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Jolyne was taking a stroll around town later in the evening, as she tends to do when she’s ill-tempered. As she was finally becoming a bit more relaxed, she spots Jotaro out of the corner of her eye. Her heart flutters a bit, a bit anxious at his appearance. She wasn’t expecting him to be around town at all. She quickly changes her direction and encounters him after a thought’s hesitation on whether or not to talk to him.
“Yo. You uh… look lost? Are you feeling alright?” She says to him slightly confused, yet having a slight scowl towards the man, which is not too unusual for Jolyne. He should know this town like the back of his hand. Why is he acting like he’s in a new place?
“Yeah, I guess you could say I’m lost. Although I don’t expect you to be able to understand the concept of a Stand, so…” he looked around, “Where and when am I? And who are you?”
Star Platinum appeared, and pointed at the girl’s shoulder, “Ora!”
Jotaro glanced at her shoulder, “Wait… you have a Joestar birthmark? Then you must be related to me somehow.” He said, pulling down the collar of his coat to reveal the same star-shaped birthmark in the same spot.
Perking up at the word “Stand”, she appears aggravated at Jotaro’s cluelessness. Jolyne looks briefly at her birthmark when Star Platinum points it out, and shifts her weight to her left leg while putting her hands on her hips. Looking up at him, she states: “… My name is Jolyne. Your… Sigh…” She trails off a bit and looks at the ground while saying her next word. “…Daughter.” She looks back up at him. “You’re in my hometown where you married my Mother and you recently went on a trip to Hawaii to study the artifacts of an extinct marine species. I wasn’t expecting you back for another week.” After finishing her explanation, Jolyne stares hard at Jotaro. He’s younger. Rather than being surprised at this, she loosens her firm posture and softens her expression. “How did you come here?”
Jotaro took a few moments to process what she had just said,
“So I have a daughter?” He asked, “Well… this situation is probably the last one I expected myself to be in. Not quite sure how to react to this… I get back home after being attacked by Stand users for 50 days, my best friend’s house burns down, and now I’m talking with the daughter I haven’t had yet? Yare yare daze, I never thought my life could end up like this. Hopefully I become a better father than my dad…”
He adjusted his hat, and awaited a reply.
Jolyne darts her eyes away and gives a slight chuckle. “You weren’t the best Father, but recently… you’ve been there for me.” Realizing how cheesy that sounded, she rolls her eyes and huffs. Jolyne’s phone buzzes twice in her pocket. She checks it in front of Jotaro. It was her Mother telling her dinner was ready. She puts it away immediately, not wanting to be rude. She probably shouldn’t come back home with a younger version of her Father.
She bites her lip and looks into the distance, pondering… Deciding on it, she asks, “Do you want to see somewhere special to me? I haven’t gone there in years.” She smiles slightly and raises an eyebrow. “Unless you have plans to keep wandering around aimlessly.” Jolyne subconsciously decides not to be bitter towards him, since it wasn’t exactly HIM who had left her in her youth… She’ll show him her Father’s better side by taking him to this location.
Jotaro raised an eyebrow at the cell phone, but just assumed it was a futuristic pager, and nodded,
“I suppose I could spare some time. But I suppose I’ll try harder when it’s my turn to be your father. To be there for you all the time, instead of just recently.”
He then slid his hands into his pockets, and followed her,
“So, we’re in America?” He asked, seeing all of the buildings and street signs.
Jolyne tries to hide her sincere smile when Jotaro says those words about being a better Father. She never realized or even thought he could have a sweeter side. Snapping out of her daze, she glances at him and their surroundings and says a bit too loudly, ”Yeah! Florida, to be exact.” Facepalming in her mind over how stiff and awkward she was being, she walks a tad faster towards her favorite park. Luckily she didn’t have to converse much since it was nearby.
They arrive at the park. To anyone, it would seem that this is just a field of flowers with dense woods behind it. However, to Jolyne, this field of flowers means a lot to her. They were in full bloom and consisted of multi-colored tulips, daffodils, and even azaleas. This place was peaceful at night and the only thing that could be heard was the chilled breeze and crickets from the woods.She walked up to the statue of a bear in the middle of the field. Gently touching the faded inscription, she speaks: “You took me here when I was younger. I was so excited to finally spend time with you, but…” She frowns. “Afterwards, you didn’t come home for years.”
Not waiting for a response from him, she walks a few paces over and plops down onto the bed of flowers. “Aaah!” Her face is full of glee and nostalgia. She almost forgets that Jotaro is even there. Perhaps this was her way of escaping an uncomfortable situation with him.
“Mmm.” Jotaro said, looking around, and giving a small smile, “This place is nice.”
He took out his small notepad and a pencil, and held them up. Star Platinum appeared behind Jotaro and began rapidly scribbling away.
“Star Platinum has perfect eyesight and precision. So I’ll have it draw.”
Within moments, the stand handed back a completed drawing of the park, that Jotaro then handed to Jolyne, “Here. Now it’ll never be far away.” He said.
“I left you alone for years… yare yare daze. That’s exactly like my father. I’m not sure if my changes will affect your memories, but hopefully I can do better when I get the chance.”
Jolyne is extremely surprised that Jotaro would draw her a picture of this place! She sits up, accepting the drawing. She gives a small sigh and smiles when she looks down at it. Jolyne pats the ground next to her, signaling him to sit down with her. “I appreciate your sympathy… I really do.” And she meant this with all her heart.
Talking to the younger version of her Father wasn’t that hard. It was much easier than actually talking to her real Father. The woman hugs her knees to her chest and continues her last remark before she sat down. “You played with me here and made me a flower crown. We blew bubbles and you let me sit on your shoulders. It was… actually really scary for a little kid.” She laughs at this and sits back. “I have a Stand, too… I only got it about a year ago because I was in danger.” Jolyne looks at him and shrugs. “Dunno if it’s as powerful as yours, though. But I have saved you a few times, y’know.”
Jotaro nodded and sat down next to her, and chuckled a bit at the story,
“I’ll keep that in mind for next time.” He replied, “and I’m sure that future me is grateful for you saving me. As for being as powerful as Star Platinum, I don’t think that it matters. Every stand is powerful in its own way. Kakyoin’s Hierophant isn’t very strong, but is an excellent ranged Stand with tons of utility uses. Same with my grandfather’s Hermit Purple. So your stand is powerful in its own way. And honestly it has to be better than Tower of Grey, or The Emperor.”
“Mmm…” She tried to appear lost in thought as a string emerging from her finger slowly went behind them both. The string grabbed Jotaro’s hat and retracted back into Jolyne’s hand, along with his hat. She put the hat on her head and smirked. “Stone Free.”
Her stand suddenly emerged behind her. It’s hand slowly re-wrapped itself going from string to a distinctable hand. Stone Free looked rather bored with the situation and emitted strength and confidence in her posture. She then disappeared.
Jolyne quickly gave a second thought to stealing Jotaro’s hat. She knew that he’d be mad! The agile woman quickly bolted up from her spot and dashed toward the other direction, trying not to laugh. Being this silly was a bit new and odd to Jolyne, but she felt happy at his remarks at trying to be a better Father. Maybe she should have thought twice about stealing his hat, though. She does remember him getting extremely angry about it for no reason.
“You’ll never get your hat back, Jotaro. So long as I live!” If only she remembered that her Father can stop time as she quickly ran away.
Unknown to Jotaro, Jolyne was actually trying to take him to another place deep in the woods. The hat was just a ploy so he wouldn’t ask about where he was going.
Jotaro chuckled a bit, and suddenly appeared in front of her, taking the hat,
“This hat is expensive.” He said, putting it back on, “So your stand is called Stone Free, and it uses string? Interesting. Did you name it yourself?” He inquired, as he followed her deeper into the woods,
“I didn’t get to name Star Platinum. It got its name because I pulled a card out of a Tarot deck called ‘The Star.’ The name seemed to fit, so I stuck with it.”