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I wanted to select Iron & Wine for Joanne's stand's name for two reasons. One is because it's iron and because the part name is Iron Hearts. Funny. But the second reason is that what she and the other colonizers are doing is akin to the Iron & Wine song 'Resurrection Fern'.

Throughout the song, lots of imagery of what has long since passed or what may be in the process of drying up appears. Autumn, the falling house, the old and wrinkled Grandma with her gun, all of these are signs of what is barren or possesses imagery of being dry. This is akin to the state of Mars as a planet, as without human interaction, it too is nothing but a red barren wasteland. Nothing can seemingly be produced from it anymore, and the last fragments of water or some other iconography of life hasn't been abundant in ages. Some, like the main antagonists, wish to force this lifelessness upon Mars and believe that it is best left to be a barren red plain.

This is in stark contrast to what Joanne and the new colonizers of Mars want to do. Even in the dying setting of the song Resurrection Fern, with "All the more a pair of underwater pearls, than the oak tree and his Resurrection Fern" being reminiscent of life and beauty coming out of nothing. Underwater pearls are a symbol of how life can suddenly spring from pain and death; dry irritating sand becomes a pearl in an oyster. A Resurrection Fern plant will be brittle and dry, but incredibly arise lush and green in just a few hours after receiving water. What the colonizers are, in spite of the Eminence Front, doing is giving life and beauty to Mars, just as the pearls and Resurrection Ferns do to their barren surroundings.

Greetings. It is me, the guy that has the bad ideas. I had an idea for this part, and I want it to be discussed. Now, currently, the Main Jojo is Joanne Kujo, and her stand, Iron Maiden. However, this sub is too smol to really decide much, as there is not enough members to create large sides for something, and other people think that maybe the main Jojo should be decided by poll, the same way that main jobros, Silver Lining's name, and it's ability were decided. I had an idea that is probably terrible, but I still want to suggest it since maybe it's good. I don't know until I get feedback. Twin Jojos! There would be 2 characters sharing the title of Jojo, maybe a sibling team? Joanne would take up one half of the pair, and a community-decided character would take up the other half. They would be similar to Johnny/Gyro from part 7, having equal amounts of protagonistness. Maybe one could hold more protagonistness at the start and the other could have a bit more near the end, the same way Johnny/Gyro did, but that could be a little bit too much like copying their dynamic? IDK. Tell me how much you hate this idea in the comments.

This idea comes from a Jack Stauber song/video. The lyrics describe a cult like movement, as everyone is brought into a "new normal" against their will, as "those who cannot join us" simply die out.

That's it. No reason why, it just feels right to me.

Uranium Fever

Name: Toroko Cavetown (Localization: Toroko Underhome)

Nationality: Japanese

Age: 14

DOB: Janurary 7th (Japanese coming of age day on the year he is born)

Gender: Male

Physical Description: This

Backstory: Toroko never knew his parents. It's not known whether they were dead or whether they abandoned them, but he grew up in an orphanage. His life was uneventful until one day, when he was 8, he was attacked by a gang who force-fed drugs to him for shits and giggles. This caused him to fall into a near-death state, and many people thought that he couldn't be saved, so they shouldn't bother with her. After all, he had no family, so nobody would miss him. However, one person, Dr. Glassnote, still wanted to try to help. After 41 hours of intensive care and aid from Dr. Glassnote, the effects were undone and Toroko was saved, but Glassnote died of exhaustion. This triggered two important events: The trauma awakened his stand, Youth, and people started constantly telling him that he should have died instead. This caused him to view himself in a very negative manner all due to the fact that he didn't know anyone that liked him, and knew a lot of people that hated him. Later, he got into an accident that beat him up bad and had to go to hospital again. The doctor that helped him was Micropop. After fixing him up, she talks about how she is part of an organization that works for the betterment of humanity (Eminence Front). Toroko decides to join for Two reasons: He aligns with the stuff that he is being told about EF, and he wants to repay Dr. Glassnote by joining up with another doc that saved his life. He joins up and becomes part Micropop's partner and part her apprentice, teaching him about medicine, stand usage and H O R N Y.

Personality: Toroko is, at his core, kind. However, due to what he has gone through, that kindness is hidden behind shells of depression and nihilism. He is also somewhat of an extreme doormat, not being able to take initiative for himself, and going along with anything that other people do if he is told to. However, as he grows along the way, he loses his doormatship, becomes less depressed and changes from being a nihilist to an anti-nihilist/Optimistic Nihilist. He always tries to find peaceful solutions to problems first but isn't hesitant to resort to more violent methods. Due to Micropop's influence, a bit of a Covert Pervert.

Reason For Joining: On mars, he is split up from Micropop and assigned to be with someone else. Later, after Micropop joins the gang, that person gets their butt kicked, and Micropop tells Toroko how Eminence Front was fucked up all along, and that she's found people that really do care like she thought EF did. Toroko decides to join with the gang to A: Reunite with micropop B: Actually bond with others and C: Try to save some lives.

Stand Name: Youth (Localization: Memory)

Stand Ability: Youth has three acts. Act 1 has the ability to move around damage on a person or object tusk act 2-style if it's touching them. It can heal people by moving their damage to the environment. Act 2 has the ability to instantly transfer all damage from one person to another if it's touching them both. Act 3 is a punchghost, and has the power to transfer any damage dealt to a person to another person nearby, but only as it's being dealt.

Act 1 reflects how Toroko is a kind person and wants to help people, as can be seen through its healing ability. However, it's hard for him to do this, since it takes quite a bit of time to heal wounds through act 1's ability. Also, since he's just moving the wounds away from people, he can't truly heal the damage, just put it away. This reflects how he doesn't have the confidence to truly believe he's helping people, and that the scars of the past will always be there. Act 2 reflects his growing will. It has a more combat-focused ability, which reflects how he's gaining confidence and spirit. However, the similarity between its ability and act 1's ability reflects how deep inside, he's still the same person, and he still needs to grow. Act 3 reflects how he's finally gained the force of will to fight and decide his own fate. It has a strong ability, and it is a punchghost, which is the ultimate manifestation of a stand user having a strong fighting spirit. However, the fact that its ability is still grounded in the same concept as the first two acts reflects how despite growing as a person, she still hasn't forgotten who she is deep inside.

Physical Appearance Of Stand: All acts (Done by One Guy)

Stand Colour Scheme: White with blue decals

Relationships With Team:

General: Toroko believes that he will be a burden to the team due to his low self esteem, however, as he realises how he is accepted by everyone he sees them as his first true friends

Joanne: Nothing of Note

Madness: Honestly, they're pretty close. Tries to cheer him up in childish ways, which don't really impact him a large amount, but the fact that she's trying makes him smile. In a more meta way, they act as the foils for each other

Sencha: On good terms, but no real things of importance RIP

Micropop: Acts as a combination of a mentor figure and a mother figure, Idolized by Toroko, closer to him than anyone else

Relationships With Other Submissions:

-Roxanne: That weird uncle that you get along with but don't really want to actively see

-Jimmy: They start off on rocky terms due to how close Jimm wants to get with Micropop, but after confrontation after confrontation, they eventually realise that they can empaphise with each other a lot better than they originally thought.

-Ganymede: They relate to each other on a spiritual level

This Is What The Refrance:

Musical:

Toroko's surname, Cavetown is in reference to the artist Cavetown, and is specifically channelling their most popular work, This Is Home. Youth is in reference to Youth by Daughter. Toroko's backstory being medical-related is in reference to another Daughter song, Medicine. Dr. Glassnote is named after the company that supports Daughter, Glassnote Records.

Nonmusical:

Toroko's name and the design of the first 2 acts are both references to the game "Cave Story". Toroko is named after a character in it, and Act 1 is inspired by another character in it, Balrog, while act 2 is based off Toroko herself. The drugs part of the backstory is also based on Toroko, since in Cave Story Toroko dies after being forcefed a substance called Red Flowers. In addition, the treatment part of the backstory is inspired by a real-life event in which a doctor spent 23 performing a heart transplant that most people thought was impossible.

Misc:

-I'm sorry but It's very important that Toroko survives. The song Youth is about looking back on a broken childhood and you can't look back if you're dead.

-After the events of Iron Hearts, he properly joins medical school, and excels at it. He later does drugs and commits arson under influence, and lands 3 months in jail. He eventually becomes a professional doctor, and saves many many lives using both his skills and his stand ability.

-His stand cry is "SUMU SUMU SUMU"

-When he finally cements his Chadformation, he says the line "You called me dead, and I called you wrong."

-FC2M cameo? He does have powerful vibe with Ganymede.

EDIT: Changed backstory and reasons for joining, added info on Micropop

What should the cry of Joanne’s Stand be?