Erina joins the party! s⚔️🗺️
my contribution to the phantom blood fandom
So Kakyoin in the Narrator Speedwagon au with a flesh bud. He says the most random and cryptic shit and freaks everyone out.
Kakyoin: *names a person before they can even introduce themselves and rambles on about a lot of personal details of their lives no one should know*
or, alternatively
Dio: Kakyoin, tell me what the narrator is saying.
Kakyoin: he says he can’t wait for you to eat shit and die. He says you probably don’t remember him but he knows your sins and nothing but hell fire awaits you. Also he thinks you’re a horrible father and you owe several women child support
WJKHRGBVKJSEBFHJAWHRKJVGA E X A C TL Y
THAT'S EXACTLY IT
Kakyoin is just this weird fucking dude who terrifies the hell out of everybody because nobody can figure out what the FUCK is going on with him. They know it's not a Stand ability because Hierophant doesn't Do That Kind Of Shit, but the alternative option is he's just naturally like that without any Stand intervention so ???????
and honestly, I can absolutely see Speedwagon feeding into this. He wants to fuck with Dio as much as possible as some petty revenge since he can't directly interact with him now, so this is the best he's got. He never does anything to actively label Kakyoin a threat, and the boy is still very firmly under Dio's control, but he will always say the most obscure, terrifying shit that nobody can understand but it scares the hell out of most of the other minions
nYEYEYEHEHEHEHE-
mosstaro being me^^
(all me's are me! whim)
me and kars best buddies, hence the picture at the top😌
THIS ONE IS FROM MY FRIEND (i got banished to the baby pack😔😔)
joot's made out of moss, people love sleeping on the joot
(I HAD LOADS MORE BUT THEY ARE LOST TO TIME)
W H I M W H A T T H E F U C K /lh
the server really decided Jotaro was The Most Speacialist Little Guy didn't you
which I mean. I completely agree with that assessment, but also I feel like I've looked at something forbidden and can now never return to the world I once knew
in the Narrator Speedwagon au, does he narrate part 1 and 2 as well? Because I can only imagine how funny and confusing that could get.
For years Baron Zeppeli had the most annoying voice in his head narrating things, and then he meets Speedwagon and it’s like “YOU!!!” And it’s on sight
meanwhile Suzie Q has no idea who’s voice she’s always hearing until Speedwagon introduces himself to her after Joseph’s funeral. “Oh! The voice in my head!”
“pardon?”
HSRBVHSEBFHBVEHBAEHVBAHEV W H E E Z E -
OH MY GOD I WAS THINKING THAT SPEEDWAGON ONLY VOICED PARTS AFTER HIS DEATH BUT HOLY FUCK THAT'S SO MUCH FUNNIER
oh my g o d I haven't laughed this hard in ages thank you for this I love it
Zeppeli had beef with this voice because he only ever seemed to appear at the worst possible moment. His ship's being attacked by vampires and his father nearly killed him? Finding the Hamon Masters and trying to convince them to take him in? Being told he has a fucking death prophecy??? Now is not the TIME voice so please for the love of all that is holy please s h u t -
this is the real reason the Baron hits Speedwagon so hard when he explains that he wants to learn Hamon
and just. wesfcujaebfuae Suzie sweetie honey-
I LOVE the mental image of Suzie just saying this with a perfectly straight face and Speedwagon's just sitting there like "what :D?" and has honestly no idea where to take this conversation from here
Thoughts on Jonathan and George's relationship:
Honestly, George always meant the best for Jonathan. Even when he was harsh he was trying to push Jonathan to be better as best he could, and he took a knife for Jonathan in the end- but still, it wasn't great for Jonathan.
But on the other hand, the dude was not equipped to handle this alone I think. With Mary's sudden and unexpected death, especially with my headcannon that the Joestar Family Neurodivergence came from her side, with the total lack of knowledge on that kind of thing in that era, he would have been hard-pressed to do better.
Then add in Dio, and hoo boy. He's not equipped to handle being a good parent with regards to Dio's trauma either, especially when he doesn't even know it exists, but he can't not take in Dio either, given the alternatives are Not Great and his own kind heart.
And Jonathan's feelings are... complicated. There's frustration at never quite seeming good enough, at the favoritism towards Dio, but also, he still loves George, still misses him after he dies. And for a long time, he probably internalizes a lot of it, thinking it was somehow him and not George.
It takes a long time for him to come to terms with the fact that even if George couldn't really have done much better, that doesn't affect the fact that Jonathan still deserved better. And I don't think he really internalizes that until he's raising George II and thinks about what George did with him from that perspective. (Though at the same time, he can see how, if he didn't have the knowledge he does about how his brain works differently from lived experience... he can see why George did what he did, even if it was dead wrong.)
Honestly I think the whole Jonaeriwagon trio might end up sort of reparenting themselves as they raise kids together- Jonathan realizing that he deserved better than what George did, even if George was doing as best he knew how, now Jonathan knows better, and can treat both his kid and his own inner child with that new knowledge and kindness. Speedwagon makes sure the kids have everything they want or need, spoiling them with gifts and love while also confronting how the scarcity he grew up under affected him, and starting to learn to treat himself now that he has the resources. And Erina, more headcannony, but empowering the kids to have more control and agency over their lives than she had, being dragged around continents with her dad, and that inner core of steel starting to become something she's more comfortable showing and working with as she teaches the kids to do the same.
I couldn't have worded it better myself and also I'm losing my mind (/pos) over these beautiful Jonaeriwagon headcanons because Y E S
the way I've always been thinking of George is sort of a "You Tried Your Best But It Was What You Thought Was Best." I don't doubt he loved Jonathan and Dio, but what he saw as helping them ultimately did cause a lot of harm
but also now I'm rotating so many soft things as they raise George II together-
Jonathan indulging George's interests, reading up on them so they have things to talk about, listening to him as much as he can to his son never feels unheard or shoved to the sidelines or like nobody believes him
Speedwagon always making sure George has what he needs but also teaching him how to value and safe guard what he has, giving him tips on the ins and outs of the seedier parts of the world in case he ever gets in a rough spot so he won't be caught off guard
Erina making sure it's absolutely clear that no matter what happens, no matter what embarassing or terrifying thing could be done to him, they will always love and respect him and that he could come to them for help, how he always can say no and fight back if he feels it's approprate
Question for the Speedwagon Narrator AU: Does he continue to narrate into part 7 and beyond, does Stephen Steel get that honor, or do they co-narrate parts 8 and 9?
I. Absolutely love the idea of Speeds and Steel co-narrating, that sounds like so much fun
but ALSO....... this opens the possibility of Yasuho and Jodio both getting in on this, being the narrators of parts 8 and 9 respectively
do I know where to go with this idea? No not really, however Speedwagon is too powerful to be felled by a mere universal reset, his ability is beyond our mortal comprehension
👀👀👀👀👀👀 ooooooo I really like that
like. Yasuho first is a little scared of the voice, but in true Little Kid Fashion, she also thinks it's pretty neat and fun! Maybe she and Speedwagon even talk sometimes through the narration
heck, maybe her narration isn't even all Plot Related Things. Maybe sometimes she'll just narrate and talk to herself as she walks home or is observing part of town. She likes to people watch and talk about what she thinks they're like and what they do, not realising she's perfectly predicting and "creating" them with her power as a narrator
I'm not super sure how long it'll take her to realise what's going on, or even if she ever will. Sure she knows Speedwagon is abnormal and she might have some moments of doubting her own mental state since "hey wait, imaginary friends aren't actually supposed to talk to you-" but she decides it's harmless enough and well...... she's honestly a pretty lonely person and doesn't mind it much anyways.
Speedwagon ends up almost filling in as a stable adult figure during and after her parent's divorce, and she grows to genuinly care about him. But of course, when canon finally kicks off proper it makes it hurt all the more when Speedwagon kinda...... disappears. Maybe he's able to warn her about it, or maybe he's just gone one day, but Yasuho misses him a lot
maybe Jodio was able to meet Speedwagon, however briefly. He doesn't have too many memories of the man, but Yasuho does her best to be there for Jodio like Speedwagon had been there for her
So question. What is your opinion in the lost 2007 Phantom Blood Movie? As before David Productions made the anime of Part 1-6, A.P.P.P studios made the 90s/2000s OVAs of Stardust Crusaders and they were tasked in making a movie for JoJo’s 20th Anniversary but apparently some factors happened that made the movie lost media. So what is your opinion and would you had wanted to see it?
I don't know too much about it tbh other than what I've read about it on the wiki so there isn't too much of an opinion to have, but it seems interesting! This seems like a given, but I definitely wish I could see it, if only to satisfy my curiosity and see what was changed
however, it's also committed the unforgivable sin of erasing Speedwagon from its canon which is a crime I shall never be able to forgive
okay so I went on a walk and my brain started rotating the Merstars AU SO hard so I'm just going to yeet a bunch of random bullet point thoughts that I came up with and see what comes out of it-
- the "world" the AU takes place isn't really like "real" life and is instead a super huge archipelago with hundreds of thousands of islands of varying sizes and kinds
- Mers and other various Sea Magics are pretty well known as A Thing That Exists. Is it accepted? Depends on the location and the people, and Mer Hunters are unfortunately a pretty common thing, but it's slowly started dying out. This is actually thanks to Speedwagon since after Jonathan's death he started trying to use his influence as a Very Important Wealthy Merchant to change public opinion, and it's actually been working
- Jonathan was a pretty well loved and very social member of the mers. He wasn't their leader by any means, but almost every mer in the archipelago knew about him, and his murder pissed a LOT of people off. Luckily thanks to Speedwagon, since then relations have gone from "it's on fucking sight" to "don't approach me and I won't approach you"
- Morioh is one of the more isolated islands and a bit of an exception to the above thing, being the most accepting island in the whole archipelago. Honestly, at this point like half the town has at least a little mer blood in them, but they are primarily human passing. There are a couple of full blooded or half blooded mers that hang around, but Josuke was one of the first ones born in the town in a long while
- currently debating how exactly the Morioh Trio are gonna be, since I want them to be a "full blood, half blood, human" trio for the funnsies, but other than Josuke I don't know which should be which. My current thought process is 1) Okuyasu is the full blooded and when he was younger he had a run in with Hunters which is where his scars came from since his dad more or less just fucked off and left him at their mercy at which Keicho had to save him which led to the two of the moving to Morioh, Koichi is the human and is Their Little Guy, is super familiar with how to work around mers and climbs them like a god damn jungle gyms, or 2) Koichi is the full blood and a really small mer but still Big for humans, he's a cuttlefish, got separated from his family when he was little which led to him being adopted by the Human Hiroses and Okuyasu is human and the resident Normie Guy, he's recently moved to Morioh and is getting used to how Positive human mer relations are here
- still trying to figure out how the Stand Arrows work, since Stands..... aren't really a thing now. Probably some kind of super powerful Sea Magic thing going on, maybe turn partial mers/humans into full blooded ones?
- the "Italy" of this world is a collection of islands that are under Passione's control, aka a group of pirates that have a literal fleet. Diavolo and Doppio are brothers, with Diavolo being a half-mer (maybe lion fish? I'm still deciding tho) and Doppio being a full human. Doppio is the face of the operation, but his brother is always lurking in the depths below the ship and even makes a couple appearances as the True Boss in human form. Trish is by extension 1/4 mer and they want to kill her so the truth about Diavolo won't get out
- Passione, despite all the shitty stuff they do, is actually a surprising area of Human Mer teamwork. There are a lot of hybrids and even full blooded mers to the point they're almost the majority. For the most part people don't care what you are as long as you get your job done, and honestly if what they did wasn't drug trade and trafficking, they'd be pretty cool
- the Bucci Gang don't have a whole lot of mer blood, and any they do have is pretty distant to the point they're almost human save for a couple little features (they also don't get full transformations), with the exceptions being Trish and Giorno. Trish I've explained, but Giorno is...... Really Really Weird with what he is. His birth mom was a mer, but Dio had mostly been using her to try and lure other mers so by the time Giorno was actually born she was killed. Giorno was then taken in by the Shiobana's, which obviously sucked ass, but he was able to pass as a human for a shocking amount of time because Sea Vampire Genes fucked with his aging, so he also looks a lot smaller than he should be. He's also been forced to stay in his "human" form for much longer than is strictly healthy which ALSO fucked with his size and health
- Giorno is gonna be a giant sea snake, because I think it'll be funny because That's The Traditional Sea MonsterTM. Maybe during the final fight with Diavolo he gets shot with the arrow and falls off the ship all dramatic and everyone thinks he died but SIKE he suddenly grows to full Absolutely Fucking ENORMOUS Size And Kicks Ass
- Jolyne is a siphonophore, I don't make the rules, she's Really Fucking Long
ok peanut au but with the jobros watching the joestars
-ffa
Oh
Oh god the angst and crack insanity that would go down
now, I don't know if you meant just the One True Jobro™ but my brain had the idea of it being ALL of them
no one has any clue what's going on, or why they're stuck around this Weird Blue Haired Kid, but eh they can't do much about it so they're stuck I guess. Then Shit Starts To Go Sideways, they meet some new people, and wamp wah Jonathan dies, but THEN shit continues and the Part 2 teammates disappear and then Speedwagon and Zeppeli show up except Wait Hold On A Second Isn't That Second Guy Supposed To Be Dead-
chaos
the second they put together exactly why they're all here and how fucking cursed this family is they collectively decide "okay, let's try to make this family less cursed and avoid dying because I don't know about you, but I prefer being alive thanks"
Caesar and Kakyoin getting to see how Joseph and Jotaro are doing after their deaths in later parts
Speedwagon seeing how far his devotion to Jonathan really went and how much good it did despite the fact that it couldn't save Jonathan himself
Polnareff seeing his fate in part 5 and both being bewildered by how he'd changed but also sort of seeing how he ended up there
Caesar getting to see what happened to his grandfather first hand and then William sees the eventual fate of his bloodline
Y E S S S S S S S S S
just. Imagine the emotional gut punch when they see so many of them die, learning that they're going to die if they don't fix things. They see how much pain their deaths cause, how it spurs on their allies but leaves almost irreparable damage in return, some of which never full heals
Speedwagon is incredibly shocked at what his company manages to accomplish in the future, and he's oddly touched by it. That despite the fact he failed Jonathan, every single one of the man's descendants have been affected in some way to make their struggles at least a little bit easier to bare
Polnareff was definitely the most off surprised by his "return." It does provide an interesting nudge to get him and the Bucci Gang closer since Hey Apparently We Exist In The Same Insanity, Who Knew. It's also...... really weird seeing how different he acts in the future. There was a brief moment of Panic when he thought he was going to be joining Team "We Watched Ourselves Get Murdered" but then he possesses a turtle which...... He's Not Quite Sure How To Feel About
Caesar and William have an...... interesting moment. Zeppeli's surprised to learn his son had children (since in Part 1 he does mention having a family which he left behind to pursue Hamon), and Caesar is very torn on Everything. He's literally witnessing his grandfather's journey and bonds with Jonathan, as well as seeing the events which led to his death
and this...... definitely puts some cracks in his pride in his lineage. He's still proud of it, don't get me wrong, but that blame put toward the Joestars...... it weakens and dulls. Every step of the way, his grandfather chose to do this. He chose to seek Jonathan out, chose to train him, chose to fight alongside him, and in the end chose to give his life
I just realized something. Speedwagon would be able to change things. He is definitely in a position to do so. The problem is, at first, he's stuck worrying because he still needs to get that money and influence in the first place if he wants much of a chance, so for the first few years that's stressing him out. He does get that same stroke of luck as he did in canon but it still worries him.
Then, once he's secure, he... is still stressed out, because he doesn't have much idea of what to do. He does manage to get the Zepellis in a less shitty situation, possibly protect George II, stop the Nazi party from coming into power while surreptitiously helping Germany out of the dire financial trouble that led to WWII. Y'know. The usual.
I didn't think about that last part until I started writing that but I can totally see Speedwagon doing that. Heck depending on when he gets rich he could perhaps change the tide of WWI. This is not what this reply was originally about, how did I get on this topic?
This amplifies what I was going to bring up: the multiple moments of shock from characters like Ceasar, Kakyoin, Bruno, and Ermes upon realizing "holy crap I'm alive", except now it's also compounded by the fact that history has gone wILDLY OFF COURSE SPEEDWAGON WHAT DID YOU DO (complimentary).
HVGCVGHJVJFVJGV SPEEDWAGON JUST CASUALLY SUBVERTS AN ENTIRE ASS WAR, NO BIGGIE-
oh god I love this idea of Speedwagon doing just. Absolutely batshit insane stuff on accident because he's trying to think of ways to kill time while also avoiding *gestures at the future* and if in the process he realises there's a bunch of stuff he can do to help other people along the way then why not! He was almost completely certain Jonathan would approve
and what's even funnier is that Speedwagon isn't even going to be alive when everyone else is. He's going to be long since dead, and hell he might not even realise the implications of what he's done because he wouldn't have been around to witness the long term affects
The Speedwagon Foundation becomes one of the single most powerful organisations in the entire world and in the process Robert E.O Speedwagon becomes a terrifying almost omnipotent historical figure
Oh god there would be so many memes about Speedwagon. A few examples I thought of off the top of my head:
- Average person saves ten lives a day is inaccurate. R. E. O. Speedwagon, who prevented multiple wars from happening, is an outlier adn should not be counted.
- Speedwagon didn't die, he coolly withdrew.
- "Look, I'm not saying Speedwagon was a time traveller but..."
- So. Many. Chuck Norris-esque jokes.
- And also images. Like there's one picture that shows him sipping tea while happily looking out to sea that is later given the caption "contentment" that counts as a meme on its own and that's before the variations-
- Speedwagon deserves to be an in-universe meme(pos).
SJHRBVHJDRBVJRS Y E S IN EVERY POSSIBLE WAY-
his Buzzsaw Spinny Hat is absolutely legendary and many have tried to mimic his technique with little success, but there are too many accounts of the Buzzsaw Spinny Hat for it to have been fabricated or exaggerated leading to people thinking he was some kind of Buzzsaw Spinny Hat Equivalent of the Yo Yo Man
at some point, someone manages to find a whole bunch of pictures and letters and stuff between Speedwagon and his Very Good FriendTM Jonathan. The public then realises he never married nor showed any interest in any women ever save for Erina Pendleton Joestar, aka Jonathan's wife, and even then only platonically, take in the fact Joseph Joestar, aka Jonathan's grandson, calls him Uncle Speedwagon, and he becomes a gay icon (rightfully so)
lots of theories floating around he was some kind of divine being. The worrying part is there wasn't a lot of evidence against it
a reporter managed to snap a picture at just the right second to catch Speedwagon's Resting Bitch Face at a pair of arguing Other Important People and it becomes the opposite of the Contentment image as "Disappointment"
The question some people may ask is how Joseph reacts to the memes.
The question I'm curious about is how many memes were his own creations?
oh Joseph 110% added fuel to this fire. Sure growing up he never realised anything was weird, that was just Grandpa Speedwagon Being Grandpa Speedwagon. So what if he sometimes said weird words or did things that didn't fully make sense, things would always turn out for the better in the end!
but when he gets older? Specifically to his chaotic teen years???
yeah he's responsible, directly or indirectly, for at least half of the memes and rumours (all harmless and just silly of course), and when he gets REALLY old and can start playing the Somewhat Senile card he'll just drop the most insane, cursed and incredible random tidbits about Speedwagon's life
ex: One time he and grandpa were walking home and they got jumped by a guy with a knife. Instead of panicking, Speedwagon just pulled out another knife, disarmed the robber so now he was fucking dual wielding, started absolutely tearing into his form and technique, and before they left gave him tips on how to not suck at doing this
that interview went fucking viral
ok peanut au but with the jobros watching the joestars
-ffa
Oh
Oh god the angst and crack insanity that would go down
now, I don't know if you meant just the One True Jobro™ but my brain had the idea of it being ALL of them
no one has any clue what's going on, or why they're stuck around this Weird Blue Haired Kid, but eh they can't do much about it so they're stuck I guess. Then Shit Starts To Go Sideways, they meet some new people, and wamp wah Jonathan dies, but THEN shit continues and the Part 2 teammates disappear and then Speedwagon and Zeppeli show up except Wait Hold On A Second Isn't That Second Guy Supposed To Be Dead-
chaos
the second they put together exactly why they're all here and how fucking cursed this family is they collectively decide "okay, let's try to make this family less cursed and avoid dying because I don't know about you, but I prefer being alive thanks"
Caesar and Kakyoin getting to see how Joseph and Jotaro are doing after their deaths in later parts
Speedwagon seeing how far his devotion to Jonathan really went and how much good it did despite the fact that it couldn't save Jonathan himself
Polnareff seeing his fate in part 5 and both being bewildered by how he'd changed but also sort of seeing how he ended up there
Caesar getting to see what happened to his grandfather first hand and then William sees the eventual fate of his bloodline
Y E S S S S S S S S S
just. Imagine the emotional gut punch when they see so many of them die, learning that they're going to die if they don't fix things. They see how much pain their deaths cause, how it spurs on their allies but leaves almost irreparable damage in return, some of which never full heals
Speedwagon is incredibly shocked at what his company manages to accomplish in the future, and he's oddly touched by it. That despite the fact he failed Jonathan, every single one of the man's descendants have been affected in some way to make their struggles at least a little bit easier to bare
Polnareff was definitely the most off surprised by his "return." It does provide an interesting nudge to get him and the Bucci Gang closer since Hey Apparently We Exist In The Same Insanity, Who Knew. It's also...... really weird seeing how different he acts in the future. There was a brief moment of Panic when he thought he was going to be joining Team "We Watched Ourselves Get Murdered" but then he possesses a turtle which...... He's Not Quite Sure How To Feel About
Caesar and William have an...... interesting moment. Zeppeli's surprised to learn his son had children (since in Part 1 he does mention having a family which he left behind to pursue Hamon), and Caesar is very torn on Everything. He's literally witnessing his grandfather's journey and bonds with Jonathan, as well as seeing the events which led to his death
and this...... definitely puts some cracks in his pride in his lineage. He's still proud of it, don't get me wrong, but that blame put toward the Joestars...... it weakens and dulls. Every step of the way, his grandfather chose to do this. He chose to seek Jonathan out, chose to train him, chose to fight alongside him, and in the end chose to give his life
I just realized something. Speedwagon would be able to change things. He is definitely in a position to do so. The problem is, at first, he's stuck worrying because he still needs to get that money and influence in the first place if he wants much of a chance, so for the first few years that's stressing him out. He does get that same stroke of luck as he did in canon but it still worries him.
Then, once he's secure, he... is still stressed out, because he doesn't have much idea of what to do. He does manage to get the Zepellis in a less shitty situation, possibly protect George II, stop the Nazi party from coming into power while surreptitiously helping Germany out of the dire financial trouble that led to WWII. Y'know. The usual.
I didn't think about that last part until I started writing that but I can totally see Speedwagon doing that. Heck depending on when he gets rich he could perhaps change the tide of WWI. This is not what this reply was originally about, how did I get on this topic?
This amplifies what I was going to bring up: the multiple moments of shock from characters like Ceasar, Kakyoin, Bruno, and Ermes upon realizing "holy crap I'm alive", except now it's also compounded by the fact that history has gone wILDLY OFF COURSE SPEEDWAGON WHAT DID YOU DO (complimentary).
HVGCVGHJVJFVJGV SPEEDWAGON JUST CASUALLY SUBVERTS AN ENTIRE ASS WAR, NO BIGGIE-
oh god I love this idea of Speedwagon doing just. Absolutely batshit insane stuff on accident because he's trying to think of ways to kill time while also avoiding *gestures at the future* and if in the process he realises there's a bunch of stuff he can do to help other people along the way then why not! He was almost completely certain Jonathan would approve
and what's even funnier is that Speedwagon isn't even going to be alive when everyone else is. He's going to be long since dead, and hell he might not even realise the implications of what he's done because he wouldn't have been around to witness the long term affects
The Speedwagon Foundation becomes one of the single most powerful organisations in the entire world and in the process Robert E.O Speedwagon becomes a terrifying almost omnipotent historical figure
Y'know what else? He'll see all sorts of far future tech watching the others AND if he's curious enough to ask for an explanation of how it works, he could end up bringing that knowledge back with him. Even if he can't recreate it perfectly, once he's got the money and influence all he needs to do is get some researchers and engineers and give them some hints, point them in the right direction...
So not only is HISTORY wildly off track for some of the later crew, TECHNOLOGY is way more advanced after getting a cheat code from Speedwagon earlier on.
DJFBHNVJDNFBJDNBFJSVDF-
OH MY GOD YEAH
what if Speedwagon didn't even realise he was doing it at first? Like, sure when he was in the past he was taking in everything since all the tech and advancements was INSANE to him, but while he did ask questions he didn't really plan to keep it in his brain for very long afterward
but then he realises....... wait a second, that tech could help a lot of people and make so many things so much easier
the fact that it's relatively public knowledge that Speedwagon is pretty hands on with some of the inventing going on at the Foundation does not help with the Speedwagon Is Secretly A Time Lord conspiracy theories-
I could see Speedwagon specifically focusing on creating things that show up in the show itself. Like Cyborgs. (Surprisingly some things like IVs and Motorcycles were already getting started as far back as the 1880s so Speeds just contributes heavily to their advancement.)
this hit me with all the subtlety and delicacy of a brick and I hate the fact that you're not wrong
ok peanut au but with the jobros watching the joestars
-ffa
Oh
Oh god the angst and crack insanity that would go down
now, I don't know if you meant just the One True Jobro™ but my brain had the idea of it being ALL of them
no one has any clue what's going on, or why they're stuck around this Weird Blue Haired Kid, but eh they can't do much about it so they're stuck I guess. Then Shit Starts To Go Sideways, they meet some new people, and wamp wah Jonathan dies, but THEN shit continues and the Part 2 teammates disappear and then Speedwagon and Zeppeli show up except Wait Hold On A Second Isn't That Second Guy Supposed To Be Dead-
chaos
the second they put together exactly why they're all here and how fucking cursed this family is they collectively decide "okay, let's try to make this family less cursed and avoid dying because I don't know about you, but I prefer being alive thanks"
Caesar and Kakyoin getting to see how Joseph and Jotaro are doing after their deaths in later parts
Speedwagon seeing how far his devotion to Jonathan really went and how much good it did despite the fact that it couldn't save Jonathan himself
Polnareff seeing his fate in part 5 and both being bewildered by how he'd changed but also sort of seeing how he ended up there
Caesar getting to see what happened to his grandfather first hand and then William sees the eventual fate of his bloodline
Y E S S S S S S S S S
just. Imagine the emotional gut punch when they see so many of them die, learning that they're going to die if they don't fix things. They see how much pain their deaths cause, how it spurs on their allies but leaves almost irreparable damage in return, some of which never full heals
Speedwagon is incredibly shocked at what his company manages to accomplish in the future, and he's oddly touched by it. That despite the fact he failed Jonathan, every single one of the man's descendants have been affected in some way to make their struggles at least a little bit easier to bare
Polnareff was definitely the most off surprised by his "return." It does provide an interesting nudge to get him and the Bucci Gang closer since Hey Apparently We Exist In The Same Insanity, Who Knew. It's also...... really weird seeing how different he acts in the future. There was a brief moment of Panic when he thought he was going to be joining Team "We Watched Ourselves Get Murdered" but then he possesses a turtle which...... He's Not Quite Sure How To Feel About
Caesar and William have an...... interesting moment. Zeppeli's surprised to learn his son had children (since in Part 1 he does mention having a family which he left behind to pursue Hamon), and Caesar is very torn on Everything. He's literally witnessing his grandfather's journey and bonds with Jonathan, as well as seeing the events which led to his death
and this...... definitely puts some cracks in his pride in his lineage. He's still proud of it, don't get me wrong, but that blame put toward the Joestars...... it weakens and dulls. Every step of the way, his grandfather chose to do this. He chose to seek Jonathan out, chose to train him, chose to fight alongside him, and in the end chose to give his life
I just realized something. Speedwagon would be able to change things. He is definitely in a position to do so. The problem is, at first, he's stuck worrying because he still needs to get that money and influence in the first place if he wants much of a chance, so for the first few years that's stressing him out. He does get that same stroke of luck as he did in canon but it still worries him.
Then, once he's secure, he... is still stressed out, because he doesn't have much idea of what to do. He does manage to get the Zepellis in a less shitty situation, possibly protect George II, stop the Nazi party from coming into power while surreptitiously helping Germany out of the dire financial trouble that led to WWII. Y'know. The usual.
I didn't think about that last part until I started writing that but I can totally see Speedwagon doing that. Heck depending on when he gets rich he could perhaps change the tide of WWI. This is not what this reply was originally about, how did I get on this topic?
This amplifies what I was going to bring up: the multiple moments of shock from characters like Ceasar, Kakyoin, Bruno, and Ermes upon realizing "holy crap I'm alive", except now it's also compounded by the fact that history has gone wILDLY OFF COURSE SPEEDWAGON WHAT DID YOU DO (complimentary).
HVGCVGHJVJFVJGV SPEEDWAGON JUST CASUALLY SUBVERTS AN ENTIRE ASS WAR, NO BIGGIE-
oh god I love this idea of Speedwagon doing just. Absolutely batshit insane stuff on accident because he's trying to think of ways to kill time while also avoiding *gestures at the future* and if in the process he realises there's a bunch of stuff he can do to help other people along the way then why not! He was almost completely certain Jonathan would approve
and what's even funnier is that Speedwagon isn't even going to be alive when everyone else is. He's going to be long since dead, and hell he might not even realise the implications of what he's done because he wouldn't have been around to witness the long term affects
The Speedwagon Foundation becomes one of the single most powerful organisations in the entire world and in the process Robert E.O Speedwagon becomes a terrifying almost omnipotent historical figure
Y'know what else? He'll see all sorts of far future tech watching the others AND if he's curious enough to ask for an explanation of how it works, he could end up bringing that knowledge back with him. Even if he can't recreate it perfectly, once he's got the money and influence all he needs to do is get some researchers and engineers and give them some hints, point them in the right direction...
So not only is HISTORY wildly off track for some of the later crew, TECHNOLOGY is way more advanced after getting a cheat code from Speedwagon earlier on.
DJFBHNVJDNFBJDNBFJSVDF-
OH MY GOD YEAH
what if Speedwagon didn't even realise he was doing it at first? Like, sure when he was in the past he was taking in everything since all the tech and advancements was INSANE to him, but while he did ask questions he didn't really plan to keep it in his brain for very long afterward
but then he realises....... wait a second, that tech could help a lot of people and make so many things so much easier
the fact that it's relatively public knowledge that Speedwagon is pretty hands on with some of the inventing going on at the Foundation does not help with the Speedwagon Is Secretly A Time Lord conspiracy theories-
ok peanut au but with the jobros watching the joestars
-ffa
Oh
Oh god the angst and crack insanity that would go down
now, I don't know if you meant just the One True Jobro™ but my brain had the idea of it being ALL of them
no one has any clue what's going on, or why they're stuck around this Weird Blue Haired Kid, but eh they can't do much about it so they're stuck I guess. Then Shit Starts To Go Sideways, they meet some new people, and wamp wah Jonathan dies, but THEN shit continues and the Part 2 teammates disappear and then Speedwagon and Zeppeli show up except Wait Hold On A Second Isn't That Second Guy Supposed To Be Dead-
chaos
the second they put together exactly why they're all here and how fucking cursed this family is they collectively decide "okay, let's try to make this family less cursed and avoid dying because I don't know about you, but I prefer being alive thanks"
Caesar and Kakyoin getting to see how Joseph and Jotaro are doing after their deaths in later parts
Speedwagon seeing how far his devotion to Jonathan really went and how much good it did despite the fact that it couldn't save Jonathan himself
Polnareff seeing his fate in part 5 and both being bewildered by how he'd changed but also sort of seeing how he ended up there
Caesar getting to see what happened to his grandfather first hand and then William sees the eventual fate of his bloodline
Y E S S S S S S S S S
just. Imagine the emotional gut punch when they see so many of them die, learning that they're going to die if they don't fix things. They see how much pain their deaths cause, how it spurs on their allies but leaves almost irreparable damage in return, some of which never full heals
Speedwagon is incredibly shocked at what his company manages to accomplish in the future, and he's oddly touched by it. That despite the fact he failed Jonathan, every single one of the man's descendants have been affected in some way to make their struggles at least a little bit easier to bare
Polnareff was definitely the most off surprised by his "return." It does provide an interesting nudge to get him and the Bucci Gang closer since Hey Apparently We Exist In The Same Insanity, Who Knew. It's also...... really weird seeing how different he acts in the future. There was a brief moment of Panic when he thought he was going to be joining Team "We Watched Ourselves Get Murdered" but then he possesses a turtle which...... He's Not Quite Sure How To Feel About
Caesar and William have an...... interesting moment. Zeppeli's surprised to learn his son had children (since in Part 1 he does mention having a family which he left behind to pursue Hamon), and Caesar is very torn on Everything. He's literally witnessing his grandfather's journey and bonds with Jonathan, as well as seeing the events which led to his death
and this...... definitely puts some cracks in his pride in his lineage. He's still proud of it, don't get me wrong, but that blame put toward the Joestars...... it weakens and dulls. Every step of the way, his grandfather chose to do this. He chose to seek Jonathan out, chose to train him, chose to fight alongside him, and in the end chose to give his life
I just realized something. Speedwagon would be able to change things. He is definitely in a position to do so. The problem is, at first, he's stuck worrying because he still needs to get that money and influence in the first place if he wants much of a chance, so for the first few years that's stressing him out. He does get that same stroke of luck as he did in canon but it still worries him.
Then, once he's secure, he... is still stressed out, because he doesn't have much idea of what to do. He does manage to get the Zepellis in a less shitty situation, possibly protect George II, stop the Nazi party from coming into power while surreptitiously helping Germany out of the dire financial trouble that led to WWII. Y'know. The usual.
I didn't think about that last part until I started writing that but I can totally see Speedwagon doing that. Heck depending on when he gets rich he could perhaps change the tide of WWI. This is not what this reply was originally about, how did I get on this topic?
This amplifies what I was going to bring up: the multiple moments of shock from characters like Ceasar, Kakyoin, Bruno, and Ermes upon realizing "holy crap I'm alive", except now it's also compounded by the fact that history has gone wILDLY OFF COURSE SPEEDWAGON WHAT DID YOU DO (complimentary).
HVGCVGHJVJFVJGV SPEEDWAGON JUST CASUALLY SUBVERTS AN ENTIRE ASS WAR, NO BIGGIE-
oh god I love this idea of Speedwagon doing just. Absolutely batshit insane stuff on accident because he's trying to think of ways to kill time while also avoiding *gestures at the future* and if in the process he realises there's a bunch of stuff he can do to help other people along the way then why not! He was almost completely certain Jonathan would approve
and what's even funnier is that Speedwagon isn't even going to be alive when everyone else is. He's going to be long since dead, and hell he might not even realise the implications of what he's done because he wouldn't have been around to witness the long term affects
The Speedwagon Foundation becomes one of the single most powerful organisations in the entire world and in the process Robert E.O Speedwagon becomes a terrifying almost omnipotent historical figure
Oh god there would be so many memes about Speedwagon. A few examples I thought of off the top of my head:
- Average person saves ten lives a day is inaccurate. R. E. O. Speedwagon, who prevented multiple wars from happening, is an outlier adn should not be counted.
- Speedwagon didn't die, he coolly withdrew.
- "Look, I'm not saying Speedwagon was a time traveller but..."
- So. Many. Chuck Norris-esque jokes.
- And also images. Like there's one picture that shows him sipping tea while happily looking out to sea that is later given the caption "contentment" that counts as a meme on its own and that's before the variations-
- Speedwagon deserves to be an in-universe meme(pos).
SJHRBVHJDRBVJRS Y E S IN EVERY POSSIBLE WAY-
his Buzzsaw Spinny Hat is absolutely legendary and many have tried to mimic his technique with little success, but there are too many accounts of the Buzzsaw Spinny Hat for it to have been fabricated or exaggerated leading to people thinking he was some kind of Buzzsaw Spinny Hat Equivalent of the Yo Yo Man
at some point, someone manages to find a whole bunch of pictures and letters and stuff between Speedwagon and his Very Good FriendTM Jonathan. The public then realises he never married nor showed any interest in any women ever save for Erina Pendleton Joestar, aka Jonathan's wife, and even then only platonically, take in the fact Joseph Joestar, aka Jonathan's grandson, calls him Uncle Speedwagon, and he becomes a gay icon (rightfully so)
lots of theories floating around he was some kind of divine being. The worrying part is there wasn't a lot of evidence against it
a reporter managed to snap a picture at just the right second to catch Speedwagon's Resting Bitch Face at a pair of arguing Other Important People and it becomes the opposite of the Contentment image as "Disappointment"
ok peanut au but with the jobros watching the joestars
-ffa
Oh
Oh god the angst and crack insanity that would go down
now, I don't know if you meant just the One True Jobro™ but my brain had the idea of it being ALL of them
no one has any clue what's going on, or why they're stuck around this Weird Blue Haired Kid, but eh they can't do much about it so they're stuck I guess. Then Shit Starts To Go Sideways, they meet some new people, and wamp wah Jonathan dies, but THEN shit continues and the Part 2 teammates disappear and then Speedwagon and Zeppeli show up except Wait Hold On A Second Isn't That Second Guy Supposed To Be Dead-
chaos
the second they put together exactly why they're all here and how fucking cursed this family is they collectively decide "okay, let's try to make this family less cursed and avoid dying because I don't know about you, but I prefer being alive thanks"
Caesar and Kakyoin getting to see how Joseph and Jotaro are doing after their deaths in later parts
Speedwagon seeing how far his devotion to Jonathan really went and how much good it did despite the fact that it couldn't save Jonathan himself
Polnareff seeing his fate in part 5 and both being bewildered by how he'd changed but also sort of seeing how he ended up there
Caesar getting to see what happened to his grandfather first hand and then William sees the eventual fate of his bloodline
Y E S S S S S S S S S
just. Imagine the emotional gut punch when they see so many of them die, learning that they're going to die if they don't fix things. They see how much pain their deaths cause, how it spurs on their allies but leaves almost irreparable damage in return, some of which never full heals
Speedwagon is incredibly shocked at what his company manages to accomplish in the future, and he's oddly touched by it. That despite the fact he failed Jonathan, every single one of the man's descendants have been affected in some way to make their struggles at least a little bit easier to bare
Polnareff was definitely the most off surprised by his "return." It does provide an interesting nudge to get him and the Bucci Gang closer since Hey Apparently We Exist In The Same Insanity, Who Knew. It's also...... really weird seeing how different he acts in the future. There was a brief moment of Panic when he thought he was going to be joining Team "We Watched Ourselves Get Murdered" but then he possesses a turtle which...... He's Not Quite Sure How To Feel About
Caesar and William have an...... interesting moment. Zeppeli's surprised to learn his son had children (since in Part 1 he does mention having a family which he left behind to pursue Hamon), and Caesar is very torn on Everything. He's literally witnessing his grandfather's journey and bonds with Jonathan, as well as seeing the events which led to his death
and this...... definitely puts some cracks in his pride in his lineage. He's still proud of it, don't get me wrong, but that blame put toward the Joestars...... it weakens and dulls. Every step of the way, his grandfather chose to do this. He chose to seek Jonathan out, chose to train him, chose to fight alongside him, and in the end chose to give his life
I just realized something. Speedwagon would be able to change things. He is definitely in a position to do so. The problem is, at first, he's stuck worrying because he still needs to get that money and influence in the first place if he wants much of a chance, so for the first few years that's stressing him out. He does get that same stroke of luck as he did in canon but it still worries him.
Then, once he's secure, he... is still stressed out, because he doesn't have much idea of what to do. He does manage to get the Zepellis in a less shitty situation, possibly protect George II, stop the Nazi party from coming into power while surreptitiously helping Germany out of the dire financial trouble that led to WWII. Y'know. The usual.
I didn't think about that last part until I started writing that but I can totally see Speedwagon doing that. Heck depending on when he gets rich he could perhaps change the tide of WWI. This is not what this reply was originally about, how did I get on this topic?
This amplifies what I was going to bring up: the multiple moments of shock from characters like Ceasar, Kakyoin, Bruno, and Ermes upon realizing "holy crap I'm alive", except now it's also compounded by the fact that history has gone wILDLY OFF COURSE SPEEDWAGON WHAT DID YOU DO (complimentary).
HVGCVGHJVJFVJGV SPEEDWAGON JUST CASUALLY SUBVERTS AN ENTIRE ASS WAR, NO BIGGIE-
oh god I love this idea of Speedwagon doing just. Absolutely batshit insane stuff on accident because he's trying to think of ways to kill time while also avoiding *gestures at the future* and if in the process he realises there's a bunch of stuff he can do to help other people along the way then why not! He was almost completely certain Jonathan would approve
and what's even funnier is that Speedwagon isn't even going to be alive when everyone else is. He's going to be long since dead, and hell he might not even realise the implications of what he's done because he wouldn't have been around to witness the long term affects
The Speedwagon Foundation becomes one of the single most powerful organisations in the entire world and in the process Robert E.O Speedwagon becomes a terrifying almost omnipotent historical figure
I wish Erina would have been a Jobro and given Pluck tbhh
can you draw merman jonawagon except jonathan is the human and speedwagon is the merman
Looks like this morning's catch was pretty good~~ 🎣
Yes, that's Jonathan's hat (or should I say ''that was Jonathan's hat''? 🤭)