Josh Adkins

Josh Adkins (ジョシ *Joshi*) is the brother of Limbo Adkins, and the User of the Stand Air Catcher. He is a minor character in Cloud Nine Contrails and doesn't typically show up in person. He's a rising musician.

## Josh

### Alias

Kichō 21 (Stage Name)
Captain / Shuryō (The Pilots)
Niisan / Oniisan / Aniki (Limbo)
Telo (Juno)

### Namesake

Josh Dun (American musician)天使 *tenshi* (Japanese meaning "angel")

## Profile

### Hair Colour

Black (Natural)
Various dyed colours

## Appearance, Biology and Identity

### Markings

A cluster of three freckle-like marks under the left eye.

### Tattoos

One on his shoulder to represent his music persona, and a cloud-patterned band sleeve tattoo around the elbow to match with his sister.

## Psychology

### Likes

Pandas, sports, anime, planes, Eurovision

### Dislikes

Being separated from his sister, toxic beauty standards, America in general

## Skills and Powers

### Language

English, Japanese (natively), French (near-fluent), Italian (conversational)

## Metadata

### Work

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Cloud Nine Contrails

## Appearance

Josh is a tall boy with medium-light brown skin. . He has freckles, but under his left eye, he has three more-distinctive beauty marks among them in a triangular arrangement. His hair is soft and tousled, tied into a low ponytail that he keeps draped over his shoulder with a gold ponytail cuff. He also has a gold hairclip pulling a section of his hair off to the side on the left. His hair changes colours from time to time, but it's usually divided into multiple colours. He only has two default colour schemes, both tricolours. His initial appearance has him with half-half hair, the right side being white and the left side being medium slate blue, with the hair in the ponytail being undyed. His other default is similar, but with a deep maroon rather than blue. Although he wears several outfits, his default is a loose tank-top and pyjama pants. His tank top is red and is *very* loose, hanging off his left shoulder, exposing a large portion of his chest and right arm. His pyjama pants are red plaid, tucked into a pair of black shin-high army boots. He is, initially, confined to a wheelchair.

## Personality

Josh has a laid-back personality, using humour to deal with stress and worry. He's amicable but very protective of those he loves, not afraid to threaten people he barely knows if he thinks they pose a threat to one of his loved ones. He's very social, enjoying spending time with large groups of people, being decently fine with attention, but dealing with being alone almost just as well. He's very secure in his identity and who he is, never feeling as if his gender or sexuality are threatened and not being particularly worried about how he presents or bothering to try to hide the less-than-orthodox parts of his self. He finds it more fulfilling not to worry about little things, and tries to minimise stress in his life, though he still gets intensely annoyed and overwhelmed at times, there's not much he worries about, especially not much that would keep him up at night. He's also very creative, often having unusual ideas and trying to think of unique ways to solve situations.

He's a good leader, believing in himself and his own abilities enough to lead others with relative ease and confidence. He typically has a plan for things, and tries to consider the needs of everyone in his own 'team' and figure out the best way to carry out an 'operation' while diminishing the least amount of needs possible. He has an excellent sense of self-care and self-love, often putting his own health before others' desires, not to the extent of selfishness, but to the extent of being able to say "no" to people and knowing his own threshold or limits.

He's very outgoing, and likes to gently tease people, but generally knows at what point to stop. He's not the type to be afraid to apologise or admit he's wrong, not caring whether it diminishes his reputation or persona. Despite his cool, laid-back personality, when the situation calls for being serious, he gets *very* serious quickly, being a good source of support and a good listener, often offering support when he thinks someone wants to be offered support, and staying quiet when he thinks they'd rather get it out themself. His worst emotional trait is that he struggles to express anger well, supposedly never being seen making a face of anger, instead seeming to settle into an odd smile when he's angry. Getting angry is one of the things that stresses him out the most due to his unusual inability to properly express anger. Conversely, the only things that truly worry him to an intensity of making him restless tend to involve the health of his sister.

## History

Joshi Adkins was born to Tategoto Hokusei and Aurélie-Adele Adkins on December 12th, 1999, in Japan. He was born with his Stand, but it didn't manifest until he was one and a half or two years old. From birth, he lived in Japan with his mother, father, grandfather and grandmother. When he was two and a half, his parents took him and moved to California in the United States, where they moved towns one or twice before settling in Napa. He was born without a middle name, but upon their move to America, a legal name change gave him the name Joshi Tenshi Adkins.

In 2002, when he was three, his little sister Limbo was born. He quickly took a liking to having a little sister, and as soon as she was old enough to have the competence for it, they became best friends. After Limbo turned one, thanks to their parents having turbulent professions, they started up their hectic life of moving every few months. Usually, they moved from place to place in America, though they went back to Japan a few times. He made friends wherever he went easily, unlike his sister, who preferred to focus mostly on learning about lizards and planes, finding it too difficult to make friends when she couldn't stay tied down for more than two months. One thing that they found a love for very early on was music, Limbo finding her love for it when she was only about two and a half. When Limbo turned three, he got her a bright yellow bomber jacket. It was much too big for her, but as she slowly grew into it, it would become her signature jacket for several years to follow. As soon as she was in the same school as him, Josh took to keeping her safe and defending her from bullies. As they both got more competent, they got into dancing and making music, both of them supported heavily by their parents, conceptualising a two-person band they called "Tenten Gokushi", a combination of their middle names.

When he was eight, while moving out of country to Japan for some time, their family had been in a plane crash. There were numerous casualties and many of those who had survived had suffered severe injury. Thanks to his and his mother's Stands, the four of them survived, Aurélie and Josh surviving with minimal injury, while Limbo and Tategoto wound up hospitalised. They were picked up from the crash and taken the rest of the way to Japan, Tategoto getting out with some nasty scars and shoulder damage, whilst Limbo remained crippled for around three months, confined to a wheelchair while undergoing physical therapy to regain the use of her legs. Josh stuck with her as much as he could, though he also began to witness the strain on his parents' marriage, caused in part due to the dangerous nature of he and his mother being Stand Users, and in part due to his mother's hectic job putting strain on all of them. He slowly watched the marriage fall apart, hearing them yell and argue, oft-times opting to take Limbo out of the house when they started fighting so she wouldn't have to be exposed to the turmoil. His well-meaning efforts seemed to be ultimately for the worse when they experienced the upheaval of their parents divorce and separation when he was eleven and Limbo was nine. Due to them both having Stands, Aurélie took Josh with her, and left Limbo with Tategoto.

Over the next few years, Josh would develop a music career, becoming official and well-known, as well as befriending a boy named Juno in Italy, who became his best friend. After Juno had an incident involving a bad home life, Josh offered him a place to stay for a bit while the situation got sorted out until his grandfather could take him in.

In early July of 2020, Josh suffered a stage accident that crippled him and left him in a wheelchair for an extensive amount of time.

## Abilities

### Stats

#### **Physical Strength**

Josh is physically strong at most points in time due to good exercise, even when wheelchair bound, although his Stand makes it so he doesn't need to be *that* strong, so long as he can lift something slightly.

#### **Mental Strength**

He's fairly mentally stable and has good control of his emotions.

#### **Reflexes**

Good arm reflexes, poor leg reflexes due to the fact that he cannot move them.

#### **Endurance**

He has decent endurance, but it doesn't quite match his strength, and is not particularly durable.

#### **Speed**

When he's not stuck in a wheelchair, he has an above-average running and sprinting speed.

#### **Technique**

He is a very good strategist but rarely relies on this potential.

#### **Self-Control**

He has a good sense of self control. He is able to keep a level head about most things.

#### **Intelligence**

He is averagely intelligent but most knowledgeable about aerodynamics and aviation.

## Trivia

* His Japanese name roughly translates to "Preface" or "Introductory Lyrics".
	+ The first character "序" *jo* means 'beginning' or 'introduction'.
	+ The second character "詞" *kotoba*, which is also said as *shi* when combined with *jo*, means 'lyrics', 'words' or 'language'.
* Josh is named after Josh Dun, one of the two members of the band twenty one pilots. The reason the name "Josh" was chosen instead of "Tyler" is due to Josh being Japanese-born and having a consequently Japanese name.
* His name, if you include his middle name, is 6 syllables.
	+ If his full name is used for Narancia's 'name divination', it would result in Josh being '9th Circle', making him the only one in the Adkins-Hokusei family to not have a 'Heaven' name.