[The first monster he sees probably doesn't look very familiar at first glance. The first monster he sees is a mess, a Frankenstein-esque mishmash of things, dark hair and light, human and spider, skin and fur and claws and teeth. He's attempting to drown himself in a heavy black coat, but it doesn't do much anymore to hide the fact that there are too many arms under there, or that some of them are misshapen and strangely elongated.]
[The look on his face: that might be familiar. A certain haughty peevishness at being addressed so rudely, a disinclination to obey. When he turns, there's some clear intent to be scathing, just for a moment, before he recognizes Polnareff — and then his eyes go wide.]
[That look, too, Polnareff will know. That old fear, an uncertainty about what is real and what is not, the most childish look Giorno Giovanna ever wears. It looks younger, somehow, under the shock of black in his bangs.]
P— P—
[He covers his mouth with one hand, one of the more normal ones. It occurs to him too late that he's not covering the right part of himself; the mouth is the least offensive, these days. His eyes shine in the darkness, two with tears, the rest with silver.]
[Hasn't he done enough already? Hasn't he been through enough?]
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[The look on his face: that might be familiar. A certain haughty peevishness at being addressed so rudely, a disinclination to obey. When he turns, there's some clear intent to be scathing, just for a moment, before he recognizes Polnareff — and then his eyes go wide.]
[That look, too, Polnareff will know. That old fear, an uncertainty about what is real and what is not, the most childish look Giorno Giovanna ever wears. It looks younger, somehow, under the shock of black in his bangs.]
P— P—
[He covers his mouth with one hand, one of the more normal ones. It occurs to him too late that he's not covering the right part of himself; the mouth is the least offensive, these days. His eyes shine in the darkness, two with tears, the rest with silver.]
[Hasn't he done enough already? Hasn't he been through enough?]
[He wants to scream.]