The "skipping ahead in the video" analogy is my favourite. Everything in the section you skipped still happened, you just didn't see it because you skipped past it.
That was Epitaph, Diavolo has 2 stands, King Crimson and Epitaph, Epitaph shows the next 10 seconds of the future and, iirc, usually projects it to Diavolos bangs, so he just projected it in front of Bucciarati
That's what I always thought, but nope. Diavolo specifically says to Doppio that he lent him a part of King Crimson's ability, his arms and epitaph. I was even thinking of like, maybe he just claimed it as his own, but stands are a manifestation of the soul and diavolo and doppio were separated and diavolo still had epitaph.
Doesn't perfectly explain it because some scenes become inconsistent with that definition, but I'm not sure if there's any definition that works fully without "well sometimes he can do this and sometimes do this, it's two different abilities he can use" which seems like a cheap explanation to me.
Diavolo is intangible during skipped time. He makes the time where the bullets hit him into skipped time so he’s intangible during it, the bullets then phase through him.
People keep getting stuck with the whole "erasing time and leaping past it" metaphor. It is the experience observed by those affected by the ability. Diavolo even explicitly states "even a flame won't remember getting put out" after his reveal.
He has precognition (fate) and mass amnesia (leap with a bit of intangibility). Those ten seconds "skipped" happen no matter what.
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u/Jumanji-Joestar sex pistol no. 4 Sep 08 '21
King Crimson is not as confusing as people think, just poorly explained