Okay okay so I lied, I am very, very proud of these!!!
Those are all concepts for an AU of Homestuck but JJBA that I thought of with my girlfriend a year and a half ago! I had so much fun designing the clothes and the poses and the stands and just trying my hand at making it all look in the style of JoJo! Not as satisfied as I’d like with Kanaya’s design, it misses a little oomf, but it is passable.
To learn more about the AU and to see a Vriska WIP, look under the cut!
The AU would be reminiscent of Jojo Part 4 for a more Slice of Life type of story where they would just deal with life but with stands; a bit like a retelling of Homestuck with all the drama and gruesome bits included without the SBURB part. Since we see most of that with the trolls, it would be focused on them first and the human kids would join in later on.
All the trolls’ stands are based on their lusus/dancestor and their names are alliteration from their astrological signs and a color adjacent word. (ardant aries, tawny taurus, gilded gemini, carmine cancer, lush leo, verdant virgo, livid libra, steely scorpio, sorrowful sagittarius, covenant capricorn, aramanthine aquarius, patriarch pisces)
The stand’s abilities are based on the troll’s strife specibus and/or natural power. For example, when Sollux summons/wears his stand Gilded Gemini, he can literally fly and shoot laser beams and every other psionics that Sollux can do in the Homestuck cannon, because his stand’s in-universe is able to manipulate the electromagnetism of its user. (Still gotta brainstorm it so Sollux’s stand has two forms because duh.)
In this AU, Gamzee would be able to see stands without having one of his own... that is until it’s revealed that he does; Covenant Capricorn would be the type of stand that is harmful to it’s user like Cheap Trick in Diamond is Unbreakable - it would possess/puppeteer Gamzee into committing crimes and other nefarious activities.
Also my concept for Feferi’s stand would have been a Eldritch Terror’s mouth that would appear on the crown of her head which would mind control anyone in hearing range of it!
The human kids are in this AU too! I didn’t draw any concept for them yet, though I was thinking their stands would be based around their classpects, design and power wise.
Ironically enough, being the most into ghost and supernatural related shenanigans, John/June would be the only one who wouldn’t be able see the stands at all at first! Which would bring situations where in their perspective, they’d see Karkat and Dave posing menacingly in front of each other in a weird stand off, and then one of them would collapse on the floor while the other got a bloody nose out of nowhere and they’d be like “WTF just happened, what??”
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