Desert Blood

Desert Blood is the first roleplay in the Desert Blood RPVerse and marks the debut of several mainstay characters, including Def Leppard, Brandon Davis, and others. Desert Blood was created and spearheaded by **Ya Boi King Kai**, with creative direction and control being handed to **Somebody who exists** later down the road for smooth play time.

## Synopsis

In the year 1874, nine years after the American Civil War, the southern states were in economic distress. Many people had traveled westward in hopes of escaping the scars of what was the greatest division to have ever been in the history of the American States. Under the surface, a secret group of Stand users, spearheaded by Confederate General Diavol Una, were plotting war with the victorious Union in hopes of reverting the damage done to the south. They searched for a great power that would create Super Soldiers able to overwhelm the United States and start a Second American Civil War.

To combat this threat, a posse of stand users gathered in the small town of Moab, led by Nathan Lee, went out on a journey to find Diavolo and rid him of the world for good. These include Midas, Def Leppard, Brandon Davis, Tomie Fervor, and Rin Speedwagon.

## Story

### Introduction and Beginning

The story begins with most of the stand users listed above arriving in the small town of Moab. Most of them get into some kind of fight at one point or another as the familiarize themselves with the area, and each other. The most prominent fights are between Tomie Fervor and mostly everyone else, as she was one of the many legendary bandits and criminals in the United States, the other being Midas.

During the individuals' stay, the President of the United States, Haruno Shiobana, traveled to the small town and provided a speech of how he was helping bring the southern states out of their economic distress, but was cut short due to an assassination attempt on his life, suspected to be the work of former Confederate General Diavolo Una. In response, Secret Service agent Bruno Bucciarati enlisted the help of local law enforcement, primarily Nathan Lee, marshal of the town. Lee then set up his own posse of stand users he had seen battling prior and after the assassination attempt, consisting of Def Leppard, a Spin-using amnesiac searching for his past, Midas, a gold-making outlaw with no background, Tomie Fervor, nicknamed the Thousand-Eyed Butterfly in reference to her wardrobe and Stand power, a pair of people known only as Danny and Alistair, Rin Speedwagon, a girl engaged to Diavolo's son, Doppio, and Brandon Davis, a young carpenter travelling the States in search of self discovery.

### Main Story (Middle)

Their journey brought them to a neighboring town, which, after asking around, gave Nate Lee the information he needed on Diavolo's whereabouts. After a stand battle against a sniper who could reflect whatever was thrown or shot at him, they discovered a letter from Diavolo himself. He was supposedly going to meet the user at a hotel in another town called **"Del Fuego"**. When the posse arrived, they figured it would be best to pose as actual tenants of the hotel, either looking like rich individuals, or pairs on their honeymoon. Brandon Davis and Tomie Fervor were one such pair. Rin Speedwagon paired up with Richard, another individual who practiced Hamon. As their search party occurred, they were to be looking around for Diavolo's room using whatever tactics they could without accidentally looking too suspicious.

The posse managed to find Diavolo's room and were ready for a full-on assassination. However, when they entered, they were greeted with nobody. Instead, they were attacked by an enemy stand user, the stand named **American Idiot** who had the power to alter the direction of gravity, causing vertigo on everyone there. It seemed like they wouldn't win, but Brandon Davis was able to turn himself into a spider using Sundance Kid, which eliminated the need for him to have orientation of up or down, since spiders don't get vertigo. Midas then used his gold control to keep American Idiot on its toes, before capturing him in a golden cage, a feat that would exhaust Midas a short while later. With metal leading to the enemy, Brandon could now use his Hamon to shock American Idiot, which worked.

Without any leads on where Diavolo would be next, the posse spent the next three days in Del Fuego training and looking for any information they could get. During this time, directly after the fight, Brandon Davis finally confessed to Tomie that he had a crush on her, despite having known each other for little more than a week. This took Tomie by surprise, and they mutually agreed to leave each other alone to air out their heads. Brandon immediately regretted his action, feeling as if the the she-bandit with a boisterous personality would think of him as out of his mind. While the others remained in the Del Fuego hotel, Brandon left to get some fresh air, but was mugged by common criminals who thought, by his getup, was a rich individual. Since he was too emotionally unmotivated as well as undertrained in Hamon, he was incapable of defending himself from the group, who beat him half to death and let him lie down and bleed out all night. He was found in the morning by Def Leppard and taken to a doctor's clinic so he could be treated properly. He assumed the posse needed to find Diavolo, so he asked the doctor to leave a note to Tomie, apologizing for what he said and to go on without him. During his coma he met an apparition of his grandfather who, during the three days, gave him nonstop training of Hamon. This allowed him to become much more proficient when he awakened from his coma.

After he awakened, he and Tomie decided that they were ready for whatever relationship they were going to have. Afterwards, he treated her to a pseudo-dinner date with italian food, having owed her dinner in a bet anyway. In the meantime, Midas was having a split personality crisis, which resulted in him attacking Tomie and Def while Brandon rested, but he came out a little later to help out. After having attacked Tomie, Brandon refused to train Midas any more Hamon that he already learnt when the group interacted in Moab.

After those three days, the group kept training and learning about their powers, and Nate Lee made the executive decision that the posse return to Moab after ebing incapable of finding new leads on Diavolo. As they did this, they were attacked by a group of Natives who Nate was familiar with, and managed to reconcile after the fight. They talked about the **Devil's Palm** and how a pink-haired man was near there. The group had caught up. They prepared to ambush Diavolo in the Palm, but had to consider the non-stand users of the group. Def was the only one of the group who gained a Stand, being named Fed Pardlep, while any other non-stand users present managed to resist the effects of the Palm's stand-giving power. Those with Stands felt more powerful, and Brandon Davis in particular gained an evolution of Sundance Kid, which from that point forward is its base form with Brandon Davis. When they saw a pink-haired man matching Diavolo's description, those in the group with guns fired upon him, killing him. However, it was not Diavolo, but his son, Doppio, sent as a decoy. That is what Diavolo needed to get to the center of the Palm and use whatever was within its center to gain Requiem power, evolving his King Crimson to the point of nearly rewriting history as he saw fit.

### Late Story and End

Since the posse was in the Palm at the time of his evolution, they retained all their memories of the previous timeline, which would be confirmed by an interrogation of one of the Moab residents who revealed to them that the President was in Washington DC, and was no longer Haruno Shiobana. Diavolo was President, and the Confederacy won the war. Nate decided that the best course of action was to travel to DC and kill Diavolo so time could return to normal.

As the group traveled, they came across another few enemy Stand users, being Axl RO and Doppio, revived due to the change in history. The fight against Axl RO and his stand Civil War took a tremendous toll on the psyche of the posse, and actually ended in Nate's death. However, hope was not lost. Midas took leadership of the group, having resolved his mental struggle for the time being, and the group soon came across a distraught Haruno Shiobana, who had also seemed to be unaffected by the change in history, confused as to why the changes happened in the middle of his speech. He joined the posse in their quest to stop Diavolo.

The final threat they encountered was Secret Service Agent Bruno Bucciarati, having no memory of Shiobana and loyally serving Diavolo. The group managed to fight him off with the help of Def's new stand. The time had come for them to locate Diavolo. They doubted they could enter the White House, and he would likely not be there. Brandon suggested to Midas that they check the most ironic place. The Supreme Court, where justice prevails. Midas agreed, with the rest of the posse waiting around the area for the signal to attack. Tomie and Brandon entered the Court building themselves to try and weed out Diavolo. However, he skipped time as an intimidation factor before attacking Brandon directly. Brandon managed to neutralize the blunt of the attack with Sundance Kid, but was horribly outmatched. Diavolo kept terrorizing Brandon and Tomie, and after realizing they were in a romantic relationship, used it as a way to undoubtedly land an attack on one or the other, being that he punched his fist through Brandon, with Tomie being saved from the potential attack. This, however, was doubly part of Brandon's plan to get Diavolo outside so the posse could attack him. The rest of the Posse kept fighting him, but all of it was merely a distraction. This was a ploy by Midas to apply lessons he learned when practicing Spin after learning from Def Leppard. He used his horse in synchronization with a golden ball in his hand and achieved the Perfect Rotation, hitting Diavolo, turning his body gold. Diavolo used King Crimson Requiem's power to try and alter the history of the timestream so he would never be hit by the ball, but after seemingly being cured, the gold kept spreading. A physical manifestation of Midas' stand appeared to Diavolo, letting him know that the infinite nature of the Perfect Rotation would never leave, and his atoms, molecules, cells, would always turn to gold. Diavolo was defeated.

The timestream, as expected, returned to normal to the point of the group being returned to the Devil's Palm, the point at which time was altered. Nate was back, never having died in the original timeline, and Brandon's wound was gone. The world was safe. Brandon and Tomie celebrated with a kiss. Soon after, the posse returned to Moab, where they were congratulated with the capture and defeat of Diavolo Una, who was now a golden statue in the middle of the Devil's Palm, fear eternally stricken on his face. Those in the posse convicted and accused of crimes were given a Presidential Pardon from Haruno Shiobana, now in his rightful place as President. The group parted ways from there.

### Post-RP Story and Teasers

Nathan Lee continued his work as marshal of Moab. Midas left his old guns in the Palm with Diavolo, never to use them again, now entirely reliant on Spin and vowing to never kill unless necessary. Rin Speedwagon, now free to be her own person, returned to her farm and began looking into how she could tap into the oil reserve under it.

The Roleplay after this, Broken Grounds, takes place with Def Leppard in the main focus, having gotten flashes of his old memories, and requesting that Brandon and Tomie accompany him to Italy, the one location they could definitively say was part of his flashbacks. They did so six months after Desert Blood.