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[195cm]

OOC Information:
Name: Freshy
Are you over 15? Yes!
Contact: PM is preferred!

IC Information:
Name: Jonathan Joestar
Canon and medium: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (manga)
Age: 21 (his age at his time of death!)
Preincarnation Species: Human
Preincarnation Appearance: Handy visual here!
Any differences: Because this is modern age and Jonathan doesn't have to go and punch zombies and vampires in the face, he'll be less incredibly huge in his reincarnated appearance. He'll still retain his immense height (195cm), but he'll be a bit less stocky— roughly the build of your average football player. Still definitely more muscular than a normal guy, but less muscular than "Jonathan your neck is thicker than my thigh, why???".

Preincarnated History:
Jonathan is the main character of Phantom Blood, which is the first segment in the multipart epic that is Jojo's Bizarre Adventure! Here's a link to the wiki for the basic nitty gritty, with a few more notes here as a supplement:

Born in Victorian England, Jonathan is the only son of the extremely affluent Joestar family, which puts him, from birth, squarely in that comfortable position of eldest and only heir. His mother, Mary Joestar, was lost to Jonathan in a tragic carriage accident when he was only an infant, and thus Jonathan's upbringing was, for the most part, shaped by his father, George Joestar.

Despite his comfortably privileged position, Jonathan was raised strictly by George—or, well, as strictly as a kid with maids and butlers can be, really. Stressing the importance of manners and gentlemanly behavior, George taught Jonathan from an early age to care for the weak and protect the innocent, an ideal which Jonathan embraced wholeheartedly. After all, the way he meets his future wife, Erina, is by standing up to a bunch of boys who were bullying her, even though he knew there was no way he'd win. He did it because honor dictated that he should, and because no true gentleman would turn a blind eye to such a thing!!

It's definitely the combination of all these traits— the uprightness, his sheltered nature, his willfully too-earnest behavior— that immediately wins Jonathan the contempt of his newly-adopted brother, Dio Brando, when they're still both in their young teens. Through a series of manipulations and incredibly crazy schemes on Dio's part, Jonathan endures months of cruelty and isolation by the hands of his psychotic brother, many of which are spent crying and eating chocolate. Seemingly, Dio manages to do absolutely everything better than Jonathan, be it excelling in academics or etiquette or boxing, and Jonathan almost buckles under the weight of Dio's attempts to take over the Joestar family until a certain even triggers his sincere anger: Dio disgraces Erina by forcibly kissing her, which finally causes Jonathan to lash out and hit Dio until he draws tears and blood.

Furious, Dio retaliates by shoving Jonathan's dog and beloved best friend, Danny, into the incinerator. What a guy!!!!

But the fact of the matter is that no one suspects Dio of having done something like that (because seriously, who could be psychotic enough to do that??? surely not perfect Dio, who certainly wouldn't be systematically trying to drive Jonathan crazy!!), and after Jonathan is severely shocked and distraught by Danny's death and the fact that Erina has moved towns, Dio tries to take a different approach to his mission to destroy Jonathan's life: honey over vinegar. For the next seven years, Dio is nice to Jonathan, and Jonathan is incredibly conflicted as to whether or not he should really embrace that niceness. And consequently, he blames himself for doubting Dio's intentions, because Jonathan is actually That Nice and wants to actually get along with someone who made his childhood near-impossible. After all, why should he doubt Dio, who's making such an effort to be friends?

Maybe because Dio is trying to poison George Joestar to death!!!

The boys are 21 now, Jonathan with an archeology degree and Dio with a law degree, and George Joestar is sick in bed with a mysterious illness that doesn't seem to get any better, no matter how many doctors he sees. Jonathan is doing research on a bizarre Stone Mask that his father owned, a strange artifact that grows iron claws and latches on to whatever is closest when blood touches it, when he finds an old letter in the library that Dio's late father, Dario Brando, sent to George before he died. In the contents of the letter, Dario describes the nature of the illness that is killing him, and implores that George adopt Dio as his own, which wouldn't have been too out of the ordinary were it not for the fact that the symptoms of Dario's illness are literally exactly the same as George's. Coincidence?

Jonathan thinks not!!!

After confronting Dio, who's been responsible for giving George his 'medicine' for however long George's been ill, Jonathan leaves an immensely butthurt Dio to get proof regarding his father's poisoning. Along the way, he meets and befriends a loud street thug named Robert E.O. Speedwagon, who grows to deeply respect Jonathan for his kindness and his earnest, honorable attitude. Four for you, Speedwagon Coco.

Meanwhile, while Jonathan is away, Dio decides to kill Jonathan before he's exposed, and he decides to do it with the stone mask, which he assumes is just a weird torture device. Turns out that the stone mask is actually an artifact that turns whoever wears it into a vampire, which is also kind of cool, he guesses.

This all culminates in Jonathan exposing Dio for the sack of shit that he is, Speedwagon telling Dio that he smells worse than barf, Dio getting incredibly buttfurious, and then turning into a vampire using the stone mask. Dio also proceeds to stab George, burn down the Joestar mansion, and almost kill Jonathan in the process, but Jonathan prevails, and he's reunited with Erina in the hospital ward that he's taken to, where everything seems to be great and everyone almost lives happily ever after.

Except Dio's not dead (JFC DIO), and now Jonathan has to learn a technique called hamon/ripple from a strange man named Will A. Zeppeli, who sees Jonathan's potential and recruits him in his mission to destroy the stone mask. Hamon uses the power of sunlight, channeling it into the user's body through controlled breathing, to charge the user's body or an object of their choosing. Since the energy draws power from the sun, vampires are powerless against it. And thus there's a training arc where Zeppeli punches frogs and Jonathan walks on water, and our hero (along with Speedwagon, because Speedwagon is the interfering Speedwagon and he's really invested in Jonathan's life) is ready to go to Windknight's Lot, where Dio is hiding out and being devious.

Along the way, there are crazy shonen fights where they have to fight Jack the Ripper, who bursts out of a horse, and zombie vampire medieval knights. This is all well and good, until Zeppeli is killed by one of said crazy medieval knights (to be fair, the other one turned out to be a pretty good guy), and Jonathan, burning with fighting power and the anger of justice, goes to defeat Dio once and for all.

(But not before they meet up with a bunch of other hamon warriors named Tonpetty, Straizo, and Dire, the last of which is killed almost instantaneously by Dio, RIP Dire...)

Once again, Dio and Jonathan fight to the death, and once again, it looks like Jonathan triumphs... EXCEPT HE DOESN'T because Dio's head is STILL ALIVE (this is such a recurring theme with Dio, it's ridiculous), and conveniently comes back when Jonathan is on his honeymoon cruise with Erina, because Dio is the reason why Jonathan can't have nice things. Jonathan engages in one last fight with Dio, which results in the ship bursting into flames (seem familiar?!), and Jonathan sustaining a fatal wound. He tells Erina with his last remaining breaths to take a recently-orphaned child and escape without him, to live and be happy even if he can't be with her, and resigns himself to die with Dio on the ship.

And he does, he dies an honorable death protecting the love of his life, dies telling Dio that he feels even a strange kinship with the brother that he's spent the majority of his life with, dies knowing that his fate is tied with Dio's and that he did the right thing, did what he had to do.

...Spoilers, Dio doesn't die, but this is the end of Jonathan Joestar's tragic and short life, and the beginning of a long and bizarre legacy.

Reincarnated History:

In this version of his life, Jonathan mostly went through the same early circumstances of his old one: born in an affluent family known for their wealth and contributions to philanthropy, Jonathan inherited the tragedy of his mother's early death, leaving him, once again, to be raised by his upstanding yet austere father, George. Despite his childlike propensities towards adventuring and his strange yearnings for travel, he was kept in check by George, who encouraged Jonathan to channel his restlessness into something less flighty and something more concrete, which subsequently fueled Jonathan's interest in reading about ancient civilizations and the various wonders of the world. The somewhat sheltering eyes of his father, who taught Jonathan archaic family values of honor and the way of the gentleman (traditional Joestar ideals, the family legacy), combined with Jonathan's affinity for daydreaming, culminated in a boy who was earnest, upstanding, and hardworking, while being immensely awkward in some, if not most, social situations.

Noting his son's strange displacement, George decides to adopt another boy into the family, hoping that the two of them would become good friends, pull each other out of their isolation, and challenge each other to new heights. Dio Brando, who becomes Jonathan's new brother, instills a sense of inferiority in Jonathan that never quite goes away, not even as Jonathan matures and tries to settle into his life, his aspirations. Jonathan has simple pleasures— chocolate, dogs, his always-persisting interest in the somewhat macabre, the mystery of the unknown—and he tries to be satisfied in his relatively low-key academic pursuits, despite being constantly under the scrutiny of his adoptive brother. After high school, with all its ups and downs (being a star football player helped contribute to the ups), Jonathan studies hard to go to a relatively good university in the city (because not everyone can make it seem so easy, like Dio does), sacrificing social pursuits in favor of his passion for archaeology.

After he graduates college, he applies to a graduate school to further his knowledge, heartened by his father's support (because a true gentleman must always be passionate about something!). Between writing an academic paper on ancient Egyptian civilizations, Jonathan interns at the nearby museum of natural history, and no matter how much Dio may mock him about it, Jonathan is fulfilled, even feeling a strange kinship with the strange circumstances that resulted in the rise and fall of such complex peoples.

First Echo: What caused their first Echo, and what did it give them? Players may choose events from the timeline or a canon recurrence. Keep these Echoes simple, but meaningful, and keep in mind that returned effects/objects caused by canon recurrences must be directly related to the event giving them back. If re-apping, please include all of their previously-obtained Echoes.

Preincarnation Personality: What sort of person were they in their past life? Headcanon should be clearly marked in italics. This section is important, as it helps us gauge your grasp on the character, so spare no expense here.

Any differences: You are encouraged to deviate from the original personality in three or four major ways, made to make their personality logical to the setting and their new history (which, by default, varies from their original life). If the personality does not differentiate significantly, or if the differences do not make sense given the rest of your app, revisions may be asked for.

Abilities: What abilities did your character's preincarnation have? To what extent were they used? Include any equipment they had access to and any skills they had. Headcanon should be indicated in italics, as before. You may write a brief synopsis and link to a more detailed resource if you wish. Favor conciseness here, and try to limit (or else otherwise elaborate upon) canon terminology to avoid confusion.

Roleplay Sample - Third Person: Some form of extended, third-person prose exhibiting strong voice and key behaviors of your character. If the voice is weak or the characterization appears to be off, revisions may be asked for.

Roleplay Sample - Network: Same as above, but in network-style format, using text, video, audio, etc. This MUST be on the network.
*Note: One of the samples (of your choice) must be done from the perspective of the reincarnated character, set within the game. Samples from the test drive community may be used for this purpose.

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