Bran Nuiyes

**Bran Nuiyes** (ブラン・ニュイイエス Buran Nyuiiesu) is a major ally/best friend of Josefa Alejo in part three of the Alternate JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, JoJazo.

Bran has always been and will always be Josefa's best friend, not even hesitating when she offered to runaway with her. Josefa does feel rather betrayed when she finds out Bran has a Stand, but the power of their friendship carries them through this.

Just like her sister, Rockabye, Bran was born with her stand-potential, however, it was in the form of an egg until she hit 15, in which it cracked open and became her Stand, Paramore. As the story progresses, it's revealed that Paramore is in fact a stand with multiple ACTs.

## Appearance

Bran is rather tale, pale, rather attractive American girl (with partial Japanese heritage). Almost all of the time, Bran dons a large red overcoat which is covered in light pink hearts all over. Beneath it, she wears a short dark top, revealing her stomach and some similarly coloured trousers - both of which look like they're made of a tied fabric, almost like robes. Around her neck, she has necklace with a small six-rayed star. At the centre of it, there is a spherical crystal, which is used to harness the power of her Stand, Paramore, throughout all of its ACTS.

As well as her bold brown eyes and beauty mark above her lip, one of the most notable traits of Bran's head is her completely white hair - which we're to assume is natural. She has the hair cut short for the most part, except for in the front, where she has it swooped to the right, almost looking like it was combed with absolute vigilance. From either ear hangs earrings in the form of a string with gold stars scattered through (about 4 on each ear).

## Personality

Bran is chipper, bright and open-minded. She always finds a way, somehow, to get the best of a situation, even at the direst of times, especially if she's not alone - when there are others around, she feels the need to brighten their moods. However, behind this façade of hope is someone severely haunted by there past. Be her neglectful parents, her borderline abusive older sister or the murder of her little sister of which she committed. Though she never meant for it to happen, she still feels like it was her fault (and it mostly was).

Furthermore, to put it bluntly, she's horny. Bran is horny as all hell. It's not uncommon for Bran and Bluffin to spot a girl they both find attractive and duke it out to see who gets to hit on them. Bluffin often tries to use the argument "What if they aren't into girls?", in which she'll reply "What if they aren't into guys?!".

If not clearly shown by her stand, Bran is into the idea of spirituality. She likes the idea that one can achieve a perfect state of being just by doing certain things - understandably, she really got into it after the death of her sister. Bran is still rather wary of some of it but still tries to indulge herself as much as her scepticism allows.

## Abilities

### Stand

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**Paramore** is versatile and ever evolving stand of Bran. It's lesser ability allows it to create small spherical crystals (of up to a centimetre in diameter.) Each ACT of Paramore can do this. At any given time, Bran is able to switch between the ACTs so that the abilities fit her current predicament, however, she mostly utilises the highest ACT she has at the time.

    **ACT 1** allows Bran to imbue the power of one of the first 3 chakras into crystals that she can touch (including the ones the stand makes). When imbued, the crystal can be placed on someone's person to increase the specific chakra dramatically. The 3 chakras she can harness are the Root Chakra (when used can supress pain and minorly reduce injuries), the Sacral Chakra (when used can dramatically increase someone's perceived attractivity and sexual confidence) and Solar Plexus (when used increases someone's confidence in their self and their abilities).

    **ACT 2** allows Bran to imbue the power of one of the next 3 chakras into crystals that she can touch (including the ones the stand makes). When imbued, the crystal can be placed on someone's person to increase the specific chakra dramatically. The 3 chakras she can harness this time are the Heart Chakra (when used increases someone's compassion, love and joy), the Throat Chakra (when used effects somebodies ability to communicate), the Third-Eye Chakra (increases intuition and awareness of surroundings, even if you can't see the surroundings). Unlike with ACT 1, these can be used in a more offensive way as she can have the crystal to block someone's chakra instead of empowering them - which just means it gets decreased.
The past two are susceptible to being resisted by the target if they're actively trying to resist and their soul is strong. When this happens, a crack appears in the crystal as a way to display its failed.

    **ACT 3** allows Bran to imbue a crystal with the power of the 7th Chakra after touching it (which includes the crystals she makes). When imbued, the crystal can be placed on someone's person to increase the specific chakra dramatically. The Crown Chakra allows someone to access the full reach of their soul and raise up onto a higher consciousness (explained further here). The effects of ACT 3 cannot be resisted at all.

Only one effected crystal can be made at any given time and the only way for Bran to deactivate the crystal is if her or her stand touches it.

### Spin

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Though she doesn't realise that it's the Spin she's harnessing, she can use it pretty effectively. Trying to replicate the ability of Rockabye Nuiyes' Stand as a way of fighting against it, she figures out how to focus a rotational energy into the crystals of her Paramore ACT 2, similar to that of Anne's Ripple. She doesn't use it much, but as her stand progresses onto ACT 3, she advances in her uses of the Spin.

Some known uses of it, as performed by her, are:

* Anti-rotation. By spinning it fast, she's able to create a rotation that goes against the rotation used by Clean Bandit.
* Pain-Suppression. By placing a spinning crystal on her body, she can reduce the impact of any attacks. This is useful when she can't user her ACT 1 to do that instead.
* By throwing a crystal and applying the Spin to it, she can make it fire much faster and further than it could before.
* The Spin can be used to make somebody far more malleable, allowing blows to deflect off them rather than hitting hard.

### Personal

**Spirituality** - Though she doesn't completely believe every aspect of spirituality, she does have faith that a lot of it does actually exist and so, accordingly, knows a lot about spirituality, natural healing, chakras, feng shui, etc. This comes especially handy in their battle against Hotel California.

## Chapters

* JJZ Chapter 1: "Mercy, Part 1"  (Name only)
* JJZ Chapter 2: "Mercy, Part 2"  (Name only)
* JJZ Chapter 5: "Mercy Mercy Me"  (Appears in flashback(s))
* JJZ Chapter 7: "Hard Times, Part 2"
* JJZ Chapter 8: "Hard Times, Part 3"
* JJZ Chapter 9: "Hard Times, Part 4"
* JJZ Chapter 10: "Hard Times, Part 5"  (Appears in flashback(s))
* JJZ Chapter 11: "Snake Eater!"  (Mentioned only)
* JJZ Chapter 12: "Paramore's Pearl"
* JJZ Chapter 13: "What's It All About?"
* JJZ Chapter 14: "Heavy Love Affair"  (Mentioned only)
* JJZ Chapter 15: "I Got To Get Out Of California"
* JJZ Chapter 16: "I Met A Little Girl, Part 1"
* JJZ Chapter 17: "I Met A Little Girl, Part 1"
* JJZ Chapter 18: "I Met A Little Girl, Part 3"

## Gallery

BranHer stand, Paramore ACT 1Her stand, Paramore ACT 2Her stand, Paramore ACT 3
## Trivia

* The art for this character was made using Picrew (this one in particular).
* Through most of the creation process for Bran, she had green hair, but when I finally got to writing it all up, I changed it. I can't be sure why however, it just didn't sit right with me.
* Her stand being called Paramore was heavily inspired by the fact that Paramore, the band, are known to be very negative and pessimistic while appearing very positive, which reflects Bran.