Caspian Royal

## Personality:

Caspian is a cunning and charming man. He’s charismatic and light hearted and jokes around often. Its his shield from the world. He uses his upbeat nature and charm to hide the darkness that lives in him. Truly he has great resentment for a great many people and easily comes to dislike those around him. He feigns trust but rarely actually trusts anyone. He is independent and confident in himself, having spent most of his life on his own anyway. He keeps very few friends, however those he does have he would do most anything for, believing that anyone who has earned his respect or trust is worth any sacrifice. He is ambitious, and loves a thrill, both of which are represented by his choice of gambling and stealing as an occupation.

## Stand Ability:

The Joker’s Wild is a stand of adaptation. Unlike more powerful adaptation users The Joker’s Wild isn’t able to adapt to entire stands, at least not always. Here’s the rundown:

### **Adaptation:**

The Joker’s Wild is a stand that adapts to other stands in order to give its user an effective counter to them, however it's only able to adapt to a single ability of its opponent. Once an adaptation occurs the stats and ability of The Joker’s Wild will be determined. The generated counter is not guaranteed to be the most effective either nor is it guaranteed to actually allow him to win a fight.

The Joker’s Wild is capable of adapting to up to 5 stands at once, each time it does so its potential is lowered. Once it reaches none the stand can’t adapt to anything else.

Adapted abilities last an hour or until the stand is deactivated.

### **Adaptation Storage:**

The second ability of The Joker’s Wild is to store adapted abilities. It does this in the form of coins. Adapted abilities are kept in the bag that the stand carries. It works like this: Once The Joker’s Wild has adapted to an ability it can remove that adapted ability from its current power set and turn it into a coin. That coin now carries said ability in it. The Joker’s Wild can use this coin at any time to once again use that stored adapted ability, however there are some drawbacks. First off the coins are ‘spent’ after a single use rather than infinite storage. Second off, when a coin is being stored it takes up one of the adaptation slots available to the stand, meaning the more coins its storing the few stands it can adapt to on the go.

The stand’s stat pool is determined like this: When the stand adapts to another ability it creates a stat pool that suits its adapted ability. The created stat pool cannot exceed the stat total of the stand being adapted to. When multiple abilities are adapted the stat pool matches the highest one available, however obviously individual stats would have to be divided to cover both adapted abilities, lowering the overall effectiveness of the adaptations.

Some other things: In order to adapt an ability the user of The Joker’s Wild must see it in use. Along with that, like his brother, he seems to have an almost 6th sense when it comes to stands/their users in a nearby area

### **Stand Weakness:**

Without other stands present his is useless. S tier abilities cannot properly be adapted to, meaning that adapted abilities will be much weaker than needed.

## Backstory:

Caspian never met his father. He was some American on a work trip to Italy who had a multi month affair with his mother. He was of course born out of wedlock and as soon as his mother was pregnant his father bailed. He grew up in one of the poorer neighborhoods of Florence. His mother was an honest and hardworking woman who genuinely loved both Caspian and his father. Caspian quickly learned the ropes of being a punk in order to help provide from his mother. However his mother insisted he at least attend school through high school in order to let him make something of his life, though it was all wasted time. Most days he skipped class to try to hustle money. He ended up spending his entire life in a search for money wherever it could be found. When he became a teenager he began to steal from gas stations and small shops. Over time he only increased in the amount of money he could steal and his skills only grew. His mother passed away from a disease when he was 18. He grieved horribly and after she passed he fully dived into crime, his occupation to this day.