ladyjotaro: OK can I take a moment hear to talk about the fact that jotaro was replaying the fight w
ladyjotaro: OK can I take a moment hear to talk about the fact that jotaro was replaying the fight with dio perhaps unconsciously. I’ve seen other posts mention his ptsd, as someone with ptsd I can see all the flags hear. even sadder then jotaro viewing kira as dio is that he’s also viewing kochi as kakyoin, I don’t think act three resembling hierophant, and koichi’s uniform being like kakyoins, are a coincidence, araki chose it to be that way to further trigger jotaro. I strongly believe the words jotaro speaks to koichi are the words he wished he had the chance to tell kakyoin but never could. and he smiled even though he believed he was dying because he was happy he finally got to speak those words that were weighing heavy on him for ten years. I feel like jotaros actions hear show that survivors guilt made him feel he should have died along with kakyoin and his friends in Egypt. it’s very clear that araki puts a lot of attention into the characters mental states, for example kira’s ocd with koichi’s sock truly shows how messed up kira’s mind is, for his ocd to take priority over his urge to murder a kid. Jotaro is no different, he suffers from ptsd and survives guilt araki wanted to show that at his core Jotaro is just a person and the events in Egypt did not leave him unharmed. Ptsd/survivers guilt make it very difficult to hold relationship’s as that fear of seeing loved ones die at your fault never goes away he’d likely always be distant in relationships and often bring up the past and compare certain people to those he lost such as koichis and kakyoin. “and there proof of this” his divorce from his wife and seemingly neglect of jolyne shows that Jotaro has a fear of becoming to atached to a person he left his wife likely because there was no atachment or love there, there’s a possibility that his wife reminded him of kakyoin in some way (maybe a action or a hair color ) but after time he may have realized he was only trying to fill the void that his friends death left. he wolud likely come to loath his wife for the very reason he fell of her her “resemblances to kakyoin”, that would only serve at a constant reminder of his friend but also that she clearly is a different person and can not fill the void. and in the case of jolyne he truly loved her but he really feared that anyone that is in his presence will be harmed and that she’d meet the same fate as his friends, that’s why he abandoned her. -- source link