Grace Zeppeli

* Star Road Now
* SRN Arc 3
* Pre-Transition
* Strings
* Post-Death
* Cat

### Relatives

Sebastian Zeppeli-Styx (Brother)Jodie Joestar (Daughter) Jonah Joestar (Husband) Leonard Zeppeli (Father) Sergio Zeppeli (Uncle)

Felix Zeppeli (Cousin) Emelio Zeppeli (Cousin)

### Occupation

Computer ProgrammerManager, Joestar Realty

## Appearances

### Debut

Star Road Now - Episode 1

> "Rhapsody no! Not the TV!" - Grace
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> "Did I hear you say impulse squad? Hell yeah impulse squad!" - Grace, to 25 or 6 to 4 and Renegade
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## Appearance

Grace is a short mildly heavy-set woman with short fluffy gray hair which has frosted blue tips. She almost always is wearing some form of cap, usually a deep blue baseball hat emblemed with stars. She has pale skin, light blue eyes, and a soft face.

While wearing a Dramaturgy Mask, Grace is slightly shorter, has more defined feminine features, and has a larger chest.

While not wearing a Dramaturgy Mask, Grace is a dark black cat with soft grey spots.

## Personality

Grace enjoys poking fun at people. She's energetic and sarcastic as all hell, and has been known to act on impulse rather than thought. She's usually quite abrasive, and shows her affection physically- and quite powerfully at that. She's a nerd who loves video games, table top rpgs, and computer programming - as well as bashing on old B-movies and TV Shows with her friends.

She pretends as if she doesn't care about others, but cares deeply for her brother Sebastian, her best friend Renegade and her husband Jonah. She would defend them with her life if the situation called for it.

## Background

Grace grew up in Pinion, Electros with her brother Sebastian and her father Leonard Zeppeli.

Her early years were not easy, as Pinion is notoriously poor and filled with crime. In 2124, Sebastian was mugged by a street thug while walking Pinion mid-day. While negotiating, he texted Renegade who ran to get Grace. Grace quickly ditched high school to come to the aid of her brother. Once the situation had resolved, all three of them were pierced by the Requiem Arrow, unbeknownst to them unlocking the hidden potential of Stand Powers deep within them.

6 years later, in 2130, Grace unlocked her stand Rhapsody in Blue after a long night working at Papa Pep's Pizza Place & Parlor.

Grace was never able to go to college as her and her family were quite poor. Using the money earned from investigating Jonah's mother's death however, she was able to get the Computer Science degree she'd always wanted, and now works as a system's security manager for her husband's company Joestar Realty.

## Abilities

Grace is not more physically strong than an average human, but is smart enough to get by in most scenarios.

### Hamon User [Rank 2]

Grace is a well-practiced Hamon User of Rank 2, learning from her best friend Renegade at Hans's Dojo in Pinion. She's not as good at it as her brother or Ren, but she thinks its an amazing artform that more people should be interested in, and admires Renegade greatly for it.

## Trivia

* Grace was not intended to be an important character. At Papa Pep's in Episode 1, the party named the waitress who served them and Tali decided to make her important to determine why Sebastian knew her so well.
* Grace's character and story is heavily based of of Taliyah's own life experience, and was the first Trans character in our universe at the time.
* Grace and Jonah getting together happened completely on accident when Tali noticed that there was chemistry in episode 7 and 8. Tali secretly started to push the idea in episode 9 and 10 and then approached Adam about it before episode 12.
	+ Adam hitting on Grace in the earlier episodes just accidentally happened to make an amazing character arc, and was not planned in the slightest. Grace hated his guts at the start.
* Grace originally had a crush on Renegade, but Ren and Seb happened so she just tried to hide it instead.
	+ Likewise, Renegade and Sebastian jokingly tried to hide their relationship from her for as long as possible.
* Grace kept the gun from her encounter with the thug in 2134, and used it in the fight against Lucky and Ms. Cosmos to give Rhapsody a Gun.
* Rhapsody in Blue's power was a concept Tali had for a stand, but did not have a place for yet. If Grace did not happen, Rhapsody likely would have been a villain's stand.
* Grace as a cat is a liquid.
* Grace, Sebastian and Renegade all call themselves the "Name Change Squad" as none of them go by their birth name.
* Grace's name is a reference to George Gershwin, the composer of Rhapsody in Blue. The name "Grace" is a logical female version of the name "George". Her pre-transition name, likewise, is Georgio instead of its normal spelling of Giorgio.