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Name: Gage
Age: 24
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E-mail: spritegage@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: AIM - derpiest
CHARACTER
Name: Jonathan "Johnny" Joestar
Canon: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Age: 19
Timeline: Chapter 95: The World of the Stars and Stripes-Outro
Items with character at canon point: A green steel ball.
A metal pole to lean on.
Personality: To really get a feel on who Johnny Joestar is, you need to start at the beginning. Johnny grew up with a wealthy family. He was complimented as a horse riding genius by his father, which is something that has always stuck with Johnny. He states himself that he knows how a horse feels just by the way it ran. His father, despite wanting what's best for him, was very strict. An example of this is that Johnny is told he could keep a pet mouse, but because he didn't get the mouse a cage, his father wants him to drown it. This of course upsets the young boy. Soon after, a similar (or perhaps even the same) mouse runs across the race track when his older brother, who Johnny had a very close relationship with, is practicing racing horses and causes the horse to throw his brother off and kill him. This caused his father to go into grief, arguing with Johnny, and when accidentally injured, saying that God had taken the wrong son from him.
Needless to say, Johnny was devastated. He chooses to become independent of everyone and not to trust anyone close to him ever again. Johnny's prowess as a horse jockey, along with his father's anger and grief being taken out on him, caused him to grow up spoiled. He states how when he was a a jockey he received everything he wanted (fame, riches, women) and had no reason to do anything else. This is the cause of Johnny's biggest tragedies. Others tell him things like 'Why do we have to stand in line?! You're Johnny Joestar!" which lands him with a bullet in his spine, and causes him to become a paraplegic, effectively stripping him of the life he had known before. Though this is rectified by the end of the series, as he gains the use of his legs back.
Until Gyro Zeppeli showed him the power of the spin and accidentally made his legs work once again. The events that follow show how much determination Johnny has. To enter the race and follow Gyro, to try to find out the secret to how his legs had worked briefly, he tries to ride a horse paralyzed. This results in him, according to spectators, being dragged around by the horse all night and all morning, suffering injuries such as a wooden splinter through part of his leg. They even state that when they approached him and tried to stop him that he would set himself on fire and kill himself if they tried to stop him.
Johnny is someone with a very do-or-die attitude. It constantly shows in the series that he either has an extreme drive to do something or a lack thereof and either has confidence in himself or none at all. At one point in the series he says that the constant attacks from enemy stand users embolden him instead of frighten him, but then later lacks faith in his abilities and says "It's always like this... I get a grasp of hope... but in the end, they always take everything from me...!" Though, after this, he states "My soul was dying slowly before I entered this race... now I feel like it's reborn." Overall, his personality ends up leaning towards the 'do' side of the spectrum rather than the 'die' towards the end of the series.
He's also a difficult person to deal with. He says himself that he doesn't listen to orders that other people give him, and even Gyro says that Johnny is someone who judges someone after only listening to half of what they're saying. When he disagrees with something, it's very obvious. Despite Gyro wanting to attack Hot Pants, Johnny refuses to do so, since he knows that Hot Pants isn't a bad person, despite her attack just before. He further refuses when Gyro asks him to tell Hot Pants to 'eat shit'.
Despite these abrasive personality traits however, Johnny is also shown to be a very kind person. He never wants to kill someone and always gives them a second chance, both in the case of Hot Pants and then again with Soundman. He always wants to talk out problems before shooting starts, and even after. When Gyro tells Lucy Steel that she needs to do an extremely dangerous task, Johnny tries to convince him otherwise, though this leads into another point. Johnny is honest, almost to a fault. Even despite Gyro doing this, he tells him flat out that he's not as angry as he should be at the idea because it leads to his own goals. He also says bluntly that it's a suicide mission and that there's no way that a normal 14 year old girl would survive an encounter with a stand user, right in front of her.
Selflessness is another developed trait of Johnny's. While in his younger days he was greedy and spoiled, his journey with Gyro shows another side of him. Johnny wanted the corpse parts that he was journeying after so much that he almost lost Gyro due to them. While before he might have kept them, he gave them up to the enemy instead to save Gyro from a life of imprisonment.
Johnny also has a dangerous side that goes hand in hand with his earlier mentioned determination. Ringo, a gunman and stand user that fought Johnny, noted that Johnny has a darker side to him that's called his dark intention. If he needs to, Johnny, despite also showing great mercy to his enemies, can tap into this feeling that well up inside of him to push past that mercy and instead have a shift in attitude that Gyro describes as "the dark side of Johnny that can kill without a moment's hesitation if he's driven to it," and states that the eyes Johnny has when he's like this are "a killer's eyes." He even tells Gyro that if he needs to, he will shoot Dio, and has the same killer eyes while he says so.
He also comes to breaking points from time to time. Before he learned the Golden Rotation he was close to giving up, and later on when he's close to his goal of getting all of the Corpse Parts, he yells at Gyro, saying "I don't care about 'living' or 'dying' or who's 'just' and who's 'evil'!! I don't even give a fuck about the 'corpse' being a saint or whatever!! I'm still 'negative'! I want to get up to 'zero'!"
Johnny is a very realistic character who handles his problems like (I would think) most people in his position would. While the tragedies in his life dictated what kind of person he was for the beginning of his life, his determination and his journey with Gyro through the Steel Ball Run race shaped him into the person he wanted to be and effectively brought his negative back up to a zero.
Background: Plot History | Character History
Abilities: CW: Gross fingernail powers are in this section.
Johnny is the proud owner of his very own Stand. Johnny's stand is named Tusk, an evolving stand that can shift what 'Act', or evolution, that it's in depending on what Johnny needs, as shown in his final fight with Diego. His own abilities are influenced by the use of this stand, which are the following.
Spinning Nails
Tusk Act 1's power. Johnny has the ability to spin his finger and toenails. It's pretty gross, but this is pretty normal as far as JoJo abilities goes. He has the ability to keep them attached to his finger and spin them like small saws, cutting things or moving along the ground with them, but he can also fire them off and have them act like bullets.
Ten-Aureal Nails
Tusk Act 2's power. Johnny learns how to spin his nails with the Golden Rotation. The description from the manga is as follows: When Johnny creates a perfect rotation [...] his 'nail bullets', in theory, take on the power of 'infinity'. With the bullets, he can shoot holes that he can move freely for a short amount of time. His nails take longer to grow back when he gains this power, but he learns that when drinking herbal tea or just eating the herbs raw, they grow back faster. On a somewhat related note, this spin also gives him the ability to grate cheese or brush his teeth with his finger. Useful, huh?
Through the Hole
Tusk Act 3's power. Johnny has the power to release the Golden Rotation into himself by shooting himself with his nail bullets, and hence, become one with it and move freely within the holes he creates with the Ten-Aureal Nails. This power is pretty strange. Gyro watches him do this and explains it as this: "If Johnny shot himself with that rotation, using his nail bullets... then the bullet hole... that 'point' where the rotation of the bullets spirals into... that infinite 'location' that the spiral spins into the smallest point possible... is where Johnny sucked his body into! And if Johnny was able to attain a perfect rotation, then theoretically, he can move within that infinite space freely! For the few seconds that Johnny's 'stand ability' is activated!"
Infinite Rotation
Tusk Act 4's power. Johnny has access to the infinite spin. This is probably his easily his strongest ability. Johnny has the power to inflict the infinite spin on someone, causing them to continuously spin out of existence. It's hard to explain. Essentially, even despite Funny Valentine being able to jump between dimensions, Johnny's infinite rotation continued to affect D4C, Valentine's stand, and continuously hunt him down. It also isn't affected by time, as it still causes Alternate Diego's stand, The World, problems even despite it being able to stop time.
Network/Actionspam Sample: Sample here.
Prose Log Sample: This really wasn't what Johnny was expecting. First he was on a boat that was on its way to his comrade's homeland, and the next he was on a train heading into some unknown city. He didn't remember much of the train ride, but as soon as he stepped off of onto the platform, the realization hit him that he definitely wasn't where he was supposed to be. As if that wasn't obvious. He craned his head up to look for something, anything that was familiar, but there was nothing. Every building wasn't anywhere near what he was looking for.
"What the hell is all of this?"
At first he thought it was an attack from an enemy Stand, but while he sat there and thought, he didn't think that was possible. Sure, Funny Valentine had been able to take himself and other to alternate worlds, but this one was too different to be anything like that. If it was an attack, why wouldn't he have been attacked when he was completely out of it on the train? This was all way too weird. He held up the steel ball that he had been holding onto, talking to it as if it were a person.
"Another detour, huh Gyro..."
He slid the ball into his pocket before he started to walk, leaning on the pole he was brought here with for extra leverage, while he used his formerly lame legs to carry himself into an unfamiliar city. The first thing he needed to do was get something to eat, and after that, figure out what exactly was going on with this place.
Name: Gage
Age: 24
Personal Journal:
gageE-mail: spritegage@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: AIM - derpiest
CHARACTER
Name: Jonathan "Johnny" Joestar
Canon: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Age: 19
Timeline: Chapter 95: The World of the Stars and Stripes-Outro
Items with character at canon point: A green steel ball.
A metal pole to lean on.
Personality: To really get a feel on who Johnny Joestar is, you need to start at the beginning. Johnny grew up with a wealthy family. He was complimented as a horse riding genius by his father, which is something that has always stuck with Johnny. He states himself that he knows how a horse feels just by the way it ran. His father, despite wanting what's best for him, was very strict. An example of this is that Johnny is told he could keep a pet mouse, but because he didn't get the mouse a cage, his father wants him to drown it. This of course upsets the young boy. Soon after, a similar (or perhaps even the same) mouse runs across the race track when his older brother, who Johnny had a very close relationship with, is practicing racing horses and causes the horse to throw his brother off and kill him. This caused his father to go into grief, arguing with Johnny, and when accidentally injured, saying that God had taken the wrong son from him.
Needless to say, Johnny was devastated. He chooses to become independent of everyone and not to trust anyone close to him ever again. Johnny's prowess as a horse jockey, along with his father's anger and grief being taken out on him, caused him to grow up spoiled. He states how when he was a a jockey he received everything he wanted (fame, riches, women) and had no reason to do anything else. This is the cause of Johnny's biggest tragedies. Others tell him things like 'Why do we have to stand in line?! You're Johnny Joestar!" which lands him with a bullet in his spine, and causes him to become a paraplegic, effectively stripping him of the life he had known before. Though this is rectified by the end of the series, as he gains the use of his legs back.
Until Gyro Zeppeli showed him the power of the spin and accidentally made his legs work once again. The events that follow show how much determination Johnny has. To enter the race and follow Gyro, to try to find out the secret to how his legs had worked briefly, he tries to ride a horse paralyzed. This results in him, according to spectators, being dragged around by the horse all night and all morning, suffering injuries such as a wooden splinter through part of his leg. They even state that when they approached him and tried to stop him that he would set himself on fire and kill himself if they tried to stop him.
Johnny is someone with a very do-or-die attitude. It constantly shows in the series that he either has an extreme drive to do something or a lack thereof and either has confidence in himself or none at all. At one point in the series he says that the constant attacks from enemy stand users embolden him instead of frighten him, but then later lacks faith in his abilities and says "It's always like this... I get a grasp of hope... but in the end, they always take everything from me...!" Though, after this, he states "My soul was dying slowly before I entered this race... now I feel like it's reborn." Overall, his personality ends up leaning towards the 'do' side of the spectrum rather than the 'die' towards the end of the series.
He's also a difficult person to deal with. He says himself that he doesn't listen to orders that other people give him, and even Gyro says that Johnny is someone who judges someone after only listening to half of what they're saying. When he disagrees with something, it's very obvious. Despite Gyro wanting to attack Hot Pants, Johnny refuses to do so, since he knows that Hot Pants isn't a bad person, despite her attack just before. He further refuses when Gyro asks him to tell Hot Pants to 'eat shit'.
Despite these abrasive personality traits however, Johnny is also shown to be a very kind person. He never wants to kill someone and always gives them a second chance, both in the case of Hot Pants and then again with Soundman. He always wants to talk out problems before shooting starts, and even after. When Gyro tells Lucy Steel that she needs to do an extremely dangerous task, Johnny tries to convince him otherwise, though this leads into another point. Johnny is honest, almost to a fault. Even despite Gyro doing this, he tells him flat out that he's not as angry as he should be at the idea because it leads to his own goals. He also says bluntly that it's a suicide mission and that there's no way that a normal 14 year old girl would survive an encounter with a stand user, right in front of her.
Selflessness is another developed trait of Johnny's. While in his younger days he was greedy and spoiled, his journey with Gyro shows another side of him. Johnny wanted the corpse parts that he was journeying after so much that he almost lost Gyro due to them. While before he might have kept them, he gave them up to the enemy instead to save Gyro from a life of imprisonment.
Johnny also has a dangerous side that goes hand in hand with his earlier mentioned determination. Ringo, a gunman and stand user that fought Johnny, noted that Johnny has a darker side to him that's called his dark intention. If he needs to, Johnny, despite also showing great mercy to his enemies, can tap into this feeling that well up inside of him to push past that mercy and instead have a shift in attitude that Gyro describes as "the dark side of Johnny that can kill without a moment's hesitation if he's driven to it," and states that the eyes Johnny has when he's like this are "a killer's eyes." He even tells Gyro that if he needs to, he will shoot Dio, and has the same killer eyes while he says so.
He also comes to breaking points from time to time. Before he learned the Golden Rotation he was close to giving up, and later on when he's close to his goal of getting all of the Corpse Parts, he yells at Gyro, saying "I don't care about 'living' or 'dying' or who's 'just' and who's 'evil'!! I don't even give a fuck about the 'corpse' being a saint or whatever!! I'm still 'negative'! I want to get up to 'zero'!"
Johnny is a very realistic character who handles his problems like (I would think) most people in his position would. While the tragedies in his life dictated what kind of person he was for the beginning of his life, his determination and his journey with Gyro through the Steel Ball Run race shaped him into the person he wanted to be and effectively brought his negative back up to a zero.
Background: Plot History | Character History
Abilities: CW: Gross fingernail powers are in this section.
Johnny is the proud owner of his very own Stand. Johnny's stand is named Tusk, an evolving stand that can shift what 'Act', or evolution, that it's in depending on what Johnny needs, as shown in his final fight with Diego. His own abilities are influenced by the use of this stand, which are the following.
Spinning Nails
Tusk Act 1's power. Johnny has the ability to spin his finger and toenails. It's pretty gross, but this is pretty normal as far as JoJo abilities goes. He has the ability to keep them attached to his finger and spin them like small saws, cutting things or moving along the ground with them, but he can also fire them off and have them act like bullets.
Ten-Aureal Nails
Tusk Act 2's power. Johnny learns how to spin his nails with the Golden Rotation. The description from the manga is as follows: When Johnny creates a perfect rotation [...] his 'nail bullets', in theory, take on the power of 'infinity'. With the bullets, he can shoot holes that he can move freely for a short amount of time. His nails take longer to grow back when he gains this power, but he learns that when drinking herbal tea or just eating the herbs raw, they grow back faster. On a somewhat related note, this spin also gives him the ability to grate cheese or brush his teeth with his finger. Useful, huh?
Through the Hole
Tusk Act 3's power. Johnny has the power to release the Golden Rotation into himself by shooting himself with his nail bullets, and hence, become one with it and move freely within the holes he creates with the Ten-Aureal Nails. This power is pretty strange. Gyro watches him do this and explains it as this: "If Johnny shot himself with that rotation, using his nail bullets... then the bullet hole... that 'point' where the rotation of the bullets spirals into... that infinite 'location' that the spiral spins into the smallest point possible... is where Johnny sucked his body into! And if Johnny was able to attain a perfect rotation, then theoretically, he can move within that infinite space freely! For the few seconds that Johnny's 'stand ability' is activated!"
Infinite Rotation
Tusk Act 4's power. Johnny has access to the infinite spin. This is probably his easily his strongest ability. Johnny has the power to inflict the infinite spin on someone, causing them to continuously spin out of existence. It's hard to explain. Essentially, even despite Funny Valentine being able to jump between dimensions, Johnny's infinite rotation continued to affect D4C, Valentine's stand, and continuously hunt him down. It also isn't affected by time, as it still causes Alternate Diego's stand, The World, problems even despite it being able to stop time.
Network/Actionspam Sample: Sample here.
Prose Log Sample: This really wasn't what Johnny was expecting. First he was on a boat that was on its way to his comrade's homeland, and the next he was on a train heading into some unknown city. He didn't remember much of the train ride, but as soon as he stepped off of onto the platform, the realization hit him that he definitely wasn't where he was supposed to be. As if that wasn't obvious. He craned his head up to look for something, anything that was familiar, but there was nothing. Every building wasn't anywhere near what he was looking for.
"What the hell is all of this?"
At first he thought it was an attack from an enemy Stand, but while he sat there and thought, he didn't think that was possible. Sure, Funny Valentine had been able to take himself and other to alternate worlds, but this one was too different to be anything like that. If it was an attack, why wouldn't he have been attacked when he was completely out of it on the train? This was all way too weird. He held up the steel ball that he had been holding onto, talking to it as if it were a person.
"Another detour, huh Gyro..."
He slid the ball into his pocket before he started to walk, leaning on the pole he was brought here with for extra leverage, while he used his formerly lame legs to carry himself into an unfamiliar city. The first thing he needed to do was get something to eat, and after that, figure out what exactly was going on with this place.