[It's strange, maybe perverse, but when Jotaro talks about stopping his heart, all Giorno can think of is seeing his own dead body, impaled, the deja-vu-double-vision moment of it all, when he both knew that he was alive and saw that he was dead, and the moment just after when he knew without doubt that he had failed in protecting one of his own. His heart had, after all, stopped, technically; it just wasn't his soul in his body. It was Narancia's.]
[There's the slightest, most infinitesimal shiver of pain across his face; then he nods again, serious and solemn.]
It's hard in several ways. Hard to relate to someone who's never fought, because there's a high likelihood they won't understand why you had to make the choices you made. Hard to relate to anyone, in case of unwanted sympathy. Hard to explain decisions rationally that were made on the spur of the moment.
[The pause that comes then is more contemplative than hesitant. There are a lot of things he could tell Jotaro here. The first thing that comes to mind is Bruno - not one particular thing that Bruno did, but what Bruno is, the sacrifices he made, even in the face of Giorno's great blundering mistake, his other failure, Gold Experience's massive limitation.]
[But that - that's Bruno's to share or not, and Giorno knows it. And so he chooses to say something else, something he might not say to someone else - to Kakyoin, or even to Bruno, in the way he says it now.]
There's also difficulty sometimes in explaining why a choice was necessary. Why mercy wasn't an acceptable option.
I told you I killed Diavolo. But I didn't tell you that he's still dying. He's going to keep dying, over and over, until the end of time. It's hard to tell people something like that. Not the same, I know. But it's . . . something I think about.
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[There's the slightest, most infinitesimal shiver of pain across his face; then he nods again, serious and solemn.]
It's hard in several ways. Hard to relate to someone who's never fought, because there's a high likelihood they won't understand why you had to make the choices you made. Hard to relate to anyone, in case of unwanted sympathy. Hard to explain decisions rationally that were made on the spur of the moment.
[The pause that comes then is more contemplative than hesitant. There are a lot of things he could tell Jotaro here. The first thing that comes to mind is Bruno - not one particular thing that Bruno did, but what Bruno is, the sacrifices he made, even in the face of Giorno's great blundering mistake, his other failure, Gold Experience's massive limitation.]
[But that - that's Bruno's to share or not, and Giorno knows it. And so he chooses to say something else, something he might not say to someone else - to Kakyoin, or even to Bruno, in the way he says it now.]
There's also difficulty sometimes in explaining why a choice was necessary. Why mercy wasn't an acceptable option.
I told you I killed Diavolo. But I didn't tell you that he's still dying. He's going to keep dying, over and over, until the end of time. It's hard to tell people something like that. Not the same, I know. But it's . . . something I think about.
[Although he never, ever regrets.]