[This is making Trish wonder if Diavolo swept it under the rug. Or obfuscated some of the truth, but she's dug deep enough to know now.
It makes too much sense for Doppio to have ever been a separate person.
Indeed, he may be a wholly distinct entity from Diavolo, but he's nonetheless a symbiotic one. How else could Diavolo hide so perfectly in plain sight, ruling over Passione without every being identified? With meek Doppio as a front, he could skirt by detection, eyes passing over the unremarkable silhouette Doppio cut.
It also helps her to not lose her nerve or second-guess herself because she's seen exactly how this sort of relationship functions for herself. Without Cervo, maybe Doppio could have said these things and been right. But here he is, a man who denies the reality, not realizing he's made another entity to stand in for him in this world. Almost like it's a survival mechanism of his, to let another personality subsume him wholesale until it's time for them to relinquish control and let him deal with the problems he's meant to handle.
Still...this is troubling. He believes, and yet he doesn't. Where's the divide? Can it be crossed? She can lead a deer to port, so to speak, but she can't make him take the ferry.]
That "family connection thing" is almost certainly a result of my Stand awakening.
I have neither her nor that ability here, so I can't say that's a fair argument to put forth when the first time I ever saw you for myself was on this very peninsula. There's simply no comparison that can be made.
Similarly, I can't prove that you were always the same person, but there are reasons for me to believe that to be true. To imply otherwise would mean that somehow, you two were completely separate people that got put into one body, but that's much harder to pull off than to be two souls in one body, especially when you could seamlessly share King Crimson in a way unheard of among Stand users.
I brought this up not because I want to hold it over you, either. It's more that when I thought about the stories I was told about my father, you fit the description more than your Boss ever has.
Do I want it to be true? No. I wish my father could've been as sweet and kind as the person my mother remembered. Ignoring those supposed traits, you've shown yourself to be a cowardly sycophant, while your other half is heartless and colder than the deepest parts of Hell.
Neither of us gets anything good out of the truth other than some closure on my part.
That being said, if you're not interested, I'm not going to push the issue. Ignoring the biology of it, if you really weren't present enough to remember, then calling you anything resembling "father" must be laughable to you.
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It makes too much sense for Doppio to have ever been a separate person.
Indeed, he may be a wholly distinct entity from Diavolo, but he's nonetheless a symbiotic one. How else could Diavolo hide so perfectly in plain sight, ruling over Passione without every being identified? With meek Doppio as a front, he could skirt by detection, eyes passing over the unremarkable silhouette Doppio cut.
It also helps her to not lose her nerve or second-guess herself because she's seen exactly how this sort of relationship functions for herself. Without Cervo, maybe Doppio could have said these things and been right. But here he is, a man who denies the reality, not realizing he's made another entity to stand in for him in this world. Almost like it's a survival mechanism of his, to let another personality subsume him wholesale until it's time for them to relinquish control and let him deal with the problems he's meant to handle.
Still...this is troubling. He believes, and yet he doesn't. Where's the divide? Can it be crossed? She can lead a deer to port, so to speak, but she can't make him take the ferry.]
That "family connection thing" is almost certainly a result of my Stand awakening.
I have neither her nor that ability here, so I can't say that's a fair argument to put forth when the first time I ever saw you for myself was on this very peninsula. There's simply no comparison that can be made.
Similarly, I can't prove that you were always the same person, but there are reasons for me to believe that to be true. To imply otherwise would mean that somehow, you two were completely separate people that got put into one body, but that's much harder to pull off than to be two souls in one body, especially when you could seamlessly share King Crimson in a way unheard of among Stand users.
I brought this up not because I want to hold it over you, either. It's more that when I thought about the stories I was told about my father, you fit the description more than your Boss ever has.
Do I want it to be true? No. I wish my father could've been as sweet and kind as the person my mother remembered. Ignoring those supposed traits, you've shown yourself to be a cowardly sycophant, while your other half is heartless and colder than the deepest parts of Hell.
Neither of us gets anything good out of the truth other than some closure on my part.
That being said, if you're not interested, I'm not going to push the issue. Ignoring the biology of it, if you really weren't present enough to remember, then calling you anything resembling "father" must be laughable to you.