>>6107274>>6107349>>6107484>>6107582>>Discuss the known timeline of events with DIO(...)Frankly your sense of perception still feels out of whack from not only awakening Jenova but the suddenness of the arrow giving and then taking away your severe internal wound within minutes. You could do with sitting and talking, letting your psyche catch up to heal at least a fraction as much as your body.
Like an old warmonger once said 15 years from now, there are "known unknowns" and "unknown unknowns." What factoids you have from the comic series fall into the former, at least down to a certain scale of detail. Even assuming everything besides your presence is exactly the same as it was in its original conception, there are ambiguities that were never clarified at your layer of reality. Only observing them or the records they left behind can determine the exact order or truth of things.
But the relative order of events - the impetus for the active campaign to destroy DIO and lay Jonathan's body to rest - has enough to lay out a plan. If only he will abide by it.
"There's a lot I haven't-haven't told you. About how," you start,
"How I die."
"Yes, and what comes after, and also...why it happens." You wait for DIO to add on, but he stands as still as he must have rested in the coffin underwater. He is used to not moving for long periods of time, you suppose. "So you...the death is in 1989...and 50 days before that, the 'countdown' starts from the Joestar family descendants' Stands activating. Joseph Joestar's offspring, uh, Holly Kujo," the illegitimate son will be skipped for now, "her fighting spirit can't handle the awakening, and her Stand fever leaves her 50 days to live. So her son, Joseph's grandson, is the one who has Star Platinum, and he goes with Joseph and a team to find...you...and destroy Jonathan's body...and you too, because it was still activating the souls of its bloodline, and..." He's looking down at your hand, which scratches at your neck.
"They're moved to action to save her life." DIO taps one of his nails against the rough border on his neck, between the born body and taken body. Even in the lack of light they have just a slightly different luster. "Tell me, why do they not act before that point? I have felt the grandson, Joseph, watching my presence through his Stand. I can't imagine they hold that much goodwill in their hearts."
"Um..." You're not sure. "They probably would have? Eventually? I don't..."
"Joseph's grandson realizes his power at or before the time his mother does. Then something more than generational inheritance triggers her illness to number her days."
Specifics, specifics. Your mind hurriedly goes backwards, flipping the memories of pages back from the moment DIO is split in half. It was when he trained his Stand to stop time, which was after he met Avdol, which was...
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