[center][b]Jojo's Bizarre Adventure RP (Name Pending).[/b][/center]

I am currently tossing around the concept of starting a Jojo RP. It's something I've had a hankering for for a while. Things are still in the workshopping stage, so nothing plot-related is necessarily set in stone, but I'm looking to gage interest, even if it's unlikely to start anything up during the holidays. But I tend to be a more ponderous mover in RP-ing, so there's no particular rush for anything anyway.

For those unfamiliar with Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, a decent broad premise is that the series largely follows the generation adventures of the Joestar family, which start out as righteous battles against vampires and aztec gods using the power of sunlight breathing bullshit... before evolving into using manifestations of one's fighting spirit and soul, called Stands, to fight other people wielding the same soul bullshit. Characters in the series have a reputation for being muscular, eccentrically dressed or both, along with being rather "extra" in behavior and often posing for no good reason but flexing. I could try to explain Stands, but it's honestly easier to just link the [url=https://jojo.fandom.com/wiki/Stand]wiki, here[/url].

[u]Plot/Pitch:[/u]
The RP will most likely be set in either a full AU or a post-Part 6 AU, given how that ended making just about anything technically viable; I haven't settled on the primary locale for the plot to either start or be centralized. Right now, the primary direction I'm leaning in (and it's difficult to decide what is or isn't going to be spoilers) is that the central -or perhaps overarching- conflict of the RP will be a battle over possession of one of the Stand Arrows. I haven't entirely ruled out the inclusion of vampires/pillar men or the holy corpse parts, but I don't have any plans for them to be overtly relevant either. Maybe the former end up as side/warm up enemies. Who knows.

[u]Basic Character Creation:[/u]
The cast will consist of OCs. I'm planning for the focus to be on Stands (obviously enough, since the central conflict is one of the Arrows), but I'm open to allowing Hamon or the Spin as powersets. On the matter of Stands, I only plan to have original Stands. Canon Stands will only be granted to canon characters, and I've no plans to allow canon characters to be played. Since Stands are unique to the soul and individual, that holds true here; so there won't be any canon Stands appearing in the hands of OCs. That goes for PCs and NPCs alike, so expect enemies to have generally unique Stands as well.

[u]Stands:[/u] I intend to possibly make some slight RP-specific alterations to how Stands will function in this RP. For one, I want to more solidly define Range, as that is one of the most confusing stats in the entire series. Secondly, I intend for the Stand Stat system to largely entirely represent the Stand's physical capabilities (with understandable exceptions like Developmental Potential). A Stand's Power being E, for example would solely address their physical strength and not (for example) the ability to shoot lava from their hands; unique Stand abilities will largely be entirely self-contained from the rest of the Stand's stats. If necessary, I may institute a "sub-stat" system, where there are extra stats in parenthesis to indicate the Stand's unique ability(ies). As for what powers I'll allow to Stands, I sadly can't say "anything goes", as some abilities are either just inherently broken, narratively difficult to play with or both. I want to be as flexible as I can, but any form of time/fate manipulation or resurrection -just to start- are completely off the table.

[u]On nonhuman PCs:[/u] Vampires -for those that consider them- are unfortunately completely out of the question; all evidence in canon suggests that they are inherently maliciously evil due to the way the Stone Mask rewires their brains, and the act of becoming a vampire would be likely considered equivalent to character death, turning them into an NPC. They are villains, not protagonists. Pillar men are also not allowed. Well, I suppose it would be clearer to say "only humans" are allowed as characters, but that's not entirely true. Multiple times in Jojo, animals with enough sentience to develop a Stand have been featured prominently, so I'm willing to consider allowing them.

[u]On canon relevance:[/u] I am waffling heavily on the allowance of any relation to notable canon elements, like playing a Joestar or Brando, despite being an OC. I'm leaning towards "no" for the time being, as I'd prefer all the OCs and their backgrounds to be entirely self-contained. So, no star-shaped mark of destiny for anyone, if only so no-one is basically rocking a "main character" indicator.