Much as I hate to admit it, this Mafia Boss Giovanna may have a point. I’ve done a lot of thinking, and no matter how I tried not to follow what I’d learned from the Watchers’ Council, I seem to have internalized quite a lot of it. One of the most pressing is that the Watcher makes the choices the Slayers have to follow. In name, we’ve undone that. Slayers are just as equal in leadership roles as Watchers in the new Council. In practice, well. Buffy doesn’t have the logistics knowledge I do, so of course I coordinate everyone. That’s the logic. Which utterly fails to take into account that I should be teaching her these things, particularly if I want her to accept a less combat oriented role (mostly over the consistent fear that I will lose the woman I’ve come to regard as practically my own daughter). How is she meant to develop the skills if I won’t impart the knowledge or allow her to practice?
I’ve been undermining her skills as a leader, both to herself and others. Not giving her opportunities, and when she takes those for herself questioning her decisions. No wonder she was so frustrated.
And it is certainly difficult. I haven’t heard of other children of vampires before, but that very fact makes it hard to trust Giovanna as Buffy had. He’s poised, in control. It’s hard to read him, and even some of our new allies, Dr. Kujo for one, don’t seem to trust him fully. This is not including the doctor’s attitude toward the mafia. He doesn’t seem to have any problems with the others, or with breaking the law. It’s a problem with Giovanna, and while I don’t trust Dr. Kujo or even Josephine Higashikata as much as the others, I do feel they are more trustworthy than this leader of Passione.
So I looked into this “Stand User” Giovanna sent against the “Slaypires”. I couldn’t find much; even the Speedwagon Foundation, whose interns have been told to be at our disposal as part of a different agreement than the one Giovanna’s trying to form now, doesn’t have much. I had to resort to asking Althenea about what she could find, and I’ll send what little I can to Buffy’s phone (hopefully she can make heads or tails of my grammar; I could attempt to send an email but, much as I hate to admit it, would fare little better when it comes to any of these infernal machines). What she did get both reassures and horrifies me, because we haven’t heard of any mass deaths in Italy, yet I’m not comfortable with such power in the hands of an ambitious, questionable son of a vampire ruling a criminal empire.
Stand User: Pannacotta Fugo
When she tried, Althenea kept getting images of the aftermath of the Black Death, the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic, the Plague of Justinian, and the like. Pandemics, in other words. The commonality is that “a lot of people died” and “a disease was involved”, to summarize for the Californians who aren’t interested in a history lesson and at the very least have attention problems. She also got several images of vampires dying in the sun, which I’m not sure how it relates but feel it must somehow. And, for whatever reason, a musical performer named Jimi Hendrix. I don’t know how Stands work, but my own (admittedly long ago!) experience with magic tells me that music can be used, and misused, for magic, good or bad. Perhaps it’s something along the same lines?
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