History Fanfic / StarCrossedCrusaders

** A minor one, but [[spoiler:Steely Dan is stated to have been killed after his beatdown from Jotaro. Likely due from shock after Hitomi made him far more sensitive to pain before his beatdown.]]

** Just like an optional path in the original game, [[spoiler:Hitomi takes Polnareff's place during the fight with Alessi. It even ends with Joseph looking for them, and getting turned into his younger self from ''Battle Tendency''. Nonetheless, some creative liberties are taken with the adaptation of something possible in the game.]]

** [[spoiler:With the rest of the fight deviating from how it normally plays out [[ForWantOfANail thanks to Hitomi saving Avdol]], Vanilla Ice]] is finished off differently than in canon as [[spoiler:Avdol ensnares him with Red Bind, followed by Polnareff causing his body to explode from a flame-boosted assault with Silver Chariot's rapier imbued with Magician's Red's flames. The sunlight still plays a role in destroying his remains to make sure he's dead]].

* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler:Johngali A. makes an appearance in chapter 20 as one of Don Cherry's pupils.]]

* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Hitomi has one at the end of chapter 58, even after Jotaro gets her out of Dio's mansion and tries to resuscitate her. She's better in the next chapter after Jotaro successfully stabilized her.]]

** [[spoiler: Utah]] commits suicide with his Stand rather than being killed in a fight with the protagonists.

'''Beware of spoilers for ''Stone Ocean'' considering the game the fanfic adapts.'''
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** Also in that same chapter, Whitney asks Enya about if she had a second son when she mentions J. Geil having died. Enya responds by saying she doesn't count him and he's TheUnfavorite. [[spoiler:This is alluding to [[Fanfic/LacrimeDoroDelVentoAureo Thin Lizzy]].]]

** Unlike the original game, there are several deviations from even the game. such as [[spoiler:Avdol actually dying in Calcutta, Berlin and Alicia "resurrecting" him and he goes through the game's submarine route, and none of the endings in the game are directly adapated. This fanfic instead goes for an original ending]].

** During the battle with Vins and Hanoi Rocks in chapter 38, three of the zombies that attack the group are very much the Special Infected from ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' in all but name.[[note]]The Smoker, Tank, and Boomer. The Tank is referred to as a "Tank-like zombie", though.[[/note]]

* ShoutOut: During the battle with Vins and Hanoi Rocks in chapter 38, three of the zombies that attack the group are very much the Special Infected from ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' in all but name.[[note]]The Smoker, Tank, and Boomer. The Tank is referred to as a "Tank-like zombie", though.[[/note]]

''Star-Crossed Crusaders'' is a ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' fanfiction by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/CandyAshes/pseuds/CandyAshes CandyAshes]]. It is a retelling of ''Stardust Crusaders'' with original elements added to the story.

* AdaptationExpansion: In this story's version of Oingo and Boingo's attempt on the group, not only is there an additional scene with "Jotaro" and Hitomi [[AdaptationDeviation after she spots someone at the car before Joseph and Polnareff arrive,]] Oingo slips up about knowing Boingo and has to explain to Hitomi about him in tandem with a quick excuse about how Avdol told "Jotaro" about the brothers. Said slip-up is that after Hitomi wonders about where Boingo's mother is after noticing him nearby, "Jotaro" says she died when Boingo was a baby.

** [[spoiler: Avdol, Kakyoin, Iggy all survive the events in Cairo]], but still die later.

* RoleSwapAU: During the Bastet and Set arc, a few roles get swapped around that lead to some big changes.
** [[spoiler:Polnareff and Kakyoin face Mariah]], leading to things like [[spoiler: Polnareff having [[RunningGag yet another bathroom disaster]], an interesting inversion of the two women's reactions in the hotel hallway, and Kakyoin managing to end the fight at the railroad tracks by outsmarting Mariah.]]

* MythologyGag: Jotaro's first fight with Kakyoin takes heavy inspiration from the OVA, where it's set in some woods near the school instead of the nurse's office.

Later, a shorter version of the story, called the ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/21264575 Ace of Cups Remix]]'' was published. This rewrites Hitomi's origin and other important parts of the story to line up better with the world that's been established in the sequel. On top of the retained elements, the author does mention the original fanfic still has a lot of interactions between the cast, which are the groundwork for interactions in the sequel onward.

The "Remix" version was published on November 1st, 2019, and is ongoing.

* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: [[spoiler:Ms. Shiobana, Giorno's mother, appears as a teacher at the school Jotaro and Hitomi attend. She's also Hitomi's teacher and plays a crucial role in Hitomi's past. Here, she is [[NamedByTheAdaptation given the first name of Shiori]].]]

* DeathByAdaptation: A minor one, but [[spoiler:Steely Dan is stated to have been killed after his beatdown from Jotaro. Likely due from shock after Hitomi made him far more sensitive to pain before his beatdown.]]

* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: [[spoiler: Avdol, Kakyoin, Iggy and Polnareff all survive the events in Cairo]], but still die later. [[spoiler: Utah]] commits suicide with his Stand rather than being killed in a fight with the protagonists.

* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: [[spoiler: Avdol, Kakyoin, Iggy and Polnareff all survive the events in Cairo]], but still die later. [[spoiler: Utah]] commits suicide with his Stand rather than being killed in a fight with the protagonists. [[spoiler: Speedwagon and Stroheim]] are killed in Aswan.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: After Alessi is defeated, the narrator inexplicably begins to mention how he had the same fate as Kars before Hitomi interrupts him.

** While the Hol Horse and Boingo arc [[AdaptationDistillation is skimmed a bit,]] not only does [[spoiler:Hitomi decide to heal Hol Horse's injury upon arriving at the scene, Iggy's attack on Boingo is stopped by Hitomi, and after learning about the situation, especially about how a kid like Boingo (and his older brother) would be killed if they revealed Dio's whereabouts, she lets Boingo go. Allowing him to keep the new resolve he initially had in the original]].

* Jotaro gets a past-life flashback of the manga/anime version (instead of the OVA version used in the fanfic) of his fight against Kakyoin during the Steely Dan beatdown, when Cardigans [[spoiler: [[EyeScream carves out Steely Dan's eye]] with its scalpel]].

** Chapter 17's SpotTheImposter moment is one to [[spoiler:the OVA, where Enya was able to diguise herself. Here, she disguises herself as Hitomi]].

!!This fanfic is a retelling of ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders]]'', and this page assumes you're familiar with the series up to that part. As such, all spoilers up to it will be unmarked. [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned You have been warned.]]