>>6107767"...Six months. Six months. Six months before the showdown on the bridge in 1989." That's when manga-DIO says he finds out he can stop time for the very first time. Only later Holly's Stand gets active enough to be a problem, from DIO's training making the Joestar signal stronger as well. Wait, if DIO doesn't know how to stop time yet, then how did he pull that on the stairs? You can't ask him if he knows yet or not, because it would give it away, so this is either a deviation from what's depicted or something that his Stand did without his knowledge.
Well, it is the same type of Stand as Star Platinum, and it was stopping a bullet at point-blank range back when Jotaro thought an evil spirit possessed him. So maybe it was only 'The World' fucking with you and moving you up the stairs while DIO was lost in his fantasies about Heaven or ruling the world or whatever. That is the best option.
"When your Stand reaches...a certain power, 6 months before... And then...that leads to the fever kicking in later. 50 days before the death."
DIO sits at the edge of the bed, legs crossed. "The Joestars. My once and future problem. And if they were to be annihilated now?" He's considering it, making the first move. "I see that upsets you. Hm." Fuck his night vision and keen sense of social cues.
"Pragmatically, uh, they could be powerful allies." Against whom? There are other evildoers out there. Get the Joestars on board with the devil they know, dissolve the blood feud. "If the fever is solved. Which could happen if you...give your body up."
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"If all of Jonathan is put to rest."
The room feels much colder. "And there is a new body you could take. One beyond both vampires and humans...the last of the beings who made the Stone Mask." You explain the gist of Battle Tendency. "...So the Mask's actual creator is basically dead in space. But the fourth one was defeated and turned into stone under artificial sunlight, and he's kept dormant in a secure location. He had powers to control flesh, so if you were to take his body over and take his mind out with a Stand user's ability...yeah."
DIO rests his head on his hands and smiles coldly. "So to both save me, and keep the precious family alive - who, before I surfaced, slew the very beings that allowed me to transcend humanity and captured one as a trophy - you intend to, what, negotiate with them? Stealing their sleeping vampire-eater might just anger them enough to go on the warpath." He sighs. "Having Star Platinum's user as an ally would be useful, and yet...in their position, I'd have every reason to suspect ill intent. The burden of proof is on me, DIO."
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>Yes, reaching out to the Joestars for a truce might actually work. They just need some convincing, a concrete show of good faith. What or who is a good offering chip?>Just do a heist for Santana. Playing nice could backfire, get them on your asses, and make the top-secret SPWF facility heighten their security.>(Write-in.) 