gettin shippy with it?

[acuition]

Who: the good folks on the caprine
Broadcast: not likely!
Action: for the good folks on the caprine, or anybody visiting.
When: right now? right now!!!

[ Whether you're new to the ship or happy to be back or really mad to be back...you're here. That's what matters.

Because it's a mingle post. You know how it is. ]

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[nextlineis]

[Joseph manages to not give into the instinct to put his head on Caesar's when Caesar's comes to rest on his shoulder, but it's not easy. Especially with Caesar starting to relax slowly and bring it back down. That pulls on him more than anything. But one thing at a time. Especially when he has no idea how to have that conversation with Lisa Lisa. Not that any conversation with her thus far has been all that easy to have, but one step at a time.]

[What Lisa Lisa says manages to catch Joseph somewhat by surprise, which he supposes it shouldn't, but... Well, he'd never considered that in some small way, he'd be able to have pieces of his father, too. Erina didn't hide as much about him as she did everything to do with Lisa Lisa from Joseph, but his father was never an easy topic of conversation for Erina. Joseph made a conscious effort from a young age to not ask too many questions at once. After a while, he only asked for the same things again and again that he knew were easier to talk about. Then he stopped asking altogether, not out of disinterest necessarily, but it never seemed worth stirring all of that up for her.]

Granny didn't like to talk about him much. She only really talked about what he was like after he married you, towards the end.

[And she told that lie about how he died, again and again because Joseph needed to know there was a reason his father was gone. That his death had been noble and meant something. He wonders now how she felt about that. Did that make it better or worse to change the details like that? Either way, she was without her son, but maybe it was easier for her to think that he died a good man, but didn't die for the same reasons her husband did. Maybe it made it easier believing that Joseph could somehow escape that legacy. But maybe it made it worse and just made it feel like she was constantly holding her breath, waiting for the worst to come because not even her son, who had no abilities, hadn't been able to.]

[hitbyakar]

[ Yes, she's sure that Erina would find it hard to talk about it. To know that the Joestar men had a seemingly unescapable fate, and to find out that Joseph hadn't escaped that fate after all, despite all their efforts ... It's hard to keep losing the people you love.

And for Joseph to never know ... it all seems so pointless now. She wishes he could have known from the beginning. But here they are. All she can do is try her best to be better, to be there for him, from here on out. ]

... I'll do my best to tell you all of it. Anything I can remember, from beginning to end.

[nextlineis]

[Joseph nods slowly. This is good. It's...closer to what it should be. Maybe not exactly, but it's more than close enough for it to count for Joseph.]

I'd like that. But I don't want to know just about him. I want to know about you, too. Granny never talked about you. [He tilts his head a little.] I guess she was worried anything might have given the truth away.

[Joseph's not always the sharpest tool in the shed, but who knows what he would have done with any detail about his mother. He'd have been too tenacious not to follow it wherever it might lead, so it very well might have put him on this path sooner, led him to discovering the truth on his own rather than someone having to tell him or accidentally stumbling into it.]

[hitbyakar]

[ ... Her looks softens, a little. It's not really a smile, but ... ]

... She knew, I think, the type of child you would be.

[ The type who would ask questions if there was even the slightest hint that she was alive. The type who would go find her, if he even had the smallest clue. Maybe even if he didn't. Erina knew the type of person she had been far too well to not expect as much from her son. ]

[nextlineis]

Maybe.

[His small grin is just the barest of hints that maybe Joseph wasn't always the easiest child to raise when it came to telling him "no." Whether he managed to charm his way through or if he was just bound and determined to do what he wanted varied, but he was used to getting things his way in the long-run.]

You haven't actually seen Granny since you left, have you?