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"Cette course ne connaîtra pas l'échec! Il n'y a que des aventuriers! La Steel Ball Run sera une expérience comme le monde n'en a jamais connu!"

- Steven Steel,

Steven Steel (スティーブン・スティール) est un personnage secondaire de la septième partie de JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Steel Ball Run.

Steel est le promoteur de la Steel Ball Run, et est marié à la jeune Lucy Steel. Il est un homme mûr qui a vécu une vie mouvementée et il est mêlé dans les plans de Funny Valentine dans le cadre de la course.

Apparence
Steven Steel est un homme mature mesurant environ 190 & nbsp; cm, et un peu comme Foo Fighters, il possède des des cheveux couvrant le haut du crâne comme une sorte de calotte, aux bords dentelé à ses extrémités et à la textures étrangement lisse comme un bonnet.

Sa tenue se compose généralement d'un manteau à col haut orné de plusieurs pompons en forme de plumes sur le col et d'un pantalon assorti. Steven porte également des lunettes rectangulaires.

Personnage
Steven Steel se révèle être un personnage anxieux malgré sa façade audacieuse en tant qu'organisateur et hôte de la Steel Ball Run. Pendant la majeure partie de sa vie, Steven Steel a cultivé une personnalité grandiloquente et excentrique, devenant un artiste, un sportif et d'autres emplois au centre de la scène, et il trouva sa vocation de promoteur pour divers événements. Malgré les hauts et les bas de sa carrière, Steven a toujours réussi à rebondir vers le succès. Steven projette également l'image d'un promoteur sévère et confiant qui aborde tout problème avec calme et autorité. Lorsqu'un assistant signale de nombreux problèmes pendant les préparatifs, Steven augmente calmement le budget et ordonne que les fauteurs de troubles soient expulsés. En privé, Steven est plein de doutes et ne rêve que d'une célébrité modeste, se contentant qu'un papier imprime son nom même au bas de la page tant que sa contribution est reconnue. Il ne partage ses pensées qu'avec Lucy.

Stevel Steel est un romantique a possède plusieurs idéaux. Il promeut notamment la Steel Ball Run comme une apologie de l'esprit de pionnier de l'humanité, avec l'intention de faire en sorte que pour la première fois, un homme traverse les États-Unis seul avec son cheval et accepte tous les autres véhicules utilisés dans la course comme un défi à cet esprit. Il considère également que le «véritable échec» consiste à abandonner cet esprit pionnier et à éviter les épreuves. Steven Steel se satisfait également du peu de renommée que ses événements lui accordent du moment qu'on reconnaisse sa contribution et ne semble pas rechercher à faire du profit car il a offert tous les bénéfices de la course à diverses charités et a également refusé de faire exprès de perdre un match pendant sa carrière de boxeur, même si des gangsters lui avaient tiré dans le genou par représailles. Steven a également fait l'effort de sauver Lucy de la mafia pour retourner la faveur, en remerciement de la fois où elle fût la seule à l'encourager à promouvoir une course de cheval à travers les Etats-Unis.

Steven a une relation privilégiée et platonique avec sa femme, Lucy. Après être tombé amoureux une fois dans sa jeunesse, Steven a été désespéré par la mort de sa fiancée et a promis de ne plus jamais aimer. Fidèle à cela, bien qu'il soit le mari de Lucy et que tout le monde la considère comme la femme trophée d'un vieil homme salace, Steven ne l'a jamais touchée et la considère comme sa protégée. Comme elle a été la première à l'encourager alors qu'il avait touché le fond et était alors un sans-abris, et qu'en retour il l'a sauvée des mains des gangsters, Steven et Lucy partagent une grande affection et une confiance mutuelle. Steven est tellement attaché à Lucy qu'il n'hésite pas à risquer sa vie pour la sauver.

Steven est un complice réticent de Funny Valentine pour trouver les parties Corps Saint, ayant accepté de collaborer même s'il n'était pas au courant de la violence de l'opération. Bien qu'il connaisse leur existence et ait une vague idée de leur pouvoir, Steel ne s'intéressa jamais aux parties du Corps Saint durant la course.

Abilities
Promoting: Steven is a talented promoter, having to his name several bizarre events that he promoted and became popular stories with the public, which made him rich. Steven is also partly responsible for the popularity of the Steel Ball Run race. As a public relations expert, he's given inspiring speeches and arranged things so that journalists would regularly be able to observe and report the race.

Horse riding: Steven Steel is a gifted horseman. Having joined the cavalry but soon retiring from the army because of an illness, his skills would never be put to profit during his life. However, his horse riding skill becomes crucial when he comes to save Johnny, struck by his own ability, and thus shows that he can ride a horse perfectly and allows Johnny to perform another Golden Spin.

Background
Steven Steel was born in 1840 in New York in a family of Irish immigrants. His father was a blacksmith and Steven was the fourth of a family of seven children. When he was 15 he fell in love with the beautiful daughter of a florist and the two vowed to be together, but she died in a carriage accident that year. At the time, Steven fell into a deep state of despair and promised to never fall in love again. He joined the cavalry but was never sent to wars nor expeditions. He spent two years in a deserted island hospital. The following years he changed jobs each year until he was 28. These jobs are:


 * 1856 - 1863 : Circus performer. He began with a simple trick and swallowed fished before making them come out of his nose disguised as an Asian man as a part-time job. It became a hit and Steven became the star of his circus 1859. Steven would then introduce "The Midget Women Wrestling", "The Bug-Eyed Man" and "Pigs on a Tightrope" in 1861, all hits. However, he's fired in 1863 because of his growing pride.
 * 1865- 1867 : Boxer. However, he ignores a rigged game and beats his opponents. A gang shoots him in the knee for this and he abandons this career.
 * 1866 : Debt collector.

He disappeared for 13 years and then reappeared as an adventurer searching for dinosaurs in Costa Rica in 1881. Two years later, he dubbed himself a promoter and all the newspapers talked about him

One day, a scandal about a monkey disguised as an alien caused him to be dubbed as a fraud, but he had nothing to do with the scandal. No one believed him and he had to sell his mansion. At his worst moment, an idea came to change his luck, "a long distance horse-ride", the one thing he wasn't able to do in the cavalry. He searched for sponsors without results. Not having eaten in days and severely drunk he sat by the edge of the street, interrupted by a young Lucy Pendleton who was listening to his mumbling. Lucy came up with the idea of a race across the entire American continent with a winning prize of 50 million dollars. He scolds her for that idea and returned to the bar, got in a fight, and fell asleep behind the urinals. The next day, a group of people surrounded him and asked about the cross-continental race, willing to sponsor it. It is, however, hinted by Funny Valentine's comments on the Steel Ball Run being a venue to claim the Corpse Parts that he was behind Steven's sponsorship for the race. In any case, Funny Valentine and Steven Steel would meet and organize the race together, Valentine notably choosing each steps of the race to uncover the Saint's Corpse while Steven Steel promoted the race to all newspapers.

Two years later, he remembered about the girl who gave him his chance. When he met her again, she was grown up and identical to his first love. Steven told her father he wanted to pay his daughter back for the favor she gave him, but her father told him that he was forced to sell his daughter to a gang to be a prostitute. To protect her, Steven told her father to lie about Lucy having lost her virginity to Steven, to force the gang to give her up. After Lucy returned, she offered to marry him. Initially, Steven objected to the idea, wishing for her to grow up, marry someone her age, and live a normal life, but eventually gave in and married her. Despite this, Steven was reported by Lucy as never laying a hand on her. The two would develop a deep relationship of trust and loyalty, which remained platonic.

Promoting the SBR
As the promoter of the Steel Ball Run race, Steven is present in San Diego to give his final presentation of the race, oversee the organization of the starting line, and welcome important observers.

During the first stage, Steven notices Gyro Zeppeli's performance and orders a background check on this mysterious participant. He learns that he arrived in America on a royal boat but doesn't learn anything afterwards. However, Steven puts Gyro under watch, as a potential candidate for gathering the Corpse Parts. After the first stage, Steven is brought to a crime scene and sees the three disemboweled corpses of three racers. Not wanting to stop the race, Steven allows the sheriff to bring in Mountain Tim to investigate the matter.

During the second stage, Steven inquires about Gyro Zeppeli and if the Napolitan has a Corpse Part, which worries his assistant. Discussing with President Funny Valentine, Steel is shocked to hear him mentioning murdering Gyro so casually and protests about killing anyone, but he doesn't have any choice on the matter.

Steven continues to work on the race. Unbeknownst to him, Lucy also discovers the true goal of the Steel Ball Run and acts behind his back to keep the Corpse Parts out of Valentine's reach. Her operation ends when she infiltrates a presidential facility in Chicago and must disguise herself as Scarlet Valentine. Hot Pants fakes Lucy's death in order to protect her. "Lucy"'s corpse is found near the Fox River, off the shore of Lake Michigan. Steel is heartbroken for a moment but he glimpses the corpse and intuitively sees that Lucy's corpse is not genuine.

The final battles for the Saint
For approximately four weeks, doubt gnaws at Steven who cannot believe it was Lucy on the shore. In Philadelphia, Steven stays in a coach and examines several photos before coming to the conclusion that somehow the First Lady is Lucy. However, the agent Magent Magent confronts him and shoots him in the chest. Gravely wounded, Steel is then protected by Wekapipo who eventually puts Magent out of commission for good.

Steven is retrieved by the authorities and brought to Independance Hall, near Lucy. He is held captive but is not treated. Lucy manages to bring Steven outside of the compound, but it lured to Funny Valentine's ship. Valentine nonetheless swears to Lucy that he will not kill Steven. Steven is brought alongside Lucy on the presidential train to New Jersey.

During the battle between Johnny Joestar, Gyro Zeppeli and Funny Valentine, Steven regained consciousness and brought Lucy out of the train to save her from the effects of Ticket to Ride. Gyro takes Lucy and flees to the coast. Steven's intervention only delays Valentine's plans but do give Johnny a needed reprieve from Valentine's attack. Angry at this inconvenience, Valentine slams Steven against the car and stomps on his wounds, but refrains from killing him. After Valentine's defeat, Steven is seemingly healed by Johnny Joestar. The three believe the battle to be over but Johnny notices that someone has taken the corpse. There is a last, unknown enemy to confront. Steven mentions a vault specially built under Trinity Church to store the Saint's Corpse and advises Johnny to follow the race to find the enemy. During this, he witnesses Lucy behead Diego Brando with the intent of killing the other Diego Brando. Steven reappears in Manhattan Bridge riding a horse towards Johnny Joestar. Johnny has been hit with his own Super Spin but Steven tells him to take his arm. Steven's riding allows Johnny to shoot himself again and free himself from Tusk ACT4's infinite Spin. Steven then joins Lucy in the vault and is content with sealing the Saint's Corpse's in it, with no proprietor to claim it.

Aftermath
In the aftermath of the Steel Ball Run, Steven Steel is criticized for the huge loss of human lives during the race but he silences the press when he gives all the money he's won through the race to charity. What happens to Steven Steel afterward is unknown.

Jump Super Stars (DS)
Steven Steel appears as the JOJO'S BIZARRE ADVENTURE/STEEL BALL RUN representing character for the menu guider, explaining every mode and other things to the player.

All-Star Battle (PS3)
Steven Steel appears in the background of the Philadelphia Coast Stage alongside Lucy. He also appears as the menu guide for Campaign Mode.

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