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Dear Mr. Higashikata,

This is Lord Montague. I fear I've been remiss in properly introducing myself to you. I hope your time here has not been too difficult with the likes of Mr. Dio about. I noticed you mentioning your family has some manner of ancestral battle with him.

I must confess, I'm contacting you in regard to some assistance I require in fighting Mr. Dio. I recently discovered that he is a vampire, and he has intimated he would bring harm to me if I tell anyone about his nature. I'm only a human. I have no powers, no real training with weapons. Is there some weakness he has apart from sunlight? There are legends of vampires I'm familiar with, but they vary widely. Will a crucifix stop him, do you know? Will garlic ward him away? Must he request entry to a house before entering?

Sincerely,
Lord Montague D'Ysquith Navarro

Dear Lord Montague,

Hey! I dunno how you greet a lord so sorry if my form is kinda lacking, just bear with me, okay? I'm gonna go ahead and say I'm sorry you've had to deal with that piece of shit, that guy's the fucking worst.

Please tell me if language bothers you and if it does I'll make an effort to fix it.

That said, yeah, my father's side of the family has had a pretty huge beef with the guy, but to be honest, I've only met pops and my nephew for the first time about four months ago, and we've had other shit to deal with, so we didn't really go into details about asshole vampires who should be fucking dead already anyway.

I'm sorry to say I've got no fucking clue how you defeat a vampire but I'm pretty sure garlic and crucifix aren't gonna do shit, and you're probably not gonna keep him off your house. But hey, if you need a bodyguard, I can crash at your place and take care of it.

Dio's got something called a "Stand", it's kinda complicated to explain, y'know? But that's why he's so fucking strong. And I guess he can also plant some weird stuff in your brain to make you do whatever he wants. I'm not a vampire, but I've got a Stand, too, and though it's not as powerful as it is back home I can still kick his fucking ass. If he bothers you, I'll break his face.

[Well, that's not exceptionally helpful on the information front, but it's certainly nice to have someone just volunteer to guard him from harm.]

Dear Mr. Higashikata,

However you'd like to address me is perfectly fine. You're welcome to call me just Navarro or Monty. I do appreciate your courtesy and would beg you have patience with me when I ask that you do try to keep from swearing. I know you mean it in passionate earnest, but it would make me feel just a bit more comfortable.

I'm also honestly moved that you would offer your assistance so readily. I don't think it's come to that, yet. Mr. Dio believes that I fear him too much to speak up or out at the moment. I certainly don't intent to out him, but he's been doing that for himself, slowly but surely. There was a book I left in the library that had some information on the Stone Mask, an Aztec artifact from which he drew his powers as a vampires. It's not something I've ever heard of in my world. Vampires are usually created through a bite and drinking another vampire's blood. Or they are in legends. They're nothing real where I'm from.

[The mention of Dio being able to use mind-control chills Monty to the bone, but he presses on.]

I recall seeing him mention his Stand; it's something to do with manifest spiritual energy, is it not? Is it this Stand that gives him the power to control people, do you know? Is there a way to block his access to the Stand? I'm also curious if you know... Mr. Dio recently claimed to have stuck someone else into another dimension. I think he's lying, but would that even be possible, do you know?

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[ This time, Josuke takes a bit more time to answer. Partly to make sure his language is more appropriate, but mostly because he does want to try to be useful. ]

I haven't heard much about the Stone Mask, myself. My father would have known, but well, he ain't here. To be honest, I've never met or heard about vampires either before, you know? Oh, yeah, but there's this girl, Sakuya — she said she was serving one. Maybe she can help? She's the one who told me what Dio's Stand can do, too.

[ And that's where he remembers that he actually hasn't relied that information yet, just vaguely talked about what a Stand is — which Monty seems to be already aware of ]

Which, by the way, is to stop time. I haven't figured out for how long, but however much it is, it's enough for him to mess with us, so be careful. I can't tell you how to overcome this, or how to block access to the Stand (I mean, dude, it's part of us!) but I can tell you this: his type is like mine, so he probably doesn't have a range larger than two meters at most. Keep your distance!

Stands usually don't have more than one power, uh, I mean, how do I explain it ... My Stand is a close-range type like Dio's -- it's strong, fast and precise. But its power is to "fix and restore" things. I can heal people and do a bunch of other stuff with it if I'm smart about it, but "to fix" is its only power. Some . . . . jerk . . . . I know can turn any part of someone's body in a book, and with that he can read everything about them, their history, their memories, stuff like that, you know? And also write on the pages if he wants to give them an order or whatever. But turning them into a book is the Stand's power. There's exception like Stands that evolve and change powers as they do, but I'm pretty damn sure that's rare.

You following? To make it short, stopping time and controlling people's mind aren't compatible things, so they gotta be two different powers. The control's gotta be because he's a vampire. But the other dimension stuff, I guess that's possible, if he can permanently stop time around a single person. If you look at it that way it'd be believable, right?

But I think he's lying too. If he could do something like that, I would have been the first person he'd do it to, and yet I'm here. And using that kinda power probably takes a lot out of him, right? No way he can do it in this place. He's probably trying to mess with you.

Hey, you've got balls for seeking information like this, you know? I'm sorry I can't help more, but I've got your back.

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[Monty's not entirely sure what having balls has to do with anything, but he'll take it as a compliment. Josuke's tone would seem to indicate that it's meant as one.]

You've been very helpful, Mr. Higashikata, please do not doubt that! That you've confirmed several things and allayed my concerns about the extent of Mr. Dio's abilities is a great deal more than I had to begin with. Knowing that he has a short range for at least one of his abilities is, likewise, comforting. I know several persons in our company who are long-range combatants who might be able to do something against him if it becomes necessary.

Has he attacked you directly? I do have a network of law enforcement and magical fighters that I can apprise of his strengths and weaknesses to more effectively combat him. The power to manipulate minds would seem to me to be the most concerning. I've been mind-controlled before and it is not a terribly pleasant experience to have your body act of its own accord and have your memories erased.

Mr. Dio is not the only one in our company with that particularly dangerous ability.

I'll talk with Ms. Sakuya, in any case. Again, thank you very much for your assistance, Mr. Higashikata. I'm not sure what we'll be able to do for the moment apart from watch and wait until Mr. Dio actively attacks someone innocent rather than just threatening, but I'm glad to have you and what knowledge you do possess here.

[ YOUR PHONE'S RINGING, JOJO. At right about the same time as this thread. ]

[ He doesn't get personal calls often, so he's surprised to see that — but picks up right away when he sees Sam's name on his phone. He has no idea about what's going on, but really, if Sam is calling him it's gotta be trouble. ]

What did you get yourself into this time?

--Josuke! [ Oh thank god he picked up, Sam's not sure what he would have done if he didn't. Even waiting for the rings to go through had been nerve-wracking. What if Josuke wasn't there? What if he was asleep? What if he couldn't find anyone to help--?

There's no keeping the fear and desperation out of his voice. Sam doesn't even try. ]

You have to help! The healing--you can d-do that right?? Please!

[ He expected it to be trouble, but even then the obvious agitation in Sam's voice has him taken aback. And though hearing Sam like this makes him worry, he tries to reel it -- if he loses it too, Sam will just get more agitated. ]

Yeah — yeah, I can do that. Where are you now, you gonna be all right waiting?

I, I'm d-down in the catacombs...! Please, you h-have to hurry, he's... [ There just. Blood. So much blood, and Sam doesn't know what to do because there's so much he can't do like this. He can't even touch Dio to help him up. ]

I don't want him to die... [ That last bit gets weak, voice cracking a little. ]

He ain't gonna die. I'll be there in a flash, just wait for me.

[ He pretty much cuts him off, but of course it's his attempt to comfort him. Not even half a second later and he cuts off the communication entirely, not wanting to waste anymore time and already heading for the catacombs. ]

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sugoooi - 2015-10-21 13:06 (UTC) - Expand

Hello! I'm not sure if Jonathan contacted you yet, but I'm apparently your cousin. My name is Giorno Giovanna and Jonathan Joestar is my uncle. This does mean that Dio Brando is my father, and from what little I know about him, I understand if you would be feeling hesitant about my contacting you. I merely wanted to get in touch with you. I'm not used to the idea of having such an extended family, but Jonathan seemed very open about welcoming me and I can only hope you feel the same.

I'll be staying at Lord Navarro's for the night and meeting with Jonathan in the morning to discuss things. If you're available, I would like to meet you as well. I look forward to meeting you.

HAAAAH!?

Wait, what the hell? Dio's got a son? Since when? You're gonna have to explain a bit further than that.

But, huh, welcome. If you're not an asshole, I ain't gonna have a problem with ya.

I suppose that's a lot to take in, but the short version is that I was born out of wedlock. I've never actually met him, but I saw him in one of the Network posts and recognized him from a picture I have. He looked a little...different, but I knew it was him. I asked for more information about him and that was how I found out about Jonathan and yourself.

That's reasonable. I would hope that I don't come across as an "asshole" or I try not to, anyway.

[This is a LOT more realistic than Jonathan's immediate "HELLO. I LOVE YOU" response, so that oddly puts him at ease.]

[ He's honestly not sure if he should ask what he should ask — he didn't even know Dio and Jonathan were related, so discovering being Dio's son makes this guy his cousin is new as well.

But from the way Giorno is putting it, it doesn't look like he's had much exposure to him, anyway. ]

Well, I'll give you some serious ass kicking if you end up being one. You got any question at all, shoot 'em.

[It's probably because Jonathan and Dio are brothers via adoption. At least, that's what Giorno figures at the moment.]

Most of my general questions have been answered by Mr. Navarro. I'd feel more comfortable getting to know you in person, but how are you related to Jonathan, exactly?

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I can tag into the thread after you two have one more round, if you'd like? :O

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pretend that meeting was evening instead of morning fdhjfk

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