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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]

I don't need to convince him. I'll just tell him.

[starmark]

You should tell him not to reload after his first shot, when he's still got five more.

[digiorno]

. . . Has he offended you in some way?

[starmark]

What makes you think that?

[In other words, MAYBE...........]

[digiorno]

Because we generally reserve that for special occasions.

[What did he do, Jojo.]

[starmark]

...

[All of a sudden, articulating "he talked shit about turtles" in text makes it seem a lot more stupid than the very real and legitimate concern that it is.]

We don't see eye to eye on some stuff.

[digiorno]

[He would listen to your turtle woes, though, Jotaro.]

Mista doesn't see eye to eye with very many people.

[starmark]

Does he have a hard time getting girls, or something?

[digiorno]

Why would you say that?

[starmark]

He thinks I should be banging a lot of them.

...

I don't know how we get on some of the topics we do but talking to Mista is never boring, I can say that much.

[digiorno]

He tried to shoot you and then he told you to have more sex?

[That's like the Mista-est thing he's ever heard.]

[starmark]

No, the girls came first.

Then he said some shit because he didn't know anything about turtles, then he shot at me.

[THAT IS TECHNICALLY WHAT HAPPENED, YES, WITH A REASONABLE AMOUNT OF CONTEXT LEFT OUT.]

[digiorno]

[So many questions.]

I think he thinks that if the opportunity's there, you should take it. And turtle-related knowledge isn't really a prerequisite for mafia life. He didn't really shoot you over turtles, did he?

[starmark]

It was a little more complicated than that.

[Damn. It. Jotaro.]

I'm not really bothered about the thing with the girls. That's a stupid thing to get worked up about.

...I told him to try to beat me up, because of something he said that kind of pissed me off. It's not that big of a deal.

[digiorno]

Of course not. You can handle yourself.

He should still treat you with respect.

[starmark]

It's fine if he doesn't.

It was probably just a figure of speech, but if he's gonna say things like "we used to beat up kids like you and steal their money" just because someone likes knowing facts about a thing they're interested in, then he's going to find out that sometimes the nerds hit back. That's all.

I don't usually get along with people who talk about stepping on those weaker than them.

[digiorno]

[Which makes him smile. Not because he's particularly interested in Mista getting beaten up, although Mista, like Jotaro, can handle himself, but because Jotaro is perfectly right. Weakness is no excuse for violence; this is a lesson that a violent lifestyle sometimes makes it hard to learn, but that's no excuse.]

[And, of course, that's not the truth of Mista, not even close, but - well, talk shit, get hit. So it goes.]

Passione is, at least for the moment, still a place where strength rules over compassion. It's changing, but learning takes time.

Still, sometimes the best way to learn is to have lessons beat into you.

[starmark]

Just so we're clear that I didn't call hoping to tattle on him or anything. It really wasn't that big of a deal, but you wanted the explanation.

[digiorno]

Well, I won't be talking to you anymore now that I know you're a snitch.

It doesn't matter, he probably would have told me anyway. I just don't understand why he was bothering you about girls.

[starmark]

So now that I'm already a snitch, you want me to snitch more?

[digiorno]

That's exactly right.

[starmark]

We were talking about things that are different or the same in the future. He brought up the girls, I just asked if they still do that annoying thing where they cluster around and screech at each other fighting over who gets to try to get your attention or hang off your arm or whatever.

[digiorno]

[He takes a minute to think about what kind of person would actually be surprised that Jotaro Kujo is regularly covered in girls. Yep, pretty much Mista.]

Not everyone needs an exterminator for this kind of thing.

[starmark]

It's hell around Valentine's Day.

[digiorno]

You're a martyr, really. Have you considered wearing a cross? It might help.