Jonathan Joestar ★ History
Un detallado resumen cronológico de la vida de Jonathan Joestar.
Vida Temprana (1868-1880)
De bebé, Jonathan estuvo involucrado en un accidente de carruaje, resultando en la muerte de su madre, Mary Joestar. El padre de Jonathan, George Joestar I, asumió que el padre ladrón de Dio salvó su vida y juró retribuir esa deuda. Jonathan entonces vivió una en cierto modo triste juventud sin su madre. A los 5 años, se le regaló a Jonathan el perro Danny como compañero. Sin embargo, su primer encuentro terminó mal pues Danny tenía miedo y mordió a Jonathan en el brazo. Por un tiempo, Jonathan y Danny eran enemigos y Jonathan seguía molestando a Danny. Sin embargo, un día, Danny salvó a Jonathan de ahogarse. Conmovido, Jonathan dejó de antagonizar a Danny y los dos se hicieron amigos.
Phantom Blood (1880)
Juventud con Dio
Un día, Jonathan va al socorro de una jovencita llamada Erina Pendleton siendo abusada por dos mocosos, solo para ser apaleado a su vez por ser un niño acomodado. Cuando Erina intenta ayudarlo, él rechaza su ayuda y revela que, como un inspirador caballero, está luchando porque es lo correcto, no para llamar su atención. Mientras regresa a casa, Jonathan ve un carruaje y se encuentra con Dio. Aunque Jonathan lo saluda, Dio opta por patear al perro de Jonathan, Danny, en la cara, poniéndolo enfadado. Luego de que Dio es bienvenido por George, Jonathan es completamente victimizado por Dio. La vida de Jonathan deriva en un infierno a medida que Dio intenta romper el espíritu de Jonathan a través de dominancia y aislamiento.[1]
Dio continuamente acosa a Jonathan en todos los frentes. Jonathan es superado en los estudios y los modales perfectos de Dio lo hacen ver mal frente a los ojos de George. Además, Dio sigue impresionando a los niños locales y habla mal de Jonathan, aislándolo de sus compañeros. En ese momento, Jonathan crusa caminos con Erina otra vez; los dos se vuelven cercanos y eventualmente se enamoran, pasando sus días juntos. Dio se da cuenta de esto y decide negarle a Jonathan cualquier oportunidad de romance tomando a la fuerza el primer beso de Erina, inculcando una profunda vergüenza en la chica.
Tras enterarse de la acción de Dio, Jonathan lo confronta en la Mansión Joestar donde su determinación por el honor de Erina y su propia dignidad le da la fuerza para superar a Dio. Jonathan brevemente nota una Máscara de Piedra en su pared reaccionando a la sangre de Dio, pero es distraido por su padre quien intenta detener la pelea antes de que se agrave aún más. A pesar de defenderse de Dio, Jonathan fue incapaz de encontrar a Erina posteriormente, mientras que se entera de que su querido perro, Danny, había muerto tras ser "accidentalmente" puesto en el incinerador. Jonathan sospechaba que la muerte de Danny era obra de Dio, pero Dio había notado el tipo de persona que Jonathan era y decidió fingir las paces entre ellos por el momento.[2]
Adultez (1888)
Siete años después, Jonathan asiste a la Academia Hugh Hudson donde planeaba graduarse como arqueólogo. Durante ese lapso de siete años, Jonathan aún era cauteloso con Dio a pesar de su fachada. Cuando George se enfermó, Jonathan encontró una carta del padre de Dio, Dario, y se da cuenta de que Dio estuvo envenenando a su padre para robar la fortuna de la familia Joestar.[3] Aunque no tenía pruebas físicas aparte de la clara animosidad de Dio hacia su padre biológico, Jonathan dejó al suyo al cuidado de médicos mientras intentaba encontrar un antídoto. La búsqueda de Jonathan lo lleva a Ogre Street, donde logra ganarse la amistad de un pandillero local llamado Robert E. O. Speedwagon, quien había intentado atracarlo antes de darse cuenta del tipo de persona que él era. Con la ayuda de Speedwagon, Jonathan encuentra al suministrador de veneno de Dio, Wang Chan, y obtiene el antídoto para su padre.
Nacimiento de un Vampiro
Jonathan entonces espera a Dio en la Mansión Joestar junto con Speedwagon, George y un escuadrón de la policía para arrestarlo por intento de homicidio. Dio, habiendo aprendido del poder de la Máscara de Piedra, intenta apuñalar a Jonathan. Sin embargo, George repentinamente se pone entre su hijo y Dio, y recibe la daga destinada para Jonathan. Dio se coloca la Máscara de Piedra y la activa con la sangre de George antes de que los alguaciles abran fuego en él, supuestamente matándolo. Jonathan sostiene a su padre en sus brazos y tiene que verlo fallecer. Repentinamente, se revela que Dio está vivo y ataca. Impactado, Jonathan apunta a Dio con una pistola pero no puede llevarse a disparar así que Speedwagon le dispara en la cabeza, en vano pues Dio se ha convertido en un Vampiro.
Dio masacra a los alguaciles y rompe el brazo de Speedwagon. Viendo que Dio se ha vuelto un monstruo, Jonathan se determina a pelear con esta amenaza inhumana. Sin embargo, Dio es sobrenaturalmente fuerte y puede regenerarse de las heridas, haciendo la lucha de Jonathan un esfuerzo casi desesperado. Jonathan es forzado a prender fuego a su hogar con las esperanzas de que el calor amontonado lo mataría. Luego de atraer a Dio al tejado para dejar que el fuego se acumule, Jonathan taclea al Vampiro de forma que ambos caigan en las llamas. Dio aplasta las costillas de JoJo y lo aleja a patadas pero Jonathan logra fijar a la pared una punta de lanza que Dio clavó en su hombro, lo usa como un agarre improvisado y amarra su cinturón al pie de Dio, jalándolo de vuelta abajo. Jonathan apuñala a Dio con el mismísimo cuchillo que mató a su padre y de alguna forma logra hacer que Dio sea empalado en la estatua de la diosa Venus, efectivamente atrapándolo en la vivienda ardiente. Mientras Dio lo maldice, Jonathan logra saltar de una ventana y sigue con vida a pesar de muchas quemaduras y lesiones.[4] Speedwagon logra llevar a Jonathan a un hospital, donde el protagonista termina viendo a Erina por primera vez en siete años. A pesar de las acciones de Dio en el pasado, estos no cambiaron los sentimientos de Erina por Jonathan a medida que lo atiende de vuelta a la salud.[5]
Entrenamiento de Hamon
Tras ser liberado del hospital unos días después, Jonathan conoce a Will Anthonio Zeppeli, un artista marcial italiano entrenado en el arte del Sendō. Zeppeli golpea a Jonathan en el estómago pero el golpe de alguna manera sana sus heridas restantes. Zeppeli entonces revela que Dio sobrevivió la quema de la mansión y ofrece enseñar a Jonathan a utilizar una energía solar basada en la respiración llamada Hamon en orden para derrotar a Dio y destruir la Máscara de Piedra. Después de una pequeña semana de entrenamiento, Jonathan es capaz de usar el Hamon. JoJo ahuyenta a un zombificado Wang Chan quien ha sido enviado para matarlo, pero Wang Chan escapa. Jonathan luego aprende de Speedwagon que Dio aparentemente había montado base en Windknight's Lot, resultando en la desaparición de varios de sus ciudadanos. Acercándose a la aldea, el grupo es atacado por el recién zombificado Jack el Destripador enviado por Dio. Zeppeli ofrece la derrota del zombi como una prueba final para Jonathan, dándole una copa de vino y ordenándole derrotar a Jack sin derramar una gota. Jonathan eventualmente se entera de que el vino está infundido con un Hamon que detecta a la gente cercana. Dándose cuenta de como el Hamon puede viajar a través de los materiales, él detecta a Jack antes de derrotarlo transmitiendo Hamon a través del muro.[6] Una vez en Windknight's Lot, Jonathan y su grupo sin saberlo son llevados por un chico hipnotizado llamado Poco a un cementerio donde el gran número de secuaces de Dio los emboscan el momento que cae la noche.
Fortuna y Coraje
Dio se revela en ese momento, habiendo aprendido del estilo de pelea del Hamon y luce su habilidad para congelar fugazmente a cualquiera que lo toque, previniendo al Hamon de llegar a él con ataques a puño limpio. Los brazos de Zeppeli son congelados y los de Jonathan casi son perdidos también. Seguro de su victoria definitiva, Dio entonces revela a sus más fuertes guerreros zombi, los caballeros Bruford y Tarkus.[7]
Bruford attacks Jonathan with his hair, planning to suck his blood through them. Jonathan cannot transmit the Ripple but manages to burn the hair with a burning Ripple and strikes his own arm. Impressed by Jonathan's spirit and wits, Bruford requests Dio to let him fight the human in a duel. Dio accepts and leaves the place. Bruford takes their battle underwater, where Jonathan is at a disadvantage as he was unable to breathe air in during the fall. Recalling a lesson from his late father, Jonathan dives deeper into the water where he finds air bubbles trapped underneath rocks; using these to breathe, Jonathan is able to generate enough Ripple to force Bruford out of the water. Bruford tries to finish off Jonathan, but Jonathan channels Ripple through the zombie's sword to literally disarm him before unleashing a flurry of 'Sunlight Yellow Overdrive' punches. As Bruford breaks down, he regains his human soul and in respect for Jonathan leaves him his sword, which he renames "Luck and Pluck".[8]
Zeppeli's sacrifice
Tarkus steps in, crushing the remains of Bruford. Zeppeli's arms have been defrosted thanks to Speedwagon but even the Ripple master is wounded because of Tarkus' sheer strength. Cornered at the edge of a cliff, Jonathan and Zeppeli create a leaf-based hang-glider that magnetized with the Ripple and jump along with Speedwagon and the young Poco. Mid-flight, the group sees an ancient knight's battleground where these warriors once trained. Tarkus jumps into the glider and forces the heroes to land on a balcony. Jonathan enters inside and is ambushed. He is collared and finds himself in the "Lair of the Two-Headed Dragon", where two warriors are chained together by the neck, with the chain going up to the ceiling. Unable to breathe properly, Jonathan is at a disadvantage but Poco bravely sneaks into the room to open the door for Zeppeli. Zeppeli steps in, having realized that this is the moment of his death. Despite Zeppeli's intervention, Tarkus manages to tie Zeppeli with the chain and violently yanks it, cutting Zeppeli in half and breaking Jonathan's neck. However, Zeppeli uses the last of his strength to crawl to Jonathan's side and transfers him his Ripple. Empowered, Jonathan heals and easily defeats Tarkus.[9] Jonathan also has to see his Ripple master give him a last goodbye before passing away. Afterwards, Jonathan cremates Zeppeli's body before resuming the search for Dio.
Jonathan vs. Dio
The group heads toward Windknight's Lot. Attacked by a citizen turned in a Zombie named Adams, Jonathan easily dispatches him. Immediately after, Jonathan meets with an unknown man who attacks him. The man uses a special technique to lock Jonathan's arm with his legs but Jonathan headbutts him. Impressed, the warrior named Dire calls off the fight and reveals himself as a Ripple user that Zeppeli called for help. Tonpetty, Straizo, and Dire have come to help the group.
The group reach Dio's castle where Jonathan saves Poco's sister from Doobie before confronting Dio. Facing his archenemy again, Jonathan confesses that he's come not to vanquish evil, but to avenge his fallen friends and loved ones. Dire is nonetheless the first to attack Dio, and is quickly defeated. After Dire is killed by Dio's freezing powers, Jonathan gets the idea to counter Dio's freezing by channeling his Ripple through Luck and Pluck.[10] Dio, livid over Dire's last attack, summons his zombies to take care of the others while he deals with Jonathan one-on-one. Thanks to his sword and Dio's eye wound, Jonathan manages to split Dio's upper body vertically, but Dio's resilience allows him to shrug the sword cut and the Vampire traps Luck and Pluck into his stomach, freezing Jonathan's arms through the sword. Jonathan counters Dio's stratagem by placing Luck and Pluck's tip into a fire nearby, forcing Dio to break away from Jonathan. Finally, Jonathan set his fists on fire to remove Dio's advantage and lands a Ripple-infused punch into Dio's stomach while sending him plummeting off the edge of the balcony. Despite everything, Jonathan mourns for Dio and collapses from exhaustion. After recovering, Jonathan's group destroys the Stone Mask.[11]
Marriage and Conclusion
Two weeks after the Windknight's Lot incident, Jonathan marries Erina and the two board a ship heading to America for a honeymoon. In the middle of the ocean, Jonathan's honeymoon is cut short as he spots Wang Chan lurking near and Jonathan is led to the ship's cargo bay/engine room, where he encounters a bodiless Dio. Dio explains that he's developed some respect for Jonathan and has decided to steal his body, as this body is the only one worthy of him. Dio then shoots beams of pressurized eye fluid at Jonathan. Jonathan's throat is hit and he agonizes, although Dio was aiming at the head for an immediate death. Regardless, Dio orders Wang Chan to rip off Jonathan's head while warning him to be both respectful and wary of his new body. Using the last of his Ripple, Jonathan destroys Wang Chan's head and manipulates his body to obstruct the engines. Jonathan intended this to cause an explosion that would sink the ship and hopefully put an end to Dio for good.
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While Erina was content to die with him in his final moments, Jonathan beseeches her to escape with an infant whose mother died protecting her from the zombies that Wang Chan sired. Dio explains that his coffin is explosion-proof and makes a last-ditch attempt to take Jonathan's body at that time, only to be stabbed and restrained by Jonathan. In his mind, Jonathan reflects on his and Dio's remarkably interwoven history. Erina is shoved into the coffin alongside the baby and Jonathan makes his last good bye to her, wishing her to be happy. Dio attempts to convince Jonathan to let him go with promises of immortality, only to realize that he had already died before the two were consumed in the inferno caused by the ship's explosion.[12] Thanks to Jonathan Joestar's heroic sacrifice, the Joestar Family survives through Erina and their unborn son and Dio is sealed at the bottom of the sea.
Legacy
Jonathan's story was known only to a few, namely his son George Joestar II and later his grandson Joseph Joestar and his descendants. Despite Jonathan's last act, Dio manages to take the headless body of his rival for his own and resurfaces from the ocean depths a century later.[13] Once freed, the renamed DIO uses Jonathan's body to impregnate a few women: resulting in the births of Giorno Giovanna, Donatello Versus, Ungalo, and Rikiel. DIO then pierces his new body with the Bow and Arrow, awakening the ability to use a Stand. DIO also gave Enrico Pucci one of Jonathan's bones to enact his dream of 'ascending to Heaven'.
During the events of Stardust Crusaders, DIO decides to completely integrate Jonathan's body to perfect his Stand by using Joseph's blood as a catalyst, but ends up being utterly defeated by Jonathan's great-great-grandson, Jotaro Kujo. After DIO's death by Jotaro's hand, he and Joseph expose what remained of Jonathan's body to the sun as an apparent end to their feud with DIO, allowing Jonathan to finally rest in peace.
Major Battles
- Jonathan vs Dio Brando (At Joestar Mansion; child)
- Jonathan vs Dio (when Dio becomes a vampire)
- Jonathan vs Jack the Ripper[14]
- Jonathan & Zeppeli vs Dio
- Jonathan vs Bruford[15]
- Jonathan vs Tarkus[16]
- Jonathan vs Dio Brando (final battle)[17]
JORGE JOESTAR
Jonathan Joestar has a minor role in the light novel JORGE JOESTAR. After Erina enters Dio's coffin to escape the explosion of the ship on their honeymoon trip, she looks back wondering if she could somehow get Jonathan inside as well. However, Jonathan is using the last of his strength to hold Dio in his arms and Erina would not be able to move him in time. As the explosion hits, Dio escapes from Jonathan's grip and decapitates him before barely attaching his head to Jonathan's body. He impales Jonathan's feet to a stick of wood embedded in the tattered side of the coffin, allowing him to travel along with Erina.
While on his voyage with Erina, Dio would often use Jonathan's name to torture her, claiming things like Jonathan died because of Erina. A day later, Erina realizes that Dio must have brought Jonathan's head with him. After Dio throws Erina underwater while torturing her, she sees Jonathan's head bobbing up and down under debris of the ship near the coffin. Erina swims to Jonathan's head assuming he would look like a Zombie but his flesh miraculously hadn't decayed and he still looked alive. Even Dio is surprised to see Jonathan's condition, thinking he had made Jonathan a zombie with his blood. Erina ends up keeping Jonathan's head with her, feeling that he is still alive. When she and Lisa Lisa are rescued by a fisherman, she hides his head in a torn piece of her dress. Erina has hope that Jonathan will get his body back from Dio someday and keeps his head at her home's basement in La Palma.[18]
Eventually, Jonathan's head moves with Erina and George Joestar II to their basement in England.[19]
Tonpetty tells George II that Jonathan was barely a man at all. He was a spoiled boy, weak willed, not very smart, and prone to taking the easy way out. However, Jonathan always had a glimmer of courage.[20]
In the final battle against Dio Brando, Jorge Joestar37 cuts off the supplementary head from the Saint's Corpse and places Jonathan's head on the stump. Jonathan's head fits on the body perfectly, as it was actually his body originally. During Dio's earlier fight against Kars, Dio's body had split apart into pieces in the second universe, becoming what people in the Steel Ball Run race thought was the corpse of a holy man.
Erina wraps her shawl around Jonathan's waist so he wouldn't be naked. For a moment, Jorge could see Jonathan's Stand The Passion around his head. Jonathan revives and suddenly starts laughing, claiming that he is actually Dio since Dio had given him his blood after cutting off Jonathan's head on the boat. Everybody is shocked aside from Erina who could tell that he is joking. She scolds him by saying he should at least thank everyone for their help instead of joking like that.
Jonathan states that he couldn't remember anything after he passed out in the ship but he felt like he was watching a very long dream and what he just did was an inside joke between him and Dio, referencing what Joseph Joestar does in the future. When Dio was using The Passion to watch the futures of Jonathan's descendants, Jonathan had also been seeing them. Erina and Jonathan have a tearful reunion. Erina hesitates mentioning what happened to their son, George II, and Jonathan looks confused. He had figured out that George was hiding inside a parallel world within the body of the 37th universe's Jorge. George leaps out of the parallel world and the Joestar family all have a group hug.[21]
37th Universe
An incarnation of Jonathan appears in the 37th universe, living in America with his father George Joestar I37 and adopted brother Dio Brando37.
Jonathan's grandson Joseph Joestar37 describes Jonathan as a gentleman, kindhearted, handsome, and so athletic that he played rugby with younger men until quite late in life. Jonathan eventually dies trying to stop his brother Dio from robbing a train.[22]
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