Azusa Nikaido

Retsu Nikaido (Brother, deceased)

Azusa Nikaido is a third-year student at Izumi-Ku. An unfortunate stand user and daughter of a Speedwagon Foundation scientist, Azusa spends most of her free time loitering around the facility in between having truth serum extracted from her veins.

You know, the truth serum. The kind that exists in her body and makes her physically incapable of saying anything that isn't what she perceives as the truth. You know how it is.

Anyway, she doesn't have anywhere better to be, and it's nice to be useful.

## About Azusa

Azusa is more than aware that she's been dealt bad cards in life, but like, what is she going to do about it? This is the way it's always been, and probably the way it always will be, so there's really only so much she can mope about it. She can be surprised that she's still able to feel shame when she says something particularly unfortunate, and she can appreciate having that shred of normalcy, but there's no real point in *wallowing* in that shame forever, you know?

...Though, she gets it when people get sick of the apologies. Even though she couldn't say it if she didn't mean it, the apology itself loses meaning after so many repeats with no changes, huh.

It gets lonely, but it's nothing new. Azusa's just going to live life one day at a time and take whatever comes.

## Blog History

Azusa's involvement is spread across two different blogs, her debut being on Pika's SPW-centric blog when Osami sent her to perform an aliveness check on Aleino Rinri-Teki. After an anon made some very odd assumptions about the nature of her being, Azusa set out on this check, and discovered him alive, in possession of a kitten, and recovering from an *assassination attempt*. She was concerned by this, but there wasn't much she could *do* about it.

Upon her transfer to Pika's regular part 4 blog, She discovered one of the posters that Intern Boy and Brigitte Von Couronne made to promote friendships with Dao'shin Hushida, and figured someone desperate enough to have such a poster might be able to overlook the way she is. Of course, he hadn't actually made the poster himself, and Azusa is a Woman, so it was. Awkward.

...But he didn't say he *wouldn't* be her friend, even after all the weird shit she said. That's *something*.

## Further Elaboration on Relationships

### Family

Azusa was raised primarily by her mother Osami Nikaido, separately from her father Eita and brother Retsu. Prior to their deaths, Osami discouraged her from visiting them or speaking to them more than absolutely necessary. Azusa assumed this was because of her "honesty problem", but their deaths have lead her to regret sticking to her mother's words.

Still, Azusa largely trusts her mother. There's something about there being a use- nay, a *purpose*- for her weird stand-blood that makes her feel a little bit less weird about it.

### Friends

Azusa is hesitant to classify Dao'shin Hushida as a friend, even though she'd like to. However, there are no lies on this page, so he's going in this section anyway.

That one guy who works for her mom is cool too, since he doesn't seem to mind her. That's a quality Azusa enjoys in a person... Though he's still got plenty of time to change his mind, Azusa will take what she can get while she can.

### Acquaintances

Azusa sees Niko Rockefeller both at school and around the local SPW facility, that's twice as many places as she sees most other people. That probably constitutes an acquaintanceship, even if they've only ever said a handful or so of words to eachother.

## Abilities

### Stand

Azusa's stand, Too Close is more often a stand affliction than a stand ability, since it constantly affects her and rarely ever affects other people.

Does it have a physical form? Is it attached to her blood, or *is* it her blood? Nobody knows, but anyone who makes physical contact with it will be forced to tell the truth for as long as they remain in contact. Since it either is Azusa's blood or attached to it, it is always in contact with her, so she is under its effect at all times. It's terribly inconvenient, as you can surely tell by now.

## Trivia

The song that shares the name with Azusa's stand, "Too Close", is the song that is the basis for "Why The Fuck You Lyin'".