Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-39718735-20200605220409/@comment-39718735-20200718185827

In every one of the three cases King Crimson "attacks" during skipped time, they are all stealth attacks (I count the fortune teller cause he could never see KC). A rare idea to explain this I have is that perhaps King Crimson can skip time for itself: I said everyone won't perceive time and will act based on the last thing they knew (punching the air where Diavolo was supposed to be, unable to perceive the changes of position that Diavolo does), yet Diavolo can't interact with matter if he's skipping time.

Unless he skips time and makes himself a "victim" of his own stand: he acts based on the last thing he knew. I'd say after KC skips time the actions of everyone else are "programmed", they'll act as predicted without any single deviation (excepting GER) for 10 seconds. '''And Diavolo may be able to do that for himself if he's in no danger, when doing stealth attacks he won't receive damage: he skips time even for himself (activates KC, loses the perception of time for 10 seconds himself and ends up having Trish captured just as planned). '''

That may explain why we never see Diavolo doing any of those three actions and why he attacks during skipped time: he's not skipping time in the same way, he's not intangible and he's not able to defy fate as well. He may be able to do so cause his stand's not the same than The World (stopping time for the user as well has zero advantages).

On another note I gotta say I'm cracking some laughs here, in the end we all have so different concepts of how KC works yet we're so convinced of them. That damned stand came out 23 years ago and it's still so confusing... It's just like the meme, it just works.