When solitary is boring.

  [[Ask Box: Closed]] || After getting Jotaro to the Speedwagon Foundation, Jolyne is given the option of mandatory counseling over solitary confinement. She takes it in an attempt to locate Whitesnake’s user, but where could he be?   On Hiatus

[mandatorycounseling]

About/DNI/FAQ

This is the last blog I have to do this for. Thank you, Tumblr, for adding a helpful feature for once!

Now I can keep a mobile-friendly about pinned at the top of my blog.

About:

In this AU, after getting Jotaro into the hands of the Speedwagon Foundaiton, Jolyne is given the option of going into solitary confinement or having mandatory counseling sessions with the prison’s pastoral counselor. Wanting free range of the prison to better investigate Whitesnake’s user, she didn’t realize choosing the latter would put her a whole lot closer to him than she thought.

FAQ:

Can I tell Jolyne that Pucci is Whitesnake?

Nope! Feel free to make references for the sake of dramatic irony though!

Who can I ask questions/make suggestions to?

Jolyne or Pucci preferably, however other characters will come up later on. Feel free to ask them when they do!

Hee hee, hoo hoo- gravity/Dio-sama/D*opucci

I guess feel free to send in these asks- they will matter in the story to an extent, but I will block you if I feel like you’re being creepy.

DNI:

The usual suspects- Racists, Transphobes, Homophobes, ect.

If you ship anything incestuous or pedophilic- ESPECIALLY D*oPucci. He was 15, read this post for more info. I’m not continuing this fight here. Direct any “But- but-!”s over to @transjotarokujo (my main) if you MUST.

If you’re in that weird camp of people who think Pucci is white just because he’s Italian/are “““worried””” that Weather Report will have his skin darkened in the anime.

[mandatorycounseling]

Celebrating his birthday with some cafeteria pie!

[mandatorycounseling]

You are the best person in my life to make enemy in friend here my chocky milk because your epic

[[Submitted by @jojotarojoestar ]]

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Thanks I guess? Lol.

-Mod Razz

[mandatorycounseling]

What chapter does this take place? (Or chapters if it’s in between.)

I don’t know why, but I thought this was for a character so I didn’t answer it lol-

It’s just after Jotaro visits the prison and Jolyne decides to stay instead of going off with the foundation. So right now, Jolyne knows Whitesnake is there, she doesn’t know there are other stand users, Pucci doesn’t know Jolyne has a stand, and almost no one knows each other well if at all.

-Mod Razz

[mandatorycounseling]

Here you go a joylne and pucci a lego minifigure each i hope this helps

Pucci and Jolyne: Complicated!

[mandatorycounseling]

How has counseling gone so far?

[mandatorycounseling]

Ask Box (Temporarily) Closed!

I try to close my ask boxes when they get up to the mid twenties to make sure everyone gets their questions answered in a somewhat timely manner- It’ll open again when I get it back down to about five!

[mandatorycounseling]

You're doing the Lord's work here. Keep it up 😎👍

I didn’t answer this immediately because I misread it and thought it was for Pucci pffft-

Thank you, though! We’re about to get into the meat of why I wanted to do this AU in the first place ha ha

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Your art style is really pretty!

Thank you very much!!!

-Mod Razz

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Quick question, why does Jolyne's eyes look super similar to those of Akira from Devilman Crybaby? No offense, of course.

Okay so- this is a super interesting question because... I actually have an answer as to why I picked Jolyne’s eye shape?

In short, they’re supposed to look like Dio’s (the way I draw them)

This is because in another AU I’m doing, I wanted her to be visually tied to him and I hadn’t yet designed Jolyne really in detail for my artstyle, so I took the opportunity to give her a whole new coat of paint and this visual just... stuck for all of my AUs ha ha.

-Mod Razz

Ps: I’ve never seen Devilman, but I’ve heard good things!

[mandatorycounseling]

Pucci, you good?

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okay, wait. What's the difference between shipping DioPucci in an AU where they didn't meet when he was 15 and shipping Pucci/Vampire Jotaro when in canon, they were enemies and he killed him? if we're bending canon, we can bend canon completely, like.. I'm genuinely curious what the difference is there

I’m so genuinely glad that you asked!

The problems with Dio and Pucci include grooming, manipulation, and an overall narrative of Dio pretending to like Pucci- pretending that he trusted him and convincing a 15 year old in probably the BIGGEST low of his life that yes, it was his fault that his sister died, and yes it was his fault that these terrible things happened, but that Dio could make it better.

The conflict between the two of them lies in the fact that Pucci never knew Dio at all and Dio never cared enough about Pucci to WANT to know him. If you have an AU where you ship these two in a healthy, functioning relationship, they could not be themselves. It would just be a guy named Dio and a guy named Enrico and... I guess they’re happy. I have to question WHY someone would do that when Jojos is not short on characters who interact with either of them, so it’s not some sense of “completionist shipping.” 

Jotaro and Pucci have a canon conflict as well. This conflict revolves around Pucci blaming Jotaro for taking Dio away from him. If you remove Dio from the situation, Jotaro and Pucci probably never would have even met, much less had any animosity toward each other. 

If I put Pucci and Jotaro into a standban AU where they have the same personalities, ages, life goals (so not “stop a vampire” but “become a marine biologist) as in canon and arranged for them to meet, we have two men who love their families with strong senses of duty and moral values. Even if they might clash, they’re both pretty upfront with how they view the world and that people who do bad things deserve bad things to happen to them.

If I put Pucci and Dio into a standban AU where they have the same personalities and life goals as in canon (let’s disregard age for a moment) we’re still going to have a highly manipulative, charismatic man with a fascination in the control he has over others paired with a trusting man who wants to do anything in his power to make the world a better place.

It’s still not healthy

Dio has characters who are ACTUALLY thoughtlessly devoted to him and show no signs of being unknowingly coerced into committing crimes (Mariah, N’doul, The D’arbies) so why in the world would you pick the ONE he canonically lied to? Ask yourself why you’re doing it, and we can address this properly.

- Mod Razz

PS: If any of the characters in part 6 knew who Dio was and knew why Pucci was doing what he was doing, they could have stopped it, and that’s the tea.

PSS: Please direct any future questions to my main, @transjotarokujo so that this blog doesn’t get full, please and thank you! I’m very open to talking about this since I feel like conversations like these are the first steps toward understanding why certain pieces of media and fiction can be harmful to people.

[badlydrawnjotaro]

you are still alive? i feel sorry for everyone who has to deal with your clown behaviour. sickening.

At least I have people around willing to deal with it and stick around. 

You here with nothing better to do than be a pest because those sons you abandoned aren’t answering your calls?

[asktheass]

‘‘Bloody hell, you wanna get squished like a bug??’’

[badlydrawnjotaro]

Oh? Now you squish bugs instead of employing them?

Has Dio Brando gone through some actual character development? What’s next, you’ll actually leave me and my family alone?

[mandatorycounseling]

Jolyne: Bold of you to act like I ever called you back🙄

[badlydrawnjotaro]

Jolyne if you wanted my clown wig you could have just asked, you didn’t have to rip it off…

[mandatorycounseling]

[badlydrawnjotaro]

you are still alive? i feel sorry for everyone who has to deal with your clown behaviour. sickening.

At least I have people around willing to deal with it and stick around. 

You here with nothing better to do than be a pest because those sons you abandoned aren’t answering your calls?

[asktheass]

‘‘Bloody hell, you wanna get squished like a bug??’’

[badlydrawnjotaro]

Oh? Now you squish bugs instead of employing them?

Has Dio Brando gone through some actual character development? What’s next, you’ll actually leave me and my family alone?

[mandatorycounseling]

Jolyne: Bold of you to act like I ever called you back🙄

[mandatorycounseling]

Hi mod, why is diopucci blacklisted? Dont get me wrong i am just curious

Okay so, I’m going to give this the benefit of the doubt because a lot of people get their exposure to Pucci through Eyes of Heaven and/or only read part 6 once, so maybe your translation just didn’t mention it but here we go. This will contain some part 6 spoilers, so if this is the case, just read Part 6.

Dio was at LEAST 20 (I dunno how you want to look at coffin years) when he met Pucci, who was 15. 

If you’re one of those people who thinks age gaps aren’t a problem because maybe you’re too young to see the impact they can have on a couple (I used to be with you on that one) allow me to put this in perspective-

He was one year older than Lucy Steel, 

He was the same age as Kakyoin (one year younger when he actually met Dio)

He would have maybe been entering sophomore year of High School

On top of that age- Dio literally convinced Pucci that he was God and had the ability to resurrect his dead sister in a new world he wanted Pucci to help him build under false pretenses.

"But they could have waited until Pucci was 18!”

So- ignoring the plausibility that a fifteen year old church kid who now literally thinks that Dio is God could be groomed by him, which would still not be a good relationship to be in- SDC and Dio’s death happen in 1989, two years after Dio met Pucci, and we know from supplementary materials that they didn’t meet each other in that final year. So, at most, Pucci was 16.

“But Dio still really did care about Pucci and trusted him!”

Where? Was it when he-

Didn’t tell him about his plan to summon the Green Baby? (Pucci had to read it in Jotaro’s memories, so I don’t even know where people pull this one from.)

Gave him a bone from Jonathan’s body, that he obviously didn’t care about because he is seen burning Jonathan's fingers, clawing at his torso, doesn’t bat an eye when a leg gets ripped off.

Didn’t tell him the body wasn’t his? (When Pucci goes to Sports Maxx, he thinks he’s about to summon Dio’s ghost into the room- not Jonathan’s)

Didn’t mention him once in his journal? (If he HAD- Jotaro would have been able to find him. 

Wow- What a caring relationship built on equality and trust!

“Why can’t you just let people ship what they want?”

Keep it out of my inbox!

Also, to those of you still unconvinced, why do you want to ship this so bad? Why are you willing to ignore EVERYTHING ELSE on this post? I’m not saying everyone who ships this is “cancelled,” or that you’re inherently a bad person- Is it because a priest and a vampire is an attractive concept? Because- ho boy- *Looks at my Vamp!Jotaro and Pucci AU* there are ways to get that without supporting such a plainly awful pairing!!!

Is there something I’m missing here???? I don’t see it.

-Mod Razz

[mandatorycounseling]

Hi yes may I kindly ask Jolyne to play me a little ditty on her kazoo please 😳

Jolyne: Anything for my f-

Jolyne: MY CH- CHEEZIT-!

[mandatorycounseling]

Why hello fellow pucci

Pucci: ...

Pucci: H- Hi?