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⚙ // DIO'S JOURNAL [CR CHART]

"Do you believe in 'gravity'?
"That there might be a reason why you tripped over me?
"Is the thing we call meetings not 'gravity'?
"I do not know what sort of impression you've had of me--- but I am traveling seeking 'meetings'."

Why do people meet?
That is the theme.
The theme of life, heaven's theme.

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That is why "gravity" is important.

The most important keyword for going to heaven. I believe that the final piece of the puzzle will be to control "gravity". "Gravity" and "time" are intimately connected.

Then if I want to further control "time" I must control "gravity". But how?
I have a feeling that boasts of a difficulty equal to controlling "meetings". Can one even control "meetings" at all? Can one control "fated connections"?

If they can't...

Can I be "prepared" for that? This connection that I have dragged with me for 100 years--- is drawing closer to me at every moment.

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What you need is a trustworthy friend. He must be someone capable of controlling his own desires. He must be someone who is not interested in political power, fame, wealth, or sexual desire, and who chooses the will of God before the law of humans.

Will I, DIO, be able to meet someone like this one day?

What I also need is the lives of more than 36 humans who have sinned, because those who have sinned harbor a strong power within.

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The final necessity is location. Location--and time.
I have calculated it.
Go 28 degrees 24 minutes north, 80 degrees 36 minutes west--and wait for the next new moon.

That should be the "time of heaven".

Now then. The moment has about arrived, it seems. The Joestar group is finally here.

The way to go to "heaven" is already clear for me, but unfortunately, I am forced to put down my pen here today. I will head to the tower. And this time, I will completely sever my fated connection with the Joestar family.

There is no need to panic. I possess a body with eternal life.

I have all the time I need.

I will continue writing this tomorrow.

[The rest is written on carefully organized paper from the mail room, kept in the back of the journal. Between the cover and first page is a tarot card.]

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DISCERNING: showing good or outstanding judgment and understanding.

Cowardly, panicky, and all around in possession of the temperament of a frightened rabbit. She's read the pages of this journal I don't remember writing. I may have to do something about her before she proves more of a problem.

She contributed to my exposure as a vampire--'discerning' indeed. What a poorly assigned title.

But then again. More flies with honey, as the saying goes. I don't expect she'll be useful, but if nothing else I can determine who she's told about the contents of those pages.

If these meetings were fated, then perhaps this is all just in accordance with it. Who am I to turn my back on fate? Maybe scaring her off is a poor choice after all. That will only give her more reason to betray those writings to the others. I can do better than that.

UPDATED: She's dead. Even the Conductor is enraged. It seems miss Williams was more of a linchpin in this place than I had estimated; killing her would have been a poor decision on my part.

With her dies the knowledge of what this journal held. I should be relieved, but...it occurs to me that she knew all along and told no one. Everyone trusted her, and she could easily have made it look like I was out to kill them all as part of the 'thirty-six sinners'. Blackmailing me wouldn't have been wise, but it was still an advantage she held over me.

Why didn't she use it?

Edited 2015-11-22 05:21 (UTC)

CONTRARY: opposite in nature, direction, or meaning.

Clever girl, really. Ruthless isn't quite the word that I would use to describe her, but she's displayed a certain efficiency in doing what needs to be done. I have to confess that I appreciate that.

We spoke about the possibility of a double agent, as well as a less relevant discussion of Marlowe's Faustus. Shikinami is clearly intelligent, if coarse and unrefined. If there is indeed such a double agent, I must say that she seems a likely candidate.

Although if I'm mistaken, she seems a valuable ally. For now I need to be cautious around her in particular; I told her the secret of the stone mask. Either that will get her to let her guard down and trust me marginally more than the rest, or I am going to be in trouble if she finds out I have it.

UPDATED WEEK 3: I was wrong. It wasn't her.

They are so disgustingly self-righteous about it. Humans love to talk about how much better they are just because someone else committed murder before they were driven to it. As though they're so much better or such paragons of morality for holding out slightly longer.

They are not Jonathan.

But Asuka's death has given me an idea. The limits of humanity are but a dot on the horizon behind me now. I could even beat the devil himself.

If I could control the fates of those who have died in the Conductor's exercise...if I could undo them, that would just be the perfect defiance against him before I rip his throat out.

Edited 2015-11-22 00:51 (UTC)

EVOLUTIONARY: of, relating to, or in accordance with a theory of evolution, especially in biology.

Eccentric at best, annoying at worst. I don't quite comprehend that oddly sentient pink thing of hers, and I do not think I want to ask.

WEEK 3 UPDATE: At least she understands the hypocrisy here. We're no better than those we sentence to die. Am I really the only one willing to embrace that?

Edited 2015-11-22 05:50 (UTC)

UNBREAKABLE: not able to be broken.

Stupid. She really just let Undyne fight her? So much for 'unbreakable'.

Edited 2015-11-24 13:19 (UTC)

ARDENT: having, expressive of, or characterized by intense feeling; passionate; fervent.

I thought he was an idiot at first, from what seems like a carefree nature and a peculiar speech impediment. But it seems one doesn't get to be an inspector through idiocy and chance alone.

He's smart, though sentimental. Only time will really say if the latter proves a detriment as sentiment so often does. So far he's been a valuable enough ally in keeping the majority of us alive, but any plans he's made against the Conductor have yet to show results. Which can be said about all of us, now that I consider it.

I almost hope that he lives, and he very well might. He's too well-liked to be killed now.

[Below that, in a quickly added note:]

If you read this, know that I didn't frame you out of spite or hatred.

I just needed someone people trusted. No one would ever believe I, Dio, was willing to do anything other than stab you all in the back to escape. I truly would have arranged for something mutually beneficial.

Edited 2015-12-05 16:08 (UTC)

INFORMATIVE: giving information; instructive.

An eccentric girl with a strange obsession about taking pictures.

There's something strangely familiar about that, but I can't place it.

Edited 2015-12-05 16:09 (UTC)

ABIDING: lasting a long time; enduring.

When did I put on the stone mask? I know I must have done it because of Jonathan, and I know that I took care of him in the end. But when did I surpass the limitations of human mortality? So many of my memories are completely absent, including a missing century that must have transpired after that day on the ship.

The day I killed Jonathan Joestar.

Jonathan. You who are my only worthwhile rival, the only one whom I respect. Your death will not go to waste, and your body will continue to serve me well into the future.

I will leave this place. I will take what is mine. And I will destroy anyone in my way.

-I'm beginning to understand 'gravity' as my forgotten self writes about it. Enrico...I sent him a letter, in the faint and foolish hope that any correspondence may actually leave this place. It was 'gravity' which led me to meet him, wasn't it? If that is right, then so too was it 'gravity' which brought this group in one place. A force of which even the Conductor must be no more than a pawn.

But why? Why is it these specific people which have gravitated to each other? They know now that I am something surpassing mortal limitations. I may be running out of time.

-Running out of time? I, Dio, running out of time?

Impossible. I control time itself. If I can just reawaken my Stand, then no one will be able to stop me. Even if I can't, I think I may have a plan.

What I'll do is commit murder and get away with it. Then, once everyone's dead I will move to oppose the Conductor. All I need to do is find whatever mortuary in which that sentimental fool keeps the deceased participants. The blood of a vampire can make even death something to be shrugged off and disregarded--I'll turn every last one of them and bring them back. With an entire gang of superhumans, there's no way we won't be able to destroy this place and all those running it. Whoever's left can do as they please, and most importantly I can get back to Cairo and kill Jotaro Kujo.

I'm far more intelligent than these mortals anyway. Even if they do manage to figure it out, surely they won't be foolish enough to stop me. I'm their only salvation whether they like it or not.

[Below that, written much more quickly:]

I did what I had to. Morty was an unintended consequence, but it's just as well. Anything I could have done to them was most likely mercy next to what the Conductor would have.

This feeling...I don't understand it. Why do I feel the same as when I killed my father? That wretch whose last act was also the only kindness he ever showed me or anyone else...I almost wanted to remedy the poison I'd given him.

Almost.

Why do I feel that same hesitation now? I discarded 'hesitation' a long time ago. Guilt is below me, fear even more so. I have no choice but to continue now.

Edited 2015-12-05 16:15 (UTC)

GILDED: wealthy and privileged.

I keep nearly calling her Erina.

But no, she's far more insufferable and useless. It would be an insult to Jonathan's wife to mistake them at this point.

Edited 2015-11-22 05:51 (UTC)

GEOTIC: belonging to earth; terrestrial.

Giovanni strikes me as someone with quite a lot to hide--like myself, in other words. Someone who has greater things to accomplish and quite a few corpses to leave in his wake. The fact that he apparently has a giant wasp as a companion is--actually, I've seen stranger. I'm not really one to talk, given the company I usually keep. I have to admit I almost enjoy talking to him, if only because he understands how skewed the morality in this place truly is.

He's convinced he saw me or someone made to look exactly like me in the kitchen and mail room. Obviously I know it wasn't me, but that leaves the question of 'who'--I presume some manifestation of the Conductor's friend--and 'why'. Why would it have taken my form, unless he wanted the others to turn on me like they should have a long time ago?

Why didn't any of them accuse me?

Edited 2015-12-05 16:41 (UTC)

VIVACIOUS: attractively lively and animated.

We'll see who the monster is when someone she cares about turns to murder. Her and Youko both need to wake up and realize what kind of place this world really is. There's no room for people who spout such morality when they'd surely turn to hypocrisy the second the situation changes.

Edited 2015-12-05 16:43 (UTC)

ASCENDANT: rising in power or influence.

Seems to have actually accomplished something in investigating this place, which is more than I can say for most.

He should have suspected me a little more at that last meeting.

Edited 2015-12-05 16:36 (UTC)

VOLATILE: liable to change rapidly and unpredictably, especially for the worse.

For as little as we've spoken, it seems the title fits him well.

...Honestly. If he wanted me to show him how I fight, all he had to do was ask. I might have even entertained such a stupid request.

Edited 2015-12-05 16:44 (UTC)

ACQUIESCENT: ready to accept something without protest, or to do what someone else wants.

Apparently survived by eating humans.

Unfortunate. I might have wanted to get to know someone like that.

SOVEREIGN: possessing supreme or ultimate power.

Apparently the king of some strange version of England with magic and other absurdities. I can't quite get any solid impression of him following Reaver's death; he seems the sort to prioritize his country over all else. Shame for Albion that I wasn't about to let Reaver walk out at the cost of my life.

Strained as our usual conversations are, he seems to understand how foolish most of the others are. He's highly intelligent, but I suspect the two of us are simply the type to be at odds if left alone too long.

As tense as things tend to be with us due to what I presume is a simple matter of conflicting nature...he's no Enrico by any means, but I've rather grown to like him. Perhaps it's the intelligence, or the willingness to irritate the Conductor.

He actually trusts me not to kill anyone. I wonder what he'll say when that changes.

Edited 2015-12-03 22:40 (UTC)

COUNTERBALANCED: offset by an equal weight or force.

Sol's twin. The nickname seems to imply she balanced her loud sister out--we never spoke at length, so who knows for certain?

Edited 2015-12-03 22:44 (UTC)

TEMPORAL: of or relating to time

Delusional, clueless, and convinced I have something to do with something or other sharing my name.

I'm really not sure what to make of this one. Shouldn't I have been 'Temporal'?

Edited 2015-12-05 16:28 (UTC)

UNIVERSAL: of or relating to the universe.

He talks too much.

Stubbornly takes some odd investment in me and what I'm doing--he has no idea what it is he's trying to involve himself in or who he's dealing with.

Sooner or later, he's going to pry one step too far. Of all the likely candidates to ask 'what's happened to your neck', for example, I wager it would be him.

He needs to stop caring before it backfires in his face.

Edited 2015-12-05 16:33 (UTC)

TEMPERED: made less intense or violent, especially by the influence of something good or benign.

Simply being related to Rick marks him as a pathetically unfortunate child. I almost feel sorry for him, but there's nothing to be done about it.

[Quickly added underneath it:]

What the hell was he doing out at two in the morning? Why couldn't he just have stayed out of it?

Edited 2015-12-05 16:34 (UTC)

UNERASABLE: unable to be eliminated completely.

Real angels don't exist. 'Heaven' isn't something so childish as wings and halos.

So what is she?

Whatever she is, it's going to have to be her. Whatever the Conductor does should they vote incorrectly, it's clear she deserves that fate the least apart from Sukuyo. A quick and merciful death for her would be the best way to proceed, and they'll all be so angry over losing her that rage will blind them to the truth of the matter. I may not even have to convince them to my side, if I do that.

Edited 2015-12-03 21:21 (UTC)

RELENTLESS: unyieldingly severe, strict, or harsh.

Our first murderer. Charming, if I'm to be honest. It's almost a shame he died so uselessly and so soon.

ENDURING: lasting or permanent.

Drunk, belligerent, and loudmouthed; in other words, Dario Brando lives again in an infinitely more irritating form. If I kill anyone, he is my first option. I don't need any reminders of Father taunting me every day.

I'm going to take his head off and I'm going to enjoy it. It took nearly the entire week to get that mess out of my coffin, and it still doesn't seem properly clean.

Edited 2015-12-05 16:34 (UTC)

ADVERSARIAL: involving or characterized by conflict or opposition.

'Adversarial' indeed. As though I'd really drink blood from a corpse. But I suppose that she's tolerable enough, when not accusing me of ridiculous things.

Edited 2015-12-03 21:24 (UTC)

FAMILIAL: of, relating to, or characteristic of a family.

'Dio, no matter what happens, live nobly and with pride. If you do that, you'll surely be able to go to heaven.'

Why do I remember those words when I talk to her?

Eccentric as she is, she cares deeply for her family--so much as to be reflected in her title. By all appearances, Sukuyo Mankanshoku is charitable, kind, generous, and loving. Truly, her capacity to care for others is almost saintlike. But the world is not such a kind place; it only treats people like that one way. It crushes them underfoot, and when that's done it eliminates them. It happened to my mother, it will happen to her as well.

When she dies, I will only say 'I was right' and move on.

ADROIT: expert or nimble in the use of the hands or body.

Apparently the resident medical examiner by virtue of being a nurse. How fortunate for us.

She's thorough, but it's difficult to read her personality. I suppose one would call that 'cold', but it isn't to the point of being emotionless. Maybe 'efficient' is closer to the word I want to use here.

Edited 2015-12-05 16:16 (UTC)

DYNAMIC: pertaining to or characterized by energy or effective action.

Kleptomaniac with an obsession about getting my shirt off.

There's really just nothing else to say.

Edited 2015-11-22 06:14 (UTC)

DAUNTLESS: unable to be intimidated; intrepid.

How many inhumans do we even have here?

I honestly can't believe she just challenged Byakuren to a fight and killed her that way. How absurdly straightforward.

Edited 2015-12-03 21:22 (UTC)

CRYSTALLINE: of or resembling crystal.

Has the demeanor of nobility, or at least an aristocrat. She does however seem to have the task of assembling order out of chaos when this group descends into arguing. I can appreciate that, if nothing else.

I should teach her how to throw a punch for the next time Rick decides to be aggravating. Slapping can only do so much.

Edited 2015-12-05 16:27 (UTC)

TRANSIENT: not lasting, enduring, or permanent.

One of those with a skewed view of morality. She's quick to condemn people like Asuka--I wonder what would happen if someone she cared about was a murderer? Would she leap to their defense and become a hypocrite, or break entirely when confronted with the harsh truth that the world's not so black and white?

Edited 2015-12-05 16:24 (UTC)

LUCENT: shining; translucent; clear.

...it occurs to me that I simply haven't spoken to several of these people for longer than a few minutes.

I suppose that narrows down who I could potentially kill and be a little less likely as a suspect.

Edited 2015-11-22 06:13 (UTC)

[Behind all the notes on the others, neatly folded into thirds, is a letter written in the elegant handwriting of the journal's actual pages instead of the quicker note-taking of all the rest.]

To Father Enrico Pucci:

If this letter reaches you, it is certain we will not meet again. There's a good chance that it will not reach you even if that is the case; few of those I find myself surrounded by would care to see it delivered. But if it is, whoever's hands should pass this to you--leave the messenger alone.

If this letter does indeed find its way to your hands, Enrico, forgive me. The power to control time simply wasn't enough, and if you're reading this that means the smallest chance that I could lose has come to pass. I'm sure that it won't happen--I can not be defeated, and I possess a body which can not die. But even if the chance is less than a single percent, I will leave you with these words and this journal if I can.

I know that you will finish what I began. You who are surely the most honorable of God's children will find a way to 'heaven'.

Farewell, my dearest, only, and most trustworthy friend. Either meet me in heaven or we'll see each other in hell for trying.

-Dio

[At the bottom of the page is a very cryptic postscript in slightly smaller writing:]

2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 97, 101.

Spiral staircase | Rhinoceros beetle | Ruins street | Fig tart | Rhinoceros beetle | Via dolorosa | Rhinoceros beetle |
Singularity point | Giotto | Angel | Hydrangea | Rhinoceros beetle | Singularity point | Secret emperor

Edited 2015-12-05 16:18 (UTC)

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⚙ // DIO'S JOURNAL [CR CHART]

ASHLEY WILLIAMS | until dawn

ASUKA LANGLEY SHIKINAMI | evangelion

BLUE | pokemon special

BYAKUREN HIJIRI | touhou project

INSPECTOR CABANELA | ghost trick

CHIE HORI | tokyo ghoul

DIO | jojo's bizarre adventure

ELISE | story of seasons

GIOVANNI | pokemon special

HIBIKI GANAHA | the idolm@ster

JEAN KIRSTEIN | attack on titan

KATSUKI BAKUGOU | my hero academia

KEN KANEKI | tokyo ghoul

LOGAN | fable iii

LUNA | area d: inou ryouiki

MARTY MCFLY | back to the future

MORDECAI BENMONT JIMINY | thrilling adventure hour

MORTY SMITH | rick and morty

RAKKA | haibane renmei

REAVER | fable iii

RICK SANCHEZ | rick and morty

SOL | area d: inou ryouiki

SUKUYO MANKANSHOKU | kill la kill

SUSAN ASHWORTH | the cat lady

TABBY SMITH | nextwave

UNDYNE | undertale

WEISS SCHNEE | rwby

YOUKO | tactics

YUURI SHIBUYA | kyou kara maoh

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