1: who overcame his fears

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[Mayfield is in for something a little familiar today; 730 Anderson, not so much. A Japanese boy is lurking in the kitchen, inspecting every appliance and scrutinizing the photographs with a furrowed brow. Oddly, he's wearing sunglasses indoors

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[Crowe's heading to class and passes Kakyoin in the hall. Used to seeing a drone smile on his friend's face by now, be notices it's been replaced with an irritated frown and a pair of sunglasses. Crowe stops dead and calls back to him.]

K... Kakyoin!

(yay)

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[He turns toward the voice, setting his jaw. It doesn't sound like anyone he knows. Suspicion and past experience say that if someone in an unfamiliar place knows him, but he doesn't know them, they're probably the Stand User who is screwing with him.

So he closes up his posture further and lets Hierophant curl around his shoulders, unseen.]

Yes?

:3

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[For a brief second, Crowe's face lights up. He looks thrilled to see his friend returned! But it doesn't last long. Already this was suspicious, and Crowe was more than used to people coming back without remembering anything.]

You... You're back. O-Or don't you...

<3????

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What...? Why are you looking at me like that?

[Kakyoin takes a deep breath and sends Hierophant on a sort of test-attack. The Stand stops well short of Crowe, but he's trying to see if the boy is a Stand user.]

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[The man before you now looks like someone just dropped the weight of the world back on his shoulders again.]

Ah... y-you just woke up here recently, didn't you.

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[No reaction. Not a Stand User.]

This morning. Who are you? And why do you think you know me?

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U-Um. I can explain, though the hallways of the school might not be the best place for it. But... you've been here before.

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[A bit of a surprised look flashes onto his face, but is quickly erased. He looks around, seemingly doing nothing, but he's sending Hierophant scouting.

There's an unoccupied, quiet space behind the stairs. Kakyoin nods in that direction and starts walking that way.]

Prove it.

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[Crowe follows after.] Ah... I probably have photos of you. I-I take a collection because, as strange as it will continue to sound, this happens all the time. A lot of people leave, come back and forget they were ever here.

[He thinks it over for a moment.] One of my "family" members knows you from home somehow. A-And I have one of your drawings.

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[Kakyoin stops, staring, his expression softening as this information confuses him completely.]

How could you have one of my drawings? I don't give those to anyone. I'm... not sure I can believe you.

If you have that, and if you have photos... Unless this is a Stand, you're not lying.

[Yep. Completely confused...]

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Ah, when y-you were here before... we were friends. Though I know you won't believe that. But it's in my room, I can show you it.

No, I don't have a Stand or anything like it. I-I know you do, but I can't see it. A-And I'm starting to wonder if Mayfield took your memories but left your things from home intact for some reason. Otherwise you wouldn't be wearing the sunglasses, I'd wager.

[Let it never be said that Crowe is unobservant.]

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[Kakyoin blinks behind the sunglasses, then takes them off to look at Crowe.]

Do you know my Stand's name? And what happened to my eyes? I want to see all this proof.

[This can't be...]

You're not the first person who has recognized me, but no one else could prove anything.

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Hierophant. A-And no, I don't. I never asked.

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...

[Kakyoin begins to look worried.]

Right. If I was somewhere unfamiliar, I wouldn't have told, anyway. Do you remember anything else about me?

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I figured it wasn't my business anyway.

Um. You used to live here with Mr. Kujo, who's droned now. He's someone you knew from back home. I know that you know Hol Horse too, but I know you're not friends with him. Like anyone would be.

I also know that you don't like people all that much, but we still became friends, somehow.

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...Kujo? Jotaro was here?

[Kakyoin frowns, then begins to look completely disturbed. Hierophant coils tightly around his shoulders.]

--You're telling the truth. Who are you?