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Hey!!! Mod here! I’ll first list the characters this blog will be including as well as their text colors, then we’ll go over some of the rules!
Ringo Roadagain
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Mrs. Robinson
Pocoloco
Soundman
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Im sure some of you have noticed I haven’t posted in… a while.
The main reason for that has been a lack of motivation, and a lack of asks!
My interest in jojos isn’t as strong as it was when I made this blog, but it certainly hasn’t gone away. So I can’t guarantee that this’ll be the most active blog, but I am planning on trying to answer asks as much as I can! (Provided I have asks to answer)
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There are quite a few things that make Mrs. Robinson a compelling antagonist. In particular, his character design, supernatural charm/fighting ability, and musical references come to mind. However, in being such a short-lived character, much of his use is put into foreboding the very real threat of the desert (a threat that, as of his debut chapter, Gyro underplays and fails to appreciate).
Understanding his role as a symbolic warning is a huge part of understanding him as a character– however, there is still more to him than just that.
1. Character Design
While his general punk-ish appearance works nicely with his backstory ("rebelling" against death), the most important part of his design are his eyes– both in that he has the ability to remove his left eye at will, and that he carries with him a collection of eyeballs which he wears as earrings.
Because of this obsession, and since all other parts of his body are intact, it can be assumed that he lost his left eye before he died and collects them from anyone he kills to "make up" for that fact, which mirrors his search for revenge.
Other important aspects:
His horse's (named "El Condor Pasa") number is either branded or painted onto their neck, which implies such a focus on the race that he'd scar it into his partner rather than transfix it as removable accessories
The decoration around El Condor Pasa and himself somewhat mirrors that of police tape– however, it swaps "warning" for "true love" (more on this aspect under musical reference)
2. Supernatural Charm & Fighting Ability
Unlike the other antagonists in SBR that will be introduced in the future, Mrs. Robinson is not a stand user. Rather, he is a zombie that believes himself to be cursed with the unattainable task of revenge:
As such, he can use his body (by raising insects inside of it that helps him fight) in ways other people cannot, which is where his vaguely stand-like ability comes from.
It is also in this way that his association with the desert is most clear. Obviously, he is no longer human; he is a slave to a curse, and uses his body in ways that further separates himself from his past humanity. He is not himself, in, say, the way Johnny might be emblematic of determination but ultimately still his own person; Mrs. Robinson is only an emblem of a curse born from the desert. He is not his own person anymore.
At the very least, that is how he understands himself and his situation, and is also something he embraces; notice how he says "in order to separate myself from others", rather than "to become stronger" or something similar. Being a hopeless slave isn't something he resents– in fact, he lets it define him.
Furthermore, his ability works only when he is in the desert– when he remains in the place he died. He uses the cacti to his advantage, but does not actually control them. If he were in any other environment, his ability would be utterly useless. It furthers the idea he is a slave bound to the desert he died in.
However; while this idea of being purely an incarnation of revenge is certainly the most immediate focus of his character, there is something much more personal to him as well. It is not so major that it will remove focus from his big takeaway point (the desert is fearsome), and in fact relies partly on how meaningful you consider a character's song reference to be.
3. Musical Reference
Mrs. Robinson is a song written and sung by the duo Simon & Garfunkel about the titular wife and mother. It references an affair and her feeling powerless, but the overarching idea is she is unaware of the love around her, especially if she'd only accept Jesus.
Mrs. Robinson is a character who refuses death– refuses Jesus –and roams the desert helplessly in search of something he admittedly can never achieve. Paired with the song, it suggests Mrs. Robinson of JJBA is not truly meant to be alive; although his death was tragic, the best thing he can do now is accept his fate.
Now, I also mentioned under his character design section that his sashes closely resemble warning tapes– however, it says "true love" instead of "warning". Coupled with the song's story about infidelity, it could point to the reason behind the "scuffle" Mrs. Robinson references; perhaps, he cheated on his wife or slept with someone else's wife.
This idea is based almost entirely on a song separate from the story, so I do not wish to say it is canon. If you do choose to believe it though, it adds a little bit more to his character. A man who believes love is something to be "warned of" (like it is inherently bad and he could not have made any personal changes to better it) and who'll neglect to take blame in a scuffle he partly set off is a man who is incapable of introspection. It is precisely the kind of man who would refuse to accept a fate that disfavors him.
(note: Mrs. Robinson was not written strictly for the movie "The Graduate". Therefore, I'll neglect any comparisons to it.)
El Condor Pasa, translating to "If I Could", is a song covered by the same duo. It generally concerns wishing to be the one in power instead of being the one hurt by those in power. However, there is a particularly interesting verse in it when it comes to Mrs. Robinson's character. Please read the following lyrics:
The lyric very clearly parallels the days leading up to Mrs. Robinson's death, being tied up to a cactus tree and left there to die. It shows this event in an incredibly personal and tragic light, which does not follow through in Mrs. Robinson's quick summary of the event. This is not to say he does not feel affected by it, of course! In fact, naming his horse after such a song suggests the opposite. Understandably, it portrays his death as a tragedy– because it really was.
What does contrast from his character are the lyrics around it, the ones concerning a swan. "I'd rather sail away" does not match up with a man hellbent on pursuing selfish motivations. However, especially when paired with the next verse in the song that says "I'd rather be a forest than a street", it likely denotes his wish to simply be away from people. It would make sense for him to want this, considering he went to such lengths to differentiate himself from other people, embracing a curse instead of death. A fear of other people would track, also, considering the brutal way he was left to die by others.
Mrs. Robinson is a character deeply defined by tragedy and a personal inability to accept an unfair fate. He confines himself within the area he died in, resigned to a bitter chase of revenge that he allows to define him, even when he understands it is impossible to attain. In the Steel Ball Run race, he allows this thirst for revenge to fester into something much more broad: he will attain total victory at the cost of anyone else's life.
And with such a tragic fate at the hands of other people, who's to say using his curse of immortality against just anyone isn't revenge?
