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Without My Tonsils

Part 3 of why you don’t want a Stand

“Without My Tonsils” is a song from Live From the Haunted Candle Shop. The narrator presumably has had their tonsils removed, and says that like having any other part of them removed, they aren’t the same after it.

The obvious interpretation for a superpower would be that they’re literally a different person; at least that’s what other people think. After enough of themself (blood, spit, tonsils, whatever) has left their body, people start to think that they’re a complete stranger.

I had a similar idea for “A Mask of My Own Face”. The user would pretend to put a mask on, and then magically, people wouldn’t recognize them anymore. Maybe it would only work face-to-face; pictures and video would ruin the effect.

Without My Tonsils would be more inconvenient to the user. I imagine it first manifested (or at least was first noticeable) when they got their tonsils removed. The surgeon would notice there’s a complete stranger in their patient’s chair, be convinced by the user (using pictures) that they actually are the patient, and then stop the operation because they’re clearly not in their right mind.

The best way to activate it on command would probably be for the user to give themself a bloody nose. Not very convenient.

If Kira had this Stand, he’d have changed identities the moment he cut his hand off.

It’s just occurred to me: I want to make my story a little more “realistic” somehow, and since people don’t usually get in as many fights as in JoJo’s, I probably won’t write as many. Especially not as many that end with people losing limbs and stuff. That might not be good...

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Switzerland

i am going to be switzerland

“Switzerland” is a song from Live From the Haunted Candle Shop. Some guy decides “life sucks. I’m leaving. I hear Switzerland’s nice”

I think it would be hilarious if the Stand actually sent people to Switzerland, but I don’t think it would work in a story.

Since the narrator admits he hasn’t researched Switzerland that much, I imagine that the ability would be teleportation, but to a random area within a certain radius. “I don’t care where I’m going, I just want to be not here”

For the sake of the user, I imagine it would have a small radius. A quarter to a half a mile

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Oz Explodes

Oz is short for Oztrailia.

“Oz Explodes” is a song from Live From the Haunted Candle Shop. It’s a musical version of the scene from The Wizard of Oz (1939) where the Wizard gives the Scarecrow a diploma. Then Oz explodes.

Oz is a real place, it’s short for Australia. However, I don’t want my story on the kind of scale where all of Australia frickin explodes. I don’t even want to consider Australia; too far away.

I figure Oz could be an abbreviation for another place that starts/contains “Aus” (not Austria). Maybe the Stand school? But there’s only three good “aus-” words:

- austerity: “sternness or severity of manner or attitude”

- auspicious: “giving or being a sign of future success”

- austral: “relating to the southern hemisphere”

Those words are ok, but I think it’d be too obvious I was going for this reference.

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Fiberglass Monkey

“Fiberglass Monkey” is a song from Live From the Haunted Candle Shop. The narrator apparently has hallucinations in bed, “a fiberglass monkey with glowing red eyes”. He brings a baseball bat to bed and successfully hits it.

I like to imagine the fiberglass monkey actually being the guy’s Stand. That means that when he hits it, he’ll hit himself too.

I imagined it as a cautionary tale at the school, but if they’re there, they probably know what a Stand is. Maybe the person with the Fiberglass Monkey Stand is enrolled in their class.

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The Saga of You, Confused Destroyer of Planets

What!? Nothing to say on Hyakugojyuuichi 2003!?

“The Saga of You, Confused Destroyer of Planets” is a song from Live From the Haunted Candle Shop. “You”, the protagonist, black out, and wake up to find the Earth has disappeared. You eventually settle on a new planet, at which you black out again, and again, destroy the planet.

List of two ideas:

- A Thoth-like book Stand that always predicts you annihilating some area (”Oz Explodes”?). That or you black out and the book possesses you Anubis-style.

- Some poor sap who periodically blacks out and causes havoc. He lives in a house in the middle of nowhere Courage the Cowardly Dog-style so if he blows up no one gets hurt. He still has to go shopping for food and stuff, though, so that’s risky.

A PLANET-level threat would be way bigger than even the main antagonist. I’d like my world to be a little more realistic, so I don’t think I can reasonably put the planet itself at stake.

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Mysterious Ticking Noise

This isn’t a Lemon Demon song!

“Potter Puppet Pals: The Mysterious Ticking Noise” is a Potter Puppet Pals skit. Potter Puppet Pals is made by Neil Cicierega, the man behind Lemon Demon.

There is a mysterious ticking sound in the background of most of the video. The characters notice, and sing a little song to the beat. The ticking is revealed to be caused by a pipe bomb, which promptly explodes.

It happens that there is also a Lemon Demon song with a mysterious ticking noise: Dinosaurchestra Parts 1-3. All 3 songs (IIRC) begin and end with the sounds of a clock ticking. At the end of Dinosaurchestra Part 3, an alarm clock goes off as well.

If Dinosaurchestra was somebody’s 3-part Stand, could it cause a random ticking? Would other people hear it? If only the user hears this mysterious noise constantly, is that tinnitus?

(I’ve actually played ticking sounds in my ear all day long before, and surprisingly, it affects basically nothing. Maybe it would be worse if 1. It was audible even above crowds since it’s in your head and 2. I had no idea what it was and how to make it go away)

Here’s the plot:

The protagonist discovers he has magic powers. To learn to wield these magic powers, he goes to a magic school where he befriends a boy and girl and they get up to magic shenanigans. The school has questionable safety standards. One of the teachers is secretly being controlled by an evil force.

Yup, the whole part is one big Harry Potter reference.

The main character is Jay Joestar, full name Jonathan. He’s nice, but he’s very impatient and if someone doesn’t have an idea in like 2 seconds he takes the lead with whatever comes to his mind. His Stand is Dinosaurchestra, and I don’t know what it does.

The other boy’s Stand is Touch-Tone Telephone. This makes him the smart one, but also a bit of a conspiracy theorist. He does a lot of doublethinking, aka remembering two completely contradictory things as true. This makes him a little indecisive.

The girl, and you’re gonna hate me for this, is quiet yet emotional. Because of family reasons, she tries to express nothing at all times and talks minimally. (Makes me think of “Ask For Nothing”.) Her Stand is Fire Motif, which causes her entire body to light on fire sometimes, and it's controlled by, and trust me I had no choice, her emotions! Also, she’s the main love interest. Ooh! Poorly-written female characters!

Maybe she comes out of her shell, but a little too far. She goes from “but that would break the rules!!” to “Rules? Who needs them!?”. Someone else has to pick up that slack.

There’s a teacher/professor named Ronald Padavona. Don’t recognize the name? Does it help that he adopts a cat named Dio? The cat has mind control powers and is the main villain.

There’s a weird lady who lives in the woods. I think the neighborhood gets set on fire. Jack the Ripper is there,

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Fire Motif

After Magician’s Red, Araki vowed never to make another fire-based Stand. Let’s see if I can do better than him...

“Fire Motif” is a song from Clown Circus!. The song is about all of the metaphorical meanings fire can have.

The Stand lights your skin on fire.

When the user is inexperienced, it lights the entire body at once, and only when triggered by strong emotion (”love, pain, and such emotions are the coal”). With enough practice, the user should be able to light just a fingertip on fire at will.

Also the user is a girl!! Haha girls and their emotions!!!

Now that I think about it, I think a guy with anger management problems might be interesting to write... Maybe I could switch the boy and girls Stands (and thus personalities). Jay is best buds with the other guy (naturally) but he’s the weird one of the three, and Jay and the girl sit back and watch. No, she doesn’t have a name yet.

That gives her Touch-Tone Telephone, which makes her the smart conspiracy nut. Like a worse Hermione. I know the part is one big Harry Potter reference but I’d rather not rip the character dynamics. I want my own OCs dangit!

Am I being too sensitive? Was the first idea ok? How write girl??? Like guy, but is girl?? Then where are these issues coming from???

I’m just going to tell myself that the emotional angle is ok as long as I don’t give her hysteria. If she gets angry at something we’d all be angry at, it’s understandable. If she gets angry at something minor, it’s sexist.

Also, I need to give the guys emotions. That might actually be the hard part. She has pet peeves to trigger her, so the guys should also have their own to balance it (even if, being guys, they have different ways of showing it).

That sounds ok

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Somnolence

Araki had the benefit of his readers not knowing English, so he could name something “Like A Virgin” and get away with it. I don’t have that luxury

Somnolence is the drowsy state that comes just before falling asleep. “Somnolence” is a Clown Circus! song about somnolence.

Somnolence (the Stand) makes you sleep, duh.

Or more accurately, it puts you in a state of somnolence, where you really want to sleep. It can be resisted if your willpower is strong enough (aka if you’re the protagonist)

Here’s the obligatory list of two things, this time lyrics I’d like to mention:

- “A specter in a shell” refers to the “ghost in the shell”, the idea that the mind is separate from the body. I’m just kidding, the line is actually “scepter in a shell”, Neil fricked it up. Remember in Frozen at Elsa’s coronation where they gave her the gold ball and stick and she got nervous and froze them? No? Frozen’s almost 10 years old? Anyway, that “stick” is a scepter. (I looked it up just now. I thought it was walking-stick sized, it isn’t.)

- “Maybe it’s painted red but it’s in your head”: I’m not sure how to make something red-but-not-really, but I think having it just be a Stand-related aura glow might work. Touch an object with the scepter and it glows red. Touch the red thing and you get put to sleep.

I have yet to mention why this is useful, but it seems like a good way to stun people. If someone doesn’t know how to use their Stand and it goes a little bit wild, this Stand can make the user sleep. I don’t think it’s established whether it would work (only the Death 13 fight to go off of), but I’m just gonna say it does in fact deactivate the Stand.

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Pepper and Salt

I do listen to earlier albums a lot, more than later ones. I just don’t have any ideas somehow

“Pepper and Salt” is a song from Clown Circus! about a zombie apocalypse. 

I think it’s hilarious that the narrator caused the problem (”I waved the magic wand, now it’s gone beyond control”) and his only solution is pepper and salt. Apparently it works, but it’s funny that the solution would be so simple.

I imagine that the corresponding character in my universe would be similar, being the one person to help, but also having caused the problem (zombies).

I think the idea goes well with a couple of other songs:

- “Bad Idea”: About a guy who finds himself in a creepy ghost town and ends up fighting zombies with a cool sword

- “Funkytown”: About a guy warning you not to go to Funkytown, as no one who’s gone has ever come back. Also the town burned down

Picture this:

Main characters are warned not to go to Funkytown. They get lost and wind up there anyway. They stop at a house for some reason. Their car disappears. The nearby payphones don’t work. It’s 2023, jeez this town is old.

They meet Mr./Ms. Pepper and Salt, who says “I think there was something over there you could use. Also, take these” and hands them salt and pepper shakers. He seems odd, so they accept the shakers but don’t think much of them. He also seems a little untrustworthy.

They end up at a graveyard, at which zombies happen. I think it technically makes more sense for the zombies to already be out of the ground, but everybody loves some bursting-out-of-the-ground zombie action. They see The Sword, it works for a bit, but eventually they resort to lightly seasoning the zombies, which actually works, because magic or Stands or something.

It’s revealed through backstory that Mr. Pepper and Salt was the one who ended up getting the town cursed, what an idiot.

The twist of the salt and pepper actually working depends on how discreetly I can give it to my characters. It’s better if he just says “you can keep them!” after a meal than “you’ll need those to ward off the zombies.”

Also it’s a Stand maybe?? Honestly I think it might just not be a Stand. The only Stands this arc are the main characters’

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I just noticed that One Weird Tip and Funkytown were just (a month ago) released in their own 2-song EP meaning they count as part of the Lemon Demon discography!!! I love those songs!!!

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Bowling Alley

Did you know Lemon Demon is over 20 years old? Holy cow

“Bowling Alley” is a song from Clown Circus! in which some guy describes an odd dream he had the night before.

This song is assisted meaning-wise by a couple easy connections to other songs:

- The main character is chased by a mall Santa. Luckily, Lemon Demon has an entire album about Christmas. I figured Part 3, Ultimate Destiny, would take place on/around Christmas, so a mall Santa would not be unusual to see.

- The bowling balls are dead president heads, one of which is Abraham Lincoln’s. This isn’t the last dreamed-up Abraham Lincoln head we’ll see, as there is a bonus track for Dinosaurchestra titled “Abraham Lincoln’s Head”

So the mall Santa chasing the main character seems like a necessary inclusion.

I can see most of the song’s events being transferred to the story as one weird arc, but that probably isn’t a good idea

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Lemon Demon

Do demons exist in JoJo’s? Could they?

“Lemon Demon” is the second song in Clown Circus, and is also the name of the band. It’s about the titular Lemon Demon who... sells lemonade?

I figure it would make sense for the Lemon Demon to be the main antagonist of the trilogy (or maybe just the last one, Ultimate Destiny).

I think it would be funny if he had no real motivation. He just thought, “Hey, wouldn’t it be cool if I put all these Stand users in one spot? What would happen then?” He’s just messing around.

What about his powers? The Lemon Demon in the song just seems to sell very addictive lemonade. There is the line that “something in the lemon gives you power“, which could refer to Stand abilities.

It seems kinda dumb for him to be the only source of Stand powers, but it could work. Suppose he goes around feeding people lemonade and they drop dead. Then someone comes up, asks for it, and they get a Stand. The Demon learns that only special people guided by fate or whatever way he phrases it can get powers. So he runs a lemonade stand.

We all know Stand users are attracted by fate. What if a whole bunch of them were put in one place? Would it make some sort of fate black hole? Great things would surely happen.

My idea for Ultimate Destiny is that it would include every single Stand user from previous parts (that means none of them can die before then). That’s like 40-60 characters. How does Lemon Demon manage all those people? Teleportation maybe? Some fast demon travel?

Where does he even come from? In the song, he’s the “spawn of Lucifer”. I don’t want any more demons in my universe than there has to be.

It could be that he’s the polar opposite of some sort of angel/Jesus figure, but all they’d have to go off of is:

- “Sunbeam Light Show Flower Seed”, which actually features “Diablo”, the Devil, as a character (maybe it’s the Lemon Demon?). The line is “Angels on the left side, demons on the right“. In the second chorus, it gets changed to “Lemons on the left side“.

- “Christmas Will Be Soon”, which is more about giving up pagan traditions than about the wonders of baby Jesus Christ

I don’t know his backstory yet. He’s just a funny little guy toying with the affairs of man

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Error

My browser legit crashed writing this and I forgot to rewrite it. So much for being “back”

“Error” is the first song of Lemon Demon’s first album, Clown Circus.

This song is an instrumental. I won’t cover instrumentals much since I usually don’t have much to go off of.

Anyway, remember in Golden Wind when they mentioned the Stand virus meteorite and the first Stand user who shot electricity from his fingers?

“Error” would probably be something like that in my universe. I imagine that the first Stand would cause a few errors.

No idea where Stands would come from. Was thinking of inspiration from Deporitaz/Trapezoid, Lemon Demon’s predecessor. More of a literal “trapezoid” reference, since I haven’t heard any of the songs.

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I’m back, I think

A while ago I figured, “Hey, what if I continued that Lemon Demon thing?”

So after 5 months of straight thinking, I really need to pen some sort of finished product, even if it’s just more stand idea summaries.

JJBA: Lemon Demon is supposed to be a trilogy of stories:

Mysterious Ticking Noise, a story about a boy learning to accept his tinnitus;

BRODYQUEST, a story about two lovers going on the worst road trip ever;

Ultimate Destiny, a story where I put every character in one place and make them fight I guess.

(I believe that their namesakes are the three most famous songs Neil has written.)

Stands are strictly to be named after Lemon Demon songs released in albums. There are no naming restrictions on anything else.

I will be starting with "Error” (Clown Circus) and going on from then. I can and will skip songs entirely if I can’t think of anything at that time.

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Another, maybe better idea from r/fanstands:

What if it was a truck that was particularly warm? So warm in fact that it could melt through walls and melt speeding bullets mid-air.

I have one improvement to make though: a second truck. Two very hot trucks.

Two Trucks

Of course, Two Trucks could be literally just two ghost trucks, or it could be something else. Speaking of “something else”,

Two Trucks, released by Lemon Demon in or before 2013, is certainly a song. It seems to be somewhat mocking over-the-top American patriotism, like Lincoln-on-an-eagle-with-an-AR-15 patriotic.

What if Two Trucks, as a Stand, had the ability to harness the idea of “the most American thing ever”. I don’t know how! It’d just happen I guess

The user should be very patriotic and probably from America, but it’d be hilarious if they weren’t

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Two Trucks

Of course, Two Trucks could be literally just two ghost trucks, or it could be something else. Speaking of “something else”,

Two Trucks, released by Lemon Demon in or before 2013, is certainly a song. It seems to be somewhat mocking over-the-top American patriotism, like Lincoln-on-an-eagle-with-an-AR-15 patriotic.

What if Two Trucks, as a Stand, had the ability to harness the idea of “the most American thing ever”. I don’t know how! It’d just happen I guess

The user should be very patriotic and probably from America, but it’d be hilarious if they weren’t

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Spirit Phone

Every 10 songs, I’ll try to design a Stand based off of something else, since Stands can be named after albums, bands, or individual musicians. That being said, most of the songs so far have been from Spirit Phone.

Spirit Phone (2016), Lemon Demon’s 9th album, was their first full album since View-Monster (2008). Spirit Phone features songs referencing the occult, the paranormal, and the ‘80s.

The Stand “Spirit Phone” may just be the same as Touch-Tone Telephone (I’ve already done Touch-Tone Telephone). Maybe it’s a chapter title? A passing reference? A nickname? I’m not actually qualified to do this kind of thing so I’ll just fake it ‘til I make it

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