Some days he still can't get himself out of the mindset that anything and everything that goes wrong is his fault, that he's perpetually inferior, that if there isn't a purpose and a cause for it, suffering isn't something he intrinsically deserves. Moving past what Dio taught him in childhood is always a struggle, but it's one he won't let define him. Even if their fates were two red strings knotted together, tangled, fraying at the ends and struggling to separate, he'd only suffer when it meant he could protect the people he loves.]
It isn't your fault.
[He has no way to know how Giorno is reacting past that screen, but something runs through him that he can't quite place - call it instinct, call it paternity, call it knowing what it's like to have family by his side again, even if Giorno is what's fraying at the ends of it.]
I had plenty of things in my life that I was grateful for, so you shouldn't worry. Focus on your own happiness, and I'll be behind you one hundred percent.
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Some days he still can't get himself out of the mindset that anything and everything that goes wrong is his fault, that he's perpetually inferior, that if there isn't a purpose and a cause for it, suffering isn't something he intrinsically deserves. Moving past what Dio taught him in childhood is always a struggle, but it's one he won't let define him. Even if their fates were two red strings knotted together, tangled, fraying at the ends and struggling to separate, he'd only suffer when it meant he could protect the people he loves.]
It isn't your fault.
[He has no way to know how Giorno is reacting past that screen, but something runs through him that he can't quite place - call it instinct, call it paternity, call it knowing what it's like to have family by his side again, even if Giorno is what's fraying at the ends of it.]
I had plenty of things in my life that I was grateful for, so you shouldn't worry. Focus on your own happiness, and I'll be behind you one hundred percent.