My Analysis on Giomis and Why I Ship Them (1/2)
I doubt this will get any real attention since I hardly use tumblr, but I digress. Any-who, ever since I read Vento Aureo for the second time, I was struck by many important scenes I missed during my first read through. Unfortunately, the terrible scans and awful translations I read of VA, really hindered my understanding of what was happening in the entire series as a whole. Thankfully, I found colored scans fully translated in English (some of it is still a bit off, and I am waiting for Jojo’s Colored Adventure to finish translating all of the colored volumes), that helped me grasp many aspects of the story I missed the first time around.
The most important of these details I missed the first time around, was Giorno and Mista’s budding relationship throughout the series. When you are forced to stare at low quality images with sub-par translations, what tends to happen is that you try to read as quickly as you can just to grasp some idea of story’s main plot. I unfortunately did this during my first run through of VA, so when I decided to give part 5 a second chance, I made sure I found scans that wouldn’t make my eyes bleed. As I re-read each chapter, it felt as if I was experiencing the story for the first time, and found myself relating to Giorno’s character even more. Like myself, he is a quiet reserved person, who enjoys spending all of his time alone. He has goals, dreams, and ambitions that give him a hunger for success. Being only a 15 year old boy, with no real guidance on how to achieve his dream, he simply turned to petty crimes in order to put his name out there. Meeting Bruno became a life changing experience–he found someone who valued his goals, and offered to work with him (though warning that if he got caught, Bruno would abandon their partnership) in order to make those goals into a reality. Having someone who is older, and experienced like Bruno, would have given Giorno confidence, for he found someone that he could not only work together with, but look up to as a mentor.
When Giorno meets the other members of Bruno’s team, quickly he learns that he has to prove himself, and tries to act coolly towards their mistrust. In fact, an important thing he says after drinking Abbacchio’s special tea, is that he was going to hide his stand abilities, because he felt that they wouldn’t openly show theirs to him. This gets reinforced when Abbacchio berates Giorno and refuses to summon Moody Blues while they are attacked on the boat to Polpo’s treasure. Why is this particularily so important? Well, that’s because Mista, being the carefree person he is, doesn’t even attempt to hide Sex Pistols from Giorno. In fact, he offers to team up with him right away, something that shocks Giorno. Mista doesn’t try to hide himself from the teenager, instead he offers to work with him on various missions. For Giorno, who must have been feeling the pressures of being isolated from the rest of the group, this would have been refreshing and comforting.
Skipping ahead to the White Album arc, (ah yes that quintessential Giomis arc), Giorno still wasn’t fully integrated into the group. The members of Bruno’s gang still thought of him as just some newbie, and Mista again, finds himself working with the teenager. When Ghiaccio’s stand attacks them, it is an ability that completely counters Giorno’s. In fact, as he sat there freezing in the driver’s seat, Giorno felt hopeless. He voiced his concerns to Mista repeatedly, telling him that the mission was the most important thing, and that he felt as if there was nothing he could really do to help. Mista countered Gio’s pessimism with his own optimistic view on life, telling the teenager that even in the most difficult of times, there is a silver lining. This was exactly what Giorno needed to hear. Mista’s encouragement, guidance, and directions, was enough to remind the teenager that all hope was not lost. He pushed Gio to use Gold Experience, making special bullets for him to use, and even further supports Gio by shouting Gold Experience for him when he couldn’t.
What’s important to consider with this arc, is the fact that Giorno was willing to get himself killed, and sacrifice his dreams, in order to stay loyal to the group. This means during that point, he was at his lowest, and Mista was there to pick him back up. Importantly, Giorno offered Mista the same support in return, guiding him as a leader to find his resolve to stay alive. Once White Album is defeated, we then get one of the most IMPORTANT scenes from the VA manga, which is the one where Giorno heals Mista’s head wound, and holds him as the sun symbolically rises behind them, illuminating the path to victory. The teenager then gives a very touching speech, letting readers know that Mista and Giorno are going to stay “together” until the end–this is one of the few instances where Jojo gives us a life-flag rather than a death-flag. We get a hint that Mista will be one of the survivors, following Giorno wherever he decides to go. Also, it is important to note that when the other members of passione monologue about the teenager’s charisma and leadership skills, it is all one-sided–Giorno offers no commentary in return. However, with Mista, Giorno is the first to speak up on the 18 year old’s determination, giving an excellent speech about his remarkable skills as a fighter.
WOW this came out to be much longer than I thought…and I am nowhere near done with my analysis…I’ll make another post sometime soon about this…starting with everyone’s favorite scene of Giorno “healing” Mista and how, though it is a gag, it’s timing in the narrative and changing dynamics of their relationship, suddenly gives their partnership a lot more sexual/romantic overtones.
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