2. If today was your last day
(TRIGGER WARNING. This meme deals heavy with death and also possibly with strong violence or with suicide/depression. If you are not comfortable reading about that, please PLEASE do not proceed further.)
( It's long and you had warnings. Proceed? )
( It's long and you had warnings. Proceed? )
Maybe Giorno, ever the hopeful one, ever the one who refuses to sacrifice anyone but himself (Fugo and the key, Mista at the river, Narancia and the shark), should find a way to restore life into the situation, to reach out and draw on his gold and breathe new hope into the inanimate.
Maybe Giorno shouldn't be standing there, his eyes open and hardly blinking, not letting himself look away from his caporegime-- no, his friend's-- death, and should instead be reaching out, pulling his future away from himself and back into the body of the man he respects so much.
But it's his ability, his ability that gives so much and has potential for so much, that also whispers that there's nothing that can be done, that with life there will be death. It tells him that Buccellati will die here, and though his death is a mournful requiem, it's a prelude to other things, to beautiful things, to his own awakening and to he hope of many.
But even despite that, even despite the beautiful legacy that Buccellati will leave him, it's still painful. Too painful, but Giorno looks on, one hand over his own beating heart, compensating, compromising, consoling himself. (because it's not in his nature to let others console him)
He would cry, but he won't do it yet. Not here, not until everything is done.
And then, he'll go to Buccellati's native town, to the house that overlooks the ocean, and maybe then he'll cry and blame it on the salt of the ocean. Who knows? That's still far into the future.]
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