Josefa Alejo

### Goals

Escape to where they can't be found (Goal of arc)Become a kindergarten teacher (Personal goal)

### Family

Jordan Joestar  (father)
Josefa Cano Alejo (grandmother)
Jorge Alejo (grandfather)
Thalía Alejo  (Mother)
Belinda Alejo (Half-Sister)
Miller Max (Half-Sister)
Webster Max (Half-Brother)
Fleetwood Max (Half-Brother)
George Max (Half-Brother)

## Media

### Manga Debut

JJZ Chapter 1: "Mercy, Part 1"

**Josefa Alejo** (ジョゼファ・アレホ Jozefa Areho) is the protagonist of JoJazo and the third JoJo of the Alternate JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series.

Josefa is a young girl living in California who was to go to college before they got in a car crash and her mother was killed. After that, she found out that her baby sister, Belinda, had to go to an orphanage as Josefa isn't old enough to adopt her and she knows of no relatives old enough to adopt her. All this puts Josefa in a tricky situation which only gets worse when she becomes the target of a nation-wide assassination for reasons yet undiscovered. Her friends, who all have problems of their own going on, join her in running away, with Belinda, south, all the way to Panama's Panama City, as to meet up with an old ally. This first assassination attempt sparks the manifestation of her incredibly fast Stand, Mercy Mercy Me.

## Appearance

Josefa is an attractive teenage girl of slim, yet athletic build and just-below average height. Her skin tone leans a bit more to the white side of her heritage, rather than a traditional Mexican skin tone - unlike her sister. Though her bold, red, heart-shaped earrings that hang from either ear make a strong impression alone, their heavily accompanied by her non-traditional hairstyle. In the front, we have one-sided bangs - taking up about half of the left side of her face - that are very long and very straight (until the tip, in which they curve upwards on the inside). The rest of it tends to be pretty smooth and short, popping out at the ends at some points. One the back, she has two circular braids hung to either side of her head.

Being a Joestar by heritage, Josefa shares the family's star-shaped birthmark on the rear of her left shoulder, close to her neck. Additionally, she has a linear birthmark wrapping around both her elbows and her knees, alluding to a rather mechanical look to her limbs.

Josefa, when not in disguise for one reason or another, wears a black turtleneck jumper with an ever-so slightly pink jacket atop it that she usually dons wide open. The jumper is riddled with verdant diamond shapes - that only increase in population further you go down - and her jacket has "JOJO" in black written around both wrist cuffs. The letters "MMM" are written vertically down the back of her jacket in a strong, green colour. They look to be personally embroidered, as does the "JOJO" on her jumper. She additionally wears torn, full-length jeans that have seemingly randomly placed black vertical lines scattered over them. On her feet, she wears a simple, unbranded pair of black shoes.

Around the neck of her jumper is a hot pink collar with little spikes and a heart-shaped metal clip on it. On the back of the collar is a tiny, golden anchor symbol. She tells people that she got the collar off some random market, but she actually made it herself as a gift for her mother. She was going to wear it until she got to her college, in which she was going to give the collar to her mom. Sadly, the crashed stopped this from happening.

## Personality

A teenage girl with assassins on her back 24/7 while having to look after a less-than one year old. I'm sure if you were put into that situation, you'd gain a bit of angst and this is especially true for Josefa. Though angsty, she's far more importantly determined, enduring, diligent, intelligent and quick off the mark.

Before going on the run, Josefa was never much of a delinquent. A bit cocky and even a bit mischievous at points, but she never became a delinquent. She knew all the struggles her mother, Thalía, went through on a day-to-day basis and so didn't want to add to it by causing trouble or getting involved with the police. Instead, she studied hard to go to college and, as she had previously hoped, university. A lot of this changed after her mother died. The grief brought about a far more anxiety-ridden side to her - even while staying confident in her own abilities - as well as a far angrier, enraged side. To date, she has only lashed out a handful of times on the ones she cares about, like when she screamed at Bran for allowing a powerful foe escape her grasp, but when it comes to enemies, she'll go all out to make them feel as bad as she does. As JoJazo goes on, we see her begin to get a grip on her emotions again, but not before laying down some serious justice.

Her rage should not be allowed to overshadow her intelligence, however. Not only does she have a very high GPA, being 3.8, and an immense amount of knowledge on geography, she's also considered by her former teachers to even be smarter than them. She gets this intelligence from her burning passion to learn and change, as well as her intense diligence and work ethic. No matter what obstacle is placed against her, she'll get passed it one way or another, and if she can't, well at she has the satisfaction of knowing she gave her all to do so. Her extreme work ethic often leads to recklessness, like in her fight against ???, in which, while out of sight, she beats herself up to the brink of death just for the slim chance that she can use Mercy Mercy Me to bring him down.

It comes as no surprise that someone with such a useful stand, as well as such high intelligence, would be immensely confident. This pride is justified most of the time but if she lets it slip into vanity, then chances are that a particularly wise foe could catch her off guard and bring her down.

## Abilities

### Stand

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**Mercy Mercy Me** is a surprisingly versatile stand, with the ability to relocate damage from one object, substance or lifeform to another, with the amount of damage proportionally changing based on the damage type, target and source. The original substance then returns to the state it was before the damage that had been inflicted on it. It retains anything that it had gained after the damage that wasn't because of the damage. This stand is additionally incredibly fast and enduring, but lack much physical strength.

    Josefa has performed many marvellous feats using Mercy Mercy Me and its outstanding speed, like letting herself be shot by a myriad of bullets as to let Mercy Mercy Me relocate the damage back onto the wall besides her to break it down and escape. Without it's speed, she would have died from the injuries in an instant.

Like other family members of hers, such as Jotaro and Giorno, she hasn't had her stand her entire life and has instead manifested it rather recently. However, it would seem she has always had the ability to manifest it, and just hadn't been in a situation that would have caused her to develop it.

**Mercy Mercy Me: Distant Lover** is a far more powerful form of Josefa's stand that she manifested after being pieced by the Stand-Creating Arrow. Though this is by definition a Requiem Stand, none of the characters are aware of such a thing and so she just gives it an extended name. This stand's primary ability is called Halt and it gives it the capability to slow down anything - from reality to concepts - with completely control of how much they slow down, even going to the point of completely pausing.

### Personal

**Intelligence:** As previously stated, Josefa is incredibly intelligent but this doesn't simply mean book smart. She's also very good at strategizing or coming up with new or unique ways to get around a problem. This is why she's can, after only having it a short while, masterfully use Mercy Mercy Me and adapt its skill set to unseen situations. Her 'book smarts' also comes in handy. For example, her extensive knowledge of nature and geography is what tends to keep the group safe while travelling across multiple countries.

**Embroidery:** Being able to sew led to Josefa becomes well versed in embroidery. Though this skill isn't used all too often, it is shown throughout her outfit in things like the "MMM" on her jacket, the "JOJO" on her jumper cuffs, or the anchor on her choker. On occasion has she used her skills in sewing and embroidery to patch up wounds that can't be healed by Mercy Mercy Me for one reason or another.

## Chapters

* JJZ Chapter 1: "Mercy, Part 1"
* JJZ Chapter 2: "Mercy, Part 2"
* JJZ Chapter 3: "Mercy, Part 3"
* JJZ Chapter 4: "At The Mercy Of A Gasoline Dream"
* JJZ Chapter 5: "Mercy Mercy Me"
* JJZ Chapter 6: "Hard Times, Part 1"  (Appears in flashback(s))
* JJZ Chapter 7: "Hard Times, Part 2"
* JJZ Chapter 8: "Hard Times, Part 3"  (Mentioned only)
* JJZ Chapter 9: "Hard Times, Part 4"  (Mentioned only)
* JJZ Chapter 10: "Hard Times, Part 5"
* JJZ Chapter 11: "Snake Eater!"
* JJZ Chapter 12: "Paramore's Pearl"
* JJZ Chapter 13: "What's It All About?"
* JJZ Chapter 14: "Heavy Love Affair"  (Narrator)
* 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

Josefa AlejoJosefa Alejo - Alternate BackgroundHer stand, Mercy Mercy Me.
## Trivia

* The concept art for Josefa was made using one of the many character creators on Picrew. Specifically, this one.
* Josefa Alejo is the first Mexican main JoJo, as well as the second female JoJo, alongside Jolyne Cujoh.
* Josefa often uses the phrase, "Déjame descansar..." which is Spanish and *can* translate into "Gimme a break...". This is a direct reference to Jotaro Kujo's famous catchphrase, "Yare yare daze".
* Josefa lives in Apartment 402, which is a reference to the girl in red song, Apartment 402.