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NAME: Okuyasu Nijimura
AGE: 16
CANON: Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure
CANON POINT: Post Part 4
CANON INFORMATION: Here!
PERSONALITY: The first thing Okuyasu will tell you about himself is that he’s not all that bright. A follower, not a leader, even if he knows he’s neck deep in bad stuff because of whoever’s leading. On certain things, you can take that at face value— his test scores aren’t great, he comes to odd conclusions sometimes, but out of the grainy childhood he came from, Okuyasu seemed to be the one thing that emerged with a pure heart and a will to do better and be better.
It’s not hard to trace the lines of doubt and self esteem back to their source. Okuyasu’s father was abusive, and once he turned into a monster on account of vampiric cells in his body, only his older brother, Keicho was there to take care of him. Instead of being a supportive older sibling, he was more along the lines of ‘do what I say and do it right, or shut up’. Okuyasu, with no other resources and nowhere to turn to, had no choice but to nod and obey his brother’s commands, even when they impacted the lives of others. The gruff, grisly exterior we meet him with is what we presume are his defenses, but is really more of what Keicho wants out of him. They’re in a dangerous business at the start of Diamond is Unbreakable, and despite knowing in his heart that this was wrong, his brother was still the only family he had.
Soon after, Keicho passed away and Okuyasu was sincerely left with no one. Except the other teenager who’d spared him beforehand, Josuke Higashikata.
Okuyasu’s demeanor changed almost completely after that, like his family acted as a dam that repressed how he truly wanted to be. Though he might look and talk like a delinquent, he has a genuinely pure and kind heart. Granted, he gets attached fast, which is easy to get because he hadn’t had any friends to start with. Both Josuke and Koichi provide a better, more welcoming, more positive influence, and Okuyasu very naturally reflects it back. In that way, Okuyasu builds his own character on the characters of others, and refuses to go back on that fact after living a cold and unwanted life. We can also see this when he joins up with Josuke on a for-profit scheme that winds up using one of their lonely classmates— it might not have been a hundred percent moral, but he trusts his bro enough to follow in step with him.
He’s emotional— excited easily, cries easily, gets angry easily. But even with those feelings, he’s responsible too. For example, when they win the lottery, Oku immediately suggests putting all of his money in savings, while Josuke lists off all the expensive things he’ll spend his money on. When the small and meek Koichi gets an admire, Okuyasu can barely hold back tears of self-pity, because girls don’t even look at him. And of course, in combat, he doesn’t quite think his plans through, and has lost his arm for it once (he got better). Instinct over rationality is a main drive of his, and it’s usually the responsibility of the other characters to bring him back to earth. Surprisingly, when he’s excitable, he can be genuinely articulate, like describing a plate of food in an excessively grand way. It lends more to his feeling than thinking.
His relationship with Josuke Higashikata bears important mention, because they are the best of best friends. Not initially, even though they’re glued at the hip after their first meeting, but the entirety of DIU expands on their friendship growing into a bond where Okuyasu was willing to die for him, and on the brink of death, saw a vision of his brother telling him to go back to his friends. They plot together, spend time together, fight stand battles together, solve a 20-year-old murder mystery together. Josuke may get more scenes alone but whenever we see Okuyasu in a chapter, Josuke is never far behind. Because Josuke spared his life out of the goodness of his heart, even though Koichi was on the brink of dying because of him, he became the kind of person Okuyasu wanted to follow most.
That isn’t to say his other relationships don’t bear mentioning. Koichi, their much shorter friend, is the reason of the group, even when Josuke and Okuyasu are too determined to be stopped. He’s the brain when Josuke is the leader and Okuyasu is the brawn— and both Okuyasu and Josuke have come to his rescue more than once. Other than him, Okuyasu seems to be amiable with everyone he meets. Mikitaka, who claims to be an alien, and Tonio, who fed him food that caused him to shed his skin and rupture his stomach (to heal him) are both people he’s on good terms with, despite their strange introductions. He’s mostly respectful to the adults he meets, unless they’re a jerk, and carries an ‘always ready to help’ attitude along with him.
As for more direct faults, Okuyasu’s impulsivity has puts both his and the lives of others in danger. He’s easily duped and can complicate things for people later down the line from that alone. He gets blown to bits and survives on a miracle because of this, causing Josuke to cry for the first and only time in the entire manga. His anger can be misdirected at inappropriate times, and sometimes he’s shown to not mind treading a gray line for the sake of a result, like intending to hit two people in the face to out the one bad guy.
But all in all, in a series like Jojo, Okuyasu is a genuine good person who was misled for the first sixteen years of his life and quickly jumped down the path to change that as soon as he had a way out of it. The life he has now— one with good friends, good people, one where he can be good— is one he wouldn’t trade for anything.
ABILITIES: Okuyasu has a stand! Stands are fighting spirits that are intrinsically linked to the character. Each one represents them in some way and are used to fight on behalf of the user. Each Stand power is unique, and no two stands are alike. Okuyasu’s stand, The Hand, has the ability to erase anything with its white palm. From material objects to space itself.
Anything that The Hand erases disappears without a trace, with Okuyasu admitting he doesn’t know what his stand does with it. When The Hand erases space, it closes the gap between him and the person in front of him. He can erase letters from signs, the signs themselves, and basically anything of physical or spacial matter. However, Okuyasu hasn’t used The Hand to erase people from existence, and we can assume from his personality that he would prefer to use his stand for traditional combat than to do something like that.
INVENTORY: A schoolbag with homework and one rapidly melting chocolate strawberry ice cream cone.
MEMORY ALTERATION: He’s also convinced he’s here on behalf of the Speedwagon Foundation, but the circumstances were slightly different. He was promised that he was only needed for a temporary leave of absence to investigate something that requires special use of his stand’s ability to erase things. He thinks he was promised a full leave of absence from school with no hit to his grades, and that both he and his friend would be paid handsomely for the trip. It’s like a Vacation!
SAMPLE:
“Aah, damn it!”
Anyone would be jarred by the size and look and feel of a place like this. Coming from a town like Morioh, Okuyasu knew the weird only got weirder and to take it from there, because that’s the only way you’d get out of it. He could press his face against the glass and try to make out the swimming shapes in the dark, or he could quickly unfurl his book bag to pull out a half-crushed, half-melted ice cream cone.
There was no sense in wasting it, since he was going to be going without it for a while, so he unfurled the plastic just a little bit before staring out into the wild, murky yonder. It dawns on him that people— several people— would kill for this. Not just to be a part of it, but to see it spread out vastly in front of them. All of the thoughts surfacing in his head, like ‘damn! It’s pretty!’ or ‘Who knew the Foundation could find a place like this? Is it because of some guy’s stand?’ felt too simple for him to voice. From the confines of the base, the windows out felt like seeing something vaster than the sky itself, muddled with trepidation and excitement. It was cramped, definitely, but he’s slept on harder floors than this and survived. This felt like being a part of the ISS— small but bigger than anything on planet Earth.
Little pink trails of melted ice cream stickied his fingers in ways that would bug him long before he remembered to find a sink. The plastic was crumpled up and quickly crammed into his pocket as he picked up his satchel, just in case. You never know what kind of guys work on these projects, you know? Okuyasu’s seen enough movies where isolated spaces boil up like a pressure cooker and blast the whole thing inside out. He’d probably contributed to a few of those instances, too.
Stay calm, find someone.
And then, with a brief addendum:
Someone from Morioh.
Because the absence of a familiar face would be lonelier than entire planet’s worth of an ocean, and the presence of one could make him feel like he wasn’t anywhere different. Once he got a taste of that kind of safety, he never wanted to let it go.
And so he wouldn’t, hollering every single name he knew, going down the list from most wanted to least wanted, and doubling back up to calling for his best friend again. Someone is going to hear him, recognize his voice, right? They wouldn’t invite him just to do something completely on his own, right? Didn’t they know who he was? Topping the list of liable-for-dismemberment #1?
Maybe he’ll keep that off of his future resumes.
NAME: Y
AGE: Older than 18
PREFERRED CONTACT:
CHARACTERS IN GAME: N/A
IC INFORMATION
NAME: Okuyasu Nijimura
AGE: 16
CANON: Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure
CANON POINT: Post Part 4
CANON INFORMATION: Here!
PERSONALITY: The first thing Okuyasu will tell you about himself is that he’s not all that bright. A follower, not a leader, even if he knows he’s neck deep in bad stuff because of whoever’s leading. On certain things, you can take that at face value— his test scores aren’t great, he comes to odd conclusions sometimes, but out of the grainy childhood he came from, Okuyasu seemed to be the one thing that emerged with a pure heart and a will to do better and be better.
It’s not hard to trace the lines of doubt and self esteem back to their source. Okuyasu’s father was abusive, and once he turned into a monster on account of vampiric cells in his body, only his older brother, Keicho was there to take care of him. Instead of being a supportive older sibling, he was more along the lines of ‘do what I say and do it right, or shut up’. Okuyasu, with no other resources and nowhere to turn to, had no choice but to nod and obey his brother’s commands, even when they impacted the lives of others. The gruff, grisly exterior we meet him with is what we presume are his defenses, but is really more of what Keicho wants out of him. They’re in a dangerous business at the start of Diamond is Unbreakable, and despite knowing in his heart that this was wrong, his brother was still the only family he had.
Soon after, Keicho passed away and Okuyasu was sincerely left with no one. Except the other teenager who’d spared him beforehand, Josuke Higashikata.
Okuyasu’s demeanor changed almost completely after that, like his family acted as a dam that repressed how he truly wanted to be. Though he might look and talk like a delinquent, he has a genuinely pure and kind heart. Granted, he gets attached fast, which is easy to get because he hadn’t had any friends to start with. Both Josuke and Koichi provide a better, more welcoming, more positive influence, and Okuyasu very naturally reflects it back. In that way, Okuyasu builds his own character on the characters of others, and refuses to go back on that fact after living a cold and unwanted life. We can also see this when he joins up with Josuke on a for-profit scheme that winds up using one of their lonely classmates— it might not have been a hundred percent moral, but he trusts his bro enough to follow in step with him.
He’s emotional— excited easily, cries easily, gets angry easily. But even with those feelings, he’s responsible too. For example, when they win the lottery, Oku immediately suggests putting all of his money in savings, while Josuke lists off all the expensive things he’ll spend his money on. When the small and meek Koichi gets an admire, Okuyasu can barely hold back tears of self-pity, because girls don’t even look at him. And of course, in combat, he doesn’t quite think his plans through, and has lost his arm for it once (he got better). Instinct over rationality is a main drive of his, and it’s usually the responsibility of the other characters to bring him back to earth. Surprisingly, when he’s excitable, he can be genuinely articulate, like describing a plate of food in an excessively grand way. It lends more to his feeling than thinking.
His relationship with Josuke Higashikata bears important mention, because they are the best of best friends. Not initially, even though they’re glued at the hip after their first meeting, but the entirety of DIU expands on their friendship growing into a bond where Okuyasu was willing to die for him, and on the brink of death, saw a vision of his brother telling him to go back to his friends. They plot together, spend time together, fight stand battles together, solve a 20-year-old murder mystery together. Josuke may get more scenes alone but whenever we see Okuyasu in a chapter, Josuke is never far behind. Because Josuke spared his life out of the goodness of his heart, even though Koichi was on the brink of dying because of him, he became the kind of person Okuyasu wanted to follow most.
That isn’t to say his other relationships don’t bear mentioning. Koichi, their much shorter friend, is the reason of the group, even when Josuke and Okuyasu are too determined to be stopped. He’s the brain when Josuke is the leader and Okuyasu is the brawn— and both Okuyasu and Josuke have come to his rescue more than once. Other than him, Okuyasu seems to be amiable with everyone he meets. Mikitaka, who claims to be an alien, and Tonio, who fed him food that caused him to shed his skin and rupture his stomach (to heal him) are both people he’s on good terms with, despite their strange introductions. He’s mostly respectful to the adults he meets, unless they’re a jerk, and carries an ‘always ready to help’ attitude along with him.
As for more direct faults, Okuyasu’s impulsivity has puts both his and the lives of others in danger. He’s easily duped and can complicate things for people later down the line from that alone. He gets blown to bits and survives on a miracle because of this, causing Josuke to cry for the first and only time in the entire manga. His anger can be misdirected at inappropriate times, and sometimes he’s shown to not mind treading a gray line for the sake of a result, like intending to hit two people in the face to out the one bad guy.
But all in all, in a series like Jojo, Okuyasu is a genuine good person who was misled for the first sixteen years of his life and quickly jumped down the path to change that as soon as he had a way out of it. The life he has now— one with good friends, good people, one where he can be good— is one he wouldn’t trade for anything.
ABILITIES: Okuyasu has a stand! Stands are fighting spirits that are intrinsically linked to the character. Each one represents them in some way and are used to fight on behalf of the user. Each Stand power is unique, and no two stands are alike. Okuyasu’s stand, The Hand, has the ability to erase anything with its white palm. From material objects to space itself.
Anything that The Hand erases disappears without a trace, with Okuyasu admitting he doesn’t know what his stand does with it. When The Hand erases space, it closes the gap between him and the person in front of him. He can erase letters from signs, the signs themselves, and basically anything of physical or spacial matter. However, Okuyasu hasn’t used The Hand to erase people from existence, and we can assume from his personality that he would prefer to use his stand for traditional combat than to do something like that.
INVENTORY: A schoolbag with homework and one rapidly melting chocolate strawberry ice cream cone.
MEMORY ALTERATION: He’s also convinced he’s here on behalf of the Speedwagon Foundation, but the circumstances were slightly different. He was promised that he was only needed for a temporary leave of absence to investigate something that requires special use of his stand’s ability to erase things. He thinks he was promised a full leave of absence from school with no hit to his grades, and that both he and his friend would be paid handsomely for the trip. It’s like a Vacation!
SAMPLE:
“Aah, damn it!”
Anyone would be jarred by the size and look and feel of a place like this. Coming from a town like Morioh, Okuyasu knew the weird only got weirder and to take it from there, because that’s the only way you’d get out of it. He could press his face against the glass and try to make out the swimming shapes in the dark, or he could quickly unfurl his book bag to pull out a half-crushed, half-melted ice cream cone.
There was no sense in wasting it, since he was going to be going without it for a while, so he unfurled the plastic just a little bit before staring out into the wild, murky yonder. It dawns on him that people— several people— would kill for this. Not just to be a part of it, but to see it spread out vastly in front of them. All of the thoughts surfacing in his head, like ‘damn! It’s pretty!’ or ‘Who knew the Foundation could find a place like this? Is it because of some guy’s stand?’ felt too simple for him to voice. From the confines of the base, the windows out felt like seeing something vaster than the sky itself, muddled with trepidation and excitement. It was cramped, definitely, but he’s slept on harder floors than this and survived. This felt like being a part of the ISS— small but bigger than anything on planet Earth.
Little pink trails of melted ice cream stickied his fingers in ways that would bug him long before he remembered to find a sink. The plastic was crumpled up and quickly crammed into his pocket as he picked up his satchel, just in case. You never know what kind of guys work on these projects, you know? Okuyasu’s seen enough movies where isolated spaces boil up like a pressure cooker and blast the whole thing inside out. He’d probably contributed to a few of those instances, too.
Stay calm, find someone.
And then, with a brief addendum:
Someone from Morioh.
Because the absence of a familiar face would be lonelier than entire planet’s worth of an ocean, and the presence of one could make him feel like he wasn’t anywhere different. Once he got a taste of that kind of safety, he never wanted to let it go.
And so he wouldn’t, hollering every single name he knew, going down the list from most wanted to least wanted, and doubling back up to calling for his best friend again. Someone is going to hear him, recognize his voice, right? They wouldn’t invite him just to do something completely on his own, right? Didn’t they know who he was? Topping the list of liable-for-dismemberment #1?
Maybe he’ll keep that off of his future resumes.
