Joseph Joestar

> Your next line is...
>
> —Joseph Joestar, Chapter 47: "Joseph Joestar of New York, Part 3"

**Joseph Joestar** (ジョセフ・ジョースター *Josefu Jōsutā*) is the main protagonist of part 2 and an ally in *Helter Skelter*. He is the 2nd JoJo of the *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure* series.

Joseph is a natural-born Ripple user and eventual Stand user, wielding the psychic photographic Stand, Hermit Purple. Joseph meets the fantastic threats approaching him throughout his life with initiative and impressive ingenuity, battling Vampires, the Pillar Men, and malevolent Stand users.

## Appearance

### Battle Tendency

18 years old, Joseph is tall (195 cm/6'5"), handsome, and powerfully built, with light eyes. He has short, dark and unkempt hair, parts of his bangs shooting outwards in spikes, apart from which he closely resembles his grandfather Jonathan Joestar.

Joseph's primary outfit is relatively minimal and pragmatic. He wears a tank top cut above the navel, gloves studded at the knuckles, fitting pants with a leather belt, and knee-high leather boots. In Switzerland he dons a long, broad, striped scarf; and later, as a gift from Caesar, a long, thin headband patterned with a row of tessellated triangles.

### Helter Skelter

Joseph retains most of his health and muscularity, though his face displays his age. His hair is short and gray, and he sports a thick, well-trimmed beard.

## Personality

### Battle Tendency

In *Battle Tendency*, Joseph is a hotheaded, impetuous, and confrontational young man. Quick to violently respond to the slightest provocation, Joseph would often get into brawls growing up; prior to events of the story, he had been imprisoned seven times and expelled once from school for fighting. Having no respect for authority save of his grandmother's, and later Lisa Lisa's, Joseph has antagonised policemen and mafiosi alike. Furthermore, Joseph is a foul-mouthed individual and regularly taunts his enemies, enjoying aggravating them. His signature taunt is predicting his enemy's next line, which is shown to be correct all the time. He notably taunted Kars when he launched him into space, claiming to have again planned everything from the beginning just to annoy him.

Joseph is a playful man and prefers fooling around over having any responsibility. By his own admission, his most hated sentences are "hard work" and "work hard", and still had to be pushed to train his Ripple talent in spite of facing certain death if he didn't meet and fight Wamuu again. Joseph has a fairly goofy side and spends half of his fights enjoying having outsmarted his current enemy with incredibly zany schemes, which take his opponents by surprise by how silly his plans are at first sight. He also often incorporates his taunts into fights, to distract his enemies into otherwise obvious traps. A show-off, Joseph likes being the center of attention and couldn't stand that his rival Caesar had a special technique. With his prestidigitation talent, Joseph mixed his boastful nature and his love of pranks into a dangerous tool in battle.

### Helter Skelter

In *Helter Skelter*, Joseph has considerably mellowed out, having lost much of his aggression and laziness. Joseph's goofy side is also still present.

## Synopsis

### After Battle Tendency

The three survivors of all hamon users are Lisa Lisa, Caesar, and Joseph. The Nazi’s still lose, and history continues as normal. Joseph gets married to a new person in America, and has a son, TBD Joestar. He is not taught Hamon, because Joseph sees no reason to go through that hard training since all the vampires are dead. Joesph soon becomes a real estate agent, starting the Joestar Real-estate Empire.

### Helter Skelter

At the start of the year, Robert Jr. goes on an expedition to Greenland after hearing weird shit about a meteor in the area. Fearing that the meteor was somehow Kars, Joseph and Aria tag along to protect Robbert Jr. Upon returning, Robert starts getting slightly sick, while Joseph takes a trip to Egypt to meet with a local expert on the weird shit that has manifested on them. While the Joseph is in Egypt, the stands of all three ancestors form, having spread down the bloodline.

## Abilities

### Ripple

*Main article: Ripple*
Joseph inherited the Ripple and its capabilities from his grandfather, Jonathan Joestar, as well as his mother, Lisa Lisa. In addition, he uses techniques commonly present in stage magic to confuse his foes. After his Ripple training, Joseph frequently combines his Ripple with other objects to perform complex and creative attacks. Later in Part 3, he shows that he is able to pass the Ripple through his Stand, Hermit Purple. However, as he grew older, due to neglecting his Ripple training, he became unable to do the same things he was capable of when he was younger and ended up aging at a relatively normal pace.

### Stand

*Main article: Hermit Purple*
Joseph's Stand, **Hermit Purple**, manifests itself as a tangle of thorny vines, which Joseph can wield as both a weapon and a hazardous defense. Furthermore, it has been shown to conduct the Ripple. One of its special abilities is to use cameras, televisions and other things to perform a form of fortune telling referred to as spirit photography.