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Heavenly Light
Title: Heavenly Light
Fandom: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean
Character(s): Pucci, Dio
Pairing(s): Dio/Pucci
Genre: Romance?
Word Count: 510
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Summary: Dio and Pucci briefly discuss pride.
Notes: I don't have an appropriate icon for this. Okay, now I do.
“Pucci,” says Dio, from the bed, "there’s a matter of church doctrine that confuses me.”
“Ask,” says Pucci, lifting his head from the book he was reading. He plays the priest’s role to Dio often, receiving questions both sacrilegious and almost innocently confused. “Ask and I will answer to the best of my knowledge, my friend.”
“The worst of the cardinal sins is supposedly ‘pride’, yet we teach the young and the old to take pride in their accomplishments and to feel good about themselves, no matter what their individual worth may really be," Dio says. "How do you account for that?"
Pucci doesn't have to think long to answer, as it’s a question he’s received before. "All things are best in moderation. I would no more call that the sin of 'pride' than I would call simply eating 'gluttony'. A certain level of self-esteem is healthy, for all of us have worth in the eyes of God - it is only when our pride causes us to devalue the worth of others that we sin."
"Then I am the worst kind of sinner, no doubt." Dio chuckles, smiling in that arrogant way, and waits for Pucci to either protest or agree.
Pucci knows Dio is deeply flawed, in far more ways than just pride, and he would never dream to argue what he knows to be false, but...
"We all are sinners. Some of us are just more aware of our own sins,” he says.
Some feel guilt for them and try to change, and some do not. Pucci can't imagine Dio ever trying to change himself, though he's the most self-aware man Pucci has ever met. Dio only changes in himself what he sees as weaknesses.
"If 'pride' is the sin of ignoring another person's worth, then I am at my humblest with you." Dio says it quietly, facing away so that Pucci cannot see his expression, and Pucci has to strain to hear so much that he’s not sure he heard correctly. He doesn’t think it would be appropriate to answer even if he did.
Pucci sets his book aside. “Is there room for another in your bed, Dio?”
“You know very well that there is,” says Dio, at a normal volume and with a normal smile turned towards him once again. He pulls the covers back. “You are always welcome to join me.”
Dio is warmer than the covers, as usual. The chill of the night may reach everywhere else, but it holds no sway against Dio and anyone who is graced to be close to his body. Pucci gives thanks for this blessing, silently as not to disturb his companion.
The night has long ceased to hold fear or discomfort for Pucci, now that it is so tied to Dio’s presence and not to unseen horrors that lurk in the dark. Dio is more dangerous than all of them - all the rest of them, that is.
It is next to the warmth of this dangerous, unrepentant sinner that Pucci falls soundly and securely asleep.
Fandom: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean
Character(s): Pucci, Dio
Pairing(s): Dio/Pucci
Genre: Romance?
Word Count: 510
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Summary: Dio and Pucci briefly discuss pride.
Notes: I don't have an appropriate icon for this. Okay, now I do.
“Pucci,” says Dio, from the bed, "there’s a matter of church doctrine that confuses me.”
“Ask,” says Pucci, lifting his head from the book he was reading. He plays the priest’s role to Dio often, receiving questions both sacrilegious and almost innocently confused. “Ask and I will answer to the best of my knowledge, my friend.”
“The worst of the cardinal sins is supposedly ‘pride’, yet we teach the young and the old to take pride in their accomplishments and to feel good about themselves, no matter what their individual worth may really be," Dio says. "How do you account for that?"
Pucci doesn't have to think long to answer, as it’s a question he’s received before. "All things are best in moderation. I would no more call that the sin of 'pride' than I would call simply eating 'gluttony'. A certain level of self-esteem is healthy, for all of us have worth in the eyes of God - it is only when our pride causes us to devalue the worth of others that we sin."
"Then I am the worst kind of sinner, no doubt." Dio chuckles, smiling in that arrogant way, and waits for Pucci to either protest or agree.
Pucci knows Dio is deeply flawed, in far more ways than just pride, and he would never dream to argue what he knows to be false, but...
"We all are sinners. Some of us are just more aware of our own sins,” he says.
Some feel guilt for them and try to change, and some do not. Pucci can't imagine Dio ever trying to change himself, though he's the most self-aware man Pucci has ever met. Dio only changes in himself what he sees as weaknesses.
"If 'pride' is the sin of ignoring another person's worth, then I am at my humblest with you." Dio says it quietly, facing away so that Pucci cannot see his expression, and Pucci has to strain to hear so much that he’s not sure he heard correctly. He doesn’t think it would be appropriate to answer even if he did.
Pucci sets his book aside. “Is there room for another in your bed, Dio?”
“You know very well that there is,” says Dio, at a normal volume and with a normal smile turned towards him once again. He pulls the covers back. “You are always welcome to join me.”
Dio is warmer than the covers, as usual. The chill of the night may reach everywhere else, but it holds no sway against Dio and anyone who is graced to be close to his body. Pucci gives thanks for this blessing, silently as not to disturb his companion.
The night has long ceased to hold fear or discomfort for Pucci, now that it is so tied to Dio’s presence and not to unseen horrors that lurk in the dark. Dio is more dangerous than all of them - all the rest of them, that is.
It is next to the warmth of this dangerous, unrepentant sinner that Pucci falls soundly and securely asleep.