Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28702329-20181215114648/@comment-43770364-20191012094120

Kingasdfg wrote: Friendly reminder that Epitaph's predictions aren't necessarily absolute. King Crimson's ability allows him to defy Epitaph. Like Epitaph showing him getting struck by Sticky Fingers so King Crimson erased time and that hit never reached him.

I don't really see the point in comparing Made In Heaven with King Crimson, since they don't really operate the same way at all.

I'm not sure how to define time any other way. King Crimson doesn't erase specific actions, it erases time. Therefore actions that occur when time isn't flowing shouldn't be affected.

Well, the fact King Crimson allows Diavolo to avoid whatever happens in Epitaph's prediction is sort of King Crimson's point. However, what Epitaph predicted as in whatever action is going to injure or kill Diavolo will happen regardless. For example, Sticky Fingers still made the action to injure Diavolo, the only thing that changed was the end result so Epitaph's prediction is absolute for whatever action his opponent is going to make, but Diavolo can of course change the outcome. This is just to say that I agree with you on Time Stop working in a Time Skip and ironically Diavolo using Epitaph would mean Dio is basically forced to use his Time Stop if that's what happens in its prediction. If Time Stop weren't to work, we'd get this weird situation where King Crimson changed Dio's action which isn't how King Crimson works, so Time Stop must happen