DIO

To live is to learn how to conquer fear. He who lives at the top, is one without fear. This… is DIO's World.

[DIO @KonoDIOGa]

"Foolish mortals! I, DIO, shall rule over you all! Invincibility. Immortality. Stand power!"
>Returning DIO. As deep, large, and powerful as ever.
>Friendly writer, all verses welcome
>RT's and Fav's most appreciated
>WRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

[DIO @KonoDIOGa]

The bristle of leaves in the breeze, the slide of loosed dirt along the path, are the only voices here tonight. And when they've had their say, the man vanishes without a trace, no footprints to indicate he walked away.

Time will always continue, regardless of how long it stops.

[DIO @KonoDIOGa]

[Nightfall. May 10th, 2023]

A heavy footstep descends upon sacrosanct ground, marching toward an unmarked, yet ornate, headstone.
He stands alone, surveying how the granite has held up to time's unforgiving progress. He exhales a breath that fogs despite the warm evening air.

[DIO @KonoDIOGa]

"Hello, mother."

He is not one for sentiment, usually. Perhaps even he does not know why he maintains this arbitrary tradition. Whatever the case, the towering vampire remains still, silent. For what words do you exchange with a memory that only fades with each passing year?

[DIO @KonoDIOGa]

[The faintest sound of a page turning, as though a ghostly echo of a past long gone, a future long unrealized. A stagnant present, everlasting. Immortal. Invincible. Immobile.]

[DIO @KonoDIOGa]

He simply nods, and finishes his drink, whatever remains of the ice in his glass falling into his mouth, crunched idly as he signals for the bill.

[Gretchen Redgrave @LupaAvernales]

"Alright!" She didn't really want to share, anyway.

[DIO @KonoDIOGa]

@PaintedPollywog @DuskOverdrive @LoyaltyAflutter - to be at such risk."

He still was wondering how he tied into their ongoing search. Strange things he had seen, and caused, but something about this whole situation... Felt off to him. Like a splinter in his mind something kept him from being at ease.

[DIO @KonoDIOGa]

@PaintedPollywog @DuskOverdrive @LoyaltyAflutter DIO folded his arms, taking the words into consideration.

"You seem to have your fair share of failed timelines, then." He said with a quirked brow at the agitation showing on the being's face and in his voice.

"However, I do trust my servant, so I must ask why you believe us -

[DIO @KonoDIOGa]

"All yours, my dear." He gestured to the cake. "Far be it from me to take it from you."

[Gretchen Redgrave @LupaAvernales]

"There's still the moon, and friends for warmth. Last bite?"

[DIO @KonoDIOGa]

@LoyaltyAflutter @PaintedPollywog @DuskOverdrive - his guests. How lovely. He would certainly need to tap into this power, the sooner the better.

[DIO @KonoDIOGa]

@LoyaltyAflutter @PaintedPollywog @DuskOverdrive Aurick... DIO smiled. That man... Certainly one he hoped to see again. He could feel time slipping back into rhythm. A strange feeling that it was not in his reigns, yet still be aware of its frozen state without being impeded. To have had a conversation in front of, yet beyond -

[DIO @KonoDIOGa]

"The day I can keep time frozen in my sleep is the last day you ever know I sleep."

[DIO @KonoDIOGa]

@VVitchoftheLake - the fully realized form, but DIO only needed one solid strike. He aimed a spinning kick at her head from the left, the Shadow Stand aimed its one arm upward in an uppercut from the right...!

[DIO @KonoDIOGa]

"I swear I will feast on your blood until there is nothing left of you." He seethed, summoning forth his Stand and sending it to attack her straight on with a heavy punch to the head.

[DIO @KonoDIOGa]

@VVitchoftheLake "Enough of this." He willed his Stand to manifest. A shade of it emerged, half its body missing and mostly enshrouded in darkness, but it sufficed. It was enough to count as a partner and so they charged ahead. The Shadow Stand could not reach as far away without its master as -

[DIO @KonoDIOGa]

@LoyaltyAflutter @PaintedPollywog @DuskOverdrive - I do hope I get to meet the one who engineered our meeting some time." He said, nodding to himself.

[DIO @KonoDIOGa]

@LoyaltyAflutter @PaintedPollywog @DuskOverdrive "You ease my concerns expertly. Even if what you say turns out to be different, I can continue on with my head as high as ever. You've assured me of one thing, my friend: I am in fact, DIO. I have stood on the corpses of countless fears and this shall be another.

Though... -

[DIO @KonoDIOGa]

@LoyaltyAflutter @PaintedPollywog @DuskOverdrive "Good. One more question, before time resumes.

...Have you ever been in a split timeline? No, that's not it. They say splintered timelines are doomed to fail and eventually cease. That's what the quantum theory books I have read say. Have you experienced this in your travels?"

[DIO @KonoDIOGa]

@LoyaltyAflutter @PaintedPollywog @DuskOverdrive He nodded slowly. "I see. I trust your aim is quite true, should I have need for it, Mamoru?"

[DIO @KonoDIOGa]

@LoyaltyAflutter @PaintedPollywog @DuskOverdrive "Oh he doesn't, believe you me. He's a braggart, but he knows he isn't a saint." He eyed the gun slipped into the jacket.

"You've fiddled with that a little in my presence. Is that a special arm, or are you just appreciative of guns?"

[DIO @KonoDIOGa]

@LoyaltyAflutter @PaintedPollywog @DuskOverdrive - utilizes it. Worse still, it can be used in conjunction with his Stand, so you would not be able to see it..."

[DIO @KonoDIOGa]

@LoyaltyAflutter @PaintedPollywog @DuskOverdrive - time. It's perhaps one of the better ways humanity evolved to combat their fears, and all it requires is life threatening training and permanent control of one's breathing. It is one of the only things I concern myself over, and Joseph is the only living warrior I know that -