#im not good with this stuff. i haven't touched jojolion since it ended which hasn't helped matters

[cassyapper]

If you had gotten the choice, how would you have ended JoJolion?

hmm interesting question anon. everything's gonna be under a read more cause idk how long this will get and also there will be major jojolion spoilers so

so disclaimer before anything else: i dont pretend to have known how to manage jojolion all that better, just that obviously it could have been So Much Better. as such this is not gonna be like a quality rewrite that addresses everything and ties it all up but like. i guess here's my thoughts

i'd start off by making it 50-70 chapters longer. with how long jojolion chapters were (about 50 pages or so each chapter), i think this gives us enough time to work everything out for certain

the tooru fight would be akin to the vanilla ice fight as in it's integral to the climax, just it's not the final fight. jobin doesn't die btw but unfortunately norisuke does. kyo, instead of dying, helps josuke get to the higashikata house. as they're leaving, karera shows up, having been called by kyo, and kyo tells her to watch over holly. karera promises to do her best in remembrance of joefumi's wish for holly to be healthy. from there he, yasuho, and kyo fend off wonder of u. they just barely manage to knock him off into the garage where kaato is watching over jobin. he taunts her like in canon, thinking he's dead, but kaato just laughs at him and says "you've done everything according to plan. you were always so predictable" and does the space trucking thing with tsurugi so he's healed from the curse. josuke yasuho and kyo are uneasy due the implications of kaato's words (did she know tooru was going to do this? did she know jobin was going to kill norisuke?). instead of kaato getting wounded from the last retaliation of wonder of u, josuke, yasuho, and kyo are standing in the way -- but this is when josuke activates his unnatural phenomenon bubbles and saves them

anyway so yasuho uneasily asks what she meant by "according to plan" and kaato explains getting tooru out from hiding was her plan all along so she could use him to save tsurugi from the curse. and she's like "well i guess it's all over now huh. with norisuke dead and the special rokaroka merging tsurugi with a rock man, someone who can live even with the stone, means that now i am head of the household and that our family is free of the curse." jobin stands up and is like "we did what we had to do" and josuke is like "even killing your family? how is that going to save them?" and jobin is like "you wouldn't understand you don't have a family" and he gestures to all of them (kyo, josuke, and yasuho). the rest of the higashikatas are like "YOU PLANNED ON DAD DYING?" and kaato and jobin are like "it was for you! he was going to continue letting you all die just so he wouldn't have to do anything about the curse, he was going to let the business suffer so he couldn't provide for you at all, he refused to take care of you just like he refused to take care of jobin when he was a boy, of mom when she was in prison"

the higashikatas are conflicted. they dont remember norisuke being so negligent and even cruel...but it's not like kaato and jobin are wrong?

but then josuke steps in like "norisuke trusted daiya, he wanted the best for joshu, he protected hato when tamaki damo broke her heart, he tried to help jobin, he tried to help kaato, but they were the ones who betrayed him first. he gave kyo a home he gave me a home tell me would a man who doesn't care about providing add more mouths to feed?" or something like that idk. basically countering jobin and kaato's statements and how he was helping josuke search for the rokaroka because he loved his family and wanted to stop the curse. if jobin and kaato had just TALKED to him instead of going behind his back then the family would've never been torn apart

but it's like it's not like either side is wrong necessarily. but now the rest of the family needs to choose how they want to remember norisuke quietly literally

matsuba goes with jobin and kaato. the rest line up with josuke. and then the final fights begins

josuke hones in on kaato while the rest of the family mostly gets tsurugi out of harm's way while he's healing and yasuho goes after jobin and kyo goes after matsuba

so basically fun with that. yasuho and kyo eventually spare jobin and matsuba because they don't want matsuba's baby to face the consequence of an abnormal life just because of their parents' sins. jobin and matsuba get thoughtful about this.

josuke is hesitant about killing kaato but she's not stopping lol. yasuho and kyo join the fight and it gets even wilder. but i think the final blow is actually caused by jobin. he wants to end the cycle of violence. he can't keep doing this. so kaato dies in her son's arms. josuke thinks about holly and kyo calls karera to ask how she is. karera reassures her she's fine

anyway the higashikatas grieve while yasuho kyo and josuke basically rebuild and clean the house lol. eventually tsurgui wakes up and everyone focuses their energy on making sure he's okay. tsurugi apologies to josuke and josuke's like im the one who tore ur family apart kid you dont need to apologize to me

the higashikatas counter that they did this to themselves and josuke was just the catalyst for it all. and basically from there the epilogue as it was written goes down except yknow. karera is brought up and kyo and jobin arent dead. also there isn't that random ass scene with josefumi's mom, instead it's josuke and kyo waiting outside the hospital as holly comes out for the first time in years (josuke uses the unnatural phenomenon bubbles to heal her basically)

umm anyway. idk. some things are never gonna get resolved like the wall eyes or the flash forward man or anything like that but that's just jojo for you. i think if it was something closer to this i would've been more satisfied. but yeah. anyway. also no fucking randomass flashback about a guardrail that was so unnecessary. anyway good night i haven't proof read this