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[Flipping through the pages, back and forth, reading. Looking at all of these entries, people complaining or waxing poetic about their own selves, bragging or putting down others... it all makes her sick. People being bored, complaining about being bored, acting like being bored is as bad as it gets... it just makes her SICK

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[enrico_puccio]

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[At this, there's a chuckle.]
No, that's where your mistaken. I have yet to investigate this world thoroughly, as I have only just arrived here, so I can make no judgments, but in the place I am from, I was akin to a god. Can you blame me for wishing I could be there again? I had finally achieved a goal I had been entrusted with by someone long ago.

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Mmm, and were you the strongest ever?

[enrico_puccio]

I did not need to be the strongest. Being able to control the fate of another is all the power one would need. Being able to control the fate of the world, being the icing on the cake. And then I find myself here, without that power. You can probably tell that I'm disappointed, but I'll make due until I return home. I've already learned the basics about this place as it is.

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Then there are things in your own world that might be able to disrupt whatever power you have there. Just like the castle disrupts everyone here.

[enrico_puccio]

[Oh, he knows this quite well... he was pretty dead before he came here, but he's not saying that out loud...]

... The only one who could have opposed me then was my brother, and his stand, weather report. And he is dead.

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... [Okay, even spiteful, bitter, Eris-influenced Rin is not without curiosity.]

What's a stand?

[enrico_puccio]

A stand is the embodiment of one's spirit, taking on a form that reflects them, and their power is reflective of this as well. The name comes from their appearance, when you call upon them, it is like you have another person 'standing' beside you, hence the name 'Stand'. There are those born with stands, and those like me, who awaken them by coming in contact with a certain object, which I am sure the castle was sure to avoid bringing here.

Their power is not unlimited. Some can only extend a few meters from their user, despite wielding immense amounts of power, and there are those who grow weaker the farther from their user they are. There are ones that act automatically, without having to be guided by their user, and some who even have personalities of their own and act against their users, and can continue to survive even after the user's death.

To those without stands, one might find the presence of one akin to 'ESP', a presence one cannot explain. I say this because those without stands are unable to see them.

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Oh. [Thinking that over.]

Could anyone awaken one, if they found the special object?

[enrico_puccio]

Yes. But... not without difficulty. Only one who survives the wound from the stand arrow can awaken the stand. But at the same time, no one said it needed to be a fatal wound, but it tends to be.

[When he first came in contact with the stand arrow, it had only cut his hand... he glanced at his palm, at the faint mark reminding him of the day he gained his stand.]

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It's always the same item?

[enrico_puccio]

Yes, and no. There are multiple stand arrows, but at my point in time in the world I am from, all but one had been destroyed.

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What for?

[enrico_puccio]

It was not my decision to make. All of them were held by the man I called my mentor, who gifted me with a portion of the stand arrow so that I would receive my own stand. When he was killed, those who killed him also destroyed the stand arrows.

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Why'd they hate them so much?

[enrico_puccio]

They feared that if someone got a hold of the stand arrows, they would be able to create an army of stand users. Just like my mentor had. The abilities of those particular followers were quite powerful, as well, so it is not a fear without basis.

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Oh... but they weren't all lost.