#stoneposting

Selected stones of Elden Ring:

Script

Warming

Frenzyflame

Explosive

Glintstone (scrap)

Poisoned

Explosive (clump)

Glintstone (large scrap)

a fascinating little detail in anime. turns out the close up between dio and pucci was a mirror on the canonical close up with donatello.

interestingly enough with donatello it also starts as a small help, a foot injury, and overall an idea of "help" that is just for personal reasons (also about "allergies"). donatello is the closest in temperament to dio. but pucci would have never been able to fully see by himself as he met dio separated from his story, a dio outside of context that is showing himself as the upmost composed person ever, after all he's manipulating a traumatized teenager into becoming the exact piece in his plan he need him to be.

while there could be details of his cruelty showing, such as the overall idea that murder is necessary to achieve a true heaven (a bit of that is explored here), its most likely pucci never saw the full extend of dio's cruelty (which was in fact so big i don't think a single joestar ever got to see the full extension of it)

there was a coldness in treatment overall, as is pucci with people, but when donatello places the children the coldness is impossible to die, willing to let him die. and when he steals pucci's secret he straight up tells him that he doesn't deserve to be in dio's and his plan. yet he will never know that if dio was still alive he would have been similar. pucci will never know who was the man that reshaped his life. he will never know who was the monster that gave him a martyr complex