Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28702329-20181215114648/@comment-43770364-20191010082625

For the way I see it, most of the trouble comes from the misconception that King Crimson erases time, whereas in reality he just skips from point A to B, with everything that happens inbetween these points still happening and Diavolo being the only one to witness it. Let's use a super basic example, a guy punches Diavolo. Epitaph shows him what happens 10 seconds from when Diavolo uses it and if KC's power were to erase time, then Diavolo could use his ability to negate the action completely and wouldn't require to avoid said punch as he'd merely erase the whole thing from ever happening, something similar to GER basically but perhaps even more op since he could erase both cause and effect. What we get instead is the following: Epitaph shows to Diavolo what happens to himself 10 seconds from that moment onwards, Diavolo activates KC and sees the guy doing the motion to punch him "frame by frame" so to speak. At this point Diavolo uses the time it takes for the guy to complete his motion, to reposition himself. Once KC's ability is over, the guy still technically threw his punch but he has no idea of how he got where he is. Donut.

Now, with Time Stop it would be a whole other story. The thing about Time Stop is that regardless how many seconds, minutes or hours time is stopped for once it resumes if something happened during it, it would still happen in an instant. So, we get this scenario: Diavolo meets Dio and a fight is about to take place. Diavolo uses Epitaph to see what happens and sees him getting killed instantly and by instantly we mean faster than a flash, use Kakyoin's death for reference. The guy freaks out and activates KC but here is where the paradox begins. Using my punch guy example, Diavolo would normally see an action take place frame by frame. Think about it like second 1= guy clenches fist, second 2= raises arm ecc. Because King Crimson just skips time from point A to B, Dio still activated The World and donuts Diavolo during Time Stop which means that normally, as soon as time resumes Diavolo would already be dead. During KC's time skip however, Diavolo would see no frames to avoid because the actions Dio made to kill him, took place when time was frozen which is the same thing as saying they never took place in the regular flow of time meaning that regardless of his ability he'd already be dead by the time he'd see Dio appearing with his fist in Diavolo's guts.