Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-39718735-20200605220409/@comment-39718735-20200718001810

Kingasdfg wrote: Every creature in the Jojo universe follows a fate. Epitaph allows Diavolo to see that fate, even his own, for up to 10 seconds. King Crimson allows Diavolo to erase up to 10 seconds of time, during which Diavolo and only Diavolo becomes exempt from fate. Everyone else must follow fate as Epitaph shows.

Agree with this part, the thing gets complicated when you compare how time should've been with how Diavolo modifies it though.

Kingasdfg wrote: The major thing here is that Diavolo can only defy fate for himself, no one else. That's why he can't interact with anyone during erased time. If someone, Bruno for example, were fated to by punched by King Crimson, and Diavolo erases that time, Bruno would still receive the damage, but now there would be no cause. It simply happened because fate dictated it. Diavolo, however, IS exempt from fate, hence why all attacks simply pass through him. After 10 seconds, that period of time is erased from existence, with only Diavolo remembering because only Diavolo existed outside of it.

I see the predictions of Epitaph as the defiance itself: Diavolo predicts himself backstabbing Bucciarati, if that's the case why even use time-skip? The prediction would happen just like that anyways. There'd be no fate to defy cause that fate is already possitive.

Yet in normal time that's impossible.King Crimson and Sticky Fingers have more or less the same speed stats, it's totally impossible for KC to go behind SF unnoticed.

When Diavolo predicts himself killing someone he doesn't activate time-skip and starts whistling for 10 seconds (cause the objective will die anyway). He has to finish the deed by his own hand, the prediction has to make sense at least outside of time.

Thus the difference I see is that he's fated to attack in order for that predicted future to happen.