Josuke Higashikata/Personality and Relationships
Personality
Josuke has a normal but crafty personality. He is nice to people and says Mr. and Ms. like a polite person, until someone makes him angry. The easiest way to do that is to mock his hair, which depending on how much someone makes fun of it, will cause that person to get beat up more and more as the insults go on. A random upperclassman student insulted his hair and got punched once and stepped on. Said upperclassman was healed afterwards by Crazy Diamond, but because it happened while Josuke was angry, his nose was restored improperly and never looked the same. When Rohan held Koichi and Okuyasu hostage and attempted to get Josuke to open his eyes and see his Stand by making fun of his hair, Josuke went berserk and landed him in the hospital for a month. (Ironically enough, this is what let Josuke save Koichi and Okuyasu from Rohan and Heaven's Door.) This sensitivity about his hair was due to Josuke choosing his hairdo to honor a man with the same hairstyle who saved both his mother and him in his youth. Whenever someone insults his pompadour, Josuke becomes rather violent, brutally punishing whoever insulted his hair (and, by extension, the man who saved him).
At the start of Part 4, he lives with his mom and did not know his father, Joseph Joestar. When he finally met him he did not want to have anything to do with him and yelled at him. But when he saw that Joseph was willing to give up his own life to save a baby he had just found, Josuke's attitude changed and he started to call him "dad" instead of "Mr. Joestar".
Josuke also has a sneaky streak for money which is shown a couple of times. When he and Okuyasu met Fatty, he came up with a plan to get money and other things from all over Morioh Cho, and used his stand powers to cheat the lottery. When he meets Mikitaka Hazekura, he takes advantage of his shape-shifting power to cheat money from Rohan. He also takes Joseph's wallet using a piece of a picture he gave him and Crazy Diamond. But even with that he is a dependable and friendly person who is always willing to protect people who need it. This causes him to become friends with some of his former enemies who in turn have helped him out.
Relationships
Family
- Tomoko Higashikata:
- Ryohei Higashikata:
- Joseph Joestar:
- Jotaro Kujo: Despite reacting angrily to Jotaro when they first met, Josuke has quickly grown to trust Jotaro, especially after their battle with Angelo and after Jotaro tells him the details behind stand users in Morioh. Later, when Jotaro takes him out hunting, Josuke is quick to accept, and trusts his strategy especially in their battle against Ratt.
