As Dio Brando plots to kill Jonathan Joestar with the stone masks, he decides to test it first. And who better than Erina Pendleton when he discovers she return from India with her father. However, the mask doesn’t kill her but instead turns her into a bloodthirsty and powerful vampire, with Dio barely escaping by the skin of his teeth and a new avenue for dominance…
Meanwhile, Erina was able to escape her predatory instincts, working to figure out her transformation. Just in time, as she runs into her childhood love, Jonathan, while he recovers at her father’s hospital after his first brawl with Dio. Reunited at her side, Erina vows to use her powers to help Jonathan against his accursed brother, yet to see the ripples her actions will bring to her family and their allies.
A Twisted Destiny: Legacies of Blood, Sun, and Stands
, is a JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Series Fic by TheAmazingSlothGirl12. There are currently three parts, with Stardust Crusaders as the latest entry.
Additional material exists in the Extra collection
, containing side stories, fan art, and archives of the story’s family lineage, species, and Stands.
Note: Any spoilers from previous parts will be left unmarked in each folder.
Not to be confused with Twisted Destiny, another JoJo's Bizarre Adventure of a similar name.
- Adaptational Badass:
- A few characters from Phantom Blood and Battle Tendency start out as or become Stand Users in their stories, including Tonpetty, Bruford,Speedwagon, and Joseph.
- George II was described as a Muggle Born of Mages, but in the fic, he was a Hamon User which lets him survive his canon death. Later on, he is reanimated by a vampire after he’s killed by the vampire Rohan, then has his Stand Thunderstruck activated by Anubis.
- Adaptational Heroism: Anubis is retrieved by Victor Harker between the events of Part 1 and 2. While starting as the same bloodthirsty Stand even in Victor’s possession, in A Blood Charged Destiny he becomes a loyal Empathic Weapon to the Harker-Zeppeli line after Victor's death, even though he still has his bloodthirsty streak.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: Stands overall appear during the events of Phantom Blood and Battle Tendency, whether by canon stands such as Joseph’s Hermit Purple and Anubis, original characters like Victor and Juliet Harker, or existing characters such as Tonpetty, Bruford, and Speedwagon.
- Boring, but Practical: Zombies like Thomas and Lydon may lack many of the supernatural abilities of their vampire creators, but they are still more resilient than normal humans and can lose a limb with little trouble. Additionally, they can still walk under the sun and are effectively immortal as long as they recieve blood from their sire.
- Council of Vampires: Part 2 reveals that there is an organization of long-lived vampires who maintain order among their ranks to prevent their discovery or humans (their food stock) dying out. The most prominent members are their Aloof Ally Lilith and Part 3 secondary antagonists Cicero and Britannicus. After he became an Ultimate Life Form, Joseph is given a seat in the Council so he and his family won't be too much of a wild card.
- Dead Guy Junior:
- Alongside George II, like in canon, Jonathan and Erina named their next two sons, William and Thomas, after Baron Zeppeli and the zombie Thomas.
- Caesar and Juliet named their daughter Victoria after her father, Victor Harker.
- Death-Activated Superpower: While the Hamon-using Joestars don’t seem to inherit Erina's vampirism, they can transform into vampires once their death burns out their hamon, allowing them to activate their latent powers without any self-inflicted risk.
- Dies Differently in Adaptation: Due to being more cautious against Dio, Dire survives the battle against the vampire at the lost of a frozen arm. He dies peacefully from old age after the events of A Blood Charged Destiny.
- Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: Despite the Stone Mask's tendency to twist people into monsters, Erina manage to hold on to her compassion and morals after her initial feral outburst, and she uses her powers to protect her family. Her descendants who inherit her vampirism are also of the same good alignment.
- Feuding Families: The Avdol and Farouk families have been rivals for centuries. In A Blood Charged Destiny, they are currently in a war as engineered by Enya Farouk and Dio to keep the Avdol family from aiding the Joestars. In An Intertwined Desinty, Mohammed Avdol runs into and fights members of the Farouk family, such as the twins Zosar and Zuberi.
- Healing Hands: Negative-aligned Hamon-Users train to use their Hamon to heal rather than fight like their Positive-aligned counterparts. Carmarnia, Suzi Q, Holly Kujo, and Estrella Zeppeli are the most prominent Hamon Healers of Part 2 and 3.
- Master of the Levitating Blades: Victor Harker's Stand, Razor's Edge, allows him to control and levitate any blade ranging from knives to swords. While initially limited with his power in A Twisted Destiny, he became much stronger by the events of Part 2, even using his power to prevent Anubis from controlling him.
- Older Than They Look: As in canon, hamon-use and vampirism can slow down aging. In A Blood Changed Destiny, Jonathan and Erina can pass as Joseph’s older siblings rather than his grandparents. And in An Intertwined Destiny, Holly looks too young to be a mother of a teenager while her father Joseph still looks like his teenage self thanks to becoming a Pillar Man
- Original Character:
- The Harker Siblings, Victor and Anna, are introduced in A Twisted Destiny are introduced as Dio’s minions, though Victor joins the heroes after he’s freed from Dio's brainwashing. Like the Joestars and the Zeppelis, his descendants would play big roles in future parts, notably his daughter Juliet “Ophelia” Harker in Part 2 and Juliet's children Victoria and Julius and grandchildren Estrella, Augustus, and Gabriel in Part 3.
- Thanks to Jonathan’s survival at the end of A Twisted Destiny, he and Erina have more children after George II, who, in turn, have children and grandchildren of their own.
- Related in the Adaptation:
- Initially hinted at by Dire’s real name in A Twisted Destiny, A Blood Charged Destiny reveals that Stroheim is Dire’s great-nephew.
- Mariah is a member of the Avdol family, but left due to her father's abuse.
- Parents Suck at Matchmaking: In between Part 2 and 3, Joseph and Caesar tried to set their respective kids, Holly and Julius, together. It didn't work as the two saw each other as Like Brother and Sister, and Holly would marry her canon husband, Sadao Kujo, while Julius marries another woman.
- Practically Different Generations: Jonathan and Erina had 4 kids across the 50 years since A Twisted Destiny. Their second youngest, Elaine, is only 12 years older than Joseph, George II's only son, and in A Blood Charged Destiny Erina is pregnant with their fifth child, Irene.
- Superpowerful Genetics: Hamon and vampirism can be inherited from their parents, with Jonathan and Erina's children either born Hamon-users (George II, William II, and Elaine) or born vampires (Thomas and Irene). A Blood Charged Destiny reveals that the Hamon-using children like George can transform into vampires if they die.
- Xenafication: The main premise is that Erina becomes a vampire thanks to the Stone Mask, allowing her to join Jonathan in the fight against Dio during A Twisted Destiny.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: The hamon masters Tonpetty, Dire, and Straizo appear in Windfall’s Lot to help Erina and her team with the vampire infection at the same time as the Baron and his team fight Broford and Tarkus, rather than after the zombie knights’ defeat
- Adoptive Peer Parent: Following the battle of Windfall’s Lot and Annabelbel Harker’s apparent death, Speedwagon becomes Victor’s guardian as fellow zombie fighters and Stand Users. The mere 12-year age difference doesn’t stop people from thinking they’re biologically related.
- Ascended Extra: The two drunks that Dio tested the Stone Mask on in the manga, named Thomas and Lydon here, are unwittingly killed and reanimated as zombies by a feral Erina. They join the other heroes in the fight against Dio.
- Born Lucky: Dio has a devilish luck that helps him in his schemes. He’s avoided getting killed by recently-turned Erina thanks to Thomas and Lydon wandering by, and as a vampire he manages to find two Stand Users who he coerced to join.
- Cain and Abel: There is the battle between adopted bothers Jonathan and Dio, of course, but also between Victor (the Abel) and Annabel (the Cain) after Victor discovers she is willingly working for Dio.
- Children Are Innocent: When telling the other heroes his history, Victor recalls how he unlocked his Stand to protect his sister from an attack by his uncle. While Victor believed it was at most a physical assault, the adults realized with dread that Victor’s uncle was trying to rape Anna.
- Die or Fly:
- Master Tonpetty reveals he gained his Stand, Vines of Fate, when a vampire he was fighting pushed him off a cliff. The orange vine-like Stand not only let him grab the cliff to survive, but let his younger self hit the unaware vampire from a distance.
- In a case of History Repeats, Speedwagon gets his Stand Can't Touch This when he is nearly killed fighting the zombie Doobie.
- Karmic Jackpot: In the final arc, as Jonathan and Erina work to sink the ship of zombies, Jonathan finds a dying mother and agrees to save her baby daughter, Elizabeth. Elizabeth’s latent hamon allows her to sense and warn Jonathan of other zombies, along wtih leading him to a gun that he uses to stop Anna. This helps prevent his canon death.
- Let's Split Up, Gang!: After discovering that Dio planned to lure them into a trap, Baron Zeppeli has the ensemble group split in two. He, Jonathan, Thomas, and Victor will will go to the battlefield where Dio is awaiting, while Erine, Speedwagon, and Lydon go to Windfall’s Lot to return Poco and destroy the zombies there.
- Secretly Selfish: Though Anna once presented herself as a caring older sister, in truth, she is a Narcissist whose love for her brother and even her loyalty to Dio stemmed from her own interest.
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: Harming Jonathan is a surefire way to earn Erina’s wrath, something that the Baron has to deal with when she mistakes his attempt to activate Jonathan's hamon as a deliberate attempt to harm him.
- We Can Rule Together: Dio offers Erina the chance to rule the world with him as his queen. He even says she can keep Jonathan at her side as a vampire lover, both out of respect for his adoptive brother and to coerce her into a Face–Heel Turn through fear of Jonathan’s mortality.
- Adaptational Intelligence: Rather than a set of thorny vines controlled by Joseph’s will, Hermit Purple is a sentient Stand who independently grabs objects or detects the future to aid his user.
- Chekhov's Gunman: While spying on the Nazis in South America, Thomas runs into a vampire named Lilith, and he manages to talk her out of killing him. It’s later revealed she’s a high-ranking official in a vampire council.
- Chekhov's Hobby: Suzi Q’s favorite pastime is working on puzzles sent by her parents, an activity she shares with Joseph during his training. In the finale, her interests in puzzles drive her to put the Red Stone of Aja back into its Stone Mask after Kars becomes the Ultimate Life Form, allowing Hermit Purple to use it and turn Joseph into an Ultimate Life Form as well.
- Compliment Backfire: After defeating Straizo, Joseph tries to impress the reporter who was held hostage by comparing her beauty to his grandmother, earning a slap to the face. Smokey points out that while they both know Erina is a supernaturally beautiful vampire, anyone not in the know would expect her to be a wrinkly old lady.
- Discard and Draw: When George II is killed by the vampire, he comes back to life as a vampire but loses his hamon.
- Dies Differently in Adaptation:
- Downplayed with Esidi. He dies by the same matter, but now by the hands of Caesar and Ophelia.
- Wammu dies during his duel with Caesar, thanks to Juliet firing a Hamon-laden bullet into his brain as Caesar’s bubbles reflected sunlight against his body, rather than dying in his duel against Joseph.
- Do Not Call Me "Paul": Ophelia goes by her middle name rather than her first name, Juliet, since she finds the comparisons to Romeo and Juliet embarrassing. She permits Caesar to call her Juliet after learning she revealed to him while she was drunk, then starts to use it more openly in honor of her late father.
- Everybody Has Standards: While Caesar is a playboy, he tries to treat women as fairly as possible, outside of brainwashing one date to try and on-up Joseph during their first meeting, something he himself regrets afterwards. He is infuriated learning that Thomas Joestar has carelessly impregnated two of his partners, and develops a fury towards Opheila’s first love, who cheated on her despite vowing to wait till their wedding night that not even the Pillar Men have received.
- Foreshadowing:
- During the moments before Straizo commits his canon Face–Heel Turn, it’s mentioned he’s been dealing with a headache, and in his final moments, he realizes how far he’s fallen before warning Joseph about the Pillar Men. The epilogue reveals that Dio was controlling the man as a test of his Flesh Bud
- When the heroes meet with Stroheim in Switzerland, it’s mentioned that vampires like Erina and Thomas feel tranquility around a Pillar Man like Joseph. It plays a part in the climax when Kars brainwashes George II to fight his father and wife after deducing he was a mole.
- From Bad to Worse: The matter that Joseph is turning into a vampire since his encounter with the Pillar Men is quite alarming to the Joestars and their allies. They are more unsettled when they discovered he’s turning into a Pillar Man thanks to Satanel’s blood reacting to his latent vampire traits.
- Guardian Entity: Hermit Purple, a sentient Stand in the story, has been with Joseph since his childhood and assists him by grabbing useful items or reading his opponent's mind. He’s takes on a more aggressive route as Joseph turns into a Pillar Man, working to keep the combination of hamon and vampirism from killing him.
- In Spite of a Nail:
- Joseph is still a rookie when it comes to his hamon, since he barely paid attention to his grandfather’s lessons.
- While George II is still alive, his wife Elizabeth, along with him, still went into hiding since Elizabeth killed the zombie admiral to protect her husband and they need to investigate the shadow cabal, so Joseph doesn’t grow up with them.
- The chariot battle still occurs even with Waamu’s death, this time with Jonathan and Lisa Lisa against two vampires, one of which is a brainwashed George.
- It's Personal: As in canon, Caesar has a strong, if often overwhelming, vendetta against the Pillar Men for killing his father Mario. It only grows worse after Victor Harker, the father of his Love Interest Ophelia, is killed when Caesar and Ophelia attempted to free him from Esidisi.
- Keeping Secrets Sucks: Elaine Joestars hates having to keep secrets from different members of her family, such as keeping her mother Erina Locked Out of the Loop to avoid stress to her pregnancy, keeping most of her family unaware that her sister-in-law Elizabeth and Elaine's brother George II are still alive, and hiding from her nephew / “little brother” Joseph that he's turning into a Pillar Man.
- Let Us Never Speak of This Again: When Joseph talks Jonathan into dressing like women to infiltrate a Nazi compound and rescue Speedwagon, the old man privately thinks they will omit this section of their tale for their descendants. When the plan fails and Joseph and Jonathan go for the ill-fitting guard uniform instead, they both agree not to tell Erina about the ordeal, though for Joseph it's more that he doesn't want to tell his grandmother about the failed plan.
- Simple Solution Won't Work: After Joseph points out they can destroy the Red Stone of Aja to keep the Pillar Men from using it, Lisa Lisa shuts down the argument, not only because of the prophecy but because the Red Stone has a Stand that will move the stone before any harm can come to it.
- Spared by the Adaptation:
- Caesar tells Mark to leave the awakening Pillar Men to him, Joseph, and Speedwagon while the Nazi warns his superiors, letting the young man avoid his canon death.
- It’s revealed that George II avoided his canon death by the zombie admiral, thanks to his hamon saving him long enough for Elizabeth to make the killing blow
- Thanks to Opheila making the killing shot, Caesar doesn’t die during his fight against Waamu.
- Supreme Chef: Along with her work as a Hamon healer, Suzi Q is also a talented cook for her friends. Her skills are noted in making sure that Joseph's dishes, which has medically required blood substitute for his newly activated vampirism, taste delicious even when the substitute itself tastes like old pennies.
- Take That!: Joseph, Caesar, and Victor don’t take kindly to the fact that they can’t destroy the Red Stone of Aja due to a vague prophecy of how it will destroy the Pillar Men despite the same stone being vital to their plan, a common critique of the prophecy in canon.
- What Is This Feeling?: Having lived centuries as a psychotic killer, Anubis struggles to recognize his grief after Victor’s death.
- Villain Takes an Interest: Unlike canon, Kars takes just as much of an interest in Joseph as Wammu and Esidisi, even putting a third Ring of Death around Joseph’s brain canal, and considers getting hold of Joseph as much of a priority as the Red Stone of Aja. While initially his interests appear to be related to how Joseph is a quarter-vampire who can use Hamon, the real reason is that Joseph is turning into a Pillar Man
- Yin-Yang Bomb: Like in canon, Hamon-use and vampirism (and by extension the Pillar Men), are considered incompatible, with vampires like Thomas II unable to learn hamon or former-Hamon users like Straizo and George II are unable to use or can’t use without killing themselves. This is what makes Joseph an anomaly as he turns into a Pillar Man with all their powers, yet not only can he still use Hamon, but it's gotten stronger thanks to Hermit Purple helping merge the two opposing powers.
- Adaptational Context Change: Josuke still has his encounter with his pompadour-wearing savior during Part 3, but here it happens when the young man, Ryōsuke, goes to the Kujo's house at his mother's request right when Grant is attempting to kidnap young Josuke, and he helps the young Pillar Man regain his strength by lending him some blood.
- Adaptational Heroism: While in the manga, ZZ was a ruthless mercenary working for Dio, his arc in the fic reveals that he used to be a mechanic before Dio brainwashed him with his Flesh Bud.
- Adaptational Origin Connection: Jonathan and Mohammed Avdol are part of the same expedition where Diavolo found the Stand Arrows. Additionally, it’s Diavolo who shoots Jonathan with the Stand Arrow and grants him and his descendants their Stands, rather than DIO (who had Jonathan’s body and injected himself with the arrow in canon).
- Chekhov's Boomerang: The Red Stone of Aja, or rather its sentient Stand Scarlet Quadrant, returns 50 years after A Blood Charged Destiny as Suzi Q's unofficial Stand.
- Death by Adaptation:
- In the first chapter, Diavolo is killed by a shrouded vampire just after he shoots Jonathan with a Stand Arrow, long before he could start Passione.
- Rubber Soul dies after Thomas injects his heated blood into the mercenary, making him explode from the heat.
- Roses is killed by Agent Grant when the butler tries to stop the rogue agents from kidnapping Josuke.
- Dies Differently in the Adaptation:
- Devo the Cursed is killed when Zavia blasts magic through his Stand Ebony Devil rather than the Stand getting sliced to pieces by Polnareff.
- Rather than left to die in the ocean, Deep Blue Moon’s user is killed when Polnareff ricochets Silver Chariot’s blade through his head.
- Forever is decapitated by Caesar with a hamon-charged necktie rather than left to life following his No-Holds-Barred Beatdown from Jotaro.
- Downplayed with Enya the Hag. She still dies thanks to Steely Dan putting a Flesh Bud that erupts and kills her, but right after her inn fight, rather than during the Crusades' first encounter with Dan.
- Foreshadowing: When his team first sees Deep Blue Moon, Joseph comments on how its a Stand rather than a real sea monster, much to Kakyoin’s confusion. After their fight with strength, the group gets help from a sea serpent, whom Joseph recognizes and introduces as his old friend Nanshe and the granddaughter of Councilwoman Illamatecuhtil.
- Four Lines, All Waiting: An Intertwined Destiny has four teams of heroes hunting for Dio to rescue Irene.
- First is Joseph Joestar’s team, consisting of Jotaro, Caesar, Avdol, Kakyoin, Estrella, and Polnareff. Hol Horse, Gabriel Zeppeli, and Iggy would join throughout the story.
- Second is Jonathan’s team, consisting of Erina, George II, Elizabeth, Suzi Q, and Samuel. The young hamon-user Laura secretly tags along with the group.
- Third is Victoria Zeppeli’s team, consisting of her brother Julius, her nephew Augustus, and her grandmother Carmarnia. Victoria has to step down after she's injured during Judgement's attack and the remainder of the team redirects to Japan after learning the Kujo household was attacked.
- Fourth is Thomas and William Joestar team, consisting of Thomas’s children, Amanda and Jamaal, and Elaine’s adopted daughter Anahi. Anahi would stay behind with Lilith to work on getting herself older, and Amanda's husband, Rashida Avdol, joins the team when they reach Egypt.
- Harmful to Minors: Polanreff’s only regret in killing J. Geil to avenge his sister is that Anne saw his brutal execution after aiding the swordsman.
- Honor Before Reason: Estrella isn’t impressed that her grandfather and Joseph’s team let Avdol fight a brainwashed Polnareff on his own, because it is a “man’s fight.”
- I Know What You Fear: In the climax of Death 13's arc, he forces the Crusader into horror-based attractions base on their individual fears.
- Estrella's scenario is the constant fear that the Paparazzi will invade and violate her privacy.
- Jotaro fears that his Sun Pillar biology would make him an outcast and a threat to his loved ones, including killing his girlfriend Estrella.
- Avdol fears drowning under a thick layer of ice, both anthethises to his fire Stand Magician Red.
- Polnareff fears that even after avenging his sister Sherry, it would be meaningless as his hometown had moved on and all but forgotten her.
- Kakyoin's fear is unseen, though given his comment on how he lived through it his entire life, it's implied that his fear is how he was an outcast due to his Stand.
- Hol Horse's fear isn't shown save for some confetti from inside the attraction, though both Jotaro and Estrella comment on how freaky it is.
- Joseph's fear is that he'll become the same heartless vampire god that Kars strove to become, with New York under a cloud of darkness and his wife, Suzi Q, is deathly afraid of him.
- Parents in Distress: Kakyoin joins Joseph’s team to head to Egypt when he learns that his parents are still in Cairo and under Dio’s control
- Properly Paranoid: In chapter 42, Erina recalls Jonathan's story on how Dio was a lady man and how Victor's sister Annabel was madly in love with the vampire, and she fears that Dio would seduce her daughter Irene into loving her, especially with how naive the young woman is even as a vampire in her 50s. A fear not unfounded as previous chapters revealed that Irene has been established in Dio's circle as his wife and they have a son together.
- Put on a Bus:
- Caesar leaves Joseph's group to bring Anne to the Hamon temple. He returns to provide the team with their ride across the Red Sea.
- Victoria leaves the Harker-Zeppeli team after she's critically injured by Judgement's wish.
- Between his crippled legs, having accomplished his mission to avenge Sherry, and advice from Caesar to figure out his next step, Polnareff chooses to leave the Crusaders and focus on his recovery.
- Kakyoin and Avdol have to remain in the hospital when they are maimed by Geb. Estrella is also told to stay behind by her grandfather when she pushes herself to exhaustion and dehydration from healing her teammates.
- Related Differently in the Adaptation:
- Josuke Higashikata is Holly Kujo’s second son, rather than her half-brother through Joseph’s affair.
- While in the manga Giorno is biologically Jonathan’s son due to Dio stealing his body, in the fic he is Jonathan’s grandson through his daughter Irene.
- Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: Affectionate and playful model Estrella is the more extroverted and forward-thinking girl compared to her introverted and stoic best friend Jotaro.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: In spite of working under an actual vampire, Alessi relies on stereotypical vampire weaknesses from movies like holy water, a silver cross, and a wooden stake. None of these would work against a Stone Mask vampire, much less a Sun Pillar like 6-years-old Jotaro.
- Xenafication:
- Holly Kujo, like her mother Suzi in the fic, is a Hamon healer, and has control over her Stand this time. She and her children are also part Pillar Man, capable of using the same Eclipsed Hamon as Joseph, shown especially when she fights off the rogue Speedwagon scientists trying to kidnap her son.
- Anne, the runaway girl, is a Hamon user, unlocking her powers to help Polnareff defeat J. Geil.
- You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: In the prologue, William II planned to die peacefully from old age to join his late wife and son, Colin, only for that to fail when he reawakens as a vampire.
- You Remind Me of X: Estrella has a passing resemblance to Polnareff's sister Sherry, and even when under the control of Dio's fleshbud, he avoids trying to hurt her compared to the rest of Joseph's team.
