Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28702329-20181215114648/@comment-38952966-20191030012731

Jo-Smooth wrote:

King Crimson can erase it. DIO can stop time but is still bound to it. While KC is activated, Diavolo basically exists outside of time. So say, hypothetically speaking, the times where DIO uses Time Stop and Diavolo uses Time Erase overlap. Diavolo would be 'outside' of time anyways. As for ability interaction, time while stopped is just that, stopped. It still exists. But time being erased is something else all together. It's like pausing a video in a video editor compared to cutting a video. If you cut it, even the paused area you had before is gone

It's a little presumptuous to say King Crimson exists outside of time when all we know for sure is that he is invincible during his time skip. And even then, it shouldn't matter, since the time stop (not literally, but effectively) pauses the time skip.

The video-editing analogy kind of breaks down there because that's not how King Crimson has been shown to work. All we can say definitively is that actions taken against Diavolo have no effect, BUT actions that don't directly affect Diavolo still function normally. Even actions that rely on Diavolo's time skip still function (like Sticky Fingers placing zippers on the wall behind Diavolo).

Time stop doesn't directly target Diavolo, so there's no reason it should be skipped over. Once it's active, the actions that occur during that period don't happen in "time", so King Crimson can't erase them and therefore wouldn't be protected during stopped time.