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[dailygeorgejoestarii]

If George Joestar II had a part.

I used some elements from JORGE JOESTAR

Part Name: Valiant AceFighter

George Joestar II - Main JoJo (obviously)

Speedwagon - Plays a similar role like Part 2.

Erina - Same like Speedwagon

Steven Motorize - Main JoBro (He's from JORGE JOESTAR)

Mario Zeppeli - Half Mentor/Half JoBro who starts off as an antagonist

Penelope De La Rosa - Another JoBro (Like Steven, she's from JORGE JOESTAR)

Toby - An oc who plays the kid role like Poco, Smokey, Anne, Hayato, and Emporio.

Tsukumojuku Kato - The serious JoBro who hangs out with Mario and George. (Like Steven and Penelope, he's from JORGE JOESTAR)

Straizo - A Mentor

Tonpetty - The Main Mentor

Major Slade - The Superior Officer who killed George II in the og timeline, he's the main villain but a twist villain so the reader would think he's an ally at first.

There’s also some minor and side villains here and there but I have yet to name them.

Characters that would be mentioned but not in the story:

Jonathan Joestar

Dire

Will Zeppeli

George Joestar I

Danny (Mentioned indirectly likely)

Will Zeppeli's father

Dio Brando

Opening: TBA

Ending: Roundabout (Just like Phantom Blood and Battle Tendency)

Still a bit a work in progress but I just decided to just spread what's in my mind.

[whos-hotter-jjba]

Preliminary Match 31 - Hottest JoJo Character Bracket

[starry-blue-echoes]

Oooooooooo the lion idea is really interesting 👀👀👀

this could also add an interesting duality between his two “species.” One is a feared carnivore, the other in an herbivore they don’t know too much about, but both are very fearsome creatures when need be

and I absolutely ADORE the tie in to canon with Zeppeli. Maybe in a moment of panic Jonathan swapped forms in an attempt to get free and Zeppeli realizes "huh the prophecy was a lot more literal than I thought-" and does his self sacrificial thing

and this...... yeah Jonathan's going to go fucking A P E S H I T. He's going to tear Tarkus the pieces, most likely literally

and honestly, for a brief moment, Jonathan might actually scare his friends. Because this...... Jonathan had mentioned his slightly more beastly nature. But they hadn't expected this. This pure, raw strength and anger, completely unbound and let loose

.......but the second Tarkus is dead, he turns back to them. And the anger fades, the rage fades, the nearly suffocating pressure of Predator Predator Predator faded away to nothing and Jonathan merely looked at Zeppeli with sad, sad eyes

he was soft, Zeppeli realizes as the manbeast comes close to hold him while he slips further from life. Soft and warm, and despite the hard muscle beneath it all he holds Zeppeli with the gentleness one might hold a child. As he slowly shifts back to the face and body Zeppeli had grown to know, as fur fades away to skin and his shrinks back to one of a human...... Zeppeli is glad he was able to meet Jonathan

As for Giorno, I’ll admit I’m really torn with him. On one hand making him a fox is soooo tempting because it basically fits him to a T, but on the other I’m really attached to the Not Quite Like The Other Joestars aspect, plus this would leave Jolyne without most thoughts

mmmmaybe a swap around? Giorno being a fox and ladybug/other insect, and then Jolyne could maybe be the bat and octopus. My brains connection for the octopus was Stone Free -> strings -> long, thin, dexterous -> tentacles, but now that I’ve typed it out maybe in that case a bat spider would be a better choice, or maybe even an octopus spider since I can't really think of many reasons to justify making her a bat other than it would be cool-

Werebeast Joestars Au- they have big, monstrous forms, possibly with minimal control over them, drawing a narrative parallel between the villains who reject humanity, who choose not to care for others, and the Joestars, whose monstrous forms don't give them a choice.

Fun narrative parallels between Dio becoming a monster on purpose, and Jotaro and Jonathan using the monstrous traits they were born with and trying to turn them towards good.

Parallels between Diavalo and Giorno, both marked as monstrous and other from the moment of their birth but deciding differently what to do about it.

Parallels between Joseph and the Pillarmen, inhuman beings who don't care about what happens to humanity on their path to power, and one that defends humanity ferociously.

Parallels between Josuke and Kira, an ordinary man killing for his own pleasure versus a monster doing everything he can to protect and heal

Parallels between Jolyne and Pucci, the priest and the monster, the holy and the unholy.

(plus BIG SCARY FRIGHTENING MONSTER FORMS and BODY-HORROR LADEN TRANSFORMATION SEQUENCES are a blast to write)

HEHEHEEHEHEHEHE Y E S S S S S S S

oh I love this thought :>

and what if for fun, the control aspect of the werebeast comes entirely from how accepting the Joestar in question is of it. Like, they can't try and lock it away because when it does come out it will run completely rampant. However, they can't just let it run wild and free without inhibition because that will just lead to the same thing as before, just with less steps

there needs to be a mid ground. They need to guide that part of themselves, gently but still firm. They need to find a middle ground, and while it won't give them complete control, the likelihood of them completely loosing it while transformed is severely reduced

(and for even more fun, what if they can technically shift when they want. Sure, every full moon or so they'll have a forced transformation where they'll run the risk of loosing themselves, but what if when they get more comfortable with it, they can control it, to a certain extent)

((also LISTEN THE AU NAME WAS RIGHT THERE I COULDN'T NOT))

[duhragonball]

Phantom Blood Liveblog JJBA ch.42-44

Well, that’s enough phantom blood for one week.  Let’s wrap this up.

Several weeks after the battle with Dio, everyone returns home, and Jonathan marries Erina Pendleton.  I’m not sure where Jonathan’s been living since his home was destroyed, but that might be why he and Erina planned a honeymoon in the United States. I’m not sure they planned to stay in the U.S., but Jonathan doesn’t have much tying him down to Britain now that his entire family is dead. 

Speedwagon is so excited to see them off that he forgets to pay for his lunch.  Still wearing Zeppeli’s hat, Speedwagon vows to always be there for the Joestars.  “I’ll come no matter where it is, though I might just get in the way.” 

Sniff... You were never in the way, Speedwagon ol’ pal. 

Right before the steam liner launches for the voyage, some guys load one last piece of cargo on board.  They have no idea what it is, but they were paid handsomely to put it on the ship.  Sure are a lot of WRRYYYYYs coming out of that box though.

Once they’re underway, Erina sees a bird get separated from its flock, then another bird joins it on the deck, and she gets all choked up over it.  She recalls how Jonathan knew he’d get beat up when he stood up for Erina as a child, and how he’d get beaten up even more by revealing who he was, but he dropped that hankerchief anyway.  And Jonathan reminds her that she was there for him at his lowest points, like when Dio turned all his friends against him, and then later when Dio killed his dad and the house burned down. Erina wishes this time could last forever.  Don’t we all?

They go below for dinner, when Jonathan notices... Wang Chung?!  He immediately realizes that this must mean Dio survived their battle, and he rushes off to chase Wang Chung.  He warns Erina to return to their cabin and lock the door. 

Meanwhile, a drunken priest accidentally loses his cross in the... cargo hold?  Engine room?  Anyway, he retrieves it and then notices the padlock on the box is undone, but apparently the box is locked from the inside.

Also there’s a gem on there which suddenly shoots out and blows this guy’s head apart.  Not sure if that’s a booby trap rigged into the case or Dio launched that with vampire power. Either way...

Wang Chung arrives in the hold soon after the priest is killed, and Jonathan shows up a few steps behind, just in time to see... Dio......’s head.  The rest of him couldn’t be here.

Why is Dio’s head in a glas case?  He looks ridiculous in that thing.  I assume he asked for this, but why?

Then Erina shows up, just in time to see Dio shoot eyebeams at Jonathan.  His intent was to decapitate Jonathan in one shot, a painless death as a sign of respect.  Dio has decided that he must admire Jonathan as a worthy adversary, and he now sees that their fates are hopelessly intertwined.  The only way Dio can fulfill his ambitions is through Jonathan, so he plans to graft his head onto Jonathan’s corpse and use it as his new body. 

But Jonathan’s too defiant to just stand still and let himself be killed, so he tries to dodge the beams.  Instead of dying, he just gets badly hurt, and now he can’t breathe well enough to use Hamon power to defend himself.

Then a bunch of zombies appear, killing a man and then his wife, who dies trying to protect a baby.  Wang Chung explains that he’s been converting crew and passengers into zombies, so it’s only a matter of time before Dio takes the entire ship.  This is all a terrible shock to Erina, who I’m pretty sure hasn’t heard about any of this vampire business at all. 

Without the Ripple, Jonathan’s no match for Wang Chung, let alone all the other zombies.  Wang Chung wants to make Jonathan suffer, but Dio scolds him for being disrespectful to his honored rival.  Instead, Dio orders him to kill Jonathan quickly and painlessly.  But Wang Chung doesn’t listen.  He’s still made at Jonathan for giving him a nasty scar after their last encounter, and that craving for revenge gives Jonathan enough time to devise one last counterattack.

Jonathan can’t breathe well enough to use Hamon well, but he can still deploy the Hamon already present from his own life force, and use it to decapitate Wang Chung and manipulate his body.  He sends Wang Chung to the engine, where he grabs hold of the screwshaft. 

As Dio helpfully explains, the screwshaft is responsible for releasing the pressure built up in the engine.  With the mechanism jammed, the pressure will keep building up until the engine explodes, which will destroy the ship. 

Erina doesn’t fully understand, but Jonathan tells her that he wants her to get off the ship before is explodes, and she resolves to die with him.  But Jonathan points out the baby, whose mother was killed earlier.  He wants her to take the child and escape.  The baby’s mother died protecting her, just as Jonathan’s mother did for him. So it’s fitting that Jonathan would make this is dying request.  Wotta guy.  What a selfless, beefy, polite guy.

But Dio isn’t finished yet.  He orders his zombies to get Wang Chung off the screwshaft while he tries to attach himself to Jonathan’s body.  Now that he can’t use the Ripple anymore, it should be easy enough, except Jonathan stabs his neck with a chunk of metal.  I’m... not sure why that matters.  It’s not like Dio’s neck is a vital area.  He’s missing all the stuff below it and he’s doing pretty well for himself.  But somehow, Jonathan manages to subdue Dio’s head and basically holds him so he won’t do anymore mischief.  He admits to Dio that their fates might be intertwined after all, and so he’s willing to end it here, with both of them being destroyed.

As for the zombies, they’re too late.  The engine is already starting to blow up. Erina takes the baby and leaves Jonathan and Dio to their fate.   Dio pleads with Jonathan to let him go, even making wild promises you know he would never keep, but it’s too late for any of that.

Jonathan’s already dead, and there’s nothing Dio can do but wait for the ship to sink. 

The next time we see Erina, she’s with the baby, floating on top of Dio’s box.  I always assumed she hid inside of it to protect her and the baby from the explosion, but I guess she could have gotten clear of the ship, then found it in the water.  As she reflects on this ordeal, she notes that she has a “new life inside her body”, which will turn out to be Jonathan’s son, George Joestar II. 

Two days later, Erina would be rescued in the Canary Islands, and the narration promises that this would be the beginning of a whole new era of adventure.  Boy, you’re not kidding. 

And that’s it for Part 1.  Like I was saying towards the beginning, people dismiss this one as too “boring” or whatever else, and that’s dumb.  At worst, Part 1 can be criticized for being too short, and kind of primitive compared to the more complex plots in the sequels.  But that’s like complaining about Action Comics #1 being the worst Superman story.  This literally sets the stage for everything that follows.  

Erina and the baby she rescued show up in Part 2. Dio’s desperate scheme to transplant his head onto Jonathan’s body gets paid off in Part 3.   The legacies of Jonathan and Dio reverberate well into Parts 4, 5, and 6.  Part 7 features an alternate version of Jonathan Joestar who became a jockey instead of an archaeologist. 

Here, let me show you my favorite sequence from Part 8.

Josuke Higashikata feels completely alone and devoid of purpose through much of JoJolion.  “Josuke Higashikata” isn’t even his real name; it’s given to him by the people he meets when he first emerges from the soil.  He has no connections to anyone or anything, and as he despairs over this, he suddenly comes across a memorial statue of Part 7′s Johnny Joestar, who died in Morioh 110 years earlier.  It’s a powerful moment, because even though Josuke feels isolated and alone, he still has a connection to the other JoJo’s, even though he doesn’t know it.

It’s like poetry.  It rhymes.

There’s this devotion to justice that connects all of the JoJo’s together, so that no matter how alone or defeated they may feel, they each find it within themselves to oppose evil, no matter the odds.  The villains in every Part follow in Dio’s path, each of them trying to deny fate and the justice that fate inevitably brings.  Dio’s immortality, Kars’ invincible body, Killer Queen, King Crimson, Made in Heaven, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, Wonder of U, each of these represents an attempt to short circuit the consequences of evil.  “Well, I’m being a huge asshole, but it doesn’t matter, because I’m too powerful to be stopped!” That’s the motto of all the bad guys.  And the JoJo’s each show up to bring them to justice. 

And it all starts here, in Phantom Blood.  I dare you to read this thing and not find a few call-forwards to your favorite JoJo Part. I mean, my favorite is Part 2, so it’s not very hard for me.  Speedwagon’s right there. But I forgot all about Jonathan setting himself on fire to hit Dio, like Jolyne in Part 6.  And Jonathan dropping that anvil on Doobie kind of reminded me of Giorno’s dismissive attitude toward Ciocolata in Part 5. And so on.  

Sure, Josuke might have cooler hair and Jotaro might be more badass, and Jolyne might be prettier, but the themes that make their stories work all stem from here.  Part-skippers, you at owe it to yourself to at least check this out at some point. 

Anyway, that’s all I have.  So I’ll leave you with this picture of Speedwagon withdrawing cooly.

[jojos-bizzare-popularity-poll]

Here we have a match between Poco's Sister and Tonpetty. Tonpetty may have taught Will Zeppili Hamon and have some sort of fortune telling powers, but Poco's sister did more damage to Dio.

[kots-kots]

I am on my knees because of the Monster High JJBA AU. Please tell us more about it…

OKAY!!! 🫡 I was thinking this au can be open to anybody’s interpretations/own concept of the characters and lore structure/the designs can be used in any context but here are my own personal interpretations of it!!

CHARACTER WISE honestly it’s up to interpretation but I was thinking it’s one of those aus were the jojos are brothers or cousins going to the same school and most of them generally live around the same neighborhood >_<

Giorno is an exception because he’s either gonna be Dio’s cousin or little brother, thinking he’s half vampire half fairy maybe??? Diego is in the same boat, he’s not related to the joestars but related to dio n giorno

Jonathan and dio r still adopted brothers in this au, dio very much dislikes Jonathan but he’s the only jojo he can generally tolerate or treat as a rival

Currently the families established are Joestars werewolves, Brandos vampires, Zeppelis sea monsters

POWER WISE it’s kinda like. the stand and the character fused??? so im trying to give them monster species that actually correspond with their stand power (such as avdol probably being a Phoenix, d’arby brothers being sphinxes bcuz they give riddles/games instead of actual fights; and hamon users like Lisa Lisa would probably be a dryad or some sort of nymph so she has a natural talent with manipulating life energy)

Hamon users are most primarily monsters/normies who have an innate skill for that kinda life energy thing and it’s still very much a learned skill. I was thinking it can also be like witchcraft or magic??? So for example Josuke can use ‘hamon’ or spells to heal people around him and whatnot

there’s also cliques or friend groups but they’re mostly consisting of their part (like duwang gang being their own clique; dio, vanilla, and terence being one; bucci gang being.. bucci gang; la squadra; etc) but there’s also variations like

villain house

the villains all low key have beef with each other but occasionally team up to take down their respective jojos (who are also a gang, that tend to be a bit more stable than the villains)

dio-kars-diavolo team up is called ‘team food chain’ bcuz im pretty sure that’s their Japanese nickname???

The pillar men trio (minus Santana he’s kinda weird) and dio’s mansion gang r like heathers vs mean girls

the pillar men usually hate dio but they fw vanilla LOL

Bucci squad and la squadra have beef with each other but they are united by their hate of diavolo so they also occasionally team up ^_^

UMMM the teachers I have currently are tonpetty, straizo, dire, baron zeppeli, wang chan, annnd not officially decided but probably aya tsuji, tonio, polpo, and um. that old guy that was with trish

BUT LIKE YA that’s all for now I think 😼

[kunningkyra]

Welcome back! Yesterday, it was Tarkus vs. Danny. The winner was...

Danny!

Today, in the final set of the round, it's

Dio Brando, JoJo's vampiric mortal enemy!

VS

Straizo, a hamon user trained by Tonpetty!

[bisexual-queenie]

I want a fanfic of an Alternate Universe where for whatever reason George Joestar I and Will Zeppeli meet when they are younger and become the original Joestar and Zeppeli duo.

I’m thinking that Zeppeli, aged 19 here, is still learning the art of Hamon from Tonpetty, but for whatever reason he is sent to England to do some “soul searching” and ends up meeting George at like some sort of archeological dig site with his father or something. Zeppeli makes up an excuse for why he is there, which could be something like “Oh Im just visiting from Italy, and I got a bit lost, can you help?” and George’s dad is like “of course my boy! Come to our mansion”.

George and Will start to get closer, and Will opens up a little about staying with Tonpetty and learning Hamon. George, ever so the curious boy, wants to learn more and more about this strange boy and this super cool power of his, so he asks Will to teach him. Will then proceeds to have an existential crisis of wether he should go behind Tonpetty’s back to teach this kid a sacred art and wether he’d be good enough to do so. At this point, Will has JUST lost his father to the stone mask and has just been taken under Tonpetty’s wing as a rookie Hamon user. Feeling overwhelmed, Will runs of into a random part of the mansion.

George runs after him, already coming up with a multitude of apologies for scaring him. When he catches up with him, he sees one of the butlers scolding Will for accidentally bumping into him while running. Theres some xenophobic rhetoric flying towards him, as Will is still very much Italian, and immigrants from all over were not treated fairly by many at this time in history. Hearing all the outrageous things being said, George stands up for Will, ultimately telling the butler to never speak to anyone like that ever again, or he might suffer dire consequences.

Will, seeing this act if kindness and bravery from this boy, thanks him profusely, and as a thank you gift, tells him that he can try to teach George Hamon.

The next day, the two are in the grassy fields near the lake, where Will is preparing to test if George has got what it takes. Will is nervous. What if he doesn’t have the skill? What if everything is for naught? With a hesitant breath, Will hits George in the diaphragm.

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Thats all I have right now! Sorry if the characters are OOC, or if this entire thing doesn’t make sense. This is just a silly idea I had while hyper fixating on Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. The age of Will when he looses his dad is probably different than in canon, but Im pretty sure he was a young adult.

To anyone who reads this and actually finds it interesting, feel free to say something in the comments or tags, or even dm me!

[karerasakunamisstrap]

If jojo characters were in a symphonic orchestra;

THE JOJOS-

Jonathan, Cello 1

Joseph, Solo Tenor saxophone

Jotaro, Violin 2 (from his goodboy days)

Josuke4, Trombone

Giorno, Cello 1

Jolyne, Alto Sax 2

Johnny,

Jousk8, Bassoon 2

JOBROS/TEAMS/HOES

Speedwagon, Viola section chair

Erina Joestar, Flute section chair

Tonpetty, Violin 2

Dire, Euphonium

Straizo, Violin 1

Caesar Zeppeli, Clarinet 1

Lisa Lisa, Cello section chair

Suzi Q, Alto Sax 1

Stroheim, Horn ( & wagner tuba )

Holly Kujo, Viola 1

Kakyoin, Violin section chair

Polnareff, Violin 2

Koichi, Clarinet 2

Okuyasu, solo Bari sax

Rohan Kishibe, Oboe chair

Yukako, Clarinet 3 ( sits next to koichi

Abbachio, Euphonium

Fugo, Cello 2

Narancia, Auxilliary Percussion

Mista, Flute 1

Trish, Solo E flat Clarinet

Ermes, Timpani

Foo, trumpet

Weather, Piano

Anasui, Flute

Lucy steel, Viola 2

Diego, Bass clarinet Chair

Hot pants, Trumpet

Yasuho, Tuba

Rai, Trumpet

Joshu, "Percussion" grandpa made him do it

Karera, Bass

Kira8, Bassoon Chair (prefers french bassoons)

EXCEPTIONS SO FAR

Johnny doubles on Banjo and Guitar but hasn't played much.

Gyro plays the Lute for chamber music.

Will Zeppeli, Bruno, and Norisuke would all be the Conductors, each all playing piano and respectively maining on oboe, Tenor Voice and Viola.

Wekapipo is a baritone voice, and the orchestra has no choir.

Emporio is in the audience

Mountain tim plays the Guitar, and sings, around halfway between baritone and tenor.

Avdol Is in the audience, he plays the Duduk and has visited as a soloist but more frequently just spectates.

George Joestar I and Steven steel are the people setting this ensemble up and funding it.

Loggins and Messina are a Wham!, Hall and Oates, or Simon and Garfinkel type duo

VILLAINS, MINOR AND MAJOR

Dio brando. Visiting Violin Soloist

Tarkus & Bruford, trained in Natural horn ( one of the rings was a horn ) but currently playing Modern Horn

Jack the ripper, Violin 3 (trained for part 1 but put in 3 because everyone hates him and knows he'll be upset)

Doobie... Auxiliary percussion

Kars, opera bass

Esidesi is not allowed in the building or it will burn down, but he excels in handdrumming

Wamuu, expert in all things flute. doubles on piccolo and alto flute, for a little more range in the section

Wired Beck... Auxiliary percussion

Enya, former Clarinetist

Vanilla Ice, Cello 2

D'arby brothers, both on pitched percussion

N'Doul, Visiting piano soloist. very famous! like if stevie wonder preferred classical

Steely Dan, Trumpet 2

Yoshikage Kira, bass trombone. but he hasn't done much since college...

Yuya Fungami, Bass

Tonio, Oboe, but prefers his doubled Cor Angalis

Diavolo, Alto Clarinet & Bass Clarinet 2

Doppio, Contrabass Clarinet ( Rarely gets to play )

Risotto, Trombone chair

Ghiaccio, Piano ( every other instrument makes him angry about the design )

Prosciutto, Clarinet 2

Gwess, Flute, but she cares more about eating pussy than music. it's admirable to us all.

Pucci, organ

Lang Rangler... Snare drum

Blackmore, Violin 2

Magent Magent, Viola 2

Dr Ferdinand, Cello 2

Jobin, Trombone 3

Kei nijimura, Violin 3

Yotsuyu, Violin 2

Aisho, clarinet 2

Urban Guerilla, Viola 1

VILLAIN EXCEPTIONS

Hol horse plays the guitar

Akira Otoishi :)

Keicho certainly plays electric bass

Cioccolata is too busy being himself with his boyslave to do any music. he did learn violin once upon a time.

Squalo and Tiziano are jazzers

Leaky eye luca is a lounge singer

illuso is a famous singer/songwriter/musician and Formaggio plays bass for him

Pesci just goes fishing

Melone just games instead of playing any instruments

Johngalli A. is a dancer

all of dio's children are too lazy or just care about only other things

Miraschon had a habit of betting other musicians to play stuff for money and got kicked out by old joestar. played violin 2

Funny Valentine, Steel guitar

Ringo Roadagain, jaw harp and 12 string guitar

The eleven men are their own choir.

Sandman chooses not to participate in western music

Oyecomova plays the timbale drums ( yes, just like tito puente )

Tooru learned everything from guitar to flute over his very long life but just acts like a teenager right now and doesn't use much of it

Damo Tamaki, says he can play sax and can't

IN CONCLUSION; i need more things to do with my time. see you when i make a jazz group of jojo characters ❤️❤️

[sailorsenshishitposter]

William Zeppeli x Reader

William Zeppeli

You get attached to characters with little screen time before they die or you're just horny for men that look like magicians

First Date:

You ask him to teach you hamon but you're asthmatic and pass out while trying to concentrate. You drown in the water and the man pulls out some salt for his sandwich.

Second attempt:

You meet in India. Will has just had his future read and has accepted his tragic death. He's fine with this until he notices a group of women passing by. "If I'm destined to die then I might as well show a woman a fine Italian course meal. And by that I mean my meatballs!"

You were walking when you heard a loud "WAHOO" and then you noticed a strange foreigner before you. The others ran away, leaving just you behind. The man winked at you. "Hey baby! Would you like to taste the power of the sun?" You didn't understand his words but he threw a strange bottle at you. You were unfortunately unable to read it due to your lack of knowledge surrounding the English language.

"That's Sunny D. You better appreciate it because it was difficult to smuggle." He then lifted his shirt to show a large scar across his abdomen. He pressed his belly button and it opened like a lock. The top half of the man detached into two. You then realized what you were looking at. He had smuggled items in his body like it was some sort of demented trunk.

You gasped in horror. The man noticed how frightened you were. "It's really not so bad. I've been stabbed and jabbed dozens of times. I never caught your name by the way?" He then pulled out a bouquet of flowers to give you. You screamed and ran away, terrified. "Not again!" the man cursed to himself. This was the fifth time this month. Maybe Tonpetty was right about him climbing the stairway to Heaven as a virgin. He pulled out some wine and decide that he was going to get himself shitfaced.

[relicfragment]

the thing a lot of adaptations of part 1 fail to realize is that straizo, dire, and speedwagon need to be there. The musical is much better about the latter, but the former 2 characters were not only Not in the phantom blood movie, but also aren't in the musical while characters like tattoo and kempo fighter are :/

Speedwagon has to be in any adaptation no matter what, otherwise future parts make no fucking sense. The speedwagon foundation would become some strange supernatural organization instead, and not the love letter to his departed friend's ( read: lost love's ) family it really is. I will argue for tattoo and kempo's inclusion because it humanizes speedwagon on ogre street-- he has people he cares about. He isn't just a street thug mugging you. He holds allies, respect, and honor. His word is law in the world of crime.

Straizo is another case of being deceptively important. You can see from the storyboards of the appp battle tendency movie that he was, in fact, included as the starter villain. Him and Dire, and even Tonpetty's existence, all humanize Zeppeli. They give him connections. Zeppeli didn't just leave Jonathan and Speedwagon and Poco behind, he left behind his closest friends to chase his future. He left behind a wife. He left behind a son. He did this for the good of the world to start the chain reaction that would kill Dio for good. Straizo being there is a GOOD thing. You're also telling me that Speedwagon alone can protect Poco and his sister from a horde of zombies??? He can only swing his sledgehammer so fast!! It also leads into part 2. Straizo adopts Lisa Lisa, who in turn goes to train Joseph against the Pillar Men. Does Erina in this adaptation adopt her herself??? Does she still get with george??? That shit's weird as hell! Without Straizo being in part 1, his relationship with the main cast and his betrayal have no weight. Is this just a random monk that Speedwagon went on an expedition with? There's no history between them! Fuck, even Dire served a purpose to show how powerful Dio was, able to freeze over and shatter a hamon warrior that had been training as long as Zeppeli, if not longer!

You can make an excuse for Tonpetty not being involved, however. His impact on the plot is very minor, and relegated to backstory. The fact he was present was always strange-- y'all deadass brought an old man to fight vampires??? Ok sure! But it would have made sense if he sent his best students in his stead ykwim?

[jjba-smash-or-pass]

[cyclipse95]

Sorry if this derails anything but I must protest: Limp Bizkit isn’t just a “silly name”, it’s the name of a band! And that’s within the convention of JJBA, there are classic rock and other Western music references abound! Dio is in fact named after Ronnie James Dio (known for Holy Diver among others, which is why The World is clad in what appears to be diving gear). There are also two guys named Dire and Straits who were trained by martial arts master Tonpetti (or rather, “Tom Petty” said really fast). And most if not all stands after Part 3 are music references, as are other objects and character design choices (the exploding handcuffs are called Like A Virgin, Dio has heart motifs in his Part 3 outfit because that also references a RJD song lyric iirc, and Josuke’s hair and outfit are modeled after a specific photo of Prince).

Sorry to be the “um actually” guy, I understand that this is common knowledge and everyone probably already knew this, I just got the powerful urge to mention that when I read “they just give things silly names”. I mean, I guess Araki does do that technically, but it’s because Limp Bizkit gave themselves a silly name first!

…also Araki also does seem to just give people silly names but that’s in relation to him naming Italians after stuff he seemingly found on the menu of an Italian restaurant (even Diavolo seems to be named after the dish, rather than the Devil, though I’m sure the latter is no coincidence either) and deciding to name everyone in Part 6 after a fashion brand.

I think one of the biggest reasons I enjoy jjba is because I envy this level of confidence and sincerity in storytelling. See, I would not have just said something as fucking stupid as "bullet-deflecting oil." I would've come up with some kind of Watsonian bullshit magic-science explanation that at least squared with the logic of the story instead of just saying "Oh, it's an oil that deflects bullets" and moving on to the next thing. But that is not because I am a better storyteller, no, quite the opposite. It's because I'm a coward.

[sonicasura]

I can only imagine Jonathon anger towards Straizo in this situation. Straizo attacked his grandson and Jonathon's friend. Straizo betrayed Tonpetty and Dire's sacrifice all those years ago.

And may Arceus help Straizo if Jonathon finds out he wanted too attack Erina and that he almost killed Speedwagon

For Joseph, Smokey, and Trainer this was a fight that they just have too sit back and watch

Jonathan's ferocity intensified as Joseph rats Straizo out about wanting to end the Joestar Bloodline and attacking Speedwagon. You can say the vampire was dumb enough to monologue before the younger Jojo shoots out the place. Trainer, Joseph and Smokey were running damage control.

Getting people away from the vampiric scuffle while making sure Straizo couldn't slip away to feed on an innocent to heal. They didn't stay in one spot that's for sure. It ends at the bridge like it does canon wise.

Trainer plays Oración for Jonathan so whatever primal fury left in him would fully peter out.

[duhragonball]

Phantom Blood Liveblog JJBA ch.39-41

Yep! We'll never have to worry about bizarre adventures again! From now on, it's smooth sailing!

One thing I forgot about was that Tonpetti and Straitz were there during the climactic Jonathan vs. Dio battle. Why didn't they get involved? Well they were too busy fighting Dio's zombies. Here, we see four of them---Page, Jones, Plant, and Bonham, who all look like weird bug creatures. I hae no idea how Dio managed to alter their corpses to achieve this look, but they're really gross.

They try to quadruple-team Straitz with an attack that involves using their own blood vessels like tentacles, but Straitz just leaps clear and drops a chandalier on them before finishing them off with Hamon. I mostly point this scene out because this is the first time we see this blood vessel thing, and it'll come up again later.

So Jonathan's on his own, but that's no problem, because Dire's trick with that Hamon-charged rose showed him how to get past Dio's freezing power. He gets the sword he received from Bruford and plans to send Hamon through the blade. That way he can strike Dio without getting his own flesh too frozen to produce the Ripple. But he also manages to pick up a bunch of roses and throws them at Dio to distract him. This is like foreshadowing to Part 3, where Dio threw a bunch of knives at Jotaro to overwhelm him. I suppose this moment with the roses was when the tide turned against Dio, and as we'll soon see, he'll have plenty of time to think over that mistake.

Jonathan manages to cut at Dio's flank, then when Dio tries to strike back with his right hand, Jonathan chops off his entire arm! And before Dio can deal with that, Jonathan brings the sword down on Dio's head! Fuck yeah!

So Dio's defeated, right? Wrong, because even getting (nearly) chopped in half like this isn't enough to kill him. Jonathan has to deploy the Ripple, but he can't because...

... Dio managed to flash freeze the sword and Jonathan's hands. I guess this worked because so much of the sword is in Dio right now, that Jonathan's hands are too close. The whole point of the sword was to increase Jonathan's range, but he still came in close to attack. And now Dio's going to stick his fingers in Jonathan and turn him into a zombie.

What about Jonathan's legs? He can send Hamon through those too, right? Yeah, but Dio makes sure to freeze Jonathan's feet too. I'm... pretty sure you can't freeze this much stuff just by rapidly evaporating the moisture in your own body. The idea that Dio can rapidly evaporate the water in his body is kind of sketchy to begin with, but now he's just being Iceman. It would have been simpler to just say the Stone Mask gives you Iceman powers on top of the rest of it. It doesn't surprise me at all that Araki came up with Stands and never looked back. As much as I enjoy Parts 1 and 2, both stories practically cry out for a concept like Stands to neatly explain a lot of these bullshit powers the characters use.

But Jonathan has actually outsmarted Dio here. The sword was intended to give Jonathan a longer reach, but not to keep Dio at a distance. No, he wanted Dio up close, while the sword reached for one of the torches on the balcony.

Basically, Jonathan knew Dio would find some way to freeze him, so rather than looking for a way to avoid it, he looked for a way to warm himself up after it happened. If Dio had just frozen Jonathan completely, this would be over, but he left part of Jonathan unfrozen in order to take his blood. And that, plus Dio's gloating, allowed time for Jonathan's sword to heat up in the torch and thaw out Jonathan's hands. And that...

... doesn't accomplish much, actually. Jonathan manages to free himself and land a blow, but Dio manages to freeze Jonathan's hand again just from the brief contact of the punch.

This gives time for Dio to put himself back together, and we see that blood vessel thing again, as he fetches his severed arm. So Jonathan's back to square one. All he's accomplished so far is to earn Dio's respect.

But no, Jonthan doesn't see it like that at all. Dio goes on about how humans are too limited to overcome the kind of powers he has, but Jonathan argues that humans can evolve to overcome problems. Having experienced Dio's freezing technique and survived, Jonathan can come up with a counter for it. And that counter is lighting his own hand on fire. I'd call this an example of Part One-y mayhem, but Part 6 topped this when Jolyne lit her own everything on fire. It runs in the family.

And it works. Jonathan goes for a double punch, and the fire is too hot for Dio to freeze his hands, so when the punch connects, Dio gets a full dose of Hamon through his chest. Cool!

The best he can muster is to shoot a high-pressure burst of fluid from his eyeballs, which is so powerful that it rips through Jonathan's hand and forearm. "Joke's on you, stupid," Jonathan says, "I already set my hands on fire, so they hurt too much for me to notice!"

This power is probably the most potent weapon Dio had at the time, so it's kind of odd that he waited so long to use it. I mean, it continued on past Jonathan, through at least two zombies, and through a stone column. Joseph Joestar came up with a way to block it, but that won't happen for another fifty years. I'm pretty sure Dio could have sniped Jonathan's entire group before they ever got into this building.

But that's not Dio's style. I'd even suggest that Dio might not have even come up with this eyebeam thing until that very moment, when he wanted to hurt Jonathan but couldn't do anything else with his body. Up to that point, he was content to watch his enemies struggle against the zombies, or to freeze them.

And that kind of sums up the way Dio fights. He's not interested in going on the offensive. He'd rather send a bunch of henchmen to fight in his place, and if anyone manages to confront him directly, he'll let them make a move just to demonstrate how utterly useless it is. The freezing power is perfect for him, because it only works if you touch him, and you can't really fight him without touching him. The World's power is baiscally the natural extension of that idea, where you're supposed to figure out that Dio's power is unstoppable, and despair at the thought of getting close enough to him to experience it.

Dio wants to be this absolute force in the world, an obstacle no human can possibly overcome. As a human, he tried to achieve this by accumulating money and using poison to snuff out his victims. As a vampire, he surrounds himself with lackeys and protects himself with a seemingly unassailable power. But he just assumes that if that works once, it will work every time. He doesn't reckon with the human ability to adapt and overcome. Why would he? Dio never adapted or overcame anything. He just took shortcuts, like using the Stone Mask. To him, the idea that an enemy might get better at fighting him while they fight is inconceivable.

Dio falls over the balcony, and everyone is pretty much satisfied that he's done for. Jonathan collapases with exhaustion, and Speedwagon explains to Poco that Jonathan feels somewhat sad about killing Dio, since they grew up together. "But I didn't grow up with that motherfucker," Speedwagon adds, "so I couldn't be happier! Rest in piss, Dio!"

Of course, there's still all of Dio's zombies to deal with, but Tonpetti and Straitz take care of them. Except for that one zombie that kills George Joestar in 1920. Annnnnd...

... Dio himself, who manages to cut off his own head before the Hamon attack can destroy it. This way his body is consumed by the ripple, while his head can survive. But big deal. His head can't do much on its own, and the sun will be up in a few hours. Except for...

Wang Chung, who just happened to be lurking around at the base of the cliff. He recovers Dios head and runs off with it. So, yeah, Tonpetti and Straitz really left a lot of loose ends on this night. To be fair, Straitz would make even worse mistakes later on...

But for now at least, the crisis is over and the Stone Mask is found and destroyed, and Dio is defeated. Or is he?

No. No he is not. Look, Wang Chung's running off with his severed head. This is very bad.

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