[And because he's just sort of lazing and drifting as the adrenaline wears off and the tired catches up, that state ends up reflected in his voice; it's raised up slightly out of its usual gruff pitch, quieter, with a little something like genuine fascination in it.
Which is usually what happens, when people talk about their favorite Stands.]
We fought Tower of Gray on a plane. That's what took us so long getting to Egypt, in the beginning, it made the plane crash. It was a...
[He lifts his hand, palm down and fingers spread wide, and waves a vague circle with the flat of it — a rocking sort of motion that, without realizing it, Star lifts his own hand and copies.]
...beetle. Flying stag beetle. It was fast, faster than Star Platinum. None of us could hit it, and Kakyoin wouldn't let us try because we might miss and blow up the plane.
It'd use its stinger to grab a target's tongue and rip it out. It hit Hierophant in the mouth once, he started bleeding. But he kept after it, persistent. Kept using Emerald Splash, the beetle kept dodging. He just wasn't fast enough.
So it's coming in — we're all just standing there watching, it's coming in, and it goes, "Once this rips your tongue out, you'll go mad from the pain."
[He laughs, softly, and it rasps a little from being breathless but it's there.]
And Kakyoin, he sits up and just smiles, and goes, "My Hierophant Green?"
Turns out the Emerald Splash was never about hitting it, just about keeping it in the same lane of air space — so it couldn't move around. Distracting it while he got Hierophant surrounding it, and then speared it from every direction at once.
So then there it is, trapped, impaled a dozen times over on Hierophant, and he goes, "When he rips you apart, he'll go mad, all right — from joy."
...It was the first time I saw him fight as Kakyoin, and not a puppet. I think it's still probably one of the best things I've ever seen.
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[And because he's just sort of lazing and drifting as the adrenaline wears off and the tired catches up, that state ends up reflected in his voice; it's raised up slightly out of its usual gruff pitch, quieter, with a little something like genuine fascination in it.
Which is usually what happens, when people talk about their favorite Stands.]
We fought Tower of Gray on a plane. That's what took us so long getting to Egypt, in the beginning, it made the plane crash. It was a...
[He lifts his hand, palm down and fingers spread wide, and waves a vague circle with the flat of it — a rocking sort of motion that, without realizing it, Star lifts his own hand and copies.]
...beetle. Flying stag beetle. It was fast, faster than Star Platinum. None of us could hit it, and Kakyoin wouldn't let us try because we might miss and blow up the plane.
It'd use its stinger to grab a target's tongue and rip it out. It hit Hierophant in the mouth once, he started bleeding. But he kept after it, persistent. Kept using Emerald Splash, the beetle kept dodging. He just wasn't fast enough.
So it's coming in — we're all just standing there watching, it's coming in, and it goes, "Once this rips your tongue out, you'll go mad from the pain."
[He laughs, softly, and it rasps a little from being breathless but it's there.]
And Kakyoin, he sits up and just smiles, and goes, "My Hierophant Green?"
Turns out the Emerald Splash was never about hitting it, just about keeping it in the same lane of air space — so it couldn't move around. Distracting it while he got Hierophant surrounding it, and then speared it from every direction at once.
So then there it is, trapped, impaled a dozen times over on Hierophant, and he goes, "When he rips you apart, he'll go mad, all right — from joy."
...It was the first time I saw him fight as Kakyoin, and not a puppet. I think it's still probably one of the best things I've ever seen.