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PLAYER
Name: Crystal
Age: 25
Personal Journal: nerdangel
E-mail: octoberrain08 [at] gmail
AIM/MSN/etc: thesubrosa

CHARACTER
Name: Joseph Joestar
Canon: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency
Age: 18
Timeline: 'The Warrior Returning to the Wind' - just before Lisa Lisa and Kars square off with each other.
Items with character at canon point: His clothes (exciting).
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: So naturally there's a greater chance of overlap/interaction with three characters from the same canon and you are like CRYSTAL, STOP. But trust me. This can work.

Okay, let's start with Rohan first. He's the easiest. While it's true that Rohan knows Joseph in 1999, he doesn't actually have a real relationship with him. In canon, it's a case of Rohan will talk to Joseph if Joseph is there, but otherwise? He couldn't care less. Rohan tends to strive for a Joestar-free lifestyle. So even if he found out that this young guy is actually the little old man he knows in 1999, he's not going to go looking for Joseph or want to have much of a relationship with him. For Joseph's part, while he's super outgoing and will talk to just about anyone, it's easy enough to make it so he's not going to go looking for Rohan either because he doesn't know the guy from a hole in the ground and there's no motivation for him to befriend him either. From Joseph's perspective, Rohan might as well be from a completely different canon altogether. So it might come up and there's a chance they'd pass each other on the street, but it'd be cordial like "oh I technically know this guy, hi" kind of thing rather than developing into an actual friendship.

Next up is Bruno. This one is a little trickier since Bruno lives in the same house as Joseph's family. However, I don't intend for Joseph to live with them! He may sometimes be over, but it's a big house and it'd just be more of a case of that one guy that lives in that one wing of that big-ass mansion without the need to develop a relationship to one another. Generally speaking, Bruno has been letting Joestar business be Joestar business and he doesn't have extensive relationships with much of the Joestar clan with the exception of Giorno and Jotaro. The former may or may not develop a relationship with Joseph and the latter definitely has one, but because he's taken the approach of just letting the Joestars be without being smack dab in the middle of their relationships? Bruno's not going to just suddenly change that and be all up in Joseph's grill. Basically, they might acknowledge each other if they pass one another in the hall, but it's up in the air if they'd do that if they passed one another on the street and they're not going to become best of best friends.

Personality:

On the surface, there really doesn't seem to be much going on with Joseph. He's got a light-hearted sense of humor, he's not always the most observant, and he tends not to take things too seriously. Naturally, this can and will rub people the wrong way frequently because this often means that Joseph has a tendency to a) say the absolute wrong thing and typically have no idea why what he said was wrong or offensive (ex. mouthing off about fighting for dead family members and thus pissing Caesar off so that Caesar goes marching off to his death) and b) treat things too much like a game or joke when he should be a little more serious with what's happening (ex. Joseph whining that he should have tried to con longer than a month to be trained in a fairly juvenile manner instead of just getting to work on his training).

To a certain extent, this isn't an act. Joseph really does try to take a light-hearted approach to life, trying to find ways to make himself and other people laugh because so much of his family has been mired in tragedy with the deaths of his grandfather, father, and the supposed death of his mother as well. Joseph also, quite frankly, has led a fairly sheltered life because his grandmother never told him the truth about his family. Therefore Joseph is a lot less mature than might be expected and has a tendency to think more about himself and his own pleasure than really taking into too much consideration the feelings of others. But Joseph isn't completely oblivious to other people. He also acts this way for the sake of other people. He'll act more oblivious and obtuse than he really is so people don't worry and don't treat him any differently. While Joseph has selfish tendencies, in that regard, he wants his problems to remain his and not be placed on anybody else's shoulders.

And as this would indicate, Joseph is also highly perceptive and actually a lot smarter than he acts at times. Usually it's only within the context of a fight or when Joseph is actually behaving/talking seriously, but Joseph is capable of being really accurate in reading other people. (So much so that he can frequently predict what they're going to say next, much to their chagrin.) Within the context of a fight, Joseph uses this to lay down intricate tricks and traps when he knows he can't just brute force his way to victory. Because he can read people, he knows what they're going to anticipate and what they aren't going to pay much attention to. In his more serious moments, there's a lot of development in Joseph. While at the beginning of canon, Joseph doesn't give much thought to other people outside those he considers family, he does demonstrate a growing respect for the aims and motivations of other people. Although by all rights Joseph should hate the Pillar Men for everything they are and want to accomplish, Joseph actually shows a lot of respect when he defeats the Pillar Men (with the exception of Santana because he didn't know what the heck he was getting himself into and Kars because Kars is a dick) for the lives they led and the spirit with which they fought.

But as mentioned earlier, Joseph has led a somewhat sheltered life and he does still have tendencies towards immaturity that are not limited just to treating everything like a joke or having open-mouth-insert-foot moments. Joseph also has a bit of a temper. If he feels like he's being mistreated or insulted, he tends to go off on people. This means yelling and likely also hitting because he's a grown-ass adult (see: bullying a cab driver for almost running him over when he wasn't paying attention and his last argument with Caesar which erupted in punching each other because he just could not wrap his head around why Caesar was getting so worked up). He has the ability to sometimes be mature, take the other person's perspective, and apologize, but oftentimes he'll just sulk once his temper has cooled.

Background: Wiki-iki-iki-cha

Abilities: Joseph has had a month-long crash course on hamon. Also contrary to all the crashing, he does know how to fly airplanes. So that's neat.

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Well, as the old saying goes: live and learn. That's the goal right now.

No one bothered to tell Joseph about what was lurking in the forest or the importance of staying on the path. Granted, someone probably made the reasonable assumption that he wouldn't have had the common sense enough not to go following after bright lights in the forest. Unfortunately, Joseph doesn't always have the best common sense and thus renders that assumption fairly unreasonable. So, he saw a bright light. It bobbed and weaved around in the air like it was beckoning him and he went chasing after it just to see where he'd end up.

Apparently where he'd end up is right in the crosshairs of a spriggan. Which means that essentially, right now, the entire forest is trying to kill him. Or it certainly seems that way because for the past fifteen minutes, he's been trying to get away with very little success. The spriggan itself is, of course, trying to kill him, but it's also enlisted a small army of deer and rabbits. The only saving grace about this situation is that Joseph is alone. Blessedly and completely alone. He doesn't think he'd ever be able to live being attacked by deer and rabbits down by literally anyone back in the city even though this is a lot harder than it would sound on paper because a) spriggans sure are powerful motivators and b) he's trying his best not to actually hurt anything except the spriggan anyway.

But live and learn. He's either got to figure out a way beyond the spriggan's reach or a way to put it down, and then get his ass back on the path. That damn little light though better not cross his path again. Joseph's not 100% certain he can kick that thing's ass, but he will absolutely find a way. Mark his words.

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