There's a new JoJo grid for ships made by BizarreTadpoles on twitter going around, and I gave it a shot!
I edited a few of the text boxes. I wanted to focus on ships I actually like and not bother about categories for all the proships I despise lmao. Here are links to the template and the original post about it!
Finally got to making my Vento Aureo ship chart!
I didn't bother marking any of my "Nope" ships bc there are unfortunately too many, just know they include any and all proships.
Any other ships I didn't mark I just don't have much strong opinions on.
I added the "lowk depends" bit because sometimes it really does just depend lol! Even though I didn't mark it, Risotto x Melone would be an "It depends" ship because it never came to my mind as a ship until I saw cute fanart for it. I think for me it depends on the application and how the relationship is portrayed, and my opinion comes after that. I like seeing new ships to get my mind turning lol
(crossposted from my ao3)
My headcanons on every little detail of Illuso’s stand, Man In The Mirror. I find his stand to be one of the most interesting ones out of La Squadra, and surprisingly under utilized due to how little screen time all of La Squadra gets. I’m mostly just making this for funsies and in case I decide to use these made up headcanons in my future fanfictions.
Although this is largely just me spitballing random ideas on what I personally think, I’ll still be basing most of my assumptions off of what dialogue and actions we see in the anime and the stand profile in the original manga. If I make any major changes to canon (only one really) I will do my best to point them out right after. I might also be including headcanons on La Squadra member interactions and personalities, especially Illuso himself.
The mirror world extends to a few hundred meters of ground, with the original mirror entrance at the center. So there is a limit to how far one can travel in the mirror world based on their original point of entry. At this border, I personally imagine a black void blocked by an impassable barrier. Not even Illuso can get past this “barrier” as it is the limits of his stand’s ability.
You can think of the mirror worlds created here more like pocket dimensions created by Man In The Mirror itself, not a preexisting realm of existence only accessible by Man In The Mirror. If the latter were true, Giorno, Abbachio, and Fugo would have still been there after Illuso’s death. Because when Illuso and his stand were killed, all of its effects were undone. This including the creation of the mirror world. So while Polnareff can tease Kakyoin about the whole “no such thing as a mirror world,” Kakyoin is still technically correct in the fact that there really isn’t one. It was just created at the time of Man In The Mirror existing. high fives kakyoin and hits the griddy while polnareff sobs on the floor
The nature of the mirror world, being a “Realm of Death” where no living thing exists unless Illuso allows it permission to enter by dragging it in, applies to every single living microorganism or anything with life energy like a stand. This includes viruses and bacteria. So although the mirror world is rightfully eerie and uncanny being devoid of life, it is a sterile environment that the team uses for medical prep and short-term recovery when necessary. However, living organisms existing within or on someone that Illuso drags in will be carried in. Illuso has to be aware of it to prevent it from entering, and removing or preventing it from entering is usually impossible because of the energy it would take to strip a whole body of every single microbe already on it. When leaving the mirror world infected with Purple Haze’s virus, he had to cut off his whole arm rather than waste energy and time to try and remove the virus from his body in a method other than amputation.
This “amputation method” can be used on victims, though it takes a bit more energy than simply dragging them or only parts of them through the mirror world.
Physical items and structures can only be moved by Man In The Mirror or Illuso. Physical items inside of the mirror realm cannot be taken out of it. Attempting to do so to make a duplicate of a physical item will leave Illuso only empty-handed. So theft and attempts to get two of a single item are impossible this way. If Illuso wants to steal something, he’ll have to retrieve it physically in the real world and carry it through the mirror world to a second location.
Changes or alterations made to the physical area in the mirror world will not reflect in the real world. Blood stains, objects being moved or destroyed, or even a dead body brought into the mirror world will not manifest in the real world. The same is not true for how physical damage is done in the real world, as then it will be reflected in the mirror world.
The laws of gravity and relativity still apply to the mirror world besides this.
Illuso can bring objects into the mirror world, including ones attached to a person’s physical form. The whole clothing attached to a body is where I differentiate from canon, as I find it a liiittle silly that clothes worn on the body in the mirror world are made of spiritual energy… like are you meaning to tell me everyone woulda been naked except Illuso doesn’t wanna get flashed so he takes care to give em clothes made outta spiritual energy? I just believe that Illuso gives the clothes and objects on the body full permission to enter as well by default, or that it’s something he doesn’t need to pay too much attention to detail on. Like if he saw a knife on someone’s belt, he could definitely be like “drag them in but leave the knife out” so THEN they’re defenseless. Illuso CAN be tricked, after all. His stand doesn’t give him a full stat list or overview of whoever the victim is, which is how he was tricked by Abbachio and Moody Blues and Giorno with the virus.
Dragging people into the mirror world takes energy. Dragging one person in is easy, but dragging several people in rapidly takes up too much energy. This usually disqualifies him from hits that require ambushes on large groups of people. How this exactly takes a toll on him, I like to imagine he gets really light headed and physically weak, and just becomes incapable of bringing anyone or anything between the mirror realms for a while.
However, only the action of bringing people in and out of the mirror world takes energy. Leaving or having people in the mirror world does not affect Illuso. Illuso can leave abducted targets to die of starvation/thirst, though he prefers to kill them himself. People can be kept inside of the mirror world for however long they can, so long as they have supplies to live off of. Basically a prison that only Illuso holds the keys to.
Illuso can freely go between the mirror world and the real world whenever he wants at no expense to his energy. Risotto always cautions him to reserve his ability only for when it is most needed. Risotto believes that a power like Illuso’s could lead him to getting too big in the head, so he does his best as a leader to stop Illuso from being too proud. Obviously doesn’t work out in the end.
"Cheating isn't part of the game… but things are bound to happen during one."
I am finnaly done with uni stuff for a while, so I decided to celebrate with some Stone Ocean drawing. And who would thought - using proper ref and shading can make your artwork better. Miraschon was first, you can expect other two meangirls with proper pose soon. And of course other secondary antagonists are in plans too.
The brief glimpse of the alternate Jolyne we see in Pucci's temporary "ideal universe" has always intrigued me, because it's literally the universe mishmashing a new Jolyne and Jotaro that weren't real Joestars to fill in the gaps their dead souls left behind when Pucci killed them. I've seen some people call her "Wasplyne" or "Beelyne". For fun I wanted to make more alternate designs for Jolyne.
I have most of the design aspects for each one planned out but if you have something you'd like to see for each one, lmk!
(You can tell I'm struggling with the club suit Jolyne at the end there lol)
Brother: "I'm still so mad that Mista is my favorite character, I hate his crop top and weird clashing patterns, why does he dress like that."
Me: "Well have you looked at fanart? Lots of artists change his outfit-"
Brother: "Yeah that's not the only thing they change. Sweet mercy."
This is a redraw of an older Jolyne piece! I wanted to see how fast I could draw something since I usually take a while with my digital pieces. I wish I could have done better, definitely rushed it, but it was mostly to practice a new brush.
While drawing I was thinking a lot about Jolyne and Stone Free. The parallels of her and Jotaro in the whole prison thing in the start of their stories is obvious, but I don't see many people go over how they reacted to their stands. Jotaro put himself in prison because he was afraid of what Star Platinum could do and potentially harm his family, thinking it was an evil spirit. Jolyne was straight up horrified when her body just started acting on its own and turning into string, suddenly allowing her to hear things in different rooms and reach for objects. The way Stone Free grabbed the money for Jolyne is reminiscent of SP finding objects for Jotaro he liked and couldn't get in prison- classic instances of stands acting in the interest of their users subconsciously.
I often wonder how she thought of herself with this ability once she got more used to it. After all, her stand is unique in the fact that it makes up her entire body. She had no one to teach her about stands in the beginning. Did she ever lie awake at night wondering if she was even human anymore?
Like Bucciarati, for comparison, had to punch himself with Sticky Fingers to put zippers on himself. Jolyne with Stone Free is just made of string and can just do that!
It's what I really like about her ability because she can pull off really cool long-range attacks, yet there's a risk of literally stretching herself too thin if she uses too much string. But even that can be utilized as a good thing, like when she avoided being "donutted" by F.F. in their battle. I don't see enough people talking about that lmao.
Anyway, just me yammering a bunch. Can you tell that I like Stone Ocean?
I found an account that steals and reposts artists' works with no credit, just be wary
They steal videos from creators, some who aren't on tumblr like Astridmations, and repost them with zero credit. It's a miracle if watermarks make it through. When confronted about reposts they delete comments and reply that they're helping "spread publicity" for the artists. Kind of hard to do that with no credit and ignoring how some probably don't want their works reposted, huh?