[Giorno's about as well-socialized as Shinya, so it works out, maybe. Although not as well for Giorno himself, who realizes quickly in the wake of Akira's response that he's already given too much away. The crux of the issue is one of fear and weakness, and he's got no desire to reveal that to a stranger, no matter how good at sleight of hand that stranger might be.]
Is it something you can learn to do?
[That's what he settles on eventually, as he cuts the deck on a whim, on impulse.]
Is it something they've said you have the capacity for? — Ah. The World.
[It doesn't look how he thought it would. There's real peace in the expression of the woman on the card, wrapped in her scarf with a wand in each hand. She seems powerful, but content. Not dangerous and cruel, as Polnareff told him his father's Stand was. So why did his father name it after this card?]
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Is it something you can learn to do?
[That's what he settles on eventually, as he cuts the deck on a whim, on impulse.]
Is it something they've said you have the capacity for? — Ah. The World.
[It doesn't look how he thought it would. There's real peace in the expression of the woman on the card, wrapped in her scarf with a wand in each hand. She seems powerful, but content. Not dangerous and cruel, as Polnareff told him his father's Stand was. So why did his father name it after this card?]