[He listens. Carefully and calmly, like he always tries to when Riley tells him about her life before. It's difficult sometimes, because often what she has to say is infuriating. He has a lot of feelings about it, about her family especially. So he's always deliberate in the way he listens and doesn't speak.]

[But oh boy, does she catch him off guard this time. He's listening sedately, nodding every few sentences, until his sedate nodding runs headfirst into the sentence she punched him right in the face.]

[And he laughs. No, more accurately, he hoots, a sound whose volume would be totally out of bounds for Giorno normally — but he can't help himself.]

What the fuck, Riley!

[He's mostly covered his mouth with one hand now, but he's still laughing, absolutely disbelieving.]

What the hell, why haven't you ever told me that? That's incredible. That's the best thing I've ever heard. Good!

[WIFE HER]

Well, it makes sense now, how could you not develop a decade-long simmering crush after that. [be quiet idiot]