JOJO

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First Person P.O.V.

I look at my new appearance in the opaque mirror, and I can’t help but find it strange and edgy... And I was a weeb in my last life.

But damn, heterochromatic eyes of red and purple, and white hair? Really? And I think I know that mark over my eye... yeah, I remember this guy.

I look like Allen Walker from D.Gray-Man. Star shaped tatoo over my eye and everything. I also had a star-shaped birthmark on my shoulder, but this is after I opened the Starting Pack of the system.

But why did I have his appearance? Did I choose him and forget about it? My system is also from one of my favorite anime, so maybe I really had some control.

Well, this world would not be my first option tho... I sideglance the bedsheets full of heroes from my many roommates. The bedsheets are old, from donation, but in good shape at least.

I am in the Boku no Hero Academia, or My Hero Academia, world if you’re a gringo. Shit, I didn’t even see the ending...

“Hey, if you're finishing getting ready, let’s go!” A woman appears at the door to shout at me.

“Okay.” I move to her.

She is one of the matrons here at the orphanage, and she is taking me to the Quirk Registration Center, or whatever, to get my documents and register myself.

I don’t have a quirk, by the way... But I gained something that can pass as a quirk with the Starting Pack.

I was dragged by the impatient woman to the bus stop. As she made me sit on her lap(this is so weird, I was a young adult in my last life), I checked my system again. It’s fun to check on it even when you can’t buy anything.

Yep, it’s one of those systems where you buy things with credits, and the credits you acquire by doing something.

In this case, my “Golden Finger”(I’m pretty sure that I met a R.O.B and paid with my memories) is called Flamboyant Bizarre System...

Yeah... I tried changing it, but it is not possible.

It’s very basic; you can buy things from Jojo with the “Bizarre Points”. The mechanic is that you can only acquire the BPs by “impressing” people in some way; it’s basically an attention-seeking system. An aura farming system… Literally farming aura in the shape of points.

It reminds me of that novel where the MC acts tough in a cultivation world.

I gain BP when people have some feeling about my actions… surprise, awkwardness, whatever. I tested with some kids in the orphanage.

[Flamboyant Bizarre System]

Name: ???

Age: 05

Race: Human (Joestar Bloodline)

Stands: Tusk Act 1[+]

Techniques: Spin(Novice)

[Store]

BP: 107

That’s it, very simple.

I gained Tusk, the basics of spin, the Joestar Bloodline, the Stone Mask that I’m hiding inside my mattress, and a 100 BP with the Starting Gift Pack. The other 7 BP came from acting flamboyant, with the criminal trio Yesterday, and with some kids in the orphanage when I showed my “quirk”.

Said quirk is my spinning and shooting nails from the stand, Tusk.

At this point, I understand that I have an Overpowered potential. A strong bullshit stand in Jojo can 1v2 against both All Might and All for One. And I can have all of them eventually!

The thing is... Two things really... I’m an introvert. Acting Flamboyant or whatever is a nightmare! This system will turn me in a attention whore!

The second thing is the price... Some stands are pretty cheap. I can even buy some right now, like [Fun Fun Fun], [Ebony Devil], or [Cinderella].

[Emperor] is a little out of budget, costing 500 BP

But the price increases DRASTICALLY the stronger the stand is... [Star Platinum] is fucking 430.000 BP! Without the Time Stop ability!

[The World] is 70 million! The two become the same price if Star Platinum has the Time Stop ability.

Oh.My.God!

To be fair... Having even one of those stands is enough to put me in the top echelon of this world... And I can have all of them! Eventually... Ugh...

[Wonder of U] is 1 Billion, by the way, and as a fun fact... It’s not the most expensive Stand, and no... [Made in Heaven] is not the most expensive either.

The most expensive is [Hey Ya!] with 1.5 billion. This is the “Unleashed” version, whatever it means.

There’s a cheaper version that is 5.5 million. The description says something like this... the Unleashed version really makes me Lucky, while the other version gives me pointers to utilize my luck to the fullest, like with Pocco Loco, the original user.

But this doesn’t matter; I can’t afford either of them. And these stands would not be my priority.

Now... How do I acquire a huge chunk of BP? With some millions, if I can buy 2 or 3 humanoid OP stands like [The World], I’m good for the rest of my life.

I thought long and hard about this question all night, and I stayed awake wrestling with the solution...

I need to be a hero.

Or a villain, whatever... Something that gives me the opportunity to be the center of attention. To show off! 

I remember that there’s that Sports Festival, right? The one in UA was shown to the world... Imagine how many Bizarre Points I can gain if I appear on TV.

The problem is that I’m literally on the other side of the world, without family, without money... Heck, I don’t even have a name yet. Though I already decided on one.

The woman accompanying me stands up, that is our stop, it seems.

Being a hero or villain is something for the future; let’s live in the present. I think I can play safe and gain some BP enough to buy a humanoid Stand that is physically strong enough to defend me, and... Well, that is the first part of my plan. After I accomplish that, I will see what I will do.

We get out of the bus, and she makes me walk a lot. The streets here are a little better than that post-apocalyptic hellhole I was in before, but not by much... What becomes of my country, man? I would like to say that I’m surprised but I would be lying.

This is exactly in tune with this country.

The big cities are protected by walls, bro! Walls! Like Attack on Titans shit, to separate the rich from us, the trash!

I will leave this life better than those snob fuckers, fuck if as a villain or hero. I will be rich and leave the streets! I’m not homeless, but I could very well be; beyond giving a shit food and a bed, the orphanage does nothing more.

I guess it will play to my advantage because I will have a lot of freedom...

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Inside the building, I finally understand why the woman dragging me was such a bitch. We are waiting here for hours!

She probably lost the Rock-Paper-Scissors game and had to be the one to bring me.

On this floor, all around me, I see kids excitedly moving around like the little gremlins they are. I’m one of the few exceptions who are being quiet.

I, at least, can go through the Store to waste time. 

Hm, I can buy clothes from the characters,  some remarkable items, and even another Stone Mask. 

I can even buy some pets... Horses, to use the spin... Pet Shop and Iggy are here too. Foo Fighters!!??!

Wait, I can become an Ultimate Lifeform? Reading with attention, it seems that there’s an Evolution path to that... Oh, I’m being called.

“Quirk?” The public employee asks in a bored tone as she types on her computer.

“Shooting Spinning Nails.” I am the one answering.

“Hm... How strong?” She asks uninterested.

I was ready to answer that it's like real bullets, but I held my tongue. A kid with a gun embedded in the hand is a problem, right? And is not that strong either… yet.

“...like I’m throwing a rock.”

“Hm, and what will be your name?” She asks, still showing no interest

Kids can choose their name here. What a good way to have a Bob Uchiha, Miavara Noteku, or xXDark StarXx running around.

I thought long and hard in my name too... It needs to start with Jo, right? The Japanese ones, like Jotaro and Josuke, are out obviously. 

I was in doubt about two, but I decided on...

“Joshua Joestar.”

“...” I can feel the matron's gaze on my neck. Did I answer too fast?

“Only two names?” The attendant doesn’t care. 

Ah, yes, the usual is more names.

“Er... Dio! Joshua Dio Joestar!” The other name was Jodio, by the way.

There’s the Brando bloodline in the Store, too. The description says that boost my intellect a little. I can be like Giorno and be both a Joestar and a Brando, but I don’t like “Brando”, so Dio is okay as a middle name.

The Higashikata and other family bloodlines are also in the store, each giving a boon.

The Joestar bloodline, by the way, is the best, increasing a lot of things like attractiveness, Battle IQ, willpower, and even Destiny... But also says that I attract trouble... This is not ominous at all.

“Okay, everything is ready... You take the picture in Section 6, Floor 1.” The attendant gives a paper to the matron and dismisses us.

Almost five years, and I don’t even have an ID.

The road will belong, huh? Baby steps, I guess... Let’s work my shy ass and farm some Bizarre Points.

It can’t be ready to impress some kids.

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Kids suck.

“Look at him! Haha!”

“His nails are painted! Gyaha!”

“...” I’m being bullied... It has been so long since the last time I was also bullied in my last life.

I was also bullied here because I’m the last of the 4-year-old kids that awakened my “quirk”, so I was the outcast.

Now I’m being bullied because my lips changed colors, probably because [Tusk] or because of the Joestar Bloodline. It’s a deep shade of purple now. It’s not like I’m using lipstick, right? I need to check...

 Damnit!! Araki and his artstyle change! I want to be a buff man, not a twink!

“Gay!”

“Gay!”

“Faggot!

“Little girl!”

The kids laugh as they chant insults, damn, they can be mean, but it's not like I care-woah!

Bam

“...” Someone pushed me...

Maybe my lack of reaction made them cross the line... I was distracted, and I didn’t put my hand in time to stop my fall, and I ended up hurting the side of my face.

“Hahahahaha”

“He ate dirt!”

“SHE ate dirt!!”

“Dirt mouth!!”

“Gyahaha”

“...” I’m a mature person, I’m a mature person. “Fuck you all!”

Okay, I know it sounds bad... But I sucker punched one of the kids. Yes, I should be the bigger person.

But bullying is not stopped by ignoring it, no matter how much people say this, so I prefer to be an ignored outcast than to be harassed.

The little bastard that I punched fell on the ground like a bag of potatoes, and then everything delved into chaos.  The kids jump me like rabid dogs, the fucking goblins went crazy, it was one against many.

I didn’t lose, by the way.

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Now I’m in pain on my bed, without dinner as a punishment for starting a fight. Typical adults act only when the bullied kid fights back. It is because when the kid takes it silently, no trouble appears to them.

Maybe it's not the most mature thing to fight some some 4-year olds, but fuck these kids, man.

They used their quirks! In a amauterish way, but they used!

Now if I shoot them with Tusk, I would be the baaad guuuy, I bet. Tch.

“...it hurts.” They didn’t even give me any medicine or anything like that.

This pain is making reality sink in even harder... You don’t feel pain in dreams, you know?

This is reality... I’m in an anime world with an anime system.

“...” I stare at the dark ceiling for an unknown amount of time.

I can make this work... My system is OP.

I’m also accepting the fact that I will die in this world eventually; this is my second and probably last life. But with all those advantages, I can’t settle for being a mediocre nobody.

“I will make it count.”

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(From now on, I will experiment by writing the story in the third person.)

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Joshua Joestar rediscovered that he has nothing to do.

Initially, it sounds obvious, but as a kid, he had no responsabilities or duties. Well, he still has the duty of making his own bed, but that’s it.

This was his reality before, but now that he remembers his last life, he understands how crippling this life is.

The matrons don’t teach anything to the kids, the kids don’t even go to school, he doesn’t think even one single kid below 10 years old knows how to read in the orphanage.

Because of his age, he doesn’t need to help around like the older ones, so right now he is finding himself with a lot of time.

And he doesn’t like it very much.

“Nothing do... No computer to research, no place to train... Should I start running around like those isekai kids, to build stamina?” He ponders in his isolated corner in the backyard. No kids approach him because of yesterday’s fight.

At least initially...

“Hey, you! I heard you beat up Bruno Yesterday!” An older kid approaches him, surrounded by two other kids of similar ages and the group from yesterday behind them.

“...” Joshua sighs, standing up to the fight... But he suddenly stops. That’s a good opportunity, “Joshua Joestar!” He shouts while pointing at the older kid

“What?”

“My name is Joshua Joestar! Don’t dare forget that!” He strikes a pose while giving his name in a flashy way

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‘Oh... I think they called this... ‘mosquito legs still have meat’ in those cultivation novels.’

“What about your name?! I have a name too! It’s-“

“Not interested!” Joshua interrupts him by striking another pose. ‘Oh my god someone kill me again!’

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“...” Everyone looks at him strangely. Half thinking he is an idiot. And half thinking he's kinda cool.

He continues with a serious face “I can only remember the names of beautiful girls and respectable opponents...” He says, cringing inside, “and you’re NEITHER!” After that, he winks to some of the older girls watching the Exchange, cringing inside even harder.

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‘Hm... So I can gain more than 1 for person.’ So this whole situation was not a waste. “Or it's just that I impressed two people in the same instant?’

After the initial shock, the older kid hit him, and another fight broke off.

He still didn’t lose.

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“Bunch of barbaric little goblins...” Joshua mumbles as he walks out of the orphanage, wearing old clothes and a lot of bruises over his body.

That’s how it works; you can do everything and go anywhere, and they probably don’t even care if you don’t come back to eat or sleep.

“I need to get out of that shitty place... When I get older, they will make me a work slave.” He kicks a bottle cap as he walks.

He is seriously considering running away, but not now... In some years. Yesterday, seeing all those empty buildings in the abandoned parts of the city gave him the idea that he could simply live in one of them.

But he needs to be strong and self-sufficient to do that.

Food, freedom and security. That’s what the orphanage gives him. When his freedoms start to be chipped off, he needs to be able to defend and sustain himself.

He continues to kick the bottle cap as he moves through the block around the orphanage. It’s not empty or that dangerous here; it’s almost civilized, with people going to work and some shops.

Being strong and self-sufficient... The answer obviously is in his system.

He once again opens the shop. He can buy stands, but only weak ones, more utility than anything, or too specific to be reliable.

“[Mr. President]...” He reads the name, only 100 Bizarre Points. Right now he has 134 BP.

“If I buy it, I will have a room... I can hide it in a hole or a crevice in the wall...” he considers.

Unfortunately, the description says that the stand will be empty, so he would still need to replenish it with furniture and food.

“What a waste, it says here that it has electricity and can even connect with the internet and radio waves.” He sighs 

The stands he can afford are weak, the price of battle-oriented stands jumps to the tens of thousands.

There’s an exception, though.

“[Moody Blues], only 2000 BP.” It’s not the most physically strong of the stands, but it is at least slightly stronger than a normal person.

There are others, but they are too specific... Like [Dark Blue Moon], which is only good in the water, and [King Nothing], which is physically weak.

He is skipping [Emperor] because he doesn’t need another gun. He already has [Tusk].

[Moody Blues], even though it is an investigative stand, it can throw punches.

It’s not [Sticky Fingers], [Gold Experience], or even [Star Platinum], but it would help.

“[Red Hot Chili Peppers] is surprisingly cheap too... Only 25000 BP.” He sees the electric stand is strong enough to contend with [Crazy Diamond] when it is charged. [Crazy Diamond] is 500.000 BP, to make a comparison. Half a million...

The problem with [Red Hot Chili Peppers] is that it can’t produce its own electricity; it needs to leech from other places. So it is not a reliable stand.

“But it has a excelente range, I can send it to do any dirty work...” He mentally puts [Red Hot Chili Peppers] on the list of the first stands to buy.

He sighs as he continues to kick the bottle cap.

“If I had gained something OP stand in the Starting Pack...” He curses his luck. The good stands are at least a hundred of thousands Bizarre Points. How long will it take to save this amount?

And he does not want only one of them. If he can have all, he wants all!

“Not that I think you’re bad, Tusk.” He looks at the small pink stand floating close to his hand.

He stops walking and crouches down to grab the bottle cap that he was kicking all this time. 

“The way is train the spin so that I can evolve Tusk. It’s cheaper and more reliable. With [Tusk] Act 4 alone, he will be on top of the world too.” He holds the bottle cap in his palm and, with a flick of his thumb, makes the thing spin and floats in the air.

Like a helicopter taking flight, the bottle cap goes up and down before finally landing on his palm again.

“Where can I get a steel ball? Wait, this is Brazil... There are balls everywhere.” He looks around, searching for a shop, but he sees a small girl staring straight at him. She looks like his age, but she looks dumber, with suckling on a finger and with a vacant look.

“...”

“...”

“...What?” he tries to ask

“...” But she doesn’t answer

“The trick with the bottle cap?” He flicks his thumb again, sending it in the same trajectory as before. Maybe he can gain a point if he awes the girl.

“...cute.” The girl finally says as she chews her finger

“?”

“Cute.” The girl takes her, now wet with drool, finger and points at him.

No, not at him... 

Joshua’s eyes slowly widen.

“You... Can you see him?”

She is pointing at Tusk.

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“Well, that’s... something.” Joshua stops and sits on a sidewalk to contemplate “But this can be bad and good.” He thinks.

He went around testing if people could really see his stand, and he confirmed they could.

And they can touch it too... That means he can be hurt if someone attacks his stands, but he can make the stands intangible. But then he would not be able to hurt them…

“So I will need to judge if it is better to tank the damage with my stand or not...”

There’s potential in the fighting style. He can also hide the stand on his body and use only its abilities.

But the most important thing... If people can see his stands...

“They can be awed by it.” He smiles.

He thinks stands are super cool, and he can show them off now!

“Hehe~ This life will be fun~” He is already imagining himself calling out a stand dramatically! People hearing “Oras” as they are beaten into a pulp.

Sometimes it's not about what is more efficient, it’s about what is cooler.

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Bam

“That’s kinda weak...” Joshua notices that the concrete wall has only a small dent after he shot a nail bullet on it.

He is, right now, in a house that was abandoned mid-building. He avoids stepping on the used condoms, cigarettes, syringes, and other trash in the ground as he practices with his Stand in a corner.

“It barely has the power of a slingshot...” He tilts her head. “At least it’s painless.” He checks his finger, missing a nail that is slowly growing back.

He thinks for a little before realizating hits him

“Ah! The same thing happened with Polnareff! How could I forget till now? Damnit, brain of a child.”

The power of a stand is proportional to the body and spiritual energy of the user. The Tusk of the barely 5-year Joshua power can’t compare with Johnny’s.

“Another problem of being a child... Damn, I can’t do shit!” He grabs his head in frustration.

After some time, he sighs and calms himself.

“Okay, I can do other things... I can train my aim.” He readies his hand and prepares to shoot again. He also needs to check his stamina.

A downside of having so many powers/stands is that he will need to master different things to use them to their full potential.

Having a good aim, swimming, knowledge in biology, cooking, etc.

Obviously, some stands are simple and ridiculous OP, but Joshua Joestar doesn’t want to be a medíocre user.

Even with a young mind, he understands that nothing is truly free and everything that is worth something needs effort.

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Joshua walks back to the orphanage for dinner, daydreaming about the future. Daydream is free, after all...

He doesn’t remember much of the plot of Hero Academia. Deku inheriting One for All, USJ invasion, sports festival, All Might vs All For One...

But it’s enough to imagine himself using one of his stands in those situations.

“With [Sticky Fingers] I can deal with Nomu, who is immune to punches... GG EZ!” He says “Wait, how fast and strong are the stands again?”

Once again, he falls in comtemplation. 

“[Star Platinum] is the one with the best status... Faster than a bullet, can bend steel... Did he throw a car that one time?”

He is trying to compare with the feats of this world... Trying to see if [Star Platinum] can defeat All Might 

“I think... not.” He says, unsure. ’Where is a powerscaler when I need one? They only give their opinions when no one asks for them…’ “But I will have hax. I will be the strongest. But what if... I became a vampire?”

There’s an item that he can buy in the Store, it’s expensive, but it would give a vampire immunity to the sun.

“...” He pauses, considering all the pros and cons.

He thinks long and hard... And he doesn’t have an answer.

He is not against being a vampire, but it also doesn’t seem right.

He can keep it to turning himself when he grows old or something.

“Let’s practice the Spin.” It’s the best he can do for now.

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Days passed.

Joshua lived in a routine, a boring routine, but luckily for him, he discovered that there was a makeshift library in the orphanage. Just with some books that were donated, there is not much of a variety, but there are school books that interest him.

He already has a rough knowledge that goes all the way to High School level, with some flaws because of his young mind, so now he is studying the geography and history books. Math didn’t changed but history was added, and geography changed after a century.

He wants to understand the world. The year is 2104, exactly a hundred 110 years since the first quirk appeared with the Light Baby in China.

Things went really badly for some decades. First, it was possible to control the situation, but when people noticed that they could do whatever they wanted and had the numbers to back up... Chaos. 

Governments are kept in name only; some countries are annexed to others.

“Damn, Brazil is even bigger now...” He looks at the map. Some crime/drug lords took territories of neighboring countries on their own, and when things started going back to normal, Brazil refused to give them back. “Dick move... Now we cover more than half of South America.”

Too bad the really powerful are happy in keeping the rest of the population poor.

“I don’t remember exactly the map of the Middle East and Africa, but I’m sure that it was not like that... And look at Russia. Heh~ Didn’t waste time, huh?”

He tried to discover where in the timeline he is, but it’s impossible.

He only has All Might as a reference.

“Wait... Here says that All Might went back to Japan recently, so... I should be roughtly on the same age as the main cast...” He tries to guess.

“...” He stops, contemplating something. “Yep... I absolutely met a ROB that I don’t remember now. That’s why my memories are all messed up...”

He continues flipping through the pages while sitting on the cold floor, trying to remember anything about the “transition” to this new world.

“Fuck it... If you wanted me to do something, a mission or whatver you should’ve let me keep my memories.” He finally breaths out and closes the book “I’m gonna do whatever I want, when I die again, I'll meet you. If this is a test... Fuck you too, ROB. And if your ego is so fragile that some words can hurt you, kill me now and end this second life already.” Better be sure now than live in fear.

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Time passes, and nothing happens.

“Okay then, thank you for the second life. I’m gonna do whatever I want. Good night.” 

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