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〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: Hal
AGE: over 18!
JOURNAL: dichotomy
IM / EMAIL:
PLURK: dichotomy
RETURNING: new!
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Enrico Pucci
CHARACTER AGE: late thirties
SERIES: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, specifically part 6, Stone Ocean
CHRONOLOGY: When the Green Baby fuses with him
CLASS: Whoa boy, well he very much believes he's doing what's right and that he's not a villain, but he's definitely the villain of his story! I'm honestly not sure what to put, the best I can say is a quote someone says about him, "the worst evil: an evil man who didn't know that he was evil." So villain? I guess??
HOUSING: he's good wherever, random roommate, etc.
BACKGROUND: The wiki only has early history so here we go I am sorry for length. Also warning incest mention:
Pucci was born to a rich Italian-American family, and with a twin brother. His twin died at birth, which Pucci fixated on a little but mostly just moved on with his life. His family had a daughter too eventually, his younger sister Perla Pucci, and things were good. They were religious as shit, had a pope somewhere in the lineage, and when Pucci ended up leaning towards religious pursuits it was pretty much a 'yeah, figured' sort of deal. At a young age they supported and leaned towards him becoming a man of the cloth.
So here's Pucci as a teenager, good family, cool sister, people like him and he's learning to be a priest, which he's very down with. Also he was born with a disfigured foot, which didn't really cause any issues besides he walked a little weird and not as great as others. So basically everything's going pretty great, besides the foot, which is fine. Then Dio happens.
One day Pucci's sweeping around the church, around fifteen or sixteen years old, and trips over a guy. Like there's just a guy, on the ground, in the church, under a table. Pucci is, predictably, pretty confused as to why a beautiful, buff blond guy is just lying on the ground in a church like it's no big thing, and has a little talk with the man. The talk essentially is Pucci asking what the heck man, Dio making vague talk about gravity and saying he's allergic to sunlight, and Pucci going well. I mean that's a pretty stupid lie if it's a lie so I believe you, enjoy the church floor I guess.
Apparently Dio finds that response interesting (along with the fact Pucci's reading a book about an adulterous priest what a hero) and spouts more gravity stuff, then notices Pucci's limp. He asks if he did that by accidentally tripping Pucci, and Pucci's like nah man, I have a weird foot. Dio then somehow fixes his foot with what I assume is vampire magic, and Pucci is understandably confused. Dio gives Pucci the Arrow, an item that can give people Stands if they survive being pierced, and just goes to do his thing. Pucci is baffled by this strange encounter but for some reason just goes on with it, like well this won't be important to my future, probably.
Time moves forward, the next weird thing that happens is also in the church. A woman comes in for a confession but the priest isn't around. Pucci, like a good teenager, debates what to do and ultimately starts to listen because you know, it's fine, he'll be a priest one day anyway right? This definitely won't be important for my future either.
Except the woman goes on to tell about how fifteen to sixteen years ago her newborn died. She was distraught and fucked up beyond belief, and hears about a pair of twins born the same time. Well fuck that, she thinks, and swaps the babies, taking one of the twins and leaving her dead baby. This woman is dying now, and she doesn't know what to tell her stolen son, a guy named Wes Bluemarine. Also she verifies the family is Pucci's, no mistake there.
Pucci is understandably shocked at literally all of this. It's a confession though, so he can't say a word, even though now he knows his twin brother is alive. He has priest law to uphold and all. So that's all fine and good, until he comes home and his sister Perla comes up to him, all worked up because she fell in love! She's super, totally in love! With a guy named Wes Bluemarine.
By now Pucci is internally screaming as loud as he can because seriously what the fuck.
So this isn't a good situation, huh, and he mulls over what to do. Still can't break priest law, that's for sure, and even if he did it's not great to say hey sis, you wanna fuck or maybe did fuck our brother? Not good? Pucci decides the best course of action here is to try and break them up. No one gets hurt, no weird incest, everything's fine. He hires a PI to do it and everything is totally fine.
Only the PI has ties to the KKK. Also it turns out Wes's mom's husband was a black guy, so they think Wes is a black guy, and that Wes and Perla are an interracial couple. So yeah, they're not a fan. They beat Wes, hang him from a tree and Perla gets to find out this is all Pucci's doing. She cuts Wes down, assumes he's dead, is pretty Not Good with all this and throws herself in a river. Pucci comes onto the scene around this time like what the HECK.
With Perla in his arms Pucci gets his Stand, Whitesnake, the manifestation of his will, because the arrow Dio gave him reacts. At the moment he wanted to preserve Perla's memory, which is why his Stand is able to take discs containing others memories. Pucci remembers Dio, and all the gravity nonsense, and finds himself drawn to them. He's ready to go find Dio. But.
Turns out Wes is alive and pissed. Also he developed a Stand at the same time. He and Pucci face off, Pucci tells him they're brothers before stealing all of Wes's memories and leaving him a memory-less husk with no name. He then heads off to Dio to start becoming obsessed with Dio's 'we're going to heaven' doctrine. He spends a large amount of time with Dio, visiting or being visited. They become close, close enough that Dio gives Pucci one of his finger bones so Pucci could inherit his plan in case something happened.
Something happened, Dio got his ass killed by Jotaro and his crew. Pucci was pretty upset by that but mostly stayed focused on the goal- Dio's plans, leading mankind to heaven, a place where all humanity knows their fates and can accept their fates. Happiness, in his eyes. He spends the next couple of decades planning, working, collecting Stand discs (his Stand can also steal other people's Stands and make them into discs,) stalking the Joestars probably. He sets himself up in Florida, in Green Dolphin Street Prison as the resident chaplain. People are surprised at this, because he's a big deal successful priest and he chooses this terrible place.
He sets up Jolyne Cujoh, Jotaro's daughter, so she gets arrested with the help of one of Dio's surviving allies. He uses Jolyne as bait, getting Jotaro to the prison so he can steal Jotaro's memories and his Stand. This has two purposes- one, to get Jotaro and his super power Stand out of the damn way and two, to read Jotaro's memories, since Jotaro read and destroyed Dio's plans after he killed Dio.
With Star Platinum, Jotaro's super strong Stand, out of the way and all the missing information Pucci needed available everything was going great. Except, because there's never not an except, Jotaro's daughter, Jolyne, was proving to be a stubborn pain in the ass. Pucci stayed out of things mostly, since his Stand, Whitesnake, could speak for him and anonymity gave him a measure of safety. Most of his role in the early arc is giving random prisoners Stands through Whitesnake, such as Thunder McQueen and Miraschon.
Earlier he used one of the discs he had on plankton, because it's Jojo and why wouldn't he give a bunch of plankton a Stand, and tasked the being that formed with guarding his cache of discs in a farm nearby the prison. This doesn't go great since Jolyne swoops in, beats the plankton (named Foo Fighters) and convinces Foo to join her group. One of the discs she was guarding was Jotaro's Stand, so Jolyne gets that back and Pucci isn't super happy about it.
Pucci sends another Stand user, Lang Rangler, after Jolyne when he finds out she made a call in an attempt to get the disc out of the prison and back to her father. Jolyne, with the help of Weather Report, defeat Lang, and reach the courtyard where they agreed to bring the disc. This is the first time Pucci and Jolyne meet, and since Jolyne has no idea Pucci's the big bad she pleads with him to let her pass.
Quick sidenote, Weather Report is Wes, aka Pucci's twin brother he took the memories from.
Pucci agrees, mostly to hide his identity, and gets Whitesnake to brainwash a guard to shoot Jolyne. Weather Report, severely injured by the Lang battle, does the only thing he can think of to help- make it rain poisonous frogs. Literally everyone is like what the flying fuck is this, because seriously what the fuck Weather, and Pucci's stuck with a bunch of poison frogs trying to get Whitesnake to finish Jolyne off elsewhere. Explaining Jojo shit is just a pleasure, if you can tell.
Jolyne manages to use the frogs to pretend to be fake dead, tricks Whitesnake and gets the disc to a carrier pigeon that flies off into the sunset. So at this point everyone still doesn't know Pucci's the big bad or Whitesnake's Stand user, Jotaro got his Stand back so he won't die but still has no memories, Jolyne got plankton, Pucci's amnesia brother and Hermes on her side, and Pucci's general demeanor is fuck, fine. What I really needed was the memories anyway.
The next man Pucci gives a Stand to is a guy named Sports Maxx. His Stand has the ability to revive dead things into invisible zombies, which is apparently Part Of The Plan. It turns out years ago Dio gave Pucci one of his finger bones, and that if Dio bit it Pucci could use this bone to continue Dio's plan to ascend to heaven. In order to do this Pucci has Sports Maxx revive the bone with his Stand, Limp Bizkit. These are fun sentences to right.
The bone revives into an invisible something that takes a big bite out of Whitesnake's, thus Pucci's, hand and fucks off. Pucci is thrilled and the invisible thing is hidden in the punishment ward. Unfortunately for Pucci Jolyne, Hermes and Foo kick Sports Maxx's ass and read his memory disc to learn this. Jolyne gets herself thrown in solitary and Pucci kicks it up a notch by filling the punishment ward with Stand users and a very fun Stand named Survivor.
Now what Survivor does is manipulates people into fighting each other to the death, so the punishment ward just gets a battle royale death blood bath going while the invisible Dio bone thing waddles around. Pucci isn't really involved in any of this aside from filling the place up with Stand users and waiting for it to explode. This is part of another plan besides the 'get Jolyne Cujoh off my ass' one.
Part of Dio's ascend to heaven plan involves the souls of thirty six sinners getting absorbed by the Dio bone creature. With all the dead Stand users and prisoners, some killed by each other, some by Jolyne and co, the number's enough and all the corpses turn to plant body horror. Something is born from the bone, something that looks like an embryo with the Joestar birthmark.
Pucci makes his way over at this point, as one of his surviving Stand users, D an G, has his Stand, Yo-Yo Ma, swallow the embryo to protect it. Jolyne and her new ally, Anasui, go after Yo-Yo Ma while Foo stays behind to try and finish off D an G. Pucci is pretty much partying over the embryo being close to birth when he realizes what Foo is trying and sends Whitesnake after her. Foo finds out Pucci is the mastermind and they face off. Foo manages to kill D an G at great cost, nearly dying.
She uses the radio to try and reach Weather, which Pucci acts like she manages to do. He uses Whitesnake's illusion ability to disguise his Stand as Weather, pretends to rescue her and has Foo lead him straight to Jolyne, Anasui and the Green Baby born from the embryo. Once there Pucci drops the illusion, injuring Anasui and Foo to the point of being on death's door but only injuring Jolyne. Jolyne uses her string to chain herself to Pucci so he can't get to the Green Baby and they fight.
The fight's damn close until Pucci throws Jotaro's memory disc into Anasui. He tells Jolyne that Anasui is dying, and if he dies while the disc is in there Jotaro's memories will be lost forever. Jolyne breaks their link and goes to try to save the disc, leaving Pucci to reach the Green Baby.
The next bit of Dio's weird plan is his 'friend,' aka Pucci, saying fourteen words that will make the Green baby react to him, fourteen words Pucci needed Jotaro's memories to learn. Pucci recites the words and the Green Baby fuses with him. The immediate result of this is Pucci getting the Joestar birthmark on his neck, his arm being real fucked up because it's fusing with a magic Stand baby and his hair gets longer for some reason.
PERSONALITY: Pucci is someone who's life was absolutely packed to the brim with bullshit random chance and it shaped him intensely. As a child he's said to have wondered over and over why he survived but not his twin brother, and despite his very early leanings towards faith and the church it's something that lingers. That questioning only intensified when he learned the truth about his brother by weird chance, when his brother and sister unknowingly start dating by weird chance, when the KKK get involved by fucking absolutely bizarre chance.
Another strange chance was meeting Dio, before any of that, who tells him about 'Gravity,' the idea that some people are brought together by fate. Dio's doctrine is that people are helpless against the forces of fate, and after losing his sister and the tragedies that occurred, all ridiculous circumstance that are hard to pin on any one thing, that doctrine resonates with Pucci deeply. The truth is he was a traumatized teenager trying to understand a pointless tragedy, and the only peace he could find was in Dio's idea that it was always meant to be, that he was a servant of a fate he could not fight.
Pucci is obsessed with this doctrine, believing in it so deeply and truly that even after Dio's defeat, even decades after he still focuses his entire life on fulfilling Dio's plans. Pucci truly believes that by following Dio's plan to 'attain Heaven' he can make people happy. He plans on making a world or universe where humans are forced to know their fated paths, that if they knew what was to come and their role in it they'd be truly happy.
So that's fucking insane, of course, and it gets into the complicated topic of Pucci's morality. Everything in canon points towards the fact Pucci legitimately believes what he's doing is for the best, even when he hurts many, many people in order to do so. He's willing to sacrifice anything, any life, including his own, in order to achieve his goal. One of the best ways to explain Pucci is a line Weather says when he sees Pucci, that he's an evil man who doesn't know he's evil.
On the flip side there are definite hints Pucci was never going to be a pure as the driven snow priest. When Dio meets him for the first time he's reading a book about a priest who committed adultery. Despite being a priest and having no reason for it he wears eight hundred dollar pants. He puts a music cd in a corpse's head to play Hallelujah and celebrate. He goes with the vaguely underhanded way of getting a PI to break his sister and Wes up as his Plan A.
Pucci has a tendency to ramble on and very much seems to enjoy philosophical and challenging discussions. Quite often in canon he goes on and on about an analogy to make a vague point, usually to his audience being baffled and just wanting to get to the point. He and Dio clearly built a friendship over this kind of behavior and we see them having discussions of the like in flashbacks quite often.
He's also an anxious person by nature, going as far to have a method to calm his anxieties when he needs to by counting prime numbers. He says he takes strength from them, the fact they cannot be divided. Despite this anxiety he's got a steadfast determination even in the face of tragedy and setbacks, saying at one point that he must not view his failures as defeats, that he must see them as trials he has to overcome. His fanatical belief in fate and his dedication to Dio seem unshakable.
Whitesnake deserves mention too, since he's one of the few Stands in the series with his own personality rather than silence. Whitesnake is cold and cruel, rather sneering and seems to take more delight in their deeds than Pucci, who sees their actions as a means to an end. Whitesnake is also more easily riled than Pucci, yelling when Foo manages to call Weather and when Jolyne gets the Stand disc back to Jotaro.
POWER: Pucci's power is his Stand, Whitesnake. Stands are a manifestation of a person's willpower, in this case in a humanoid form. Only other Stand users can see someone's Stand in canon. Whitesnake's appearance is so damn complicated so here's an image: https://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/jjba/images/d/dc/Howaitosuneiku.png/revision/latest?cb=20170101020857
As far as Stands go Whitesnake's physical power, or just his ability to cause damage with his fists alone, is unknown. Given canon I would say it's safe to say he has the physical power of a normal human being. His durability is listed as A, which means he can take a few hits, and his speed is D, so low.
Whitesnake is somewhat unique in that not only can he work fairly far from Pucci (about 20 meters from where Pucci is) he also can follow complex orders and make decisions. He often communicates for Pucci so Pucci can keep his identity secret.
Whitesnake has three basic powers:
Illusion: Whitesnake can create fairly complicated illusions, such as making Foo think Weather came and defeated Whitesnake, then disguising Whitesnake as Weather so she'd lead him to the others.
The first time Whitesnake uses this ability he puts his victims into a dreamlike state rather than an active one, where they believe they're fighting one of Dio's minions even though they're asleep in a detention room. Jolyne is only able to break out of this state because her real body grips something hard enough to hurt her and wake her up. Damage in the illusion doesn't seem to snap people out of it but it also doesn't transfer to the real body either.
Given the game setting I'd say it'd be best if the illusions work as I first mentioned, more hallucinations on an active individual rather than putting people asleep and deep in a fake world. So, basically, the power is the ability to cause hallucinations in a person or a group within range. Pure illusions can't actually hurt anyone.
Mind Control: If Whitesnake or Pucci directly stick their fingers into someone's head they're able to influence whoever it is and control them to an extent. They can give direct commands, such as tell me this, do that, etc, but must remain in contact and must be clear and direct with their orders. The victim does as told but seems to fully understand what's happening and remembers what happened after.
The weaknesses are the proximity, getting that close is obviously not great, and that it makes him unable to use other abilities. That isn't strictly canon, since this power isn't delved into deeply, but it seems like it'd make it more fair.
Discs: The big one, Whitesnake or Pucci can put their hands into a person's head and pull out what look like compact discs. Every person has a memory disc that contains the sum of their memories. Stand users have another disc, one with their Stand in it. Pucci can take both.
Partially pulling a disc out does nothing, the disc must be fully extracted before anything takes effect. When someone's discs are taken, like Jotaro, there seems to be a short period where they're aware and conscious before they're knocked out. People who lose their memories obviously can't remember anything- and I mean anything. They seem to forget even simple things like language, how to take a shower, etc. Some people, like Weather, recover enough to survive and live a life without their memories. Others are implied to lose the will to go on and waste away.
When someone loses their Stand it's much more dire. Stands are a person's will so losing your Stand is a death sentence. Jotaro is only able to survive by being hooked up to machines that keep him alive until Jolyne gets his Stand back for him. Emporio's mother died when Pucci took her disc.
The memory discs can be put into your forehead and the memories viewed. There seems to be a level of control over what's seen, meaning you can search for certain things. Stand Discs can be put into people without Stands, giving them the Stand. Emporio, who already has a Stand, had another Stand put into his head and seemed to have two Stands at once. Jolyne tries to put Jotaro's Stand in her head and is rejected. Basically the rules seem pretty loose, but I think it's safe to assume if you already have a Stand/power it's unlikely you can shove another in your head and it just works, otherwise Pucci would have probably done that.
Other people can touch and use the discs once they're out. The discs can't be destroyed through physical means, only if they're put into someone who dies with them inside. If a disc is inserted in someone head trauma or just knocking them around seems to loosen the disc enough that people besides Pucci can take them out.
The Stand discs are probably more 'ability discs,' seeing as Pucci is also able to take away his own ability to see in disc form so he could temporarily blind himself. For the sake of the game I believe it'd probably be possible to take someone's 'power' though that may be something that needs nerfing.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[Here's Pucci, on his communicator, tapping away at it rather intently and with a furrowed brow. When he speaks it's slightly distracted.] I've been curious about the differences between this Florida and the Florida of my home- the Florida of any home, really. Cape Canaveral, a central feature in the two I've now seen, interestingly enough. There's quite a few very curious things about- ah- [He makes a face at his phone and tap tap taps intensely. It chimes cheerfully at him.]
My apologies. [His communicator beeps again and he taps it. The jingle coming out makes it clear now it's a puzzle game.] There's been links to these sort of games helping with depression, etc... repetitive, ritualistic distractions would, I assume. I enjoy these more than the... what was it in my world? I barely remember now, the prison I worked at had terrible reception.
[He listens to the music a moment before nodding to himself.] It's the music, I think. It's better. 8-bit gets grating.
[Right. Talking. The jingle stops with a tap.] As I was saying, I'd be interested in discussing Florida, if anyone has the knowledge or time.
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
Maurtia Falls, Pucci found, was somewhat ideal if one needed to find the souls of the lost or forgotten. Well, 'lost or forgotten' rang a little melodramatic, even for his taste. He enjoyed a good dose of flowery speech as much as the next man, he was a priest after all. Nothing riled up a sense of faith like a rousing, carefully worded sermon with the right grandiose feeling.
Still, calling the denizens of this area 'lost lambs' was generous. There was something to be said here, he thought as he walked, about wolves in sheep's clothing. An obvious sort of metaphor in a metaphor, just pretentious enough for a good sermon. He wondered if Maurtia Falls was the type of desperate that would fill a church easily at the chance of a higher power loving them, or if the majority of the underground had turned their backs on God.
Under his arm was a bag, full of raincoats, more plastic ponchos sturdy enough against the rainstorms the city occasionally suffered. As he walked he kept an eye out for the homeless, anyone who seemed more likely to spend their time on the street then off, offering the coats to them.
"I understand there's to be a storm tonight. Please, stay safe and dry." He'd tell them, those who took the coats at least.
There was a time, Pucci thought, where he didn't have ulterior motives to everything he did. It had been years, more than he cared to count, since that time. Dio's death, was that it? Probably not. Even then he had angles he needed to tend, reputations to uphold. There was a time he would have felt something like guilt for the duplicity, or at least shame.
Purpose had the wonderful effect of brushing such minor, selfish concerns aside. Everything he did now had it, purpose, just another step forward towards the ultimate goal of Heaven. Here, even in a new world, it was the same. Everything was fated to happen the way it did, and Pucci knew this new, strange door opening was no different.
So, maybe his charity had a dual meaning when a man who found him an easy mark started tailing him. Pucci wondered if the man was an imPort, or someone with natural abilities. He hoped so, truly, because what he needed more than anything at the moment was to test his own abilities. A little information from the man's mind wouldn't hurt.
He turned into an alley, feigning the sort of confusion a newcomer to the city would show. If the man followed then clearly it was fate.
FINAL NOTES: I am so sorry I had to write out the history lmfao. I am sorry.
Also forgive me because this question is hard to even word, given how ridiculous Jojo is. I'm taking Pucci from right when he fuses with the Green Baby, which does very slowly change his Stand from Whitesnake to C-Moon. C-Moon is absurdly powerful and I'd really rather have him have Whitesnake-like powers, so since the change is a slow one is it alright to assume the nanites or something of the transfer here halted the change?
If it's a problem I can take him from right before absorbing the Green Baby! Also I'm very open to nerfing shit obviously because Jojo is. Jojo.
NAME: Hal
AGE: over 18!
JOURNAL: dichotomy
IM / EMAIL:
PLURK: dichotomy
RETURNING: new!
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Enrico Pucci
CHARACTER AGE: late thirties
SERIES: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, specifically part 6, Stone Ocean
CHRONOLOGY: When the Green Baby fuses with him
CLASS: Whoa boy, well he very much believes he's doing what's right and that he's not a villain, but he's definitely the villain of his story! I'm honestly not sure what to put, the best I can say is a quote someone says about him, "the worst evil: an evil man who didn't know that he was evil." So villain? I guess??
HOUSING: he's good wherever, random roommate, etc.
BACKGROUND: The wiki only has early history so here we go I am sorry for length. Also warning incest mention:
Pucci was born to a rich Italian-American family, and with a twin brother. His twin died at birth, which Pucci fixated on a little but mostly just moved on with his life. His family had a daughter too eventually, his younger sister Perla Pucci, and things were good. They were religious as shit, had a pope somewhere in the lineage, and when Pucci ended up leaning towards religious pursuits it was pretty much a 'yeah, figured' sort of deal. At a young age they supported and leaned towards him becoming a man of the cloth.
So here's Pucci as a teenager, good family, cool sister, people like him and he's learning to be a priest, which he's very down with. Also he was born with a disfigured foot, which didn't really cause any issues besides he walked a little weird and not as great as others. So basically everything's going pretty great, besides the foot, which is fine. Then Dio happens.
One day Pucci's sweeping around the church, around fifteen or sixteen years old, and trips over a guy. Like there's just a guy, on the ground, in the church, under a table. Pucci is, predictably, pretty confused as to why a beautiful, buff blond guy is just lying on the ground in a church like it's no big thing, and has a little talk with the man. The talk essentially is Pucci asking what the heck man, Dio making vague talk about gravity and saying he's allergic to sunlight, and Pucci going well. I mean that's a pretty stupid lie if it's a lie so I believe you, enjoy the church floor I guess.
Apparently Dio finds that response interesting (along with the fact Pucci's reading a book about an adulterous priest what a hero) and spouts more gravity stuff, then notices Pucci's limp. He asks if he did that by accidentally tripping Pucci, and Pucci's like nah man, I have a weird foot. Dio then somehow fixes his foot with what I assume is vampire magic, and Pucci is understandably confused. Dio gives Pucci the Arrow, an item that can give people Stands if they survive being pierced, and just goes to do his thing. Pucci is baffled by this strange encounter but for some reason just goes on with it, like well this won't be important to my future, probably.
Time moves forward, the next weird thing that happens is also in the church. A woman comes in for a confession but the priest isn't around. Pucci, like a good teenager, debates what to do and ultimately starts to listen because you know, it's fine, he'll be a priest one day anyway right? This definitely won't be important for my future either.
Except the woman goes on to tell about how fifteen to sixteen years ago her newborn died. She was distraught and fucked up beyond belief, and hears about a pair of twins born the same time. Well fuck that, she thinks, and swaps the babies, taking one of the twins and leaving her dead baby. This woman is dying now, and she doesn't know what to tell her stolen son, a guy named Wes Bluemarine. Also she verifies the family is Pucci's, no mistake there.
Pucci is understandably shocked at literally all of this. It's a confession though, so he can't say a word, even though now he knows his twin brother is alive. He has priest law to uphold and all. So that's all fine and good, until he comes home and his sister Perla comes up to him, all worked up because she fell in love! She's super, totally in love! With a guy named Wes Bluemarine.
By now Pucci is internally screaming as loud as he can because seriously what the fuck.
So this isn't a good situation, huh, and he mulls over what to do. Still can't break priest law, that's for sure, and even if he did it's not great to say hey sis, you wanna fuck or maybe did fuck our brother? Not good? Pucci decides the best course of action here is to try and break them up. No one gets hurt, no weird incest, everything's fine. He hires a PI to do it and everything is totally fine.
Only the PI has ties to the KKK. Also it turns out Wes's mom's husband was a black guy, so they think Wes is a black guy, and that Wes and Perla are an interracial couple. So yeah, they're not a fan. They beat Wes, hang him from a tree and Perla gets to find out this is all Pucci's doing. She cuts Wes down, assumes he's dead, is pretty Not Good with all this and throws herself in a river. Pucci comes onto the scene around this time like what the HECK.
With Perla in his arms Pucci gets his Stand, Whitesnake, the manifestation of his will, because the arrow Dio gave him reacts. At the moment he wanted to preserve Perla's memory, which is why his Stand is able to take discs containing others memories. Pucci remembers Dio, and all the gravity nonsense, and finds himself drawn to them. He's ready to go find Dio. But.
Turns out Wes is alive and pissed. Also he developed a Stand at the same time. He and Pucci face off, Pucci tells him they're brothers before stealing all of Wes's memories and leaving him a memory-less husk with no name. He then heads off to Dio to start becoming obsessed with Dio's 'we're going to heaven' doctrine. He spends a large amount of time with Dio, visiting or being visited. They become close, close enough that Dio gives Pucci one of his finger bones so Pucci could inherit his plan in case something happened.
Something happened, Dio got his ass killed by Jotaro and his crew. Pucci was pretty upset by that but mostly stayed focused on the goal- Dio's plans, leading mankind to heaven, a place where all humanity knows their fates and can accept their fates. Happiness, in his eyes. He spends the next couple of decades planning, working, collecting Stand discs (his Stand can also steal other people's Stands and make them into discs,) stalking the Joestars probably. He sets himself up in Florida, in Green Dolphin Street Prison as the resident chaplain. People are surprised at this, because he's a big deal successful priest and he chooses this terrible place.
He sets up Jolyne Cujoh, Jotaro's daughter, so she gets arrested with the help of one of Dio's surviving allies. He uses Jolyne as bait, getting Jotaro to the prison so he can steal Jotaro's memories and his Stand. This has two purposes- one, to get Jotaro and his super power Stand out of the damn way and two, to read Jotaro's memories, since Jotaro read and destroyed Dio's plans after he killed Dio.
With Star Platinum, Jotaro's super strong Stand, out of the way and all the missing information Pucci needed available everything was going great. Except, because there's never not an except, Jotaro's daughter, Jolyne, was proving to be a stubborn pain in the ass. Pucci stayed out of things mostly, since his Stand, Whitesnake, could speak for him and anonymity gave him a measure of safety. Most of his role in the early arc is giving random prisoners Stands through Whitesnake, such as Thunder McQueen and Miraschon.
Earlier he used one of the discs he had on plankton, because it's Jojo and why wouldn't he give a bunch of plankton a Stand, and tasked the being that formed with guarding his cache of discs in a farm nearby the prison. This doesn't go great since Jolyne swoops in, beats the plankton (named Foo Fighters) and convinces Foo to join her group. One of the discs she was guarding was Jotaro's Stand, so Jolyne gets that back and Pucci isn't super happy about it.
Pucci sends another Stand user, Lang Rangler, after Jolyne when he finds out she made a call in an attempt to get the disc out of the prison and back to her father. Jolyne, with the help of Weather Report, defeat Lang, and reach the courtyard where they agreed to bring the disc. This is the first time Pucci and Jolyne meet, and since Jolyne has no idea Pucci's the big bad she pleads with him to let her pass.
Quick sidenote, Weather Report is Wes, aka Pucci's twin brother he took the memories from.
Pucci agrees, mostly to hide his identity, and gets Whitesnake to brainwash a guard to shoot Jolyne. Weather Report, severely injured by the Lang battle, does the only thing he can think of to help- make it rain poisonous frogs. Literally everyone is like what the flying fuck is this, because seriously what the fuck Weather, and Pucci's stuck with a bunch of poison frogs trying to get Whitesnake to finish Jolyne off elsewhere. Explaining Jojo shit is just a pleasure, if you can tell.
Jolyne manages to use the frogs to pretend to be fake dead, tricks Whitesnake and gets the disc to a carrier pigeon that flies off into the sunset. So at this point everyone still doesn't know Pucci's the big bad or Whitesnake's Stand user, Jotaro got his Stand back so he won't die but still has no memories, Jolyne got plankton, Pucci's amnesia brother and Hermes on her side, and Pucci's general demeanor is fuck, fine. What I really needed was the memories anyway.
The next man Pucci gives a Stand to is a guy named Sports Maxx. His Stand has the ability to revive dead things into invisible zombies, which is apparently Part Of The Plan. It turns out years ago Dio gave Pucci one of his finger bones, and that if Dio bit it Pucci could use this bone to continue Dio's plan to ascend to heaven. In order to do this Pucci has Sports Maxx revive the bone with his Stand, Limp Bizkit. These are fun sentences to right.
The bone revives into an invisible something that takes a big bite out of Whitesnake's, thus Pucci's, hand and fucks off. Pucci is thrilled and the invisible thing is hidden in the punishment ward. Unfortunately for Pucci Jolyne, Hermes and Foo kick Sports Maxx's ass and read his memory disc to learn this. Jolyne gets herself thrown in solitary and Pucci kicks it up a notch by filling the punishment ward with Stand users and a very fun Stand named Survivor.
Now what Survivor does is manipulates people into fighting each other to the death, so the punishment ward just gets a battle royale death blood bath going while the invisible Dio bone thing waddles around. Pucci isn't really involved in any of this aside from filling the place up with Stand users and waiting for it to explode. This is part of another plan besides the 'get Jolyne Cujoh off my ass' one.
Part of Dio's ascend to heaven plan involves the souls of thirty six sinners getting absorbed by the Dio bone creature. With all the dead Stand users and prisoners, some killed by each other, some by Jolyne and co, the number's enough and all the corpses turn to plant body horror. Something is born from the bone, something that looks like an embryo with the Joestar birthmark.
Pucci makes his way over at this point, as one of his surviving Stand users, D an G, has his Stand, Yo-Yo Ma, swallow the embryo to protect it. Jolyne and her new ally, Anasui, go after Yo-Yo Ma while Foo stays behind to try and finish off D an G. Pucci is pretty much partying over the embryo being close to birth when he realizes what Foo is trying and sends Whitesnake after her. Foo finds out Pucci is the mastermind and they face off. Foo manages to kill D an G at great cost, nearly dying.
She uses the radio to try and reach Weather, which Pucci acts like she manages to do. He uses Whitesnake's illusion ability to disguise his Stand as Weather, pretends to rescue her and has Foo lead him straight to Jolyne, Anasui and the Green Baby born from the embryo. Once there Pucci drops the illusion, injuring Anasui and Foo to the point of being on death's door but only injuring Jolyne. Jolyne uses her string to chain herself to Pucci so he can't get to the Green Baby and they fight.
The fight's damn close until Pucci throws Jotaro's memory disc into Anasui. He tells Jolyne that Anasui is dying, and if he dies while the disc is in there Jotaro's memories will be lost forever. Jolyne breaks their link and goes to try to save the disc, leaving Pucci to reach the Green Baby.
The next bit of Dio's weird plan is his 'friend,' aka Pucci, saying fourteen words that will make the Green baby react to him, fourteen words Pucci needed Jotaro's memories to learn. Pucci recites the words and the Green Baby fuses with him. The immediate result of this is Pucci getting the Joestar birthmark on his neck, his arm being real fucked up because it's fusing with a magic Stand baby and his hair gets longer for some reason.
PERSONALITY: Pucci is someone who's life was absolutely packed to the brim with bullshit random chance and it shaped him intensely. As a child he's said to have wondered over and over why he survived but not his twin brother, and despite his very early leanings towards faith and the church it's something that lingers. That questioning only intensified when he learned the truth about his brother by weird chance, when his brother and sister unknowingly start dating by weird chance, when the KKK get involved by fucking absolutely bizarre chance.
Another strange chance was meeting Dio, before any of that, who tells him about 'Gravity,' the idea that some people are brought together by fate. Dio's doctrine is that people are helpless against the forces of fate, and after losing his sister and the tragedies that occurred, all ridiculous circumstance that are hard to pin on any one thing, that doctrine resonates with Pucci deeply. The truth is he was a traumatized teenager trying to understand a pointless tragedy, and the only peace he could find was in Dio's idea that it was always meant to be, that he was a servant of a fate he could not fight.
Pucci is obsessed with this doctrine, believing in it so deeply and truly that even after Dio's defeat, even decades after he still focuses his entire life on fulfilling Dio's plans. Pucci truly believes that by following Dio's plan to 'attain Heaven' he can make people happy. He plans on making a world or universe where humans are forced to know their fated paths, that if they knew what was to come and their role in it they'd be truly happy.
So that's fucking insane, of course, and it gets into the complicated topic of Pucci's morality. Everything in canon points towards the fact Pucci legitimately believes what he's doing is for the best, even when he hurts many, many people in order to do so. He's willing to sacrifice anything, any life, including his own, in order to achieve his goal. One of the best ways to explain Pucci is a line Weather says when he sees Pucci, that he's an evil man who doesn't know he's evil.
On the flip side there are definite hints Pucci was never going to be a pure as the driven snow priest. When Dio meets him for the first time he's reading a book about a priest who committed adultery. Despite being a priest and having no reason for it he wears eight hundred dollar pants. He puts a music cd in a corpse's head to play Hallelujah and celebrate. He goes with the vaguely underhanded way of getting a PI to break his sister and Wes up as his Plan A.
Pucci has a tendency to ramble on and very much seems to enjoy philosophical and challenging discussions. Quite often in canon he goes on and on about an analogy to make a vague point, usually to his audience being baffled and just wanting to get to the point. He and Dio clearly built a friendship over this kind of behavior and we see them having discussions of the like in flashbacks quite often.
He's also an anxious person by nature, going as far to have a method to calm his anxieties when he needs to by counting prime numbers. He says he takes strength from them, the fact they cannot be divided. Despite this anxiety he's got a steadfast determination even in the face of tragedy and setbacks, saying at one point that he must not view his failures as defeats, that he must see them as trials he has to overcome. His fanatical belief in fate and his dedication to Dio seem unshakable.
Whitesnake deserves mention too, since he's one of the few Stands in the series with his own personality rather than silence. Whitesnake is cold and cruel, rather sneering and seems to take more delight in their deeds than Pucci, who sees their actions as a means to an end. Whitesnake is also more easily riled than Pucci, yelling when Foo manages to call Weather and when Jolyne gets the Stand disc back to Jotaro.
POWER: Pucci's power is his Stand, Whitesnake. Stands are a manifestation of a person's willpower, in this case in a humanoid form. Only other Stand users can see someone's Stand in canon. Whitesnake's appearance is so damn complicated so here's an image: https://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/jjba/images/d/dc/Howaitosuneiku.png/revision/latest?cb=20170101020857
As far as Stands go Whitesnake's physical power, or just his ability to cause damage with his fists alone, is unknown. Given canon I would say it's safe to say he has the physical power of a normal human being. His durability is listed as A, which means he can take a few hits, and his speed is D, so low.
Whitesnake is somewhat unique in that not only can he work fairly far from Pucci (about 20 meters from where Pucci is) he also can follow complex orders and make decisions. He often communicates for Pucci so Pucci can keep his identity secret.
Whitesnake has three basic powers:
Illusion: Whitesnake can create fairly complicated illusions, such as making Foo think Weather came and defeated Whitesnake, then disguising Whitesnake as Weather so she'd lead him to the others.
The first time Whitesnake uses this ability he puts his victims into a dreamlike state rather than an active one, where they believe they're fighting one of Dio's minions even though they're asleep in a detention room. Jolyne is only able to break out of this state because her real body grips something hard enough to hurt her and wake her up. Damage in the illusion doesn't seem to snap people out of it but it also doesn't transfer to the real body either.
Given the game setting I'd say it'd be best if the illusions work as I first mentioned, more hallucinations on an active individual rather than putting people asleep and deep in a fake world. So, basically, the power is the ability to cause hallucinations in a person or a group within range. Pure illusions can't actually hurt anyone.
Mind Control: If Whitesnake or Pucci directly stick their fingers into someone's head they're able to influence whoever it is and control them to an extent. They can give direct commands, such as tell me this, do that, etc, but must remain in contact and must be clear and direct with their orders. The victim does as told but seems to fully understand what's happening and remembers what happened after.
The weaknesses are the proximity, getting that close is obviously not great, and that it makes him unable to use other abilities. That isn't strictly canon, since this power isn't delved into deeply, but it seems like it'd make it more fair.
Discs: The big one, Whitesnake or Pucci can put their hands into a person's head and pull out what look like compact discs. Every person has a memory disc that contains the sum of their memories. Stand users have another disc, one with their Stand in it. Pucci can take both.
Partially pulling a disc out does nothing, the disc must be fully extracted before anything takes effect. When someone's discs are taken, like Jotaro, there seems to be a short period where they're aware and conscious before they're knocked out. People who lose their memories obviously can't remember anything- and I mean anything. They seem to forget even simple things like language, how to take a shower, etc. Some people, like Weather, recover enough to survive and live a life without their memories. Others are implied to lose the will to go on and waste away.
When someone loses their Stand it's much more dire. Stands are a person's will so losing your Stand is a death sentence. Jotaro is only able to survive by being hooked up to machines that keep him alive until Jolyne gets his Stand back for him. Emporio's mother died when Pucci took her disc.
The memory discs can be put into your forehead and the memories viewed. There seems to be a level of control over what's seen, meaning you can search for certain things. Stand Discs can be put into people without Stands, giving them the Stand. Emporio, who already has a Stand, had another Stand put into his head and seemed to have two Stands at once. Jolyne tries to put Jotaro's Stand in her head and is rejected. Basically the rules seem pretty loose, but I think it's safe to assume if you already have a Stand/power it's unlikely you can shove another in your head and it just works, otherwise Pucci would have probably done that.
Other people can touch and use the discs once they're out. The discs can't be destroyed through physical means, only if they're put into someone who dies with them inside. If a disc is inserted in someone head trauma or just knocking them around seems to loosen the disc enough that people besides Pucci can take them out.
The Stand discs are probably more 'ability discs,' seeing as Pucci is also able to take away his own ability to see in disc form so he could temporarily blind himself. For the sake of the game I believe it'd probably be possible to take someone's 'power' though that may be something that needs nerfing.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[Here's Pucci, on his communicator, tapping away at it rather intently and with a furrowed brow. When he speaks it's slightly distracted.] I've been curious about the differences between this Florida and the Florida of my home- the Florida of any home, really. Cape Canaveral, a central feature in the two I've now seen, interestingly enough. There's quite a few very curious things about- ah- [He makes a face at his phone and tap tap taps intensely. It chimes cheerfully at him.]
My apologies. [His communicator beeps again and he taps it. The jingle coming out makes it clear now it's a puzzle game.] There's been links to these sort of games helping with depression, etc... repetitive, ritualistic distractions would, I assume. I enjoy these more than the... what was it in my world? I barely remember now, the prison I worked at had terrible reception.
[He listens to the music a moment before nodding to himself.] It's the music, I think. It's better. 8-bit gets grating.
[Right. Talking. The jingle stops with a tap.] As I was saying, I'd be interested in discussing Florida, if anyone has the knowledge or time.
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
Maurtia Falls, Pucci found, was somewhat ideal if one needed to find the souls of the lost or forgotten. Well, 'lost or forgotten' rang a little melodramatic, even for his taste. He enjoyed a good dose of flowery speech as much as the next man, he was a priest after all. Nothing riled up a sense of faith like a rousing, carefully worded sermon with the right grandiose feeling.
Still, calling the denizens of this area 'lost lambs' was generous. There was something to be said here, he thought as he walked, about wolves in sheep's clothing. An obvious sort of metaphor in a metaphor, just pretentious enough for a good sermon. He wondered if Maurtia Falls was the type of desperate that would fill a church easily at the chance of a higher power loving them, or if the majority of the underground had turned their backs on God.
Under his arm was a bag, full of raincoats, more plastic ponchos sturdy enough against the rainstorms the city occasionally suffered. As he walked he kept an eye out for the homeless, anyone who seemed more likely to spend their time on the street then off, offering the coats to them.
"I understand there's to be a storm tonight. Please, stay safe and dry." He'd tell them, those who took the coats at least.
There was a time, Pucci thought, where he didn't have ulterior motives to everything he did. It had been years, more than he cared to count, since that time. Dio's death, was that it? Probably not. Even then he had angles he needed to tend, reputations to uphold. There was a time he would have felt something like guilt for the duplicity, or at least shame.
Purpose had the wonderful effect of brushing such minor, selfish concerns aside. Everything he did now had it, purpose, just another step forward towards the ultimate goal of Heaven. Here, even in a new world, it was the same. Everything was fated to happen the way it did, and Pucci knew this new, strange door opening was no different.
So, maybe his charity had a dual meaning when a man who found him an easy mark started tailing him. Pucci wondered if the man was an imPort, or someone with natural abilities. He hoped so, truly, because what he needed more than anything at the moment was to test his own abilities. A little information from the man's mind wouldn't hurt.
He turned into an alley, feigning the sort of confusion a newcomer to the city would show. If the man followed then clearly it was fate.
FINAL NOTES: I am so sorry I had to write out the history lmfao. I am sorry.
Also forgive me because this question is hard to even word, given how ridiculous Jojo is. I'm taking Pucci from right when he fuses with the Green Baby, which does very slowly change his Stand from Whitesnake to C-Moon. C-Moon is absurdly powerful and I'd really rather have him have Whitesnake-like powers, so since the change is a slow one is it alright to assume the nanites or something of the transfer here halted the change?
If it's a problem I can take him from right before absorbing the Green Baby! Also I'm very open to nerfing shit obviously because Jojo is. Jojo.