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nibwhipdragon · 11 months

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OK I AM VERY INTERESTED IN YOUR WIPS

"I'm sick in the head" AND "Coughs and wheezes" ARE REALLY COOL IDEAS??? I WANNA HEAR MORE ABT THOSE!!!

OK THEN, YOU SHALL HEAR MORE ABOUT THEM

Putting this all under a read more just in case it gets too long, which I don't think it will? But just in case

Hi it's me from 7 hours later. This thing got Long. I'm sure you expected that, as we constantly enable each other to rant for ages, but yeah. Coughs and wheezes I have a Lot of thoughts on, it takes up the majority of this. Enjoy this bestie <3

Ok, I will start with I'm sick in the head first. Like I've already said, it's a lil oneshot about Joseph and The Horrors he has to put up with during Battle Tendency. Personally, I do think the reason he jokes so much and everything in pt2 seems to not affect him (unlike Jotaro, who has Problems in the later parts due to pt3) is because he's been through too much, and developed a sort of apathy for all stuff like that as a result. Like he just. Cannot properly give a shit about things like the rings and such at that point in his life. It'd also explore my ideas on Joseph having a bad childhood leading up to him developing this apathy, with my thoughts on Speedwagon and Erina comparing him to Jonathan so much (in a well meaning sense ofc, it's just that the comparisons....aren't too good for Joseph's perception of himself). It'd also explore the sorta stuff Joseph would've gone through as a kid in school and such too, because. Yeah being neurodivergent in school is bad nowadays, god forbid him being neurodivergent in the education system in the 1920s.

The fic takes place from Caesar's POV, in which he experiences abject horror towards finding out that Joseph, the person he's come to admire and respect so strongly is so broken. I've been trying to write it for a while, just got into a rut with it and...stopped.

Coughs and wheezes is a much more recent WIP...sorta? I just couldn't stop thinking about this fic I wrote for caejose week, and it just all unravelled into the plans for a longfic rewrite. The whole thing would mostly explore the stuff canon would not (Battle Tendency could've been SO MUCH MORE), as well show the aftermath of pt2 instead of just. A simple short epilogue. Araki did NOT elaborate on the effects that All That would've had on the cast, both physically and mentally (JOSEPH'S KNEE GETTING MELTED WITH SUPERCHARGED HAMON HELLO???????). And Lisa Lisa and Joseph ough. What an interesting duo (ill over them both). Their relationship would be explored much more in the fic than in canon. Just. Holy Shit Lisa Lisa That Is Your Son WHAT Are You Doing. I am 100% convinced that she isn't mentioned in later jjba parts at all(excluding Araki's writing being Like That, as well as misogyny) is because of her telling Joseph that she was his mother and him just. Being rightfully pissed at her because of all she put him through and simply deciding not to talk to her again unless necessary. Lisa Lisa is actually such an interesting character this fic will 100% have a look into her being Like That too.

Honestly this fic would just be expanding on all the characters, really. Like do you ever think about Kars and how he immediately dropped the honour act the moment Whammu died as if Whammu would turn against him at the drop of a hat if he was dishonourable in combat, though still being shown to harbour at least some sort of care for the other Pillar Men, not really viewing them as tools like he viewed Santana. Do you ever think about him becoming the Ultimate Lifeform with nobody left to share it with he would have to spend eternity with nobody with him. So incredibly lonely. You ever think about how he seems to despise humans but care for "lesser beings" like dogs. You ever think about how pt2 takes place after the industrial revolution, in which things became a lot more polluted and cities would be ridiculously smoggy and such. And I am absolutely certain that in their hunt for the stone they would've come across nazis and that. And they very likely would've heard or seen what their ideals were. Yknow. Eugenics and anti-semitism and racism and all that, trying to "prune" the human race into being "perfect" like they were Gods, above everything else. You ever think about how his drive to get the stone and become the Ultimate Lifeform may have at this point in time also be to put the human race in their place and remind them that they are not Gods and they shouldn't act like such. Actually thinking about genocide, don't you find it kinda odd that Kars ended up wiping out almost the entirety of his race JUST for clashing ideas on his desire to become the Ultimate Lifeform? There had to be something else going on istg

You ever think about Caesar and his past. You ever think about how he was poor and homeless. Him and his siblings getting ill would be TERRIBLE for them, with no way to stay safe and recover from illness peacefully, and no way to get medicine if needed. You ever think about how to avoid illness is to keep clean, eat non-contaminated and clean food, to not live in dirty places that would create a good enviroment for bacteria and such to thrive in. You ever think about Caesar and his whole thing with soap. You know. The thing you use to clean with. His whole past, with him being homeless and poor actually affects him quite a lot, like he dresses in fancy clothing, and eats at nice expensive restaurants now that he's got the money. He doesn't want to waste the opportunity to have all that now that he's no longer poor. He doesn't want to waste any opportunities at all, actually now that I think about it. He wanted to not waste the opportunity of attacking the Pillar Men during the day so badly he died. And, of course, when you're homeless you absolutely have to take every opportunity that comes your way, because who knows when another will come by, if not taking it will cause you to not stay alive long enough to see the next one come around? You ever think about how he was forced to take care of all his siblings from a ridiculously young age, being the oldest of them all with nobody to help him, essentially having to be a parent? He'd have to become so independent from such a young age and don't you think this would've led to the way he acts in pt2, with how he *gets shot*

I have been getting SO off track oh my god. Well. I guess it's kinda related as I'll be exploring what canon did not but. Yeah. I hope you enjoyed that detour

Anyways, Joseph. I am not exactly sure if I'd give her the same chosen name as I did for the fic I'm basing this off of. Probably will give the same name if I'm honest, it'd be very good for some changes to the Esidisi fight (When he's possessing Suzi) that I have planned. She'd also only find out her identity during the fic (though very close to the start) because that's a quite interesting thing to write. Though ofc there were trans people in the 1920s and 30s, it certainly wasn't as known of a thing, especially with some of the research on trans people was burned and destroyed by the Third Reich. Especially since Joseph would've had like. Nobody to even learn about the LGBT community from as it has been explicitly stated before that Joseph had no friends outside Smokey. Maybe he'd learn about gay people from Speedwagon but other than that that's it. I don't think I've seen a fic in which the trans character doesn't really have the words or ideas to explain what is up with them. I think it'd be really interesting to take this route with Joseph imo, especially with my whole idea of him being compared to Jonathan a bunch (When recalling how he first found out that Joseph could use hamon, Speedwagon compares him to Jonathan. He's also compared to Jonathan in the way he looks. I'm sure there's probably more comparisons regarding his behaviour that we don't see.) and how that'd affect him. Like I've told you before in that one headcanon ask game ages ago, I feel that he'd grow to think that Erina and Speedwagon would rather have Jonathan over him. That leaves Joseph with some very big boots to fill; with that in mind, I also feel that he'd feel like he'd have to "be" a Jonathan to them. Which obviously he can't do, as Jonathan is Jonathan and Joseph is Joseph. You can't become someone you're not. With that taken in context of the fic I think that the whole thing would become much more complex and interesting (and angsty) to write, and also to read. Having Joseph struggle with her gender identity, going from "What is up with me why do I always feel out of place and why does femininity feel so RIGHT", to "Do I just not like the standards placed on me for being a man and that's why the concept of femininity and being a woman feels so freeing and right to me or is there something more serious going on", to "Oh. I AM a woman and that's why I feel like this. I have the horrific feeling that I have let everyone in my life down. Oh God Oh Fuck what am I meant to do how can I live like this" is a breath of fresh air from all the trans character fics I've read where either they come to terms immediately with it or it's already established, one that I am very much willing to provide. Ofc, there's nothing wrong with the previously mentioned forms of trans fics, it's just good to always have some variety. Also. The Horrors. The majority of pt2 takes place in Italy, which was very much fascist at the time. Can you imagine. Caesar and Suzi and Lisa Lisa, as well as Loggins and Messina aren't transphobic, for proper reasons I HAVE thought out despite living in Italy all their lives (ESPECIALLY Suzi and Caesar, seeing that they would've grown up with Mussolini's rule and thus would've been much more likely to be indoctrinated into fascism), as well as the Pillar Men being chill because it simply isn't that big of a deal to them. But can you imagine everybody else. In Italy. The surveillance state. It'd be straight up HORRIFYING for Joseph, she'd struggle so much in actually sorting out her identity safely, even with the others willing to support and help. Uh oh I can't remember where I was trying to go with this uhhhhhhhh. Basically Joseph's gonna struggle. Like. A LOT in this fic, be ready for that when I start posting it...eventually. It might've taken ages to write but now someone (you) has shown great interest in it I think I'll possibly be able to pull another Breadcrust Crusaders and crank it chapters out like my life is on the line. Anything for you, Kirsten. Anything.

It sounds like that should've been the ending to this post, but it's not! It's me making the post, so of course there's more. There's always more. Anyways. Like I've iterated multiple times already the fic will be expanding on characters and fixing flaws in canon and changing things I personally dislike. One of the things I'll be changing bc I don't like it is the Pillar Men designs. Araki coulda done so much more, but didn't, and now it is my responsibility to do that. Haven't gotten everything ironed out yet. But there are 2 things I'm gonna have the designs lean more into.

Make them look more powerful and intimidating

Lean into a rock and stones motif, because COME ON THE OPPORTUNITY WAS THERE

All I've really got down is to make them much taller atm, like 3.5 meters tall? Just gotta have them loom over everyone else really. And for the stone and rocks motif so far I've decided to have their horns look more like jagged shards of rocks, much less neat than in canon. As well as that their redesigns would entail their teeth being much less human, more fanged really, and seeing as teeth are white (well. they're not they're more of a cream or yellow colour PERFECTLY WHITE TEETH ISN'T NATURAL THEY'RE LYING TO YOU PEOPLE THAT READ THIS DON'T EVER STRESS ABOUT YOUR TEETH NOT BEING PERFECTLY WHITE IT IS OK) I think them being iridescent like some gemstones are would be really cool. More specifically the sort of iridescence that opals have, because surprisingly with gemstones there's multiple types of iridescence that all look different. There's definitely still more I wanna add/change but that's all I got rn

I have a gun to Caesar's head. Shall I have him doomed by the narrative like in canon, or do I spare him? Both are very interesting to me, seeing as I'm planning to write some slice-of-life-esque stuff after the plot of pt2 for this fic. Both would deal with his aftermath, just in wildly different ways...hmmm...well. I think I'll decide when I get to it.

Coughs and wheezes is kinda split into 2 in my head actually, with the pt2 stuff and then the post pt2 stuff. The pt2 stuff is MUCH more thought out. Perhaps I will make the fic scheduled (I will continue serving JoJo Fridays again...just like when I was writing Breadcrust Crusaders...suddenly nostalgic...) and then take a lil hiatus to properly work on the post pt2 stuff. Depends on how much I can cook up for it while writing the earlier chapters really

#answered asks #Playing around with possibilities for both if Caesar lives or dies...hmmm I think I MAY be leaning a lil more towards live #ig you'll see what I decide eventually :3 #my writing process is so discombobulated I have no idea how I do it #(longfics at least)#can you tell how much I wanna write coughs and wheezes. can you

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