Soft & Wet (ソフト＆ウェット, Sofuto Ando Wetto) est le Stand de Josuke Higashikata, qui appartenait initialement à Josefumi Kujo. Il figure dans la huitième partie de JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, JoJolion. C'est un Stand humanoïde avec un thème marin qui génère des bulles de savon pouvant voler n'importe quoi.
Soft & Wet est un Stand humanoïde à l'apparence mécanique et relativement lisse, de couleur claire et avec une taille similaire à celle de Josuke.
Sa tête est relativement ovale et lisse. Deux tiges de forme étoilée avec une base en coupelle sortent de chaque côté de sa tête là où seraient ces oreilles. Il a des yeux ronds lisses et avec une seule strie verticale au milieu qui servent de pupilles. Son visage est partagé en deux par un creux strié qui part du haut et qui traverse son visage jusque vers le torse.
Soft & Wet a un torse relativement large et plat, en forme de coeur avec donc les épaules large puis avec sa silhouette qui s'affine vers la taille. Le creux qui avait commencé avec sa tête continue sur son torse, en adoptant la forme d'une ancre. Son dos est lisse, à part le même creux vertical au milieu de celui-ci. Le torse et le dos sont des plaques séparés et on peut entrevoir une masse sombre correspondant à son véritable corps entre les deux parties.
Ses bras et ses jambes sont couverte de la même carapace lisse rappelant la céramique. Il a aussi des épaulières en forme de cœur élancé décorés avec des étoiles. Ses articulations sont des rotules sphériques avec notamment les coudes étant reliés aux bras par des câbles. Son pelvis est aussi purement mécanique, une large tige reliant son torse à son entrejambe, protégé par une plaque. Des disques relient les hanches au jambes, qui sont aussi protégés par des plaques.
Le design a été créé pour correspondre à la tenue de Josuke, plutôt qu'à sa capacité. Araki a imaginé un uniforme de marin associé aux dispositifs de flottaison d'un gilet de sauvetage.[1] Dans ses apparitions ultérieures, Soft & Wet gagne un joyau sous son cou et ses épaulières deviennent plus triangulaires. Ses antennes deviennent plus longues aussi.[1]
Dans le manga couleur, Soft & Wet est blanc et violet. Dans les adaptations jeux vidéos de la série, Soft & Wet est jaune et vert.
Les bulles de Soft & Wet étaient normaux auparavant. Cependant, elles ont acquises un symbole en forme d'étoile à cinq branches après que Josefumi Kujo ait fusionné avec Kira. Les bulles sont coupés en deux parties assez distincts dont l'une a sa moitié d'étoile déformée, donnant l'impression que ce sont des fusions entre deux bulles.
Palettes
The series is known for alternating colors between media, the information presented below may or may not be canon.
Colored MangaAll-Star Battle & Eyes of Heaven
Corps(Blanc-bleu)
Détails
(Tubes violets, pièces et symboles, étoiles jaune clair)
Corps(Corps et étoiles jaunes)
Détails(Tubes verts, pièces et symboles)
Personnalité
Le cri de combat de Soft & Wet est "ORA ORA ORA ORA" d'une manière similaire à d'autres membres de la Famille Joestar. Quelques fois, un "ORA" est échangé avec un "ARA".
Pouvoirs
Général
Soft & Wet est un stand humanoïde de courte portée. Il possède une certaine force physique, qui est démontrée quand il brise une grande partie d'un mur d'appartement avec un seul coup de pied, et est capable de combattre au corps à corps avec des coups rapides. L'ampleur des dégâts qu'il peut infliger est toutefois limitée, car il est incapable de briser des roches.
Sa force au combat est aussi prouvée quand il est capable de battre le Stand de Yotsuyu Yagiyama, I Am a Rock, au combat au corps-à-corps. Malgré sa volée de frappes rapides, Soft & Wet l'a facilement évité et battu avec un seul coup de poing en criant "ORA".[2]
Lorsque son manieur Josefumi Kujo devient Josuke Higashikata (JoJolion) en raison d'un échange équivalent, Soft & Wet acquiert aussi des pouvoirs supplémentaires par ce moyen.
Pre-Echange Équivalent
Génération de bulles
Josuke surrounding himself in a bubble
Soft & Wet generates star-embedded floating bubbles, which must make contact with its target to work effectively. However, Josuke can control where the bubbles can fly, allowing him to send them where they are needed. The bubbles are actually comprised of tiny cords vibrating at super-high speeds, giving them the appearance of spheres.[3]
Josuke often takes direct advantage of his bubbles and their properties. The bubbles have some lifting power, allowing Josuke to envelop others like Yotsuyu Yagiyama in a giant bubble and lift them in the air,[4] as well as help him reach vantage points. Josuke has also enveloped himself and allies with giant bubbles to take advantage of their situational protection.
In addition to this, Soft & Wet is able to create bubbles utilizing existing substances, as demonstrated when it creates a shield from a bottle of water during Josuke's pursuit by Blue Hawaii.
As the story has progressed, Josuke has developed this ability. Early in the story, he would often use one bubble, but later on, is shown conjuring dozens upon dozens with a quick flurry of strikes.
Plunder
Soft & Wet's signature ability is to "steal something from [an object] and take it for itself", which works in conjunction with the bubbles. Josuke can thus steal aspects or properties of inanimate and living things. Said properties seem to also be smaller objects that come from a bigger object. Soft and Wet can also transfer stolen properties to other objects. Properties Josuke has plundered include:
A human's sight: After bursting near Joshu's eyes, Josuke's bubble completely blinds Joshu for a few seconds, making it appear that Joshu's eyes have popped.[5]
The water contained in a human's body: With one bubble, Josuke covertly punctures several ~5mm holes in a woman's body in order to quickly drain her of water and provoke thirst.[6]
Sound: Josuke steals the sound from a wall or a light switch, preventing any noise that would have been caused upon breaking it or turning it off.[7]
His own facial hair: Josuke uses Soft & Wet while shaving his face when Hato and Joshu are in the bathroom as well. Soft & Wet's bubbles in the shaving foam pop onto Hato and Joshu's faces, planting Josuke's hair onto their faces instead.[8]
A cat's fur: Seemingly without pain, Josuke removes the majority of a live cat's fur and relocates it, in the shape of a cat, in order to obscure the view of a security camera.[9]
Friction: Josuke removes the friction from a floor, creating an ice-like slippery surface.[10]
Smell: Josuke traps an odor and various into a bubble and has it attached to his foe Born This Way. When the bubble bursts, he can track down the Stand's user by smell and sound.[11]
Small objects: Josuke when fighting the A. Phex Brothers filled his bubbles with screws and nuts to fire out upon bursting.[12]
The stolen objects can stay in the bubble and are still able to bust later (as shown with the bubble with the sound of the light switch).[7] The exact quantity and type of object Josuke may steal, how long he may keep them, and how it is redistributed is currently undefined. According to Josuke, Soft & Wet's ability cannot be applied to himself.[10]
While Josefumi Kujo was in control of Soft & Wet, this ability was described as "absorption". As a stand user, Josefumi was experienced enough to utilize his ability with extreme levels of precision. For example, Josefumi was able to use Soft & Wet at precisely enough to fuse two to seamlessly graft a loose branch onto a different plant, an ability which he and Yoshikage Kira attempted to use for the cultivation of Locacaca.[13] Josefumi was also shown using his soap bubbles to remove excess amounts of black pepper from his bowl of ramen.
Post-Equivalent Exchange
Josuke's Soft & Wet produces bubbles that are a hybrid of Josefumi and Kira's abilities
In addition to its aforementioned abilities, Soft & Wet's gains properties after its original user undergoes equivalent exchange with the late Yoshikage Kira. Josuke's Soft & Wet is able to create bubbles which are a hybrid of its own and Killer Queen's, which are divided down the center with a visible seam connecting both halves. This lead to a change in Soft & Wet's ability, adopting properties of Kira's ability.
Bomb Creation
Bubble Bombs exploding from the ground
As a result of their hybrid nature, Soft & Wet's bubbles retain some aspects of Killer Queen's bubble-generation ability. These bubbles are able to pop with enough force to cause damage at close range, as seen when Josuke uses one to shatter Tamaki Damo's sunglasses. Josuke can also use this force to propel any small objects stored inside of his bubbles, seemingly with a degree of control over the direction they fly in. In addition to this, Josuke is able to injure opponents by popping bubbles which have been embedded under their skin, an ability that one of the A. Phex Brothers remarked bears a striking resemblance to the late Kira's own technique.
During the fight against Urban Guerrilla and his pet, Josuke seemingly detonates bubbles he had previously buried underground.[14]
It is eventually revealed that his soap bubbles are actually soft lines that spin rapidly. Rai Mamezuku describes this as part of the Spin. During their battle, Satoru Akefu concludes that Josuke has been hiding this power from him, and that this could stop his flow of calamity.
Originally, Soft & Wet was planned to have the ability to attach screws to things, but the ability was ultimately given to Nut King Call instead.[15]
Its Stand Cry is originally "ORA ORA ARA ORA" when it first does a punch rush against Ojiro Sasame.[16] However, it becomes a regular "ORA ORA ORA" in every fight afterwards.
The fifth volume of JoJolion mentions that Hirohiko Araki loves drawing Soft & Wet's ears.
Prior to its full reveal in JJL chapter 4 a scrapped early design appeared in promotional artwork drawn by Araki. This version had smaller "ears" with narrow slits on them, holes on its face, and in one instance even a visible nose.
Apparition dans le Manga
