Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28702329-20181215114648/@comment-38952966-20191010161745

Obdegobdeglobdegor wrote: BronzeSeiya wrote: @KarsMarsBars you're right about the blood not affecting people until time resumes, I actually forgot about that. About interacting with objects, I feel like it's still in the realm of inconsistency because if he can interact with objects then Narancia's bullets should've hit him since they're technically inanimate objects too... @Obdegobdeglobdegor I definitely can't, it's the weirdest part of King Crimson.

As I've said before, I feel like the key to understanding the winner of this matchup is to first determine whether Diavolo is invincible during KC's ability as it turns the tides completely in one way or the other. But isn't it irrelevant anyway? If I'm interpreting this right, let's say KC activates and in 1s Diavolo moves from his spot and then ZA WARUDO activates. Diavolo will be unable to move, time erasure will be stopped (actually, it's flow will but progress won't) and DIO would be still aiming at nothing because Diavolo moved. Za Warudo will stop and then Diavolo would be able to move 9s and maybe realise that DIO did something somehow but is unaware of what's going on (because that's the whole point. Everybody is unaware of what they're doing). Then he can just waltz behind him and Kekyoin him (now will that kill him is debatable).

But let's say DIO is aware what's going on during his 10 seconds and MUDAs Diavolo during his time stop. Time erasure isn't stopped, correct? so any damage wouldn't happen either way. God, (personally) this Mista things just throws a wrench in somewhat straightforward situation.

(Am I overconvoluting this?)

Time erasure is, in fact, stopped if DIO stops time.

Let's say Diavolo activates his ability at 4:03:03 (hh:mm:ss), erasing the next ten seconds. Let's say that during that erased time, at say, 4:03:07, 4 seconds into King Crimson's time erasure, DIO stops time. Nothing that occurs during stopped time can be erased by King Crimson. DIO would see truthfully where Diavolo actually is, and any actions taken against him would still function normally. Then, The World's time stop ends, and we're back at 4:03:08. Now King Crimson's ability will continue, and actions taken against Diavolo will have no effect until his ability ends at 4:03:13. Once that happens, DIO would lose all memory of what happened during erase time EXCEPT for what happened during his own time stop.

Diavolo's time erasure cannot erase actions that occur during stopped time because there is no time to erase. DIO's actions occur when time is not flowing, and therefore cannot be erased by something that erases time. He also couldn't erase DIO activating the time stop, because the only actions that have there consequences cancelled during erased time are actions taken directly against Diavolo, whereas the time-stop is universal. And the actions DIO does take against Diavolo occur when time isn't flowing and therefore cannot be erased.