#usagi traitor theory

[justaninternetgal]

It’s time for a theory, a Game Jojo Theory

In Part 5, there was originally a plan for Fugo to instead of leaving the group, betray it and try to kill them. This plan never went through, and it was ultimately for the better, since we got Purple Haze Feedback out of it. However, there’s a trend I’m noticing.

2 stands in Part 9 are named King Crimson. Part 9 is AU Part 5. King Crimson was the main villain’s stand of Part 5. So far, the two KC references are from the Discipline Ära. Mattekudasai, the stand of Usagi is a reference to Discipline, and Howler, who is being set up to be the main villain of the part, is a reference to Beat. There’s one more album, Three Of A Perfect Pair, about how there’s always two perfect matches and a third thing missing to fully complete something. Do you see where I’m going with this?

Thematically, it would make sense if there was no actual third KC stand user. I propose Usagi is AU Fugo. I propose Usagi is a traitor working for Howler Corporation. It would shatter a lot of important dynamics that are being developed. It would be tragic. Which is an Araki ass move if I’ve ever heard one

Thas it I guess

[possiblylando]

Jojolands Chapter 7 Thoughts

I really liked Jojolands Chapter 7. I'll do this in the same sort of way I do my CSM posts. I probably won't talk about every single chapter in Jojolands but we'll see.

Jojoland gets the Ultrajump cover this time. Araki has said theres no canon color pallet for these characters but he's just lying to our faces. He is sold on this single Jodio color scheme. this is just how Jodio is colored. I do find it interesting he made Dragona white for some reason. It's one of those weird Araki coloring quirks you don't really see anywhere else. It's happened with Pucci and Avdol before and as pointed out by someone else on twitter, This is just how Araki colors these spreads. He uses a single skin color for every character. Still odd. Usagi's color pallet is basically a perfect Mirror of Idubbbz's Green "Dude" character. With each chapter we get slowly closer to pink Usagi.

We get the Jojolands emblem which I rather like.

Jodio's pose is still pretty dumb. I get that it's him being arrested but like- Cmon. I know for a FACT araki could've come up with something more interesting. I guess it's not that out of place for Jojo's main poses. Jotaro just pointed and grabbed his hat. Notably Jodio still has some sort of writing in this hood. I can't really make out what it says still however.

Continuing through the Cat ambush we get more information on November Rain. It's effective range is directly around Jodio with it's maximum range sitting somewhere below 7 Meters. Additionally November Rain does THIS

Which is is sorta akin to my previous theory about how it worked. It seems to have a certain amount of gravity control. However it may not be directly under it as I previously predicted but instead it's able to control the gravity of it's rain drops. So the Cats are 100% Rock Animals or some other concept for weird animals Araki is gonna reveal in the coming chapters.

Given that these cats all share the same ability to turn their hair into wires it seems reasonable to assume they're the same sort of species and this is just an ability they possess. However we've seen that some animals develop the same stands with the rats in part 4. Both of which are able to develop the stand Ratt. And then of course MY BOY RETURNS

Usagi continues to prove he's the best character in this part.

He manages to prove in just a few pages that he has an insanely high deductive reasoning skill. He was able to figure out what the Lava Rock did, Then he acted on it to win the fight. The other characters may see Usagi as a Greenhorn idiot but he's undeniably really smart. This also goes to show how dangerous the Lava Rock is. It's able to attract things of value which are inside a person or animal. It likely has a threshold on the value of objects it attracts. But we could end up with a disgustingly strong object which is able to attract organs out of people's bodies.

So Jodio's line of thinking is interesting here. It implies one of two things. 1. The cats were already stalking Rohan in search of the Lava rock 2. The cats were sent by someone searching for the Lava Rock They could very much be set up for the main antagonist(s) of this part. Possible being another antagonist group instead of just a single one. It seems like Araki is taking the criticism of Part 8 to heart and is going to be giving us our main antagonist sooner rather than later. However we've already been set up with a Traitor among the main crew who could easily end up being the main antagonist. The cats could just be setting up a minor Antagonist or Group and not the main one. Good chapter.

[drawnaghht]

auntie’s sister - Usagi’s parents theory

oh yeah, I remembered what I remembered a few days ago: why I think Auntie has a younger sister that's in the Miyamoto family line, instead of younger brother - because of the whole meaning of Yuichi as it is written, as a given name.

Yuichi Usagi is the first son in a while. Maybe even since Auntie's own grandfather?

So this ties back to the whole "What's in a name" theory post I made a while back, where I connected Senso and Samurai Rabbit.

Because Yuichi spelled as both 雄一 and ユウイチ - Yūichi - means “heroic first (son)” - maybe he was named that bc the family hasn't seen a son in a long time? So by that reasoning, it makes even more sense if Yuichi is more like a title or nickname in this case, but Usagi places it in the same way as he would a family name bc their family didn't have a name for a long time as farmers.

And so, going from that reason, maybe his family line tying him back to Miyamoto Usagi, must be maternal - his mother and grandmother at least, since Auntie mentions his great-grandfather - so for a few generations, the family didn’t have sons at all. Anyway, that’s just a theory I remembered now ^^

As an additional theory/headcanon, maybe even that they were overjoyed to have someone carry a family name but by that time, Neo Edo had changed so much that Miyamoto Usagi had already been branded a traitor in the city, without the family knowing about it. So what do they do? Perhaps they decided not associate with him as openly, to avoid scrutiny because it was hard to change public opinion - and after Usagi’s parents died, Auntie cut off ties from the city entirely. She passes on some of the stories about family history, and Yuichi sticks as a family name to Usagi because that’s the only other name he got.  imo, auntie seemed fairly in the dark about how much Neo Edo had changed while she was away from it, so it’s a possibility that the perception about Miyamoto Usagi changed during her lifetime, e.g. after the war she was in. But that’s backstory we don’t know exactly, so this is just headcanon and fanfic territory for now ^^ 

Anyway, that’s probably why I headcanon that auntie had a younger sister who’s the parent, because the Yuichi name seemed somehow to tie into this family history for me xD even tho the show itself is slightly vague about it (auntie just says “I promised your parents” it does leave this theory open as a possibility.

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Hello here is my crackpot theory with no evidence 😎👍

Meryl Mei will be the ultimate big bad of the part

She has a lot going on and nobody knows everything about her. She is a principal, business owner, fashion designer, wife, mother, and leader of a small crime family. How. How is she doing this. Is she ok. There is something here and I hope it does get more elaboration.

And then there's Usagi. I do not think he'll be a traitor, but if he is... ohoho.

Meryl Mei hired him, a 17 year old drug addict. Why. Why did she do that. He doesn't have experience, he's not been shown to particularly smart (besides the raft thing which is very interesting), he didn't have relationships with the others besides Jodio kind of, and his stand is useless when he's alone.

What does Mei see in him? Why did she send him on this mission? I hope there is more elaboration eventually.

There's also the fact that she just HAPPENED to hire the gang to steal from the man with the lava rocks. That's a very very very interesting coincidence, is it not?

Anyways I love Meryl Mei and I need her to have a larger role in the story, I hope this was coherent, bye.

Meryl Mei will be the ultimate big bad of the part

It makes the "I wouldn't trust your friends" warning more shocking. Unless the translations were wrong, Rohan was rather vague when he advised Jodio to be careful of his companions. Meryl Mei is a very beloved principal of McKinley High, the main three trust her judgment, and she treats them almost as if they are her own children. She is very similar to Polpo in that both give off the appearance of being a well-respected, admired public person overseeing their underlings, but are very different when the performance drops. Polpo acts like this sophisticated, worldly, and trustworthy Caporegime revealed to be a slob who betrayed Giorno's trust and sees his underlings as mere pawns. Meryl Mei gives this girl-boss vibe of being a crime boss, designer, and principal but we know she is making kids commit crimes for her- even if it means they could be injured or arrested. It could set up the gang to feel betrayed the way Giorno was with Polpo.

As the possible big bad? I don't think so. I don't think she would be a direct main villain. Instead, if we have Meryl Mei involved with the big bad, I think we would have a DIO&Pucci dynamic where someone else is the main villain because they were following a legacy or unaccomplished dream Meryl Mei had. Whether Jodio and his gang killed Meryl Mei or a completely different group kills her, it sets the other main villain up to go against the former.

Meryl Mei hired him, a 17-year-old drug addict. Why. Why did she do that... What does Mei see in him?

I actually made a headcanon about Usagi's backstory that explains why he's a drug addict but is considered a good student prior to his current backstory.

Looking at it now with what we know, there is two scenarios that could explain why he's not a drug addict but he was first seen buying drugs:

He's buying the drugs for his mother. It's possible that Mrs. Aloha'oe is still grieving over her husband's death and became addicted to drugs as a result. Usagi could have been guilted or coerced into buying drugs for her. It would explain how he mentioned the family was living off life insurance but his mom has seemingly tight control over it, which is why he took the job.

He's buying the drugs for himself but he never took them. I'm speculating he's a very sheltered kid, like the one being bullied in Chapter 1, and wanted to rebel or have more friends by deciding to buy drugs to try them out but chickened out. It's all an act and his attempt at finding friends and it led him to join the gang.

Meryl Mei seems to take on kids who are extremely troubled so that she could act as a savior who could convince them to do her bidding. If you think about it, all four characters are very impressionable and vulnerable: Usagi is a drug addict, Paco was abused to the point where he was mutilated while suffering from kleptomania, Dragona is gender non-conforming (they/them, trans, whatever you interpret) and has that used against them, and Jodio is diagnosed with ASPD. I have a whole theory about the psychotherapy test and how that connects to Meryl Mei as well.

There's also the fact that she just HAPPENED to hire the gang to steal from the man with the lava rocks.

I think this was all a coincidence and nothing more to dive into. Pretty much throughout JJBA we've seen how Stand Users are connected and attract one another; we see this especially in the second continuity. However, Meryl Mei could still know that the lava rock exists but not aware of who owns it or plan on getting it while the diamond heist occured.

I love Meryl Mei as well, and I do miss her. I hope she appears more soon!

[docholligay]

Talismans: Secrets--Part Two, Mina and Haruka

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Haruka was going to be drunk again.  

Mina had never had any quality of precognition, but for this particular item, none was required. It was all Haruka seemed to do, was get drunk and sit in her room. Michiru hardly seemed worth that, and even if she had been, it had been weeks since they split up. Or, since Michiru had left her, Mina corrected herself, which was surely part of the problem.

Mina was just glad Haruka had paid her the rent months ahead of time as a lump sum.

And, she supposed, that made it none of her business. She had reached out a hand to Haruka, as Usagi, Rei’s friend who seemed to haunt them all for reasons that seemed more than coincidence but less than on purpose, would have wanted.

Why Mina felt compelled to do what Usagi wanted, she could not say. It must be the quality of genuine concern and sweetness Usagi had for all things.

“What’s the deal with you?” She locked the door and walked into the living room, looking down at Haruka, who lay with her eyes closed, on the ground, in a worn green sweater.

Haruka moaned some unintelligible nothing and groaned.

“So, drunk.” Mina whirled around and went to walk back to her room, but something stopped her.

She turned around, looking over at Haruka, who hadn’t moved, just laid there, dead drunk.

It was the third time this week.

“You’d feel better if you left the house once in a while, you know.”

Haruka groaned again. “N’I wouldn’t.”

“It’s a theory we could try.”

Mina wasn’t sure why she cared. In many ways, this was none of her business, whether Haruka chose to do anything with her life or not, whether she chose to stay drunk and mad about something that happened to everyone, sooner or later, and that Mina figured must have happened to her at least once just by virtue of statistics.

She told herself it was because whatever happened in their private lives was bound to catch up with their military ones, that if Haruka had no sense of discipline in the living room, there was no reason to think she would have any on the battlefield, but she knew that wasn’t quite right.

She’d thought they had a breakthrough, that day in the bathroom, but Haruka retreated as quickly as she’d gone forward, and now she was drunk again, trying to drown her loneliness and the distinctly vulnerable way she felt in the bottom of a cheap bottle.

And Mina, to her great surprise, felt bad.

Mina laid down next to Haruka on the ground, her hair spreading across the carpet, and Haruka looked over at her, eyes bleary with either vodka or tears or both, her hair falling along her brow in a messy and unhappy way. Haruka was the tallest of all the girls, towering over most of them, but in that moment, she looked small. The great equalizer of her own misery had brought her low.

She was so different, here in the apartment, then she seemed out in the wider world, no puffery or fierceness, she was tired and let it slip off her like a dirty undershirt.

The rest of the girls were simple, Mina had observed, the way they interacted with their element, the way it acted in the world and on the battlefield. But in this, like in so many things, Mina could not be simple. Rei’s fire burned, Ami’s ice froze, and Haruka’s earth trembled.

But Mina’s element was love. Mina’s element was people.

She could know things, in the moment of a touch, when she concentrated, and mostly she knew these things in secret, and she wondered if even any of the senshi had discovered that Michiru and Rei were not the only ones who kept some attachment to their powers in their civilian lives.

There were things she needed to know, and she had ways of getting them.

Mina turned on her side and touched Haruka behind her ear, ignoring the minute flinch at her touch even through a deep haze of alcohol.

A girl, crying, alone on the floor. Throwing open the cupboards and climbing on the countertop, looking in the back, but they’re still empty. Sitting alone, cross-legged on a bed, blowing out a birthday candle. Michiru, telling her that she was uncultured, that she would never understand Michiru’s world, that this was foolish from the beginning. A teenager, holding at her ear, shivering with fever.

She pulled away, not needing to see any more. Mina had strange sort of moral code about this power, that she did not bring through most of her life. But this felt unfair. It was not outmaneuvering so much as having a gun at a knife fight, and she stayed her hand more than an average person might have assumed.

Haruka gave a sniffle next to her, and looked back up toward the ceiling, as if nothing at all had happened.

Mina did not speak for awhile. It was one thing to have information, and quite another to know what to do with it, and this problem had boggled her since she was a child, first discovering this power. There was a quality of strategy, that was just as important as knowledge, and Haruka was, everything else aside, one of her soldiers. She couldn’t have her split off because Mina had moved her hand too quickly, had told her she knew all the things that Haruka had tried to avoid and hide, and so Mina chose her next words carefully.

“I gotta tell you things don’t stay a secret from me very long.” She reached out to Haruka again, this time not with any eye toward information, but a new and deep sense of compassion for her. She had always forgiven the sparking flint of Mako’s anger, knowing what had brought it to the table, but it had never occurred to her that Haruka’s loud bravado could come from the same place.

For someone so smart with people, she could be pretty stupid, she laughed to herself.

Her hand went to Haruka’s shoulder, and Haruka pulled away from it reflexively, as if allowing Mina to to touch her, to be near her, would be too much, would cut a deeper line in her as Mina became the next on the list to throw her to the side.

Mina’s words came soft, again.

“There’s something inside of you that might kill you if you’re not careful, Haruka.” She did not mean to sound both so cryptic or so concerned.

“I don’t care.” It was not said with the slightest hint of drama, and this concerned Mina all the more.

“I care.”

Haruka’s entire body tensed under the cruel gentleness of it, of the honesty that lit Mina’s voice at the edges when she said it. Mina herself was surprised to find that it was true, and that for the first time she considered Haruka something other than a loudmouthed bully.

We all have our reasons for doing the things we do, she had told Rei once, though she could no longer remember the context, and this had been as true of Haruka as it had been of Mina herself.

Haruka tilted her head away from Mina, so she could no longer see her face, her voice trembling in a slight fear or nervousness or woe or maybe all of them at once.

“I feel like I’m sposed to die,” She rolled over on her side completely, drawing circles in the carpet next to her, “You know? How you feel like something’s true even if you don’t know why?”

She is supposed to die, Venus said, in the dark reaches of her mind, and Mina could see the cruel smile of her too bright and jagged teeth, Serenity said.

Mina was not sure what Venus meant, except that Uranus had been a coward and Venus had slain her with her own hand, but these were details better left outside of the present conversation.

“Well,” she quipped, brushing the darkness from her mind, and reaching out for Haruka’s back, not moving her hand even as Haruka tensed again, “I mean, we’re all gonna die, unless the Scandinavians figure something out.”

Haruka gave a weak laugh and wiped at her eyes, still refusing to look at Mina.

“That’s not what I mean.”

“So you’re gonna beat whatever it is you think’s gonna kill you to the punch?” She sat up, and pushed at Haruka a little in what she hoped seemed playful, “Nah, c’mon, I’ve seen you take a chunk of concrete to the head, you’re not that big of a pussy,” Mina jumped to her feet, “I’m ordering pizza. You’re eating some of it, drunkie. And then you’re going to bed.”

Haruka rolled up onto her elbows and looked up at Mina with a weak smile, her eyes still red. “I’m kind of a pussy, though.”

Mina tossed her hair over her shoulder. “We all have our moments. I’ll teach you everything you need to know about women. We’ll get you a new girlfriend. A BETTER one.”

Haruka shook her head. “I don’t know.”

“Good. I’m not asking you to know, I’m telling you to listen to me.” Mina grabbed the flier off the fridge, “Oh man, they have the pizza with the stuffed crust back, that shit is so bad for me, but I fucking love it,” she grinned, “Kinda like you and heiresses, huh Bud?”

“That’s not funny,” she said, but she gave a weak chuckle, and Mina nodded, “I like the kind with the pepperoni in the crust.”

Mina grabbed her phone. “We can probably manage that.”

Haruka hauled herself to her feet and shuffled over to the small and shaky table as Mina leaned back against the counter, counting out bills in her hand as she chatted with the pizza place on the phone. Whatever you could say about the quality of the place, they had coupons and took orders quickly, and that made them good enough in Mina’s book.

She hung up the phone and looked over at Haruka. “They said it’ll be like thirty minutes,” She walked over to the fridge and began to pour Haruka a glass of water, “let’s get you hydrated.”

Uranus was a coward and Neptune was a traitor, and they will be punished, Venus said, in the back of her mind, and she wiped it away again. Venus could tell her what had happened, but it couldn’t tell her what would be, because that was up to Mina. She steered the ship now, and Venus could take a seat.

Venus had used her power to know fears and weaknesses and to hurt and manipulate, but it didn’t have to be that way. The power itself was morally neutral, it was only what you decided to do with it that was the wrinkle. Mina got to decide.

She set the glass in front of Haruka and sat down across from her. “If we’re gonna live together, you have to tell me shit,” she looked at Haruka seriously, “You can’t try to keep secrets from me. For starters, it won’t work, you’re not that good, and for seconds...we have to try and be friends. You could use a friend.”

Haruka ran her hand through her hair and nodded slowly. “Michiru left me because I wasn’t enough for her.”

“Michiru’s the kind of person who can’t be happy, Haruka. You can do better.”

Haruka gave a slight nod. “Thanks.”

“And you get to drink, when, how, and as much as I say you do, got it?”She pointed across the table at Haruka, “This is fucking stupid, we gotta get you back in the gym and eating actual food, you dumbshit, I hate trying to get new roommates.”

“Okay! Okay!” Haruka threw her hands up in front of her, but her eyes glinted in appreciation, and Mina smiled.

She had told Haruka that there was something inside her that might kill her if she wasn’t careful, and as they sat at the table, waiting to share their first real meal together, Serenity’s eyes gleamed overhead among the stars, waiting to tell Mina just how right she was.