User:PinkThorne/Josephine Joestar
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Josephine Joestar (ジョセフィーヌ・ジョースター, Josefīnu Jōsutā) is the main protagonist of a fan-created part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Love Once Buried.
Josephine is an ordinary high school student who accidentally discovers the ruins of a Locacaca Organization hideout under the city of Las Vegas. She leads the charge in discovering its story and the history behind it.
Josephine eventually awakens her Stand, Deep Purple, which she utilizes to investigate the city's mysteries.
Appearance
Josephine is a young woman, 178 cm (5 ft 10 in) tall. She has voluminous, shoulder-length hair, and often wears glasses.
Her first outfit features a maroonish jacket with a pinkish-red undershirt. She wears pink jeans with a yellow belt, and red high-tops that seem to resemble Converse shoes.
A small tattoo of a lotus has been inked onto her upper right arm. Her navel is also pierced with jewelry resembling a star.
Color Schemes
Personality
Josephine is a carefree young woman living in Las Vegas, Nevada. She is often hyperactive. Josephine is fascinated by paranormal activity and would do anything to "investigate" it, including wrecking a fire truck to cause a ruckus and get inside a sinkhole under Palo Verde High School unseen.
She seems to display some level of intelligence and trickery, for example by falsely surrendering to Marlon to distract him and get her way.
Josephine has been revealed to commonly visit therapy, and becomes upset whenever friends or family mention it to her or ask about it. It is possible that she carries a personal journal for this reason.
Abilities
Stand
Josephine is aided by Deep Purple, a Stand of yet unknown capabilities.
History
Love Once Buried
Meeting Josuke Higashikata
Yasuho is introduced huddled on the ground near the Wall Eyes, hiding from Joshu Higashikata, a childhood friend. She sees a man half buried in the ground. Wary, she calls an ambulance between simple questions. He sinks into a spring, prompting her to pull him out of the water. At this point, she discovers that he's completely nude and has four testicles. She is interrupted by Joshu, who misinterprets the scene; becoming jealous and launching a lethal attack on the man. The man subdues Joshu with a mysterious power, and they are all collected by an ambulance.
Yasuho visits and brings flowers to both Joshu and the man. She gives them both Morioh-specialty Dango balls while staying in the man's room to converse. She is entertained by his innocence and moved to sympathy by his attention and predicament. She decides to follow him in his escape from the hospital and offers to help him discover his identity. Identifying the brand on the label on his distinctive sailor's hat, Yasuho takes the man to the "SBR" hat shop; finding its sale on the shopkeeper's record under Yoshikage Kira, with an address. Yasuho thinks the name an ill-fit and tells him that he comes off as more of a "Josuke", as he reminds her of her childhood dog of the same name.
Both travel to the apartment. Inside, they find sailor's clothing that fits the man perfectly. They hear noises from the apartment above, but decide to ignore them. Then they hear noises coming from the bathroom. When they check, they find a young woman bathing completely naked inside the bathtub. Surprised for walking in on the naked woman and retreating outside, Yasuho asks Josuke who the woman is, and why that woman is completely naked in the man's apartment, but the man doesn't know. Back in the bathroom, Yasuho introduces herself to the woman and asks her if she is Josuke's girlfriend. The woman doesn't answer, but instead begs Yasuho and Josuke for help, to their suspicion. Yasuho searches for other clues and finds a photo album containing sordid images of the woman engaged in bondage with what appears to be Josuke. Despaired and convinced that Josuke is a sadist, Yasuho tearfully yells at Josuke to leave Morioh and never return, and then runs out of the apartment.
Outside, she meets two school friends and passes on their offer to meet later. She cries, feeling betrayed. Eventually, she returns to the apartment, reflecting that what she had learned previously of Josuke's nature is not consistent with the tastes reflected in the album. However, she is attacked upon entering the apartment, as Josuke is now being controlled by a Stand user based in the flat above. Although Yasuho had her right hand branded, Josuke is ultimately able to steal the friction from the floor above to make him fall and slip towards the veranda from which he pulls Ojiro Sasame to him. Josuke interrogates Ojiro and discovers that Yoshikage Kira was a different man from him. Yasuho, alongside the protagonist, returns to the spring where Josuke was and discovers the real Kira's corpse.
Without any leads, she decides to lodge the protagonist with the Higashikata family until they can find his real identity (they independently give him the name "Josuke"). After a quick introduction to the family, Yasuho is eventually escorted out of the Higashikata household by the maid and is threatened to never return, meet with Josuke, or "tempt" Joshu.
Investigating the Bloodline
Yasuho returns to her house, finding her mother inebriated beside the couch with the mark of a kiss on her breast. Crying, she denounces her mother's lifestyle. Before leaving, she opens a letter of reply from an agency that she sent a sample of Kira and Josuke's DNA, learning that "to within 95.8% accuracy", the two represent "the same person". Yasuho receives a call while she's in the street. However, the caller hangs up before she can answer and she cannot identify them. Intrigued, Yasuho returns to the Higashikata House and incidentally meets Daiya Higashikata going out with Josuke behind her. However, Josuke doesn't recognize her because of Daiya's ability and Yasuho instinctively hides as she realizes something is wrong. However, the problem is solved by Josuke. The two eventually discover that Yoshikage's mother Holy Kira was a world-renowned ophthalmologist and is currently being kept in Morioh's hospital as a patient.
She makes a call to Josuke and agrees to meet with him at the hospital. Unbeknownst to her, Paisley Park begins to develop and remotely guides Josuke. Meanwhile, Yasuho manages to get into the hospital and briefly speak with Holy, but is taken away by hospital security for talking to Holy without permission. Out of the hospital, Yasuho feels a sharp pain in her ankle. Looking ill, a nearby medical assistant helps Yasuho onto a stretcher without asking and takes her into the hospital. The assistant eventually leaves her, and Yasuho notices that she is near where Holy is staying. She manages to listen in on a conversation between Holy and her doctors, and finds out that they've detected that parts of Holy's brain and vital organs are somehow missing, despite her denying having had any surgery.
The next day, Josuke calls Yasuho at school, but she doesn't answer as he was using Joshu's cell phone. She does, however, notice that he was, at the time, located on Shakedown Road and near a landmark statue called the Joestar Jizō. She discovers, with Paisley Park's help, that the jizō was built as a memorial to Johnny Joestar, who died in Morioh from what was ultimately determined to be a freak accident in 1901.
Relationships
Family
- Erika Joestar: Josephine's mother. Their relationship is implied to be strained or difficult, seen when Erika pleads Josephine to discuss her experiences in therapy.
Quotes
Quotes- “Should I hide? Or shouldn't I? I'm not sure. No holding out here, hidden, is definitely the right thing to do. But this is so awkward. Even though we only kissed once... Won't you hurry up and go somewhere else... Oh man. Squatting like this is making me dizzy.”—Yasuho Hirose, JoJolion Chapter 1: Welcome to Morioh
- “The location here is important. They're coordinates that indicate only one thing in this world. The great class-A river's name is Ichio River. And spanning across it is Hagi Bridge. If you cross that bridge from the South to the North Side, you'll arrive in S City, Momiji Ward, Morioh.”—Yasuho Hirose, JoJolion Chapter 1: Welcome to Morioh
- “I seriously hate him... He's such an idiot. (絶対に嫌い…こいつマジバカ, Zettai ni kirai... Koitsu maji baka.)”
- “This is a story about breaking a curse... (これは「呪い」を解く物語一一, Kore wa 'noroi' otoku monogatari)”—Yasuho Hirose, JoJolion Chapter 1: Welcome to Morioh
- “The beginning of it... A curse, as explained by one person, is an impurity that has been handed down because of a sin committed by a distant ancestor you know nothing about. Some describe it using the example of hatred that continued to exist after Sakanoue no Tamuramaro subjugated the Emishi. And by yet another interpretation, when mankind first came into existence and things were firmly classified as black or white, the friction that grew between them is what a curse is. But whichever it may be, a curse is something that must be broken. Or else, you'll be defeated by it... This mysterious boy who was buried in the ground... who in the world is he? Where did he come from?”—Yasuho Hirose's narration, JoJolion Chapter 1: Welcome to Morioh
- “There were 4... I'm sure of it, his balls... (『4つ』あったのよ……確かに『タマ』が…, "Yottsu" attanoyo... tashika ni "tama" ga...)”—Yasuho Hirose, JoJolion Chapter 1: Welcome to Morioh
- “Morioh is famous for them. They're from a store that was established in 1903. They're a candy called sesame honey dumplings. (杜王町名物の創業明治36年 ごま蜜団子ってお菓子よ, Moriō-chō meibutsu no sōgyō meiji san roku nen gomamitsu dango tte okashi yo)”—Yasuho Hirose, JoJolion Chapter 2: Soft & Wet, Part 1
- “The first bite needs to be with your back teeth, 'kay...? Bite with your back teeth. (ひと口めを口の奥でね…奥歯で噛むのよ, Hito kuchime o kuchi no okudene... okuba de kamu noyo)”
Trivia
- According to the author, Josephine was originally intended to be male.
