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Player Name: Usagi E-mail: usagisquared@gmail.com Preferred Contact:usagisquared Timezone: EST Current Characters in Victory Road: Carly Nagisa, Jonathan Joestar Character Name: Emporio Alniño Series: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Stone Ocean) Timeline: Post-Canon Canon Resource Links:ok I gotta apologize because I need to add...a Correction here...
- Background: it IS confirmed that Emporio's mother had some sort of stand as he outright says she was able to do the same thing he can, when she was alive.
From here Emporio's page unfortunately JUST...DOESN'T GO INTO DETAIL jojowiki why are you this way So I'm linking directly to plot summary of the manga itself.
Which is here! For some reason certain notable points; Emporio featuring heavily in the illusion from 'The Legacy of Dio', and later having an Entire Conversation with Jolyne regarding why she didn't escape when she could have, is one, and yet another is his attempt to explain why uhhhh Anasui is Not a great ally Foo, maybe ask someone else (The Maximum Security Ward arc).
Serious appearances are from 'Tracking Pucci - Prison Escape' onward however (his appearances until then are considered rather minor).
Personality: When it comes to series settings, there's a certain character type you generally expect to see- Emporio's is...Not. What you would expect to see in the setting of a massive prison, but that's just JoJo's for you. Initially shown in small amounts, Emporio is visibly a boy of caution. And one can't blame him for that- he's an eleven year old who's been hiding himself within the very walls of the building for as long as he can remember, and has very little reason to believe it'll go well if he were found. He hides about in objects resembling trash-cans, makes use of various passages and vents he's carved for himself, and all simply to keep himself alive. Even within more comfortable circumstance, he tends to take a more passive role. He's a boy surrounded by adults, and very dangerous ones at that. It would already be risky to try and argue someone to their side if he were the same size and strength- at the stage he is, it would be suicide.
Yet for all his timidness, he nonetheless has a sense of justice about him. His very first appearance is to warn Jolyne of Pucci (though readers will likely presume the warning is regarding Johngali A, the other antagonist of that particular arc), sneaking past Jolyne to warn her multiple times to that end. As well, he allows some of the prisoners allied with them to hide away in the ghost room he grew up in, and openly brings them there in order to further help them. Emporio's sense of fear is far from something that leaves him but in spite of that fear he keeps pressing forward more and more as the finale of the series approaches, to the point of voluntarily following the cast in a prison break; not necessarily because he himself is in danger, but instead because people he's come to care about are.
To the ends of the above it's no surprise that Emporio is not only incredibly intelligent, but self-sufficient as well. His caution and concern is well placed. Green Dolphin is a prison filled with Stand Users, the equivalent of super powered humans, and it's where his mother wasted away before his eyes. To avoid being caught, to avoid risking the worst, he's had to learn from a very young age to do more than simply provide for himself- he's had to learn to stay hidden, and avoid any conflicts he can. While he's certainly learned to do something to defend himself- at the very end of the series he pulls out a gun to this end- for the most part we see him employ strategy. ...Which is good, as many of his allies seem to lack that. Emporio learned to be smart, and it's easy to see how that could be. Any objects he had access to for self-learning are geared for adults, any books, any media, would either have come from the older prison's burned 'ghosts' or been pilfered from the present prison's storage.
This may be why when he has the chance to explain a matter, or a person, he explains in abundance. Emporio can be quite wordy when he's introducing someone- he acts, unintentionally, as a full narrator to the reader in this way, not merely stopping at name but detailing various other 'important' points about a person for the other to know. While he isn't one to needlessly spout trivia, he's more than once shown to make small talk along those lines- while flying a helicopter (yes he can fly a helicopter) he remarks on how autopilot seems to have created reliance on technolody, and that actual pilots could have trouble flying 'properly'. On a less 'small-talk' end of things, he explains things through battle as well- when he reveals to Jolyne the hidden use of 'binary' during her battle with Miu Miu, or more notably when he explains aloud what the stand Weather Report is doing to bring Pucci to his end. With the case of the latter in particular, it's no matter of pride or grandstanding- it's simply an explanation.
It's a trait that points to a sense of curiosity- for a world he's never seen, and a world he wasn't sure he'd ever see for that matter. Having a sense of peace and freedom, and the ability to act on curiosity is a very foreign experience for the boy, just as much as most things expected of his age group are. His experiences after all are restricted to interactions with a very small handful of not-so-outstanding people (They're Inmates, Jan,)...and they're interactions that were primarily under the lingering sense of their lives being in danger. The fact that Emporio has been able to come out of things with as great a heart as he has is perhaps the greatest surprise of it all. Over all, he's a very good person- case in point being what he puts on the line to help in the fight against Pucci, but even without that he tends to act in an effort to prevent trouble rather than encourage it. He deserves the chance to display that in a situation with less risk...even if he'll be overwhelmed by the optimism of it all.
Pokémon Information Affiliation: Trainer Starter: Dratini - originally I was going to include a funny edit here but alas I cannot, but anyway!
The goal for Emporio's starter was that it be something that can somehow reference his end fight in the manga, so I tried to look into weater focused pokemon; castform and the like...Didn't really carry along the idea. But Dratini's line it turns out covers not only that, but also the doubled 'rescue' symbolism of it all! Dragonair, its evolution, is said to cause changes to the weather, while Dragonite itself is known to rescue and guide people from water.
Which is. Painfully appropriate on a symbolic level (albeit for spoiler reasons, but you'll have seen those up in the history link while I cry into my hands) Password: Atomic Fireball
Victory Road Sample: He closed his eyes for a minute, and then everything was gone.
It was like waking from a deep sleep- he was waking from a deep sleep actually, and for a moment he wondered if he had been so tired and overwhelmed that he'd simply passed out in Jol-
Irene's, car.
The last thing he'd remembered was seeing Weather (and what was his name now then? Was it still 'Wes'? Was it something else, something different yet not, like Irene and Anakiss and...). They were stopping again to let him in, and they were supposed to be driving to see Irene's dad (Jotaro? Or...).
...Maybe this was their house, he thought. Someone was playing music but for a little bit he just settled under the covers, shaking. It was so much. It was too much. They'd all been taken so fast, and when he'd managed to stop Him, the one who had done it, the one who had taken his mother (and no he had never had it confirmed not properly but with what little Pucci had acknowledged, and what little he remembered...)...
He'd Won, but they were still gone. There but not really, like a memory of themselves if they had had a better chance.
Like ghosts, he thinks, and as he trembles he finds his sheets and pillow moistening with tears.
"Miiiiii..?"
Quite abruptly, crying is (mostly) put aside. "AAAH-" Almost comically the boy leaps up from bed, launching back from the sound- something that isn't helped when he sees the source.
It looks like a snake- and yet somehow not. It has little wings and cute big eyes, and-
"A....a stand..? Is it a stand?!"
"Miiii?" The creature, confused, simply looks around- and as it does so, Emporio observes the rest of it.
It's a child's room, no doubt about it. It seems better suited to someone just a bit older than him; the bed has plenty of room, and there's even a TV and a computer desk. Maybe Jo- Irene's old room?
Maybe... "Are...you J...Irene's stand..? Does J...Does her dad and everyone still have..."
The creature simply chirps again, and Emporio sighs. Nothing is happening- nothing Will happen, it's over, it's okay and he's safe.
The creature even noses his hand, nuzzling it. "....If they can have stands like this...maybe it really is okay then..."
He really needs to tell them to turn the music down though...
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Current Characters in Victory Road: Carly Nagisa, Jonathan Joestar
Character
Name: Emporio Alniño
Series: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Stone Ocean)
Timeline: Post-Canon
Canon Resource Links: ok I gotta apologize because I need to add...a Correction here...
- Background: it IS confirmed that Emporio's mother had some sort of stand as he outright says she was able to do the same thing he can, when she was alive.
From here Emporio's page unfortunately JUST...DOESN'T GO INTO DETAIL jojowiki why are you this way So I'm linking directly to plot summary of the manga itself.
Which is here! For some reason certain notable points; Emporio featuring heavily in the illusion from 'The Legacy of Dio', and later having an Entire Conversation with Jolyne regarding why she didn't escape when she could have, is one, and yet another is his attempt to explain why uhhhh Anasui is Not a great ally Foo, maybe ask someone else (The Maximum Security Ward arc).
Serious appearances are from 'Tracking Pucci - Prison Escape' onward however (his appearances until then are considered rather minor).
Personality: When it comes to series settings, there's a certain character type you generally expect to see- Emporio's is...Not. What you would expect to see in the setting of a massive prison, but that's just JoJo's for you. Initially shown in small amounts, Emporio is visibly a boy of caution. And one can't blame him for that- he's an eleven year old who's been hiding himself within the very walls of the building for as long as he can remember, and has very little reason to believe it'll go well if he were found. He hides about in objects resembling trash-cans, makes use of various passages and vents he's carved for himself, and all simply to keep himself alive. Even within more comfortable circumstance, he tends to take a more passive role. He's a boy surrounded by adults, and very dangerous ones at that. It would already be risky to try and argue someone to their side if he were the same size and strength- at the stage he is, it would be suicide.
Yet for all his timidness, he nonetheless has a sense of justice about him. His very first appearance is to warn Jolyne of Pucci (though readers will likely presume the warning is regarding Johngali A, the other antagonist of that particular arc), sneaking past Jolyne to warn her multiple times to that end. As well, he allows some of the prisoners allied with them to hide away in the ghost room he grew up in, and openly brings them there in order to further help them. Emporio's sense of fear is far from something that leaves him but in spite of that fear he keeps pressing forward more and more as the finale of the series approaches, to the point of voluntarily following the cast in a prison break; not necessarily because he himself is in danger, but instead because people he's come to care about are.
To the ends of the above it's no surprise that Emporio is not only incredibly intelligent, but self-sufficient as well. His caution and concern is well placed. Green Dolphin is a prison filled with Stand Users, the equivalent of super powered humans, and it's where his mother wasted away before his eyes. To avoid being caught, to avoid risking the worst, he's had to learn from a very young age to do more than simply provide for himself- he's had to learn to stay hidden, and avoid any conflicts he can. While he's certainly learned to do something to defend himself- at the very end of the series he pulls out a gun to this end- for the most part we see him employ strategy. ...Which is good, as many of his allies seem to lack that. Emporio learned to be smart, and it's easy to see how that could be. Any objects he had access to for self-learning are geared for adults, any books, any media, would either have come from the older prison's burned 'ghosts' or been pilfered from the present prison's storage.
This may be why when he has the chance to explain a matter, or a person, he explains in abundance. Emporio can be quite wordy when he's introducing someone- he acts, unintentionally, as a full narrator to the reader in this way, not merely stopping at name but detailing various other 'important' points about a person for the other to know. While he isn't one to needlessly spout trivia, he's more than once shown to make small talk along those lines- while flying a helicopter (yes he can fly a helicopter) he remarks on how autopilot seems to have created reliance on technolody, and that actual pilots could have trouble flying 'properly'. On a less 'small-talk' end of things, he explains things through battle as well- when he reveals to Jolyne the hidden use of 'binary' during her battle with Miu Miu, or more notably when he explains aloud what the stand Weather Report is doing to bring Pucci to his end. With the case of the latter in particular, it's no matter of pride or grandstanding- it's simply an explanation.
It's a trait that points to a sense of curiosity- for a world he's never seen, and a world he wasn't sure he'd ever see for that matter. Having a sense of peace and freedom, and the ability to act on curiosity is a very foreign experience for the boy, just as much as most things expected of his age group are. His experiences after all are restricted to interactions with a very small handful of not-so-outstanding people (They're Inmates, Jan,)...and they're interactions that were primarily under the lingering sense of their lives being in danger. The fact that Emporio has been able to come out of things with as great a heart as he has is perhaps the greatest surprise of it all. Over all, he's a very good person- case in point being what he puts on the line to help in the fight against Pucci, but even without that he tends to act in an effort to prevent trouble rather than encourage it. He deserves the chance to display that in a situation with less risk...even if he'll be overwhelmed by the optimism of it all.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Dratini - originally I was going to include a funny edit here but alas I cannot, but anyway!
The goal for Emporio's starter was that it be something that can somehow reference his end fight in the manga, so I tried to look into weater focused pokemon; castform and the like...Didn't really carry along the idea. But Dratini's line it turns out covers not only that, but also the doubled 'rescue' symbolism of it all! Dragonair, its evolution, is said to cause changes to the weather, while Dragonite itself is known to rescue and guide people from water.
Which is. Painfully appropriate on a symbolic level (albeit for spoiler reasons, but you'll have seen those up in the history link while I cry into my hands)
Password: Atomic Fireball
Samples
RP Sample: It is genuinely distressing that this boy is this unused to nice things wow
Victory Road Sample: He closed his eyes for a minute, and then everything was gone.
It was like waking from a deep sleep- he was waking from a deep sleep actually, and for a moment he wondered if he had been so tired and overwhelmed that he'd simply passed out in Jol-
Irene's, car.
The last thing he'd remembered was seeing Weather (and what was his name now then? Was it still 'Wes'? Was it something else, something different yet not, like Irene and Anakiss and...). They were stopping again to let him in, and they were supposed to be driving to see Irene's dad (Jotaro? Or...).
...Maybe this was their house, he thought. Someone was playing music but for a little bit he just settled under the covers, shaking. It was so much. It was too much. They'd all been taken so fast, and when he'd managed to stop Him, the one who had done it, the one who had taken his mother (and no he had never had it confirmed not properly but with what little Pucci had acknowledged, and what little he remembered...)...
He'd Won, but they were still gone. There but not really, like a memory of themselves if they had had a better chance.
Like ghosts, he thinks, and as he trembles he finds his sheets and pillow moistening with tears.
"Miiiiii..?"
Quite abruptly, crying is (mostly) put aside. "AAAH-" Almost comically the boy leaps up from bed, launching back from the sound- something that isn't helped when he sees the source.
It looks like a snake- and yet somehow not. It has little wings and cute big eyes, and-
"A....a stand..? Is it a stand?!"
"Miiii?" The creature, confused, simply looks around- and as it does so, Emporio observes the rest of it.
It's a child's room, no doubt about it. It seems better suited to someone just a bit older than him; the bed has plenty of room, and there's even a TV and a computer desk. Maybe Jo- Irene's old room?
Maybe... "Are...you J...Irene's stand..? Does J...Does her dad and everyone still have..."
The creature simply chirps again, and Emporio sighs. Nothing is happening- nothing Will happen, it's over, it's okay and he's safe.
The creature even noses his hand, nuzzling it. "....If they can have stands like this...maybe it really is okay then..."
He really needs to tell them to turn the music down though...
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