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danganronpasurvivoraskblog · 2 years ago

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#Order 6: Why is King Crimson?

Ok, give it a try.

You know when I eventually go back to Freedom Cafe in America, this might end up sticking.

I don’t see the problem. I’ve taken enough orders; you have a go.

Alright, alright, I’m on it.

*Maya slides in towards a table.

Welcome to Canzanilla Cafe, can I take yer ooooorder~?

Kyah! Cool greeting Maya!

Oh, hey! Leona!

Fancy seeing you here. Guess it makes sense that you’d come popping by the...

Oh!

Huh?

*Kuripa suddenly notices who else is looking at the table.

Greetings.

H-Hello.

Hi!

Hey guys! Nice to see you all!

Oh, this is great! Now I don’t have to go through the trouble of introducing Leona to you. Looks like you’ve all already met.

This is an interesting and...wide range of people...How do you know each other?

Maya. Meet Hifumi, Ryota and Iroha. Hifumi works in Branch 3, Ryota is the leader of Branch 10, and Iroha is another one of Kokichi’s staff members.The four of us together are part of a little manga and anime club called the Kyojin’s. We meet up on occassion to discuss weeb shit.

Ah, yeah, I think you mentioned them to me before.

Kuripa told me about these guys and asked if I would be interested in joining.

Normally I would, but the commute would be difficult, and it’s too much of a hassle to keep booting up a PC to talk online.

But for what it’s worth, we’re having a really nice discussion now.

It is a shame though. We really could do with more girls in the group.

And it is interesting to become associated with one who draws manga from the west. You’re a rare find indeed.

Please don’t talk about her like she’s a collectors item.

I’m about finished here by the way.

*Iroha puts a manga she’s reading down on the table. Kuripa picks it up and inspects the cover.

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind? Do you have the entire collection together?

I’m trying to put the collection together. This is what I’ve got so far. The Kyojin’s have helped me fill in the gaps and we’re taking turns reading it.

I wouldn’t say “reading.” We’re just flipping through it quickly and giving our thoughts and feelings. Typical club stuff you know? We just finished Part 5.

Ok...Overall thoughts?

Above everything else...I’m just really confused.

Yep, that is the reaction I expected...

Well, it’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. “Bizarre” is literally in the name. It’s going to be wacky.

Yeah, but this one is particularly wacky.

Which is weird because the main cast of this part is pretty cookie-cutter.

Hey!

I-I didn’t say I disliked them! I just think the other main casts had a bit more variety.

I have to agree with Hifumi. The quirkiest member of the main cast of Part 5 is Mista. Not just because of his detest for the number 4, but because his stand was so remarkably different from any other main characters before.

Other than that, they were all pretty traditional when it came to personality’s. Narancia was the goofy one, Bruno was the serious one, Fugo was the tragic one...See what I mean?

That’s not even mentioning how the whole thing ends. With Diavolo, I WOULD say “What a way to go out” but the way he went out was NOT a way I would have ever come up with, ever in my life.

It’s hard to tell whether the author is a genius or a maniac. I mean, all of the ideas he comes up with rarely make sense, but work, especially in this part.

I mean, think about it. A stand that can erase time. It just doesn’t make sense.

...Well...It KINDA does.

*Everyone looks at Iroha.

What do you mean?

Diavolo is the main villain of the series. Every other main villain in JoJo has a stand that either screws with reality or screws with time. King Crimson is no different.

Dio can stop time, Kira can time jump...It’s just natural progression.

May I just point out that the way Kuripa phrased it is what’s causing all the confusion.

King Crimson doesn’t just “erase time”. If it did, that WOULD be really simple.

But it’s not the case...He can also MOVE in the erased time. So if he’s in the erased time, he could punch someone, and then the damage would be caused, but no one would be consciences of it, because it technically never happened!

...

HUH!?

Ok ok! Wait just a second.

*Hifumi places his comic down on the table.

If the time “erased” as you put it, how does Diavolo move around in it?

If he can alter the time that he erased, doesn’t that effectively mean the time was...NOT erased?

Plus, that logic doesn’t make sense. If he was to punch someone in the erased time, they WOULDN’T feel the blow, because the time was erased, meaning the blow NEVER HAPPENED. If it never happened, how was he able to deal damage!?

Well that...I...

Oh, I don’t know!

And to think, that’s not even counting Epitaph. I mean...Epitaph isn’t it’s own stand, right? It’s like a stand ability?

Yes.

No.

...!

Well...what the hell is it then!?

...I...I think we may have missed something.

Maybe we need to read it again?

Good idea. Mr Kurafto, would you be so kind?

Eeh...I dunno. I’d love to, but I’m kinda working...

Take a break then.

Huh?

I can take over things while you chat with your friends. And I think while you’re talking, I’m gonna go make you guys drinks.

Hell...I sense something dangerous coming, so I’m gonna get one for you too.

Oh, great idea. In that case, we’ll have...

[Later...]

*Hifumi places orders, and Maya eventually comes back to the group with everyone’s drinks. They’re crowded around, reading through the comics and trying to grasp the legitimacy of the King Crimson stand.

Thanks Maya, you’re the best.

...You know, I’m almost afraid to ask but...how’s progress going?

Ok, so here’s what I can gather so far. At it’s most simple, King Crimson’s power allows it to erase a 10 second segment of time. During those 10 seconds, King Crimson, and Diavolo, can move freely but can't affect anything.

So...he can see what’s going on in that 10 second period?

But then how does he attack?

He just attacks normally.

What do you mean he “attacks normally?”

Ugh!

*Kuripa turns the manga panel around and points to it.

When King Crimson erases the time, the time is also erased for Diavolo. What is shown in these little segments is Diavolo seeing what happened during the time that gets wiped. But he’s not doing anything. Because his action already happened.

But he erased the time, so I thought it didn’t happen!

No! For...gah!

So...not much progress then, huh?

What Kuripa means is this...

*Leona raises both of her pointer fingers.

This finger represents the point where King Crimson skips the time...And THIS finger represents what happens AFTER the time is skipped. Let’s say that during this time, if I had King Crimson’s ability and let’s say...I punched Maya in the face.

Oi! Don’t think I did anything wrong by you squirt!

If I use King Crimson’s ability to erase the time, that doesn’t mean what happened during that time didn’t happen. I still punched Maya, but she didn’t perceive it, or see it coming, because I cut out and deleted the moment my fist made contact with her face.

So...It STILL happened, it’s just that no one perceived it.

Not necessarily. DIAVOLO still perceived it.

*Leona points to a manga panel.

The segments where he’s shown moving around in the erased time are ACTUALLY him looking at what happened during the time that he erased. So here, in the final battle, he’s watching Mista fire bullets at him. This is showing what HAPPENED during the time that Diavolo used his stand to erase. It’s what WOULD have happened, not what DID happen.

Does that make sense?

Uh...lemme think about it.

Ok, I thought about it?

And?

No!

*sigh*

I need to point out that this goes back to Hifumi’s point from earlier. You said that the time is erased, but Diavolo still sees what happens in that erased time.And by the time the phase ends, what happened in that time still happened as a result, right?

Well, that would then mean that if all of the events still happened, the time WASN’T ERASED.

Now I’M confused.

I...look here...!

*Ryota grabs his volume and pulls up another panel.

During his encounter with Diavolo, Polnareff comes up with an idea to sense when his opponent has activated his ability. He cuts his hand, and lets it bleed, dripping on his trousers at a steady pace. He knows that Diavolo has used King Crimson because the number of blood spots on his trousers multiplies just out of nowhere.

If King Crimson’s real ability involved erasing the time, wouldn’t that mean that the dripping stops completely? Either that, or the blood just disappears entirely because Diavolo erased the part where Polnareff cut his hand.

Ok...First of all, that’s not how it works.

When is it ever?

LET ME FINISH. Diavolo can’t erase something that’s already happened.

Why not? If he can erase time, why doesn’t he just erase the part where Polnareff cut himself?

What good would that do!? He’s erasing the time in front of him so that he can get close to Polnareff without him perceiving it!

Like I said, Diavolo can’t interact with anything during the state of King Crimson, but he CAN move around. If he was to run behind Polnareff after this phase, he would still be behind Polnareff, in an advantageous position.

Why would Diavolo erase that part of history? It’s of no benefit to him; it just means Polnareff won’t remember his monologue and he wouldn’t have hurt his hand.

That...ok, fair enough.

Even so, my original point stands. What you’re claiming to be time that’s been “erased” seems to be more time that’s been “skipped.” What happened in the “erased” time still happened, so it wasn’t “erased” at all. It was just skipped over.

Wait a second! So let me get this straight! Diavolo can’t interact with anything when he perceives the “erased” time. Right?

Yeah.

The first time we ever see King Crimson’s ability is during the elevator scene, where Diavolo kidnaps Trish. Let’s use this bit for example. It doesn’t actually show things from Diavolo’s perspective, but the logic should still apply.

Pretend you’re the big man himself for a second. You have 10 seconds. What you do during that time is you infiltrate the elevator, kidnap Trish; specifically might I add, by amputating her hand so that Bruno, her escort, doesn’t notice immediately; carry her down the elevator shaft and make your exit.

That’s a lot of stuff to do in 10 seconds now that I think about it. How did he pull THAT off.

Time management in anime is bullshit. If a 5 minute death ball can take 18 episodes of Dragon Ball to blow up Namek, anything goes in that department.

Don’t bring DBZ logic into this, you’ll make things worse.

Agh...What’s your point Hifumi?

My POINT...is HOW did Trish’s hand get cut off?

Like I SAID. Just because the moment where Trish’s hand was cut off, and where she got knocked out, was erased, that doesn’t mean what happened didn’t happen.

But how did Diavolo do it? You said yourself that he can’t interact with anything in the 10 seconds that King Crimson’s ability is active, and as you can see in all the examples thus far, we never see him perform any such action. Trish’s hand gets cut off, and Diavolo kidnaps her, but WHY and HOW?

I...

Uh...Well...

You don’t know, do you?

Give me that manga, I’m gonna check something.

Oh Jesus...

[Much later...]

Alright, I think I got it!

*Everyone looks at Kuripa eagerly. After another 20 minutes of rereading the manga, as Maya continues to tend to the other customers, who look on at the gathering of weebs with confusion.

The whole thing of why and how it works. That’s where Epitaph comes in. Epitaph’s ability works in tandem with King Crimson to make the stand as deadly as it can be.

So it IS it’s own stand ability?

No!

Yes!

NO!

Is it, or is it not!?

Diavolo and Doppio may share a body, but they are two different people. It’s not out of the question that both their spirits may have different stands.

I...gah...Look...It’s easier to understand the ability’s if you think of them as two different stands. But that’s not it.

*Kuripa pulls up an earlier manga panel.

Epitaph works a bit like this. From the same part of the manga, Ghiaccio’s White Album. During the fight, Ghiaccio uses something called Gently Weeps. It allows him to freeze the air around him and deflect Mista’s bullets back at him.

Gently Weeps may have it’s own name, but it’s full name is White Album - Gently Weeps. It’s it’s own ability, but it’s not like Gently Weeps is it’s own stand.Epitaph is the same; it’s just an ability that King Crimson has.

Isn’t that a bit broken though? It’s wildly inconsistent with limits on stands.

Oh sure, because JoJo has never been wildly inconsistent with it’s logic before. It’s not like Iroha didn’t say the same thing earlier dude.

*Kuripa pulls up another manga panel.

King Crimson uses Epitaph to see 10 seconds into the future. He then erases that 10 second interval immediately afterwards. Whatever Epitaph sees WILL happen. It's FATED to.

And before you say anything about how that doesn’t happen in the final battle, that’s the whole point. Golden Experience Requium fucks with fate, and Epitaph can’t do anything about it, rendering the ability useless. So there you go.

Wh-What do you mean “there you go?” You explained basically NOTHING.

No I didn’t! I told you, what Epitaph sees is fate. Diavolo cutting off Trish’s hand is FATE. It’s gonna happen, he just skips the part where it DOES happen so no one realizes.

Ok, but...How does Epitaph decide what counts as fate or not? Diavolo thinks, “I’m gonna go in there, kidnap my daughter and cut off her hand.” Does that one thought mean fate is decided?

No.

Yes.

FUCKING-!

Let me just clarify. Diavolo cannot interact with anyone while King Crimson is active, which means that he can’t move or do anything during the skipped time. Despite that, are you saying even if he moves differently than Epitaph's predictions, within his stand’s ability, the receiving party of his attack...that now isn't actually happening...still takes that punch even if it's no longer being swung?

Well, that’s a clusterfuck of a sentence.

This is a clusterfuck of an ability!

But yes. Since it was fated to happen and he makes time skip straight to the point of being in pain from the punch he still gets hurt even though Diavolo didn't have to actually do anything. He just doesn't use that ability until the end because he naturally tries to avoid fighting people head on even if he's going to erase it because of his paranoia but when he's pushed to the brink he realizes he can do suicide attacks if he has the balls for it and then when he sees the prediction he erases it so he's perfectly fine and the other person still gets hurt.

Huh...

Ok...So overall, it’s like this. Time skips forward by 10 seconds, and Diavolo can see what happens in those 10 seconds, both BEFORE it happens using Epitaph, and WHEN it’s happening due to King Crimson’s natural ability. We refer to this time “skip” as time being “erased.”

Anything that happens in those 10 seconds doesn’t affect him, but in tandem, he can’t affect anything that’s happening in those 10 seconds.

But that said, he can sort of influence it, because what happens in those 10 seconds still happens, even Diavolo’s own predicted movements. He only knows what he’s going to do in that time, because while King Crimson doesn’t perceive him, Epitaph does.

Anything that would have happened in those 10 seconds DOES happen, EVEN IF he was involved, which is how he can cut off Trish’s hand and kill people even during the skipped time. But otherwise, nothing affects him.

Exactly. Get it now?

Yeah...It’s confusing, but...I think I get it.

Good. PHEW! That was a lot of effort.

...

What’s up Ryota?

Hang on a second though. Everything we’ve just discussed taken into account...Some things don’t match up at this bit.

Ooooh...Dammit...

[Much, much later...]

They finally left.

...

You ok buddy? You look knackered.

I haven’t wracked my brain that much in who knows how long...and it wasn’t even work related.

*Despite his exhaustion, he stands up.

Maya, I’m so sorry. I got so caught up in the discussion, my “break” ended up lasting the whole day.

I was useless in the kitchen and let you do all the work on your own. I let you down.

Haha...Don’t worry about it Kuripa.

To be honest...I think you did me a service more than anything.

Wait, what? Wh-Why?

A few reasons.

Exhibit A...I DID mention that conversing with our customers was vital for the business. And that’s basically what you spent the day doing.

“Conversing” is being VERY generous. That was an argument, and there’s no other way you could put it.

Exhibit B. You were being very loud, so the rest of our customers got a lot of entertainment today from watching you all go back and forth.

What are we, caged monkeys?

But...above all that...I really want to give you and the Kiyojuns thanks.

KYOJIN’S.

Right, that. That’s...the first time I’ve ever seen Leona get into such a full-blown argument about manga before.

And that’s...a good thing?

The way I see it, if you’re willing to argue with someone, it means you’re passionate about whatever it is you’re attacking or defending.

Leona doesn’t have many friends back in the US that really understand what she does. Hell, Leona doesn’t really have many friends aside from us back home.

Manga is such an irregular form of media compared to US propaganda that enjoyers of that caliber are few and far between.

So...seeing Leona have such a passionate back and forth with the people who understand her love and relate to her. It brings me joy.

You did nothing wrong. And for the record, I have NO IDEA what you were talking about, but I’m on your side whatever it is.

...Maya.

That said...Since I had to serve customers all day by myself, you can take care of the cleanup on your own tonight. Fair’s fair, right?

Of course buddy. I’ll get right on it~

#danganronpa survivor #danganronpa #hyper danganronpa h2o #hdrh2o #oc #danganronpa another 2 #sdra2 #danganronpa 3 #dr3 #danganronpa 1 #dr1 #maya canzanilla #kuripa kurafto #leona vasquez #iroha nijiue #ryota mitarai #hifumi yamada #canzanilla cafe arc

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shrewmingledotcom · 1 year ago

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Hello hii Lira here (fear not, this is just my main account)

Miscellaneous question, just because I can

1. What was your first anime ? Also what is your favorite one ?

2. Other than the music franchise, do you have favorite music artists ?

3. Oh and you write as well, right ? Do you have a favorite piece of your own (some work, dialogue, scene, idea whatever)

ooh thanks for the ask lira^^ (ive never gotten these before lmao) 1. my first anime ever was probably yu yu hakusho, probably because i had an older cousin living with me and we had to share the TV all the time and cuz he was older he would be in charge almost every time we watched so i just watched whatever he watched. my favorite anime is jojo's bizarre adventure i've been a fan for a very long time (probably cuz my cousin also introduced me to it) but i've watched the anime and all of the rohan spin offs and im currently reading the manga (im on the last few chapters of part 7) and im saving up money for diavolo tomonui tbh i actually used to be obsessed with jojo before hypmic/paralive 2. besides paradox live and hypnosis mic, i actually really like "The Orion Experience" they are probably my favorite band and i absolutely love their albums "Sugar Deluxe" and "Children of the Stars" im also a theater kid so besides hypmic and paralive i actually listen to a lot of musical soundtracks (recently i did a class production of mean girls where i played janis!!) my favorite musicals are Ride the Cyclone and Beetlejuice 3. i do write but not as much anymore, a couple years ago i did write a lot but i guess i got really burnt out. one of my posts before mentioned that the last fanfic i wrote was like 2 years ago but if i did have a favorite i guess it would be a fanfic idea about kantaro and reo, where it focused on both of their insecurities towards each other. kantaro attempting to deal with his social media obsession, insecurities and now jealousy towards reo, while reo on the other hand was dealing with the possibility of his fans "abandoning" him for another idol and feeling insecure/jealous about it like kantaro my ideas for the fic was that it was gonna be fairly dark with psychological horror and angst in general. i called the fanfic "Copycat" and honestly i might consider writing it but for the time being im kinda busy so maybe sometime in the future i will^^

sorry if my english and grammar is bad i kinda have a little struggle with it and also if the post itself is a bit jumbled up^^

#asks #shrew.asks

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themmebott · 3 years ago

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i always see this person on pinterest and their hair reminds me of dias

+ doppiopony i made a while ago LMFAO

#jojos bizarre adventure #jjba #jjba diavolo #vinegar doppio #my baby #i love them #vento aureo #jojo part 5 #diavolo and doppio #diadop #not really #but oh well #my artwork #my art 2022

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pieflavoredartz · 4 years ago

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sup dudez... yall want some alleyway kiraboss?

ofc you do, get over here. get over here an take kiraboss from a non-binery

what... you want a story too? actually i dont mind that.. it uh under the cut.

so you know how staurn exists? yea we do huh. yet theres not a sinle soul that hecking said “man saturns late for our pool party” WANN KNOW WHY?? BC SATURN’S AN EARLY B’ THAT HECKING B THAT LIKE COME AT THE PARTY AS THE THOUGH POPS IN YOUR MIND ABOUT A PARTY AND BRO DONT GET ME STARTED ON HOW THEY ALWAYS SAY “well yea, your party may be in 3 generantions later but guess what, that trip took me 2millenials to gethere so yall gonna... gonna have to deal with that.” i got that for my grandpersons cake day (borthday?) BOY NO we have a day for celebrating your cake taste and MMMMMMM ME N GRANDPER FLIPPIN TIGHT BC GUESS THE FAVOR THEY LIKE... GUESS GUESS...

BOOM BABY ITS HECKING CHOCOLATE WITH INTEREDIMENTIONAL EGGS...

at least saturn isnt so bad.. they brought us a quarter-million dozen.. i mean I GUESS that gonna hold yuse for the next.... chu chu chuuu.. 3 LIKE EONS BRO... ECH that not even a good amount of time.

HECCING TL*WDIR

IF A PLANET IS YOUR GOD’PLANET THEN ASK FOR SOMETHING KEWL BRO.. GET A TIME MACHINE... IM WORKING ON MINE NOW... GONN A GOOO- manuels are hrad.. the hecc i need a.. wrench.. wrench for.. >:T

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ask-demon-prosciutto · 4 years ago

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((Surprise! I’ve been working a relationships chart for this blog’s AU these past few weeks! It’s not completed yet, but I will be sure to update it as I reveal more characters (And hopefully get better at art). I’ll also probably put this somewhere on the characters page of the Carrd once I establish that!

And for those who submitted asks: Don’t worry! I’ll get to those eventually! It’s just been difficult to dedicate time towards art with school getting in the way.

Anyways, I’ll go into more detail about the established relationships so far under the cut!

Prosciutto and Pesci: Essentially the same as canon; Prosciutto acts like a harsh mentor who deep down, genuinely cares about him and wants to see him grow, while Pesci idolizes Pros. However, as a firm believer in the hypothesis that Pesci’s “Big brother” nickname is derived from Yakuza honorifics rather than the two actually being brothers, they are not blood-related in this AU.

Prosciutto and Doppio/The Boss: Any “interaction” Pros has with these two is strictly for business only. He couldn’t really give a shit about them or what happens to them as long as he and his team are getting paid.

Pesci and Doppio/The Boss: Although he has never met either, Pesci’s still terrified of the boss and his underling, as he fears they’ll come after him if he makes too many mistakes. Even with reassurance that the team will make sure that never happens, his worries haven’t faltered.

Doppio/The Boss and Pesci.Prosciutto: Much like Pros, the boss gives zero fucks about what happens to those two, and the whole team for that matter. To him, they’re nothing more than his minions, and as long as they get the job done, then he doesn’t even bat an eye.

As for Doppio, he hasn’t interacted with either, and thus has no opinion on them.

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nocontextscreenshotsbutevil · 4 years ago

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inujojo · 5 years ago

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Doppio/diavolo charm idea I'd love make one day aa

#my art #jjba #jojos bizarre adventure #diavolo #doppio #vinegar doppio #i doubt ppl would buy dog versions of the chars but oh well #furry bs

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homoforjojo · 6 years ago

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#jjba #jojo's bizarre adventure #jojo #vento aureo #golden wind #1000% sure someone did this already but oh well #diavolo #vinegar doppio #va spoilers #jjba spoilers #jojokes #mine #mod nano #srry.... ive just been in a vinegar mood lately....#n diavolo

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shoechoe · 3 years ago

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diavolo and in the court of the crimson king

(this was asked about by @fullmusicbard a little while back and i thought it sounded fun to write about, so thanks a bunch for the suggestion)

So, it’s a pretty well known fact by now that JoJo characters are often based off of or inspired by the music that they or their stand are named after. Pucci and “Made in Heaven”, Kira and “Killer Queen”, Trish and “Wannabe”, among many other examples, connect to or are influenced by their songs’ lyrics and meanings. However, the one that personally interests me the most is Diavolo and King Crimson, his stand and the progressive rock band that it shares a name with. In particular, I think what he largely took inspiration from is In the Court of the Crimson King, their debut album released in 1969. I’ve thought about this a lot already, so I thought it would be a fun idea to go through the five songs on that album and compare it to his character.

(This is largely going to just be a bunch of interpretation on my part with no real knowledge on what went through Araki’s mind while writing, but I hope this still makes sense lol. Also, this turned out to be, uh... very long, but I broke up all of the songs and tangents into sections so you don’t have to read all of it. I basically just dissect Diavolo’s character and his prog rock-inspiration for several pages.)

The 21st Century Schizoid Man

Being the very first song on the album, the 21st Century Schizoid Man is the most chaotic and energetic song out of every track on the record. It features dissonant tones and heavily distorted vocals, as well as mixed-genre elements of heavy metal, jazz and progressive rock.

It’s also what the cover art of the album is based off of, with the screaming face representing the “21st Century Schizoid Man” himself.

(This is probably the reason why King Crimson as a stand makes such weird facial expressions.)

This song was originally a criticism of the Vietnam War and the politicians who kept it going, being told through the perspective of the “Schizoid Man” that the song’s title references. While I don’t think the Vietnam aspect of the song is necessarily relevant to Diavolo, I do think that the lyrics inspire his character in other ways, both with his actions and overall personality. I’ll start off with the first verse of the song:

“Cat's foot, iron claw

Neuro-surgeons scream for more

At paranoia's poison door

Twenty-first century schizoid man”

The first line, “Cat’s foot, iron claw” is supposed to show a contrast in strength. With a cat’s foot being relatively small and harmless on its own, the iron claw is the brutal, crushing force that comes attached to it. The most obvious connection I can think of with Vento Aureo is the nature of Doppio and Diavolo, with Doppio being the weaker and less harmful “cat’s foot” under the influence of the Boss, and Diavolo being the more powerful and controlling “iron claw” that comes with him. I also think it could be a potential reference to how King Crimson and Epitaph work together; Epitaph has the ability to see ten seconds into the future, which works in conjunction with King Crimson’s ability to erase or skip events in time. In this way, Epitaph is sort of the “cat’s foot”- fine on its own, and usable for simple defense (as we can see with Doppio), but deadly with the rest of King Crimson; and King Crimson being the “iron claw”, needing Epitaph to function properly but being the main source of the stand’s brute strength.

The second and third line, “Neuro-surgeons scream for more/At paranoia’s poison door” are references to the mental illness and paranoia caused by death and destruction (specifically Vietnam, in the song’s original context). It relates to both the physical damage that soldiers took, requiring extensive surgery on a mass scale, and the extreme paranoia of U.S. leaders to lead to causing such destruction.

Paranoia is an extremely major facet of Diavolo’s character. He goes to the absolute extreme to make sure his power and secrecy is never threatened, killing anyone he even views as a slight threat, even attempting to murder his own daughter in cold blood to cut off all ties from him and the rest of the world. Paranoia is his ‘poison’, ruining the lives of everyone who’s ever known or is related to him, causing evil and pointless violence to be unleashed onto his family and Italy as a whole.

“Blood rack, barbed wire

Politicians' funeral pyre

Innocents raped with napalm fire

Twenty-first century schizoid man”

This verse is intended to be a more explicit description of war, with destructive and gory imagery at play- blood, barbed wire, and napalm fire. The “funeral pyre” is the deaths of innocents resulting from the Vietnam War, being set up and caused by the politicians running it.

A pyre is a structure made of wood used for burning a body as a part of a funeral ritual or method of cremation.

The mention of a ritual like this is used to set up an image of dignity and respect, only to amalgamate this with the proceeding imagery of innocents being burned alive with napalm fire- technically similar to how pyres dispose of bodies, but instead of being a respectful way of disposing of a corpse, it has instead transformed into a horrifying method of murder on a mass scale.

I think this is referenced by an event in Diavolo’s past, where it’s revealed that his hometown burned down due to a fire we are left to believe he started, killing a confirmed seven people and potentially more:

Diavolo wanted to erase his history, so he massacred the place where he was known. Innocents were killed with literal fire, creating Diavolo’s “funeral pyre”.

Then we have the third and final verse:

“Death seed, blind man's greed”

The line “Death seed, blind man’s greed” is intentionally oxymoronic (seeds being the beginning of life, but death being the end), with the “death seed” being planted due to the greed and paranoia of the people in power, essentially blinding them from the seed “growing” into the hundreds of thousands of deaths, like a sort of “death tree”. This is about Diavolo and his own paranoia and greed leading to the deaths of dozens, potentially hundreds, of innocent people, and his seeming blindness or indifference to it.

“Poets' starving, children bleed”

The “poets’ starving, children bleed” is supposed to represent society no longer valuing arts, as well as children and young men being harmed. As for Diavolo, his crimes, especially the ones that the story focuses on, very particularly target and involve children. The first negative effect we can see of his reign on Italy is that he allows drugs to be sold to minors, the youngest we see being only thirteen. He also tries to murder his fifteen-year-old daughter, and many of the members of Passione are children themselves- the main character himself, Giorno, getting involved with the mafia at only fifteen, as well as some of the supporting characters; Fugo being around sixteen and Narancia being seventeen. (Though, to be fair, you could probably just blame that part on Shonen logic and less on Diavolo...

But at the same time, it’s pointed out more than once just how young Giorno is by the other characters.)

“Nothing he's got he really needs

Twenty-first century schizoid man”

These last two lines are the most interesting to me, so I’m going to go the most in-depth with them. First, I want to compare Diavolo to the other part five characters and what he is supposed to represent when seen with the rest of the story as a whole. In part five, the most major theme and center of the story focuses on friendship and forming connections with other people; character dynamics get very strong and intimate, with most major character motivation and drive for goodness being defined by their relationships and bonds with the other characters.

One of the best examples of this is with the main character, Giorno. Unlike the protagonists in other parts, his strength doesn’t really come from raw power or toughness. Instead, he often acts more like a support character and healer for the other characters on the team, ending up with him taking a backseat in favor of the others pretty often. Really, there are very few fights in Vento Aureo that Giorno deals with completely on his own; he mostly uses his stand to heal and aid his team rather than using it directly as a weapon, unlike with Jotaro, for example. You really get the impression throughout the whole thing that one of his biggest assets are his allies and ability to guide and create group morale, not necessarily his individual power. He essentially represents the part’s name “golden wind”, stirring motivation in the others and becoming a leader and friend to them.

You can also see this by taking a look at Bucciarati’s group. Bruno, being a kind and empathetic character, found the others when they were struggling with their lives and individually invited them to his gang in order to give them a purpose again. Due to this, we can see that they’re all deeply loyal to him, and to an extent, each other. In the end, they agree to join Bruno and become a traitor to the Boss because they value their alliance with him over the gang, even if it meant putting their lives in even more danger. If it weren’t for their friendship and loyalty towards him, they wouldn’t have agreed to do this.

Then we have the secondary antagonists, La Squadra. As bad of people as they are, being hitmen, they continue this theme of friendship as well- when Sorbet and Gelato, two members of La Squadra that had been with them for a very long time, are murdered by another person that the Boss hired, and the rest of the group care to the point where they attend their funerals and begin a plot to betray the Boss and uncover his identity, you realize that these guys do genuinely care about and value each other as friends and allies. This is a stark change from most of the past villains in the series (with most just either never interacting or only being ‘united’ under having a common goal and never showing real care for one another).

Most of the other minor antagonists share this theme, too, with them tending to come in pairs and working together with abilities that compliment each other. Tiziano and Squalo, Cioccolata and Secco, and even arguably characters like Sale and Zucchero are all partners that have been together for a long time, to the point where they like and care about each other and, particularly in Tiziano and Squalo’s case, are even willing to die for each other. In all of these cases, the focus is always on their relationships with each other and how they work side by side.

I could go on with every detail and line of dialogue that shows this, but the point is that all of these characters care about one another, protect each other and give off the impression that working as a team with a good goal makes you stronger than you would ever be by yourself. It’s a major part of the overall moral of the story, with the protagonists banding together in the end to remove the source of Italy’s lingering problems.

The defining trait that makes Diavolo stand out from everyone else is that... Well, he really has nobody. He doesn’t have any allies to fall back to, partners to rely on, or anybody that he genuinely considers a friend or family except maybe Doppio (but even then, their relationship is put under false pretenses with Diavolo actively lying to Doppio and keeping him in the dark about his true identity.) Instead of viewing love and having relationships as a strength, he views it as a weakness leaving him open to betrayal and vulnerability- in fact, if anything, he seems to be terrified of relationships, actively avoiding other people or getting attached to others in any capacity.

You really see how warped his perspective is when you get glimpses into the way he lives. In his very first appearance, he is curled up in a dark corner of a room wearing a cloak to hide his face, so any potential passerby wouldn’t see what he looks like. It is revealed he doesn’t go out in public himself, instead going from hotel to hotel to keep moving around the country, never having a real place to stay. He’s a recluse to the most extreme degree, not even letting anybody know that he exists, let alone revealing anything about his status. He is unable to normally interact with the rest of the world or allow himself to relax about any potential threats in any moment of his life, whether that be a necessity due to being a mafia boss, simply the end result of years of sheer paranoia, or both.

All of this built-up fear leads to the horrifying but inevitable result of him discovering the existence of his daughter, Trish, the consequence of an old relationship he’d long abandoned. Through the first half of Vento Aureo, he gave Bucciarati’s group orders to protect Trish while they delivered her to him, intentionally giving them the impression that he was intending on keeping her safe. However, when she was finally brought to him, he instead attempted to murder her, betraying the group and revealing what his true intentions were all along. Trish, being his own daughter, is someone that he should care about and want to protect... but instead, he only wanted to dispose of her in order to sever the very last tie from him and the rest of society.

As evil of a character as he is, I would argue that Diavolo, at his core, is really supposed to represent the harm of self-isolation and the fear of connecting with other people. With it, he essentially functions as the antithesis to all of Vento Aureo’s themes; while everyone else has somebody to fall back on, Diavolo is alone. In this way, the line “nothing he’s got he really needs” fits with Diavolo in that all of his power as a mafia boss came at a sacrifice of his humanity, lacking all of the things that make the other characters ‘good’. He has gotten rid of all of the things that he needs for what he has, destroying his own life and his relationships in the process.

Now, the real interesting thing about this song is the title, “The 21st Century Schizoid Man”. This is significant because it is referencing a condition called Schizoid Personality Disorder, which is a mental illness where someone actively tries to avoid social activities and interaction with other people. They may be seen as cold and emotionally detached, and they don’t desire or enjoy having personal relationships or bonds with others. The symptoms for the condition typically begin to show up in early adulthood, and known risk factors for the disorder include things like birth complications and childhood neglect.

Before I get into this, keep in mind that Diavolo is an exaggerated fictional character, and he doesn’t accurately represent any real person with this disorder. Do not use him as any standard for people with Schizoid Personality Disorder or assume people with SPD would act like him. (Honestly though, if you’re using jojo characters as a reference for how people act in real life, you’re kind of already doing something wrong). However, with that in mind, I do think that Diavolo was written with the intention of having the disorder, considering his connection to the song and what he is supposed to represent as a character; the “Schizoid Man” that the song is talking about seems to be him.

The symptoms of Schizoid Personality Disorder match up with Diavolo’s character in multiple ways. The avoidance of social interaction and personal relationships, emotional detachment to other people, and the desire for independence are all things that Diavolo strongly exhibits in his personality and actions. (Also notice how Vento Aureo takes place in 2001, the first part to take place in the twenty-first century?)

Really, the only thing I can see against this is the fact that Doppio doesn’t seem to portray any symptoms of the same disorder. Considering that Doppio is around the physical age of a teenager, though, he might just be too young to have developed it.

The fact that the disorder’s symptoms begin to show up in early adulthood and can form from childhood neglect would also line up with the implications from Diavolo’s past. Not only is trauma heavily implied due to both Diavolo’s strong hatred of and desire to erase his past and his canonical mental illness being caused by early childhood trauma, but we also see that he didn’t portray the same behavior back when he was a teenager. He was comfortable enough around other people to be a well-known person in his small town and even have a girlfriend, contrasting with the destructive recluse that we know he is in part five. This pieces together a narrative that shows he used to be a relatively normal person, but a combination of his potential trauma and lust for power drove him into a paranoid obsession with avoiding everyone and keeping his identity a secret- eventually developing into what we saw in Vento Aureo, with him refusing to even go out in public or having his name or face seen by anybody. To me, this does seem to suggest that he is written to have Schizoid Personality Disorder, which, in his case, ended up becoming exacerbated to an extreme point.

With the rest of the song lyrics being easily connected in a way to describe him alongside many of his actions, I think it’s fairly clear that Diavolo is the 21st Century Schizoid Man, with the track directly describing him. I see this as the main song that inspires Diavolo and sets up a lot of the aspects of his narrative and way of thinking when compared to the other characters, and how he essentially works as the inverse to Vento Aureo’s themes.

I Talk to the Wind

(Before I get into this next part: Here, I am going to talk about Doppio and Diavolo and their relationship. You’ll probably notice that I’m going to be using a lot of different terminologies than Vento Aureo uses to describe them. This is because, as this part was written back in the nineties, it uses a lot of outdated words and phrases for their disorder. For example, “Multiple Personality Disorder” is no longer the proper name for Dissociative Identity Disorder (or DID, for short). I will also be using the word “alter” instead of “personality” because, to my knowledge, the latter phrase is an overall inaccurate and outdated term to describe a DID system. Finally, keep in mind that Diavolo and Doppio are not accurate depictions of DID, and I only have an extremely surface-level understanding of the disorder, so nothing that I say here applies to real life in any way whatsoever.

While I will use the proper terminology because I wouldn’t feel good about intentionally using the outdated and incorrect ones, I think it is a bad idea to introduce real-life DID symptoms for these two considering I don’t think there was any real effort put into making them ‘accurate’ in the first place. My interpretation of them and their mental illness will only use canonically stated or shown information about the disorder. If there is an aspect to them that contradicts, heavily exaggerates, or otherwise ignores the way DID typically works in real life, I will favor the unrealistic interpretation. I hope that makes sense.)

So, around a few episodes after Diavolo is first established as a character, it’s revealed that he has Dissociative Identity Disorder. The other alter in the system is Doppio, the younger underboss of Passione. Diavolo uses Doppio to travel around undetected and as his most trusted right-hand man, carrying information and completing tasks for him. He is the only shown connection that Diavolo has to the outside world, with Doppio being the only one who fronts in public. Despite how much Diavolo desperately avoids social interaction and other people in general, Doppio is a character that he is quite literally incapable of getting rid of- so, we get to see how he treats him more than with anybody else.

I think that I Talk to the Wind most inspires Doppio, his relationship with Diavolo, and his eventual death. However, before that, I want to get something out of the way quickly to avoid some potential confusion: I know that it’s a very common talking point in the fanbase that Doppio and Diavolo are “the same person”, so their relationship often simply gets ignored. However, I think the reality of this might be a little more complicated than that.

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I’ll try to keep this brief since I’ve explained this before, but the thing with Doppio and Diavolo is that they have two souls, separate and individual from each other. This is both directly stated by Polnareff and demonstrated by the two of them being separated and swapped individually of each other in the Silver Chariot Requiem arc, and with Trish’s inability to sense Doppio’s soul despite being able to sense Diavolo.

They are not just something that their brain is creating, but are literally two separate entities.

The proceeding explanation of this, though, seems to be a case where the anime adaptation differs from the manga. In the original manga, it is stated that they are the “same” person, just “with different souls”:

The anime adaptation appears to change this line to “they share a body, but their minds are separate”. It then proceeds to refer to them as two people.

(Keep in mind that these are both translations and not the original wording, but this seems like a pretty significant line change regardless.)

There are also some implications made that could potentially lead to this not even being a case of DID at all. Namely, there are some potential suggestions that Diavolo might not be entirely human or of human origin, and instead may be the result of some kind of inhuman soul inhabiting a human body. (Remember how their birth made no sense, and the nature of their father and how their mother got pregnant seemed unnatural and how it happened remains a mystery? Diavolo's strange and unnatural eyes unique to any other character in the series? How when Bruno took over Diavolo’s body, the eyes in his body changed back to normal, unlike with any other swap? And the fact that his name translates to “Devil”?) It’s not a conclusion I typically like to resort to, but it’s definitely not impossible based on the implications here. I imagine this would complicate things even further since we’d know that Doppio and Diavolo would have to be separate beings in this scenario.

Altogether, with the actual logic of how they work and the explanations that change from version to version, I don’t think you can come to a definite answer on if Doppio and Diavolo are really the “same person” or not. Pick which one you like more, I guess. (Personally, I think that them being two different people would be more logical just given how we know souls work in Jojo- while it is more accurate to real DID to say that people with DID are not literally multiple people in one body but rather parts of one whole, I fail to see how the manga’s “they’re the same person with different souls!” makes... any sense. I can’t really argue with a canonical explanation, though.) And in spite of all of this, I think you have to acknowledge that even if Doppio and Diavolo aren’t separate people, they are narratively two different characters- Doppio has his own motivations, thoughts and feelings separate from Diavolo, and the two of them have a clear relationship with each other. In the end, I think it’s still fair to acknowledge and talk about their dynamic, which is why I will do so here.

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“I Talk to the Wind” is the second track in the album and a pretty stark contrast to the first. While The 21st Century Schizoid Man is a loud cacophony, with a lot of jazzy elements and ending in a chaotic crashing and screaming of instruments, this song is quiet and gentle with far more simple components to its tune, being led by a flute instead of a saxophone and guitar. You could describe it as dreamy and serene, and a sort of relaxation from the chaos that was the previous song. The lyrics begin by describing a conversation between two people.

“Said the straight man to the late man

"Where have you been?"

I've been here and I've been there

And I've been in between”

I think that this could refer to their fractured identity. As they have been broken into two different souls, you see their appearance and mind change as one or the other gains control of the body. “Here” could mean one of them being in control, with “there” being the other, as well as “in between” being the shifting states where both might partially be there (for example, when Diavolo is conscious when he is talking to Doppio or the Risotto fight where he was actively trying to take full control of the body).

Then, the chorus:

“I talk to the wind

My words are all carried away

I talk to the wind

The wind does not hear, the wind cannot hear”

I think that the phrase “I talk to the wind” could mean a couple of things here. It could mean “talking to nobody/myself”, or, alternatively, it could mean “talking to somebody that doesn’t listen” (I feel like the latter is further suggested by the lyric “The wind does not hear, the wind cannot hear”- if we’re personifying the “wind” as a consciousness, this would imply the person talking is not being listened to, or their words are not being heard).

I can see both of these meanings applying to Diavolo and Doppio. If we are going with the assumption that Diavolo and Doppio are one individual, the “talking to myself” interpretation would fit for... obvious reasons. Otherwise, the “talking to somebody who doesn’t listen” also fits in regards to Doppio and Diavolo’s relationship, I think, which I’ll explain alongside the other verses.

“I'm on the outside looking inside

What do I see?

Much confusion, disillusion

All around me”

For most of the part, Doppio and Diavolo’s screen time takes place away from the rest of the cast. Doppio doesn’t get to interact with Team Bucciarati at all except for the one time he disguised himself as Trish, and the only person who sticks around long enough to really interact with him other than Diavolo is Risotto, who dies very quickly. Diavolo, immediately murdering Bruno when he first encounters him and only interacting with Giorno in the very final fight, also does not get much time with them. Instead, most of our information about Doppio and Diavolo is provided by watching them on their own while the other characters are busy trying to find out their identity. In this way, the “outsider looking inside” represents the audience; we know a lot more about Doppio and Diavolo than the protagonists do, however, what we’re shown opens up several more questions than answers that we just never get the answer to, nor enough evidence to come to a solid conclusion ourselves. Like, for example:

What’s going on with Diavolo’s eyes? Are they important? Were they always like that? Do they signify something?

How was their birth possible? Why was their mother pregnant with them for over two years? Who was their father?

How did their mother stay alive under the floorboards for years? Did Diavolo keep her there? Why?

Who is Donatella, and how did she manage to have a relationship with Diavolo? What was it like? Did he ever care about her? Is Diavolo even entirely human? Is Doppio human? What are they?

All of these questions are raised, but they never get acknowledged or resolved. And, since it’s purely the audience who sees these things about them, the protagonists don’t know about nor try to find out the answers, leaving us in the dark. It also makes Diavolo’s inherently secretive and paranoid nature make even more sense in retrospect. We have no idea how many secrets he holds that we don’t even know about (and it might be the case that not even he’s aware of what’s going on with him). So, what we see with the two of them lines up with the lyrics- confusion (and the other characters’ confusion) about his identity and past, and disillusion with the fact that our questions are never answered.

Like I said before, Diavolo sees human connection as a weakness to avoid, instead of any sort of strength. Doppio, however, noticeably doesn’t seem to share this view.

Like his boss, Doppio isn’t shown to have any friends or relationships with other people at all. However, as we can see, it’s not really something he enjoys or desires for himself; in contrast, he actually seems to share a lot more in common with the protagonists in regards to his feelings on connection and friendship. You get the feeling that unlike Diavolo, isolation is not his choice, but is something he was more or less pushed into by playing the role of Diavolo’s vessel. Being under the command of and sharing a body with the most paranoid and isolated character in the series, as well as being forced to stay secretive while constantly moving around the country does not leave much room for him to talk to people or make any real friends. This all results in Doppio being a pretty lonely and unhappy character, unable to maintain any connections with the world and being forgotten about by most people. It leaves him with only one person to talk to and be comforted by, which ends up being... Well, Diavolo.

This brings me to the two’s actual relationship. Diavolo, while around other people, acts nothing but arrogant, cold and hostile, only thinking about himself and showing no care for the people he harms. With Doppio, though, he acts noticeably differently. While he is unsympathetic and aloof towards anybody else, he seems to treat Doppio with a lot of respect and even kindness, an attitude that we do not see him share with any other character. He compliments his abilities, gives him information that no other character knows about himself (as well as directly talking to him instead of sending encrypted messages like with the other Passione members), and, most uniquely, refers to him affectionately as “my Doppio” or “my dearest Doppio”.

(I wonder if Trish would be jealous.)

Considering the intense paranoia that Diavolo exhibits towards anyone and anything else, him putting this amount of trust into someone with at least a separate conscience than his is... really intriguing. It makes sense why Doppio would put so much faith in him, and have a much more positive opinion of him than any other character seems to (remember, 99% of the characters in Vento Aureo either hate and want to kill Diavolo or just want to take over the mafia for themselves. The only thing stopping them was just how powerful Diavolo and his stand ability is, as well as him concealing his identity so thoroughly; Doppio is the only one who really shows any true loyalty.)

Is this affection that Diavolo gives genuine, or is it really a front to appeal to Doppio’s loneliness? It’s hard to say. It could always be that he just sees Doppio as an object to manipulate instead of someone that he genuinely trusts and respects. It’s possible that the only reason Diavolo “trusted” Doppio was because he could watch him at all times and take control of the situation any time he felt like it. The “affection” that he shares might just be him trying to shift Doppio to his side, making him see Diavolo as the only one who treats him with any sort of respect. At the same time, though, there’s no solid evidence that the affection he gives isn’t genuine, at least to an extent. Maybe he sees Doppio as a sort of extension of himself, so some of his egocentric attitude seeps into his opinion of Doppio. Maybe they’ve been with each other long enough that Diavolo has built up some sincere trust towards him. Or, maybe he just genuinely likes him and sees him as a trustworthy comrade. It’s never made perfectly clear one way or another.

No matter what Diavolo’s genuine feelings are, though, Doppio is harmed by his influence regardless. There seems to be nothing inherently “wrong” with Doppio himself that makes people not like him- in fact, he acts just like a nice, ordinary civilian when he’s not threatened or under the Boss’ orders. The only real reason why Doppio is unable to make any friends, causing his loneliness, is rooted in his alliance with Diavolo in the first place. Remember, his boss is the one ordering him to stay constantly moving around the country, keeping secrets and killing anyone who gets in his way. His boss is the one guiding his actions, using him as a vessel to get what he wants. If it weren’t for that, he’d be... a pretty normal kid, if a bit clumsy and eccentric. Ironically, the one person that Doppio saw as a friend and guardian figure was simultaneously the one keeping him from living a normal life, and it takes a toll on him whether he knows it or not.

And with this, we have verse three:

“You don't possess me, don't impress me

Just upset my mind

Can't instruct me or conduct me

Just use up my time”

This is showing the narrator’s frustration with the “wind” that they’re talking to, relating to the harm that Doppio’s relationship with the Boss causes him. “Possess” is an interesting word here, because it could mean two different things: one, to own, or two, to take control of. While the latter meaning would be the generally obvious one to go for considering that Doppio and Diavolo share a body, I think that the former interpretation could actually make sense here as well. Diavolo refers to Doppio with the possessive adjective “my”, as if Doppio ‘belongs’ to him; and for all intents and purposes, he does control and use him throughout the part. Doppio doesn’t really get to do much on his own desires, only being used to help Diavolo achieve his goals, showing just how much control Diavolo has over him.

This could alternatively connect to Doppio’s occasional anger at or refusal of Diavolo’s commands- both in the fight with Risotto, when he didn’t stay put and still fought back even after Diavolo told him not to, or in this panel, when a frustrated Doppio screams at Diavolo for calling him at a bad time:

The second line, “Just upset my mind”, is also interesting in this context. Diavolo does “upset” Doppio’s mind, in a couple of ways- not just physically, by being shown to give him headaches and disorientation (and also by making him hallucinate, with the fake phones), but also emotionally, by being the one causing his loneliness and sadness in the first place. While Doppio isn’t actively aware of the harm that Diavolo causes him, unlike the narrator in the song, the lyrics still describe a relationship that could apply to the two of them.

While this whole dynamic is built up throughout the two’s screen time, it’s finally brought to our attention during the semi-final fight, after Doppio had been shot in Bruno’s dying corpse.

Bleeding to death, he spends his last moments deliriously begging Diavolo to call him again. He doesn’t realize that his boss isn’t there to hear him, nor does he have any means to “call” him anymore. They're in two separate bodies now, but Doppio doesn’t know that. Diavolo never fully informed him of who he really was, even such major information as the fact that they shared a body. And due to that, in the very end, he’s talking to nobody- Diavolo does not and cannot hear him anymore. He’s just talking to the wind.

This also speaks to Diavolo’s character as well as Doppio’s. While I would argue there was really no choice that Diavolo had in this situation (they would’ve both died if he didn’t leave the body and attempt to kill Bucciarati’s group himself, and there was no way he could’ve predicted nor prevented Doppio getting shot; not to mention, Diavolo impales Narancia right after it happens, alerting the group to his presence despite him trying to remain hidden, suggesting that it might’ve been a revenge kill or impulsive response), it says something about him that the only other character he’s shown to “care” about, not to mention been with for every other scene, dies alone without him there. Diavolo isn’t there to comfort or talk to him, nor even see his death at all. We get no shown reaction from him or even any mention of Doppio after this scene, either. This showcases Diavolo’s refusal to willingly reveal any vulnerability towards other people- even if it comes at the detriment of the person who’s been with him for years, if not essentially his whole life.

As stupid as some of Doppio’s scenes get, I actually find the basis of his character to be sort of depressing at his core. He spent most (if not all) of his life being manipulated by someone he was unable to get rid of, only to die alone and forgotten, never even getting a passing mention by anyone afterwards. And, with that, I think “I Talk to the Wind” fits really well. Not only does Doppio’s character match up with the melancholy lyrics and tone, but it also corresponds with his and Diavolo’s dynamic very closely. Because of that, I think this is the song that Araki took some inspiration from when making Doppio, and based a lot of his character on.

Epitaph

Epitaph is the third track on the album (and my personal favorite out of the five.) Like the 21st Century Schizoid Man, this song’s lyrics are also (albeit more subtly) about the Cold War. It describes a dystopian reality where “right” and “wrong” are twisted beyond meaning, and the constant threat of nuclear destruction has become the norm. The most notable thing about the song Epitaph and its connection to Vento Aureo is the fact that instead of just influencing a character’s behavior and actions, it is directly referenced in the story. You’ve probably already noticed this yourself, but “Epitaph” is the name of Diavolo’s substand, or the tiny second face on King Crimson’s head.

Epitaph’s ability matches with the meaning of the song pretty directly, as well as tying into Diavolo as a character, so I think it would be a good idea to explain the stand(s) alongside the song here.

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Here, I want to actually talk about King Crimson (the stand) and how it works with Epitaph, as well as how it connects to Diavolo and his beliefs. King Crimson has the ability to erase time- or, a better word for it would be that it skips through time. It essentially erases the “cause” of something, and keeps the “effect” of said thing happening. A good example is with Narancia when he was about to eat a box of chocolate. When King Crimson activated its ability, time seems to ‘skip’ to the point where he’s already eaten the chocolate. It suddenly appeared in his mouth, half-chewed, and he had no memory of the actual act of eating it. He went straight from being just about to eat the chocolate to having it already in his mouth with the connecting action completely deleted.

Time is not perceived or remembered by anybody while it is being “skipped” except for Diavolo, who enters a state where he is unable to interact with anything under the influence of his timeskip, with objects going right through his body, but can also move freely and watch his opponent’s “erased” actions being carried out.

Epitaph, with its ability to predict the future up to ten seconds later, works in conjunction with the rest of King Crimson’s ability to erase time. Before Diavolo timeskips, he uses Epitaph to view what happens in the future. If he likes what he sees, he can use King Crimson to skip to the desired event. If he doesn’t, he can use King Crimson to get rid of the event entirely, essentially ‘erasing’ his own fate.

This is what makes King Crimson such a powerful ability- Diavolo can just predict all of his opponent’s actions, dodge them, then sneak up on them while they’re in a state of confusion and kill them in one hit. If he sees an event unfavorable to him, he can just erase it. This is what made him seem so terrifying and unbeatable to the protagonists. How would they be able to beat a fate-changing stand that can make the owner practically bend reality to his will?

However, there are a few weaknesses to King Crimson. While he does erase events for everybody, Diavolo is only able to actually change fate for himself. Everyone else still has to abide by the future that ‘fate’ provided for them, carrying out their actions regardless. This is how, for example, Narancia was still impaled on the fence even when Diavolo would’ve logically been unable to interact with him; he was fated to die, and so he did. King Crimson is also a very short-ranged stand, only able to move about two meters away from Diavolo at maximum, and can only predict and erase time for up to ten seconds. This means that while Diavolo is almost impossible to defeat alone, he cannot face large groups at once, instead resorting to picking off his enemies one-by-one while they are by themselves.

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King Crimson’s ability ties into Diavolo’s philosophy on morality and how he justifies his actions to himself. In his eyes, as long as he gets what he wants, the actions done to achieve it don’t matter to him. (It’s essentially an extreme version of “the end justifies the means”.) The actions taken are meaningless, as long as he gets the results; and this shows itself in King Crimson’s ability to remove the action and only leave the results.

This is how he justifies to himself the destruction he’s caused on his family, as well as countless children and other civilians. As long as he remains in power, none of the atrocities he commits, and nothing that happens to anybody else matters. (He also specifically expresses disgust at individuals who torture and kill for pleasure and no other reason, like with Cioccolata and Secco.)

I also think that Diavolo’s weakness of being unable to face large groups is another part of the major theme of relationships in part five and how teaming up with other people makes you stronger. While Giorno and the rest of the group were practically powerless against Diavolo in the beginning, three of them being killed by Diavolo while they were separated, they eventually group together for the very final fight and manage to defeat him collectively.

Now, what about Epitaph? I’ve heard people claim that Epitaph belongs to Doppio and not Diavolo, but I do not think this is the case. Remember, when Doppio dies, Epitaph does not disappear. If Epitaph was a projection of Doppio’s soul and not Diavolo’s, shouldn’t it have gone alongside him? Diavolo also frequently refers to Epitaph as “his” stand, even when Doppio is using it, and it is stated that Epitaph is just a part of King Crimson that Diavolo is allowing him to use; if Epitaph really belonged to Doppio, I don’t see why Diavolo wouldn’t just tell him that he has his own stand ability. (And even then, would King Crimson’s arms specifically belong to Doppio, too?) There’s just nothing that I see within canon that would suggest this fanon opinion, nor would it even really make sense. Though, I do think the fact that there are two faces on King Crimson’s body is referencing Diavolo’s DID, or the fact that his body contains two souls; just like how King Crimson and Epitaph are technically two stands/abilities attached to each other.

I also think that Epitaph’s general look and aesthetic might be inspired by the cover art for In the Court of the Crimson King.

It has a similar color, shape and overall weird appearance, just smaller and less detailed.

Then, we have the actual song itself. I believe that this is about Diavolo’s goals and how he connects to Vento Aureo’s theme of fate, as well as King Crimson’s ability. Let’s get into the actual song lyrics and dissect what they mean.

“The wall on which the prophets wrote

Is cracking at the seams”

This is, I believe, referring to King Crimson. The “wall” is reality, and the “prophets” are fate; King Crimson, however, changes fate by erasing time itself, causing the “wall” of reality to crack at the seams. This is helped by the fact that when King Crimson is activated, it is usually personified by showing the world literally breaking apart around Diavolo:

“Upon the instruments of death

The sunlight brightly gleams”

I think that these lines could have a couple of meanings in Vento Aureo’s context. The first time Epitaph is brought to our attention with Doppio, the sunlight is literally brightly gleaming onto it.

If we viewed Epitaph and King Crimson as the “instruments of death”, this would fit in with the lyrics.

I also believe that the “instruments of death” could be about the Requiem arrow. The arrow, something used to “upgrade” stands to extremely powerful forms, is something that both Diavolo and the protagonists desperately sought.

The “sunlight” could either represent how it is desired by everyone, or the fact that when it pierces a stand, light projects out of it, showing its power.

“When every man is torn apart

With nightmares and with dreams”

Mankind is simultaneously haunted by nightmares, the horror of the world, and plagued with endless dreams, aspirations and goals. To Diavolo, maintaining his power and absolute secrecy is his “dream” and ambition. However, Diavolo’s “dream” ends up as a nightmare for everybody else; the attempted murder of his own daughter, allowing drugs to be sold to children, and the resulting torture and murder of innocent people are just a few symptoms of Diavolo trying to get what he wants. The protagonist’s conflicting aspirations to stop the source of corruption in Italy is their dream, too, and it drives them to find out the Boss’ identity and hunt him down (not to mention that Giorno’s catchphrase is literally “I, Giorno Giovanna, have a dream”).

“Will no one lay the laurel wreath

When silence drowns the screams?”

A laurel wreath is headwear, seen as a symbol of triumph, and is worn around the head as an emblem of victory. The question “Will no one lay the laurel wreath when silence drowns the screams?” is rhetorical; no one will be crowned with any symbol of “triumph” if everyone is dead. As for Diavolo, no one will be there to congratulate or reward him for his accomplishments because nobody knows him or anything about him in the first place. He wants to rule in secret, with his identity hidden from everyone; essentially, he wants to rule quietly and in isolation. In order to maintain this, he murders anyone and everyone who attempts to seek him out, represented by the “screams”- but in the end, everything becomes silent, as everyone who knows of his existence is dead.

“Confusion will be my epitaph

As I crawl a cracked and broken path”

An “epitaph” is a phrase typically written on a tombstone in memory of a person who has died. It can also represent anything by which a person is remembered; essentially, it’s a commemoration of a person’s life and accomplishments. When the narrator is saying that confusion will be their “epitaph”, this means that at the end of their life, “confusion” is what they will be remembered by.

For Diavolo, once again, confusion is a major aspect of his character. Confusion about who he is, his whereabouts, his motivations, his past, even how he came to exist in the first place- pretty much everything about him is built to be misdirecting and hard to understand, if not entirely unknowable. The protagonists spend the majority of the part trying to find out who the Boss is, being just as confused as the audience is. Just like the lyrics, Diavolo’s epitaph, how he will be remembered, will also be confusion. While the protagonists did manage to find him, much about him and his identity were still left completely unexplained, and we are left to believe that we will never get a real answer to any of it.

“Between the iron gates of fate

The seeds of time were sown

And watered by the deeds of those

Who know and who are known”

This is about the “fate” system. In Jojo, all actions are predetermined and impossible to change (unless you’re Diavolo, that is). The “seeds of time” are all of the events that were destined to inevitably happen, locked behind the certainty of fate and made into reality by people’s actions.

“Knowledge is a deadly friend

If no one sets the rules

The fate of all mankind I see

Is in the hands of fools”

Thanks to King Crimson being so heavily connected to fate, Diavolo has a strong understanding of how it works. This knowledge is dangerous to the protagonists, as he is able to not only predict fate with Epitaph, but he is also able to warp and even erase fate entirely due to his ability to erase time. He is aware of and actively chooses to “break” fate’s rules. Ironically, despite how much Diavolo boasts that fate has “chosen” him to be in power, we constantly see him defy and erase it to reach his goals- instead of getting his way there legitimately, he forces his way to the top by cheating his way out of any obstacle he comes across, even ones set in stone by the universe itself. This ends up becoming his downfall at the end when Giorno uses his Gold Experience Requiem to also cheat fate, but this time, against Diavolo.

“If we make it we can all sit back and laugh

But I fear tomorrow I'll be crying

Yes I fear tomorrow I'll be crying

Crying...

Crying...”

This is about Diavolo’s fear of his identity being discovered by the protagonists. If he manages to defeat them all, he can remain in power and laugh at their failed attempt to usurp him, just like La Squadra and every other attempt to overtake him before. It would just be another one of his victories as the self-declared “King”. If he’s defeated, on the other hand... well, he’s screwed.

Despite just how powerful his stand is, he’s still so intensely paranoid of betrayal that he goes to extra lengths to make sure he is completely unreachable and never under threat. This fear ultimately ends up becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy when his attempt to defeat Giorno backfires by causing the creation of Gold Experience Requiem, the thing that finally defeats him.

Gold Experience Requiem’s ability is, in a way, the polar opposite of King Crimson’s ability. While King Crimson takes away the “action” of something, and keeps the “result”, GER’s ability essentially keeps the “action” of something, but takes away the “result”.

You can try to use your stand, but the result of your ability will not happen, as we can see with King Crimson’s deleted time being reversed when GER’s ability activates.

It also has the effect of setting a person’s “death” to zero, causing them to go through the experience of dying, but without the result of them becoming dead; so, they die an infinite number of times, never reaching an actual ending to their pain.

This is the moral that Diavolo’s character is teaching. When you only desire the result and don’t care about your methods of achieving said result, you lose sight of what was even important in the first place. This is something that even happens to be foreshadowed far earlier, during Abbacchio’s death scene.

The lyric “I fear tomorrow I’ll be crying” refers to Diavolo’s defeat and eternal punishment (and most likely the thing that he will be inevitably doing in the death loop). Diavolo receiving the punishment of infinite death is a sort of counter and form of irony to not only his stand ability itself, but also to the way he sees morality. He only seeks the ‘results’ to the point where he’s completely blind-sighted to the effects of his actions, so... what’s more fitting of a punishment than for him to never reach a result?

I’d also like to draw a visual parallel between the cover art for In the Court of the Crimson King and Diavolo after he was affected by GER:

If this were intentional, it would be pretty cool (and further drive home that Diavolo himself is the “Schizoid Man” from the opening song).

Overall, Epitaph ties into a lot of major themes in Vento Aureo. Not only do its lyrics match with Epitaph as a stand, but also with how fate in Jojo is utilized by Diavolo. It also connects to a lot of his motivations, morals (or the lack of them), beliefs, and a lot of the plot points relating to his goals and his fate at the very end.

Moonchild

“Moonchild” is the fourth song on the album. This track is mostly instrumental and improvisational, with the lyrics being generally abstract and taking only two minutes to get through, so I do not think there’s much to talk about in regards to the individual lyrics here. I still see parallels between this song and Diavolo, though.

While vague, the lyrics are essentially a personification of the moon, describing the appearance and activities of the night and how the moonlight glows on the landscape. It also describes the moon as “waiting for the sun”, or the night waiting for the sun to rise so daytime can start.

“Call her moonchild

Dancing in the shallows of a river

Lonely moonchild

Dreaming in the shadows of a willow

Talking to the trees of the cobweb strange

Sleeping on the steps of a fountain

Waving silver wands to the night-bird's song

Waiting for the sun on the mountain

She's a moonchild

Gathering the flowers in a garden

Lovely moonchild

Drifting in the echoes of the hours

Sailing on the wind in a milk white gown

Dropping circle stones on a sun dial

Playing hide and seek with the ghosts of dawn

Waiting for a smile from a sun child”

What this brought to mind for me is the way that light is used as symbolism in Vento Aureo. Giorno, whose name translates to the word ‘day’ in Italian, is often symbolized by brightness and sunlight, being accompanied by warm, golden colors.

This symbolizes the goodness in his character, as well as fitting with the part’s title meaning “Golden Wind”- Giorno is the daylight and the golden wind, with his ambition to seek out the truth being what eviscerates the darkness and holds everyone together.

By contrast, with the exception of the final fight, Diavolo’s scenes take place in dimly lit rooms, night, or total darkness. In Diavolo’s very first appearance, we see him hiding in a dark room, covered in a cloak to conceal himself. In his encounter with Bruno, it is equally dark, so Bruno wasn’t able to make out his face. King Crimson’s “erased time” zone is portrayed as a black, starry cosmos. When Diavolo is first revealed in full, it is during the middle of the night, so he remains shrouded in darkness to everyone except for his target, Polnareff.

The final fight to race for the stand arrow, and Diavolo’s defeat, takes place in very bright daylight, with GER forcibly pulling Diavolo out of his erased time “zone” and showering the scenery in gold sunshine.

In this way, if Giorno is the “sun” or the “light”, Diavolo is the moon. Italy is in a period of darkness due to Diavolo, blocking out the light, and it’s waiting on a chance to return said light- or a “sun child”, as the lyrics say.

I do not see much else to say here beyond this (like I said, this song is mostly improv). The next song gets much more interesting from a Vento Aureo perspective, in my opinion, and it ties the entire narrative together.

The Court of the Crimson King

The Court of the Crimson King is the final and titular song on the record, the main subject being the “Crimson King” that the album and band itself is named after. You’ll notice here that the lyrics are in the setting of a medieval kingdom- a “tournament”, “piper” and a “choir”, as well as (obviously) the crimson king’s “court” are all imagery that is brought to mind. While Passione is a mafia, which is obviously not a monarchy, I do think there are a lot of parallels you can draw between this song and how Passione is written.

“The rusted chains of prison moons

Are shattered by the sun

I walk a road, horizons change

The tournament's begun”

The first four lines of this song are actually changed around in radio sessions, making it so there are technically two versions of this song. I will bring these up as well, because they seem to have more of a clear connection to part five.

“The earth is captive to the moon

Some seek the rising sun

I walk the road on wings of change

The game has just begun”

“The earth is captive to the moon” seems to reference the last song, Moonchild. Bringing this back to the moon/sun metaphor with Diavolo and Giorno, the earth being “captive” to the moon would fit as Diavolo’s control over Italy, with the “rising sun” and “wings of change” being Giorno and his drive to change things for the better. Vento Aureo’s plot is the “game” that has begun, with the protagonist’s race to discover the Boss’ identity.

“The purple piper plays his tune

The choir softly sing

Three lullabies in an ancient tongue

For the court of the crimson king, aah

Aah, aah”

This song uses a lot of color in its lyrics, the first being the “purple piper” mentioned in this verse. This is a color that Diavolo and Doppio are very often portrayed as in Araki’s artwork, as well as a color scheme they often flip to in the anime adaptation.

In this case, I think the “piper” could represent Doppio, being Diavolo’s most loyal subordinate and ally.

The term “crimson king” itself is the main thing that I want to talk about here. It’s an interesting phrase because it has two different meanings, both of which I think are significant to Diavolo. The first meaning is used to refer to a king or ruler whose reign was marked by ruthlessness and bloodshed alongside creating societal upheaval and change. This description would fit Diavolo very accurately- he’s absolutely ruthless in everything he does, to the point where he’s probably caused the deaths of hundreds or thousands of people (both directly, through torturing/murdering people to make sure his identity is never discovered, and indirectly, through the violence caused by the mafia he founded and damages from drug trafficking). The creation of societal upheaval is also accurate, with his ‘reign’ creating backlash from his followers and ending with him being violently overthrown by Giorno.

This comparison becomes even more overt when you take into consideration much of Diavolo’s dialogue, referring to himself as a monarch with words like “King” and “Emperor” instead of as a Boss:

“Crimson king” is also often seen as an alias for the Devil himself (more specifically Beelzebub, but it is seen as demonic in general, so I’ll generalize it to that). This is often what this lyric, and the band’s name, is interpreted as meaning, with the crimson king’s “court” being seen as Hell. Robert Fripp, the most prominent member and co-founder of King Crimson, was even quoted as saying this:

“The name King Crimson is a synonym for Beelzebub, which is an anglicized form of the Arabic phrase “B'il Sabab”. This means literally “the man with an aim”, and is the recognizable quality of King Crimson.”

Diavolo, as you probably already know, undeniably has lots of demonic implications and satanic imagery incorporated into his character. Might I mention again that his name is literally the Italian word for “Devil”? From the mysterious circumstances of his birth to the betrayal of his religious upbringing and his first known murder being a priest, to being constantly shrouded in darkness and a ruthless, anonymous leader with several different aliases, it’s very blatant what Araki was trying to get at here. His hair even spikes at the top to appear like horns on his head in his full reveal- it’s a small detail, but it’s there.

While we are not certain that he is truly inhuman (although potential implications for that do exist), this demonic subtext is clearly present, especially when contrasted with Giorno and his father, DIO. Considering the fact that DIO’s name means “God” in Italian and Giorno is his son, that would then make him the son of “God”, or Jesus. It’s fitting, then, that the person he ends up fighting and defeating is the symbolic equivalent of the Devil.

He also doubles as a parallel to DIO himself- something especially noticeable during the correlating ‘stair’ scenes in parts three and five, with Diavolo and DIO both revealing themselves on opposite ends of the staircase:

The symbolism is fairly obvious here. Polnareff is looking up at the “God”, but looking down at the “Devil”. (I could also draw lots of connections to DIO and Diavolo in terms of their actual personalities and the way the story is structured around them, but if I went into all of the little details I would be here all day.)

Even more interestingly, there is a nod to an implied alternate-universe version of Diavolo in Steel Ball Run. In this version, he is a literal monarch, ruling over the fictional Kingdom of Naples, fitting even more overtly with this song’s setting. There is also a specific mention of Lucifer and the country turning its back on its Christian origin, similar to how Diavolo betrayed what we can only assume to be the religion he was raised by in his past.

This manages to hit both definitions of “crimson king” in and of itself- a ruthless leader and the Devil.

The stand King Crimson is a perfect fit for Diavolo in name alone, with him matching every meaning of the term. In reference to this song, then, his “court” would have to be Passione, with his “kingdom” being Italy.

“The keeper of the city keys

Put shutters on the dreams

I wait outside the pilgrim's door

With insufficient schemes

The black queen chants the funeral march

The cracked brass bells will ring

To summon back the fire witch

To the court of the crimson king, aah

Aah, aah”

“The keeper of the city keys” is the one in power, crushing the desires of the people they control (putting “shutters” on their dreams). The “black queen” is a metaphor for death, chanting the “funeral march” as people die. This is much like what Diavolo set out to do to everyone who attempts to betray him (killing potentially dozens of people in the process), as well as him being the obstacle to Giorno’s dreams and goal of having a country uncorrupted by the drug trade. I could also see “fire witch” calling back to Diavolo’s past, with him burning down his hometown.

“The gardener plants an evergreen

Whilst trampling on a flower

I chase the wind of a prism ship

To taste the sweet and sour

The pattern juggler lifts his hand

The orchestra begin

As slowly turns the grinding wheel”

The “gardener”, in this metaphor, is a person who chases great long-term future plans and ideas (‘planting an evergreen’) to such an extent that they ignore or trample over the present and world around them (killing the ‘flower’). This would be about Diavolo’s major flaw of only desiring future results and not caring about present actions, blindsighting him to the things that he’s doing and what’s really important in the present, much like in Epitaph.

“On soft gray mornings widows cry

The wise men share a joke”

Here in the final verse, the lyrics begin to directly show something sinister going on behind the scenes of the public. While widows cry for the deaths of their spouses, presumably caused by the actions of the Crimson King, the “wise men'' (which is most likely a sarcastic or ironic description) are unaffected to the point where they are in a joking mood. This could be about all of the casualties caused by Passione, with multiple people being targeted and assassinated, leaving their families in shambles. However, the members of Passione themselves are indifferent to this, much like the “wise men” in the lyrics.

“I run to grasp divining signs

To satisfy the hoax

The yellow jester does not play

But gently pulls the strings

And smiles as the puppets dance

In the court of the crimson king, aah

Aah, aah

Aah, aah”

Due to the Crimson King’s influence, the ones in power are manipulating and coercing the public (or “puppets”) into doing their bidding. Using lies and deception (the “divining signs” that are assumedly a hoax), they are tricked and exploited by the “crimson king” and his court.

Diavolo is an equally deceptive and manipulative character, either withholding information or misdirecting the members of Passione into trusting him. He is rarely open about his intentions with the other characters. First, he tricks Bucciarati’s group into thinking that he was going to protect his daughter, only to have it revealed that he was only planning on murdering her. Next, we see he has an alter, Doppio, that he has been keeping in the dark for years about the true nature of their relationship. Then, even during the final fight, he refuses to fully reveal himself until he is forced, hiding in Mista’s body to incite confusion and mistrust among their group. He hides his identity and erases all traces of himself from public knowledge, with much of the information we do know being confusing and misdirecting in and of itself.

This connects to not only the final verse of the Court of the Crimson King, but also with the demonic symbolism already so heavily present in his character. Just like the ‘yellow jester’ and the Devil himself, Diavolo is manipulative to the people around him, seeing them less as other people and more as things to be avoided, or “puppets” that he can use to do his bidding. He is just as distrusting of others as they are to him, not even allowing the slightest detail about himself to be known by the public.

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And in the end, all of this self-isolation and paranoia with Diavolo scrubbing his identity from history so thoroughly ends up becoming his biggest downfall. All of his power and significance came from his status as the leader of Passione, and when that status is taken away from him... he is left with nothing. There is nobody to remember him, no one to care about his defeat, and no one he can go to for help. Even as he panics and screams his identity out loud, it is completely insignificant.

His character concludes as simply an unknown, unimportant man, doomed for what we assume to be eternal torture with no one alive to care in the slightest. This shows the most fatal flaw in Diavolo’s tactic of self-isolation, and caps off Vento Aureo’s major theme of friendship- it is vital to form bonds with other people in order to be remembered and have your memory be cherished. Because Diavolo drove everyone away to the point where he had no one to love or care about, he was forgotten.

This entire album is about several things, with each song being something different, but I believe that In the Court of the Crimson King’s most major theme and idea surrounds the concept of loneliness. Most if not all of its songs focus on this idea in some way- the 21st Century Schizoid Man is about Schizoid Personality Disorder and the harm that the Cold War will do on relationships and future generations, I Talk to the Wind is about talking to nobody with no one around to hear you, Epitaph describes a post-apocalyptic future with humanity in despair, Moonchild describes the loneliness of the night, and the Court of the Crimson King describes the one in power, pulling the strings behind it all. In that way, then, it’s fitting that Diavolo, who is meant to be the antithesis of Vento Aureo’s theme of love and friendship, would be based on an album ultimately about despair and isolation.

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This finally closes off the record. As you can see, Diavolo’s character is very strongly intertwined with this album in more ways than one, and I think it’s clear that this is something that influenced him and Vento Aureo very much. I have no doubt that Araki took some inspiration from this album when making his character, alongside the part itself. Even if I potentially missed some stuff, I hope this was fairly interesting to go through (at least, I hope I captured some of the fascination I have with Diavolo and why I like him so much. I like talking about him a whole lot.)

Also go listen to King Crimson they’re really good.

#shoe talks a lot #this took too long to finish im sry lmfao #i started working on this back in november #i wrote out the whole thing and then i realized it was over 13000 words and i was like. oops #so then i had to go back and shorten it. it is still way too long for an average tumblr post but oh well you'll have to deal with it #will anyone read this in full? ehh i doubt it. but it was fun to write at least #honestly this turned into more 'general diavolo analysis' than 'diavolo and king crimson songs' in the end #i really just wanted an excuse to infodump on diavolo lol ive been waiting to do that for a long time #now if you'll excuse me im going to go hit myself on the head with a rock until i forget this man #jjba #jojo's bizarre adventure #vento aureo #character analysis #diavolo jjba #golden wind #jojo #king crimson

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based--hime · 7 years ago

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its been a while...

school gives me time to get a lot of pencil mileage in. graphite and portraits are my comfort zone ;;

#that i lean on too heavily #oh well #dio brando #DIO #Kira yoshikage #killer queen #diavolo #doppio #vinegar doppio #JoJo's Bizarre Adventure #diamond is unbreakable #stardust crusaders #vento aureo #my art #fan art #graphite #pencil

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messily-drawn-dopp · 7 years ago

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//Past shenanigans

I like to think that solido was once able to meet Diavolo in their mind space, I think I read a fic based on that before;;;

#solido #he pops up once again because I never really stop thinking about my headcanon history #I wonder when I'll get asks to show parts of it :00 #oh well that's for another day #art tag yo #vento aureo #diavolo #jojo's bizarre adventure #solido naso

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dirty-brainrot · 3 years ago

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(Alien)

Kinda wanna make a series where the jojo villains appear in you home and lives with you.

Pairing: Kars x Reader

It was an average cold night. The perfect temperature to snuggle up in your warm blanket and pillows and watch a random movie on Netflix until you pass out. On the 2nd movie, you felt your eyelids get heavy as the sounds on tv get fuzzy and distant. As you were succumbing to sleep, out of nowhere, a loud boom came from your backyard along with a small earthquake. You jolt up with eyes opened wide.

Slowly getting off your covers, you looked around your room to see if anything had fallen and possibly break. Luckily, nothing broke nor fell. You quickly turned off your tv, slipped on your sweater, and ran to the source of the boom.

In your backyard, there was... A man? A man on a vast crater. He seems to be the one who caused the earthquake and the crater. It left you with many questions while he stood there, perfectly fine. You could feel his menacing aura from where you stood. With caution, you called out to the mysterious man that could possibly be an alien from outer space. "Um... Sir?" You don't even know if you could call it that.

He looks at you and you approached him. "Do you... Need help?—" He interrupts you by chuckling. "Finally... I'm back..!" You watch him monologue something about a Joestar bloodline and getting stuck to space that you didn't really pay attention to. You were focused on his loincloth and horns (and his abs plus his huge tiddies too). "Bizarre." You thought as he approaches you.

"Human... Where am I?" The man or alien, in bizarre clothing, questions. "Oh, well you're in (country)." You respond as he stood in front of you. 'Man. He's really tall.' Is what you thought as you crane your neck upwards to his towering figure. "I really like your hair, funky alien man." He was taken aback by the random bluntness but he shook it off by smirking.

"I'm rather hungry but I'll spare you and make you my pet, human." 'is he kind of some alien overlord?' You giggle quietly and decided to go along with whatever this man had to offer. It's not every day you get to see a man-looking alien that possibly came from space and will take over the world. "What's your name, funky alien man?" He struck a pose, you swear you could hear faint music playing but that could just be your sleepy brain. "My name is Kars, last of the pillarmen. Use it well human." Holding in your laughter, you nod.

"So... Do you want human food? I don't know what food you eat but maybe human food works too." ‘Hmm.. Maybe he eats plants... Or rocks!’ He stops posing to look at you with visible disgust on his face.

"Whatever man. I'll just make food for myself." You head back inside, leaving the backdoor unlocked so he could get in. Opening a cupboard, you grabbed your bread, peanut butter, and jam. As you peacefully make your PBJ, you hear a loud sound, which is similar to a door getting ripped off, you swiftly looked at your backdoor. It was removed from its hinges.

The man threw the door away into your backyard. "Hey!" You shouted while glaring at the man. "Do you know how much to get a door fixed?!" He looks at you with a bored expression. "No." You pouted. 'Man... He probably did it by accident since he's incredibly buff." You sighed and shook your head then continued to make your sandwich as the man wandered around in your kitchen. "Please don't break anything else." You comment as he grabs the toaster and shakes it.

After a while, you finished making 4 slices of PBJ. Two for each of you. You walked to your dining table and called him. "Kars!-" "It's Master Kars for you, Human." He appeared behind you, making you yelp from your seat. "Holy shit... Don't do that again." You said as you clutch your hand to your chest trying to steady your breathing. With a sigh, you offered him a sandwich. He rose his eyebrow but still accepted the offer. "It's really good since I used the best brand of peanut butter!" You grabbed your own piece and merrily took a bite out of it. He cautiously eyes his sandwich and took a bite. You watch him eat his sandwich with caution then suddenly spat it out. "Hey..!!"

"This is unacceptably horrible, human." You glared at him and ate your sandwich. 'Now I'm gonna have to clean that later.' "I'm sorry that it doesn't fit your alien tastes." He places the sandwich on the counter and looks at your fridge. You watch him as if he was a tv while you ate your sandwiches.

He touches the door handle and stares at it. Catching up on what he's doing you quickly stop him. "H-hey wait! Maybe it's best if I open it instead." You place your sandwich back on your plate and quickly shuffled beside him and opened the fridge. "Just open it gently. I don't want to pay any more damages." He ignores you and went straight for the meat in the freezer. “This’ll have to do.” He comments as he devours the fresh meat in one go.

'Oh... He...eats meat. Neat.'

With that knowledge, you feel slightly terrified 'but he looks like he's fond of me... So I guess there's that...?' You gulp and walk back to your table and nervously eat your sandwich as he rummages around your refrigerator. "Human, what is this?" He points toward the ice dispenser on your fridge. "Oh!" You grab a mug and walked beside him. "It's an ice dispenser!" You say while you place your mug in it and watch it dispense ice. "Ta-da~" You gave him the ice-filled mug. He grabs a piece of ice and eats it (which was pretty cool. ) "Humans are innovative nowadays." He hums and looks at your small figure.

You stare back at him.

He rubs his chin. "Maybe I'll give you humans one more chance. You spark my interest and... I want to see more of this... technology." 'Oh... well that's cool? Kinda hoping for an alien invasion' You tilted your head and gave him a goofy grin. "Neat!"

Well, you just made an alien buddy! That probably has a power that can erase humanity in a single attempt but that doesn't matter because he's your alien buddy now.

JoFoe in your home series: Diavolo, Kira

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bellarosethefangirl · 2 years ago

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heyy! first off, happy belated birthday! 💕 this matchup event seems fun so i’mma give it a try!

my 3 choices are:

• perfume: garden of love

• good luck charms: i’d like some jewelry! in a silver color, and i’d prefer some earrings.

• love fortunes

1. i’m a female going by she/her pronouns!

2. here’s a pic crew of me (ngl, i’m not really good at making piccrews of myself ‘cause they never end up completely accurate, and this is the closest thing i got. also, my hair is actually a bit more darker than in the pic, it usually looks black but in sunlight, it might come off as dark brown). oh, and i’m 5’2!

3. i’m straight

4. i’m 18 years old

5. starting off a bit basic, i’d want my partner to be loyal, respectful, and kind. i’d prefer them to be either a extrovert or ambivert. basically someone who’re more than willing to speak for me ‘cause i’m hella shy and i sometimes have moments where i’m too scared to talk to people. i’m also an introvert so sometimes i have days where i don’t wanna go out (i can get socially drained easily 😅), and i’d want my parter to understand that. no matter how different our interests were, i’d want my partner to at least respect them or even give it a try (like listening to a music genre they normally don’t listen to). i’m a bit of a sucker for affection, so i’d love my partner to occasionally offer me cuddles and stuff like that (not a fan of PDA, but i’m fine with holding hands, having an arm around me, or a small kiss in public). i get insecure at times (whether it’s my appearance, intelligence, etc.), so i’d want my partner to comfort me during those moments. i also want my partner to appreciate my family and friends since they mean the world to me, and even have my partner meet them whenever possible. (i’d especially love it if my partner becomes close with some of my cousins, who i consider siblings at this point). if there’s something i did that made my partner upset, i’d want them to tell me about it instead of hiding it (‘cause i lowkey get self conscious of people possibly being mad at me even if it turns they’re not 😅). i’m not too big on my partner’s appearance, but i’d lowkey prefer if they were taller than me LMAO (even if they’re just an inch taller than me, i’d be fine 😂). and lastly, while i don’t expect my partner to spoil me with so many items (‘cause for one, i’d feel guilty if i can’t buy them anything in return. and two, i’d be concerned over how much money they have left after all that, haha), some small gifts would steal my heart. i personally love anything considered cute, especially things from sanrio (if you’re unfamiliar with them, they’re the company who created hello kitty), so anything like a cute plush or keychain would make me happy 🥰

6. my favorite flowers are roses 🌹

7. i’d prefer not to be matched with diavolo, ciccolata, secco, or doppio from golden wind. i just don’t really vibe with them 😬

8. i’m fine with being matched up with a villain

9. my 2 animes are jjba: diamond is unbreakable and jjba: golden wind!

tysm for this!! i hope you have a good rest of your week. make sure to take care of yourself!! <333

Fortune Teller Match Maker 🔮 Anime Matchups 💘

omg thanks for sending your matchup but next time send it in my ask box instead. Sorry this took me a while been going through quite a bit so motivation for writing hasn’t been there. Hope you enjoy this and you take care of yourself as well. I appreciate the sweet little messages 💓

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Diamond Is Unbreakable

Abella looks forward to your crystal ball reading. A lot will be unfold to your bit of love story once she reveals who your potential true love is. She guides you to her small round purple table. The table is filled with various items a match maker such as herself would carry: love potions, tarot card decks, etc. You take a seat on a stack of square shaped cushions across from her. She waves her hand over the table and a puff of pink smoke appears out of no where. When it clears up the table is clean. You notice her hot pink colored crystal ball is the only item left behind. She sits across you on a orange plush stool.

"To get an accurate reading I'll need to reveal your true love."

She then instructs you how she'll need to hold your hand to get a good reading for you. Understanding, you give her your pale hand. Abella then closes her eyes and the reading begins. It becomes shocking to you since you feel a huge tug at the bottom of your soul. You weren't startled, more so confused. Her hearts across her face are lighting up a bright pink. You finally notice a huge pink symbol surrounding you both on the ground. It's in the shape of a rose. Your dark straight hair is floating above your head as is Abella's curls.

Abella talks when the crystal ball is glowing a bright pink. Her eyes are still closed and she is focused. Your brown eyes widen in wonder as a figure is slowly appearing on he crystal ball.

"I see... your true love is a man with everything you're looking for. I see he is loyal, respectful, and kind. He would also be good for your shy nature especially since he finds it very attractive and cute. He's honest with his feelings and is easy to talk to as well as get along with."

You notice the image becoming more visible revealing dark hair and two scars across his face. In the crystal ball he smiles. Your brown eyes look to him with curiosity.

"His name is Okuyasu Niijimura."

"I wouldn't see any sort of hardships with him in your romance but he does have an unfortunate living situation. I would also like to mention he is a hopeless romantic but I trust you won't hurt him. You have a kind aura to your soul." Abella smiles your direction letting go of the crystal ball.

You notice the crystal ball is no longer glowing nor are the hearts on Abella's face. The rose symbol is no where to be found. She allows you a moment to think over all she has revealed to you. Okuyasu is your true love and proves to hold all the qualities you're looking for in a man.

You request Abella of a good luck charm after you've deeply thought over what her crystal ball revealed. Abella's brown eyes light up and she walks over to some shelves to grab a stack of three wooden boxes. They're small and she scatters them across the table for you.

"Before you choose I'll need to give you instructions. Choose the box you feel is the best decision. Your heart will guide you."

The bright pink hearts on her face as well as the rose symbol on the ground are glowing. She waves her hand across the boxes causing them to turn into a purple color. She gestures to the boxes.

You hover your hand over the boxes. You felt a warmth in your soul choosing the box at the middle. Abella nods telling you chose correctly. She snaps her fingers and the other two boxes are gone once the pink smoke disappears.

You open the box and see a small blue velvet box. You open it revealing a pair of silver earrings. They dangle and have hearts hanging at the bottom. They sparkle such a lovely glimmer. You look back to the fortune teller. She understands the look you give her very well. How could these earrings possibly be good luck charms?

"Those earrings symbolize love. As you can see from the hearts. As a good luck charm these earrings will improve your chances of romance by sixty percent. They also assist in good luck but only by twenty percent."

You try on the earrings admiring how they glimmer. You thank her for the earrings. Abella asks you of your next request to which she is happy to hear. She goes to her shelves of perfumes behind her table. She grabs a hold of one after you name the one you desire. She holds a small round bottle with a heart shaped turquoise colored lid. The bottle is decorated in painted flowers and vines.

"This bottle is called, 'garden of love'. It has a flowery scent helps your lover realize they want to be with you. A romantic date might occur but of course this only happens if romance sparks between the both of you."

You give the perfume a couple spritz after she explains the use of the perfume. No more than two sprays since any more won't have an affect. The perfume smells of daisies, chamomile’s, roses, and fresh air. It’s very relaxing and makes you feel ready to take on the world. You’re seeking passionate love.

"It smells good." You smile her direction.

Abella seems to be happy for you. Her true happiness is directed toward the potential results of the perfume. You could get a garden date with your true love. She hopes it will be today.

Abella guides you to the center of her tent where the rose symbol on the ground appears surrounding you two again. The hearts underneath her eyes glow again, her pink painted lips encouraging you to enter the white portal with a smile. Before you enter the portal she gives you parting words.

"You might meet your true love but I must inform you sometimes the meeting doesn't always go well. Do not be disheartened if it doesn't work out today. There is still plenty of time for love to bloom. Plus those earrings are sure to help you as well. Best of luck."

You give her a goodbye before entering the portal. When you open your eyes you're located in front of a café at Morioh. You notice Okuyasu walking down the street, he seems to be in a good mood. You're unsure what to say until you feel a hand grab your wrist. You don't recognize the business suit wearing, blonde male. He has a creepy expression on his face. You become increasingly uncomfortable the more he stares. His grip on your wrist is strong, you're unsure of his intentions but you don't want to find out.

Okuyasu noticed the intense atmosphere and the situation you're in. He decided to punch the stranger with his stand so the intimidating male would be knocked out. Okuyasu then grabs your hand and runs away with you. You follow behind him, running as quickly as possible. You two end up at an alley, panting. No one seems to be around so you two.

"You okay? The creep had such a tight grip on your hand." Okuyasu looks to your direction.

"Yes I'm fine. Thank you for saving me back there. He gave me such a scary look."

"Don't worry. He didn't follow us."

After you caught your breath you look at Okuyasu. You wish to know who it is that saved you. You recognize his features from when he appeared in Abella's crystal ball. Your mouth dropped at the revelation. Okuyasu's mouth drops as well but for other reasons. He's thinking about how lucky he is to be in your presence since you're so cute.

You decide to introduce yourself to which Okuyasu does in return. He blushes as he offers you a milkshake or a bite to eat. You gladly agree as your kind brown eyes reassure him. His huge cheeky grin on his face appears. You giggle following him to the nearest place for food.

Spending time with Okuyasu was fun, he had a lot to say. He's also dramatic and funny. Your time spent with him was filled with himself chatting with you about various topics. Before you knew it Okuyasu took you to a date at the park. He was feeding pigeons breed crumbs but they became too enthusiastic and started flocking him. He was being chased by them. You had to help him which he was really grateful for. You brushed feathers off of him with your hands. Your short self had trouble helping him up but you managed.

Okuyasu thought it was sweet how concerned you became over his well being. He observed your features which gave him the extra courage to ask you on a date. He got the idea to take you to an abandoned garden he often visits. He remembered the location after smelling your perfume. The flowery scent giving him the desire to take you on a garden date.

You agreed and followed him to the destination. The more you talked to Okuyasu the more you realized he has all the qualities you’re looking for in a man. He was so sweet and extroverted. He held your hand on the way to the garden. It felt so comforting. He had the biggest smile on his face.

At the garden you both shared conversations and had a pleasant time together. You observed the roses as you thought about Okuyasu and all Abella revealed to you earlier. Meanwhile Okuyasu is standing next to you hoping you’re enjoying the date.

You more than enjoyed it. He was happy to hear about your family. He said they sounded lovely. He also enjoyed talking about hobbies. Okuyasu felt compelled to hold your hand again. When he looked to your eyes he was blushing and kisses your hand. His eyes light up when he see’s how you blush in return.

“You look so beautiful. I’m so lucky to be on this date with you.”

You express your gratitude for the date with positivity. Promising him another date. Though you were shy about it he thought it was cute. He picked you some roses before walking you back. You wanted to go back to Abella to thank her. Okuyasu walked you to the destination.

Before he left he gives you a kiss to your cheek. He was a bit bashful but so happy to go on another date with you. He intended on taking you to his favorite restaurant. Okuyasu left with a joyous skip in his step as he walked away.

You make it back to Abella’s tent hoping she isn’t busy. Thankfully she has no customers and she eagerly invites you inside her tent. You mention bumping into Okuyasu and going on a date with him.

“I’m so happy your evening turned out so well. Did he give you those roses as well?”

You mention the date at the garden, causing her brown eyes to light up. She thought it was so cute.

“I think you and Okuyasu will make such a lovely pair. The date sounds so romantic already.”

You two chat a bit longer before Abella walks over to a planter to get you a present. She picks a flower and holds it out to you. It’s a bright green rose.

“This is for you. This rose is a perfect to gift in a new relationship, when a relationship is starting. May you and Okuyasu share a good relationship.”

You thank Abella before leaving. Abella watched as you left, knowing you’d share a fulfilling and lifelong relationship with Okuyasu. The green rose she gifted you has various meanings but she knew it would transmit good luck for the new relationship.

#submission #abella fortune teller event #abella fortune teller takeover #jjba matchup #matchups #jojo's bizarre adventure diamond is unbreakable #jjba part 4 #thanks for your patience

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