am i supposed to make out of this - " ]

It's just curious.

I know a very important man who has the same mark. [ a pause. ] But he died in Egypt.

[fivefingerdeathpunch]

[JESUS FUCKING--what is with this place? There's exactly one person Jotaro knows of with that mark who died in Egypt and stayed dead, so:]

That man was a curse on the Joestar family and nearly killed my mother.

[girasole]

I'd say you must be joking but at this point I wouldn't rule out you being my cousin a thousand times removed if what everyone said was true, and, given that we're both Italians, and, thus, our family bonds are the strongest in the world, we were drawn together just to deal with this shit.