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Player Name: Awe Personal Journal:awestriker E-mail: awestrikernova@gmail.com AIM/Plurk/Etc.:awestriker Timezone: Mountain (GMT -7) Current Characters in Victory Road: None
Josuke and friends recover the Bow and Arrow formerly owned by the Nijimura family, but soon discover that a Stand-using serial killer is living in Morioh, and that his father is using another Bow and Arrow to produce more Stand users to eliminate Josuke and friends, who have become a threat to his son's quiet life. Eventually, both the serial killer and his father die, and Jotaro leaves Morioh confident that Josuke can continue to protect it.
Personality: Josuke, at first glance, looks rough. The pompadour is often used in Japanese media to indicate that a character is delinquent, and he's also much taller than most of his peers - and how imposing this is is not ignored by either the manga or the anime; his friend Koichi, despite only being about a foot shorter than Josuke, is usually drawn at only half his size (although Koichi's lack of self-confidence early on also likely contributes to that). Despite all that, though, Josuke treats people relatively respectfully unless he already has a reason to suspect that something's amiss. He doesn't consider dating or romance a priority, and before he learned that his life could be in danger coming to Morioh he didn't have any strong feelings about his father Joseph, either; Josuke hadn't really thought about his father. When they're about to meet for the first time, he tells Koichi, "You're probably hoping for some kind of heartwarming family reunion, but this is a guy I've never even met before. We don't have 'family ties' or anything... it'll just be really awkward." However, to people Josuke cares about he is a dependable person - someone asserts that Josuke is thinking about cutting his losses during an encounter where Okuyasu and Koichi are in danger, and Koichi's unfalsifiable belief is that Josuke wouldn't abandon them.
Josuke rarely hides his insecurities or weaknesses - you could say he wears a heart on his sleeve, if he didn't already wear it on his left shoulder. Koichi invites him to visit a mangaka living in Morioh, and he declines because he gets nervous around famous people. He breaks out into joy and laughter upon finding out a get-rich-quick scheme not only worked, but succeeded spectacularly. Strange phenomena get Josuke curious, which frequently lead to encounters with enemy Stands. Jotaro asks him for help and his respect for his older nephew causes a bit of self-doubt. He uses the English word "great" liberally, both sarcastically, but more often positively. But in a fight, or another serious affair, he can calmly assess the situation and plan accordingly, and in fact often swings back and forth between appearing rational and exuberant, partially because it's a good way to disguise your tactics. During battle is when he is most likely to hide that things look like they're going wrong - but if he bites his lip, it's a sure sign that that he's afraid.
Josuke cares a lot about his appearance - he's known to wear shoes that cost ¥20000 and up and designer socks, to say nothing of the rest of his ensemble. This, of course, gets really expensive and he's not that good with money (his mother froze his bank account once so that he wouldn't splurge), so he frequently resorts to less-than-ethical means of getting cash quick. Furthermore, anyone that talks smack about his hair is about to see a side of him they're about to wish they hadn't. When this happens, Josuke becomes much more aggressive than usual and resort to physical or Stand violence if he hadn't done so already. Furthermore, the rage this brings about fills him with so much power that he is able to ignore some things entirely - "blind" is not inaccurate, since the primary example of something he ignored this way was a Stand power delivered by a visual medium, and there's a longstanding grudge between Josuke and the person that tried that. He's made a habit of carrying a comb just in case his hair needs a quick fix.
A Stand and its abilities reveal much about the Stand user, though, and Crazy Diamond's core power of "restoration" speaks to Josuke's true inner kindness. He doesn't resort to violence without a reason. He wears his pompadour out of gratitude to a person that so far as he knows only exists in vague memories. When Koichi is pierced by the Arrow and thus in imminent, lethal danger, he decides he can't just leave him be and walks headfirst into what he can only assume is a trap. When one of his comrades nearly died in an important battle, he carried the body around until he woke up. When his grandfather died, he took it upon himself to protect Morioh in his stead. Why does Josuke have such a strong moral core? It could be his grandfather's influence, or Jotaro's, or the nameless man in his vaguest memories, but when Okuyasu asks why Josuke healed him, sustaining injuries in the process of getting him to safety, after they fought, Josuke himself puts it in a simpler way: "I don't have a reason. I just don't want anyone to die."
Strengths/Weaknesses: + Easily reads people's general emotional states. + Very good at planning on the fly. Most of his battles in canon, violent or not, were won by this ability. + Makes friends easily, even if first meetings sometimes come to blows. - Mildly afraid of turtles, which could make handling some Pokémon difficult. - Absolutely cannot let it go if someone insults his hair until they are sufficiently beaten. - Bad at video games and handling money.
Pokémon Information Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Pansage. Mostly this is becuase it evolves into Simisage, which... you've seen its hair, right???... but also because it starts with Play Nice; out of the JoJos, Josuke is the one that made the most friends out of enemies.
Password: [Atomic Fireball]
Samples First Person Sample: [Josuke seems to have gotten a new Pokémon - a Smeargle, from the look of it, and it's furiously painting in the corner of the feed.]
So, this Pokémon kinda reminds me of someone I know who's way into art. But he also kinda hates me for no reason, and it looks like they've got that in common. None of my others have been this way, not even the turtles, so does anyone have any tips for dealing with Pinkdark here? I mean, look at him over there just-
[Josuke looks behind his shoulder and sees that Pinkdark has in fact walked up to him while he was saying all that. With one quick flick of its tail, it's covered the Pokégear camera in its dark pink paint. What happens next can only be heard, but it apparently involves a lot of attempted tackling, and Josuke didn't bother moving the 'gear.]
Oi! Don't do that, you- Give back my comb! I need to keep that for- oooh, that's it you're not getting treats tonight-
[The feed cuts here. Presumably one of his other Pokémon turned it off.]
Third Person Sample: The orange glow didn't wake Josuke up quite as much as the smell did, burning in his nose like an explosion in slow motion. Most people wouldn't have called it pleasant, and neither would he. It told him that someone could die, and maybe they already had. He couldn't let that happen, even if he didn't have Crazy Diamond.
Scrambling out of bed for his clothes, he didn't even think of calling 110 or 911 or whatever the emergency hotline was in this universe. The fire department wouldn't get here in time given the way things already looked, so it was gonna be up to him.
"Okay, you're gonna have to cover me while I go in and get everyone out," he told his Squirtle. He'd named it Kowainai - fearless - shortly after he got it; it certainly hadn't been shy about wanting to fight everything from day one, even if Josuke himself had some trouble with its relatives back in the reality he was used to. Since then they'd bonded unexpectedly well; he had other water Pokémon but Josuke kinda doubted whether they'd be able to trust him going in alone. Kowainai nodded and immediately set its Water Gun on the growing fire.
Meanwhile, Josuke charged into the house, not thinking or caring about what that'd do to him. He didn't hear any signs of a smoke detector going off - was it broken or did they just not have one? Despite how long it looked like the fire'd been going, the smoke was pretty thin. A quick glance around the room revealed that there was indeed a smoke detector in the room, but it wasn't going off. Had its battery run down that far? Was there a Pokémon that could do that kind of thing? Didn't matter now, he needed to get whoever lived here out of danger first. Or at least make enough noise to get them out of bed.
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Josuke Higashikata | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure | Reserved...? maybe?
Name: Awe
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Timezone: Mountain (GMT -7)
Current Characters in Victory Road: None
Character
Name: Josuke Higashikata
Series: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Timeline: End of Part 4 (Diamond is Unbreakable)
Canon Resource Links:
The JoJo fandom maintains its wiki extremely well... except the history beyond "Let's Go Out For Italian".
Josuke and friends recover the Bow and Arrow formerly owned by the Nijimura family, but soon discover that a Stand-using serial killer is living in Morioh, and that his father is using another Bow and Arrow to produce more Stand users to eliminate Josuke and friends, who have become a threat to his son's quiet life. Eventually, both the serial killer and his father die, and Jotaro leaves Morioh confident that Josuke can continue to protect it.
Personality:
Josuke, at first glance, looks rough. The pompadour is often used in Japanese media to indicate that a character is delinquent, and he's also much taller than most of his peers - and how imposing this is is not ignored by either the manga or the anime; his friend Koichi, despite only being about a foot shorter than Josuke, is usually drawn at only half his size (although Koichi's lack of self-confidence early on also likely contributes to that). Despite all that, though, Josuke treats people relatively respectfully unless he already has a reason to suspect that something's amiss. He doesn't consider dating or romance a priority, and before he learned that his life could be in danger coming to Morioh he didn't have any strong feelings about his father Joseph, either; Josuke hadn't really thought about his father. When they're about to meet for the first time, he tells Koichi, "You're probably hoping for some kind of heartwarming family reunion, but this is a guy I've never even met before. We don't have 'family ties' or anything... it'll just be really awkward." However, to people Josuke cares about he is a dependable person - someone asserts that Josuke is thinking about cutting his losses during an encounter where Okuyasu and Koichi are in danger, and Koichi's unfalsifiable belief is that Josuke wouldn't abandon them.
Josuke rarely hides his insecurities or weaknesses - you could say he wears a heart on his sleeve, if he didn't already wear it on his left shoulder. Koichi invites him to visit a mangaka living in Morioh, and he declines because he gets nervous around famous people. He breaks out into joy and laughter upon finding out a get-rich-quick scheme not only worked, but succeeded spectacularly. Strange phenomena get Josuke curious, which frequently lead to encounters with enemy Stands. Jotaro asks him for help and his respect for his older nephew causes a bit of self-doubt. He uses the English word "great" liberally, both sarcastically, but more often positively. But in a fight, or another serious affair, he can calmly assess the situation and plan accordingly, and in fact often swings back and forth between appearing rational and exuberant, partially because it's a good way to disguise your tactics. During battle is when he is most likely to hide that things look like they're going wrong - but if he bites his lip, it's a sure sign that that he's afraid.
Josuke cares a lot about his appearance - he's known to wear shoes that cost ¥20000 and up and designer socks, to say nothing of the rest of his ensemble. This, of course, gets really expensive and he's not that good with money (his mother froze his bank account once so that he wouldn't splurge), so he frequently resorts to less-than-ethical means of getting cash quick. Furthermore, anyone that talks smack about his hair is about to see a side of him they're about to wish they hadn't. When this happens, Josuke becomes much more aggressive than usual and resort to physical or Stand violence if he hadn't done so already. Furthermore, the rage this brings about fills him with so much power that he is able to ignore some things entirely - "blind" is not inaccurate, since the primary example of something he ignored this way was a Stand power delivered by a visual medium, and there's a longstanding grudge between Josuke and the person that tried that. He's made a habit of carrying a comb just in case his hair needs a quick fix.
A Stand and its abilities reveal much about the Stand user, though, and Crazy Diamond's core power of "restoration" speaks to Josuke's true inner kindness. He doesn't resort to violence without a reason. He wears his pompadour out of gratitude to a person that so far as he knows only exists in vague memories. When Koichi is pierced by the Arrow and thus in imminent, lethal danger, he decides he can't just leave him be and walks headfirst into what he can only assume is a trap. When one of his comrades nearly died in an important battle, he carried the body around until he woke up. When his grandfather died, he took it upon himself to protect Morioh in his stead. Why does Josuke have such a strong moral core? It could be his grandfather's influence, or Jotaro's, or the nameless man in his vaguest memories, but when Okuyasu asks why Josuke healed him, sustaining injuries in the process of getting him to safety, after they fought, Josuke himself puts it in a simpler way: "I don't have a reason. I just don't want anyone to die."
Strengths/Weaknesses:
+ Easily reads people's general emotional states.
+ Very good at planning on the fly. Most of his battles in canon, violent or not, were won by this ability.
+ Makes friends easily, even if first meetings sometimes come to blows.
- Mildly afraid of turtles, which could make handling some Pokémon difficult.
- Absolutely cannot let it go if someone insults his hair until they are sufficiently beaten.
- Bad at video games and handling money.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Pansage.
Mostly this is becuase it evolves into Simisage, which... you've seen its hair, right???... but also because it starts with Play Nice; out of the JoJos, Josuke is the one that made the most friends out of enemies.
Password: [Atomic Fireball]
Samples
First Person Sample:
[Josuke seems to have gotten a new Pokémon - a Smeargle, from the look of it, and it's furiously painting in the corner of the feed.]
So, this Pokémon kinda reminds me of someone I know who's way into art. But he also kinda hates me for no reason, and it looks like they've got that in common. None of my others have been this way, not even the turtles, so does anyone have any tips for dealing with Pinkdark here? I mean, look at him over there just-
[Josuke looks behind his shoulder and sees that Pinkdark has in fact walked up to him while he was saying all that. With one quick flick of its tail, it's covered the Pokégear camera in its dark pink paint. What happens next can only be heard, but it apparently involves a lot of attempted tackling, and Josuke didn't bother moving the 'gear.]
Oi! Don't do that, you- Give back my comb! I need to keep that for- oooh, that's it you're not getting treats tonight-
[The feed cuts here. Presumably one of his other Pokémon turned it off.]
Third Person Sample:
The orange glow didn't wake Josuke up quite as much as the smell did, burning in his nose like an explosion in slow motion. Most people wouldn't have called it pleasant, and neither would he. It told him that someone could die, and maybe they already had. He couldn't let that happen, even if he didn't have Crazy Diamond.
Scrambling out of bed for his clothes, he didn't even think of calling 110 or 911 or whatever the emergency hotline was in this universe. The fire department wouldn't get here in time given the way things already looked, so it was gonna be up to him.
"Okay, you're gonna have to cover me while I go in and get everyone out," he told his Squirtle. He'd named it Kowainai - fearless - shortly after he got it; it certainly hadn't been shy about wanting to fight everything from day one, even if Josuke himself had some trouble with its relatives back in the reality he was used to. Since then they'd bonded unexpectedly well; he had other water Pokémon but Josuke kinda doubted whether they'd be able to trust him going in alone. Kowainai nodded and immediately set its Water Gun on the growing fire.
Meanwhile, Josuke charged into the house, not thinking or caring about what that'd do to him. He didn't hear any signs of a smoke detector going off - was it broken or did they just not have one? Despite how long it looked like the fire'd been going, the smoke was pretty thin. A quick glance around the room revealed that there was indeed a smoke detector in the room, but it wasn't going off. Had its battery run down that far? Was there a Pokémon that could do that kind of thing? Didn't matter now, he needed to get whoever lived here out of danger first. Or at least make enough noise to get them out of bed.
Re: Josuke Higashikata | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure | Reserved...? maybe?
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