The battle for the arrow.
A great fight!
Contrasting ideals, allegories out the wazoo, who is the one deserving of the arrow!
It’s amazing, but what if Giorno wasn’t the one that was deserving of the arrow?
What if it was an alternate world where the arrow just didn’t work the way we expected
it to, and instead had gravitated towards Diavolo and he was the one to get it instead.
Also, for those that have been subscribed for a long time, you might have seen this
premise a while back when I was first getting into making content on JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure.
You understand more about anything the more you invest time into it, and I think my understanding
of functions and narrative are massively different from then and now.
The video itself is highly inaccurate as to what would happens, so I’m hoping to do
right now.
So, let’s get into this, starting with the setting.
So, the scenario itself can’t be too profound I would think.
The story of Golden Wind is structured to where the only thing that would truly make
sense is Giorno being the one to get the arrow.
But, let’s say that this is a scene where it supports that whole Doppio always being
there for Diavolo dynamic.
Let’s say that Mista only shot to keep him down because he worried too much about Bruno’s
body or he just missed because he’s shaky with the idea of shooting Bruno.
This would be good because since it benefits Doppio, it only happened because Mista’s
resolve was shaken.
So, that’s something now.
Now everything that happens in the story happens the way it does, and we get all the way down
to Giorno finally having the arrow in his hands.
While he’s holding the arrow up and looking at Diavolo, someone is rushing towards Giorno
with their last seconds left in a body.
Mista and Trish see it, it’s Bruno to them, and it should make sense because everyone
is going back into their body, but we know who it actually is.
It's Doppio about to fade out of Bruno’s body, but before doing so, he tackles Giorno
like a football player and the arrow goes flying out of his hands.
Everyone’s losing it, and Giorno is trying to explain that it’s not Bruno as fast as
he can as everyone sees what’s going on.
The arrow is in Diavolo’s hands now.
And before Doppio dies, he asks Diavolo in his dying breath if he did a good job.
Diavolo starts laughing in hysterical tone screaming, “Yes!
Yes Doppio you have!
My heart was shrouded with despair, but you.
Fate has chosen you to help me achieve my everlasting climax!”
Giorno and Trish are yelling and dashing up with their stands, Mista is in the back shooting,
but it doesn’t matter.
Diavolo activates the time erasing ability and has that same line of dialogue as before.
“I, Diavolo, am the emperor!
This fact remains unchanged!” and then jams the arrow right into the chest of King Crimson.
Time goes back to normal and everyone has missed their attacks, and Diavolo has disappeared
from where he once was.
Everyone is looking around, the feeling is like the calm before the storm.
And then, you hear the time erasing effect happen; the screen does that glitch effect
and then there he is.
Diavolo with KCR floating in the air above everyone like how Giorno and GER were.
Diavolo most likely says something to thank either Doppio or the combination of fate and
Doppio, it would probably sound like how he was talking to him during the Metallica fight.
“Doppio, oh my sweet Doppio.
” “You’ve made it possible for me to reach my everlasting climax!”
Trish tells the others about how the Arrow has accepted Diavolo, and after it, both Trish
and Giorno charge in with Mista on the ground shooting.
And now, we get King Crimson Requiem’s new abilities, so what’s about to happen here?
Now, the first thing is Absolute Epitaph.
King Crimson’s Epitaph ability lets him see up to ten seconds.
Since the original poetry of the ability was that he looks to the future so he can control
it since he can’t control the present, I wanted to have something that would end up
giving Diavolo exactly what he wanted, but make it into a ironic poetry type of thing
while also connecting it into some things that already exist in JoJo.
Absolute Epitaph has now merged with the entire body of King Crimson Requiem.
As to what it does, it now views time in the same way that you look at a video in a video
editor.
And with it being absolute, how far he can see all depends on how far he wants to see.
So, if he wanted to see the next 20 seconds he could, he could also see the next 20 days,
20 months, 20 years, the end of time, the beginning of time, etc.
Though while this ability seems great in an fighting aspect, it’s a terrible ability
to bear.
Or at least, that’s how I would feel if I had it.
Absolute Epitaph itself here doesn’t have to be activated for it to work, it’s a passive
ability to KCR, and only when Diavolo wants is when he would see it like how he normally
did before.
Basically, it works like this: KCR sees time as like a video in a video editor right, this
is always active, so basically it’s like you tabbed out of the video editor, but when
Diavolo specifically wants to see something instead of leaving it up to KCR, he can re-open
the program to see what’s up.
KCR will act for him regardless, Diavolo can just choose to see what’s going on if he
wants to.
Now that we established Absolute Epitaph, there’s what he can do with it, and the
other two abilities he has.
Since KCR views time the way it does now, fighting people is a lot different.
Instead of activating time erase and destroying people in the ability by using KC’s immense
strength, KCR now has the ability to erase his problems out of existence.
You can use Hakai as a reference as to how he can erase people, but how it works is a
bit different.
So, I’m going to use our example of the story I had going.
KCR sees time like a video editor, and people are layers in a sense.
Inside of AE, with the swipe of a hand he erases Giorno out of existence.
Or well, he doesn’t really need any motion, if it’s something he truly wants to happen,
KCR will do it.
It sounds crazy as an ability, but with how I’m having this story go, I promise we won’t
be seeing any of it, unfortunately.
The next ability is identity erasure.
It works like how Rohan had Heaven’s Door work against Koichi, every time he tried to
tell Josuke and Okuyasu about the danger he’s in, the idea of telling them disappears as
soon as he left.
Except here, it’s more so that as soon as you pursue Diavolo or the idea of finding
him out, it disappears out of your head.
Along with that, if he was to tell you about who he is, you’d forget it.
Which sounds like an ability Kira would love too.
As an example, say that instead of fighting everyone at the final fight, he just disappears,
and everyone forgets what they were pursuing.
And let’s say Diavolo goes to a restaurant to eat, and they come to give him the bill,
he’s like “I won’t be paying this, because Diavolo doesn’t pay for anything”.
And then he walks away because if they try to pursue him to pay the bill, that thought
disappears.
And if they were thinking about who is this man that didn’t pay, that thought also disappears.
He has the ability to basically be invisible in plain sight.
Like people at the restaurant will be able to see him sit there and order food and all
that, but as soon as he’s done with everything, they’ve forgotten everything about him.
It’s like he wasn’t even there.
As to why I gave them these abilities, it’s a fusion of upgrading the original abilities,
ironic poetry, and matching the desire and motivation of Diavolo.
Instead of giving examples here, I’ll just talk about what I’m doing with the story
of it.
Now let’s go back to the activation of King Crimson Requiem.
Diavolo and KCR are in the middle of Giorno, Trish, and Mista.
Diavolo activates his time erase ability thinking it works the same so once he does that, he
uses Epitaph and he can see KCR taking out Giorno.
Diavolo is extremely happy with the outcome, but wants to know what’s so different about
KCR that makes it the way it is.
KCR asks Diavolo if he wants him to show how far its abilities can be pushed.
Diavolo believes that fate is already in place so he can take care of everything for now,
but the idea that there can be more done interests him so he let’s KCR show off the extent
of its new abilities.
So then, KCR with the swipe of its cape takes Diavolo to a realm that visually looks similar
to the effect that time erase has, but it’s bit more spacious most likely and looks a
bit darker.
He sees the past week in a timeline like how we can see a video in a video editor, and
that’s like a cool trick to Diavolo, but then KCR grabs the end of it (which would
be to where they are right now) and then throws it all the way to its right.
Now time itself flies around him like what Truth did to Edward Elric in Fullmetal Alchemist
Brotherhood.
Diavolo sees the next decades, universes after, etc.
etc.
He’s legit stamina broken, and KCR stops it.
Diavolo sits back on the floor trying to register what happened.
In this time, no time has passed yet in the normal world.
Right now, Diavolo and KCR sit outside of time while this is all going on.
Diavolo tries to figure out what just happened by asking questions and KCR explain that it
could explain all that’s going on, but they still have a situation at hand.
To Diavolo, a good amount of time just passed and he’s taken in a lot of information.
He sees the original situation with Giorno, Trish, and Mista, but with seeing all that
time is, he doesn’t see reason in going back to that.
Instead he wants more time to reflect and ask questions, but he still doesn’t want
to deal with those that want to pursue him for his original position.
So, the identity erasure ability comes into play.
KCR assures Diavolo no one will be able to reach him, and they disappear.
There’s a big flash, time has gone back a bit, Giorno has the arrow in hand, Mist
and Trish are back to where they were, it looks like nothing has happened.
Giorno pierces himself with the arrow, Gold Experience Requiem happens, but there’s
no Diavolo here.
Or, Giorno can just recognize the situation and not use the arrow, I’m down with giving
a scenario for either road.
The Giorno with GER looks to his new stand and asks about Diavolo, and GER tells Giorno
that he doesn’t need to worry about him anymore because he won’t be a threat to
anyone anytime soon.
He doesn’t fully grasp what happened, but understand that what GER is saying is completely
true.
The Giorno without GER taking the arrow and just going on to become the boss and all that
doesn’t sound like something that would happen.
I feel like everyone would still be on edge until there’s confirmation that Diavolo
is no longer a problem so he actually uses the arrow anyways which goes back to our main
plan of the story.
Now, Giorno goes on to become the boss and all of that, but what happened to Diavolo
after that fight.
Well, with the knowledge he has of time itself and his interest to understand more, him and
KCR spend their days roaming the earth or standing outside of time while Diavolo tries
to learn more and understand all that is.
The life he lived before and the idea of just continuing on what he was doing originally
seems so insignificant that he doesn’t pursue it at all, nor does he plan to do it.
And as a cool little call back to when Diavolo and Doppio were one, Diavolo takes boats as
a means of transportation when he wants to sit down and reflect.
Calling back to when he wanted to live his life as a sailor.
Now Diavolo had became everything that he wanted to be, and got all he wanted, it just
didn’t come out the way that it was originally planned.
He wanted to stand at the top alone, and now with his understanding of the universe and
time itself, he does stand alone.
Or well, not entirely alone because there’s KCR.
He’s no longer worried of his past or think its something of his that needs to be destroyed
because gone so far that mentality.
The old Diavolo was cursed to live by dying infinitely, that being his hell.
This Diavolo’s hell is having everything he’s ever wanted and knowing it all.
And that’s the end of the scenario.
Also, Diavolo being able to see all that is, is the wish of a someone we know.
Unless you’re not caught up, shout-out to part 6 people who know what I’m getting
at.
Now, this is just my take on how KCR would work and what would happen after.
People can have their take on it and write up their own scenario as to what would happen
after.
If you do draw up your own take on it, I’d love to see it, and you can send it to my
twitter.
Also, if you want to draw up this video as a comic or something, you can send that to
my twitter also.
I love seeing
stuff like that in general.
Thank you all for watching!
I haven’t done a what if type of video in a while, and would love to make more because
I like the idea of trying to elaborate on a possibility.
I do think that I’m in the better position to do it now versus my past videos where I’ve
done what ifs that I’m a bit shaky on now.
Or well, there’s a lot videos that I did back then that I would love to redo now, but
I don’t think people would be too up for that and it would be better for me to just
keep moving on forward than to always try to fix up the past.
Though I might fix up a thing or to when I feel like it.
Hopefully I’ll see you all in
the next one, until then, peace out and God speed.