#jjba holly kujo

[jei-rifni]

What if Holly was as tall and muscular as Jonathan was. what if Joestar genes weren't male-specific

I HOPE YOU DONT MIND IF I INDULGE MYSELF WITH SOME HEADCANONS WIRH THIS

I genuinely do believe ALL Joestars are beefcakes, doesn’t matter male female or whatever. They all are beefcakes. (Well except some but I have design and personality reasons for that. Like Johnny, Giorno etc)

In my mind Holly can control her stand but she just uses it for everyday things because her will is “to make sure everyone is fine and dandy ALWAYS” so the only reason Jotaro when on a trip to Egypt was cause funny road trip with grandpa and gang TM! Holly is awesome and itd be so epic if she was actually able to control her stand! I wonder what it would have been like probably, mayhaps just vines like hermit!

Also Jotaro was just an edgy teenager hence he does not want to be embarrassed by his mum. I prefer to imagine he’s not mean, but he is just really blunt with people and he couldn’t care less (thats a lie he does care a little. Hes just tryna be cool. Its not really working)

THESE ARE HEADCANONS BY THE WAY! Emphasis on Headcanon because i know this isnt how the characters really act in canon. (Jotaro is a bit of a dick in the show, im aware) I view characters as i want to view them not how they actually are, if you have a different perspective on the characters thats you and that’s cool! This is just how i prefer to see things :D

Also- im rather a big fan of the Jolyne interaction i did! These are ALL super messy i want to make more of this but much cleaner in the future but i am super tired. I do hope to polish these mayhaps

[cyancees]

this has been sitting in my files for SO LONG cus i kinda hate it but here

[hajnarus]

Jojo-mom colour switch

[chloesimaginationthings]

She’s definitely Jotaro’s daughter

[miraisentai]

Welcome home, Jotaro.

[obituarybug]

Jotaro Kujo says sorry to women

[savvage-arts]

The Star of Destiny💫

My piece for the Stardust OVA Zine!

[goatpaste]

fuck you *make your favorites fat and sexy*

[Commission Prices][Etsy][Buy me a Kofi]

[katchcern]

Justice for anime moms

[wheredidalltheusersgo]

Happy birthday, jotaro 🫶

[leslove-draws]

♡﹒ 𝑔𝒾𝓇𝓁𝓈, 𝑔𝒾𝓇𝓁𝓈, 𝑔𝒾𝓇𝓁𝓈﹒🩰﹒

[jotaviito]

una madre siempre sabe

[spinningstraw]

Untold origin story of The Shirt-- untold because teenage Jotaro will go to the grave before admitting how much he loves and appreciates his mommy

(click for quality bc good gravy does tumblr hate these images)

[hajnarus]

Never cut

[makiswirl]

even more jojo doods from the past few days :]

[hylianane]

I have an opinion about Holly Kujo and I’m a little scared cause I dont know the Jojo fandom enough to come in with what I think is a hot take.

I’ve noticed that, in fanworks, a lot of people portray Holly as tougher than she is in the show. And it makes sense, cause the idea of her being so weak-willed that she couldn’t handle a stand when even baby Shizuka could manifest one is kinda bs and a testament to Araki not being very confident with writing women at the time (thank GOD he got better though, so, so much better).

But. What always gets me is when her relationship with Jotaro is written to be a little more standard, still loving but with the child having a healthy fear of their mom’s anger- unlike what we see in Stardust, with him constantly being a brat, calling her “bitch” and her shrugging it off with an “Okay!”. And also him getting himself thrown into jail while she still can’t bring herself to get mad, just upset. And that’s a very fun play on them too, but I just worry that people who default to this dynamic for Jojo and Holly might not see how the canon characterization of their relationship is interesting in its own right.

Because even tho Holly being a doormat is a creative choice born from Araki pussying out of giving her a stand, it doesn’t change the fact that once he made that choice he gave it great importance. I think the fact that Holly’s idea of supporting her son is just accepting everything he does without any anger, is central to their relationship. It’s how, despite having a mother who loves him unconditionally, Jotaro is still a very troubled teen and emotionally withdrawn. Though it’s easy to blame it on Sadao’s implied absence, or troubles in school, we don’t have a lot of textual evidence for that.

But kids who are raised without at least some semblance of discipline and structure typically stop seeing their parents as authorities, and most importantly, protectors. A more textually-backed explanation for why Jotaro is always acting tough and independent is because he doesn’t have any adults in his life who he would trust to help him. He loves his mom, he traveled the world to save her life, but while doing that he saw himself as her protector, not the other way around, not the way it typically should be.

Think about, for example, how the adult he mouths off to the least in his life is probably Avdol. And I think part of that is because Avdol walked into that police station, took one look at Jotaro, and instantly clocked everything I just said. Because while Holly and Joseph tried to to get him out with simple words (and for Holly, tears), Avdol was there to force him out. And at first Jotaro says, “If he tries to force me out, I’ll just stay here even longer”, but Avdol doesn’t give him a choice. And he doesn’t win by overpowering him (if he had, I dont think he’d have gotten the same positive result, I am not pro setting troubled teens on fucking fire) but he outsmarts Jotaro and doesn’t quit the fight until his goal is achieved. He stays in control of his emotions when talking to him, and proves himself to be someone strong and assertive. So later, on the trip to Cairo, Jotaro is more willing to rely on him than he is to rely on his own grandpa. (+, it’s a similar thing with Kakyoin, who he trusts almost more than anyone else, because he saw Kakyoin’s will and power first-hand when they met, and left with the lesson that Kak is someone he can rely on to protect of both himself and Jotaro. Someone with strong convictions, but most importantly, willing and capable of clashing with Jotaro if necessary.)

All this to fucking say. In a world in which Jotaro was raised to fear his parent’s reprimands (and I don’t mean fear to an unhealthy amount, an abusive amount), he would act very differently than he does in the show, and his relationships to other characters would probably look very different. Holly’s personality and parenting might seem like it was an afterthought to Araki, but I think he truly did take great care in making it consistent with her son’s character. She is a very loving mom, who is very loved in return, but what I think a lot of people perceive as a flaw in her writing is actually just a flaw in her character, with narrative weight and interesting consequences. And I’m not sure how many people are really aware of that.