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Frog.

#☆~*•.° - 「 aesthetics 」 #i'll get to replies soon i'm trying to make this blog a bit more active to motivate myself anyways LOOK AT THIS STA.RDE.W FROG I GOT ♡ #i thought about starting a farm as gio.rno a few times it might be fun

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Gardening with dad

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aurora and giorno :)

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I don’t think Joseph would be too thrilled with Giorno’s powers

Poor Giorno, he’s just trying to bond with family

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I'm back!... I think. Sorry for disappearing. Been dealing with a lot after losing my dog. Life imitates art HAHAHA *sobs*. On a side note, I found out how to migrate sideblogs! @sunshine-and-ladybugs is now under this account :D I'm excited to continue writing. Maybe I'll work on an open starter later.

...after I work on owed stuff. Have not forgotten about those I promise.

Oooh can't forget I wanted to talk about his Stand too-

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Boss Giorno

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Had to put my dog down. She was my best friend for over seven years in a hostile environment. I'm not okay.

#「 ooc 」 #tw: animal death #don't worry the readmore is just an old picture of her

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everytime i see a post about giorno being evil i can’t help but imagine him being evil but in a very ‘im 15’ way

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Lymantriine Moths by itchydogimages

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(i completely forgot to send this in until now 🥲 i'm so sorry for the wait!)

i really enjoy your portrayal of giorno! i think your writing really captures that sense of inner kindness he inherited from jonathan, and emphasizes his innate desire to help innocent people and do right by his loved ones. it’s always a fun (or angsty) contrast to his dad’s twisted mindset, lol. he’s like the conscious dio never wanted (although he still loves his son despite their….let’s say personality differences 😅)

i also agree with joxxy on how well you write gold experience. the threads you have featuring stand battles are so fun to read!

What is something about my portrayal[s] that sticks out?

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Meanwhile me forgetting to reply to this until a month later

Aahhhh thank you so much!! That's exactly the way I intended to write Giorno, I'm so glad it came off that way!

I really need to write more Stand battles, I have so many fun ideas-

#「 meme answer 」 #「 ooc 」 #rejectshumanity #also to answer your other question yeesss i had a good christmas thanks for asking :3

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"I bet I could improve them."

❝  —  they’re  moorish  shoes.  not  ‘elf’  shoes.  ❞

#☆~*•.° - 「 golden resolve 」 #rejectshumanity #not the shoe debacle again #「 verse : in your blood 」 #「 crack 」

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Boss is asleep, cannot stop me from frogposting

#☆~*•.° - 「 aesthetics 」 #frog #//giorno vc: this feels familiar for some reason but i can't put my finger on it...

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I'm so sorry for the long period in inactivity, I've been dealing with some severe depression and anxiety :'D I'll try to be more active soon! I really want to get back into writing, it sucks feeling this way.

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Giorno listened silently to Rowan's story, never once speaking up or asking questions. His stormy ocean eyes stared into Rowan intensely, indicating that he had his complete attention.

Oh, he certainly had questions, but he did not want to interrupt Rowan. He could tell it hurt the older man to even talk about this, and he'd hate to make him go over every single detail of that fateful day. As heavy as his own grief was... he couldn't even begin to imagine how Rowan was feeling, losing someone he'd grown up together with...

He couldn't help noticing the gentle way Rowan treated one of the frogs, though. It wasn't an important detail, but it made him soften a bit more towards the mortician. He'd always had a soft spot for people who were kind to animals. Just like she had been...

Viridian having a secondary Stand ability... did not really surprise him as much as it should have. He'd always known there was more to her than she'd believed of herself; she'd just needed a push to recognise her full potential. Giorno felt pride swell in his heart for her. He wished he'd had more time to help her... unfortunately, time was something he rarely could afford.

The power itself was fascinating. Under different circumstances, he'd have loved to learn more. He wasn't sure he would have wanted her to look into his mind but... he wondered what it would have looked like to her. Not that he'd ever know now.

Why hadn't she attempted to contact him? He could have helped- he'd have come running... unless he'd been compromised himself. It was possible. He'd been in various missions throughout the years, unwilling to sit back most of the time and order his underlings to endanger themselves... even though he knew his own life was far more valuable than a few of Passione's mobsters.

Either way, it seemed like she was out of time the moment she'd learnt about Kenneth's secret. He still wasn't sure how his Stand worked... but it did explain a lot, from the few witnesses' accounts he could dig up about the vampire apparently killing himself, only to have his body vanish from the scene seconds later.

Like a respawn point, a part of his mind hysterically suggested. The same part of him that wanted to laugh, but he dug his nails into his palms, refusing to give into that impulse.

Oddly, he did not feel that upset, or disappointed, that Rowan had been unable to turn her to save her life. Deep down, he knew Viridian would only be unhappy as a vampire. She was so full of life- had been so full of life. Viridian as an undead being... he just could not imagine it. She would never wish to feed on anyone to sustain herself either.

He didn't know what to say. Offering his condolences again just felt... meaningless. There was nothing he could say that everyone else had probably already said to Rowan. But he could see just how much his failure to save his sister weighed heavily on him. He couldn't stand it. He felt like he was seeing himself, a young teen again, helpless to protect his friends, even with all the power he had. He'd always been too late...

He made his way over to Rowan, reaching out hesitantly, before pulling back. What was he doing... he'd always been terrible at comforting people.

"You've done all you could," he found himself saying gently. "She's smart, she'd have known the risks, and I don't think anything would have stopped her from doing it all over again. She's just stubborn like that. Please, don't blame yourself.

"She... I know she would not have wanted that kind of life. She had always been kind. She would not have wanted to feed on anyone, even if she was given permission."

He gave him a small, sad smile. "Thank you. For telling me. I can't imagine how hard this must be for you, to have to recount all of that..."

He hesitated again.

"I don't know if she's told you. But if you like. I have a couple of stories about her I'd be happy to share with you. There was this one time I dropped by Las Vegas for work and ran into her, and... well. That was quite the time. We've texted too. Sometimes. It's mostly just pictures of animals back and forth. But... she'd also helped me through some rough moments."

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Now… Where to even start? Rowan’s hands pressed to each side of his forehead as if to contain and sort out his thoughts.

Even on the flight, Rowan had been mentally preparing himself; he knew this conversation would be inevitable. He kept trying to find the best way to word things, wondering where to begin or what details were important to mention. No amount of practice he had despite his occupation could prepare him for delivering news about his own sister. She may had only been related by adoption only, by some mere papers and formalities, but still… She was family. No matter what, it would be difficult for him to speak about.

❝ That cursed vampire… I still remember the first time I met him as a young boy… And I still remember the next time he had come to kill me, when I was older and he had by then figured out where I was. It was completely unexpected when he had appeared one day with the very obvious intent to kill me. He had hurled obscenities, saying that my ‘existence was a curse’, that I was ‘a half-breed abomination.’ I killed him. ❞ Rowan kept his gaze lowered, unable to bring himself to make eye contact. He was certain that Giorno wasn’t without his own sins, but it was still something that haunted Rowan.

Even if the vampire had been undead, even if he could come back to life, the intent was still there.

❝ It might as well have been nothing more than a simple and personal recon mission for Kenneth, with the act of killing me serving as nothing more than an optional side-quest. I don’t know if he was simply being careless, or if I was truly stronger than him. It may have been both. You were asking about why he was virtually impossible to kill. His stand ability…. ❞

He paused, before continuing.

❝ He couldn’t die. I sincerely mean that. I had seen him dissolve into ashes with my very own eyes. Even just from the first encounter alone, it was evident that he simply just was not afraid of dying. It was just as inconvenient for him as getting a mosquito bite on his arm. ❞

As if on cue, a frog had landed on top of Rowan’s shoe, prompting him to gently shake it away.

❝ We had seen him again months later. It was my friend, Nik who took him down this time. He had always been a good fighter, always able to hold his own no matter what. However…. One of his other followers was with him that time. That undead woman was strong. I managed to kill her myself before it was too late. But… Nik still ended up in the hospital. ❞

Rowan knew that this story might be long, that it might seem pointless and tedious. However, it was all integral to answering the Don’s questions. He wouldn’t be able to understand how or why Viridian died if he didn’t give him more meaning behind what happened. Thankfully, it looked like Giorno wasn’t in a mood to interrupt, and appeared to be quietly listening.

❝ Viridian did not leave his side. ❞ He paused for a brief moment to reminisce. He remembered how guilty his sister had felt for not doing anything to help them before hand despite having not even being there in the first place. She didn’t even sleep much in the hospital, wearing nothing but baggy clothes and barely cleaning herself, wanting to stay awake the entire time until Nik had woken up. All of it was done against Rowan’s insistence. ❝ It was by pure accident when she had discovered another stand ability that she hadn’t been aware of before. She had been spending the entire time at the hospital numbing Nik’s pain with her stand, and at a certain point, they both had fallen asleep. She later told me she had found herself in an odd world, something that we all agreed was akin to the thoughts of our friend’s inner mind, his likes, dislikes, his memories… All of it. ❞

He paused, making eye contact with Giorno to ensure that he was still following along. ❝ She realized that she could use her target’s brain in that way, go through memories, like going through a library or computer to search for documents at her own leisure. She described it as exploring a ‘mini-world’, a manifestation of someone’s mind. Apparently, his looked like a giant rock concert and the people there all represented his thoughts and memories. She just simply had to interact with them to figure out what they were. ❞

Go figure. That was Nik, for you.

Taking a deep breath, Rowan lowered his gaze again to the earthy ground below. This is where he was getting to the part that was the most painful, the part that still was difficult for him to even think about.

❝ I don’t know exactly what happened. ❞ Rowan inhaled through his nostrils, his voice getting smaller as he spoke. ❝ I just assume that she used her ability to gain all the knowledge that she needed, because when she called me one night, Viridian was speaking as quickly as she possibly could over the phone, telling me all about Kenneth’s stand, where it was, how it worked, why he would only come back after months. Then her voice got cut off. ❞

He paused and swallowed, letting it sink in. He had to force himself not to allow tears to flood his eyes, trying his best to keep his composure. ❝ When I had found her, all of her blood had been drained from her body. ❞ An expression of deep shame and sadness painted across Rowan’s face as he continued. ❝ In case it was going to be one of your next questions, I can assure you of this: Dhampirs cannot turn anyone into dhampirs, nor vampires. Bites don’t work… Nor does pouring our blood into wounds. None of it works. Believe me… I’ve tried. Our half-human bodies simply don’t have that power. ❞

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general psa that i will NEVER be upset with you for taking forever/never answering something i send you 

we all have lives outside of this and muses are fickle like, i get it and i never want anyone to be afraid that i’d hold it against them like if i send you a meme and you’re not feeling it? you don’t need to answer it

if we plot something and i make a starter and you’re not feeling it anymore? that’s okay too. even if halfway through a thread it feels like it’s going nowhere so you wanna drop it? that’s 100% okay

honestly? you don’t even need to let me know you’re dropping something/not answering something like im not here to pressure you or bug you about replies and i don’t care if you’re actively writing with other people  or anything, like if you’re not interested in writing something with me i won’t take it personally

and even if you don’t want to drop something and take literal months to answer? that’s chill like me too okay

and all i ask is that you extend the same courtesy to me <3 

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Your headcanons are definitely what stick out. I also love the way you utilize his stand. You use it to its full potential and come up with the most creative ideas for it while sticking to the set of “rules” from canon! 10/10 Giorno would recommend

What is something about my portrayal[s] that sticks out?

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Aaahhhh thank you!! I really enjoy writing for Gold Experience, it's one of my favourite Stands! I'm glad you enjoy my headcanons too :D

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What is something about my portrayal[s] that sticks out?

Example being; my muses ticks they have, the way they talk, etcetera.

#「 meme prompts 」