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[digiorno]

buongiorno! sorry i missed you; i'll happily get back to you as soon as i'm done with whatever business i'm on. leave a message!

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[digiorno]

Yes. You're getting better about lots of things.

[starmark]

And how've you been doing lately? Still okay?

[digiorno]

I feel better with people to take care of.

[starmark]

In other words, you're feeling great lately.

[digiorno]

Yes, you should all be human disasters more often for my benefit.

[starmark]

Remind me to quote you on that someday.

You know, like an asshole.

[digiorno]

I certainly hope you're not implying that I am ever an asshole to you, because that's slander. I'm very nice.

[starmark]

Just the opposite. I'm implying that I'd have to be an asshole to go out of my way to be a disaster around you just because you said something like that.

And sometimes I'm an asshole, so.

[digiorno]

Not as often as you think you are.

. . . Um. Jotaro?

[starmark]

Yeah?

[digiorno]

I'm a little worried about having to pretend I'm just somebody you know again.

[starmark]

...Because of my great-gr

fuck it

because of Erina? Or Jiji?

[digiorno]

Yes. Both.

[starmark]

You know I'll back you up no matter what.

If you want to tell them, I'll help you.

If you want to do something else, I'll support you.

[digiorno]

I don't know. I think this is the first time in my life I've really wanted someone else to make the decision for me.

[starmark]

Then I'll tell you what I know about Jiji, at least.

He's smart, and he knows when people are keeping secrets. He knew I was messed up about one and I said a couple times that I didn't want to tell him yet, and he wasn't a dick about it but it was like he couldn't help trying to find it out anyway.

So I think for him at least, there's something to the idea of being direct with him, even if it's something he's not going to like to hear. I think he's that kind of person, who'd at least respect that someone was up-front about it, even if he didn't like what he was hearing.

[digiorno]

Well, he's definitely going to be annoyed that I was just watching him drink hot chocolate and be dramatic for several hours.

[starmark]

That's what he gets for being dramatic in public.

[digiorno]

Yes, it's definitely all his fault and not at all to do with me being nosy.

[starmark]

Still. I need to tell him about what Kakyoin and I went through with him back home, either way.

I can tell him about you, if you don't want to go through having to be there for it again.

[digiorno]

I don't know. Don't you think it's important that I do it myself? Or at least tell the parts that are mine, myself.

[starmark]

Probably. I mean...yes, it's important, there's no question about that.

But if you didn't want to have to. I mean that I would do that for you. I want you to have the choice, so it's not just something you're stuck with.

[digiorno]

. . . You're doing that more, too. Trying so hard to make sure other people have choices, as often as they can.

You don't realize how important choice is until it's taken away from you, do you.

[starmark]

...I think I hurt myself most when I think I don't have a choice. Yeah.

So I guess now I'm trying to look for them as much as possible. For other people and for myself.

[digiorno]

Il mio magnifico fratello.

What would you say, if you were the one who told him?