[Strange. That's not a typical reaction to have, especially not to so innocuous a question. He'd been silently finding some boring commonplace bit of trivia to supply about Italy, something true but ultimately useless — my grandmother is Italian, maybe — but the reaction, suppressed as it is, makes him abandon the notion of small talk on the subject almost instantly.
Japanese on his mother's side — did that make it the important half, the way that he himself was so inextricably tangled up in the legacy of his mother's family?
He thinks of that smile, the way it's changed throughout the conversation; he considers the way his posture has shifted, the transformations in attitude, the almost playful way of inviting questions.
Giorno Giovanna...is the sort of person who seeks to control the situation, no matter what situation he's in.
So maybe it's not what he says that makes the difference, but what he doesn't say, and smooths over so you won't notice.]
I wonder if you've heard of my dad. He's pretty famous, if you like his kind of music.
[It's meaningless, irrelevant. But the point has nothing to do with his father, and everything to do with seeing what Giorno says in response to it.]
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Japanese on his mother's side — did that make it the important half, the way that he himself was so inextricably tangled up in the legacy of his mother's family?
He thinks of that smile, the way it's changed throughout the conversation; he considers the way his posture has shifted, the transformations in attitude, the almost playful way of inviting questions.
Giorno Giovanna...is the sort of person who seeks to control the situation, no matter what situation he's in.
So maybe it's not what he says that makes the difference, but what he doesn't say, and smooths over so you won't notice.]
I wonder if you've heard of my dad. He's pretty famous, if you like his kind of music.
[It's meaningless, irrelevant. But the point has nothing to do with his father, and everything to do with seeing what Giorno says in response to it.]