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shineonyou) wrote2014-02-16 04:46 am
shineonyou) wrote2014-02-16 04:46 am
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im so sorry
OOC Information:
Name: linda
Are you over 15? ye
Contact: superfluously @ plurk
Current characters in the game: n/a.
IC Information:
Name: Higashikata Josuke | Jonas Brothers (goes by "JoJo")
Canon and medium: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable
Age: 16 | 21
Preincarnation Species: Human
Preincarnation Appearance: stylin and ridiculously tall for his age.
Any differences: Less Japanese gangster hair.
Starting Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA.
Preincarnated History: In 1984, a student at Tokyo University fell in love with Joseph Joestar, and the two had a brief affair before Joseph returned to the United States. Tomoko, the student, was left with the result of this affair: a darling babby boy named Josuke. Baby Josuke's mother finished her studies and eventually became a teacher while raising him on her own.
Around the age of four, while the Stardust Crusaders arc was happening and every member of the Joestar bloodline was developing a supernatural power called a "Stand," Josuke fell deathly ill. Stands are, as Joseph explains, "the manifestation of an individual's innate power over the 'ripple' (life energy) and represents, to an extent, the individual's psyche." Usually, only those who are hardcore enough can develop a Stand, but that's not always the case. People like Joseph's children, who inherited the power as opposed to developing it, had their Stands turn against them. At the same time, both baby Josuke and Joseph's legitimate daughter, Holly, developed Stands and had those Stands turn against them. Unfortunately, Tomoko had no clue why her sweet baby was on the verge of death, because she was no longer in contact with Joseph.
Great parenting, Joseph Joestar. You've done dads everywhere proud.
While trying to take Josuke to a hospital during a snowstorm, Tomoko's car became stuck, prompting a random, bloody Japanese school kid with a ridiculous hairstyle to emerge from the snow and help the young mom out. Josuke, in his fevered state, received hair-inspiration. Eventually, through the actions in Stardust Crusaders, a bad guy was beaten (DIIOOOOO), and across the world while remaining unknown to all the heroes, Josuke was saved.
By the time Josuke shows up again, he is 16 years old and has fully developed his Stand, Crazy Diamond. While it's obvious he doesn't really understand what his Stand is or how it works, he's still able to use it to heal others and beat the shit out of them, simultaneously.
lets get 2 the actual story
Jotaro, the main JoJo of Stardust Crusaders, shows up in the small town of Morioh to find Josuke, on the orders of Joseph Joestar and his estate. Since Joseph is like 80 something at this point, they are trying to sort out his inheritance and in the process, discovered that Joseph actually has a son. When Jotaro claims the whole situation is causing chaos for the Joestar family, Josuke is quick to tell Jotaro to forget about about him and his mom-- they don't need the inheritance, they're doing fine on their own, sorry for the bother etc, etc. But then Jotaro reveals the main reason why he's there-- Joseph's Stand ability involves karate-chopping cameras and making them print out relevant pictures. For example, part 3 starts off because Joseph had pictures of the main bad guy. Part 4 starts the same-- while trying to get a picture of Josuke, Joseph was only able to print a vaguely intimidating picture of an upcoming threat.
A murderer who recently escaped from jail shows up with crazy Stand powers, kills Josuke's grampa, tries to kill Josuke and Jotaro, but gets his ass kicked brutally. He tells JoJo² pair that he developed his powers after being shot in the face with an arrow and surviving.
After this point, this whole story basically becomes Scooby Doo.
Josuke and a high school buddy named Koichi go and investigate the town, and eventually Koichi gets shot in the fucking neck with an arrow. The Nijimura brothers prove to be the culprits of both shooting Koichi and shooting the murderer. They try to use dying Koichi as bait to kill Josuke, but after a bigass Stand fight that ends with Josuke healing the younger brother (Okuyasu), Okuyasu helps Josuke retrieve Koichi so he can heal him. The older brother, Keicho, reveals that he's actually brains of the whole operation and that his goal was to create Stand users with the power to kill his monster dad (monsterdad exists because of shit that happened in part 3 dont make me explain this please). Which was why he shot Koichi and a bunch of other people.
Josuke does his feel good scooby doo bit in order to get the magical Stand-making bow and arrow, but Keicho flat out refuses. Unfortunately, before a compromise can be made, a Stand shows up, steals the bow and arrow, and kills Keicho. The Stand is named Red Hot Chili Pepper because why not. Josuke, Koichi (who has recently developed a Stand 'Echoes'), and a really upset Okuyasu are left with a metric fuckton of unanswered questions. But at least Josuke was kinda able to fix Okuyasu's dad. Kinda.
After this Josuke, Koichi, and Okuyasu basically become buddies and they bro around a lot while searching for clues. They are Friendship Team. There is so much bro-time, it is unbelievable.
Sometimes, Red Hot Chili Pepper would show up to be an asshole, but he wasn't really all that invested in the villain bit. Josuke and co. end up picking up a lot of Stand users as friends because they are cutie and friendly and this is literally scooby doo. By the time they confront Red Hot Chili Pepper, Friendship Team consists of Josuke, Okuyasu, Koichi, Jotaro, a chick named Yukako whose Stand allows her to control her hair, and an Italian chef named Tonio Trussardi.
Eventually, Jotaro is like "wow we gotta get on that bow and arrow shit," which means they have to figure out who Red Hot Chili Pepper belongs to. Which means he calls in the big guns-- the 'Joseph Joestar is 80 something years old and can still use his power to take pictures of relevant things' guns. This freaks RHCP out, so he decides that he's just going to fucking kill Joseph before the old guy can figure out his identity. There's a lot of fighting when Akira Otoishi, who controls RHCP shows up, and in the end, Okuyasu saves the day.
Josuke also gets to meet his dad for the first time. He is Not Pleased, mainly because wow Joseph broke his poor mom's heart. Josuke continues to be Not Pleased until the JoJo² pair runs into an invisible baby (a baby with the Stand Achtung Baby, which turns it and all surrounding things invisible), and Joseph almost loses his life in trying to help this baby. After this point, Josuke starts actually calling Joseph dad, and they frolic around together.
More brotimes for everyone, and they meet and befriend another Stand user-- a manga artist by the name of Rohan Kishibe. He's kinda an asshole. At some point, Jotaro and Josuke hunt some rats with Stand powers, because the one thing Akira did besides be a terrible villain was shoot some rats with the bow and arrow before getting his ass kicked. Josuke and Okuyasu meet some guy named Shigechi and after a fight over a winning lottery ticket, they become terribad friends.
The Friendship Team slowly builds to include Josuke, Okuyasu, Koichi, Jotaro, Joseph Joestar, Yukako, Toni, a chick named Aya who can change people's faces, Rohan (who actually hates Josuke), Shigechi, a nonimportant Stand user named Toshikazu Hazamada, another nonimportant Stand user named Tamami Kobayashi, and the invisible baby. Josuke picks up friends like I pick up Oreos-- frequently and with much zeal.
But hey! Everything is cute and happy and everyone is friends aND THEN A SERIAL MURDERER WHO IS OBSESSED WITH WOMEN'S HANDS SHOWS UP. His name is Yoshikage Kira, and he fucking kills Shigechi with his Stand, KILLER QUEEN. Killer Queen has the ability to turn anything it touches into a bomb. Shit gets real.
See, the cool thing about JoJo part 4 is that, unlike the other parts where enemies are usually killed or incapacitated, in part 4, most enemies become allies. Even if the former enemies aren't friends with Josuke, they're usually friends with Koichi. So, through Koichi, the gang gained Rohan on their Friendship Team. One day, Rohan and Koichi meet a ghost girl named Reimi with her ghost dog, and she tells them about how she was murdered fifteen years ago by the same man who killed Shigechi. Koichi summons the whole Friendship Team, and they all chat with Reimi about the man who killed her. The find out that he's been active in the small town for over a decade now, and that the high number of missing women reported each year is due to his activities.
Friendship Team decides they're going to fuck his shit up, so they scooby doo for a few chapters until they're able to find Kira through a button Shigechi managed to rip off his shirt before dying. Koichi and Jotaro confront him, nearly die, and nearly kill Kira in the process of nearly dying. Okuyasu and Josuke kinda stumble on the scene of everyone nearly dead, Josuke heals Friendship Team (Koichi and Jotaro), figures out that Kira is the bad guy, and then tries to fuck him up. Kira escapes, switches faces with a guy who he murders via a member of the Friendship Team's powers, kills the face-switching Friendship Team member, and then escapes into a crowd.
Wow, that was a lot of action for one paragraph. I'm so sorry. The whole situation basically leaves Friendship Team with no leads and a whole lot of despair.
Friendship Team check up! Josuke, Okuyasu, Koichi, Jotaro, Joseph Joestar, Yukako,
JoJo² (Josuke and Jotaro), Okuyasu, and Koichi investigate Kira's house and run into Kira's ghostdad. Ghostdad is a massive asshole and reveals that he used a bow and arrow (like the one Okuyasu's brother had that Red Hot Chili Pepper and Akira later stole) to give Kira his Stand power, all because he wanted his precious son to be able to murder women in peace. God bless this horribledad. Through many shenanigans involving ghostdad's ability to control photographs, ghostdad escapes into the city with the bow and arrow and goes on a shooting spree.
This introduces a fuckton of new characters.
One of which turns out to be an alien???? Maybe????????????? we just don't fucking know. His name is Mikitaka Hazekura and did i mention we have no idea if he's an alien or not?????? like honestly jojo i would not be surprised if fucking aliens popped up but this???? questionable aliens?? i
i
just
i just dont know anymore i cant deal with the jojos i just
im
reaching but i fall
and the stars are black and cold
as i stare into the void of a world that cannot hold
i'll escape now from this world
from the world of jojo
there is no where i can turn
there is no way to go on
*splash*
Josuke does what anyone would do when confronted by a guy with shape-shifting powers who claims to be an alien. He uses him to cheat in gambling. God bless. Alienfriend joins Friendship Team.
Friendship Team check up! Josuke, Okuyasu, Koichi, Jotaro,
Since ghostdad's shooting spree, the Friendship Team has to fight a bunch of different fuckers-- like one who's a biker dude hounddog, a dude stuck in an abandoned radio tower, and a dude who turns shit into paper. Hounddog biker joins Team Friendship. No, I'm not doing a Friendship Team check up to add Hounddog friend. Just pretend he's up there.
This is where we enter the world of Duwang subs. Let me just quote the article on the JoJo wikia for you:
"A group of Chinese students had to do a paperwork for their English class, so they decided to do a translation of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure's Part IV: Diamond is Unbreakable. The scanlation was incredibly inaccurate, badly edited and overall low quality, to the point that the students actually failed that subject, but for many years, it was the only Part IV translation circulating on the internet. Due to this, the translations acquired memetic status and received the name Duwang, as it was the name for Morioh City used in the translations.
Fortunately for me, most of part four has been retranslated. Unfortunately for the world, the most important, final chapters are still Duwang. Why is this in the history section of my app? Because I want you to understand what I experienced reading this shit.
In the end, Josuke and Okuyasu literally stumble into the final battle. Literally. They are just walking, and then hear some guy proclaim himself as "Yoshikage Kira" to a little kid. The context is that through bullshit time-travel mechanics (due to Kira's Killer Queen's Another One Bites the Dust), the little kid (who was the son of the man that Kira was posing as) had been investigating his "father," figured out that he wasn't his real father, figured out that Friendship Team was after him, figured out that Friendship Team was meeting up at a certain time and place, and had called Josuke to come to the meeting place early, thereby walking in on Kira proclaiming his identity.
History-wise for Josuke though, he literally just... stumbles into this shit. And then starts the FINAL FIGHT vs. Kira. Shit goes down, CATPLANT gets involved in fucking shit up, Okuyasu dies despite Josuke being totally willing to sacrifice himself to save his best bro, and the little kid almost dies trying to keep Josuke from dying while saving Okuyasu who has been turned into a bomb (at the last moment Josuke heals the kid's exploding body). Josuke then drags Okuyasu's body around, refusing to leave him behind, all while trying to fight Kira.
Josuke almost dies, but then Okuyasu, who had died and came back to life (???) shows back up to save the day. Soon after, Jotaro, Rohan, and Koichi also show up and are ready to rock and roll. Kira tries to reset time with Another One Bites the Dust, but he gets run over by a firetruck. Reimi fucks up Kira's spirit in the ghost world and then passes on peacefully.
Everyone lives happily ever after.
At least until the entire universe is destroyed and reset in part 6 of JoJo due to a totally gay priest in Florida.
The end.
Reincarnated History:
Jonas was born in a Las Vegas suburb to a single mother who absolutely refuses to talk about his father ever. Jonas doesn't mind though-- there are benefits to being a single child, and he reaped the shit out of every one of them. His mother works as an elementary school administrator, so while they've never been wealthy, they've got enough to live a good life. Christmases and birthdays are overflowing with gifts, and since Jonas' grandparents also live in the region, they've spoiled him rotten (he's their only grandson, after all).
Since he was wee babby, Jonas dreamed of being a baseball player. Even as he grew taller and taller, and many kiddie basketball leagues tried to "recruit" him, he stuck with his bat-and-ball dreams. Despite the years he put into the sport, he was always just mediocre, and by the time the little leagues turned into high school varsity sports, Jonas couldn't find a team that would accept him. Which meant his baseball dreams were over. All those years of avoiding steroids for nothing....
So, without any means of pursuing his lifelong dream of professional baseball, Jonas promptly gave up. This isn't some inspiring 90s sports movie-- oh no, this is real fucking life, which is where people who are told "no" usually just get upset, accept the "no," and move on with their lives.
Jonas moved on. Aimlessly. He aimlessly moved on with a ton of free time on his hands, and eventually started going by "JoJo" when the Jonas Brothers band became popular.
Instead of sports (since he couldn't get on any Varsity teams by this point), he chose volunteering around. He saw it as easy, noncompetitive, and less likely to break his lil heart. Besides, as a volunteer, the most he did was visit people and listen to them talk or read to kids. It's pretty peaceful, and if he can brighten up someone's day, then hey! A++++.
He was the type of student to to keep getting excellent grades in his regular classes, without wanting to challenge himself in more advanced classes, despite his many teachers' prodding. It was easier, less stress, and still got him love and praise from his mom and grandparents. Why would he give that up for an academic challenge??? Hell no.
Besides the volunteering, he picked up a lot of half-hearted hobbies. Like trying to play guitar for a month or two, trying piano, trying model building, trying to start up a collection, w/e. Right now, his current hobby is RPing on the internet. He will probably drop all his games within the month.
That's just the kind of guy he is.
Finally, since he didn't get the scores he needed for scholarships, JoJo's taken a few years off schooling to 1) figure out what he wants to go to school for, and 2) to raise money for whatever school accepts him. He got a shitty job in a gas station/liquor store on the Las Vegas strip, and while it doesn't make much and has awful hours, money is money.
First Echo:
Jonas works odd hours on the Las Vegas strip-- which means he witnessed the recent pink flash in the sky. From that point on, he's had a very passive power of healing those he comes in contact with. For example, if someone's lying broken in a hospital bed, he won't be able to heal them immediately. However, if he spends time with them over the course of a month or so, their healing process will increase greatly (technically, the patient's body is reversing to a state without wounds, but it legit looks like they're just healing up faster). Any cuts, superficial wounds, aches, pains will fade pretty quickly with a touch.
Jonas has no idea that he has this power, but some of the old folks in the home he visits have kinda caught on. They say Jonas makes them feel "energetic," and a lot of them will argue over who he visits during his volunteer time. However, since there are a metric fuckton of people working and visiting at the hospital, none of them have made the connection to Jonas.
Tourists with bad hangovers tend to call his little shop "lucky," regardless of whether or not he's working there.
Preincarnation Personality:
Josuke is probably one of the least extreme JoJos-- whereas Jotaro is badass incarnate, or Joseph is literally the most ridiculous human being who has ever existed, Josuke is pretty normal. He's respectful to his elders, polite, likes videos games more than studying for school, likes having money to blow on fancy and expensive clothes, and has fun with his dumb friends doing dumb shit. Normal high schooler shit.
What sets him apart is his complete selflessness, bordering on the brink of suicidal. It's a trait all JoJo's inherited from the very first JoJo (sweet Jonathan), but it's exaggerated in Josuke. Without a second thought, he will throw himself into a dangerous situation to help a friend, and even when called out on it, he sticks to his guns. For example, during the last fight with Kira, Josuke and Kira's fake!son know that Kira turned Okuyasu's dying body into a bomb (Josuke wasn't sure if Okuyasu was alive or not). Despite this knowledge and awareness that Josuke will die if he touches Okuyasu, he goes after his bro anyways, because regardless of the context, he has to try to save Okuyasu. There is no alternative in his mind. This sort of situation happens a lot, and Josuke never hesitates. Even after he heals Okuyasu's body and his friend doesn't wake up (because he's dead), Josuke refuses to abandon his body-- a fact that both fake!son of Kira and Kira were aware of.
This is because he knows his friends count on him and his healing ability. During ridiculousass moments, characters will do batshit insane things while counting on Josuke to save them. At some point, in order to prove a point, Rohan cuts off his own goddamn finger... and then immediately tries to get Josuke to heal him. In more serious situations, characters will use their bodies as a human shield for Josuke, because they count on him to 1) defeat the problem, and then 2) heal them afterwards (i.e. see the battle of Jotaro and Josuke vs. rats with Stands). Josuke understands this and feels responsible, even if people counting on him makes him as nervous as fuck.
Which is an important trait-- like I said, Josuke's pretty normal. Which means a lot of the DO OR DIE situations that happen in JoJo make him incredibly nervous. In the beginning, he doesn't have much confidence in his abilities-- especially when someone who he sees as incredibly competent (i.e. Jotaro) relies on him. Throughout the story, he becomes more confident in his abilities, but it's honestly because he doesn't have the time to sit and doubt himself. Stumbling into the final battle means he doesn't have a chance to worry about dying due to fuck-ups, you know.
Note how I keep mentioning friends? Yeah, that's a thing. Josuke is definitely the most friendly of JoJos, which is evident by the ridiculous number of friends he acquires throughout the story. He's the type of guy to heal his enemy after the end of a fight, even if the enemy was completely willing and able to kill him only ten minutes before. He's not afraid to make an offer of friendship or to ask for help. A few weeks after healing and then re-crippling the Hounddog biker punk guy, Josuke shows up at the hospital asking for help-- healing the the guy, even before he gets his answer. He's a trusting guy, to a fault, and even if he knows being so trusting might fuck him over, he sticks to it.
Another important, inherited trait is the Joestar cleverness. The whole point of the JoJo family line is that all of them are ridiculously creative and clever; it's the only way they've survived this long. Josuke, while not as smart as his father, is clever with his power. He knows how to utilize his restorative abilities in a pinch. For example, when Kira chops off his own hand in order to escape Friendship Team, Josuke's quick to think of using Kira's severed hand as a means for tracking the killer down. Likewise, he uses the restorative properties of his Stand to attack (for example, like having an enemy stand between two pieces of a brick, and then "healing" the brick or using someone's dried blood as a bullet by restoring it back to the person).
This Joestar cleverness helps Josuke out a lot, especially when he's a tricky lil bastard. Because he totally is, especially when money's involved. Because, hey-- high school kid who has an expensive taste in clothes... Gotta get the dolla somehow. He usually tries to come up with pretty nice, lets-benefit-everyone kinda ridiculousass schemes, but he's got no problem with ripping off people who he doesn't think it'll hurt too badly (aka Rohan). He's got his mischievous moments, especially when it comes up to friendly high school plots and schemes.
Last thing to note about Josuke: he has got a temper. He's super chill, but there is definitely a line, and if you cross it, he will explode. In canon, Josuke got his ridiculously bad temper from his mother, amen. Unlike her, though, Josuke's only makes an appearance when someone insults his hairstyle. He straight up flips his shit 50 ways from Sunday and wrecks everything if someone insults his hair. Just don't do it, man. Just don't. It also pops up when dealing with assholes and douchebags-- i.e. see the situation of showing up at the hospital to heal and then recripple the hounddog guy.
Any differences: yes...
To begin, Jonas doesn't have Josuke's shounen hero personality. He's not the type who'd want to snoop around if there was a serial killer out and about. He's not the type to stick his neck out there when shit's going down. During all the Superhero shenanigans and terrorism shit that's been happening, he's been scared. Too scared to want to get involved. Too scared to really even be curious about what's happening in the city. In fact, Jonas is more of a go with the flow kinda dude. If there is some shit going down in his city, it's obviously up to the police to deal with that junk. Not his job, not his description. In the real world, 21 year olds don't run out and solve murder mysteries. 21 year olds figure out what they're going to do raise money for college, because they didn't get the score they wanted on the ACT/SAT. Jonas isn't going to dive head first into a deadly situation, even if his friends are in danger. He lacks the suicidal Joestar selflessness, and wow, ain't gonna fux with that.
It also means Jonas is a lot more cautious of things. He can't rely on his ability to heal others or Crazy Diamond's skills at punching shit, and he hasn't grown up relying on those powers. He's less flashy, less attention grabbing in garb and attitude. In SavetheEarth, Jonas is going to be the cautioning type--- warning people not to act too hastily, maybe try pissing the horrifying aliens off less... you know, basically a big wet blanket. Which is pretty much the exact opposite of Josuke 5ever.
Jonas is also a massive underachiever. Be it from losing his baseball dreams or just inherently being pretty lazy, Jonas is not the type to expect any extra work from. The least amount of taxing work, the better. He doesn't really have much ambition beyond keeping his mom and grandparents happy and living a nice, long life. That's probably why he can't stick with a hobby-- getting good at something takes time and effort, and he's not willing to do either.
Also? No ridiculous rage problems. Jonas doesn't have bullshit japanese delinquent hair, so he's got nothing to invest all his pride in. It's nearly impossible to piss Jonas off, and even on the rare chance it happens, he'd probably end up apologizing just to smooth the situation over.
Jonas can be clever, but nothing has ever really pushed him to utilize that talent. Which means, unlike Josuke, Jonas has never really overcome his self esteem issues. If pressured, he's going to crack.
Abilities:
I know you say to "favor conciseness here," but this is JoJo... I'll just apologize ahead of time. So I explained Stands in the history, but I'll do it again here for good measure: "the manifestation of an individual's innate power over the 'ripple' (life energy) and represents, to an extent, the individual's psyche." Bam, u good? Good.
Josuke's stand is pretty damn special-- it's name is Crazy Diamond, and it is stylin' and profilin'. You can read more about Crazy Diamond here, but if you don't like venturing to the JoJo wikia (don't worry, i won't judge you. it's a scary place), I'll summarize for you.
Crazy Diamond is hella strong and can punch cars into pieces. It's a short-range Stand, though, which means its range can extend to about two meters around Josuke. The further it gets from him, the weaker it becomes, so after the two meter mark, Crazy Diamond is just not worth the effort. Josuke's Stand is also super fast, which is useful when punching things.
The most unique thing about this Stand though is his restoration abilities. Josuke has the power to revert objects or living things back to a previous state. This works like healing or putting broken things back together-- for example, he shatters a bottle around a water-based enemy and then pulls all the shards back together around the enemy, effectively trapping him inside the bottle. He shatters someone's face, he can put them back together with a touch. If someone cuts themselves shaving, he can heal it with a touch. Someone gets blown up, and in the split second before they die, if Josuke touches them, he can pull the person back together. Crazy Diamond can also break an object down into its original base parts-- for example, turning a table into a pile of lumber or a cooked meal into its ingredients. If he restores something that has its other parts far away, the restored object will fly to where the rest of it lies-- for example, Kira cuts off his hand, so Josuke restores his hand, which allows for Friendship Team to follow the hand to its source (aka Kira himself).
As you can tell, I can only explain shit through examples.
Josuke has to concentrate to fix things properly. Otherwise, he might restore it in a distorted form. For example, he breaks one dude's face and then heals him back up, but his nose is distorted. I'm also assuming that he's able to put things back together due to his lifelong experiences with Crazy Diamond. Which means Jonas, once he starts getting these powers back, is going to have some major difficulties.
There are limitations to Crazy Diamond's powers-- the first being the most important. Crazy Diamond cannot heal Josuke. No matter what, Josuke cannot use his powers on himself at all. Which means in the series, bad guys are usually like "lets fuck up josuke first." It's like going after the healer in an RPG group. It's a legit strategy.
Secondly, Crazy Diamond cannot bring people or things back from the dead. He can heal their wounds, but he can't put that spark of life back. It's also why he can't take a wooden table and turn it into a tree-- only a pile of timbers. I'm also assuming it means he's like the E.R.-- they can reattach a finger or an arm only for a certain amount of time. After that point, the limb is considered dead.
Finally, since this is JoJo and it's a real concern, Crazy Diamond cannot bring back things that have stopped existing. So, Okuyasu has the ability to wipe things out of existence-- if he backhands a person with The Hand (his Stand) and that person loses half their body to the void, Josuke cannot heal them. If he's healing something or putting it back together, all of the parts have to still exist in some form-- even if those parts are scattered across the world.
While everyone can feel the effects of his Stand, the only people who can actually see the Stand are other Stand users. Basically, if in your individual series, you can see energy, spiritual energy, expressions of people's souls, fucking PERSONAE??? you can see Crazy Diamond.
Roleplay Sample - Third Person:
[ ooc note: this was written before i decided to take advantage of the location expansion in game. if that's not acceptable, i can totally write something new for you guys. ]
It's another snowday, and instead of studying for his SAT retake in May (maybe June; he forgot to register for the March exam on time), JoJo is at home playing Call of Obligation with friends. He's shit at the game and is half convinced that's the reason why his friends demand to play against him, but whatever. It's something to keep his mind of the rapidly proliferating workload that awaits him, and it's kinda fun. More fun than working on his Beowulf essay, anyways.
God, with the bad weather and all the terrorism shit, they’ll probably have to stay in school an extra month to make up all the missed days. Don’t the terrorists understand this? Their real act of terror isn't blowing up buildings and shit-- it’s all about forcing kids to go to school during the summer. They're striking at the hearts of the real people, all while obliterating their hopes and dreams of freedom. In a single mighty blow, these terrorists are crushing every child’s faith in a fun summer at the beach. Completely unforgivable.
...Okay, wow, fucked up thought process.
JoJo's lost all his lives already in CoO, so he’s got nothing better to do than sit back, feel bad about himself, and watch his friends blow each other up on the XboX. People have been actually dying. In real life. From the bombing and from the cold. He’s heard the staff at the hospital talking about it, and even if they keep volunteers away from the ICU (and other important areas), JoJo has definitely noticed that the doctors are far more busy than usual. Even the ones that are normally polite have been treating him like a coffee-fetching intern (which sucks, but hey, they need coffee more than he needs to rush home, you know? ). Most of his work at the old folks home has been preparing in case they lose heating, which, from what JoJo's gathered from the nurses working there, will result in the sudden and inevitable death of everyone in the city over the age of 65 immediately. Definitely a fate the whole city should avoid.
So... Maybe missing school due to fucking TERRORISM and HORRIBLE COLD SNAPS isn't so bad. They’re both legitimate and scary concerns, and JoJo knows he’s being a little brat for bitching about extra school days.
But still... Ugh.
Roleplay Sample - Network:
Test-Drive link! While most of these are formatted like an action log, the conversations that he's having aren't limited action-log setting-- basically, these kinds of conversations can happen over the network too, etc etc. Yet again, if you don't approve, I can write you something up quick.
Any Questions? Nope! Thanks for your hard work, mods!