Jotaro Kujo

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## Physical Information

**Jotaro Kujo** is one of the many fighters to participate in the Ministry Succession Tournament. He is the representative of the Blue Whale Avenue Prison, the prison dimension inside the Cube, also acting as its chief warden. His true name isn't actually "Jotaro Kujo", but Carlos Quartz, taking the name of a fictional character from a Japanese comic before the times of the Apoclaypse. In truth, Jotaro is a tough facade created by Carlos, who is an insane individual who is powered by his own delusions.

## Appearance

Carlos appears as a frail, thin individual, with a weak body and appearance that reflects his poor spirit.

Jotaro, on the other hand, is a tall, muscular man with a serious expression and messy hair. He wears a hat similar to the one of the fictional Jotaro that usually hides his eyes. He's shirtless, with the only clothing he possesses being his trousers and shoes. He displays a pair of colorful belts to hold his pants.

## Personality

Carlos is a meek, shy individual, a defeatist and a pushover who always thinks the worst is gonna come to him and only wants for people to let him sleep in peace.

His alter ego, Jotaro, on the other hand, is exactly like the character he’s based on. He’s serious, confident, calculative, strong, throws one liners after succeeding and always comes on top of every situation. This personality is reflected in Jotaro’s body, who becomes taller, way more muscular and strong.

Overall Carlos/Jotaro is a delusional, bipolar individual bordering on psychosis. The “Jotaro” personality (the dominant one) is normally in control, but if he develops doubts against himself, this can cause him to revert to “Carlos”, severely weakening him in the process.

## History

Carlos Quartz was an illegal immigrant from Colombia who came to Florida for a better life, only to find a mother who didn’t love him and beaten him all the time, treating him as a stranger, since she had a new family she appreciated more; This caused Carlos a lot a mental stress, making his life a living Hell. He only was able to find a safe haven in sleeping, entering a world where he could escape the problems of reality, even just for a bit. Things didn’t get better as he grew up, suffering the same problems for most of his childhood, with no hope to escape from that Hell, other than sleeping.

However, one day his life changed forever. He stumbled across a bizarre manga in a certain shop (he wasn’t allowed any form of entertainment at home) called JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, and found a hero in the man named Jotaro Kujo, someone so powerful that no one could stop him; He decided to idolize him, wanting to become him more than anything else. He dedicated himself to become stronger and tried to fill into the role of Jotaro so much it reached maniacal levels. Until one day, a mysterious power flowed inside him. At that time, Carlos Quartz, the weakling everyone bullied, immersed in a deep slumber, and Jotaro, the fictional character, was born. Awakening an amount of strength that made him unstoppable, Jotaro  killed his mother and her family and become a fugitive, abandoning his name and officially becoming Jotaro Kujo.

At one point in his runaway days, he met a mysterious monk who told Jotaro that he knew what his soul truly desired, but could only achieve it through learning from him; Jotaro then reawakened his childhood haven, sleeping. In the dream world, the monk taught him the powers of the soul, achieving the soul power inside him, which of course Jotaro named “Stand”. Before departing, the monk told him it was his fate to defeat Dio (just like in JoJo) and for that he would need to join the organization named the Ministry. Jotaro spent years trying to find the place, and when he finally did, offered himself as a warrior to his leader, Graff. The higher ups of the Ministry initially wanted to turn him to jail, as he was a wanted criminal, but Graff, seeing potential in Jotaro, decided to keep him in the Ministry. Jotaro now resides in a jail in the Blue Whale Avenue Prison dimension of the Cube (he requested it to reference the start of Stardust Crusaders), sealed from any contact, waiting for his chance to fight Dio and destroy him.

## Abilities

• **Godly Strength**: Jotaro’s muscular body allows him to hit like a truck. His immense strength allows him to bend steel casually and break diamonds with a single hand.

• **Godly Speed and Reflexes**: Jotaro’s speed and reflexes are 10 times superior to those of a common person. He’s able to intercept projectiles thrown at him with his bare hands and can outspeed an Olympic runner at his weakest.

• **Godly Durability**: His incredibly muscular body allows Jotaro to stand more punishment than the average human. He can resist attacks to non vital zones and even end intact after receiving a powerful attack.

• **Regeneration**: As Jotaro is basically a being born from Carlos' imagination and not his real self, as long as Carlos keeps believing he’s Jotaro he can regenerate his body infinitely. This ability may weaken if Carlos starts to doubt being Jotaro. If he’s attacked in a vital organ and killed instantly, the regeneration will not work.

• **Genius Intellect and Trickery**: Jotaro borrows the intelligence and cunning from his fictional origin. He’s able to plan complex ruses and fool his opponents with bluffs and risky but effective strategies. He rarely loses his cool and always has a cool head, allowing him to devise these tricks in every situation.

• **Delusion Empowerment**: Arguably the main and most important ability of Carlos/Jotaro. To escape from his harsh reality, Carlos used mangas and sleep. The combination of these two things awakened the Jotaro personality, who is basically the ideal of Carlos. As such, he’s basically potentiated for the delusion of what Carlos wants to be. As long as Carlos believes he’s Jotaro, he’ll maintain an immortal, all-powerful body able to fight even the gods. However, the reverse is also true. If for some reason Jotaro starts to doubt himself, even for the most minimal reason, his body will start to lose power until reverting back to the frail and weak Carlos. For that, is important for him to keep believing he’s none other than Jotaro Kujo.

• **Stand of Victory, Star Platinum**: The guardian entity and fighting spirit of Jotaro in the manga JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. A muscular, humanoid figure specialized in melee, with abilities such as super strength, super speed, great eyesight, very precise fingers and being able to save its user in a pinch. His might is overall unmatched except for the strongest people on both Heaven and Earth. The power of Star Platinum depends on the level of delusion of Jotaro, being proportionally as strong as he believes himself to be the fictional Jotaro. The Stand performs a battle cry when he attacks, saying “ORA! ORA! ORA!” in quick succession.

## Trivia

* The character is obviously based in the actual Jotaro Kujo from Hirohiko Araki's hit series JoJo's Bizarre Adventures.