JoJo's Bizarre AU

[ripetuto]

Cascada: A hamon wielder who resides on Air Supplena Island. She largely isn't involved with Joseph and Caesar's training, since her focus is on the healing side of the practice. Looks up to Lisa Lisa a great deal, and treats the boys like they're her rowdy little brothers.

Zappa, Turner, Joplin, & Garcia: A quartet of Stand-users who work for the Speedwagon Foundation.

Lucrezia Stelline, Sara Canestrelli, & Natale Amaretto: A trio of back-alley doctors who work at a clinic in Naples affiliated with Passione. All three have Stands.

Lia Brooks: An American sixteen year old stuck in Italy after a vacation gone horribly wrong. Shot by some assholes, saved by Bucciarati, subsequently joined Passione and his team. Stand name is Astral Romance, which grants her some batshit durability and also shoot-em-up mechanics via flower petals.

Prompto Argentum: Another child of Dio's, he and Bucciarati meet when Bucciarati stumbles into his hideaway after a fight. Stand name is Paparazzi, a Stand that looks like a camera that allows Prompto to affect anyone shown in the picture.

"Nines": A teenager of unknown origin who seems to be anywhere and everywhere at once. Formerly a member of a group of twisted Stand users, recently left this group to wander around and learn what he can on his own. Stand name is Puppet Loosely Strung, which allows him to take over another person's actions for a time; however, the longer he stays in the more psychic backlash he feels when he leaves, and if he is in for too long, he risks losing himself.

Yuu: A transfer student who attended Giorno's school up until being stabbed by Black Sabbath's Stand arrow, and is then left with little choice but to join Passione. Stand name is Jar of Hearts, which allows for the collection and storage of others' injuries, thus healing them. These injuries cannot be stored indefinitely and have to be inflicted on something or someone within a certain amount of time or else Yuu will take the brunt of the damage themself. Has a sub-Stand ability called Heartbreaker, allowing for Yuu to weaponize their own physical and emotional pain.

Comments

[ripetuto]

[No, no it does not. The hand holding his wine glass tightens.]

Do you have a place to stay?

[buddinghopes]

Not yet. I was going to see about making some arrangements for her, but there was an abrupt change of plans.

[Punctuated by Bucciarati giving Lia a pointed glance. She just chuckles sheepishly.]

[ripetuto]

[. . .]

She joined on her own, didn't she?

[buddinghopes]

She did.

[Lia glances away.]

I didn't really have much in the way of other options.

I know. It's alright.

[ripetuto]

This is two for two now, Bucciarati.

[buddinghopes]

I'm realizing that.

[Fugo lets out something close to an amused huff.]

Ah, so he's just like this all the time, huh? The whole taking in strays thing.

[And that actually gets a laugh out of Fugo.]

She hasn't known you that long and she's already calling you out.

[ripetuto]

[Abbacchio chuckles.]

He helped Narancia out and told him not to join the mafia. Guess what he did maybe a year later?

[buddinghopes]

I'm gonna take a wild guess that he joined the mafia.

[Grinning like the menace she is as she answers.

But even through all of this throwing him under the bus, Bucciarati looks relieved, and it's probably obvious why--Lia seems considerably more at ease now.]

[ripetuto]

And then Bucciarati had the balls to be shocked that the kid he saved joined the mafia.

[buddinghopes]

[Lia snickers.]

At least Bucciarati and I didn't have a conversation where I got told to not join the mafia.

[Bucciarati actually laughs at that--but it's clearly at least mildly exasperated.]

You hadn't even brought it up to begin with! I would've told you not to if you'd mentioned it.

[ripetuto]

And then tried to be shocked when you joined anyway. He hasn't realized teenagers are like cats.

[buddinghopes]

Despite the quickly-increasing pile of evidence.

[Lia just giggles as Bucciarati sighs and shakes his head.]

[ripetuto]

[Good, she's relaxing. Abbacchio glances at Bucciarati as Narancia comes around to hide behind Abbacchio's chair--and Abbacchio just shoves it back enough to wind him.]

If you need a place to stay, Mista probably has room.

[No one wants to stay with Abbacchio, let's be real.]

[buddinghopes]

Ah! [Lia turns her attention towards Mista.] Would that be alright?

[ripetuto]

Yeah, sure. You don't mind the couch, do you? The bedroom is...yeah.

[buddinghopes]

Couch is just fine for me!

[Nicer than some places she's slept by now, anyway.]

[ripetuto]

Great. I'll show you the way after lunch--wait, shit. Narancia you need to stay with me for a while, otherwise there'll be four shoes by the door!

[Welp.]

[buddinghopes]

[Lia opens her mouth briefly to question the superstition before she seems to realize something, with a soft "ohhh" as she closes her mouth again.

... But, also more importantly--]

Ooh, the more, the merrier!

[ripetuto]

[Mista's eyes light up as Mista starts to complain about how he just got settled at Fugo's]

You know, this could be solved if he just got a few extra pairs of shoes.

And risk ending up with four?!

And when one of you is out but the other two aren't?

Wait--shit!

[buddinghopes]

Cheap pair of sandals. Keep them somewhere other than by the door. Whoever goes out tosses one of them by the door when they leave.

[Fugo just gives Lia an incredulous look.]

[ripetuto]

[As does Abbacchio, while Mista just stares and then hugs her before going off to do just that. Once he's gone:]

Okay, what the fuck.

[buddinghopes]

It's kind of weird that he has a thing about it, but I can at least see a line of logic for the superstition.

And, well, if it helps him with a little peace of mind...

[ripetuto]

No, not that. How'd you come up with that idea?

[buddinghopes]

Oh! Well, I figured that it might help if he had a way to make the number odd at any given time. If the concern's the number of shoes specifically at the door, keeping this cheap pair somewhere else until they're needed would be the way to go.

[A pause.]

Pulling stuff out like that on the fly is one of my better skills, I think.

I have to admit, I'm almost impressed.

[ripetuto]

Mista has a thing about the number four, ask him to introduce his Stand next time. We haven't told him how many legs chairs and shit usually have.

Or wheels on cars. Never ask him to do anything useful in April, either.