Edwin Speedwagon

> "Infinite life.  Protection from disease or decay.  Power beyond that of a normal human.  And if my research completes… with no known weaknesses whatsoever. So I offer you one final time...  Will you not join me in making humanity stronger than it's ever been before?" - Edwin Speedwagon, Star Road Now Episode 8.
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## Edwin Scott Speedwagon

* SRN
* Shadow
* Mr. Electros
* Decay
* Decay 2

### Aliases

Mr. ElectrosDustin Rai

The Savior of Electros

### Affiliation

The Speedwagon FoundationEPD (Electros Police Department)

Star Road (Original)

## Biographical information

### Marital status

Ana Speedwagon (1975) - Deceased 1978Suzuki Speedwagon (2110) - Deceased 2125

## Appearances

### Debut

(Mentioned) - Star Road Now - Episode 2Star Road Now - Episode 3 - Mad World

## Appearance

Edwin Speedwagon has a wide muscular frame and a strong jawline. He has blonde hair that is brushed to the side. His hair and bangs are angled in places similarly to lightning bolts. He has red eyes, angular eyebrows, and a rounded moustache.

Edwin wears his famous purple suit, studded with a checkered breast pocket, and jagged, lightning shaped ends. He wears an elongated, lightning bolt shaped tie, along with a collared undershirt with a lightning bolt pattern. Edwin wears long ear rings with tiny lightning bolts, and yellow gloves to protect his hands from sunlight.

In The Quiet Decay, Edwin is seen wearing a signature black and white checkered hat.

Before turning into a vampire. Edwin had green eyes, and more relaxed hair.

## Background

Edwin Speedwagon, the CEO of the Speedwagon foundation, is the Main Antagonist of the series "Star Road Now", part 1 of the Sequence Break JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Series.

Edwin is an eccentric business man, obsessed with potential and creating a Utopia in the city of Electros. His drive to evolve humanity eventually leads him to distance himself from his friends and become one of the most horrid people Electros City has ever known.

## Abilities

### Vampiric Abilities

Edwin is able to stimulate his Central Nervous system and focus it at singular points, to effectively generate electricity and fire lightning bolts.

### Stand: [Neo Tokyo]

Neo Tokyo, Edwin's Stand, is a long-range manipulation type stand with a simple ability.

It can swap the location of two things that are considered part of a city. These things can be any collective of parts that is considered a "single object", and what classifies as a thing for Neo Tokyo is entirely dependent on the users own concept of what a "Thing" in the city is.

He is known to carry around Public Property on him, such as pens from public libraries, in order to easily utilize this ability. The Speedwagon Foundation even created specific documents to say that some of their assets, such as helicopters and weaponry were "part of the city", so that Edwin could swap them such as in episode 8.

Neo Tokyo can only swap non-living entities, so Edwin himself can teleport to any of his buildings across the globe by swapping himself with floor tiles, however he may not teleport any of his living allies with him. He can however, swap an entire building full of vampires as that entity is considered "one" object.

### Aspiring Agate

Aspiring Agate, given to Edwin by a mysterious figure in 1978, allows him to see the Potential in people. This potential relates to how well the person would handle arrow introduction, and he deemed it crucial in finding likely candidates for the Requiem Experiments of Star Road.

### The Requiem Arrows

Edwin was given 1 Requiem Arrow by a Mysterious Figure, dubbed "Pussy Control" by the fans. He was then told where to find the other 5 which had been buried by a Zeppeli in New Mexico. One of the Arrows was lost here in an act of self defense against Midge Currie, which caused the creation of [Western Promise]'s Nocturne.

Edwin experimented used Aspiring Agate and the Requiem Arrows in conjunction to find subjects that could potentially develop Requiem Stands. He didn't begin any extensive research into this matter until after the events of the Quiet Decay, where Mallory Savel revealed the true Potential buried within the Arrows.

In 2125, he used an Arrow to draw out the dormant potential in Sebastian Zeppeli, Grace Zeppeli, and Renegade Styx. By the time of Star Road Now, in 2130, all of the Requiem Arrows had been lost in failed experiments via the Star Road research facility. The only Arrow he was able to access

### Nightmare Stands / The Sound of Silence

The Sound of Silence is a stand responsible for trapping the souls of other stands in Lenses upon their users deaths. Edwin Acquired the Sound of Silence sometime between when he was given Aspiring Agate and when he found the Arrows in New Mexico.

Edwin never uncovered the entire ability of The Sound of Silence, or at the very least did not utilize it with malicious intent, for most of the victims that were created by his hands were made Nightmares on accident simply by proxy.

## The Quiet Decay

At this point in Edwin's life, he was still trying to make the world a better place. Using his political influence, he started Star Road in order to research supernatural entities such as Stands and Requiem Arrows in America, and further ran his business known as the Speedwagon Foundation in Japan. The foundation had a slew of hospitals, warehouses, and other businesses that they were tied to pretty much every form of business in Electros.

## Star Road Now

In Star Road Now, Edwin, the adoptive father of Mercedes and Jonah, funds Jonah's quest to find out who killed his mother. Edwin, of course, was the cause of Christina's death, but Christina willingly put herself into the Star Road project. Edwin supported Jonah in the hopes that through uncovering all the secrets of the Speedwagon foundation naturally, the two would see eye-to-eye. This of course, did not work.

His entire goal in Star Road Now was to create a world in which people did not have to fear death where humans were evolved to their pinnacle. He planned to do this by immortalizing everyone through vampirisim, and then providing a bandage cure to the vampirism in a drug known as F4-NG. F4-NG makes vampires immune to the normally deadly sunlight.

When Edwin realized that people would not take kindly to his goals, he decided that rather than continue to push for it in politics, he would forcibly turn the entire of City of Electros and then the world. He assembled an elite squadron of Speedwagon Foundation Vampires, trained in turning civilians to vampires, and mobilized them on the day that Mercedes activated [Red Skies] over the city of Electros. The vampires swept the city in an event known as the **Vampire Apocalypse**.

This apocalypse happened in a time that was rewritten, thanks to the efforts of Mercedes and [World's Requiem]. The Great Reset made it so that faded memories are the only reminder people have of what the Vampire Apocalypse was.

In the end, Edwin had lost his sanity, overwhelmed by the height of his goals and the projected "righteousness" for what he fought, he'd forgotten what truly mattered. His friends from The Quiet Decay had all left him, his children and adopted children turned against him, and his actual family members were all dead. He was utterly and entirely alone.

Edwin's final act in Star Road Now involved a last ditch effort to escape with his research on Requiem Arrows by taking Rachel from the Star Road facility and going somewhere anywhere to escape the hell that was about to be unleashed on him. As it happens, he was too late. Jonah cornered him and used his own research against him with the power of [Nocturnal Rose] and in an act of finality, the entire Star Road Party threw Edwin into the eternal darkness beneath the Nocturne.

Edwin internally never intended to cause any of the horrible events that transpired. He never intended to murder the children, he never intended to cast the world into darkness, he only wanted to see the world a better place. However, due to his mental decline after The Quiet Decay, his vision of what was right was twisted and bent so horribly that he became the maniacal tyrant he was at the end of Star Road Now

## Trivia

* Edwin was originally just a father figure for Jonah Joestar, and didn't become the main antagonist until Episode 3. At this point, Jorgon Dream was the main antagonist of Star Road Now.
* Edwin talks to Neo Tokyo as if it's sentient, although this is just a misconception he picked up from "Pussy Control"
* Edwin keeps at least 5 pens on him at any time.
* Edwin and Rachel's voices are mirrors of eachother, Edwin speaks as fast as possible and has a deep voice, whereas Rachel speaks as slow as possible with a high pitched voice.
* At one point Edwin's name was actually Electros, it wasn't pseudonym.
* One of the original concepts for his stand was that it was **the entire city of Electros**, not just a stand which could manipulate said city.