standless: (just smile and bear it)
Jonathan Joestar ([personal profile] standless) wrote in [community profile] graveyardsmash 2019-10-22 08:50 pm (UTC)

I'm sorry? [Already? That doesn't make much sense, he wants to say, unless...

...unless. Jonathan's expression brightens significantly, no doubt an odd expression to see in this situation.
] J....Joestar? Then that was...

[Then that was the mark that he'd seen- and not some trick of the light at all!]

...I- [His mind, suffice to say, does not go to alternate dimensions. Johnny's clothes are too unfamiliar- instead, the man thinks of what Speedwagon told him of the short near future Jonathan himself had missed.]

You must excuse my shock. I knew I would have ultimately left descendants behind, but I never expected... [...He's...Crying. It's not a very noticeable one mind- his eyes simply water with elation and shock alike, all sadly based in one very incorrect assumption. It's just a lot.

A lot of unexpected good, in his opinion at least.
] 'Johnny'? As in Jonathan as well then, I presume? [he laughs, the sound short and somewhat broken, punctuated by the surprise.]

...I never thought I would see any family ever again...

[Ah...] ...Not to impose, of course- we've only now met, I could never demand that sort of trust of another so quickly over shared names. I simply...

...I suppose I had ultimately resigned myself to never seeing what I was to miss, if that makes any sense.

[Besides that, he's given no thought for whoever Johnny left behind other than a horse. He shouldn't impose that kind of ideal of happiness on someone who just lost their world.]

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