History Fanfic / IronTouch

* NamesTheSame: Michelle’s ex-boyfriend Luca has the same name as a minor character from [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Part 5]]

* OriginalFlavour: The fic's plot structure and tone is ''very'' similar to [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardust Crusaders Part 3]] and [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Part 5]] of JJBA. Even its status as an ElsewhereFic works within JJBA's style; as every subsequent part focuses on a different member of the Joestar bloodline than the last. It's the same here, except we're focusing on a different family.

* EightiesHair: Despite being twenty in 2009 (meaning that he would have been born at the tail-end of the decade), Cab sports a big, curly mullet.
* AbusiveParents: The entire main cast qualifies in some way.
** For Michelle, her father abandoned her and her mother (though he had an [[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou excuse]] and [[MyGreatestFailure he's not at all proud of it.]])
** For Cab, his father cheated on his mother then RemarriedToTheMistress. Cab describes him as "emotionally abusive" and "rude, argumentative, and self-absorbed."
** For Rumor, his parents hated him, thinking he was possessed by the devil because of his innate Hamon, then sent him to live with the physically abusive Tangerine.
** For Sara, [[spoiler:while no specific details on her relationship with her parents have been revealed, she clearly does not like them, especially her stepfather. She also refuses to talk about them at all, yelling at Michelle when she brings them up, implying that there's some hidden trauma that she's not ready to open up about yet.]]
* AccidentalHug: After [[spoiler:witnessing Sting's death]], Michelle clings to Rumor the whole walk back to Sara and Cab without even realizing it. This is noteworthy, given that she usually HatesBeingTouched.
* AccidentalPervert: In Chapter 16, Michelle borrows a book from Sara to keep her entertained in the car ride to Saxon, which ends up being a trashy RomanceNovel with a very suggestive cover. When Cab sees her with it, he assumes it's hers and not Sara's.
-->'''Cab:''' And just look at this cover! Guess that stereotype about the French being horndogs was right, ''[[GratuitousFrench oui, ma cherie?]]''
* ActionGirl: Sara, being a ManicPixieDreamGirl with a Stand that forms ''detachable cannons.''
* AdultFear: In Chapter 1, Polnareff is much more concerned with the fact that his daughter is potentially running around alone and homeless in Paris rather than the arrow's theft.

* AffectionateNickname: Polnareff calls his daughter Michelle "Chelle Belle."
* AintTooProudToBeg: When Hol Horse catches Sara stealing from him, she instantly throws her hands up and begs him not to shoot her.

* AlliterativeName: '''S'''ara '''S'''mile and '''Ca'''b '''Ca'''vazo.
* AmbiguousSituation: Chapter 15 implies that [[spoiler:Boney M., the man with green hair who died at the arrow raid is still alive, with pictures of him being taken long after his supposed death. This is especially notable as it's not a case of NeverFoundTheBody, as Giorno mentions having performed an autopsy on him. Said autopsy also indicated that he wasn't a Stand user, but Fergie mentions having seen his Stand before (albeit through hazy memories).]]

* AndThisIsFor: In Chapter 16, Lovestrong punches Hol Horse twice in the nose, one for sleeping with his sister and one for continuing to send her postcards even after she got engaged to someone else.

* BadassBookworm: Rumor, Hamon user and VampireHunter, keeps a diary.

* BaitAndSwitchCharacterIntro: When Giorno first meets Michelle at the graveyard, her silence is presented as suspicious and he almost instantly suspects her as one of the thieves that stole the arrow. Since Giorno is the POV character at this point, the audience is meant to share his suspicion. In reality, Michelle is just a very withdrawn and paranoid individual who sees him, a stranger talking about her dead father at a cemetery, as a stalker trying to kill her.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Sara is a cute, upbeat tourist who encourages Michelle to learn to love herself, but if you threaten her friends, she won’t hesitate to shoot you.
* BerserkButton: The mere mention of fate or destiny sets Cab off, though he doesn’t get violent like most members of this trope do.
* BigEater: Rumor, despite being described as thin, eats one ''hell'' of a breakfast.
* BitchAlert: Fergie's EstablishingCharacterMoment has her loudly interrupt Depeche's phone call with Lovestrong and openly judge him for his taste in swimwear.
-->'''Fergie:''' Um, eww. Someone call the fashion police. You're wearing a ''speedo?'' Yikes. You'd need to be about six inches taller and thirty pounds lighter to pull that off.
* BittersweetSeventeen: Michelle is seventeen years old at the start of the fic (the youngest of the group; judging by the time-skips in their "My Name is" chapters, Rumor is nineteen and Cab is twenty. Sara must be at least 21 to be old enough to drink in the United States, which she mentions doing both in Chapters 5 and 16), and the story is mostly centered on her learning to cope with her survivor's guilt and carry on with her life.

* BloodKnight: This is one way to interpret Rumor's borderline unhealthy obsession with fighting vampires.

* BriefcaseFullOfMoney: Hol Horse is introduced carrying one. Naturally, [[KleptomaniacHero Sara]] takes interest.
* BrokenBird: Michelle, with the addition of her being a walking DoomMagnet.

* CameraFiend: Whenever the group is out, Sara always brings her camera with her.

* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: Played with and invoked with Michelle, but ultimately averted. She's more of an anxious pacifist than a sniveling coward, and when it's time to fight, she does her damnedst to make sure that no innocent civilians get involved. However, she ''is'' scared of Giorno (who she thinks killed her father) and her own Stand, Iron Maiden.

* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Sara’s Stand, [[Music/DarylHallAndJohnOates Out of Touch,]] takes the form of a pair of gloves.
* ClothingDamage: An incredibly mild example, but after [[spoiler:Sting's face explodes as a result of Rumor trying to remove his mask]], Michelle gets some blood on her boots. Naturally, she panics and resolves to burn the boots as soon as she can.
* ConfessToALesserCrime: Inverted. [[spoiler:To avoid letting Depeche [[{{Blackmail}} know]] that she's been committing identity theft for the last three years, she instead tells him that [[ItMakesSenseInContext she killed her grandmother]].]]
* ContagiousLaughter: When Rumor reveals that he's been keeping records of everyone's Masquerader fights, Cab bursts out laughing. Sara and Michelle follow shortly after.
* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: WordOfGod is that Michelle is supposed to be this to [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJeanPierrePolnareff Polnareff]].
** Whereas Polnareff's greatest flaw was his overconfidence leading to him charging into battles without fully thinking it through, Michelle has very low self-esteem and tends to overthink things, leaving herself vulnerable in the process.
** Silver Chariot is a FragileSpeedster that attacks with a sword, while Iron Maiden is a GlacierWaif that carries around a large shield. Polnareff mentions that he spent years training his Stand, while Michelle almost never uses hers.
** Both end up with SurvivorGuilt for opposite reasons. Polnareff's guilt stems from him not being able to protect his loved ones (blaming himself for his inaction), while Michelle's guilt stems from her believing that she caused them to die (blaming herself for her actions).
* {{Corpsing}}: Cab does this after Rumor reveals that he's been tracking everyone's progress in fighting Masqueraders in his journal. It doesn't last long, leading to his ContagiousLaughter.
* CowardlyLion: Michelle. Even she acknowledges it in Chapter 5.
* CovertPervert: See the AccidentalPervert entry above. The trashy romance novel in question ''was'' Sara's, after all, a fact that she quickly brushes under the rug.

* DaddysGirl: Even though he walked out on her, Michelle still clearly adores and idolizes Polnareff.
* DarkActionGirl: Fergie, the RichBitch PerkyGoth working with the Master of the Masquerade [[spoiler:who commits the first act of intentional murder in the story.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Most of Chapter 4 is dedicated to Michelle monologuing about hers to the rest of the group.
* DeadpanSnarker: Cab. Michelle will occasionally fall into this trope too through the [[FirstPersonSmartass narration]].
* DeadPersonImpersonation: [[spoiler:How Michelle remained undetected for almost three years, she legally impersonated her dead grandmother.]]

* DefeatMeansFriendship: It's mentioned multiple times that Rumor first met Sara and Cab through a Stand battle against the latter. Cab won the fight.
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: This is why [[spoiler:Cab]] is traveling. [[spoiler:He feels unfulfilled with boxing and soccer like he used to be because he can [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers use his Stand to gain an unfair advantage without getting caught]], and the death of his parents made him realize that waiting around to let fate take its course would only lead to [[ScrewDestiny fate screwing him over even more]]. It also helps him contrast against Rumor, who is already extremely dedicated towards a specific cause.]]

* DoesntKnowTheirOwnChild: Having not seen Michelle in ten years, Polnareff doesn't know much about her, not even what her Stand can do or what its name is. He's deeply ashamed of this fact.
* TheDon: Giorno, as to be expected.

* DoomMagnet: How Michelle sees Iron Maiden, though it could all be in her head.

** Downplayed with Adam. After he's defeated by Cab, he begs for death and whines about how miserable his life is. Cab doubts how serious he is, but tells him to see a therapist nonetheless before letting him go. What happens to him from there is left to the imagination.
* EarlybirdCameo: Cab and Rumor appear alongside Sara in Chapter 2, but are not named and fully described until Chapter 4.

* EmotionlessGirl: This is the façade that Michelle hides behind when she's forced to interact with others. In reality, she's actually very anxious but doesn't want to show it around others.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Sara chasing Michelle down the streets Paris and attaching Out of Touch to her arm just to get Michelle to talk to her about Iron Maiden throughout Chapter 2 establishes that she's a clingy, optimistic {{Determinator}} who's eager to meet other Stand users.

* FanCreatedOffspring: Michelle is the daughter of [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJeanPierrePolnareff Polnareff.]]
** Tangerine, Rumor's Hamon coach, is [[spoiler:Caesar's nephew.]]

* {{Fingore}}: Downplayed. After a while of [[spoiler:having Fall Out Boy's grid attached to his hand, Cab]]'s hand and fingers start to shrivel up and turn purple.
* ForgetfulJones: Michelle shows shades of this early on, not remembering important information that Sara tells her like them traveling to Belgium.
* FrenchJerk: Michelle initially comes off as this, mostly because she’s trying to get Sara to leave her alone. She apologizes for it after joining the group and starts acting friendlier.
* FreudianExcuse: Michelle's paranoia and antisocial tendencies stems from [[spoiler:her family dying on her, one after the other, with her grandmother's death hitting the hardest because of how graphic it was.]]
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Cab and Rumor are neutral to Hol Horse's presence at best, while Michelle dislikes him outright for his suspected involvement in her father's murder. Even outside the main group, Depeche Mode doesn't seem to care for Hol Horse much either (though their relationship is more professional than friendly). Sara is the only one who actually enjoys his company, and even she partially keeps him around [[GoldDigger to mooch money off of him]].
* FunetikAksent: Sara’s attempts at speaking French are written like this.
* GayCowboy: What Sara [[MistakenForGay originally]] sees [[HandsomeLech Hol Horse]] as. [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday He quickly corrects her.]]

* GirlishPigtails: Sara sports these. Ironically, she's also the oldest of the main group.
* GlacierWaif: Iron Maiden is described as having a slim build similar to Michelle's, but carries around a giant shield around half her body size.

* GoldDigger: A non-romantic version with Sara. Part of the reason she lets Hol Horse tag along with them is so she can mooch off of him for money.
* {{Goth}}: Fergie certainly dresses the part, with Depeche calling her a "gothy hooker." [[RichBitch Her personality, on the other hand...]]
* GratuitousFrench: Michelle and Adam occasionally sprinkle in some French words and phrases into their dialogue.

* HatesBeingTouched: Whenever another character touches her, Michelle will flinch away. Often times she'll even describe how the sensation physically hurts. [[spoiler:She seems to at least partially getting over this, as she has no problem touching and being touched by Rumor in Chapter 12.]]
* HatesTheirParent:
** Cab hates his father for cheating on his mother. [[spoiler:While he still holds him in contempt, finding his dead body after he killed himself makes Cab view him in a more sympathetic light.]]
** [[spoiler:Though she refuses to talk about them in detail, it's clear that Sara doesn't care for either of her parents, especially her stepfather, who she calls a jerk at the end of Chapter 3.]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Sara:''' Sorry I didn't have the wholesome family life that [[DaddysGirl you]] had. It's none of your business, but they don't matter to me anymore. I'm moving on. So can you just drop it already?]]
* HawaiianShirtedTourist: Though she doesn’t look the part, Sara acts like this at times.

* HiddenDepths: Some of the word choice Hol Horse uses during Chapter 14 can be interpreted as him genuinely caring about Michelle's wellbeing, despite the fact that she's the daughter of one of his old enemies and that they only met an hour or so prior. Though it's clear he's trying to get on her good side, the fact that [[LieDetector Policy of Truth]] never activates is noteworthy. [[MemeticMutation Maybe he really does respect women after all.]]
* HollywoodAcid: Bad Sneakers secretes this from its [[MeaningfulName feet]].
* HollywoodHealing: Rumor is able to pull this off with his Hamon.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: This overlaps with her [[ThePollyanna Pollyanna]] tendency to assume the best in everyone, but Sara ''lets'' Hol Horse travel with the group, despite the fact that it should be painfully obvious to her that [[spoiler:he was the one who shot the mayor. The others have the excuse of not having seen his Stand (as the report of the mayor's death makes mention of him dying from "a bullet to the head, but there was no bullet in his head"), but she saw both Emperor and his BriefcaseFullOfMoney.]] Only Michelle points out how stupid it is to let him stick around, but only when Hol Horse lets it slip that he knew her father.

* JacobMarleyApparel: Polnareff still has his prosthetic legs and hole in his chest from when he died. Though he seems to have gotten HealthyInHeaven, as he's now able to walk around on his prosthetic legs just fine when he wasn't in life.

* KickChick: Bad Sneakers.
* TheKingslayer: A downplayed example, [[spoiler:Hol Horse shot the Mayor of Mons.]]

* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Iron Maiden carries around a large shield, capable of withstanding everything from RapidFireFisticuffs to HollywoodAcid.

* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Sara is a nonromantic example, being a bubbly optimist who tries to help Michelle cope with her trauma.
* MeaningfulRename: Sara mentions to have changed her last name to Smile "as a reminder to always stay positive." [[spoiler:Also likely overlaps with ShedTheFamilyName, given how negatively she thinks of her family.]]

* MistakenForGay: When Hol Horse reveals that Sting was his former partner, Sara thinks that he means that he was his fiancé.
-->'''Sara:''' Oh, I get it. ''Partner.'' That explains why you’re here in Belgium with all that money. You’re on that side of the fence. [[NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat Well, you don’t have to worry about me. I support you all the way!]]
* MotorMouth: Sara, so much so that Michelle ends up getting physically uncomfortable when she goes off on her tangents.
* {{Muggle}}: Depeche Mode is an interesting example. Despite not technically being a Stand user, he's fully aware of what Stands are and even has one mounted on his office wall that serves as a LivingLieDetector.

* MustHaveNicotine: True to form, Hol Horse is never shown without a cigarette and will often go through multiple in one sitting.
* MyGreatestFailure: For Polnareff, it’s him not going back to his family.

* TheNicknamer: Sara gives everyone she meets punny nicknames, calling Cab “Taxi Cab,” Rumor “Rumor Mill,” Michelle “Chelly,” and Hol Horse “Horseshoes.”

* NotoriousParent: Polnareff, the consigliere of the Italian mafia, refused to even tell Giorno about his wife and daughter for fear of them being used as hostages. Now that said wife is dead, he regrets not going back to them.

* NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat: See MistakenForGay above.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Rumor presents himself as reasonable and composed, but has a lot of moments where he acts petty and childish, like him trying to one-up Cab or his [[BigEater eating habits.]]
* OddNameOut:
** Of the main group, Sara is the only one to get both her first and last name from the same source. Michelle gets her first name from a song by Music/TheBeatles and her last name from Michel Polnareff, Cab gets his first name from Music/CabCalloway and his last name from guitarist Carlos Cavazo, and Rumor's name is a mashup of [[Music/FleetwoodMac a band name and what is arguably their most famous album.]]
** In terms of Stands, Michelle is the only one to have no musical connection to her Stand's name through her own name. Both Sara Smile and Out of Touch are Music/HallAndOates songs, Carlos Cavazo (who Cab gets his last name from) was formally a guitarist for Quiet Riot, and The Chain is a song by Music/FleetwoodMac on the album ''Rumours''.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** Cab is usually chill, relaxed and eager to make jokes. Make one mention of fate or [[spoiler:suicide]] and his causal demeanor fades.
** It's a sure sign that [[TheNicknamer Sara]] is frustrated whenever she refers to anyone by their real name and not whatever AffectionateNickname she's given them.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: The author goes out of her way to clarify that Polnareff [[ItMakesSenseInContext is a ghost living inside Mr. President and not the turtle itself]] as well as [[https://iron-touch.tumblr.com/post/639677878099918848/polnareffs-ghost-mechanics describe his properties.]]
-->'''[[https://edgy-ella.tumblr.com/ Edgy Ella:]]''' First of all, no, Polnareff did not become the turtle after part 5. He is a ghost living inside the turtle room. I’ve had this debate multiple times and I am not opening up that bag of worms again. ''Moving on.''
* ParanoiaGambit: Hol Horse deliberately messes with Michelle's anxiety and gaslights her into believing that Sara and the others will leave her stranded far from home without a passport in order to get her to speak to Depeche Mode.
* ParryingBullets: Quiet Riot is fast enough to punch a speeding bullet and redirect its course.
* PatchworkKids: Michelle is described as having her father’s hair and facial structure and her mother’s eyes.

* ThePollyanna: Sara resolves to stay positive and optimistic no matter what, which is why she changed her last name to "Smile." [[spoiler:Though it's likely that it has more to due with ShedTheFamilyName than she initially lets on.]]
* PoorCommunicationKills: Most of the events that take place in the fic could have been avoided if Giorno was upfront about who he was when he first met Michelle in the graveyard and/or if Michelle took his bait and spoke with him rather than freaking out and running away.

* PreciousPhoto: Michelle keeps a picture of her parents in her bracelets.

* RedheadsAreUncool: Depending on your interpretation of her character, Sara could fall into this trope.
* TheRunaway:
** While all of the main crew technically qualifies, [[spoiler:Sara’s multiple suitcases and unwillingness to talk about her family implies that she doesn’t have a home to go back to.]]
** Adam attempts this, but Cab [[DefeatMeansFriendship talks]] him out of it.
* ScaryBlackMan: Cab invokes this trope to scare away Adam when he tries to steal his car.
* ScrewDestiny: Cab strongly opposes any idea of destiny or luck, believing that everything that happens in life is the result of conscious choice and action/reaction. [[spoiler:Chapter 6 makes it clear that this mindset is at least partially a coping mechanism for his parents' death.]]
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers: Since Cab was born with a very physical Stand that allows him to control the launch angle of anything it punched or kicked, he was able to use it to cheat at boxing and soccer, making him one of the best athletes in his age group. Deconstructed when he realizes that [[NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction playing sports this way leaves him feeling unfulfilled.]]
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: Michelle’s reaction when Giorno claims to have known her father.

* SecretRoom: Depeche Mode's office in Rest Aria is hidden behind a tapestry that's not for sale.
* SharpDressedMan: Giorno, as to be expected from TheDon of Passione.
* ShedTheFamilyName: HEAVILY implied with [[spoiler:Sara. When she first brings it up in Chapter 3, she makes it sound like she changed her last name to Smile for benevolent reasons, but as time passes it becomes clearer that she did it more to distance herself from her family.]]
* ShieldBash: Iron Maiden's primary form of attack.
* ShipperOnDeck: PlayedForLaughs; Sara insists that Hol Horse and Sting are engaged even after the former tells her [[NotThatKindOfPartner they're just colleagues.]]

* ShrinkingViolet: Michelle, combined with BrokenBird.

* StickyFingers: Downplayed with Sara. She’s only ever seen stealing two things so far (a car and a BriefcaseFullOfMoney), but her friends [[NeverLiveItDown like to tease her about it.]]
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Michelle looks and dresses a lot like her father (possibly due to her wanting to keep his image alive), so much so that Hol Horse is able to instantly pick up that they're related.

* SuperpowerLottery: Rumor, for being a born Stand user ''and'' being able to naturally generate his own Hamon without training.
* SurvivorGuilt: Michelle, having watched just about everyone important in her life die in front of her, including her parents, [[spoiler:pet dog, grandmother, and boyfriend,]] gets hit hard with this. [[spoiler:Cab also seems to harbor some over his parents, but he's better at hiding it.]]

* TooYoungToDieLamentation: Combined with AintTooProudToBeg above.
-->'''Sara:''' Please, you can't shoot me! Think of them! And think of me! I'm too young to die!

* TrainingFromHell: Rumor goes through more or less the same training that Joseph did in [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Part 2]], but extended over the course of ''a decade'' rather than a month and starting when he was only nine years old.

* VampireHunter: Rumor, as is the case with all Hamon users.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Invoked with Rumor. Michelle’s internal narration describes it as “an accent she couldn’t quite place.” [[spoiler:Since Rumor was born in Liverpool and spent most of his life in Italy, his accent is likely a mix of the two.]]
* WhiteCollarCrime: Despite [[spoiler:involving himself with political assassinations]], Depeche Mode seems to mostly make his fortune with money laundering and drug dealing instead of anything outwardly violent.
* WhosYourDaddy: [[spoiler:Sara doesn't know who her biological father is, and she doesn't want to.]]
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatPerks: Quiet Riot appears to give Cab an innate sense of direction.

* YourHeadASplode: [[spoiler:Masqueraders that have their masks forced off them end up having their ''[[TearOffYourFace faces peeled off]] and their skulls crushed'' by the masks.]]
* YoureNotMyFather: [[spoiler:Sara]] delivers an interesting version of this in Chapter 7 [[spoiler:to Michelle after she asks her about her biological father.]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Sara]]:''' Whoever that man is, he's not my "real" dad. I don't have a "real" dad.
* YouthfulFreckles: Official artwork gives Michelle some.

* YourHeadASplode: [[spoiler:Masqueraders that have their masks forced off them end up having their ''faces peeled off and their skulls crushed'' by the masks.]]

* BadassBookworm: Rumor, Hamon user and VampireHunter, keeps a {{diary}}.

* GreatBigBookOfEverything: Rumor's {{Diary}} acts like this in the story. He'll almost always have whatever information the plot needs written down in it, from European travel laws to a tally of how many Masqueraders each of the main group has defeated.

* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: Chapters 5 and 11 serve as this for Cab and Rumor.

* GratuitousFrench: Michelle will occasionally sprinkle in some French words and phrases into her dialogue.

Set in 2009, eight years after the end of [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Golden Wind]], the unthinkable has happened—Passione's prized Stand arrow has been stolen by a group of Stand users wearing masquerade masks. With Coco Jumbo smuggled inside of an exotic pet salesman's truck, [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureTeamBucciarati Giorno]] and [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJeanPierrePolnareff Polnareff]] set off for Paris, where the arrow was last seen. During their investigation, they bump into [[TheProtagonist Michelle]], Polnareff’s daughter who had disappeared from public records three years prior. She runs away from Giorno after he tries to tell her who he is, prompting him to believe that she was one of the Stand users that stole the arrow.

* ExitPursuedByABear: Chapter 17 ends with [[spoiler:Shatter Me's shadow looming ominously over Depeche's maids.]]

-->'''Rumor (with food in his mouth):''' Ah haf uh heawfy appehite.
* BittersweetSeventeen: Michelle is seventeen years old at the start of the fic (the youngest of the group; judging by the time-skips in their "My Name is" chapters, Rumor is nineteen and Cab is nineteen or twenty. Sara must be at least 21 to be old enough to drink in the United States), and the story is mostly centered on her learning to cope with her survivor's guilt and carry on with her life.

* MinorWithFakeID: Subverted and PlayedForLaughs. Michelle's fake passport lists her age as twenty-one rather than seventeen, which only makes her worried that the age discrepancy will get her caught and arrested. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Cut to Cab begging Hol Horse to get him a fake passport as well]].

* EightiesHair: Despite being in his late-teens/early-twenties in 2009 (meaning that he would have been born at the tail-end of the decade), Cab sports a big, curly mullet.

Set in 2009, eight years after the end of [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo Golden Wind]], the unthinkable has happened—Passione's prized Stand arrow has been stolen by a group of Stand users wearing masquerade masks. With Coco Jumbo smuggled inside of an exotic pet salesman's truck, [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureTeamBucciarati Giorno]] and [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJeanPierrePolnareff Polnareff]] set off for Paris, where the arrow was last seen. During their investigation, they bump into [[TheProtagonist Michelle]], Polnareff’s daughter who had disappeared from public records three years prior. She runs away from Giorno after he tries to tell her who he is, prompting him to believe that she was one of the Stand users that stole the arrow.

** Michelle recognizes right away that there's something off about Hol Horse but doesn't know what. Even without his little monologue at the end of Chapter 12, his connection to [[PapaWolf Pol]][[BigBrotherInstinct nareff]] makes it very clear why he's so stressed to hear her name.

** Rumor's fascination with vampires is dismissed by the other characters as a quirky hobby at best and don't take him seriously about it, with Michelle and Sara only playing along to humor him and Cab outright mocking him about it. This is coming from a series that's home to one of the most famous vampires in anime.

* {{Irony}}: When Michelle sees Giorno talk into his bag, she thinks that he’s commanding the Masqueraders to do his bidding, saying that she “doesn’t want to think about all the horrible things a man like him would carry around.” In reality, Giorno was actually talking to Polnareff, her father.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Michelle, Sara, and Cab all refuse to believe that vampires exist, despite all of them having their own FightingSpirit. Doubles as GenreBlindness; as vampires have existed in JJBA since [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood the beginning.]]

** Rumor’s obsession with hunting vampires is treated as childish and strange by the other characters, because they don’t believe that vampires exist. However, the readers [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureDIO do know that vampires exist in the JoJo universe.]]

Not to be confused with Fanfic/IronHeart, another JJBA fanfiction.

* AdvertisedExtra: Polnareff, to some extent, as the original icon used for the official Tumblr blog used a picture of him from the end of ''Golden Wind'' despite the fact that he originally only shows up in the first chapter. Justified that this is a KidFic focusing on his daughter.

Set in 2009, eight years after the end of [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo Vento Aureo]], the unthinkable has happened—Passione's prized Stand arrow has been stolen by a group of Stand users wearing masquerade masks. With Coco Jumbo smuggled inside of an exotic pet salesman's truck, [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureTeamBucciarati Giorno]] and [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJeanPierrePolnareff Polnareff]] set off for Paris, where the arrow was last seen. During their investigation, they bump into [[TheProtagonist Michelle]], Polnareff’s daughter who had disappeared from public records three years prior. She runs away from Giorno after he tries to tell her who he is, prompting him to believe that she was one of the Stand users that stole the arrow.

* NoodleIncident: Cab and Rumor's fight is continuously referenced, but we don't know anything that actually happened in it other than the fact that [[DefeatMeansFriendship Cab won and Rumor started travelling with him and Sara afterwards.]]

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Cab is usually chill, relaxed and eager to make jokes. Make one mention of fate or [[spoiler:suicide]] and his causal demeanor fades.
** [[spoiler:When Michelle presses Sara about her family, Sara snaps at her and refers to her by her real name.]]

Set in 2009, eight years after the end of [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Golden Wind]], the unthinkable has happened—Passione's prized Stand arrow has been stolen by a group of Stand users wearing masquerade masks. With Coco Jumbo smuggled inside of an exotic pet salesman's truck, [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureTeamBucciarati Giorno]] and [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJeanPierrePolnareff Polnareff]] set off for Paris, where the arrow was last seen. During their investigation, they bump into [[TheProtagonist Michelle]], Polnareff’s daughter who had disappeared from public records three years prior. She runs away from Giorno after he tries to tell her who he is, prompting him to believe that she was one of the Stand users that stole the arrow.

Set in 2009, eight years after the end of [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo Vento Aureo]], the unthinkable has happened—Passione's prized Stand arrow has been stolen by a group of Stand users wearing masquerade masks. With Coco Jumbo smuggled inside of an exotic pet salesman's truck, [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureTeamBucciarati Giorno]] and [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJeanPierrePolnareff Polnareff]] set off for Paris, where the arrow was last seen. During their investigation, they bump into [[TheProtagonist Michelle]], Polnareff’s daughter who had disappeared from public records three years prior. She runs away from Giorno after he tries to tell her who he is, prompting him to believe that she was one of the Stand users that stole the arrow.

* AdvertisedExtra: Polnareff, to some extent, as the original icon used for the official Tumblr blog used a picture of him from the end of ''Vento Aureo'' despite the fact that he originally only shows up in the first chapter. Justified that this is a KidFic focusing on his daughter.

* NamesTheSame: Michelle’s ex-boyfriend Luca has the same name as a minor character from [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo Part 5]]

* DeadpanSnarker: Cab. Michelle will occasionally fall into this trope too through the narration.

* VampireHunter: Rumor, as is the case with all Hamon users.

* WhiteCollarCrime: Despite [[spoiler:involving himself with political assassinations]], Depeche Mode seems to mostly involve himself with money laundering and drug dealing instead of anything outwardly violent.