YMMV / Lacrime D'oro del Vento Aureo

• Catharsis Factor:
  • Hitomi's first action upon seeing Shiori Shiobana again for the first time since Star-Crossed Crusaders being a small Pre-Asskicking One-Liner in her native tongue and throwing the cappuccino she had right into Shiori's face can be very cathartic considering Shiori slapping Hitomi, her verbal cruelty and the lasting effects it had on Hitomi, which makes the cappuccino throw a belated answer to Shiori's taunt trying to goad Hitomi into hitting her, a little over a decade in the making. Additionally, Shiori's death at the hands of Thin Lizzy may also count as this, as while she was beginning to feel guilt over how she treated Giorno, she also thought so little of Hitomi that she forgot so much about her to where she only wonders if they've met before.
  • Burro's ultimate defeat and death can also be this after his heartless murders of Vincent Bongiovi and Hitomi's father Sonny in chapter 29 of Unbreakable Diamond, Protean Rain, and also everything else that he does leading up to it. What he's later shown to have done with the surviving Natale family also shows what else he had coming to him.
• Continuity Lockout: The author advises reading both of the previous two installments in order to avert this, as without doing so, readers would be unable to understand multiple things such as Hitomi and Fubuki's existence, the Villainous Legacy of Fredo Zeppeli and the Natale Gang, and especially the significance of Hitomi's Big Damn Reunion with Giorno, her history with his mother, and later her revenge against Burro. As mentioned on the main page, these are all established across both of the previous stories.
• Fridge Brilliance: In the Misfits arc, Trish hallucinates the possessed Fugo as King Crimson when he attacks Trish to abduct her and Misfits briefly goes into her, causing Trish to scream and faint from fear. While her seeing that is an exploitation of one's fears from Misfits, this is also the first time Trish sees King Crimson in this story since she was unconscious during the reveal of said Stand.
• Fridge Horror: In chapter 37, it's shown that the remains of Caesar Zeppeli are buried on Air Supplena Island. Considering this means they had to be recovered from the debris that crushed him in the first place at some point in the past, it's best not to imagine how messy that might have been.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Olivia being uncomfortable in Fugo angrily speeding the car to the morgue in chapter 5 is Played for Laughs, but it can take a different meaning once it's revealed that her Near-Death Experience from her mom's Murder-Suicide in a car being driven off a harbor traumatized her. The same also applies to how she woke up underwater in chapter 4 and was in a Troubled Fetal Position afterwards, which is initially framed as the trauma from Prudenza's death still fresh on her mind.
  • During flashbacks of Olivia's childhood, her mother Ofelia is established early on to have some anger issues, and chapter 19 has her angrily ripping off Olivia's first dress when Olivia goes to her for help with putting it on. After the following chapter reveals Olivia is Transgender, it ends up revealing that Ofelia had some transphobia in the mix with her anger. This is also foreshadowed with how she only refers to a younger Olivia as their "child", and how she awkwardly patted her head in an earlier flashback.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight:
  • Mista's close bond with Olivia has him stick up for her after a snide remark by Fugo in chapter 4, citing Fugo doesn't know her that well, and in chapter 17, he has more kind words for her when Bruno privately asks him about her. Both gain new meaning once it's revealed Olivia is transgender, showing he's fully supportive of her.
  • Prudenza was mentioned by Olivia to have helped her get her job, and Olivia nearly trails off about how her treatment as a friend didn't change even after a certain event, but she stops herself mid-sentence before she says what. The reveal of Olivia being transgender answers this, and posthumously reveals a kind trait Prudenza had before things went south between the two and then her death.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • In this story, Prosciutto gets a nice amount of Adaptation Expansion to show that one of the things he did before joining Passione was using kidnapped children as drug mules. Come JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R, one of his (and Pesci's) matchups that contains unique dialogue is with Shigechi of all people. Both Prosciutto's intro and victory dialogue can have a bit of a different meaning if you're familiar with this fanfic, especially his surprise at seeing a youngster like Shigechi have a Stand in his victory dialogue.
  • Pomodora's Affectionate Nickname to Risotto being "Riz" can be kind of funny to look back on because it has one less z than the slang term "rizz", which can mean charisma and became a thing about a year after the story was first published. What also helps this is that Pomodora is revealed to have harbored feelings for Risotto, and despite how it was a False Innocence Trick, Risotto ends up having sex with Pomodora.
  • Hol Horse's role in the story has him acting as Olivia Zeppeli's guardian, with the first issue of the then-upcoming Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak leading him to appear earlier than the author originally planned. The same spin-off shows that Hol Horse might have also caused another impact on the events of Golden Wind, namely helping Giorno's mother, plus the mothers of DIO's other children, get away from DIO when he saw they were still alive after their blood was drained. Their survival would inevitably allow Giorno to be born and the events of the manga to happen.^note However, said moment seems to be during Stardust Crusaders' events, and Giorno had already been born by then, as his birthyear is 1985.
  • If you've seen The Super Mario Bros. Movie, it can be very hard not to think about a certain Villain Love Song with the presence of a side character named Peaches, and that the Mario series gets referenced in an earlier chapter.
• Unexpected Character:
  • Josuke and Fubuki's presence in the early part of the story is this for a multitude of reasons. For one thing, they appear after Koichi and Hitomi are introduced into the story, subverting how it seems Koichi will only have one additional companion in this adaptation (especially with the summarization of the rest of the Morioh flashback being one big nod to UDPR's cast before the story moves on). The only foreshadowing is that they turn out to be the people that were following Hitomi at the airport, which could easily have been malicious gangsters from Passione given the events of her last visit. Furthermore, they were sent by Jotaro in secret, let alone for a different reason (keeping an eye on Hitomi, thinking that she came to Italy for revenge against Burro), cleverly integrating them into this particular subplot. As a result of this, Josuke ends up meeting Giorno, and by extension, this leads to Fubuki and Hitomi meeting Olivia, though they don't know that Olivia is a Zeppeli and vice versa.
  • Hol Horse's role in the story as Olivia's guardian is surprising since canonically, he never appeared again after Part 3. Similar to the above, there is minimal and subtle foreshadowing before his introduction at the end of the story's take on Beach Boy and Grateful Dead, which can make the reveal all the more surprising.
  • Lisa Lisa's reappearance and supporting role during the events of the group's unexpected travel to Air Supplena Island can come as a shocker, because while she did already appear in the story's world, it was through flashbacks, and as with Hol Horse, she also never reappeared after the part she debuted in outside of being indirectly mentioned by Joseph in the source material at the start of Part 3. There's also how one wouldn't expect her to be in Italy considering she moved to America and remarried after Battle Tendency's events. In this case, it's a Contrived Coincidence as it's revealed she visits the Island once a year.

---