I thought of pucci taking emporio under his wing after killing his mom then remembered that im just thinking of the plot of ringing bell
Ok but imagine it. Pucci only just realizing the woman he killed had a child so he raised him out of guilt, but at the same time out of the need to use burning down the house to get a ghost version of dio's diary
hi op I hope you don't mind but my brain went a tad insane with the idea of this but in my defense it's in the AMs and Brain Juice Is Blorping and also let me apoligise in advance for any spelling errors because I can't spell for shit even on a good, well rested day so who knows what's gonna happen here
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Emporio's mom trying to run away and escape upon realising the danger this prision contains in it's walls. Her knowing she can't escape, that nowhere in the prision will be safe for her, nowhere aside from out is beyond his reaches or could keep her safe
she needs to escape then, she realises. But she can't do it now, no no no, she needs to plan, needs to prepare, needs to make sure it was flawless, and above all else she needs to ensure Emporio could come with her. She could hardly leave her baby, her precious boy behind. She'll lie low inside his ghost rooms, she decides, and starts bolting to the staircase that hides the entrance
..........but she wasn't careful enough. She was followed
she's a comatose husk before she even made it through
but Pucci always had an eye for detail, and eye for noticing things. And in his hand he held the woman's memories and her Stand, had her body melting away into nothing, and yet the strange fold in the wall was still present. He'd known of Stand abilities persisting after death but this........ this felt different
so slowly, gently, carefully, just in case this was a trap set to get him, a final way to get back at him, he goes through
it was a strange room, one he'd never seen before in the prision, but he supposed that was on par for a Stand ability. The atmosphere was nice, if a bit old, and he had no clue why a piano of all things was in here or even how it got in here and
and hiding behind the piano, staring up at him with big, amber eyes is a boy
he was young, so so young, and far too small and frightened and quiet then any child his age should be. He does not speak, does not question the presence of this stranger, he simply watches and stares
and it's in this moment Pucci recalls the desperation in which the woman had fought and fled. How she'd come to this place with such certainty, like she knew the route by heart
it's far too late for her. Her corpse was being broken down as he stood here and watched this child, and even if he stopped in now the chance of her surviving was slim to none. He does not regret killing her........ but he does regret what this boy has lost. That his encounter with the boy's mother had to end the way it did
that this boy will have to grow up without a mother who loved him dearly
he realises a moment later he cannot kill this child. He has crossed many lines, but that was all for the sake of attaining Dio's Heaven...... the murder of this boy would ultimately be meaningless
and he's obviously a Stand User, his mother was one and what else could explain the continued existence of the room. It would be dangerous to put him into the system, both for himself and others. At this age, he would be very vulnerable, very malleable-
no, he cannot in good faith just send this child out into the world
so he crouches down and speaks in soft tones. He tries to becon the boy closer, asks him what he's doing here and where his parents are as if he doesn't already know the answers. He coaxes the boy, Emporio he is called, out away from the piano and then out of the room and into the staircase where his mother spent her last moments
perhaps he picks him up, gently setting him on his hip. He introduces himself and what he does, and as the night stretches on he tells him stories to pass the time. He takes him to his study and locks the door, and sets him down on the couch so he can sleep
and while he does, Pucci begins to plan
(and maybe, just maybe, while he doesn't realise it in the back of his mind he thinks of Dio and his childhood before the Joestars. He thinks of stories of a wonderful, kind woman who loved him so, and yet was ripped so cruely from the world far too soon. He thinks of Dio's quiet ponderings of how things possibly could've been different had she been there, if things could've changed, if he could've known the tragedy before it struck to prevent it)
(he thinks that in the next world, after Heaven is obtained, that Emporio could be allowed his mother the same way Dio would be allowed his)