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Chapters: 4/4 Fandom: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken | JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Characters: Giorno Giovanna, Dio Brando Additional Tags: Part 6 spoilers, sort of not really but I want to be safe!, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Giorno the friendly fruit seller (with the help of GE), Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, i mean of course it’s canon divergent Giorno was born in 1985, but stands exist and it comes after/during canon events, so it /could/ be canon. bc time travel stands should exist, Mudad Week, Mudad Week 2017

One day Giorno Giovanna finds himself thrown back over 130 years into the past, all the way to 1878 London. Not knowing who sent him or how he got there, he goes to a bar to collect himself when he runs into a drunkard named Dario Brando. Hearing of the poor condition Dario’s son is in, and suddenly realizing why he might have been sent to that particular time and place, Giorno sets out to save the boy from his abusive father. Knowing full well what it was like to grow up under the hand of a man who wasn’t afraid to use it to hit him, Giorno wasn’t going to let the same happen to Dio if he could help it.

Or, a story where 26 year old Giorno goes out of his way to rescue 10 year old Dio from the hell that is Dario Brando.

Okay, so I fired this out today after suddenly coming up with the idea during breakfast. I’ve been writing nonstop (well. with a short lunch break) since 11:00AM, and now it’s almost 5:00PM, so I’m ready to publish. This was inspired by Mudad Week prompt 1, Age Swap, so I want to thank the mods for inspiration, as this was the first thing in a while that I really was excited to write. Thank you for checking this out, and I hope you enjoy! 

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Background images I made for my main and this blog. Bubbles are nice.

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Fics

Just JJBA fics I’ve read and enjoyed, sorted so I can find them again in an easy, organized way. I think there’s an Ao3 way to do it but I’m not sure, and this is easier for me. Also I don’t want to bother anyone with this so under the readmore it goes.

These short descriptions are either direct copies of the summary or little descriptions i’ve given that i’ll recognize. I’ll add on as i go...

JonaDio

https://archiveofourown.org/works/5531492 - dio promises jonathan he’ll take care of baby giorno for the day. unfortunately, things don’t work out too well, especially because of some jerk named hol hor 

http://archiveofourown.org/works/3429233/chapters/7514564 - alternate reality. jonathan and dio are cousins, and grow up in a different sort of situation. academy life is prominent, and dio torments jonathan in a different way

CaeJose

https://archiveofourown.org/works/5726920/chapters/13195099 - joseph proposes to caesar as a joke, but it ends up being something more

Jotaro

https://archiveofourown.org/works/12675489/chapters/28897014 - how jotaro meets star platinum

Giorno

https://archiveofourown.org/works/3759799 - the end, finding diavolo, officer mistah post reset w/ haruno

https://archiveofourown.org/works/3760678 - dio ‘forgot’ gio’s birthday, guardian angel jonathan

https://archiveofourown.org/works/989458  - what giorno's classmate thought about his disappearance post v.a.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/2041110 - gio’s just 15. he can’t always be a perfect leader. thankfully, mista’s there at 3am when things crash

https://archiveofourown.org/works/2569307 - giorno was perfect. at least, the side of himself that he showed to the world was perfect. mista comforts

https://archiveofourown.org/works/3134357 - mista almost dies, but thankfully gio’s there when he’s brought back to headquarters. gio fixes him up, and they tell each other their feelings. 

https://archiveofourown.org/works/3577149 - adorable mudad fic where tiny haruno sings a lullaby for dio that just about murdered me with fluff

https://archiveofourown.org/works/3941416/chapters/8833540 - somehow, king crimson stuck around, and now giorno’s annoyed that he has to asnwer ‘phones’ everywhere

https://archiveofourown.org/works/3847483/chapters/8588785 - giorno dreams of the sea

https://archiveofourown.org/works/4969441 - giorno visits jolyne while she’s in prison, before toying with pucci

https://archiveofourown.org/works/5005135/chapters/11500522 - giorno gets fleshbudded. green eyes, red eyes, is ‘giorno’ really there anymore?

https://archiveofourown.org/works/5633437/chapters/13665646 - gio doesn’t rescue a gangster, he rescues a man burning under the sun. he makes tick marks to remind himself of the time, but they’re not appearing any more

https://archiveofourown.org/works/12076806/chapters/27361683 - After ten years of working as Giorno's bodyguard, Mista realizes that he's falling in love. It might be too late. or, Where Giorno Was During Stone Ocean

https://archiveofourown.org/works/9356960 - giorno is kidnapped. fugo and co come to the rescue, and giorno takes a bath

https://archiveofourown.org/works/9670724 - narancia keeps finding giorno and mista in situations that seema bit... inappropriate. he should really think things through a little more

https://archiveofourown.org/works/10692597 - vamp gio

https://archiveofourown.org/works/12118209 - gio gets knocked in the head and abbacchio is convinced he’s just using them

https://archiveofourown.org/works/12076806/chapters/27361683 - where giorno was during stone ocean

Giorno + Dio (+ Diego)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/8249575/chapters/18903991 - giorno’s shaking at night, and big brother dio comes to comfort him

https://archiveofourown.org/works/11845566 - dio’s passing through italy when he sees a discarded boy

Abbacchio

https://archiveofourown.org/works/7794331/chapters/19569916 - post reset, cop abbacchio meets a fisherman, and is brought into his ever-growing family. something seems familiar about them, but abbacchio can’t quite place it

Diavolo

https://archiveofourown.org/series/99812 - post s.o. reset diavolo, friends with doppio, sickened by gio who’s from original universe

http://archiveofourown.org/works/10313510/chapters/22803845 - 19th century. abbacchio is a painter who moves to a new town for some fresh air, where he meets buccelatti and a pesky group of children who insist on bothering him. ongoing

Jolyne

https://archiveofourown.org/works/5898220 - time powers run in the kujo family, and jolyne goes back to set things right. a letter of warning, putting up a pompadour, reassuring a mother her son will be all right... whatever it is

Anasui + Weather Report

https://archiveofourown.org/series/141252 - anasui and weather post stone ocean. anasui takes things apart, wes still lives in weather’s mind

https://archiveofourown.org/works/11664591 - anasui and weather’s thoughts on marriage, and the reset

Johnny

https://archiveofourown.org/works/12877428 - johnny gets sick. gyro knows soup is the only remedy

other

https://archiveofourown.org/works/4424024/chapters/11565283 - drabbles

https://archiveofourown.org/works/12161484 - things don’t play out quite the same. each joestar gets a blessing and a curse

http://archiveofourown.org/works/12724221/chapters/29017554 - includes diego/hp, jonadio, gyjo

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I really love how this is described as “meeting” Josuke’s allies. As if this is how they were introduced.

Because you know how the scene went, what, with Kira on the street bleeding to death while saying his name, age, and favorite hobbies while Jotaro, Rohan, Okuyasu, and Koichi told him their names, ages, and hobbies.

That’s exactly how it went down, right? Their meeting?

Yeah. I think so.

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I have no partners, so I can't do a Dual Combo or a Dual Heat attack. How am I supposed to get better than a C in Quality??? And if I try for a B in JoJolity, that means I have to lower my time and probably life score since that means I'll have to stall so I can use Jotaro's stop time move! There's just no winning! But I want that S. I get an outfit for Jotaro if I get one.

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Some more good Feather Dio™

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I really want to re-read jj/ba but I have things I need to do tonight and I have to get down 7k words in the next 3 days so I can make my deadline for my 1 year anniversary update of my big fan fiction.... I should get on those things. See you guys tomorrow, then.

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So according to tumblr a naked woman in a bathtub isn't sensitive material, but a guy's face and a trip to the hat store are. Good to know.

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I’m getting closer to being done! The 1st and second picture are what I’ve done, without and with the screenshot background respectively, and the third one is the original screenshot. I think I’m going to add soms shadows to a few of the boxes so they don’t pop out so much, and change the big green ribbon to something slightly yellower. 

I probably won’t due the slight gradients because I’m using photoshop and I’m not really sure how to make it look like it does in the screenshot. But I’ll add the bubbles and stuff soon, possibly with semi transparency (which I’ll also likely change a few of the other images to), so look out for that.

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So I finished part 8 a few days ago, read Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe and Rohan at the Louvre or whatever it's called a few weeks ago, and read Dead Man's Questions a few hours ago. Is that all as far as Araki-drawn stuff goes? The main manga, TPRK, RatL, and DMQ? Or are there other things Araki has written for the Jojo universe? From what I understand Purple Haze Feedback and Over Heaven or whatever the Dio thing is called were written by someone else (and OH is ooc?), so I'm going to read those later. But is that all?

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I don't really like Hol Horse's dub voice. Or rather, I like the voice itself, but I don't like it for him. It doesn't fit. I always think of Hol Horse as having a slightly higher voice (than what they gave him, at least) and a heavy southern drawl. But that's not what happened, and I'm a little disappointed. Eh, oh well. It's not terrible or anything, and that's all I really need.

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This is one of the most amazing stories I’ve read based off Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. It’s basically an AU where Dio does test out the mask on Jonathan, and… Well, you’ll find out. It’s about 140 pages long, so it’ll take a little while, but it’s worth it.

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Jotaro Headcanon(s)

Okay, so I’m sure everyone who’s watched or read Stardust Crusaders is familiar with the knife scene in the Jotaro vs. Dio fight. After Jotaro gets stabbed and hits the ground, it’s revealed that he stuffed his shirt with magazines, which is what saved him. But I don’t remember him mentioning his hat, not would his hat fit one. Add in the fact that we see blood when a knife hits his hat, and it can be concluded that Jotaro definitely took a knife to the forehead. Which isn’t just something you can shrug off.

So, with that lengthy explanation over, I have this headcanon where Jotaro suffers from pretty bad migraines from the end of Part 3 onwards.

More information on this (additional explanation + fic draft maybe?) under the cut. ((also sorry if this is messy I typed it on my phone at midnight, oops))

I haven’t finished anything past Part 4, so I can’t say if there’s anything in canon that directly contradicts this, but I’m pretty sure it’s completely possible. I’m not an expert in head wounds either, but having an inch+ of steel embedded in your skull doesn’t sound like something a person could do without any side effects, so that’s what I’ve been thinking.

And as for some more headcanons…. I also like to imagine that since Joseph and Polnareff were so badly injured and down by the end of the fight, while Jotaro was still standing, he got shoved to the side when it came to medical care. As in, the SPW concentrated on those two while Jotaro just watched and hoped Joseph would be okay, sitting patiently but still bleeding out. He wouldn’t have taken the magazines out of his shirt before getting picked up, so they’d still be in there as Polnareff and Joseph were getting cared for, soaking up any blood that came out of his stab wounds. Which would exist because if you compare the lengths of the knives with the thickness of the magazines, there’s no way they didn’t stab Jotaro at least a little.

Moving on, Jotaro is sitting there bleeding out while the other two are being fussed over by the SPW, telling anyone who does take the time to notice him that the blood isn’t his, and that it came from Dio’s injuries when the two of them got too close while fighting. It would be a lie that he half believed, half didn’t, but wanted to be true anyway. Three people had already died on him that day, and he didn’t want anyone the mortality rate of his trip to Egypt to climb any higher because the doctors that should have been saving them were occupied with the less injured Jotaro.

The doctors/nurses/whatever would listen to Jotaro’s refusals, since the magazines absorbing his blood meant his shirt didn’t show how much he had bled, and his hat helped hide his head wound. The blood on his face he again attributed to Dio, since the vampire had squirted it with blood from his leg (how it was possible to make blood to that far and with such precision, Jotaro didn’t knoe). Thus, the conclusion was that Jotaro miraculously wasn’t that injured.

It wasn’t until after Joseph woke up and hugged Jotaro that the extent of the teen’s injuries were revealed. Jotaro had been trying his hardest to stay awake and alert while Joseph was out, but he started slipping once the old man woke up. During their hug, Joseph felt the odd angles of the magazines jab into him, and asked Jotaro about it, who told him about them. Joseph then made a silly comment about how it was such a waste of good material and pulled up Jotaro’s shirt, making the magazines tumble out. At this point Jotaro would be too dazed from blood loss to stop Joseph in time, so his hands just kind of shoot toward Joseph’s arm in a delayed reaction, freezing when he sees how bad the scene looks.

Because when the magazines tumble out, they weren’t the white and blues they had originally been, but pinks and reds, with some crusty brown on top. There are gashes in his chest too, ones that he never noticed, but does then. As does Joseph, who starts asking Jotaro about it, but the teen just replies that he thought the magazines had stopped the knives from hitting him, and that he hasn’t felt them in his skin, so he hasn’t noticed.

At this point his words are slurring a bit, and the SPW doctors hear him and start assembling stuff to work on Jotaro because oh god they messed up and it turns out he’s more injured than they thought and what are they going to do it a Joestar dies because they were careless (his last name not actually being Joestar an unimportant thing at the moment, because he has the blood and he has the birthmark and that’s all that matters).

Jotaro then makes a sort of offhand comment that his head hurts or that he has a headache or something, and Joseph immediately takes off his grandson’s hat and rubs his good hand against Jotaro’s head. Not only does he see the blood from the wound left there, but he sees the shine of a blade and gasps. He asks Jotaro about it, to which Jotaro replies that Star Platinum must have knocked the handle/base (whatever it’s called) off when he was blocking the road sign. Which freaks Joseph out, because he has no idea what that means (why would Star Platinum be blocking a road sign?? (because Dio, of course, but Joseph was unconscious/dead/whatever for that)).

Then Jotaro just kind of mutters and passes out on Joseph’s shoulder, sending the old man into a complete panic. His family had a history of dying young, and maybe he had avoided that, but that was probably because he tricked death by having a funeral at age 18, so that didn’t count. And what would he tell Holly if her only son died? Wait, was Holly even okay? Did they kill Dio in time? Did that actually solve the Stand problem? He needed to call Suzy, too, to make sure Holly was still okay….

So then Jotaro becomes the SPW medical team’s top priority and they remove the blade, leaving Jotaro unconscious for a little while, but alive. He eventually wakes up with a pounding headache, one that would be just a taste of the many nights and days to come spent staring at a chart or wall as the world distorted around him and his head felt like it was partying with a sledgehammer.

Loud noises would tend to bring on headaches, as would strong smells and bright lights, so Jotaro would grow even more fond of being alone. And, eventually, the ocean. Sure the water had a slight smell to it, and the hum of whatever machinery ran the boat he was on or the equipment he was using meant he wasn’t always in complete silence, but it was a lot better than while on land. Plus, the ocean could be dark. No bright flashing lights from a nighclub in its middle, and no one holding up a stereo or yelling at their boyfriend floating on its waves (for the most part, that was. Sometimes drunks would find their way into the water, but that usually didn’t happen in places where he studied).

Occasionally his migraines would be bad enough that he’d have to take the day off, but for the most part he could manage. On bad days he’d just take some pain pills and glower his way out of any conversations, succeeding in avoiding confrontations that would aggravate his condition for the most part. His co-workers learned not to ask him what was wrong, either, which was good. Because Egypt was a secret kept between him, his grandfather, and Polnareff. And his mother and grandmother, to an extent (not to mention the SPW), but mainly the three who survived it. And only his grandfather and the foundation knew about the head wound, too. He had never managed to tell his mother about it, because he knew shed worry. Suzy had probably managed to figure something out along the line, but neither he nor Joseph had explicitly told her, so she likely didn’t know the exact details.

And that was the way Jotaro liked it. Migraines were a pain, and he would love to get rid of them, but if they were the price he had to pay for living, he didn’t mind too much.

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Whenever I want a reference for some JoJo drawing and I have to look up “buff guy” or “buff guy in tank top” or whatever, I always silently pray that I don’t accidentally end up with a result list full of por/n.

I love you Araki, but man is searching for good references hard sometimes.

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Drabbles.

((i read somewhere that drabble originally was a term for a fic that was 100 words long exactly? so these are all exactly 100 words long, not including the title. it was an interesting challenge, to get that to work out. also these are so cheesy. normally i write fics in the 3k+ range))

Drabble 1: Digging

Sharp rocks pierced his hands as he dug through the like before him, breathing heavily as tears filled his eyes.

This couldn’t be happening.

He couldn’t be…

A pool of red slowly trickled out from beneath the cross shaped stone. It mocked him, telling him that what he was doing was pointless. That he was too late.

But he wouldn’t listen.

He would keep digging, keep struggling until Lisa Lisa dragged him away screaming, tears blurring his vision so badly he couldn’t even tell if the red he saw was from the puddle before him, or his own raw hands.

Drabble 2: Jealousy

“Oh, Caesar, do you really mean it? Do you really like me?”

“Of course I do. Never before have I seen one as…”

Joseph turned his head away, concentrating on the sound of the river running just outside the restaurant. He had never liked listening to other people flirt. It was cheesy and annoying. Something that too often reminded him of his own single status.

But for some reason, he didn’t feel like that was the reason he was so bothered this time.

Was the burning feeling he felt in his chest there because Caesar was the one doing it…?

Drabble 3: Fistfight

“Damn you!” Joseph shouted, shooting his foot out at Caesar’s stomach only to find himself blocked.

“It’s your fault, bastard!” the blond replied, grabbing the younger man’s foot and pulling him forward.

With a quick movement Joseph freed himself, maneuvering his heel so it caught Caesar’s face, breaking his nose.

Blood dripped down soft lips as the Italian stared at him, furious.

In that moment, Joseph felt terribly guilty. He paused.

“You know what, I’m sorr-”

Caesar took advantage of his stillness and punched back, breaking Joseph’s nose in the process. Joseph blinked and Caesar threw another punch, knocking him out.

Drabble 4: Funeral

“C’mon, what’s wrong? Why are you looking at me so-” Joseph’s eyes widened. There on the gravestone was his own name. “Wait…”

This funeral… was his!? But he was alive! He had survived the encounters with the Pillar Men. If anything, the one whose funeral they should have been holding was-

A breath caught in Joseph’s throat. “It’s good to be back.”

After all, someone else never would.

Had there been a funeral for him? Would there be one? Could there be one? They had never retrieved the body.

He looked to Lisa Lisa with a question.

She turned away.

Drabble 5: Chilly

Blond hair felt silky beneath his fingers, soft, light feathers rubbing the edges of his hand on  one side. Underneath, a youthful face was tilted up toward his own, pale lips curled slightly.

One hand curled up against his own, long fingers wrapping themselves around a callused palm, trying to comfort Joseph, it seemed. It wasn’t warm, nor was it freezing.

It was just barely cold, chilling without warm blood being pumped through it anymore.

How could there be, with its owner dead, and all their blood spilled onto the stone floor beneath them?

In his dreams, he saw red.

Drabble 6: Nightmare

“Caesar! You’re alive!” Joseph ran toward the Italian at full speed, pulling Caesar into a hug once he was within reach.

The older man froze momentarily before pulling away. He had a perplexed look on his face.

“I’m sorry, but… who are you?”

The world splintered, and Joseph felt his heart crack.

“What?”

Then his view exploded, and Joseph shot up from his bed, gasping for air.

It was just a dream, just a dream…

But what if that was the case? If Caesar could come back, but he wouldn’t remember their time together?

Would that be even worse?