Messages from the Stars
is a retelling of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders with several changes through the story.
Tropes:
- Adaptational Job Change:
- Before being hired by DIO, Gray Fly was the former owner of a disgraced insect sanctuary and Glasgow's most feared assassin.
- Rubber Soul was a failed sculptor living in poverty.
- Adaptational Nationality: In this fic, Rubber Soul is Thai, "Captain Tennile" (named Janus Drake here) is American, Gray Fly is Glaswegian, and Hol Horse is Italian-American.
- Adaptational Wealth: Rubber Soul was a failed sculptor before he gained his Stand and was hired by DIO.
- Adaptation Expansion: Several of the Tarot Stand users get backstories prior to being hired by DIO. This includes Rubber Soul as a failed sculptor, Captain Tennille knowing the impostor prior to the events of Part 3, Devo being the Sole Survivor of a family massacre, and Hol Horse being implied to be a Texas-born killer.
- Adaptation Name Change:
- J. Geil's full name is revealed to be Jasper "J" Geil here.
- Enya Geil is a man named Eautweau Geil here.
- Arc Number: The first chapter utilizes the number 22. There's 22 tarot cards, Eautweau's marriage lasted 22 years, and 22 people were pricked by the arrow.
- The Cameo: Kazuki Karaiya appears as one of the officers in Tokyo.
- Dark and Troubled Past: As a child, Devo was the Sole Survivor of a massacre inflicted upon his family, with the young Devo barely defending himself against his familiy's killer with a ragged doll.
- Freudian Excuse: Devo's sadistic, hateful personality in canon is explained here: he was the only survivor of a family massacre, which occurred when he was a child. His only means of defense was a ragged doll he carried at the time.
- Gender Flip: In this story, Enya is a man named Eautweau.
- Meaningful Name:
- Janus Drake (the real name of the impostor Captain Tennille) gets his first name from the Roman two-faced god, while Drake comes from a type of dragon (as a reference to Captain Tennille's dub name, Captain Dragon).
- Forever got his name in reference to how he was found drifting at sea in a crate on an unmanned boat.
- Named by the Adaptation: The impostor Captain Tenille's real name is Janus Drake.
- Til Murder Do Us Part: Eautweau killed his own wife with the Bow and Arrow.
- Titled After the Song: The fanfic is titled after the RAH song "Messages from the Stars".
