Pocoloco est un ouvrier agricole venant de l'état de Géorgie. Lorsqu'une diseuse de bonne aventure lui prédit qu'il aura la meilleure chance de sa vie, Pocoloco participe à la Steel Ball Run dans l'espoir de remporter la course. Par pur chance, il devient l'un des favoris de la compétition. Pocoloco se découvre un Stand durant la course, son Hey Ya! existant surtout pour l'encourager.
Pocoloco est un jeune homme noir, de taille moyenne et de carrure moyenne. Il porte une moustache en fer à cheval.
Pocoloco porte une chemise de couleur claire qui est déchirée en plusieurs endroits un pantalon rembourré avec des traits donnant l'impression d'un motif de mur de briques équipée de genouillères, et des bottes de cavalier. Il porte des sortes de bretelles reliées à un anneau en métal situé sur la poitrine, avec trois sangle partant de l'anneau. Pocoloco porte aussi un bonnet couverte d'épingles et avec de larges rabats pour se l'attacher. Il porte aussi des gants laissant les doigts à découvert.
Palettes
Les palettes changent souvent entre les médias. L'information ci-dessous ne devrait pas être considérée comme canonique.
Manga Couleur
Peau(Brune)
Cheveux(Noirs)
Yeux(Noirs)
Tenue
(Haut et chapeau jaune avec des accessoires oranges, pantalon orange avec genouillères jaunes. Gants bleus, bottes grises.)
Personnalité
Pocoloco se sent heureux car il sait qu'il sera chanceux
Pocoloco a une personnalité joyeuse et insousciante. Comme une diseuse de bonne aventure vient de l'annoncer qu'il va vivre le moment le plus heureux de sa vie durant les prochains mois, Pocoloco est introduit couché par terre, oisif et comptant les nuages car et souriant constamment. Son vieil interlocuteur interprète celà pour de la paresse.
Pocoloco développe une foi inébranlable en sa chance, car il réalise que de nombreuses actions dangereux ou qui semblent désavantageuses tournent en sa faveur durant la course. Il exprime alors souvent sa joie et sa surprise, et va déclarer qu'il terminera la course en premier.
Pocoloco est un cavalier compétent qui parvient à se hisser au rang de sérieux concurrent dans la Steel Ball Run grâce à sa chance insolente. Durant son introduction, Pocoloco montre une affinité et une familiarité avec les chevaux telle qu'il peut observer les crottes d'une jument et deviner qu'elle est enceinte de quelques mois.[1] Bien qu'il n'ai pas le talent brut des autres compétiteurs de la course, Pocoloco possède une chance presque surnaturelle et une confiance absolue en elle, en grande partie grâce aux encouragements de Hey Ya!.
Cela lui donne le courage de surpasser des obstacles que d'autres seraient effrayés d'affronter et de rester un compétiteur sérieux durant tout la course. Par exemple, il fut capable de traverser une épaisse forêt par pure chance en fermant les yeux (cela a donné à son cheval la possibilité de galoper naturellement et de naviguer à travers les arbres) pendant que d'autres cavaliers s'écrasaient contre les branches et était désarçonnés.[2]
Pocoloco entend parler de la SBR et veut tenter sa chance
Pocoloco est né en 1869 dans l'état de Géorgie. Il est fils d'esclaves affranchis et ouvrier agricole de métier. Un mois avant que la Steel Ball Run ne commencent, il va en ville pour parier mais perd. Cependant, il rencontre une diseuse de bonne aventure qui prétend que sa chance va atteindre son sommet pendant deux mois. Joyeux, Pocoloco décide de rester oisif au travail et compte les nuages. Son compagnons, peut-être son grand-père, le réprimande pour sa paresse, disant qu'il a réussi à négocier un salaire de 1200$ pour déforester un terrain. Pocoloco se souvient alors qu'il a lu un article sur une course épique qui requiert 1200$ de tarif pour participer. On peut alors supposer que Pocoloco complète son travail et utiliser sa paie pour entrer dans la course.
Steel Ball Run
La première étape
Pocoloco confidently jumps over a cliff to take a shortcut
Excited, Pocoloco cannot sleep the night before the start of the race and sleeps in on the fateful morning. When he wakes up, he nervously looks around the empty camp before learning the truth from a nearby SBR worker. Luckily, the passage of the thousands of horses have smoothed the ground, making his ride extremely comfortable in the first minutes. For a moment, Pocoloco still doubts about his luck. Manure is kicked up onto his face, making Pocoloco think that his luck had ran out, but he then finds a golden coin inside the manure. Seconds later, a female racer wipes manure off her clothes in disgust, exposing her cleavage, and not long after, a wanted criminal wipes the manure off his face, unintentionally creating an impromptu beard that matches the wanted poster nearby and supposedly allowing Pocoloco to denounce him and take the bounty. Pocoloco then follows a group of racers who were misled by Sandman to the edge of a ravine, but, believing in his luck, is undeterred and leaps across the ravine and onto the rock that Sandman was grabbing onto. Just as he is about to slip, Sandman advises him to use the rope at his waist to carry himself and his horse out of danger and Pocoloco is saved again.
This shortcut enables Pocoloco to easily reach the head of the group, where he rides neck to neck with Johnny Joestar, taking time to call his riding "lazy". When Gyro Zeppeli decides to head into the forest to cut down on his riding distance, Pocoloco follows suit, confidently shutting his eyes and riding straight into the forest, believing that his luck will carry him all the way.[3] Soon after Johnny passes him, however, Pocoloco is grazed by a tree branch, which forces him to open his eyes, gasp in fear at a large incoming branch and be slammed off his horse. Still, his luck remains strong, as Pocoloco is instead dragged by his horse, his left boot having been caught in its stirrup, and completely escapes the harm that the higher branches could have caused him. He is then bounced back onto the saddle by the trees that Gyro moved with his steel balls to clear a path and soon catches up to Gyro. Pocoloco then challenges the Napolitan racer.[4]
During the stage, Pocoloco discovers his Stand Hey Ya!
Around the downhill dash segment of the first stage of the race, Pocoloco means to endure the slope and build up his energy. However, his Stand, Hey Ya!, appears and criticizes his idealistic strategy, telling him to "remember the cow", have faith in his luck, and charge forward. Seeing the hand of his Stand sink into his own gives him confidence, and Pocoloco begins by taunting Gyro and charging forward in the downhill dash. However, soon after the downhill dash, he and his horse trip and tumble, though it is revealed that both had landed directly onto a dead cow's hide. Pocoloco then uses it to slide downhill.[5]
Pocoloco abandons the hide and resumes riding his horse with the advantage of having his horse rested somewhat. During the final stretch, Hey Ya! tells Pocoloco to swerve to the left and inadvertently uses a hidden branch as a springboard, seemingly taking the advantage. However, it is Gyro who crosses the finish line first. Then, Gyro is demoted to 21st place for interfering with Sandman's run and Pocoloco is happy to be placed better than Gyro.
Le reste de la course
Pocoloco continue à participer à la Steel Ball Run, restant l'un des compétiteurs favoris en restant constamment parmi les dix premiers à chaque étape. Il finira premier de la cinquième étape. A la fin de la sixième étape qui se déroule dans le nord gelé des Etats-Unis, Pocoloco réapparait pour défier Johnny Joestar et Jayro Zeppeli. Hey Ya! est toujours présent pour l'encourager et il semble que sa chance le favorise encore quand Johnny et Jayro découvrent soudainement qu'il se dirigent droit vers une crevasse qui était cachée par la neige. Cependant, Johnny et Jayro combinent leurs pouvoirs pour traverser la crevasse et terminent à la 1ère et à la 2ème place, ce qui abasourdit Pocoloco qui lui finit à la 3ème place.
Cependant, Pocoloco parvient à finir la course. Il se retrouve à New York et termine la neuvième et dernière étape à la 2ème place, dans l'étape et dans la course, avec Diego Brando comme grand gagnant. Cependant, Diego disparait et est éliminé pour son absence à la remise des trophés. Dans un livre qui raconte ce qui s'est passé durant la Steel Ball Run dans JoJolion, on révèle que finalement, Diego est éliminé pour de bon et c'est Pocoloco qui gagne la Steel Ball Run par élimination.
Statistique de la course
Palmarès dans la Steel Ball Run
Etape
Classement
Points
Première
3ème
40
Deuxième
9ème
13
Troisième
5ème
30
Quatrième
2ème
50
Cinquième
1er
100
Sixième
3ème
40
Septième
3ème
40
Huitième
4ème
35
Neuvième
2ème
50
Pocoloco finit la course avec un total de 398 points.
The lowest point in your life is called "tenchusatsu". But listen. I'm the opposite! The opposite of the worst! Starting next month, I'm going to be at the happiest point in my life for two months! Hee hee!
I have that "1 out of 5,000,000,000 good luck"... I'll believe in that... I came to San Diego believing that... If I was wrong, it's all over right here... I'm gonna win it. I'll win it... and then I'll go back home and live a happier life!
Pocoloco appears as a random support character in Campaign Mode. He has an extremely low chance to appear after the player completes a fight; should he appear, he'll use his Stand, Hey Ya!, to share some of his luck with the player, restoring their energy gauge completely.
The information below derives from a source not written by Araki. As such, it may or may not be considered canon.
In the light novel JORGE JOESTAR, an incarnation of Pocoloco appears named Pocoloco Tripleseven (ポコロコ・トリプルセブン, Pokoroko Toripurusebun). Pocoloco Tripleseven is a scientist, who also becomes an astronaut on the H. G. Wells spaceship. Pocoloco (Universe 37) wields the stand Right Stuff, a group of seven tiny humanoids that will efficiently perform any task Pocoloco asks of them.
He is bald and wears a beanie cap that says "HAPPY GO LUCKY" and a neck cuff that says "777". He also has a bullseye on the center of his uniform.
Pocoloco as an astronaut
Pocoloco is the first to point out that someone from outside is approaching them, about to destroy the spaceship. He asks Enrico Pucci (Universe 37) to wake up Narancia (Universe 37) to see if Narancia can move his submarine away. Pocoloco is amazed at what kind of torture Narancia must have went through to be capable of controlling a massive fleet of submarines at his young age. Pocoloco later points out to the other astronauts that the sand of Goyathlay Soundman (Universe 37) has reached the moon. He suddenly sees a giant balloon with an eyeball out the window and screams.
Pocoloco worries when The Funniest Valentine calls them and can't believe when The Funniest tells them about seven duplicate Giotto probes floating above the moon, when there should only be one. After the call, Funnier Valentine orders Pocoloco to think of a way to have their ship escape from the grasp of The Eyed Balloon's tentacles. Pocoloco's Stand discovers a method and then also locates the explosive device hidden in the spaceship.
After Pocoloco manages to have the tentacles release their grip, he asks Funnier over the ship's loudspeaker whether he's ready to start the engines. However, Funnier ignores him and then suddenly uses his Stand Rear Window to murder Pocoloco with a gunshot.[6]
Galerie
First appearance
Poco loco 50 million good luck.jpg
Prideful of his "One out of 50 million good luck"
"It's true! I really am a lucky guy!"
Pocoloco's Stand gives him even more confidence
Riding a corpse in order to stay upright while racing downhill
Johnny and Gyro spot Pocoloco and the other racers
Pocoloco concept artwork in "Quarterly S" 2005 Summer
Détails
Pocoloco's racing number is A-777. This reflects his complete reliance on and victory through sheer luck throughout the race.
In addition to his musical namesakes, Pocoloco's name translates from Spanish to "little crazy," which nods to his usage of risky tactics during the Steel Ball Run race that still manage to work out for him.
Apparition dans le Manga
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