When Joseph Joestar and Ceasar Zeppeli encounter the Pillarmen underneath the Colosseum in Rome, they find not three waiting for them but four. And the Ripples this causes quickly affects the futures of both Joseph and his descendants forever.
Who Loves the Sun
is a JoJo's Bizarre Adventure fanfiction by Scranity starring a Pillarman self-insert, with a twist. Unlike most SI stories, Who Loves the Sun is told from every point of view but hers (except for a single chapter).
Velvet Underground is determined to fight against Gravity. But in a world dominated by the fate that brings Stand users and Hamon wielders, Vampires and Pillar Men together, can her actions ever really matter?
Who Loves the Sun is now completed, and features characters and events from Parts 2, 3, 4, 7, and 6 of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.
Warning: The marked spoilers below cover major plot elements and twists for the entire story. Looking at them before reading the story is highly discouraged.
Who Loves the Sun contains examples of:
- Adaptation Deviation: The overall plot structure remains the same as in the original, but every scene of the story plays out differently. Swapping opponents and adding original characters help to keep the Stand battles fresh.
- Invoked: Velvet's limited agency in how she can affect the plot is the major theme of her character arc.
- Character Signature Song: Most characters get this linked in their establishing fight scene, especially those with Stands named after said song.
- The last of these is, of course, ''Who Loves the Sun''.
- Cosmic Plaything: Velvet sees herself, and everyone around her, as this. The focus of the story is her attempts to Screw Destiny. It doesn't work...until the end.
- Death by Adaptation: Hoo boy...there are a few.
- Part 2: Stroheim, Speedwagon, Lisa Lisa, and Joseph's arm.
- Part 3: Hundreds of innocents when Velvet has Cairo firebombed.
- Part 7: Steven Steel and Johnny Joestar.
- Decoy Protagonist: Joseph at the beginning, as the story is told mostly from his point of view. He continues as something of a Supporting Protagonist and The Rival to Velvet through the majority of the story.
- Fake Arm Disarm: Joseph's fake arm gets trashed in his final confrontation with Velvet.
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Played with. Velvet is scarily dangerous, and survives where other Jojo villains die, but no matter what she does, she can't change the future in any meaningful way. Her self-insert metaknowledge is always fulfilled, one way or another.
- Non P.O.V. Protagonist: Velvet, except for one chapter.
- Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Velvet's metaknowledge, particularly in the fates of the other Pillar Men. Overlaps with You Can't Fight Fate.
- Spared by the Adaptation: Caesar survives the events of Part 2.
- Villain Protagonist: Velvet.
- Wife Husbandry: Kars raised Velvet with this intent.
- You Can't Fight Fate: A heavy theme of this work is Velvet's inability to effectively oppose the force of narrative fate in Jojo's setting, or Gravity, as she calls it, in spite of her complete metaknowledge concerning the series and its characters. What makes the story interesting is not the results of the altered plotline, but just how those results come about.
