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| 4 | !Main Characters |
| 5 | [[folder:Michelle Polnareff]] |
| 6 | !!Michelle Polnareff (Stand: [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe Iron Maiden]]) |
| 7 | [[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/michelle_fullbody.png]] |
| 8 | [[caption-width-right:1000:''[[BecauseDestinySaysSo "The longer I'm here, the quicker you all will die. It's destiny."]]'']] |
| 9 | TheProtagonist and [[FanCreatedOffspring daughter of]] [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJeanPierrePolnareff Jean-Pierre Polnareff]]. Though she maintains a stoic and aloof façade, she's actually incredibly insecure and has a tendency to overthink things, meaning she always assumes the worst of every situation. |
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| 12 | Her Stand, Music/IronMaiden, has the ability to cancel out all force negated on any object that it touches in addition [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe to a large shield that can withstand just about anything]]. |
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| 14 | * AccidentalHug: After [[spoiler:witnessing Sting's death]], she clings to Rumor the whole walk back to Sara and Cab without even realizing it. This is noteworthy, given that she usually HatesBeingTouched. |
| 15 | * AccidentalPervert: In Chapter 16, she 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. |
| 16 | * AffectionateNickname: |
| 17 | ** "Chelle Belle," as given to her by her father. |
| 18 | ** "Chelly," as given to her by [[TheNicknamer Sara]]. |
| 19 | * AnimalMotifs: Rabbits. She wears a pair of fuzzy bunny rabbit pajamas, and like a rabbit, is extremely timid and prone to run away when confronted. Funnily enough, Michelle ''strongly'' averts the "[[ExplosiveBreeder horny bunny rabbit]]" trope and gets flustered at even the suggestion of physical intimacy. |
| 20 | * BaitAndSwitchCharacterIntro: When Giorno first meets her 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 In reality, she's just very withdrawn and paranoid, seeing Giorno as a stalker trying to kill her. |
| 21 | * BecauseDestinySaysSo: Invoked. Michelle has funneled her SurvivorGuilt entirely through her Stand and believes that anyone who sees it (Stand user or otherwise) will end up dead, even when that's clearly not the case. [[ScrewDestiny Cab]] routinely calls her out on this. |
| 22 | * BigTownBoredom: Though it's less boredom and more annoyance, Michelle emphatically does not care for Paris after having lived there for four years, specifically the city's tourist culture. |
| 23 | * Bittersweet17: She's 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. |
| 24 | * BrokenBird: In addition to her being a walking DoomMagnet. |
| 25 | * CharacterCatchphrase: She has a tendency to say ''[[GratuitousFrench bordel de merde]]'' a lot, an expression similar to "holy shit" or "for fuck's sake." |
| 26 | * CharacterDevelopment: Michelle starts off the fic as an antisocial, easily frightened shut-in that only decides to travel with the group because she's scared that Giorno will try to kill her otherwise. By the time Chapter 36 rolls around, she's more confident in both herself and her Stand abilities to the point that she considers leaving the group but stays behind because [[ThePowerOfFriendship she doesn't want to leave her friends]]. |
| 27 | * CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: Played with and invoked, 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) as well as her own Stand. |
| 28 | * ChekhovsSkill: Her talent for mimicking others' handwriting comes in handy during the Policy of Truth arc. |
| 29 | * ClothingDamage: |
| 30 | ** An incredibly mild example, but after [[spoiler:Sting's face explodes as a result of Rumor trying to remove his mask]], she gets some blood on her boots. Naturally, this causes her to panic and she resolves to burn the boots as soon as she can. |
| 31 | ** Her newly bought cardigan and bathing suit are both torn to shreds during her fight against Cascada. |
| 32 | * 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]].]] |
| 33 | * ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: |
| 34 | ** WordOfGod is that she's supposed to be this to her father, [[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. They both end up with SurvivorGuilt, but 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). |
| 35 | ** She also ends up being this to [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Jolyne]], whose story chronologically takes place right after hers. Both Michelle and Jolyne are the daughters of a [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJeanPierrePolnareff leading]] [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJotaroKujo protagonist]] from [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders part 3]]. Michelle genuinely loves her father and looks up to him as an inspiration, despite the fact that he's been dead for years by the time the story starts. Jolyne, on the other hand, has a strained relationship with Jotaro and initially detests him. While Jolyne ends up being framed by others for a crime she didn't commit, Michelle frames herself as the perpetrator of multiple deaths that she had no direct hand in causing. Even their Stands contrast each other: Iron Maiden is a defensive Stand that holds things together and keeps them from moving, while Stone Free is an offensive Stand that unravels itself and perpetuates motion. |
| 36 | * CowardlyLion: She even acknowledges it in Chapter 5. |
| 37 | * DaddysGirl: Even though he walked out on her, she still clearly adores and idolizes Polnareff. |
| 38 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Most of Chapter 4 is dedicated to her monologuing about hers to the rest of the group. |
| 39 | * DeadpanSnarker: She will occasionally fall into this trope too through the [[FirstPersonSmartass narration]]. |
| 40 | * DeadPersonImpersonation: [[spoiler:How she remained undetected for almost three years, she impersonated her dead grandmother by signing all of their bills as her.]] |
| 41 | * DoomMagnet: How she sees Iron Maiden, though it could all be in her head. |
| 42 | * 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. |
| 43 | * FanCreatedOffspring: She's the daughter of [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJeanPierrePolnareff Polnareff.]] |
| 44 | * {{Foil}}: To Sara. Michelle is a depressive, shy recluse who struggles to let go of the past, while Sara is an upbeat chatterbox of a tourist that tries to pretend that the parts of her past she doesn't like never happened. Whereas Michelle is a DaddysGirl who misses her deceased parents dearly, Sara has nothing positive to say about her stepfather and refuses to even acknowledge the existence of her biological father. Michelle admits to breaking the law by [[spoiler:committing forgery, identity theft, and tax fraud]] and genuinely feels bad for doing so, while Sara steals from others often without any guilt and still vehemently objects to being called a thief. |
| 45 | * ForeignCussWord: In addition to her CharacterCatchphrase (see above), Michelle says "[[spoiler:Je te déteste, putain de cowboy stupide,]]" which translates to "[[spoiler:I hate you, you stupid [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] cowboy]]" in Chapter 35. This makes Michelle notable for being the only character in the fic to drop any variant of the F-bomb. |
| 46 | * ForgetfulJones: She shows shades of this early on, not remembering important information that Sara tells her like them traveling to Belgium. |
| 47 | * FourTemperamentEnsemble: Melancholic, occasionally phlegmatic. |
| 48 | * FrenchCuisineIsHaughty: She has a bit of this attitude, especially once she has to trade in European food for American food once the group goes to the United States. |
| 49 | * FrenchJerk: 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. |
| 50 | * FreudianExcuse: Her paranoia and antisocial tendencies stems from her family dying on her, one after the other, [[spoiler:with her grandmother's death hitting the hardest because of how graphic it was.]] |
| 51 | * 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. |
| 52 | * GloryDays: Michelle is blissfully nostalgic for a time when both her parents were still alive. |
| 53 | * HatesBeingTouched: She usually flinches away whenever another character touches her. Often times she'll even describe how the sensation physically hurts. [[spoiler:She seems to be getting over this, as she has no problem touching and being touched by Rumor in Chapter 12 and letting Sara hug her in Chapter 29.]] |
| 54 | * HatesTheirParent: Michelle is the only one of the main group to avert this. |
| 55 | * LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Iron Maiden carries around a large shield, capable of withstanding everything from RapidFireFisticuffs to HollywoodAcid. |
| 56 | * MeaningfulName: |
| 57 | ** Michelle means "who resembles God," tying her back to her father's first name, Jean, which means "God is gracious." |
| 58 | ** Iron Maiden is not only a literal maiden wearing (presumably iron) armor, but the Stand's name reflects how she feels its "curse" kills her inside. |
| 59 | * MinorLivingAlone: She's been living in an apartment in Paris all by herself for three years before the story starts, because [[spoiler:her grandmother, her last legal guardian, died in a car accident and she's been impersonating her through forgery ever since]]. |
| 60 | * MysteriousWaif: {{Enforced}} and {{Subverted}} for the sake of her BaitAndSwitchCharacterIntro. Chapter 1 establishes her as an unusually quiet girl who somehow managed to avoid any and all detection and documentation for nearly three years. Giorno and Polnareff weren't even sure she was ''alive'' before bumping into her by complete accident. Her being first spotted in a [[CreepyCemetery graveyard]] doesn't help matters. Cut to Chapter 2, where it's almost instantly revealed that her quiet nature is mostly her masking her paranoia and anxiety. |
| 61 | * NervousTics: Michelle fidgets with her necklace whenever she's anxious. |
| 62 | * NervousWreck: Played with. ''Internally,'' Michelle plays this straight, and a lot of her inner monologues in the fic are of her overthinking the situations she's placed in and assuming the worst possible outcomes. ''Externally,'' however, other characters like Giorno and Hol Horse initially describe her as composed and unexpressive, only being able to read her body language after getting to know her better. |
| 63 | * NotWhatISignedOnFor: In Chapter 36, [[spoiler:Michelle threatens to leave the group if they keep travelling with Hol Horse after learning about his history with her father, specifically him working with [[SerialRapist J. Geil]].]] |
| 64 | * OddNameOut: In terms of Stands, Michelle is the only one of the main group 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 formerly a guitarist for Quiet Riot, and The Chain is a song by Music/FleetwoodMac on the album ''Rumours''. |
| 65 | * PatchworkKids: She's described as having her father’s hair and facial structure and her mother’s eyes. |
| 66 | * PreciousPhoto: She keeps a picture of her parents in her bracelets. |
| 67 | * ScrewThisImOutOfHere: Michelle’s reaction when Giorno claims to have known her father. |
| 68 | * ShieldBash: Iron Maiden's primary form of attack. |
| 69 | * ShrinkingViolet: She fits this trope to a tee. |
| 70 | * SlipknotPonytail: The rubber band holding her ponytail together gets destroyed while she's fighting Cascada in Chapter 34. |
| 71 | * SourOutsideSadInside: Especially more so early on. Michelle acts aloof and occasionally rude towards those she does not know or trust, but on the inside, she's a nervous wreck with serious self loathing issues. |
| 72 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: 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. |
| 73 | * SurvivorGuilt: ''In spades.'' She outlived both her parents, her pet dog, her first boyfriend, and her grandmother; the latter three of which she saw die firsthand. This is what causes her to believe Iron Maiden is a cursed DoomMagnet. |
| 74 | * YouthfulFreckles: [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/836738725366071307/836740407119052831/image0.png Artwork of her]] [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/836738725366071307/928835822537568286/unknown.png from the author]] gives her these. |
| 75 | [[/folder]] |
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| 77 | [[folder:Sara Smile]] |
| 78 | !!Sara Smile [[spoiler:(Real last name unknown)]] (Stand: [[FingerFirearms Out of Touch]]) |
| 79 | [[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sara_3_8_24.png]] |
| 80 | [[caption-width-right:1000:''[[ManicPixieDreamGirl "How's that for a dramatic entrance?"]]'']] |
| 81 | The {{Deuteragonist}} of the fic. She's a cheerful tourist that Michelle bumps into while she's running away from Giorno and eventually starts travelling with. Talkative, optimistic, and energetic, [[{{Foil}} she's essentially Michelle's polar opposite.]] |
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| 84 | Her Stand, [[Music/HallAndOates Out of Touch]], takes the form of a pair of gloves that can form detachable cannons. These cannons stick to any surface and explode after firing, damaging what it was attached to. Additionally, anyone can wear and use Out of Touch. |
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| 86 | * ActionGirl: She's much more willing to fight back and get her hands dirty than Michelle. |
| 87 | * AintTooProudToBeg: When Hol Horse catches Sara stealing from him, she instantly throws her hands up and begs him not to shoot her. |
| 88 | * AlliterativeName: '''S'''ara '''S'''mile. |
| 89 | * AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Sara is easily distracted and often ditches the group to pursue people or objects of interest. By the time the group reaches New York, she literally can't stand still for more than two seconds without running off. |
| 90 | * BerserkButton: |
| 91 | ** People who don't respect her privacy. The first time she ever gets mad in the story happens when [[spoiler:Michelle pushes her to talk more about her family]], and she later cusses out Yuya for smelling out the masturbation session she had earlier that morning. |
| 92 | ** Any mention of her family is likely to set her off, though she will try to change the subject when she can. However, she becomes ''livid'' in Chapter 25 when she sees what she thinks is her dead stepfather in Central Park ([[spoiler:actually an illusion set up by Highway Star]]). |
| 93 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: She's 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 [[NoodleIncident or steal your car.]] |
| 94 | * CameraFiend: Whenever the group is out and about, Sara always brings her camera with her. |
| 95 | * CasualSportsJersey: Consistently described wearing a 01 jersey, but unlike [[LovableJock Cab]], is never described having an athletic background. |
| 96 | * ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Her Stand takes the form of a pair of gloves. |
| 97 | * ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: She neatly contrasts with both [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Bucciarati]] and [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Ermes]], the [=JoBros=] of the main parts that Iron Touch takes place between. |
| 98 | ** Bucciarati and Sara are both the de facto leaders of their respective groups, but unlike Sara, Bucciarati actually has formal authority over them as a capo for Passione. Both have a vaguely familial relationship with their teammates, but while Bucciarati was a selfless, goal-oriented TeamDad, Sara acts more like an immature sister leading everyone else along with her on her wild adventures. They both initially follow and seek out the protagonists of their respective stories for opposite reasons; Bucciarati to interrogate Giorno about Leaky Eyed Luca's death, and Sara to thank Michelle for saving her life. Also, ironically, Bucciarati's Stand's name was Sticky Fingers and Sara has [[StickyFingers kleptomania]]. |
| 99 | ** Ermes and Sara have opposing temperaments; with Ermes being more cautious and hotheaded while Sara is willfully optimistic, naive, and [[spoiler:usually]] mild mannered. This applies to how they view their families as well, with Ermes bickering with her sister Gloria in life but being devoutly dedicated to avenging her after she dies, while Sara [[spoiler:has nothing positive to say about her family, ''especially'' her deceased step-father]]. Ermes was arrested for an armed robbery, but only to get her closer to Sports Maxx, while Sara steals purely to satiate her selfish, kleptomaniac urges and usually gets away scot-free. Both have Stands that place something onto an object via touch and later damage said object after the ability is used up, but Ermes' stickers duplicate the object in question while Sara's cannons are offensive all on their own. |
| 100 | * CovertPervert: Michelle finds a trashy romance novel in one of her bags, which she quickly brushes under the rug when she mentions it in front of the rest of the group. |
| 101 | * {{Determinator}}: No matter what, Sara never gives up. Even during the All Broken Down Inside chapters, all of which she spends [[spoiler:on the verge of death after having her nutrients drained by Highway Star]], she resolves to not only stay alive but to give her all into fighting back. |
| 102 | * DoesNotLikeSpam: |
| 103 | ** Downplayed, she's reluctant to eat the hot dog in Chapter 26 just because there's mustard on it, even though [[ItMakesSenseInContext she could literally die if she doesn't eat it]]. |
| 104 | -->'''Sara:''' Blech, ''gross.'' The hot dog's got mustard on it. |
| 105 | -->'''Hol Horse:''' Unless you're severely, and I mean ''severely'' allergic, I don't wanna hear it. |
| 106 | ** In the same conversation, she mentions being allergic to shellfish. |
| 107 | * 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. |
| 108 | * FanGirl: Akira Otoishi's self proclaimed biggest fan. |
| 109 | * FatalFlaw: [[ATragedyOfImpulsiveness Sara's complete and utter lack of impulse control]] is responsible for a majority of the conflicts she finds herself in, whether if it's her [[StickyFingers kleptomania]] or attaching a cannon onto a detective's briefcase so she can snoop in on his investigation. |
| 110 | * FingerFirearms: Out of Touch's cannons are all connected to Sara's fingertips, and she has to touch something with the respective finger in order to set one up. |
| 111 | * {{Foil}}: To Michelle. Michelle is a depressive, shy recluse who struggles to let go of the past, while Sara is an upbeat chatterbox of a tourist that tries to pretend that the parts of her past she doesn't like never happened. Whereas Michelle is a DaddysGirl who misses her deceased parents dearly, Sara has nothing positive to say about her stepfather and refuses to even acknowledge the existence of her biological father. Michelle admits to breaking the law by [[spoiler:committing forgery, identity theft, and tax fraud]] and genuinely feels bad for doing so, while Sara steals from others often without any guilt and still vehemently objects to being called a thief. |
| 112 | * FourTemperamentEnsemble: Sanguine. |
| 113 | * FunetikAksent: Her attempts at speaking French are written like this. |
| 114 | * GirlishPigtails: Ironic considering that she's the oldest of the main group (aside from Hol Horse). |
| 115 | * GoldDigger: A non-romantic version. Part of the reason she lets Hol Horse tag along with them is so she can mooch off of him for money. |
| 116 | * GuysSmashGirlsShoot: With Cab. |
| 117 | * HatesTheirParent: 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. Take this line from her in Chapter 7: |
| 118 | -->"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?" |
| 119 | ** In Chapter 25, when she sees her stepfather in [[spoiler:Highway Star's illusion room]], the narration goes out of its way to show just how angry she is to see him. |
| 120 | * HawaiianShirtedTourist: Though she doesn’t look the part, she acts like this at times. |
| 121 | * 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. Even after Hol Horse [[spoiler:''leaves her to die against Highway Star,'' she chooses to believe that he planned a TacticalWithdrawal all along and didn't just run away out of cowardice]]. The latter case seems to be justified as a maladaptive [[StepfordSmiler coping mechanism]]. |
| 122 | * ManicPixieDreamGirl: A nonromantic example, being a bubbly optimist who tries to help Michelle cope with her trauma. |
| 123 | * 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.]] |
| 124 | * MotorMouth: So much so that Michelle ends up getting physically uncomfortable when she goes off on her tangents. |
| 125 | * TheNicknamer: Sara gives everyone she meets punny nicknames, calling Cab “Taxi Cab,” Rumor “Rumor Mill,” Michelle “Chelly,” and Hol Horse “Horseshoes” and “Horse Raddish.” |
| 126 | * OddNameOut: Of the main group, Sara is the only one to get both her first and last name from the same source, being named after a Music/HallAndOates song of the same name (even though she mentions that "Smile" is not [[ShedTheFamilyName her original last name]]). Michelle gets her first name from a song by Music/TheBeatles and her last name from Michel Polnareff and Cab gets his first name from Music/CabCalloway and his last name from guitarist Carlos Cavazo. Rumor comes close, but his name is a mashup of [[Music/FleetwoodMac a band name]] and [[Music/{{Rumours}} what is arguably their most famous album.]] |
| 127 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: |
| 128 | ** It's a sure sign that [[TheNicknamer she's]] frustrated with someone whenever she refers to them by their real name and not whatever AffectionateNickname she's given them. |
| 129 | ** At the end of Chapter 25, the usually perpetually sweet and bubbly Sara absolutely loses her temper upon seeing her stepfather [[spoiler:inside of Highway Star's illusion room]]. |
| 130 | * ThePollyanna: She resolves to stay positive and optimistic no matter what, which is why she changed her last name to "Smile." Though it's likely that it has more to due with ShedTheFamilyName than she initially lets on. |
| 131 | * TheRunaway: More or less confirmed by this line of dialogue in Chapter 36. |
| 132 | -->"I've lost too many people already, Michelle. My mom. My siblings. My...''[[DaddyIssues father]]''. You think I'm out here with everything I own packed into those suitcases just for the hell of it? You guys are all I have anymore." |
| 133 | * ShedTheFamilyName: ''Heavily'' implied. 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. |
| 134 | * ShipperOnDeck: PlayedForLaughs; she insists that Hol Horse and Sting are engaged even after the former tells her [[NotThatKindOfPartner they're just colleagues.]] |
| 135 | * ShutUpHannibal: Exaggerated in Chapter 19, where she shoots [[spoiler:Red Hot Chili Pepper]] mid-monologue. |
| 136 | * StepfordSmiler: Depends on how much of her "optimism" is genuine and how much of it is forced. |
| 137 | * StickyFingers: Many of Sara's scenes involve her stealing something, such as Hol Horse's BriefcaseFullOfMoney or a bunch of "I ♡ NYC" merch. Despite this, she resents the label of thief. [[spoiler:This comes to bite her in the ass when she steals Yuya's motorcycle]]. |
| 138 | * ThinkHappyThoughts: ''Heavily'' deconstructed. Sara's solution for any negativity that comes her way is to ignore it and deflect, changing the subject to something she can be more positive about. As a consequence, she refuses to process or even acknowledge any of her obvious emotional baggage and is woefully unequipped to deal with conflict resolution, both for herself and her friends. |
| 139 | * TooYoungToDieLamentation: Combined with AintTooProudToBeg above. |
| 140 | -->"Please, you can't shoot me! Think of them! And think of me! I'm too young to die!" |
| 141 | * UglyAmericanStereotype: This is definitely how Michelle initially views her during their first encounter, as a rude motormouth with no sense of personal space and no understanding of France's language or customs. While she still keeps some of her touristy habits throughout, this perception of her fades as the plot goes on. |
| 142 | * WhosYourDaddy: She doesn't know who her biological father is, and she doesn't want to. |
| 143 | * YoureNotMyFather: She delivers an interesting version of this in Chapter 7 to Michelle after she asks her about her biological father. |
| 144 | -->"Whoever that man is, he's not my "real" dad. I don't have a "real" dad." |
| 145 | [[/folder]] |
| 146 | |
| 147 | [[folder:Cab Cavazo]] |
| 148 | !!Cab Cavazo (Stand: [[MagicCompass Quiet Riot]]) |
| 149 | [[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cab_cavazo_fullbody.png]] |
| 150 | [[caption-width-right:1000:''[[ScrewDestiny "But the world’s an ugly place. Buttering up the truth with ideas of fate, like we’re all pulled in by gravity to some predetermined result no matter what we do, doesn’t make it any better."]]'']] |
| 151 | One of Sara's travel companions. He's a former boxer with a sharp tongue and quick wit, often teasing Sara and Rumor for their quirks. However, one mention of [[ScrewDestiny fate]] and his usually relaxed demeanor fades in an instant. |
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| 153 | \ |
| 154 | His Stand, Music/QuietRiot, allows him to control the movement and launch trajectory of anything it punches or kicks. |
| 155 | ---- |
| 156 | * EightiesHair: Despite being twenty in 2009 (meaning that he would have been born at the tail-end of the decade), he sports a big, curly mullet. |
| 157 | * AbusiveParents: His father cheated on his mother then [[RemarriedToTheMistress Remarried His Mistress]]. Cab describes him as "emotionally abusive" and "rude, argumentative, and self-absorbed." |
| 158 | * AffectionateNickname: "Taxi Cab" and "Compass-head," both given to him by [[TheNicknamer Sara]]. |
| 159 | * AgentScully: To contrast Rumor's AgentMulder tendencies. Cab dismisses the concept of fate entirely and refuses to indulge Rumor in his VampireHunter agenda, despite he himself having a [[FightingSpirit Stand]] and [[DramaticIrony those two things existing]] [[GenreBlind in the JJBA universe]]. |
| 160 | * AlliterativeName: '''Ca'''b '''Ca'''vazo. |
| 161 | * BerserkButton: The mere mention of fate or destiny sets him off, though he doesn’t get violent like most members of this trope do. |
| 162 | * TheBigGuy: Quiet Riot is by far the most physically offensive Stand in the main group, and Cab himself is a former boxer with a large frame to boot. |
| 163 | * BoisterousBruiser: Downplayed. He's snarky with a quick wit, and doesn't need anything other than his [[FightingSpirit and his Stand's fists]] to kick ass. |
| 164 | * 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. |
| 165 | * CynicismCatalyst: [[spoiler:If him watching his mother fall into a coma didn't become this to him, walking in on his father's dead body after he committed suicide definitely did.]] |
| 166 | * DeadpanSnarker: Unless it's about [[BerserkButton fate]], expect him to have a snappy one-liner for just about everything thrown his way. |
| 167 | * DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: This is why he's traveling with Sara. [[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.]] |
| 168 | * TheDrifter: Was this until he met Sara. |
| 169 | * EarlybirdCameo: He and Rumor appear alongside Sara in Chapter 2, but are not named and properly introduced to both Michelle and the reader until Chapter 4. |
| 170 | * {{Fingore}}: Downplayed. After a while of [[spoiler:having Fall Out Boy's grid attached to him,]] his hand and fingers start to shrivel up and turn purple. |
| 171 | * {{Foil}}: To Rumor. Cab is a snarky {{Hunk}} with a [[AgentScully skeptical streak]], while Rumor is a nerdy {{Bishonen}} that [[AgentMulder believes in the supernatural]]. They both have their HiddenDepths, but they characterize them in opposite ways; Cab seems like a meathead at first, but is actually very philosophical while Rumor initially comes off as an uptight [[TheSmartGuy Smart Guy]] but shows more childish behavior as time goes on. Both use their Stands to cheat in their TroubledBackstoryFlashback, but while [[NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction Cab grows bored of using Quiet Riot in sports]], Rumor goes out of his way to find new ways to cheat the Hell Climb Pillar using The Chain. Cab is reluctant to hurt others despite having a very physical Stand, while Rumor has no problem spoiler:torturing or killing others if they oppose him. |
| 172 | * FourTemperamentEnsemble: Choleric. |
| 173 | * GuysSmashGirlsShoot: With Sara. |
| 174 | * HatesTheirParent: He 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.]] |
| 175 | * {{Hunk}}: His muscular arms and six-pack get a decent amount of focus in the writing. |
| 176 | * ImColdSoCold: Cab's skin turns ice cold after getting Fall Out Boy's grid stuck to him. Justified, as the grid cut off his circulation, meaning that there was nothing in his body to keep him warm. |
| 177 | * KeepingTheEnemyClose: [[spoiler:After figuring out that Hol Horse is an assassin, he only keeps him around so that he can interfere with any "jobs" that Hol Horse picks up along the way]]. |
| 178 | * LovableJock: While he can be a little snarky and loses his cool in do or die situations, he's ultimately a good friend and means well. |
| 179 | * TheNavigator: Suspected to be a side effect of Quiet Riot. |
| 180 | * OnlySaneMan: Let's see. Michelle is a paranoid recluse who's [[spoiler:committed identity theft for the past three years]], Sara is a morally ambiguous thief [[spoiler:and runaway]], Rumor is a VampireHunter with [[AbsentMindedProfessor fluctuating social skills]], and Hol Horse is straight up an assassin. Cab, comparatively, is just a sarcastic backpacker trying to find his place in the world. If anyone fills this role on the team, it's him. |
| 181 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: He's usually chill, relaxed and eager to make jokes. Make one mention of fate or suicide and his causal demeanor fades. |
| 182 | * ParryingBullets: Quiet Riot is fast enough to punch a speeding bullet and redirect its course. |
| 183 | * ScaryBlackMan: Invokes this trope to scare away Adam when he tries to steal his car. |
| 184 | * ScrewDestiny: He strongly opposes any idea of destiny or luck, believing that everything that happens in life is the result of conscious choice and action/reaction. |
| 185 | * ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers: Since Cab was born with an offensive Stand that allows him to control the launch angle of anything it punches or kicks, 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.]] |
| 186 | * TroubledBackstoryFlashback: Chapter 6 is this for him. |
| 187 | * WithGreatPowerComesGreatPerks: Quiet Riot appears to give Cab an innate sense of direction. |
| 188 | * WouldHitAGirl: During Chapter 28, [[spoiler:Yuya and his girlfriends try to ward off him and Hol Horse from saving Sara, because they'd have to go through Yuya's girlfriends and it's criminal to hit a woman. While [[WouldntHitAGirl Hol Horse]] obviously doesn't intervene, Cab doesn't hesitate to.]] |
| 189 | -->'''Cab:''' As far as I'm concerned, if someone's hurting my friends, then whether or not someone's a woman or a kid or whatever else is irrelevant. |
| 190 | * WouldHurtAChild: Downplayed. He has no problem roughing up Adam after he catches him stealing his car, but refuses to seriously injure or kill him. |
| 191 | [[/folder]] |
| 192 | |
| 193 | [[folder:Rumor Fleetwood]] |
| 194 | !!Rumor Fleetwood (Stand: [[ThermalDissonance The]] [[ChainPain Chain]]) |
| 195 | [[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rumor_fullbody.png]] |
| 196 | [[caption-width-right:1000:''[[VampireHunter "Vampires are now nearly extinct, just the same as Hamon practitioners like myself. However, it is my duty to wipe them off the face of the Earth for good."]]'']] |
| 197 | One of Sara's travel companions. He's a self-described VampireHunter with the Hamon training to back it up. Though he presents himself as being stern, educated and analytical, he's pretty easily embarrassed and often displays various childish tendencies. |
| 198 | \ |
| 199 | \ |
| 200 | His Stand, [[Music/FleetwoodMac The Chain]], allows him to transfer heat between two objects; as well as track heat signatures from a long distance. It also functions as a conduit for Hamon. |
| 201 | ---- |
| 202 | * AbsentMindedProfessor: He's incredibly analytical, with most of his diary full of notes and records of other Stands, and eats his waffles without utensils in a public restaurant without a care in the world. |
| 203 | * AbusiveParents: His parents thought he was possessed by the devil because of his innate Hamon and sent him to live with [[BadassTeacher Tangerine]]. Made even worse that Tangerine himself was initially physically abusive towards Rumor, though he did soften up over time. |
| 204 | * AffectionateNickname: "Rumor Mill," as given to him by [[TheNicknamer Sara]]. [[HatesBeingNicknamed He hates it.]] |
| 205 | * AgeStereotypicalFood: Played with. He's nineteen and carries himself as fairly mature, but he almost exclusively eats fruits and sugary breakfast foods. This symbolizes that he's actually a lot more childish at heart than he initially lets on. |
| 206 | * AgentMulder: Rumor is a staunch believer in vampires (he'd have to be, given that [[spoiler:he sacrificed most of his childhood training to become strong enough to defeat one]]), something that everyone else in the group dismisses and teases him for, especially [[AgentScully Cab]]. The audience knows he's right [[DramaticIrony by virtue of what series this fic is for]]. |
| 207 | * BadassBookworm: He's both a [[VampireHunter Hamon user]] and avid researcher who keeps a diary. |
| 208 | * BigEater: Despite being described as thin, eats one ''hell'' of a breakfast. |
| 209 | * BloodKnight: This is one way to interpret his borderline unhealthy obsession with fighting vampires. |
| 210 | * BraidsOfAction: He keeps his hair up in a braided crown. |
| 211 | * BrainyBrunette: He has chestnut hair and is well versed in both history and the occult. |
| 212 | * ChainPain: The Chain takes the form of...well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a chain]]. |
| 213 | * DefeatMeansFriendship: Happened off-screen. It's mentioned multiple times that Rumor first met Sara and Cab through a Stand battle against the latter, though why they were fighting is [[NoodleIncident unknown]]. Cab won the fight. |
| 214 | * EarlybirdCameo: He and Cab appear alongside Sara in Chapter 2, but are not named and properly introduced to both Michelle and the reader until Chapter 4. |
| 215 | * {{Foil}}: To Cab. Cab is a snarky {{Hunk}} with a [[AgentScully skeptical streak]], while Rumor is a nerdy {{Bishonen}} that [[AgentMulder believes in the supernatural]]. They both have their HiddenDepths, but they characterize them in opposite ways; Cab seems like a meathead at first, but is actually very philosophical while Rumor initially comes off as an uptight [[TheSmartGuy Smart Guy]] but shows more childish behavior as time goes on. Both use their Stands to cheat in their TroubledBackstoryFlashback, but while [[NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction Cab grows bored of using Quiet Riot in sports]], Rumor goes out of his way to find new ways to cheat the Hell Climb Pillar using The Chain. Cab is reluctant to hurt others despite having a very physical Stand, while Rumor has no problem torturing or killing others if they oppose him. |
| 216 | * FourTemperamentEnsemble: Phlegmatic, occasionally melancholic. |
| 217 | * GoodIsNotSoft: He doesn't show much shock or remorse for [[spoiler:accidentally killing Sting by removing his Masquerader mask]], instead just noting that it was "unexpected." |
| 218 | * HatesBeingNicknamed: He's the most vocal against Sara's status as TheNicknamer in the group, to the point where he introduces himself and everyone else by their full names to Hol Horse just to avoid having another person brand him as "Rumor Mill." |
| 219 | * HeCleansUpNicely: Inverted in Chapter 35, which is part of the fic's BeachEpisode. Michelle gets very flustered seeing him in a bathing suit, and the prose (written from her perspective) goes in depth about how attractive she finds him with his hair down, ''to the point she barely even recognizes him''. |
| 220 | -->''If that was Rumor, he gave off a much different aura now than he normally did. Usually, his braided crown, slightly baggy shirt, and long kneesocks gave off the impression of someone formal, studious, refined. But like this, looking much more relaxed and casual, he looked...nice. In a way Rumor normally didn't. That was the most decent way she could phrase it.'' |
| 221 | * HollywoodHealing: He's able to pull this off with his Hamon. |
| 222 | * IHaveNoSon: A victim of this; his parents were frightened of his Hamon and sent him off to live with Tangerine, never once even bothering to visit or send him a letter. |
| 223 | * KillItWithIce: Can do this indirectly with The Chain by draining someone of their body heat. |
| 224 | * MageBornOfMuggles: Twice over; his natural breathing pattern generates Hamon, something that frightens his parents, and he later develops a Stand, which his mentor/adoptive father Tangerine has no idea even exists. |
| 225 | * MagicHair: Using Hamon, he can turn his hair into sharp needles. |
| 226 | * MeaningfulName: Rumor's name becomes much more ironic when you consider that, to everyone else, the existence of vampires is just a mere ''rumor.'' |
| 227 | * NotSoAboveItAll: He 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.]] |
| 228 | * ThePowerOfTheSun: Rumor specifically mostly uses his Hamon for healing injuries. |
| 229 | * ScarfOfAsskicking: Given to him by [[CynicalMentor Tangerine.]] He always wears it, even during the extreme heat wave present in the fight against Sting. Chapter 15 seems to indicate that it can conduct Hamon like Lisa Lisa's scarf did in [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency part 2.]] |
| 230 | * SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Downplayed. He has a habit of speaking like this, but everyone else can understand him just fine. |
| 231 | * SuperpowerLottery: He's both a born Stand user ''and'' naturally able to generate Hamon. |
| 232 | * ThermalDissonance: The Chain can cause this by transferring heat between two objects, making something much colder or warmer than it should me. |
| 233 | * TrainingFromHell: He went 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. |
| 234 | * TroubledBackstoryFlashback: Chapter 11 is this for him. |
| 235 | * VampireHunter: Comes with being a Hamon user. |
| 236 | * VariableLengthChain: His Stand, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Chain]]. It can be short enough to just wrap around Hol Horse's nose or long enough to stretch up ''the Belfry of Mons.'' |
| 237 | * WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: 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.]] |
| 238 | [[/folder]] |
| 239 | |
| 240 | [[folder:Hol Horse]] |
| 241 | !!Hol Horse (Stand: [[ImprobableAimingSkills Emperor]]) |
| 242 | [[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/holhorse_full.png]] |
| 243 | [[caption-width-right:1000:''[[NumberTwo "Believe me, darlin', it's within my best interest to keep you safe."]]'']] |
| 244 | [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders An assassin who formerly worked for Dio]]. After a job goes bad in Belgium, he ends up travelling with Michelle and co., much to her dismay. He's grown jaded and cynical in the years since working for Dio, but his experience in the field has offered him a wealth of connections for the group to use. |
| 245 | \ |
| 246 | \ |
| 247 | His Stand, [[TarotMotifs Emperor]], is a large revolver whose bullets he can direct midflight. |
| 248 | ---- |
| 249 | * AffectionateNickname: He gets a few from [[TheNicknamer Sara]], including Horseradish and Horseshoes. |
| 250 | * AttackTheInjury: He gives himself a shallow cut on the part of his neck where Fall Out Boy's grid is attached to in order to prevent it from reaching his head. |
| 251 | * BriefcaseFullOfMoney: He's introduced carrying one. Naturally, [[KleptomaniacHero Sara]] takes interest. |
| 252 | * CareerEndingInjury: [[spoiler:Ever since he [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders shot himself in the head with his own Stand]], Hol Horse can no longer reliably control Emperor's shots, putting an end to his career as an assassin]]. |
| 253 | * ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Narratively, Hol Horse fills a very similar role to Joseph from [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders part 3]], being an OldMaster whose presence helps drive the plot forward and provides the most financial support out of anyone in the group. The similarities end there. |
| 254 | ** While Joseph had the noble mission to defeat [[BigBad Dio]] and save his daughter Holly, Hol Horse is motivated by his own cowardice, essentially sweet talking himself into the main group so that he can hide behind them should another Masquerader attack him. |
| 255 | ** Joseph was rough around the edges with his teammates, especially his grandson Jotaro, but genuinely loved and cared about them underneath his brash exterior. Meanwhile, Hol Horse in Iron Touch is often polite and affable with the rest of the cast, especially Sara, but his inner monologues make it clear that this is just to stay on their good sides to make them easier to manipulate, and that he only really cares about himself. |
| 256 | ** Even though his Stand was the weakest of the group (something Dio himself even comments on), Joseph stayed on equal footing with the rest of the crusaders despite the nearly 50 year time difference between [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders part 3]] and [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency part 2]]. Hol Horse, on the other hand, ends up being all but worthless in a combat scenario despite having one of, if not the most powerful Stand in the group [[spoiler:since Emperor no longer works properly]] despite the only 20 year time difference between Iron Touch and Stardust Crusaders. |
| 257 | ** Joseph's money came from a career as a legitimate real estate tycoon. Hol Horse's BriefcaseFullOfMoney that ropes him into the plot in the first case is all blood money coming from his seedy job as a professional hitman. |
| 258 | * DirtyCoward: Wouldn't be Hol Horse without it. Most prominently shown when [[spoiler:he sees Sara getting [[LifeDrain attacked]] by Highway Star, and rather than helping her, chooses to run with his tail between his legs]]. |
| 259 | * DirtyOldMan: Discussed. Both Boney and Lovestrong accuse him of this (with Boney going as far as to suggest that he's been "pimping out the girls"), but he never expresses any sexual interest in either Sara or Michelle. |
| 260 | * DrivesLikeCrazy: The start of Chapter 16 has him driving like a maniac to get out of Mons and away from the cops [[spoiler:that are currently trying to arrest him]]. |
| 261 | * TheExpyWithNoName: Even more so than usual here, where he's a little less sociable and wearing a proper poncho. |
| 262 | * FeelingTheirAge: Comes up a couple times in the prose, where it's implied that Hol Horse is really starting to feel the effects of being over fifty. His faulty Stand probably doesn't help. |
| 263 | * FormerlyFit: Downplayed. Michelle notes in Chapter 35 that he's less toned than [[HeroicBuild Cab]] and [[{{Bishonen}} Rumor]], and has "the beginning of a beer gut." |
| 264 | * FriendInTheBlackMarket: Both is one and knows a ''lot'' of them by virtue of his [[ProfessionalKiller profession]]. He regularly boasts about his "connections" to the group, making it a reason to keep him around. He puts this to good use by [[spoiler:blackmailing a mob boss into getting Michelle a passport]]. |
| 265 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: Sara is the only one who actually seems to enjoy his company. |
| 266 | ** Cab and Rumor are initially neutral to his presence at best, while Michelle dislikes him outright for his suspected involvement in her father's murder. After [[WhamEpisode Chapter 36]], [[spoiler:where the group learns more about [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders his history]], Michelle now ''hates'' him for working with her aunt's killer and never telling her about it while the boys agree that they're all better off without him]]. 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) and all his former "girlfriends" now despise him. |
| 267 | ** He's outright loathed by the staff and regulars at Chicago IX for trying to shoot Dio. This really comes to bite him in the long run, since [[spoiler:this means that he can't get a fellow SEES agent to team up with him after he ditches Michelle and the others]]. |
| 268 | * GayCowboy: [[MistakenForGay What Sara initially thinks he is]]. [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday He quickly corrects her.]] |
| 269 | * HandicappedBadass: [[spoiler:Shooting himself in the head at the end of [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders part 3]]]] left him unable to reliably summon and control his Stand, leaving it with a tendency to phase in and out of existence and to ignore his aim. |
| 270 | * HandsomeLech: His [[TheCasanova Casanova]] tendencies are painted in a more negative light here. After being confronted by the brother of one of his many "girlfriends," he doesn't at all seem bothered by the fact that him sending postcards to her for five years interfered with her relationship with her fiancé and just asks Lovestrong to tell her [[BlatantLies he's missed her]]. |
| 271 | * HiddenDepths: Some of the word choice he 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.]] |
| 272 | * InnerMonologue: Gets a quick but impactful one at the end of Chapter 12. |
| 273 | * IWasQuiteALooker: Him talking about his [[TheCasanova previous romantic exploits]] tends to come off as this. |
| 274 | -->'''Sara:''' ''(After watching Hol Horse get [[BitchSlap punched in the face]])'' Looks like you're real popular with the ladies, Horseshoes! |
| 275 | -->'''Hol Horse:''' You're god damn right I am. |
| 276 | * TheKingslayer: A downplayed example, [[spoiler:he assassinated the Mayor of Mons.]] |
| 277 | * KnowWhenToFoldEm: |
| 278 | ** He doesn't try to take a shot at Red Hot Chili Pepper after it [[spoiler:tries to crash the plane]] in Chapter 19, instead spending that time setting up a parachute for himself. |
| 279 | ** When he sees Sara [[spoiler:pinned down by Highway Star, slowly being drained of her nutrients]], he abandons her without a second thought. |
| 280 | * MentorArchetype: Inverted. While at first it seems like he'd be a dead ringer for this trope, especially with how he interacts with the rest of the group's FourTemperamentEnsemble, Hol Horse is a conniving DirtyCoward that only sticks around with the group to use as meat shields against the Masqueraders [[spoiler:and almost leads one of them to their death to save his own ass]]. What little advice and "mentoring" he does give to the rest of the cast is usually counterintuitive at best or a product of his own twisted philosophy at worst. |
| 281 | * MistakenForGay: When Hol Horse reveals that Sting was his former partner, Sara thinks that he means that he was his fiancé. |
| 282 | -->'''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!]] |
| 283 | * MustHaveNicotine: True to form, Hol Horse is never shown without a cigarette and will often go through multiple in one sitting. |
| 284 | * TheNicknamer: Has a habit of calling girls "darlin'," much to Michelle's chagrin. |
| 285 | * NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: Hol Horse tells Midler that he no longer dates other Stand users after [[CruelAndUnusualDeath what happened to]] [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Nena]]. This can be interpreted in two different ways: either Hol Horse [[ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies genuinely felt bad that he indirectly got her killed,]] or he was so disgusted upon learning she [[{{Catfishing}} catfished]] him with her Stand that he vowed to never make the same mistake again.[[note]]From a [[WatsonianVersusDoylist Doylist]] perspective, this was done so that Hol Horse wouldn't hit on [[MayDecemberRomance Sara]] in the story.[[/note]] |
| 286 | * NotThatKindOfPartner: Says this verbatim after Sara mistakenly believes that he and Sting are a couple. |
| 287 | * NumberTwo: More like Number Five this time around. This is the only reason he agrees to join the group in the first place; with the Masqueraders running amok and with his Stand out of commission, he ''needs'' a fellow Stand user to team up with in case he gets attacked on his way home. Sara is the first person he bumps into after Sting attacks him, so he teams up with her and the rest of the group. |
| 288 | * OhCrap: He has this kind of reaction as soon as he hears Michelle's full name. She notices right away, and it becomes the first of many red flags that [[DoesntTrustThoseGuys she shouldn't trust him]]. |
| 289 | * OlderAndWiser: Chapters where Hol Horse is given the POV often mention that he's aged since [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders part 3]], and he's given more room to show off how manipulative he can be than he ever got in canon. Compare him kidnapping Boingo and more or less forcing him to partner up with him to him gaslighting Michelle into thinking Sara and the others will ditch her if she doesn't get a passport (though to be fair, the circumstances surrounding both are very different). |
| 290 | * OldMaster: Inverted. In terms of combat, he's the least capable of the group because [[spoiler: he can no longer control Emperor's shots]]. |
| 291 | * OptOut: [[spoiler:Hol Horse leaves the group in Chapter 36.]] |
| 292 | * ParanoiaGambit: He 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. |
| 293 | * PermaStubble: His stubble is mentioned multiple times in the fic. |
| 294 | * ProfessionalKiller: He's still at it, even two decades after [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders shooting himself in the forehead]]. [[spoiler:He's even introduced in the aftermath of shooting the mayor of Mons]]. |
| 295 | * ReallyGetsAround: To the point where even his employers are aware of it. |
| 296 | -->'''Lovestrong:''' He slept with my sister and sent her postcards after walking out on her. |
| 297 | -->'''Depeche Mode:''' He's done that with everyone's sisters, it's nothing personal. |
| 298 | * RageBreakingPoint: Hits this in Chapter 36 after [[spoiler:Michelle repeatedly pushes his TraumaButton, the final nail in the coffin being her asking if he's still "buddy buddy" with J. Geil and Dio]]. He snaps, ''big time,'' something that even Michelle notes [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness he's never done before.]] |
| 299 | * ReformedButNotTamed: Downplayed. Hol Horse is on the side of the heroes this time around, but it's clear that he's still the same sly assassin he was in [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders part 3]]. He's introduced shortly after [[spoiler:killing a "goody two-shoes" mayor]] and ends up using the other protagonists as meat shields afterwards, only directly helping them to gain their trust or when he has something to gain from it. He'd squarely be a TokenEvilTeammate rather than this if he had a little more bloodlust. |
| 300 | * ShameIfSomethingHappened: He uses this tone to {{Blackmail}} Depeche Mode into commissioning a passport for Michelle, threatening to tell the cops about the bounty Depeche put on the mayor's head otherwise. [[spoiler:This falls on deaf ears, given that Hol Horse himself was the one who actually did kill the mayor.]] |
| 301 | * ShellShockedVeteran: Shows shades of this in Chapter 36. Dio still haunts his psyche long after his death, with Hol Horse paranoid that he might still be alive and plotting to put a flesh bud in his head. In the end, he ended up isolating himself for twenty years in order to cope, [[TruthInTelevision something that real life war veterans and trauma victims often succumb to]]. |
| 302 | -->"After everything in Egypt, I figured it was a good to just lay low. It was just...easier that way. No more jobs, no more vampires, no more nothin'." |
| 303 | * ThisIsGonnaSuck: The end of Chapter 12, as told from his perspective, plays out like this. |
| 304 | -->''[[ItsASmallWorldAfterAll Of all the people in the world to get stuck with, why, why did it have to be her?]] He would have rather ended up with Polnareff himself. At least then, he could draft up some pretty little lies, beg for some sympathy, then stick with him until some other Stand user that he could partner up with came along. But this was his daughter. Hol Horse had been around the block long enough to know what happened when [[PapaWolf fathers]] caught [[HandsomeLech men like him]] traveling around with their little girls, no matter how innocent their interactions actually were.'' |
| 305 | * TokenAdult: He's well over double the age of the rest of the protagonists, the rest of which are teenagers or in their early 20s. Lovestrong calls him out for this in Chapter 24, accusing him of having [[DirtyOldMan less than wholesome intentions]] with the girls. |
| 306 | * WeaponForIntimidation: He points Emperor at Sara when he catches her stealing from him, but [[WouldntHitAGirl knowing him]], he probably wasn't planning on using it. |
| 307 | * WouldntHitAGirl: Hasn't changed a bit since [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders part 3]]. Most prominently shown in Chapter 26, he considers [[spoiler:stopping the stolen motorcycle and making a run for it to save himself from Highway Star, knowing that doing so would kill Sara]]. The only reason he doesn't is because she's a woman. The [[https://iron-touch.tumblr.com/post/699130381570572288/authors-notes-chapter-26-all-broken-down author's notes]] even mention that if she was a man, she would have died there. |
| 308 | [[/folder]] |
| 309 | |
| 310 | !Passione |
| 311 | [[folder:Giorno Giovanna]] |
| 312 | !!Giorno Giovanna (Stand: [[CreatingLife Gold Experience]] [[NoSell Requiem]]) |
| 313 | [[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/giorno_fullbody.png]] |
| 314 | [[caption-width-right:1000:''[[BlatantLies "I would never lie to you."]]'']] |
| 315 | TheDon [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureGiornoGiovanna of Passione who recently had his prized arrow stolen from him.]] While recovering it is his top priority, he ends up taking a detour to make sure his consigliere's daughter is safe and sound, only to end up suspecting her as one of the thieves. |
| 316 | \ |
| 317 | \ |
| 318 | His Stand, [[Music/{{Prince}} Gold Experience]] [[Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart Requiem]] (often shortened to just "Requiem"), has the ability to give life to inanimate objects as well as [[NoSell revert incoming attacks to zero]]. |
| 319 | ---- |
| 320 | * TheAce: Deconstructed. Giorno is charismatic, reliable, and driven by justice...but only to those who see him as the all-powerful, nigh unkillable leader of Passione. When he's forced to interact with Michelle in Chapter 1 without giving away his identity or threatening her, he ends up scaring her off. |
| 321 | * CleavageWindow: Even with a new coat, he's still got one. |
| 322 | * ConsummateLiar: Giorno ''never'' tells Polnareff that he [[spoiler:considers Michelle a suspect in the arrow theft, and Polnareff is seemingly none the wiser]]. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking He also lies to keep himself from losing a bet with (by his own admission) zero stakes involved]]. It helps that Giorno is usually bluntly honest with others, making it less likely for anyone to suspect he'd be lying to them. |
| 323 | * TheDon: Maintains this spot since the end of [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Part 5.]] |
| 324 | * EveryManHasHisPrice: He hasn't stopped his trick of bribing others into doing what he wants then using his Stand to reclaim the money. |
| 325 | * GoodIsNotNice: He considers "[[DeadlyEuphemism interro]][[TortureAlwaysWorks gating]]" Michelle over the arrow theft (which, keep in mind, [[InnocentBystander she had nothing to do with]]), and the only reason he doesn't is because he fears that [[PapaWolf Polnareff]] will get in the way. |
| 326 | * HatesTheirParent: Not even Giorno is immune to this trope, and it shouldn't be surprising considering who [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureDIO his father]] is. [[spoiler:He silently bemoans how disappointed he is that his dad was a vampiric monster, so much so that just hearing Polnareff bring up the possibility of Boney being a vampire in Chapter 21 puts him on edge]]. |
| 327 | * IntroOnlyPointOfView: Giorno is the POV character for Chapter 1, "bridging the gap" between the series' canon and the fic's OCs as well as setting up Michelle's BaitAndSwitchCharacterIntro. [[spoiler:With the release of Chapter 21, this trope has been averted]]. |
| 328 | * KidHeroAllGrownUp: He was 15 in [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind part 5]], here he's 23. |
| 329 | * ThePerfectionist: WordOfGod is that he's [[https://iron-touch.tumblr.com/post/639592373452750848/authors-notes-chapter-1-revelations supposed to be one]]. |
| 330 | * PoorCommunicationKills: Most of the events that take place in the fic probably could have been avoided if Giorno was upfront about who he was when he first met Michelle in the graveyard. |
| 331 | * TheRichHaveWhiteStuff: His Passione money is evident from his white, fur trimmed suit. |
| 332 | * SharpDressedMan: As to be expected from TheDon of Passione. |
| 333 | * YouDidntAsk: When he and Polnareff start betting what card of [[Literature/PurpleHazeFeedback All Along Watchtower]] will show up next, Giorno is able to win every time simply because Polnareff, being stuck inside Coco Jumbo, never bothers to ask to see the cards himself. [[spoiler:He also more maliciously uses this against Polnareff after labeling Michelle as a suspect for the arrow's theft, keeping him LockedOutOfTheLoop to make sure he never tries to interfere with the arrow's recovery for the sake of his daughter]]. |
| 334 | [[/folder]] |
| 335 | [[folder:Jean-Pierre Polnareff]] |
| 336 | !!Jean-Pierre Polnareff (Stand (formerly): [[KnightInShiningArmor Silver Chariot]] [[FreakyFridayFlip Requiem]]) |
| 337 | [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJeanPierrePolnareff The consigliere to Passione]] and [[FanCreatedOffspring Michelle's]] father. Though he's just as worried about the stolen arrow as Giorno, the revelation that his wife is dead and his daughter is missing consistently distracts him from his work. |
| 338 | ---- |
| 339 | * BigGood: He is always universally, unequivocally, on his daughter’s side. In the larger scale of the fic, he’s the only reason that Giorno doesn’t try to hurt Michelle to get information about the arrow heist out of her. |
| 340 | * TheConsigliere: He retains his role as Giorno's second in command following Literature/PurpleHazeFeedback. |
| 341 | * 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. |
| 342 | * JacobMarleyApparel: He 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. |
| 343 | * LockedOutOfTheLoop: [[spoiler:Giorno hides from him that Michelle is a chief suspect for the arrow's theft out of fear that [[PapaWolf Polnareff]] might intentionally steer the investigation away from her to protect his only daughter]]. |
| 344 | * MyGreatestFailure: Initially, he refused to even tell anyone, including 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 his family sooner. |
| 345 | * NotoriousParent: He qualifies, being the consigliere of the Italian mafia and all. |
| 346 | * 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.]] |
| 347 | -->'''[[https://edgy-ella.tumblr.com/ Edgy Ella:]]''' First of all, no, Polnareff did not become the turtle after [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind 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.'' |
| 348 | * SurvivorGuilt: Something he just can't seem to shake off; he's absolutely heartbroken that he outlived (well, [[OurGhostsAreDifferent kinda]]) his wife and potentially his daughter. Looks like this trope is a case of ItRunsInTheFamily, too. |
| 349 | [[/folder]] |
| 350 | |
| 351 | !Masqueraders |
| 352 | !!!Masters of the Masquerade |
| 353 | [[folder:Boney M. '''(SPOILERS)''']] |
| 354 | !! Boney M. (Stand: [[{{ResurrectiveImmortality}} Bad to the Bone]]) |
| 355 | The man with green hair that lead the arrow heist and one of the leaders of the Masqueraders. Somehow, despite having been killed and having an autopsy performed on him, he continues to live and is seemingly none the worse for wear. |
| 356 | \ |
| 357 | \ |
| 358 | His Stand is called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_to_the_Bone Bad to the Bone]], but what it exactly does is unknown. |
| 359 | ---- |
| 360 | * AmbiguousSituation: Good lord. Just about everything we see of him actively contradicts the last. |
| 361 | ** Chapter 15 shows that he's still alive and well, with pictures of him being taken long after his supposed death during the arrow heist. This is especially notable because it's not a case of NeverFoundTheBody, as Giorno mentions having performed an autopsy on him. If the endings of Chapter 18 and 22 are any indication, [[spoiler:this is likely part of Bad to the Bone's ability,]] but that begs the question... |
| 362 | ** His autopsy also indicated that he wasn't a Stand user, but [[spoiler:he admits to being one himself in Chapter 22]]. Even before that, Fergie mentions having seen his Stand before (albeit through hazy memories). |
| 363 | ** He's shown to have a weird relationship with the clothes he wears. While Chapter 22 (arguably him at his most "casual"), makes no specific mention of his outfit, Giorno is unable to discern where the clothes he wore to the arrow heist were from in Chapter 1, he's [[spoiler:found dead and naked]] in Chapter 18, and in Chapter 30, [[spoiler:he's wearing Ben's mother's clothing, which Ben notes doesn't fit him at all and is even torn in some places]]. While this, like most things about him, is probably [[spoiler:related to his Stand]], nothing about it been outright confirmed yet. |
| 364 | * AppealToForce: Uses this tactic to keep Fergie in line, threatening to [[spoiler:put a blue mask on her again]] if she doesn't do what he tells her to. |
| 365 | * AtLeastIAdmitIt: This interaction: |
| 366 | -->'''Boney:''' Fergie, my dear, didn't your socialite of a mother ever tell you it's rude to leave dead bodies strewn about? |
| 367 | -->'''Fergie:''' That's rich, coming from you. |
| 368 | -->'''Boney:''' Guilty as charged. |
| 369 | * BadBoss: He's condescending bordering on misogynistic towards Fergie and threatens to strip her of her free will should she step out of line. |
| 370 | * BeardOfEvil: A frizzy soul patch. |
| 371 | * BigOlEyebrows: He's the only character in the story described with bushy eyebrows. |
| 372 | * ChildAbuseIsASpecialKindOfEvil: If stealing the Stand arrow, bullying his minions, and enabling [[AxCrazy Fergie's]] violent tendencies weren't enough to convince you that he's a bad guy, then him stabbing an innocent child in the shoulder [[spoiler:before killing him]] should clue you in. |
| 373 | * ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Boney and Diavolo both ended up going after the exact same Stand arrow, but the arrow rejected Diavolo, who wanted to use it to empower his Stand, while Boney was successful in stealing it from the same criminal organization Diavolo used to lead and has no interest in using it on himself. Diavolo was sentenced to an infinite death loop, forced to suffer the pain of death over and over again but never able to truly die. Boney, on the other hand, [[spoiler:has a Stand that]] seemingly does something very similar, continuously reviving him no matter how many times he "dies." [[AndIMustScream Diavolo's punishment is]] [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower essentially Boney's superpower.]] |
| 374 | * DeadGuyOnDisplay: ''Might'' be what he's doing with his own body in Chapter 1 [[spoiler:and Chapter 18]]. |
| 375 | * DeathIsCheap: And he knows it. |
| 376 | * DragonInChief: While the Grand Marshal seemingly outranks him, it's clear that Boney is the main threat of the two. |
| 377 | * TheDreaded: [[BadBoss To Fergie, anyways.]] |
| 378 | * FeelNoPain: Possibly as a result of "dying" as many times as he has, Chapter 30 shows that he barely reacts to physical pain and doesn't even notice when he's stabbed in the back with a steak knife. |
| 379 | * TheHeavy: Though he has no problem sending out underlings like Fergie to do his bidding, of all the main antagonists of the story, Boney is the one who directly interacts with the heroes the most (even if a majority of those interactions are with his many corpses). |
| 380 | * HopelessWithTech: He has to spend a good chunk of Chapter 30 being told how to call someone on a smartphone. By a ''seven-year-old,'' no less. |
| 381 | * IControlMyMinionsThrough: Fear, specifically fear of losing privileges [[spoiler:and a bit of MindControl.]] |
| 382 | * {{Jerkass}}: He uses a bevy of passive aggressive remarks against Fergie whenever he talks to her and constantly refers to Bufala by his first name (despite him [[TheyCallMeMisterTibbs seeing this as a sign of disrespect]]) for seemingly no reason other than to be a jerk. |
| 383 | * {{Omniglot}}: He boasts that he's fluent in 23 different languages, including some dead ones. Despite the Russian accent he's frequently described as having, though, he's only ever been shown speaking in English (unlike [[GratuitousFrench Michelle]] or [[GratuitousItalian Bufala]]). |
| 384 | * PersonalGainHurts: His [[MotiveRant dagger speech]] in Chapter 22 invokes this. |
| 385 | * SlutShaming: Just another one of his {{Jerkass}} habits. |
| 386 | * TheNoseKnows: He's able to discern blood types through scent (and taste), apparently. |
| 387 | * ResurrectiveImmortality: He ''must'' have this in some capacity, as his dead body has been seen at [[SacrificialLamb least]] [[CampingACrapper three]] [[AteHisGun times]] in the story so far, leaving said bodies behind. [[DeathIsCheap He always comes back like it never even happened]]. |
| 388 | * StrokeTheBeard: He apparently does this enough with his soul patch that Fergie can picture him do it in her mind's eye in Chapter 17. [[BrickJoke He does this for real in Chapter 22]]. |
| 389 | * SuicideIsPainless: [[spoiler:He casually shoots himself after giving Fergie and Bufala their orders in Chapter 22. [[DeapanSnarker Their reactions]] imply this is a regular occurrence.]] |
| 390 | -->'''Bufala:''' I wish he'd be less messy when he does this. |
| 391 | -->'''Fergie:''' I wish he'd let me kill him myself. |
| 392 | * TeenyWeenie: After [[spoiler:his nude body is found aboard the plane]] in Chapter 18, Cab comments that he's not well endowed. |
| 393 | -->'''Michelle:''' Does any of that explain why he's naked? ''[[GratuitousFrench Bordel de merde,]]'' did the Stand eat his clothes or something? |
| 394 | -->'''Cab:''' Maybe it shrunk them. I mean, looking at certain ''parts'' of him, it wouldn't surprise me. Hey, cowboy, you wouldn't happen to know any Stand users that can shrink body parts, would you? |
| 395 | * WalkingSpoiler: Comes with being "dead" in your introductory chapter. |
| 396 | * WouldHurtAChild: He has no problem killing [[spoiler:Ben, even though he really didn't pose a threat to him]]. ''Slightly'' justified in that [[spoiler:he tried to kill him first, but that was after Boney broke into his house and did ''something'' to his mother]]. |
| 397 | [[/folder]] |
| 398 | [[folder:"The Grand Marshal"]] |
| 399 | !!"The Grand Marshal" (Real identity unknown) |
| 400 | One of the leaders of the Masqueraders. Whoever they are, they apparently rank alongside Boney and can decide which one of their henchmen have free will. |
| 401 | \ |
| 402 | \ |
| 403 | The Masquerader masks are implied to be part of their Stand. |
| 404 | ---- |
| 405 | * AmbiguousGender: Boney's dialogue skirts around giving them pronouns. |
| 406 | * TheGhost: They're only ever mentioned a handful of times by the other characters. Whoever they are, Fergie seems to hold them in [[TheDreaded a similar regard to Boney himself]]. |
| 407 | * NonActionBigBad: Might be why they're not as involved in the story as their [[TheDragon Dragon]] and {{Mooks}}, as Boney remarks that they "need to stay out of harm's way." |
| 408 | [[/folder]] |
| 409 | [[folder:Fergie]] |
| 410 | !!Fergie (Stand: [[ThePowerofGlass Shatter Me]]) |
| 411 | A snooty {{Goth}} girl from a rich family. She's one of Boney's goons, and [[spoiler:was the female thief involved in the arrow heist.]] |
| 412 | \ |
| 413 | \ |
| 414 | Her Stand, [[Music/LindseyStirling Shatter Me]], can generate a crystal from its chest that dissolves into a bunch of sand floating on rising steam. Anything this sand touches turns into glass, drastically decreasing its durability and mobility. |
| 415 | ---- |
| 416 | |
| 417 | * AxCrazy: Part of what makes her so dangerous is how inclined towards murder she is, whether you're a homeless man begging for spare change or a maid offering to make her a drink. |
| 418 | * BitchAlert: In her EstablishingCharacterMoment, she loudly interrupts Depeche's phone call with Lovestrong and openly judges him for his taste in swimwear. |
| 419 | -->"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." |
| 420 | * BloodKnight: She has a strong bloodlust and loves to fight other Stand users, so much so that [[spoiler:she's disappointed when she learns Depeche does not have a Stand]]. TheStinger of Chapter 17 implies that [[spoiler:she not only killed Depeche, but slaughtered all of his maids [[ForTheEvulz just because she wanted to]].]] |
| 421 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: She's an apathetic and somewhat lazy goth girl, yet she manages to be one of the most intimidating characters in the story. |
| 422 | * ChewBubblegum: A literal example; she spits out her gum before [[spoiler:killing Depeche]]. |
| 423 | * DarkActionGirl: Notable for being the first major villain to appear, be named, and have their Stand revealed. |
| 424 | * EvilWearsBlack: Fitting for a {{Goth}} DarkActionGirl. |
| 425 | * ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow: Pairs well with her {{Goth}} attire. |
| 426 | * {{Goth}}: She certainly dresses the part, with Depeche calling her a "gothy hooker." [[RichBitch Her personality, on the other hand...]] |
| 427 | * HiddenDepths: Despite generally being very snide and aloof towards everyone else around her, she seems to genuinely fear [[BadBoss Boney]] and doesn't talk back to him the same way she does to others. |
| 428 | * LoveMakesYouDumb: Boney's able to drag her back to his base by suggesting that Akira might be there. |
| 429 | * MookPromotion: She mentions having been "[[spoiler:demasked]]," implying she [[spoiler:was once a common Masquerader whom Boney later trusted with freedom]]. Her status as [[spoiler:one of the arrow thieves, both of which were masked]], implies this only happened soon after the story started. |
| 430 | * MsFanservice: She shows up in fishnets and a frilly tutu and is not afraid to show off her body. WordOfGod is that she was originally going to lean even more in this direction before scaling this aspect back a bit. |
| 431 | * ThePowerOfGlass: Shatter Me can turn anyone and anything into glass. |
| 432 | * RichBitch: She comes from wealthy parents (her father is a lawyer and her mother is a socialite), and she's ''very'' bitchy. |
| 433 | * UnholyMatrimony: Dating Akira. |
| 434 | * ValleyGirl: She's got the inflections of one, comes from a wealthy family, and is very fashion savvy, but chooses to dress in skimpy {{Goth}} style clothes rather than the bright pinks typically associated with this trope. |
| 435 | [[/folder]] |
| 436 | [[folder:Mais Bufala]] |
| 437 | !!Mais Bufala (Stand: Unknown) |
| 438 | An ex-mafioso working with the Boney and the Grand Marshal. Despite his former profession, [[FauxAffablyEvil he's surprisingly polite and reserved.]] |
| 439 | \ |
| 440 | \ |
| 441 | His Stand's name and ability are currently unknown. |
| 442 | ---- |
| 443 | * DreadlockWarrior: He's a Stand user with long, ratty dreadlocks. |
| 444 | * EdibleThemeNaming: His first name is Italian for corn (possibly referencing Music/{{Korn}}, doubling as MusicalThemeNaming) while his last name is the feminine word for buffalo. [[spoiler:This is the naming convention of [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind part 5]], which makes sense since he's a former member of Passione]]. |
| 445 | * EyepatchOfPower: Wears one over his right eye. It's unknown whether or not he's [[EyeScream actually missing an eye]], but he does mention that he's not used to seeing out of it. |
| 446 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Don't let his kindness towards his allies fool you, he has ''no'' qualms against murder so long as it's planned in advance. |
| 447 | * LastNameBasis: One-sided with Boney. |
| 448 | * {{Revenge}}: While sarcastically detailing all the "sightseeing" that they did in Italy, Boney mentions that Bufala "sat in the corner the whole time grumbling to himself about revenge." |
| 449 | * SkeletonMotif: He has a tattoo of a skull on his shoulder. |
| 450 | * TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: He takes referring to him by his first name, Mais, as a sign of disrespect and insists on being called Bufala. [[{{Jerkass}} This does not stop Boney from addressing him by his first name.]] |
| 451 | * TokenGoodTeammate: Compared to his companions, anyway. He's genuinely respectful and kind to both Boney and Fergie (even though [[RichBitch she]] doesn't reciprocate), apologizing to the latter when he feels he's offended her and tries to offer her advice on how to be a better assassin. Contrast with Boney, who bullies and intimidates Fergie for seemingly no good reason. |
| 452 | * {{Turncoat}}: [[spoiler:He's a former member of Passione who has nothing positive to say about his former gang (even going as far as to say that he hopes "[[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureGiornoGiovanna Giovanna]] and his cronies all burn in hell") and helped Boney steal the arrow from them. Given that Giorno is still unsure about a mole in the organization by the time he finds Depeche's dead body, it's safe to assume he's unaware of Bufala's betrayal]]. |
| 453 | [[/folder]] |
| 454 | !!!Masked Stand users |
| 455 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 456 | A group of mysterious Stand users wearing masquerade masks. They're benign at first, but become aggressive and unresponsive after seeing other Stands. Who they are and what their goals may be are currently a mystery. |
| 457 | ---- |
| 458 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: Masqueraders wearing red masks become this when they see another Stand. Emphasis on the "crazy" part. |
| 459 | * MalevolentMaskedMen: And don't take those masks off, unless you want to [[{{Pun}} face]] the consequences. |
| 460 | * MaskOfPower: [[spoiler:Inverted; the masks are [[PowerNullifier Power Nullifiers]]. Played straight for the purple masks that grant control over Masqueraders wearing blue masks]]. |
| 461 | * MindControl: [[spoiler:Masqueraders wearing blue masks can have their Stand controlled by someone wearing a purple mask, potentially the user as well if Boney's comment on keeping Akira "in line" is anything to go by]]. Rumor also assumes this to be the case. |
| 462 | * PowerNullifier: [[spoiler:As long as they're wearing a red or blue mask, they can't freely summon and control their Stands]]. |
| 463 | * YourHeadASplode: [[spoiler:This is the fate of any Masquerader that has their mask forcibly removed, as Sting can attest to.]] |
| 464 | [[/folder]] |
| 465 | |
| 466 | [[folder:Cynatra]] |
| 467 | !!Cynatra (Stand: [[HollywoodAcid Bad Sneakers]]) |
| 468 | A woman that Michelle encounters in a public restroom. After she sees the Out of Touch cannon attached to Michelle's arm, the two of them duke it out. |
| 469 | \ |
| 470 | \ |
| 471 | Her Stand, [[Music/SteelyDan Bad Sneakers]], secretes a foul smelling acid from the soles of its feet, capable of dissolving anything in just a few seconds. |
| 472 | ---- |
| 473 | * AllThereInTheManual: She's unnamed in the fic itself, but [[https://discord.gg/bdyj7qGPBP the official Discord server]] gives her the name Cynatra. |
| 474 | * HollywoodAcid: Bad Sneakers' generates this from its feet. |
| 475 | * KickChick: Given that her Stand can only generate HollywoodAcid from its feet, she ends up being this. |
| 476 | * LeftStuckAfterAttack: Bad Sneakers kicks so hard that it tends to get its foot lodged in whatever it hit. |
| 477 | * WarmUpBoss: Bad Sneakers is very straightforward compared to the Stands that come after it, and the fight against it is similarly fairly tame and mostly exists to introduce the readers to Iron Maiden and Michelle's personality. |
| 478 | [[/folder]] |
| 479 | [[folder:Sting]] |
| 480 | !!Sting (Stand: [[BloodMagic Fall Out Boy]]) |
| 481 | Hol Horse's previous partner in crime who later becomes a Masquerader. He attacks the group after Sara's attempt to get her friends to lighten up about using their Stands in public gloriously backfires. |
| 482 | \ |
| 483 | \ |
| 484 | His Stand, Music/FallOutBoy, is composed of a grid-like outline of a humanoid frame. When anything comes into contact with this grid, it detaches from the Stand and attaches itself to whatever made contact with it, causing no harm to the user. When attached to something, it will cause any organic material it comes in contact with to become numb and unresponsive. |
| 485 | ---- |
| 486 | * EightiesHair: He's got a tall, spiky mohawk. |
| 487 | * BloodMagic: Fall Out Boy feeds off of the blood of whatever it sticks to in order to maintain itself long distances like a plant with water. |
| 488 | * CombatPragmatist: At least, as much as his [[BrainwashedAndCrazy mask]] will allow him to be. He shows a stronger level of tactics compared to Cynatra, fitting his job as a ProfessionalKiller. |
| 489 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Sting demonstrates exactly what happens when a Masquerader's mask is forcibly removed; after Rumor attempts to pry his off with The Chain, [[YourHeadASplode Sting's face implodes in on itself]].]] |
| 490 | * DelinquentHair: He sports a mohawk, despite likely being somewhere in his forties or fifties. |
| 491 | * MeaningfulName: The band Music/FallOutBoy broke up in 2009 and got back together in 2013, much like how Sting and Hol Horse used to work together back in the day then took a break (caused by [[spoiler:Hol Horse's Dio-induced PTSD]]), then started working together again right before the story begins. |
| 492 | * ProfessionalKiller: Alongside Hol Horse. [[spoiler:The two of them were the ones the assassinate the mayor of Mons]]. |
| 493 | * WeakenedByTheLight: Inverted; Fall Out Boy needs sunlight in order to survive long distances and will naturally fade away if put in the shade. This also causes it to grow exponentially when exposed to Hamon. |
| 494 | [[/folder]] |
| 495 | [[folder:Akira Otoishi]] |
| 496 | !!Akira Otoishi (Stand: [[ShockAndAwe Red Hot Chili Pepper]]) |
| 497 | [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable A Japanese rockstar]] who somehow ended up working as a Masquerader. He was also [[spoiler:one of the thieves behind the arrow heist.]] |
| 498 | \ |
| 499 | \ |
| 500 | His Stand, [[Music/RedHotChiliPeppers Red Hot Chili Pepper]], allows him to manipulate electricity and travel through electrical currents. |
| 501 | ---- |
| 502 | * AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Yuya states that the two of them used to be neighbors and were apparently close enough for Akira to give Yuya free backstage tickets to his concert, even though they never interacted at all in [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable canon]]. |
| 503 | * AffectionateNickname: Fergie calls him her "little chickadee." |
| 504 | * CelebrityEndorsement: In-Universe, he's endorsed by the Belafonte fashion brand, the same brand of clothes that Fergie wears. |
| 505 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:One of the arrow thieves mentioned in Chapter 1 utilized a Stand to cause a total blackout at Passione's base of operation and then electrocute the guards]]. Anyone who's read or watched [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable part 4]] should be able to identify this Stand as Red Hot Chili Pepper. |
| 506 | * INeverToldYouMyName: He accidentally reveals Boney's name to the protagonists while taunting them. |
| 507 | * MagnetismManipulation: Done via StaticElectricity. [[spoiler:Which comes in handy when trying to prevent a group of heroes from parachuting off a falling plane.]] |
| 508 | * MindControl: [[spoiler:Due to being a blue Masquerader, poor Akira ends up having his Stand (and possibly the rest of him) controlled by Boney]]. |
| 509 | * RideTheLightning: Chili Pepper is able to travel through ''radio waves.'' It apparently is much less efficient than traveling through a wired connection. |
| 510 | * TheRockStar: He's on tour during the events of Iron Touch. |
| 511 | * ShockAndAwe: Chili Pepper, as per usual. He's even learned some new tricks since [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable part 4]]. |
| 512 | * UnholyMatrimony: Dating Fergie. |
| 513 | [[/folder]] |
| 514 | !Chicago IX |
| 515 | [[folder:Meatloaf]] |
| 516 | !!Meatloaf |
| 517 | A [[MixAndMatchCritters giant, spiderlike creature]] living inside of the Royce car wash. Its true nature remains a mystery. |
| 518 | ---- |
| 519 | * AllAnimalsAreDogs: Along with its massive tongue, Meatloaf's attitude is very doglike. |
| 520 | * AngryGuardDog: Played with. While it does act like a guard dog of sorts for Chicago IX, Meatloaf never tries to break into the cars that enter its carwash and overall acts friendly towards their drivers/passengers. However, Hol Horse is quick to note that it will eat ''anything'' that it can fit in its mouth, including people. [[ToServeMan One has to wonder how he'd know that.]] |
| 521 | * BigCreepyCrawlies: Its got the body of a spider and is about as long as Michelle is tall. |
| 522 | * ExtremeOmnivore: Doesn't matter what it is, if it enters the car wash and is small enough to fit in its mouth, Meatloaf will eat it. Hol Horse even feeds it a used cigarette, which Meatloaf happily slurps up. |
| 523 | * GiantSpider: Looks like one, anyways. |
| 524 | * MeaningfulName: An actual meatloaf is a type of dish where you can mix several types of meat together for the finished product. Here, Meatloaf is seemingly a mix of several different types of animals. |
| 525 | * MixAndMatchCritters: It has the body of a giant spider, the head of a bird, and the tongue and attitude of a dog. |
| 526 | * MultipurposeTongue: Subverted. We only ever see it use its tongue to eat things, but it acts as a living car wash, licking the cars clean of any dirt and grime. |
| 527 | * OverlyLongTongue: Doubles as a windshield wiper. |
| 528 | * RiddleForTheAges: What the heck Meatloaf ''is'' never gets answered. The story itself offers two explanations: a Stand or a chimera, both with just as much evidence to support them as much as there is to disprove it. It could even fit be one of the [[OurHomunculiAreDifferent other]] [[AlienAmongUs strange]] [[{{Yokai}} species]] found within the series. Michelle eventually decides that speculating about it is futile. |
| 529 | -->''Maybe Meatloaf is just Meatloaf.'' |
| 530 | * SpitShine: How it cleans cars. |
| 531 | [[/folder]] |
| 532 | [[folder:Firework]] |
| 533 | !!Firework (Stand: [[{{Sizeshifter}} Puttin' on the Ritz]]) |
| 534 | The owner and sole employee of One Size Fits All, a clothing store inside Chicago IX. He does love his job, even if he doesn't always act like it. |
| 535 | \ |
| 536 | \ |
| 537 | His Stand, [[Music/IrvingBerlin Puttin' on the Ritz]] allows him to change the shape, size, and color of inanimate objects by injecting strings of yarn from the Stand's body into them. |
| 538 | ---- |
| 539 | * ApatheticClerk: He has the energy (or lack thereof) of one, but not the attitude. |
| 540 | * ExoticEyeDesigns: Strangely, he's noted as having catlike eyes. |
| 541 | * FriendlyShopkeeper: Michelle fully expects him to be either a scam artist or an enemy Stand user looking for a fight, but he's really just a nice guy who uses his Stand to run his store. He even gives her some much needed wisdom about Stands. |
| 542 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeFashionable: He's like this with ''everyone.'' |
| 543 | -->'''Firework:''' I don't care about what I wear, as long as it's comfortable. It's not like I ever get to look at myself outside of pictures and mirrors. Other people, though? I have to look at them all day long, not myself. That means that I gotta make sure everyone else looks their best. |
| 544 | * LazyArtist: While he is a gifted designer, he doesn't seem too interested in actually letting his customers know how One Size Fits All works or even greeting them when they enter the store. |
| 545 | * MeaningfulName: The lyrics to the song [[Music/KatyPerry Firework]] are all upbeat tones meant to inspire the listener to embrace what makes them unique rather than feel ashamed or lost because of it, mirroring the speech he gives about Stands to Michelle. |
| 546 | * NiceGuy: Against all odds and suspicions. He even gives Michelle a tote bag and cardigan for free. |
| 547 | * PaletteSwap: Literally; Puttin' on the Ritz can change the color of objects. |
| 548 | * SecretShop: Subverted. One Size Fits All is an open and popular store in Chicago IX, to the point where even the resort's valet recommends it to Michelle and the others. It's still located in [[SmallSecludedWorld Chicago IX]], though, making it impossible for most people to get to. |
| 549 | * ShapeshifterBaggage: Averted. Puttin' on the Ritz has to physically inject yarn from its body into objects in order to make them bigger. |
| 550 | * {{Sizeshifter}}: This is mostly what Puttin' on the Ritz does, combined with TheTransmogrifier. Noteworthy is that it can only affect inanimate objects, not other people. It's how Firework makes his fortune, too; One Size Fits All sells only small, bland clothing, which Puttin' on the Ritz can turn into custom pieces tailored to fit their buyers. |
| 551 | * SweetTooth: As evidenced by the candy wrappers laying around his desk. |
| 552 | * UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:Chapter 32 starts with him talking to Boney, seemingly unaware of just [[TheHeavy who]] [[FeelNoPain he's]] [[ResurrectiveImmortality talking]] [[AxCrazy to]]. Michelle even notes that Boney has a Masquerader mask in his pocket during this scene. It's unknown if Boney killed or masked Firework, [[EvilAllAlong or if Firework was actually working for Boney all along]], since Michelle runs off before she can see anything happen between them]]. |
| 553 | * UnderdressedForTheOccasion: His schlubby, torn clothes don't give Michelle the impression that he cares about fashion. |
| 554 | [[/folder]] |
| 555 | [[folder:Midler]] |
| 556 | !!Rose Midler (Stand: [[ExtraOreDinary High Priestess]]) |
| 557 | [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders A former assassin who once worked for Dio]], now a SEES member at Chicago IX and mentor to Cascada. While she's mostly moved on with her life, she still seems to cling to her past in Egypt. |
| 558 | \ |
| 559 | \ |
| 560 | Her Stand, [[TarotMotifs High Priestess]], can turn into any object made out of metals or otherwise inorganic materials. |
| 561 | ---- |
| 562 | * BadassTeacher: She's Cascada's SEES mentor, and she can kick all kinds of ass (even being on "hitman duty" in her youth). |
| 563 | * BerserkButton: She doesn't take kindly to having her dentures removed. |
| 564 | * EveryoneHasStandards: She shows no hesitation trying to skewer Michelle with High Priestess, but does genuinely feel for the girl when she mentions Boney stalking her and even calls security to find him and throw him out of Chicago IX. |
| 565 | * ExtraOreDinary: High Priestess' ability, though it's only transformed into a HarpoonGun and a set of wires in the fic so far. [[spoiler:This ends up biting Midler, because it allows Michelle to use a Random Access Memory to [[SupernaturalSealing absorb]] High Priestess mid-attack]]. |
| 566 | * FalseTeethTomfoolery: Midler's teeth have been replaced by bucktoothed dentures after [[TheToothHurts her fate]] in [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders part 3]], which Michelle accidentally knocks right out of her mouth in Chapter 33. |
| 567 | * HarpoonGun: She turns High Priestess into one of these and threatens Michelle with it. |
| 568 | * LargeHam: Her default, though she drops the act if the situation calls for it. |
| 569 | * LastNameBasis: As clarified in [[https://iron-touch.tumblr.com/post/741629939639582720/authors-notes-chapter-35-i-know-that-you-knew the author's notes for Chapter 35]], her first name is ''Rose,'' not Midler. Doubles as a MythologyGag, since Midler's [[DubNameChange localization name]] in the English dub of ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'' was Rose (after the Music/BetteMidler song The Rose). |
| 570 | * LittleBlackDress: The one she wears, sleeveless with a slit running up the thigh, is very similar to [[Film/BreakfastAtTiffanys the]] TropeCodifier. |
| 571 | * SilverFox: Aside from her buck teeth, she's described as being particularly attractive, walking with a "certain sway in her hips that beguiled her true age." |
| 572 | * StageMom: Her interactions with Cascada give off this vibe, with Cascada openly expressing a desire for more out of SEES than dancing while Midler insists that she stay onstage. Midler applying makeup to Cascada that she clearly doesn't want to wear adds to this. |
| 573 | * TheSvengali: Downplayed. As her mentor, Midler loves soaking in Cascada's praise, but she genuinely believes (and to a certain extent, is) she's looking out for her student's best interests. |
| 574 | * TriggerHappy: She's quick to turn High Priestess into a HarpoonGun when she finds Michelle in the backstage dressing room, and later after she knocks out her fake teeth. |
| 575 | [[/folder]] |
| 576 | [[folder:Cascada]] |
| 577 | !!Cascada (Stand: [[FloatingWater Moon River]]) |
| 578 | A performer at Chicago IX and apprentice at SEES. |
| 579 | \ |
| 580 | \ |
| 581 | Her Stand, [[Creator/AudreyHepburn Moon River]], generates [[FloatingWater floating streams of water]] [[TimeRewindMechanic that follow Cascada's past movements]]. |
| 582 | ---- |
| 583 | * BloodKnight: Deconstructed. Cascada is often eager to fight whenever the opportunity arises not because she revels in violence, but because she's desperate to escape her job as a provocative dancer that's "at the bottom of the Stand user food chain" and wants to prove herself as a strong, capable Stand user. However, her mentor Midler forbids her from engaging in Stand battles, [[ForbiddenFruit which only makes Cascada want to participate in them even more]]. |
| 584 | * ButchLesbian: Downplayed. She has short hair, a tomboyish attitude, and hates makeup, but [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak still enjoys dancing]] and is described as having a very feminine body. She also instinctively trusts and consoles Michelle, rather than shooting first and asking questions later like Midler. |
| 585 | * ChallengeSeeker: First she seeks to challenge herself by using her Stand in two places at once (using it to perform onstage and to [[spoiler:steal Michelle's bracelet]]), then directly challenges Michelle to a one-on-one Stand battle. |
| 586 | * DanceBattler: In Chapter 34, the prose often highlights how Cascada's graceful movements as she beats the everloving shit out of Michelle. Justified because she's trained as a dancer, not a fighter or assassin. |
| 587 | * FemmeFatalons: Moon River has these. |
| 588 | * FloatingWater: Moon River can create large streams of water that float in the air. |
| 589 | * HatesTheJobLovesTheLimelight: Inverted. She loves dancing to the point of it being second nature to her, [[DanceBattler even when fighting]], but she ''hates'' having to constantly perform for a bunch of [[DirtyOldMan Dirty Old Men]]. |
| 590 | * LeotardOfPower: Part of her dancing uniform. |
| 591 | * KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: ''Narrowly'' averted. Cascada only fought Michelle because she wanted the attention that a big, public Stand battle (and her presumed victory) would give her. Fittingly, the fight ends after she's nearly crushed by a giant stage light.]] |
| 592 | * MakingASplash: Moon River is a water based Stand. |
| 593 | * OurMermaidsAreDifferent: Moon River is specifically described as having the body of a mermaid. Fitting for a Stand that can control [[MakingASplash water]]. |
| 594 | * SensitiveArtist: She's a dancer and can tell right away that Michelle is on the verge of a mental breakdown. |
| 595 | * SultryBellyDancer: The harem pants of her outfit specifically seem to invoke this. |
| 596 | * TimeRewindMechanic: When not directly controlled by Cascada, Moon River's water will follow her past movements with seemingly limitless range. As Michelle learns in Chapter 33, this water can be used to envelop objects as well. |
| 597 | * {{Tomboy}}: Midler notes that this is part of her appeal as a dancer. |
| 598 | ** TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Though she has a very masculine personality, she still does seem to genuinely enjoy dancing. Also noteworthy is that despite her distaste for makeup, she never objects to the sparkly leotard she has to wear onstage. |
| 599 | * WalkingSwimsuitScene: [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/836738725366071307/1092906481776599229/SPOILER_image.png Official artwork]] from the author makes the leotard of her dance uniform look like a stylized bathing suit. |
| 600 | * WaterIsWomanly: Subverted. Moon River certainly fits the bill, but Cascada herself is less feminine and more tomboyish. |
| 601 | [[/folder]] |
| 602 | [[folder:Mr. Williams]] |
| 603 | !!Mr. Williams (Stand: [[FlayingAlive Screaming Jay]]) |
| 604 | The owner of Chicago IX, though with his stutter and generally anxious disposition, he really doesn't act the part. |
| 605 | \ |
| 606 | \ |
| 607 | His Stand, [[Music/ScreaminJayHawkins Screaming Jay]], lets him remove his skin to remotely control his bones and inner organs. |
| 608 | ---- |
| 609 | * SeventiesHair: Sort of. His hairstyle is split down the middle, with half being a big, poofy afro and the other a neat buzz cut. |
| 610 | * AnimalMotifs: His Stand's head is shaped like an alligator. |
| 611 | * FlayingAlive: In a horrifying twist of this trope, Screaming Jay can safely open up and remove Mr. Williams' own skin, letting him use his inner organs like detachable limbs. |
| 612 | * HelpingHands: Through Screaming Jay, Mr. Williams detaches his hand from his body to go and fetch his golf ball for him. |
| 613 | * HonestCorporateExecutive: Played with. If anything, he's more misguided than honest or [[CorruptCorporateExecutive corrupt]]. While he does run a resort connected to a long-running assassin agency, his several rants make it clear that he has both his employees and the members of SEES' best interests at heart. The most malicious thing he does is try to attract [[spoiler:vampires]] to Chicago IX, but even then [[spoiler:he's only doing that to try and keep his cat alive]]. |
| 614 | * IntrovertedCatPerson: Though he's more anxious than introverted. |
| 615 | * LivingOnBorrowedTime: [[spoiler:This is his goal for Lucky. Since Chicago IX is now highly dependent on her Stand, he ''desperately'' seeks a way to prolong her life not just to save his beloved pet cat, but so Random Access Memories doesn't vanish with her when she dies]]. |
| 616 | * MundaneMadeAwesome: Pretty much his specialty. He's not content to simply ''hit'' a golf ball with his club, he has to flip the club in the air first and then strike the ball on the way down. After the ball doesn't land where he wants it to, he opens up his skin and has his detached skeletal hand go and get the ball for him. Hell, he's the one responsible for integrating Random Access Memories into the resort in the first place, meaning that deluxe parking via warping cars into {{Cyberspace}} can also be credited to him. |
| 617 | * NervousWreck: He's constantly worried that the board of directors at SEES will send someone out to kill him so they can assume total control of Chicago IX from within. It's unclear exactly how well-founded those fears are. Hol Horse notes that he wouldn't have gotten the job if he was just ''that'' paranoid, so his fears are probably at least decently justified. |
| 618 | * PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Mr. Williams effectively reframes the events of [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders part 3]] by [[spoiler:making Dio out to be the good guy, thus making Hol Horse (and presumably [[Characters/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusadersTheJoestarGroup the crusaders]]) horrible villains for trying to kill him]]. |
| 619 | * SpeechImpediment: H-h-he speaks with a noticeable s-s-stutter. |
| 620 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:He keeps Dio's legacy alive and spins the narrative to make him seem like a saint just so he can save his cat and help keep his resort management afloat]]. |
| 621 | [[/folder]] |
| 622 | [[folder:Lucky '''(ALL SPOILERS UNMARKED)''']] |
| 623 | !!Lucky (Stand: [[{{Cyberspace}} Random Access Memories]]) |
| 624 | Mr. Williams' pet cat. She's also a Stand user. |
| 625 | \ |
| 626 | \ |
| 627 | Her Stand, Music/RandomAccessMemories, can scan any inorganic object into a digital PocketDimension that can be accessed when the Stand is plugged into a computer. |
| 628 | ---- |
| 629 | * AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: Notably averted, unlike many other cases of animal Stand users in the series. |
| 630 | * CatsAreMagic: She has one of the most useful non-combat Stands in the whole series. |
| 631 | * CatsAreMean: Averted. Lucky's very friendly, even with people she's only just met (like Hol Horse). |
| 632 | * {{Cyberspace}}: Random Access Memories can scan any inorganic object into a digital PocketDimension that can be accessed when the Stand is plugged into a computer. |
| 633 | * HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Even though Random Access Memories has no combat potential on its own, it is still an ''incredibly''' versatile Stand. It effectively doubles as SupernaturalSealing and {{Hammerspace}} when used properly, letting it seal and summon anything it wants as long as it's plugged into a computer. |
| 634 | * MatrixRainingCode: Random Access Memories turns objects into this after it scans them. |
| 635 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: |
| 636 | ** Lucky herself is an otherwise ordinary cat that happens to be a Stand user, not even possessing the heightened intelligence or narrative importance of other animal Stand users like [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Iggy]] or [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Stray Cat]]. However, she is indirectly responsible for Hol Horse not being able to find another partner after leaving the group, since she is what prompts Mr. Williams to encourage people to keep talking about Dio at the resort, thus spreading the story of how Hol Horse tried to shoot him. |
| 637 | ** Random Access Memories itself also falls under this trope, because without it Michelle would've been skewered by Midler's harpoon gun before running into Cascada. |
| 638 | * RightHandCat: Subverted in that Mr. Williams isn't really ''evil'' per se, just misguided. |
| 639 | * StealthPun: Lucky, a cat, has a Stand that takes the form of computer [[AnimalJingoism mice]]. |
| 640 | * {{Synchronization}}: Averted, like with most colony Stands. Sara finds a Random Access Memory with a broken tail, but Lucky's tail is completely fine. |
| 641 | [[/folder]] |
| 642 | !Minor Antagonists |
| 643 | [[folder:Adam]] |
| 644 | !!Adam (Stand: [[ClosedCircle Heart-Shaped Box]]) |
| 645 | A car thief that Cab runs into in Paris. |
| 646 | \ |
| 647 | \ |
| 648 | His Stand, [[Music/{{Nirvana}} Heart-Shaped Box]], acts like a portal that traps anyone and anything that becomes fully submerged inside until the user disables it. Should someone attempt to cross over Heart-Shaped Box's border, they will be warped to the other side of the Stand's interior. |
| 649 | ---- |
| 650 | * BulliedIntoDepression: Seems to be what's happening with him at school, which inspires him to pick up carjacking. |
| 651 | * CoolGate: Heart-Shaped Box is effectively a mini-teleporter...except that it can only teleport things inside itself once they cross over its boundaries. |
| 652 | * ClosedCircle: Once you're fully stuck inside Heart-Shaped Box, you can ''not'' get out of it until Adam decides to deactivate it. |
| 653 | * DrivenToSuicide: 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. |
| 654 | * FillerVillain: He doesn't have anything to do with the main plot and only exists to give Cab and Quiet Riot an introductory battle. |
| 655 | * FrenchJerk: Not only does he try to steal a car, but he goads Cab into fighting him after he's caught. [[LetsGetDangerous After he can muster up the courage to do so, anyway.]] |
| 656 | * GenderedInsult: He mentions that his father calls him a ''[[GratuitousFrench poule mouillée]]'', which roughly translates to "sissy." |
| 657 | * GratuitousFrench: Even more so than Michelle, implying he's not as fluent in English as she is. |
| 658 | * HarmlessVillain: Compared to the [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Masqueraders]], he's nothing more than a minor annoyance and is out of the story after half a chapter. Even compared to other antagonists not aligned with the Masqueraders like Depeche Mode, he doesn't put up much of a fight and his Stand is non-lethal. Justified, as he's more or less just a normal kid. |
| 659 | * LetsGetDangerous: A telltale sign that he's ready to man up is when he lifts his hair from over his eyes. |
| 660 | * TheRunaway: He attempts this, but Cab [[DefeatEqualsFriendship talks]] him out of it. |
| 661 | [[/folder]] |
| 662 | [[folder:Depeche Mode]] |
| 663 | !!Depeche Mode (Stand ([[PowerParasite sort of]]): [[PhantomZonePicture Policy o]][[LivingLieDetector f Truth]]) |
| 664 | [[TheDon A mob boss from Mons]] and Hol Horse's current employer. He also owns a seedy art gallery called Rest Aria. |
| 665 | \ |
| 666 | \ |
| 667 | [[{{Muggle}} While he is not a Stand user,]] he has ownership of the Stand [[Music/DepecheMode Policy of Truth]], a painting that absorbs anyone that tells a lie within its range. |
| 668 | ---- |
| 669 | * AssholeVictim: It's easy to feel sorry for him when [[spoiler:Fergie shows up to his mansion and slaughters him and his entire staff]] despite him being a merciless mob boss with no regard for anyone but himself. |
| 670 | * BadBoss: Shows no remorse when one of his employees gets absorbed by Policy of Truth for something as trivial as mixing up his coffee order. |
| 671 | * BerserkButton: He does ''not'' take kindly to being lied to. |
| 672 | * BigFancyHouse: The opening of Chapter 17 goes into great detail about how luxurious his mansion is. It's so big that he needs live in maids just to maintain it. |
| 673 | * BriefsBoasting: He thinks very highly of himself and dons a skin tight speedo in Chapter 17. Can double as {{Squick}} depending on who you ask, especially considering that [[spoiler: this is what he dies wearing]]. |
| 674 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint: In Chapter 17, Lovestrong says that he regrets helping out Hol Horse, given that he had an affair with his sister and continued to send her postcards years after walking out on her. Depeche tells him not to take it personally,[[CrossesTheLineTwice because he's done that with everyone's sisters.]] |
| 675 | * ContrastingSequelAntagonist: WordOfGod is that he's meant to be an "anti-Giorno" of sorts. |
| 676 | ** While Giorno presents himself as calm, cool-headed and charismatic, he’s also dangerous and has one of the strongest Stands in the entire series. Depeche tries to be intimidating and has a furious temper, but at the end of the day is mostly harmless on his own and not even a Stand user. |
| 677 | ** Giorno is a natural born Stand user and was chosen by the arrow itself as its destined wielder at the end of [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind part 5]]. On the other hand, Depeche is not a Stand user at all and had to trick someone else into “giving” him their Stand. Hol Horse even muses that Depeche would probably die if he actually was shot with the arrow. |
| 678 | ** Part of Giorno's motivation in [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind part 5]] was to crack down Italian mobsters selling drugs to children. The first thing we see Depeche do in the fic is snort a line of coke, which he later refers to as one of his "lucrative exports." |
| 679 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:See LiterallyShatteredLives below]]. |
| 680 | * DisconnectedByDeath: [[spoiler:He's in the middle of a phone call with Lovestrong when [[DarkActionGirl Fergie]] shows up.]] |
| 681 | * TheDon: He runs some kind of criminal syndicate. |
| 682 | * DrinkBasedCharacterization: Happens twice; first with his coffee where he demands extra cream, then when he's seen drinking a cosmopolitan in Chapter 17. Both are sweet and traditionally feminine drinks, symbolizing that underneath his bravado, he's not as intimidating as he tries to be. |
| 683 | * {{Ephebophile}}: He either runs or has connections with a brothel that accepts girls as young as sixteen. |
| 684 | * FatBastard: He's fairly pudgy and is a {{Jerkass}} mob boss with a HairTriggerTemper. |
| 685 | * FriendInTheBlackMarket: The first of Hol Horse's to be introduced. |
| 686 | * GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply: He's introduced snorting a line of his "lucrative exports." |
| 687 | * HairTriggerTemper: He gets violent if you hit his BerserkButton, to the point where he starts throwing books at Michelle when he suspects he's lying to her. |
| 688 | * LiterallyShatteredLives: [[spoiler:Downplayed. Fergie only turns his neck, chin, and leg to glass, but these parts of his body all end up shattering as soon as Fergie drops him. He's [[OffWithHisHead decapitated]] as soon as his glass neck hits the floor]]. |
| 689 | * {{Muggle}}: He's not a Stand user, but still manages to provide Michelle and InterestingSituationDuel nonetheless. |
| 690 | * MuggleWithADegreeInMagic: He knows about Stands, and wants to be a Stand user ''badly.'' [[spoiler:This ends up getting him killed]]. |
| 691 | * OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Fergie turns his neck and most of his chin into glass then drops him to the floor, causing the glass parts of his body to shatter and send his head rolling into the pool]]. |
| 692 | * OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Overlaps with NoodleIncident. Seriously, how did he manage to get Policy of Truth's original user to trap himself inside the painting? |
| 693 | * OvercomplicatedMenuOrder: He'll only drink a large nonfat mocha caffe latte with extra cream and whey powder for his morning coffee. Mess it up, and, [[PhantomZonePicture well...]] |
| 694 | * PowerParasite: It bears repeating that Depeche is ''not'' a Stand user, and Policy of Truth is ''not'' his Stand. He [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome somehow tricked its original user, Kaleid, into activating it on himself,]] which left Depeche free to take the Stand for his own. |
| 695 | * SecretRoom: His office in Rest Aria is hidden behind a tapestry that's not for sale. |
| 696 | * WhiteCollarCrime: Despite involving himself with [[spoiler:political assassinations]], he seems to mostly make his fortune through money laundering and drug dealing instead of anything outwardly violent. |
| 697 | [[/folder]] |
| 698 | [[folder:Yuya Fungami]] |
| 699 | !!Yuya Fungami (Stand: [[TheyHaveTheScent Highway]] [[LifeDrain Star]]) |
| 700 | [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable A Japanese biker and upcoming model]] that Sara meets in New York. While the two of them start out on good terms, their relationship quickly becomes antagonistic after he invades her privacy. |
| 701 | \ |
| 702 | \ |
| 703 | His Stand, [[Music/DeepPurple Highway Star]], can split itself into a horde of footprints that [[LifeDrain suck nutrients from the bodies of its victims]]. |
| 704 | ---- |
| 705 | * AdaptationalJobChange: In [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable part 4]], Yuya was nothing more but a simple biker. Here, he's a male model ([[UnreliableNarrator or so he says]]). |
| 706 | * AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: He states that he and Akira used to be neighbors and were apparently close enough for Akira to give Yuya free backstage tickets to his concert, even though they never interacted at all in [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable canon]]. |
| 707 | * AmateurSleuth: Part of the reason that he's in New York in the first place is because [[spoiler:Josuke has gone missing, and Yuya thought that checking on Joseph would be a good place to start looking]]. He doesn't get far in his investigation before Sara shows up and throws him off course. |
| 708 | * AntiVillain: [[spoiler:He only antagonizes Sara because she punched him and stole his motorcycle. Other than that, he's just a fellow Stand user touring the United States]]. |
| 709 | * ChickMagnet: He's still got those same three fangirls from [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable part 4]] following him around. Sara even contrasts this with how [[HandsomeLech Hol Horse]] is treated by all his "girlfriends." Even Sara herself seems to briefly fall for him. |
| 710 | * CoolBike: A Kawasaki ZZR 250 with custom decals. It proves to be so enticing that [[spoiler:Sara ends up stealing it from him]]. |
| 711 | * DirtyMindReading: He can apparently tell whether or not someone has masturbated just from the smell of their fingers, even after they've washed their hands. |
| 712 | * DisproportionateRetribution: He uses Highway Star's potentially fatal LifeDrain ability on [[spoiler:Sara, just because she stole his motorcycle. Somewhat justified as he does have the ability to return those stolen nutrients and might have done so if Hol Horse just gave him his bike back, but Sara shoots him in the shoulder before this can happen]]. |
| 713 | * LifeDrain: Highway Star's most dangerous ability, which ends up getting used on [[spoiler:Sara]]. |
| 714 | * {{Narcissist}}: When Sara starts taking pictures of his bike, he inserts himself into the photoshoot and says she should be taking pictures of ''him'' instead. |
| 715 | * TheNoseKnows: Perhaps his signature ability. Here, he's able to smell two children eating donuts in an elevator that he himself isn't on, a rotten banana in Sara's very packed bag, and the fact that Sara masturbated earlier. He even mentions that he prefers keeping his motorcycle helmet on in order to prevent the powerful smells of New York City from overwhelming him. [[spoiler:Highway Star also has the scent of his motorcycle memorized, which comes in handy after Sara steals it from him]]. |
| 716 | * TheyHaveTheScent: Yuya has the scent to his motorcycle memorized, and is able to get ahold of Sara's after she [[spoiler:enters Highway Star's illusion room]]. |
| 717 | * UnreliableNarrator: Is he really a professional model like he says, or is he just lying to hype himself up? Even [[ThePollyanna Sara]] questions the validity of his claims at one point. |
| 718 | * VillainHasAPoint: [[spoiler:You could argue that he's perfectly justified for attacking Sara, considering that she did steal his property]]. |
| 719 | [[/folder]] |
| 720 | !Other Characters |
| 721 | [[folder:Tangerine]] |
| 722 | !!Tangerine [[spoiler:Zeppeli]] |
| 723 | Rumor's Hamon instructor. He's not a Stand user, but he is responsible for turning Rumor into a VampireHunter. |
| 724 | ---- |
| 725 | * BraidsOfAction: Kept his hair tied back in a long, loose braid in his younger years. |
| 726 | * CynicalMentor: To Rumor. |
| 727 | * DefrostingIceKing: Age must have softened him up. He starts being extremely cold towards Rumor and routinely hits him as punishment for failure, but over the course of ten years, his punishments devolve from this into mere stern lectures. The brief dialogue the two of them have before Rumor sets off on his own is more reminiscent of a parent sad to see their child going off to college than anything else. |
| 728 | * FanCreatedOffspring: [[spoiler:He's [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Caesar's]] nephew.]] |
| 729 | * MeaningfulName: Tangerine is named after [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ty0BHsm8rc Tangerine]] by Music/LedZeppelin, [[spoiler:and he's a Zeppeli]]. |
| 730 | * OlderThanTheyLook: At first. When he's introduced, he looks like a young man despite being well into his fifties, but his age catches up to him over the course of ten years. |
| 731 | * SinkOrSwimMentor: Taking cues from Lisa Lisa before him, he tosses Rumor into the Hell Climb Pillar when he's only ''ten years old'' and sunbathes while he waits for him to reach the top. |
| 732 | * SternTeacher: He starts out too physically abusive to be one, but molds into this with time. |
| 733 | [[/folder]] |
| 734 | [[folder:Lovestrong]] |
| 735 | !!Lovestrong |
| 736 | One of Depeche's goons with a talent for making phony passports. |
| 737 | ---- |
| 738 | * ALighterShadeOfGrey: He's a criminal forger who's buddy buddy with [[TheDon Depeche Mode]], but uses his skills to help refugees immigrate to other countries and genuinely cares for his family, [[KnightTemplarBigBrother even if he tends to go a bit overboard]]. Hol Horse even lampshades this in Chapter 14. |
| 739 | * AndThisIsFor: Delivers this to Hol Horse for sleeping with his sister ''and'' sending her postcards after leaving her. |
| 740 | * FantasticRacism: [[spoiler:He calls Stand users "freak shows" (to Hol Horse's face no less) and claims that the world would be a better place without them.]] |
| 741 | * FriendOfMaskedSelf: He's very protective of his identity and introduces himself to Michelle as Lovestrong's ''assisstant'' in Chapter 16. Even when on the phone with Depeche, [[EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether a close friend of his]], he tells him to not call him Lovestrong. |
| 742 | * KnightTemplarBigBrother: He doesn't take well to others hurting his sister. |
| 743 | * MasterForger: His specialty is producing counterfeit passports. |
| 744 | * MasterOfDisguise: He meets Michelle and Hol Horse in Chapter 16 while disguised as a statue. In Chapter 24, he's wearing a [[ItMakesSenseInContext horse costume]]. |
| 745 | * {{Muggle}}: Just like Depeche Mode, Lovestrong isn't a Stand user. [[spoiler:Unlike Depeche, though, he's [[FantasticRacism outwardly disgusted by Stands and wants nothing to do with them]].]] |
| 746 | [[/folder]] |
| 747 | [[folder:Ben]] |
| 748 | !!Ben Luff |
| 749 | A timid little boy living in Illinois. |
| 750 | ---- |
| 751 | * BreakTheCutie: And ''how.'' Within the span of about five minutes, he goes from an innocent child to [[spoiler:ready to kill Boney for breaking into his house and doing ''something'' to his mother]]. |
| 752 | * ChildrenAreInnocent: He calls his parents Mommy and Daddy and originally gets out of bed so that the former can tuck him back in after a nightmare. [[spoiler:Too bad he runs into Boney instead]]. |
| 753 | * MeaningfulName: Ben means "son" or "boy," highlighting his youth and small role in the story. |
| 754 | * RedShirt: [[spoiler:It's pretty obvious this kid isn't going to last very long from the second he finds Boney in his house]]. |
| 755 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Killed by Boney in his introductory chapter]]. |
| 756 | [[/folder]] |
| 757 | |
| 758 | [[folder:Vice President of the Supernatural Research Department '''(ALL SPOILERS UNMARKED)''']] |
| 759 | !!Vice President of the Supernatural Research Department (Real name unknown) (Stand: [[LaserGuidedAmnesia The Pierces]]) |
| 760 | [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The vice president for the Speedwagon Foundation's Supernatural Research Department]]. Though initially loyal to the Speedwagon Foundation, she decides to quit after an incident concerning a rogue vampire that the Supernatural Research Department was tasked with detaining. She only appears in [[https://iron-touch.tumblr.com/post/746583610506739712/cassette-tape-detected-beginning-data pierces.exe_11012006]], an April Fools [[AudioPlay audio chapter]]. |
| 761 | \ |
| 762 | \ |
| 763 | Her Stand, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pierces The Pierces]], can attach itself to any piece of information, then erase that piece of information from someone's memory by eating part of their brain. |
| 764 | ---- |
| 765 | * AllThereInTheManual: Her Stand's properties are further elaborated on in [[https://discord.gg/bdyj7qGPBP the official Discord server]]. |
| 766 | * {{Irony}}: Her Stand is based around keeping secrets; she herself was forced to keep the incident with the Grotta Azzurra vampire a secret by sending a fake memo to her coworkers. |
| 767 | * LaserGuidedAmnesia: The Pierces' specialty, done by eating part of the victim's brain. |
| 768 | * LooseCanon: Since she only appears in pierces.exe_11012006 (an April Fools post) and nowhere in the fic proper, it's unclear whether or not she and the events of pierces.exe_11012006 are canon. If the tape ''is'' canon, then it would explain the Speedwagon Foundation's limited presence in the story and why Giorno refuses to go to them for help. |
| 769 | * NoNameGiven: Her name is never revealed. |
| 770 | * ResignInProtest: What she ends up doing after the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive CEO of the Speedwagon Foundation]] announces cutbacks to the Supernatural Research Department and lies about the deaths of his employees in order to prevent himself from getting sued. |
| 771 | * TongueTied: The intended effect of The Pierces. Whenever someone perceives a piece of information the Stand is attached to, The Pierces enters their brain and lets its user remotely monitor them. Since The Pierces can also erase the victim's memory of that piece of information, the Stand essentially prevents anyone under its influence from sharing that piece of information with others. |
| 772 | * UncertainDoom: At the end of pierces.exe_11012006, she reveals that she's going to try and hunt down the Grotta Azzurra vampire herself without support from the Speedwagon Foundation, acknowledging that there's a very good chance that the vampire will kill her. It's never revealed whether or not she managed to defeat the vampire, died fighting it, or [[TheyKnowTooMuch was taken out by the Speedwagon Foundation instead]]. |
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