It's...normal to want to make a good impression with friends, right? I know that I don't want to be seen as someone unreliable or fragile, and I guess that...after everything that's happened, I worry that I'm going to end up coming across like that.
Say you're in a fight. I don't mean with a Stand user or anything, just a regular fistfight. Does it mean you're weak, if the guy you're fighting knocks you down?
When I think about that thing you had in your head, I don't think "six months as someone's puppet" or "the look on your face while Star Platinum was taking it out". I think about how I kicked the shit out of you and then put you through a thing that everyone said was impossible to survive, and in...like, hours, you were on your feet determined to go with us to Egypt.
When I think about those scars over your eyes, I think about how you fought to the very limit to get well and rejoin us.
The impression you make...is that you're someone who gets back up every time he's knocked down. If that's not reliable and tough, I don't know what is.
...This is what I mean, when I say we work well together. You and I see what the other can't--maybe won't--about themselves.
[He finally looked up at that, rather than keep hiding in his jacket. (Which, passed an idle thought, was the second thing he'd ever been given by a friend counting Diarmuid's picture frame.)]
Even when I act confident, I don't think I'm all that strong. And I seriously doubt you think you're as significant as you've always been to me. But I trust you, Jojo. I know that you wouldn't say something like that just for the sake of sparing my feelings, and I believe you know I wouldn't do that either.
...What I'm trying to say is that...I'll do the best that I can to believe that I could be the kind of person you see me as.
You're important to me. You're my best friend, and it's because of you that I even had the chance to become that person you all needed.
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I don't want you to ever forget or doubt that. No matter what's happened or what might still happen, I'll always be fighting at your side. That's where I want to be.
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Date: 2015-09-10 09:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-10 10:11 pm (UTC)Like with Jonathan, and Giorno, and them.
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Date: 2015-09-10 10:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-10 11:02 pm (UTC)Say you're in a fight. I don't mean with a Stand user or anything, just a regular fistfight. Does it mean you're weak, if the guy you're fighting knocks you down?
Just answer honestly, there's a point to this.
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Date: 2015-09-10 11:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-10 11:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-10 11:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-10 11:23 pm (UTC)When I think about that thing you had in your head, I don't think "six months as someone's puppet" or "the look on your face while Star Platinum was taking it out". I think about how I kicked the shit out of you and then put you through a thing that everyone said was impossible to survive, and in...like, hours, you were on your feet determined to go with us to Egypt.
When I think about those scars over your eyes, I think about how you fought to the very limit to get well and rejoin us.
The impression you make...is that you're someone who gets back up every time he's knocked down. If that's not reliable and tough, I don't know what is.
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Date: 2015-09-11 12:01 am (UTC)[He finally looked up at that, rather than keep hiding in his jacket. (Which, passed an idle thought, was the second thing he'd ever been given by a friend counting Diarmuid's picture frame.)]
Even when I act confident, I don't think I'm all that strong. And I seriously doubt you think you're as significant as you've always been to me. But I trust you, Jojo. I know that you wouldn't say something like that just for the sake of sparing my feelings, and I believe you know I wouldn't do that either.
...What I'm trying to say is that...I'll do the best that I can to believe that I could be the kind of person you see me as.
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Date: 2015-09-11 12:48 am (UTC)We all needed you. You weren't a burden, and you weren't replaceable. We needed you, Kakyoin.
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Date: 2015-09-11 12:52 am (UTC)[...]
I don't want you to ever forget or doubt that. No matter what's happened or what might still happen, I'll always be fighting at your side. That's where I want to be.
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Date: 2015-09-11 01:18 am (UTC)I've been trying to figure out what else there is to do with my life, lately.
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Date: 2015-09-11 01:46 am (UTC)...I mean, between the two of us I'm sure we can work it out.