Joichiro Jonochi

Joichiro Jonochi (徐一路じょのち, Joichiro Jonochi), known by his friends as ‘JoJo’ (shortened by combining the first two letters of his first and last name) is a distant and unknown relative of the Joestars and the main protagonist of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Dark Magical Beat. Living his life alone after his parents were massacred, Joichiro is unaware that he is part of the Joestar bloodline, making him a target of the Pillar Men. Joichiro is a first year high school student from Japan. Joichiro possesses an illusionary Stand known as Reality Master which allows him to manipulate his surroundings using illusions.

Appearance
Joichiro is a teenager above average height, standing at 5’11 (180cm). Joichiro has messy hair which he rarely combs, with some tufts of hair poking out in random directions. His body is built slim and slender, yet slightly muscular, with even muscles around his torso and shoulders. Joichiro wears a modified version of a modern day Japanese high school uniform without the tie. Instead of a blazer, he wears a formal grey sweater and a short black robe coloured red on the inside. He wears baggy trousers and brown leather shoes. On some occasions, Joichiro can be seen with a number of colourful enamel pins pinned to his robe, including that of a rainbow, a cross-eyed smiley face and a lightning bolt. During winter, he wears a wool-trimmed winter coat instead of his usual robe, sometimes worn with a pair of winter boots. Joichiro usually appears to have a dark/pale colour scheme. Even in the brightest of light, his hair retains the same dark coloured tint. Joichiro is fond of dark colours, preferably choosing to wear black or grey coloured outfits as he sees bright colours as an eyesore. On cloudless days, Joichiro also sports a pair of expensive black 30,000 yen sunglasses which shines brightly in daylight due to the number of times Joichiro polishes it.

Personality
Joichiro considers himself to be perfectly ordinary. However, his overall cold personality usually repels people from him, causing him to have very few friends. However, deep down Joichiro is a kind and sympathetic young man, though this personality trait is rarely shown to people other than his own friends. Despite this, Joichiro is a vengeful person who will not hesitate to seek revenge to those who have caused harm to him or the people who he cares about. Joichiro subconsciously reflects rudeness towards his peers, coming off as a rough delinquent. As time passes, Joichiro learns to reflect kindness to his peers rather then rudeness, and will not hesitate to comfort friends who are feeling down. Though many may see Joichiro as strong, Joichiro is mentally unstable and is surprisingly fragile. Joichiro is prideful and has great respect for his family, despite him having never known his parents in the first place. One insult directed at his family is enough to get Joichiro on his knees. When harsh truths are brought upon Joichiro, he is known to result to uncontrollable bursts of anger or sadness, and his reactions are usually overexaggerated. Joichiro has no control over his emotions, and they usually get the better of him, sometimes freezing him in place. Due to these uncontrollable emotions, Joichiro is shown to be a merciless fighter, thus using his overly powerful Stand to mercilessly torture opponents before killing them and usually tries to take out his opponents as quickly as he can. He does his best to show no emotion or remorse when fighting, and is the complete opposite of merciful. He is shown to grow increasingly insane upon seeing blood, and usually ends up panting and breathing heavily after finally destroying his opponents. Joichiro always makes sure to spill blood when killing opponents. The reason for this is unknown.

Reality Master
Reality Master grants Joichiro the ability to manipulate reality using illusions. These changes are fake and do not actually happen, and are meant to trick opponents. However, Joichiro’s stand allows him to turn back time a few seconds, but doing so slowly damages the plane reality is built on. Though Joichiro can turn back time, he cannot stop time, but only repeat events that occurred a few seconds earlier.

Reality Master proves to be a useful stand, with Joichiro being able to create conditions which may affect opponents if he wills it to. Though he keeps this specific ability at minimal usage, it is undoubtedly a very powerful ability, with Joichiro being able to create healing conditions to heal the wounded, firey or icy conditions and many more.

However, Joichiro is incapable of completely altering his surroundings and is only capable of creating an illusion which does so. However, being an illusion, it does not affect people who are trapped within it, but makes them incapable of leaving the area until the Stand master wills it. If the Stand master dies while inside the illusion, any organism inside the illusion will be able to escape, except the Stand master himself, who will disappear along with the illusion.

Joichiro is also capable of changing his looks so that he looks exactly like someone else, though his voice will unfortunately remain the same. Joichiro can also transform other people into someone else, except they will only retain this form as long as they are in physical contact with Joichiro.

Mastery
Joichiro is still in the process of mastering his Stand, thus making his full capabilities currently unknown. Joichiro continuously practices on how to turn back time without damaging reality planes. He is currently only capable of turning time back for 5-10 seconds. Though Joichiro can turn back time, the full extent of this ability is also unknown, though the time limit for which he can turn back time appears to be steadily growing.

Personal
Joichiro possesses several great abilities that aid him in combat and make him useful to his comrades.


 * Intelligence: Though he may not seem like it, Joichiro is surprisingly very intelligent, and was capable of outsmarting his opponents not once, but most of the time when battling them. However, this usually leads to overconfidence, which sometimes leads to Joichiro’s downfall.
 * Physical fineness: Due to his heavy training while trying to master his Stand, Joichiro has developed great physical abilities such as quick reflexes, speed and agility. He is capable of maneuvering through difficult obstacles with ease, and can even chase down vehicles on foot. However, Joichiro isn’t very cautious with his actions, and sometimes fails to catch up/flee from his opponents.

Early Life
As a child, Joichiro was cared for by his parents for a few months until they were massacred by DIO. Being the sole survivor, Joichiro was left alone in his home for three days (due to being protected by his Stand) before he was found and raised by his foster father, Kyogai Kinoshita.

Joichiro grew up in a peaceful household, but grew to become a rude, aggressive and abrasive delinquent. Not knowing that he had a stand, he saw himself as perfectly ordinary, and grew up to become a street thug.

However, after meeting a mysterious Stand user, Yoshiaki, Joichiro discovers his Stand and becomes Yoshiaki’s apprentice. After training together for a year, Joichiro is left lost and devastated after Yoshiaki’s disappearance.

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Dark Magical Beat
Joichiro enters his first year of high school. Not knowing that he is the target of DIO and the Pillar Men, he lives his day-to-day life ordinarily, while tending to his sick father.

However, Joichiro is one day assaulted by one of DIO’s minions, Coppermouth. Though Joichiro makes it out of the battle unscathed, he goes on a journey with a group of Stand users to defeat DIO (or in his view, have revenge on him), where he is told that DIO is the person who had murdered his parents. Joichiro develops a burning hatred for DIO, and is determined to be the one who finally destroys him.

Kyogai Kinoshita
Joichiro was raised by Kyogai, who became his foster father after his (Joichiro’s) parents were killed by DIO. After Kyogai falls severely ill, Joichiro spends most of his time tending to him.

Yoshiaki
An unknown man, Yoshiaki was Joichiro’s Stand trainer. Unfortunately, Yoshiaki eventually disappears for an unknown reason and is presumed dead.

DIO
DIO is Joichiro’s enemy and both are determined to destroy each other.

Trivia

 * Joichiro is a common Japanese masculine name. Jonochi is from the word Jonouchi, which creates quick, versatile, analytical, and clever mind.