Character name: Josuke Higashikata Character canon: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 4: Diamond is Unbreakable Canon point: Post-canon. 1999, December 31, 11:59pm Physical Description: POSE.
Josuke is a Japanese teenager (though genetically, his father's side of the family is British.). He stands six feet tall (185cm) and has a beefy build on top of that. The only reason he doesn't look like a goddamn giant is that he's in the same series as Jotaro Kujo who is even taller. He favors high quality and fashionable clothes, and always styles his hair into an elaborate pompadour. About the Character: Josuke Higashikata has a bizarre family. He is the illegitimate child of Tomoko Higashikata, an ordinary woman from Japan, and Joseph Joestar, a wealthy globe trotting adventurer (notably some 40 years older than Tomoko, which is kinda gross but life does that kind of thing sometimes). Josuke grew up with his mother in the town of Morioh, Japan, knowing nothing about his father save that his mother still loved him and that he had walked out on her. The Joestar family still heavily influenced his childhood, though. When Josuke was four years old, Joseph and his allies did battle with a powerful vampire in Egypt named DIO. Though Josuke was far too young to be part of this battle, he did get deeply sick as a side effect of it all (All the Joestars who weren't strong enough started getting sick, and Josuke was a toddler so...). For several weeks, no one was sure if he would live or die. When he got really bad, Tomoko decided that even though there was a blizzard going on, she was going to drive her son to the damn hospital.
This was a formative moment for the young Josuke. When they were half way there, her car got stuck on an empty stretch of country road. They were in severe danger of freezing to death, and were only saved by the sudden arrival of some random street punk. Josuke was in a daze from his fever, but he remembered two things about the guy: He was willing to help a pair of total strangers despite apparently being stuck in the middle of a blizzard as well, and he had a huge pompadour. Josuke decided that he wanted to be someone like that, someone who would help others in need regardless of his own problems.
DIO was defeated, and Josuke recovered, but he was very different afterwards. Josuke sort of modeled himself after his unknown hero, most notably by styling his hair in an identical pompadour. That pompadour was the symbol to him of the kind of man he wanted to be, and so from that day forwards anyone who insulted his kind of silly looking hair was insulting his entire way of life. Insulting Josuke's pompadour is a sure way to earn his explosive wrath. Though it isn't directly stated, I think, it's implied that this is also when Josuke started learning to control his stand, Crazy Diamond. Regarless of when that happened, Josuke was fully proficient with it by the time he was sixteen, which is when the bulk of the story takes place.
On the way to his first day of High School, Josuke met Jotaro Kujo, who introduced himself as Joseph's grandson, technically making him Josuke's nephew despite being older than him by twelve years. Jotaro explained that Josuke was one of the heirs of the Joestar fortune, much to the consternation of the rest of the family. He also revealed that he was another stand user, and that he had reason to believe that more were in town, some of them with evil intent.
The next few weeks were a whirlwind of strange encounters, as the stand users of all sorts started entering Josuke's life. Some of them were friendly, some of them were dangerous, some of them were just unrelated bystanders who had their own things going on. A few were more significant than others. Koichi Hirose and Okuyasu Nijimura were two of Josuke's classmates who became his friends and helped him out. Rohan Kisuke, a manga artist who lived in the area, became and ally of sorts but he and Josuke hated each other's guts so they avoided each other whenever they could. The elderly Joseph Joestar even arrived to help hunt down some particularly dangerous stand users.
The most dangerous of them all was Yoshikage Kira. On the surface he was an unremarkable accountant who had no outstanding strengths or flaws. Utterly ordinary, mundane, and boring. In secret, he was a serial killer with an obsession with hands who had been hunting women around Morioh for the last fifteen years. It was only luck that let Josuke and his friends stumble upon Kira's trail. What followed was a desperate hunt to find and catch Kira before he killed anyone else, the culminated in a stand battle between him and Josuke in an abandoned house (Kira's stand, Killer Queen, was a thematic opposite of Josuke's. Crazy Diamond could repair anything it touched, Killer Queen could cause anything it touched to self destruct like a bomb.), which ended in Kira's defeat and accidental death.
With justice delivered to a seriously creepy and dangerous dude, Josuke was able to continue is ordinary life and Morioh was able to recover from the terrible things that had been happening there.
Josuke is quite clever, though you might not guess it if you met him casually. He's not necessarily SMART, but he is quick thinking and not given to panicking under pressure. Even if he puts it towards small scale ambitions, Josuke can usually come up with a plan to get what he wants. Someone who knew of stands and the constant life and death battles Josuke had been taking place in might be surprised at how normal he seems. Josuke spends his free time worrying about the kind of things you'd expect a teenager to worry about: looking cool, getting spending money, getting a girlfriend, maintaining a cool reputation, getting free food. Small things that we've all worried about at some point or another. He argues with his mom about homework and video games and generally doesn't seem to have any grand ambitions or larger than life qualities. He just wants to kick back and have fun. He keeps his supernatural abilities secret not because of some grand conspiracy as because it would probably be a pain if everyone knew about them.
When something serious is going on, though, a switch flips in his head and he becomes laser focused on tactics and survival. His quick thinking turns from schemes to scam a free lunch to schemes to stay alive. He is perfectly willing to let himself and other around him get injured if he judges it the only way to get everyone out the other side alive, putting up with pain with stoic determination. The fact that his powers let him heal others mean that he's especially cavalier about letting his friends get injured, since he can just put them back together the as soon as he has a few moments to catch his breath and focus. He's a bit more cautious about letting himself get injured. That's not selfishiness, though, that's practicality. Crazy Diamond's healing abilities don't work on himself, after all. If he dies or gets to badly injured to do anything, he can't heal anyone else.
He's consistently shown to be kind of squeamish and forgetful. He finds reptiles, bugs, and other creepy crawlies unnerving and does his best to avoid touching them, he's very fastidious about keeping his clothes clean, and it's a bit of a running gag for people with injuries to have to remind him that they need healing.
Character abilities: Josuke is a Stand User. A Stand is a manifestation of the user's will, ego, and psychic power, and (usually) takes the form of some manner of humanoid figure that can emerge from the user's body to act on their behalf. They usually have bizarre and powerful abilities. As a general rule, the more powerful a Stand is, the closer it has to stay to its master. Any damage dealt to the Stand is dealt to its owner as well, and vice versa. In canon only stand users can see other stands, but for RP purposes I'm going to say anyone who can see ghosts or otherwise has a general spiritual sensitivity will be able to see stands just fine. The final property of stands is that stand users tend to be subconsciously drawn to each other. If there are two stand users in a city of thousands, they are fated to cross paths even if they have nothing to do with each other.
Josuke's stand in particular is called Crazy Diamond. It is a very powerful stand, but as such can only interact with things within about two meters of Josuke himself. Within that radius, however, it can move with lightning speed and punch down walls or shatter stone with little difficulty. It's main power, however, is restoration. Crazy Diamond can repair damage dealt to anything it can touch as long as the damage was recent. There are only two main limitations to this: It cannot repair damage to Josuke himself, and while it can repair the bodies of dead people, it can't bring them back to life; their corpse is returned to mint condition, but it remains dead. If Josuke so wishes, Crazy Diamond can restore things improperly, resulting in distortions in the final product (in his opening scene, Josuke breaks a guy's nose, then repairs it wrong so it looks weird.) Inventory: The clothes on his back (fancy school uniform). Wallet. Nothing else.
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Character name: Josuke Higashikata
Character canon: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 4: Diamond is Unbreakable
Canon point: Post-canon. 1999, December 31, 11:59pm
Physical Description: POSE.
Josuke is a Japanese teenager (though genetically, his father's side of the family is British.). He stands six feet tall (185cm) and has a beefy build on top of that. The only reason he doesn't look like a goddamn giant is that he's in the same series as Jotaro Kujo who is even taller. He favors high quality and fashionable clothes, and always styles his hair into an elaborate pompadour.
About the Character: Josuke Higashikata has a bizarre family. He is the illegitimate child of Tomoko Higashikata, an ordinary woman from Japan, and Joseph Joestar, a wealthy globe trotting adventurer (notably some 40 years older than Tomoko, which is kinda gross but life does that kind of thing sometimes). Josuke grew up with his mother in the town of Morioh, Japan, knowing nothing about his father save that his mother still loved him and that he had walked out on her. The Joestar family still heavily influenced his childhood, though. When Josuke was four years old, Joseph and his allies did battle with a powerful vampire in Egypt named DIO. Though Josuke was far too young to be part of this battle, he did get deeply sick as a side effect of it all (All the Joestars who weren't strong enough started getting sick, and Josuke was a toddler so...). For several weeks, no one was sure if he would live or die. When he got really bad, Tomoko decided that even though there was a blizzard going on, she was going to drive her son to the damn hospital.
This was a formative moment for the young Josuke. When they were half way there, her car got stuck on an empty stretch of country road. They were in severe danger of freezing to death, and were only saved by the sudden arrival of some random street punk. Josuke was in a daze from his fever, but he remembered two things about the guy: He was willing to help a pair of total strangers despite apparently being stuck in the middle of a blizzard as well, and he had a huge pompadour. Josuke decided that he wanted to be someone like that, someone who would help others in need regardless of his own problems.
DIO was defeated, and Josuke recovered, but he was very different afterwards. Josuke sort of modeled himself after his unknown hero, most notably by styling his hair in an identical pompadour. That pompadour was the symbol to him of the kind of man he wanted to be, and so from that day forwards anyone who insulted his kind of silly looking hair was insulting his entire way of life. Insulting Josuke's pompadour is a sure way to earn his explosive wrath. Though it isn't directly stated, I think, it's implied that this is also when Josuke started learning to control his stand, Crazy Diamond. Regarless of when that happened, Josuke was fully proficient with it by the time he was sixteen, which is when the bulk of the story takes place.
On the way to his first day of High School, Josuke met Jotaro Kujo, who introduced himself as Joseph's grandson, technically making him Josuke's nephew despite being older than him by twelve years. Jotaro explained that Josuke was one of the heirs of the Joestar fortune, much to the consternation of the rest of the family. He also revealed that he was another stand user, and that he had reason to believe that more were in town, some of them with evil intent.
The next few weeks were a whirlwind of strange encounters, as the stand users of all sorts started entering Josuke's life. Some of them were friendly, some of them were dangerous, some of them were just unrelated bystanders who had their own things going on. A few were more significant than others. Koichi Hirose and Okuyasu Nijimura were two of Josuke's classmates who became his friends and helped him out. Rohan Kisuke, a manga artist who lived in the area, became and ally of sorts but he and Josuke hated each other's guts so they avoided each other whenever they could. The elderly Joseph Joestar even arrived to help hunt down some particularly dangerous stand users.
The most dangerous of them all was Yoshikage Kira. On the surface he was an unremarkable accountant who had no outstanding strengths or flaws. Utterly ordinary, mundane, and boring. In secret, he was a serial killer with an obsession with hands who had been hunting women around Morioh for the last fifteen years. It was only luck that let Josuke and his friends stumble upon Kira's trail. What followed was a desperate hunt to find and catch Kira before he killed anyone else, the culminated in a stand battle between him and Josuke in an abandoned house (Kira's stand, Killer Queen, was a thematic opposite of Josuke's. Crazy Diamond could repair anything it touched, Killer Queen could cause anything it touched to self destruct like a bomb.), which ended in Kira's defeat and accidental death.
With justice delivered to a seriously creepy and dangerous dude, Josuke was able to continue is ordinary life and Morioh was able to recover from the terrible things that had been happening there.
Josuke is quite clever, though you might not guess it if you met him casually. He's not necessarily SMART, but he is quick thinking and not given to panicking under pressure. Even if he puts it towards small scale ambitions, Josuke can usually come up with a plan to get what he wants. Someone who knew of stands and the constant life and death battles Josuke had been taking place in might be surprised at how normal he seems. Josuke spends his free time worrying about the kind of things you'd expect a teenager to worry about: looking cool, getting spending money, getting a girlfriend, maintaining a cool reputation, getting free food. Small things that we've all worried about at some point or another. He argues with his mom about homework and video games and generally doesn't seem to have any grand ambitions or larger than life qualities. He just wants to kick back and have fun. He keeps his supernatural abilities secret not because of some grand conspiracy as because it would probably be a pain if everyone knew about them.
When something serious is going on, though, a switch flips in his head and he becomes laser focused on tactics and survival. His quick thinking turns from schemes to scam a free lunch to schemes to stay alive. He is perfectly willing to let himself and other around him get injured if he judges it the only way to get everyone out the other side alive, putting up with pain with stoic determination. The fact that his powers let him heal others mean that he's especially cavalier about letting his friends get injured, since he can just put them back together the as soon as he has a few moments to catch his breath and focus. He's a bit more cautious about letting himself get injured. That's not selfishiness, though, that's practicality. Crazy Diamond's healing abilities don't work on himself, after all. If he dies or gets to badly injured to do anything, he can't heal anyone else.
He's consistently shown to be kind of squeamish and forgetful. He finds reptiles, bugs, and other creepy crawlies unnerving and does his best to avoid touching them, he's very fastidious about keeping his clothes clean, and it's a bit of a running gag for people with injuries to have to remind him that they need healing.
Character abilities: Josuke is a Stand User. A Stand is a manifestation of the user's will, ego, and psychic power, and (usually) takes the form of some manner of humanoid figure that can emerge from the user's body to act on their behalf. They usually have bizarre and powerful abilities. As a general rule, the more powerful a Stand is, the closer it has to stay to its master. Any damage dealt to the Stand is dealt to its owner as well, and vice versa. In canon only stand users can see other stands, but for RP purposes I'm going to say anyone who can see ghosts or otherwise has a general spiritual sensitivity will be able to see stands just fine. The final property of stands is that stand users tend to be subconsciously drawn to each other. If there are two stand users in a city of thousands, they are fated to cross paths even if they have nothing to do with each other.
Josuke's stand in particular is called Crazy Diamond. It is a very powerful stand, but as such can only interact with things within about two meters of Josuke himself. Within that radius, however, it can move with lightning speed and punch down walls or shatter stone with little difficulty. It's main power, however, is restoration. Crazy Diamond can repair damage dealt to anything it can touch as long as the damage was recent. There are only two main limitations to this: It cannot repair damage to Josuke himself, and while it can repair the bodies of dead people, it can't bring them back to life; their corpse is returned to mint condition, but it remains dead. If Josuke so wishes, Crazy Diamond can restore things improperly, resulting in distortions in the final product (in his opening scene, Josuke breaks a guy's nose, then repairs it wrong so it looks weird.)
Inventory: The clothes on his back (fancy school uniform). Wallet. Nothing else.
Samples: TDM toplevel