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〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: Deca
AGE: 27
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〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Dio Brando
CHARACTER AGE: Approximately 120yrs
SERIES: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
CHRONOLOGY: Early in DIO's World, after Dio kills Kakyoin but before he fights Jotaro
CLASS: Villain
HOUSING: SSSsuuure? Hit him with a roommate! Preferably with someone ready for negative CR, because whoo boy.
BACKGROUND:
It starts with humble beginnings in Phantom Blood, where the world seems to be analogous to our own for the most part. Dio is born in 1867 to a poor English couple, and begins his life in London. The seedier parts of London. Accurate to how London was for the poor back then, Dio's mother got sick, and eventually passed away, the young Dio thinking that it was from overworking, which was certainly possible with his abusive, alcoholic father. Now, here is where it gets interesting, because Dio Brando, at the age of twelve, decides to murder his father. Real simple. Real fair and logical conclusion to draw, but hey! There was quite a bit of evidence that Dario(his father) was physically abusive considering that Dio seemed really used to having glass alcohol bottles thrown at his head.
So in a logical and cool-headed manner, Dio starts poisoning his father, starting it out slow. It's easy enough, put some poison in his alcohol, the stuff tastes like shit anyway, he'll never notice.
Well, he DOES never notice and soon Dio's father dies from the poison. No one thinks much of it because poor people in 1800s London die all the time and who cares if they're not nobles. The thing here is that Dio found out near Dario's death that a nobleman thought he owed a life debt to Dario(he didn't but that has little to do with Dio other than cementing the fact that His Dad's Awful), and Dario told him to go cash in on the debt by asking the nobleman, a man named George Joestar, to take him in when he dies, and use that position to become fabulously wealthy.
It turns out his father wasn't lying for once in his life and Dio manages to be adopted by the Nicest Noble Ever, which Dio would have loved except he had like... a kid of his own. Jonathan Joestar, the same age as Dio, and he lost his mother too! Any normal person would have attempted to bond with their new adoptive brother who had things in common with him but Dio Brando is not that, and he did not do that. Jonathan was a rival to the throne here, and Dio immediately attempted to establish his dominance with things like pulling on Jonathan's ear, telling all of his friends that Jonathan was a rat, kissing his girl friend(it's Victorian England, they are Just Friends until 25 and that is a heinous thing to do), and then leaving his dog in the incinerator. At one point, he was very close to stabbing him as well, bringing a knife to a fist fight.
Bottom line, Dio is a Bad Dude, and Jonathan, despite it all, doesn't break mentally, and Dio eventually has to let up on the guy. For a long time, long enough for them both to get through college, Dio turns on the friendly face and pretends to not be planning to kill the hell out of Jonathan and his father.
It's easy enough for Dio for the time being, and so Dio tries the good old-fashioned 'Poison Your Dad' trick a second time, but this time he has a nobleman and his son who really loves him and doesn't trust Dio AT ALL to contend with. It all goes south as soon as Jonathan finds out Dio is delivering the medicine, and then finds a letter from Dario detailing all of the same symptoms as his father! Seems fishy! Jonathan then, being the meddler he is, goes to find evidence of Dio's wrongdoing, and so Dio HAS to kill him, right? Right. He gets it in his head to use this creepy mask that has spikes that shoot out of it when it touches blood, so that's his plan. Make it look like an accident by making the mask kill him. Well, while Jonathan is gone to London looking for evidence, Dio gets stressed out so he just starts drinking heavily. Always a good plan when planning murder. He ends up wandering the streets and running into two other drunk guys that he decides to test the mask on. Stabbing one and putting the mask on the other, it seems to work!
But then Jojo's Bizarre Adventure starts living up to it's name, and that mask ends up turning the guy into a vampire and attacking Dio. This sobers him RIGHT UP and the sun ends up saving his life, but now he's got a better plan.
Humans have to abide by laws and stuff, and Dio says so as he raises the mask high, Jonathan, George, a man named Robert. E. O. Speedagon, and some policemen who had come to arrest Dio all looking on in horror as he puts it on and goes to stab Jonathan, only to stab George instead. But blood is blood, and Dio is transformed. He and Jonathan showdown in the mansion, Dio killing all police officers in the building and the mansion eventually being burnt down in their ensuing fight. Dio, impaled on a statue of Venus, burns, and Jonathan escapes, mourning the loss of his father, without a home, and believing that he'd rid the world of Dio.
Dio is a struggler, however, and he survives, feeding on numerous people in order to recover. As he gains strength, so too does Jonathan, and soon enough they come to blows again in Windknights Lot, a small town south of London. Dio and his army of zombies versus Jonathan and a small group of monks trained in Hamon, a technique that allows humans to wield the power of the sun, and in the end it was Dio against Jonathan. Jonathan eventually manages to get in a good blow, and Dio is defeated again, tossed from a cliff, his body disintegrating.
Like a cockroach, Dio cannot be squished so easily, and before he could be killed, he cut his own head off to escape the Hamon destroying his body.
Going into hiding, Dio resurfaced on Jonathan's honeymoon, as the newlywed couple of Jonathan and Erina Joestar got onto a boat headed for America. There, the final showdown between Jonathan and Dio took place. Dio was only a head, but he could use his own veins and hair as tentacles, and fire LASERS from his EYES. This time, Jonathan wasn't so lucky, and Dio ended up killing him, though Jonathan dealt a very heavy blow as well, managing to lodge a zombie in the engine and causing the ship to explode with Jonathan holding to Dio as Erina escaped.
The two of them then sank together to the bottom of the ocean, never to be heard from again.
At least, for about 94 years. In 1983, Dio is brought to the surface by some very unlucky treasure hunters, who no doubt went toward satiating a hunger that was unsatisfied for nearly a century as Dio climbed out of his coffin with a brand new, very Jonathan-shaped body with a very Jonathan-like star-shaped birthmark. He decides it's time then to upgrade his named from Dio Brando to DIO. Yes, all capitalized, no last name.
Not long after this, the man who was already illogical at the best of times before being trapped at the bottom of the ocean for numerous years, decides that it'd be a really cool idea to become a God and make Heaven. To this end, he gains a Stand, a physical manifestation of spiritual power(the fact that he gets it through an arrowhead made from a meteorite really isn't mentioned in the parts where he is alive except in flashbacks later on, and it's not thoroughly explained but basically:
-A Stand can be gained either through contact with the Arrow or through bloodlines, and when one member of a family gains a Stand, all of them do.
-Non-Stand-Users can't see Stands.
-Stands cannot be interacted with except by other Stands, but Stands can interact with other things. Also, any damage done to Stands is reflected on it's User and vice versa.
-They have limited autonomy for the most part, seeming sentient but hardly ever doing anything but exactly what their User tells them to, but will defend their User regardless.)
Long story short, Dio amasses a following again and the whole 'everyone in the family gets a Stand once one gets one apparently extends to Dio's Jonathan-body, so go figure, Jonathan manages to inconvenience Dio from beyond the grave, and his descendants get Stands. In a terribly contrived Save The Damsel type plot, The Men of the family have to go fight Dio to save The Mom/Daughter from her own Stand. Wouldn't she just have it anyway because Jotaro and Joseph keep their Stands, you ask? That's logic, ok, and it doesn't belong here.
Anyway, Dio is chilling in a mansion in Cairo, Egypt, and they fight through a bunch of assassins and the like as Dio sits around at home, getting his drink on, and also getting his love on, if you know what I mean, because he definitely has at least four illegitimate kids who are named in the series, and no doubt he has a few more hanging around that didn't manage to get rounded up later on. Either way, he's not really preparing too hard and so when the Crew show up, he ends up getting killed, but not without taking their number down from 6 to 3 with the help of his crony, Vanilla Ice. Not the rapper, but a buff dude in some spandex with really nice hair who was the last vampire Dio ever made, which makes things pretty confusing, considering this world is STILL analogous to our own, so Vanilla Ice the rapper should exist still.
Dio's influence lives on for the next 23 years or so, but he's not there to directly do it, so that's where his story ends.
PERSONALITY:
Dio's personality is best summed up in describing him as a megalomaniac with antisocial personality tendencies. To start, he has delusions of being 'above' other people, none of which directly stemmed from his turning into a vampire, though the transformation did manage to exacerbate the thoughts, really cementing them in his mind as he placed himself 'above' humanity. But even in youth, he believed that he was 'better' than others. Stronger, faster, smarter, and more worthy, and he was more than willing to prove himself to these ends, usually to his adoptive brother's dismay. He has a certain sense of pride in everything that he does, from gloating about learning to fight from the slums to showing off his intelligence. He wins a fight against Johnathan, his adoptive brother, in a boxing match quite easily, and then continues to show off 'his technique' to the kids who had been watching and he bests Jojo in grades as well, graduating as valedictorian for the sole reason that he wished to break his brother's spirit.
And he certainly DOES show off, more than is necessary. Dio is, like much of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, extraordinarily theatrical, which comes along with being the main villain for most of the series. Everything he does, says, and wears has a bit of an extra flair when it counts. In fact, he does have a bad habit of reminding people of his name in normal conversations with his manner of speech, as if he were a character in a play rather than someone acting naturally. His style of dressing is also based in this need to stand out, as well as the comfort he takes in his body, as he tends to wear revealing or skin-tight clothing, sometimes with a cape or some other long, flowing accessory, and nearly always provocative in nature, and he tends to pose his body in sometimes strange and always exceedingly confident ways.
Speaking of a provocative nature, Dio is canonly bisexual or pansexual(though this is mostly Word of God, and no solid examples of his interest in men have been given aside from his manner of dress and his comfort level in draping himself over his male 'friends', up to and including sticking his leg in between the legs of one of them or lying on a bed with them while half-dressed) and has been described as 'interested in anyone who is interested in him'. He is a pleasure seeker, and has no problem in indulging himself in any facet. He likes to partake in sexual activities, drinking alcohol, and other such things that would be labelled 'risky behavior'(though it is unlikely that he partakes in illegal substances, as while he is indulgent, he is somewhat vanilla in his indulgences). In fact, he does have alcohol problems at times, often drinking when he is stressed, despite it being something that disgusts him because of his alcoholic father. It's something he does have trouble controlling.
Dio is also known for his ambition and ruthlessness. He isn't concerned in the least with social mores or ethics when it comes to getting what he wants, and he will usually go with the most extreme method to meet his goals first, never doing things in half-measures. He's not afraid to resort to the most gruesome violence that he can think up, so long as it will get the effect that he prefers, and of course, he DOES prefer violence just for the sake of it at times.
This doesn't mean, however, that he has a hard time interacting with most people. If one is a subordinate to him, or even if they are simply unrelated to his ambitions, Dio can appear to be downright friendly and charming. Despite his villainous nature and his mile-long sadistic streak, Dio has developed in his century of life the ability to truly appreciate the company of others, and he can, in fact, form (somewhat)meaningful relationships with people, though they are also subject to his manipulation and deception. He can be perfectly pleasant with these people, enjoying spending time with them, even if it is just reading a book alongside them or waxing philosophical about religion and reality. They are important to him in such a way that he has 'invested' in them, and he values loyalty above anything and often tests the loyalty of these 'friends', including when he asked Vanilla Ice to give him his blood and when he asked Pucci why he did not simply take his Stand(Pucci's ability was to be able to take the Stands and memories of other people by taking a disc out of their heads) and then forcing his fingers into his hand and allowing him to even hold the disc to see if he would betray him. Both of these two 'passed' their tests, which endeared him to them, though if the trust was ever broken, he would have no regrets about cutting them down.
Dio has a love of intellectual pursuits as well, often being seen reading a book, which can be of any number of subjects. He also went to a prestigious academy, where he had intended to graduate as top of his class in law, though he never got to graduate due to the whole 'trying to kill his father, being found out and turning into a vampire' thing. Even so, his love of knowledge does not stop at old-fashioned knowledge or the liberal arts. He is impressed and fascinated by the technology of today, and has not had many issues in keeping up with it, being willing and able to use television, automobiles, and quite likely telephones and other such modern conveniences. He even mentions watching television at some point(a Micheal Jackson concert, at that), and he shows particular interest in automobiles(he touches one in a manner that is usually taken as suggestive as he mentions that 'in his youth, there were only carriages). He even interjects a simile about an airplane stewardess serving a first-class passenger when he orders a woman to fetch him his leg, and is known to travel the world quite a bit, so it's fair to assume he takes red-eye flights often.
He is not, however, the calm, cool and intellectual villain that he likes to portray himself as. He certainly does fake it well, when things are going his way, but he is prone to panic when he is cornered, and does things that he later feels ashamed for(though his pride would never allow him to admit his shame). He has cried after being punched by his adopted brother, attempted to reason with him that 'he was only acting out because of his upbringing' and lied saying that he would turn himself in to the police, and even tried to offer his brother(then his enemy) immortality in order to get him to release him so that he would not be killed by an impending boat explosion. In his older years, he is more cautious, and so he gets less opportunities to show this panicked state, but in the end, after he's nearly defeated and he realizes that he can't win he does lose his composure again, showing fear and attempting to run away.
POWER:
-Vampire Physiology(Jojo-version)
- Super strength/speed
- Quick-healing
- Hypnotism and Flesh Buds(which get into a host's brain and allows Dio to control them)
- Freezing things by touch
- Flesh Shaping/Full Body Control(able to create hybrids of creatures and also can reshape a person's body, as well as using his own veins as tentacle-like appendages. Also able to control all bodily functions as if each muscle/organ were an appendage)
- No need for sustenance outside of blood, ability to survive anything aside from crushing his head(ex. being drowned for 94 years, starvation, being a decapitated head, being shot or stabbed in the brain)
Weaknesses
- Sunlight[Disintegrates his form anywhere it touches)
- Sun energy and similar light energies, including some forms of artificial light. Same effect as sunlight.
- Limited healing- Dio regrows lost body parts VERY slowly(as in, numerous years, probably) and prefers to replace or reattach them if lost
- Head injury- Crushing his brain will kill him
- Fire- It injures him more quickly than he can heal, and at a certain point he can't heal(Or heals much more slowly) without new blood
-Stand: The World
- Can be projected up to 10m away
- Extreme strength/speed and precision
- High endurance
- Can stop time for around 5 seconds, with the potential to stop time for longer with practice.
Weaknesses
- Unused to being time stopped himself, can see in the stopped time, but movement is frozen.
- refractory period between Time Stops. Only a few seconds, but that can be enough in a fight.
- Injuries to the Stand and User are reflected upon both bodies(Ex. a punch to the leg that cracks the entire Stand is what kills him in canon)
-Stand: Hermit Purple
- Usable for making maps with granular substances,taking Spirit Photos of people in faraway places, or just watching others in general.
- Able to 'read hearts', showing a person's desires.
Weaknesses
- Cannot predict the future or read minds outright, only able to see a heart's true desires in an overarching manner(ex. being able to tell that someone has a fixation on getting revenge and who they want to exact that revenge on, but not able to tell if they are willing to give up their freedom in exchange for it)
- Physically weak. No good for combat.
-Needs to be used on a camera, television, or other screen-like surfaces(mirrors, windows, undisturbed still water)
More on powers:
- Flesh-Shaping in canon is a pretty open-ended, but he uses it to indefinitely switch the heads and bodies of animals, as well as create hybrid human-animal zombies. It is also how he gets his fingers into peoples' skin in canon, since in Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, vampires can suck blood through any orifice and choose to mostly do so by putting their fingers into a person's body and sucking it out through their blood vessels. The Full Body Control in addition to flesh shaping was used in canon to extend his own blood vessels and hair in a similar fashion to tentacles, using those for mobility and to attack when he was decapitated.
-Stands are a spiritual energy given form that is connected to a 'host', the Stand User. Most are humanoid in nature, but some are not. All of them are invisible to 'normal people', and in canon that means anyone without a Stand cannot see one. In panfandom games, I usually have that mean those incapable of seeing auras or spirits are unable to see them or affect them(without using magic), much like having a ghost attached to your person. In fact, fans often refer to Stands as 'Punch Ghosts', as they act like a supernatural force that is used in fights with other similar forces. Most have a set range, Dio's The World(seen here, manifesting as a ghostly, golden humanoid with some kind of armor alongside Dio) is only able to go about 10m(approx. 32.8 feet) away from his physical body, and while Hermit Purple(seen as purple vines being used by Dio here) seems to be able to see things anywhere on the planet, the physical range of the vines that manifest is probably also around 10m.
In reference to Dio's Time Stop from The World, it is a newer ability of his that he learned to use for five seconds. Of course, all time is stopped, but it never really affects anything he can't reach in five seconds or less, and 'five seconds' just means that Dio can count to five before time resumes as normal. The refractory period is likely 15-30 seconds in length, as he usually talks through any period that he can't stop time through.
In addition to their given powers, Stands may also be used as the physical form they are given, such as Dio using his Stand to pull out a chair in a fighting game, Jotaro using his Stand to open a door for him as well as steal various objects unintentionally, Joseph using Hermit Purple to bind Dio, as well as swing on the vines Indiana Jones-style. In fact, having them punch IS generally the typical way to fight each other, and they can and will punch anything that the User commands them to(no verbal command is needed).
Most Stands do not manifest any amount of sentience or personality outside of their users, acting more like a Summon Monster in any rpg of your choosing, and though some of them do manage to show some personality, for the most part it seems to simply be an expression or something else that stems from the User's personality. A very rare few last beyond a User's death, as most Stands and users 'share a health bar', the damage on one being done to the other in a 1 for 1 ratio. If The World were to get a finger cut off, Dio's finger would also be cut off, and vice versa. This is how Dio is ultimately killed in canon, with an injury to his Stand causing his own head to explode. Hermit Purple, not being a humanoid Stand, seems to be capable of being cut or torn without User repercussions, as is seen when Dio tears Joseph's Hermit Purple after it wrapped around him, Joseph suffering no damage at that.
Unfortunately, not much of this can be really put under an umbrella as 'all Stands act this way', because of later Stands in the series, but Dio's both are standard. The wiki page on Stands in general gives a decent idea of all of them and the numerous exceptions, though it fails to mention Dio possessing two Stands despite Hermit Purple being used at least twice by Dio 'on-screen' to do surveillance on his favorite protagonist family and also to seer another character's desires through a crystal ball.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[So, some blackout had left a bunch of people running around that were of a rather seedy nature. Dio didn't generally mind that, he liked a little bit of chaos, and he liked seeing a bunch of evil people having the run of things.
What he liked less was someone attempting to turn that chaos onto him, and Dio had turned the device on with full video, using his Stand so that the full glory of the scene could be captured. Dio stood in his small apartment(a travesty that it was, but he was working on that, don't judge), seemingly holding a man by the neck until further inspection showed that his fingers were underneath the flesh.]
Now. I have a question to propose to you, dear listeners.
If... I kill this man, is it self defense? [He was going to kill him anyway, but just let him muse aloud. He wanted to hear opinions. Experiment, if you would.]
He broke into my home, a place that should be safe for me, and attempted to choke me to death. A silly thing to try, considering that I've no need for my neck, or air for that matter. The intention was clear, though. He meant to kill me, I'm simply too powerful for him, which really isn't his fault.
[The man didn't look good. In fact, his body almost seemed to be losing mass as Dio spoke. He could drain him in about five seconds flat, but it was more fun to watch him struggle and weaken slowly in his grasp while Dio televised it.]
So, then, would self-defense hold up in a court of law, if one were to attack someone that they simply had no ability to harm? Or is it just slaughter at this point? A mercy, given to a man who can only fail... A useless person who means nothing to society, who deserves nothing and will receive it in abundance?
[Dio shrugs. Useless. He is waiting for people to jump to his victim's defense, but that was the fun of it, wasn't it? Defend one murderer or defend the actions of another? He gave a scoffing laughter at that thought.]
Anyway, he's got about five minutes left. If anyone wants to come lock him up, they'd better hurry. [As he turned off the feed, he speed up the process of feeding, killing the man in another few seconds instead. Like hell he was going to let him live.]
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
If anyone thought that Dio wasn't going to take full advantage of the discounts given in Heropa, you thought wrong. He might be a villain, a straight-up, full-fledged evildoer, but fashion is still very high on the vampire's priority list. The minute that the sun is down and Dio is able to get out into that marketplace, he was there. Nearly on the dot as well, as he'd managed to Time Stop most of the way there. Life was good for a a vampire who could simply seem to teleport from place to place.
Flash forward an hour or two and Dio was already in the midst of getting himself a completely new wardrobe. Without needing to pay for food, all of the money not put into rent or saving for a nicer place could go safely to clothing and accessories.
Upon noticing others watching, some with envy and some with curiosity, Dio puffed his chest out with pride, making certain that everyone knew what he was buying and how much it cost him. He'd even managed to charm a few of the onlookers into following him around and holding things for him. He licked at his teeth as he had to pull down his brand new sunglasses, vibrantly colored, in order to look over the next stall. Yes he was wearing sunglasses at night. He was nocturnal, what of it?
"What do you think?" he said off-handedly, turning his head only slightly to one of his entourage, not honestly intending to take their opinion into consideration when he held up a pair of pants that looked about his size. They'd probably be tight where it really counted, but something about the seams turned him off, and he ended up sneering at the article in disgust before looking to the shopkeeper. "I appreciate what you are doing, really, truly", he didn't. Dio didn't care, even a little, "It's very noble of you to sell these things to me at a discount, but you have to admit that the craftsmanship of this item leave you a little.. wanting."
"If you drop another mmhhh, ten percent, I'll bite." The money wasn't really the object here though, and Dio knew it as his red eyes peered out over his glasses and pierced into the shopkeeper. It was about power, showing this person and the somewhat awed crowd around him that he could get whatever he wanted without force. Yes, he was charming enough alright, and the people who milled about around him seemed equal parts intrigued and uncomfortable, but he eventually got his way, turning around to see someone else staring at him. Seemingly another one of these imPorts, if Dio could tell by the glowing tattoo.
"What?" he asked, taking hold of his new spoils, looking as cocky as ever. "You looking for a bigger discount too, or are you just simply in awe of me as well?" It was possible. Hell, probable.
As he walked away from the stall that he'd just strong-armed a 10% price decrease out of, he walked nearer to the newcomer, his lips pulled up in a snarl. "If you're about to scold me for some friendly haggling, then you can keep your mouth shut." Always assuming the worst out of people, perhaps, but he generally expected people to expect the worst of him. And for good reason, he usually was up to no good, but he'd managed this time without any hypnotism. Now, his current followers on the other hand? They might be a mix bag. In fact, they were most definitely so. Some were genuinely interested in being near to him(with some convincing), and then there were a couple that he'd just managed to snag with some eye contact when his arms were getting a little too full.
The real question was how many of them would leave unscathed from his apartment once he'd gotten his clothes home. Getting Dio Brando a driver's licence might save some lives in the future. Or very possibly end some more.
FINAL NOTES: I WASN'T SURE whether I should write a history or link it so I just wrote it and I'm so sorry.
NAME: Deca
AGE: 27
JOURNAL:
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〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Dio Brando
CHARACTER AGE: Approximately 120yrs
SERIES: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
CHRONOLOGY: Early in DIO's World, after Dio kills Kakyoin but before he fights Jotaro
CLASS: Villain
HOUSING: SSSsuuure? Hit him with a roommate! Preferably with someone ready for negative CR, because whoo boy.
BACKGROUND:
It starts with humble beginnings in Phantom Blood, where the world seems to be analogous to our own for the most part. Dio is born in 1867 to a poor English couple, and begins his life in London. The seedier parts of London. Accurate to how London was for the poor back then, Dio's mother got sick, and eventually passed away, the young Dio thinking that it was from overworking, which was certainly possible with his abusive, alcoholic father. Now, here is where it gets interesting, because Dio Brando, at the age of twelve, decides to murder his father. Real simple. Real fair and logical conclusion to draw, but hey! There was quite a bit of evidence that Dario(his father) was physically abusive considering that Dio seemed really used to having glass alcohol bottles thrown at his head.
So in a logical and cool-headed manner, Dio starts poisoning his father, starting it out slow. It's easy enough, put some poison in his alcohol, the stuff tastes like shit anyway, he'll never notice.
Well, he DOES never notice and soon Dio's father dies from the poison. No one thinks much of it because poor people in 1800s London die all the time and who cares if they're not nobles. The thing here is that Dio found out near Dario's death that a nobleman thought he owed a life debt to Dario(he didn't but that has little to do with Dio other than cementing the fact that His Dad's Awful), and Dario told him to go cash in on the debt by asking the nobleman, a man named George Joestar, to take him in when he dies, and use that position to become fabulously wealthy.
It turns out his father wasn't lying for once in his life and Dio manages to be adopted by the Nicest Noble Ever, which Dio would have loved except he had like... a kid of his own. Jonathan Joestar, the same age as Dio, and he lost his mother too! Any normal person would have attempted to bond with their new adoptive brother who had things in common with him but Dio Brando is not that, and he did not do that. Jonathan was a rival to the throne here, and Dio immediately attempted to establish his dominance with things like pulling on Jonathan's ear, telling all of his friends that Jonathan was a rat, kissing his girl friend(it's Victorian England, they are Just Friends until 25 and that is a heinous thing to do), and then leaving his dog in the incinerator. At one point, he was very close to stabbing him as well, bringing a knife to a fist fight.
Bottom line, Dio is a Bad Dude, and Jonathan, despite it all, doesn't break mentally, and Dio eventually has to let up on the guy. For a long time, long enough for them both to get through college, Dio turns on the friendly face and pretends to not be planning to kill the hell out of Jonathan and his father.
It's easy enough for Dio for the time being, and so Dio tries the good old-fashioned 'Poison Your Dad' trick a second time, but this time he has a nobleman and his son who really loves him and doesn't trust Dio AT ALL to contend with. It all goes south as soon as Jonathan finds out Dio is delivering the medicine, and then finds a letter from Dario detailing all of the same symptoms as his father! Seems fishy! Jonathan then, being the meddler he is, goes to find evidence of Dio's wrongdoing, and so Dio HAS to kill him, right? Right. He gets it in his head to use this creepy mask that has spikes that shoot out of it when it touches blood, so that's his plan. Make it look like an accident by making the mask kill him. Well, while Jonathan is gone to London looking for evidence, Dio gets stressed out so he just starts drinking heavily. Always a good plan when planning murder. He ends up wandering the streets and running into two other drunk guys that he decides to test the mask on. Stabbing one and putting the mask on the other, it seems to work!
But then Jojo's Bizarre Adventure starts living up to it's name, and that mask ends up turning the guy into a vampire and attacking Dio. This sobers him RIGHT UP and the sun ends up saving his life, but now he's got a better plan.
Humans have to abide by laws and stuff, and Dio says so as he raises the mask high, Jonathan, George, a man named Robert. E. O. Speedagon, and some policemen who had come to arrest Dio all looking on in horror as he puts it on and goes to stab Jonathan, only to stab George instead. But blood is blood, and Dio is transformed. He and Jonathan showdown in the mansion, Dio killing all police officers in the building and the mansion eventually being burnt down in their ensuing fight. Dio, impaled on a statue of Venus, burns, and Jonathan escapes, mourning the loss of his father, without a home, and believing that he'd rid the world of Dio.
Dio is a struggler, however, and he survives, feeding on numerous people in order to recover. As he gains strength, so too does Jonathan, and soon enough they come to blows again in Windknights Lot, a small town south of London. Dio and his army of zombies versus Jonathan and a small group of monks trained in Hamon, a technique that allows humans to wield the power of the sun, and in the end it was Dio against Jonathan. Jonathan eventually manages to get in a good blow, and Dio is defeated again, tossed from a cliff, his body disintegrating.
Like a cockroach, Dio cannot be squished so easily, and before he could be killed, he cut his own head off to escape the Hamon destroying his body.
Going into hiding, Dio resurfaced on Jonathan's honeymoon, as the newlywed couple of Jonathan and Erina Joestar got onto a boat headed for America. There, the final showdown between Jonathan and Dio took place. Dio was only a head, but he could use his own veins and hair as tentacles, and fire LASERS from his EYES. This time, Jonathan wasn't so lucky, and Dio ended up killing him, though Jonathan dealt a very heavy blow as well, managing to lodge a zombie in the engine and causing the ship to explode with Jonathan holding to Dio as Erina escaped.
The two of them then sank together to the bottom of the ocean, never to be heard from again.
At least, for about 94 years. In 1983, Dio is brought to the surface by some very unlucky treasure hunters, who no doubt went toward satiating a hunger that was unsatisfied for nearly a century as Dio climbed out of his coffin with a brand new, very Jonathan-shaped body with a very Jonathan-like star-shaped birthmark. He decides it's time then to upgrade his named from Dio Brando to DIO. Yes, all capitalized, no last name.
Not long after this, the man who was already illogical at the best of times before being trapped at the bottom of the ocean for numerous years, decides that it'd be a really cool idea to become a God and make Heaven. To this end, he gains a Stand, a physical manifestation of spiritual power(the fact that he gets it through an arrowhead made from a meteorite really isn't mentioned in the parts where he is alive except in flashbacks later on, and it's not thoroughly explained but basically:
-A Stand can be gained either through contact with the Arrow or through bloodlines, and when one member of a family gains a Stand, all of them do.
-Non-Stand-Users can't see Stands.
-Stands cannot be interacted with except by other Stands, but Stands can interact with other things. Also, any damage done to Stands is reflected on it's User and vice versa.
-They have limited autonomy for the most part, seeming sentient but hardly ever doing anything but exactly what their User tells them to, but will defend their User regardless.)
Long story short, Dio amasses a following again and the whole 'everyone in the family gets a Stand once one gets one apparently extends to Dio's Jonathan-body, so go figure, Jonathan manages to inconvenience Dio from beyond the grave, and his descendants get Stands. In a terribly contrived Save The Damsel type plot, The Men of the family have to go fight Dio to save The Mom/Daughter from her own Stand. Wouldn't she just have it anyway because Jotaro and Joseph keep their Stands, you ask? That's logic, ok, and it doesn't belong here.
Anyway, Dio is chilling in a mansion in Cairo, Egypt, and they fight through a bunch of assassins and the like as Dio sits around at home, getting his drink on, and also getting his love on, if you know what I mean, because he definitely has at least four illegitimate kids who are named in the series, and no doubt he has a few more hanging around that didn't manage to get rounded up later on. Either way, he's not really preparing too hard and so when the Crew show up, he ends up getting killed, but not without taking their number down from 6 to 3 with the help of his crony, Vanilla Ice. Not the rapper, but a buff dude in some spandex with really nice hair who was the last vampire Dio ever made, which makes things pretty confusing, considering this world is STILL analogous to our own, so Vanilla Ice the rapper should exist still.
Dio's influence lives on for the next 23 years or so, but he's not there to directly do it, so that's where his story ends.
PERSONALITY:
Dio's personality is best summed up in describing him as a megalomaniac with antisocial personality tendencies. To start, he has delusions of being 'above' other people, none of which directly stemmed from his turning into a vampire, though the transformation did manage to exacerbate the thoughts, really cementing them in his mind as he placed himself 'above' humanity. But even in youth, he believed that he was 'better' than others. Stronger, faster, smarter, and more worthy, and he was more than willing to prove himself to these ends, usually to his adoptive brother's dismay. He has a certain sense of pride in everything that he does, from gloating about learning to fight from the slums to showing off his intelligence. He wins a fight against Johnathan, his adoptive brother, in a boxing match quite easily, and then continues to show off 'his technique' to the kids who had been watching and he bests Jojo in grades as well, graduating as valedictorian for the sole reason that he wished to break his brother's spirit.
And he certainly DOES show off, more than is necessary. Dio is, like much of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, extraordinarily theatrical, which comes along with being the main villain for most of the series. Everything he does, says, and wears has a bit of an extra flair when it counts. In fact, he does have a bad habit of reminding people of his name in normal conversations with his manner of speech, as if he were a character in a play rather than someone acting naturally. His style of dressing is also based in this need to stand out, as well as the comfort he takes in his body, as he tends to wear revealing or skin-tight clothing, sometimes with a cape or some other long, flowing accessory, and nearly always provocative in nature, and he tends to pose his body in sometimes strange and always exceedingly confident ways.
Speaking of a provocative nature, Dio is canonly bisexual or pansexual(though this is mostly Word of God, and no solid examples of his interest in men have been given aside from his manner of dress and his comfort level in draping himself over his male 'friends', up to and including sticking his leg in between the legs of one of them or lying on a bed with them while half-dressed) and has been described as 'interested in anyone who is interested in him'. He is a pleasure seeker, and has no problem in indulging himself in any facet. He likes to partake in sexual activities, drinking alcohol, and other such things that would be labelled 'risky behavior'(though it is unlikely that he partakes in illegal substances, as while he is indulgent, he is somewhat vanilla in his indulgences). In fact, he does have alcohol problems at times, often drinking when he is stressed, despite it being something that disgusts him because of his alcoholic father. It's something he does have trouble controlling.
Dio is also known for his ambition and ruthlessness. He isn't concerned in the least with social mores or ethics when it comes to getting what he wants, and he will usually go with the most extreme method to meet his goals first, never doing things in half-measures. He's not afraid to resort to the most gruesome violence that he can think up, so long as it will get the effect that he prefers, and of course, he DOES prefer violence just for the sake of it at times.
This doesn't mean, however, that he has a hard time interacting with most people. If one is a subordinate to him, or even if they are simply unrelated to his ambitions, Dio can appear to be downright friendly and charming. Despite his villainous nature and his mile-long sadistic streak, Dio has developed in his century of life the ability to truly appreciate the company of others, and he can, in fact, form (somewhat)meaningful relationships with people, though they are also subject to his manipulation and deception. He can be perfectly pleasant with these people, enjoying spending time with them, even if it is just reading a book alongside them or waxing philosophical about religion and reality. They are important to him in such a way that he has 'invested' in them, and he values loyalty above anything and often tests the loyalty of these 'friends', including when he asked Vanilla Ice to give him his blood and when he asked Pucci why he did not simply take his Stand(Pucci's ability was to be able to take the Stands and memories of other people by taking a disc out of their heads) and then forcing his fingers into his hand and allowing him to even hold the disc to see if he would betray him. Both of these two 'passed' their tests, which endeared him to them, though if the trust was ever broken, he would have no regrets about cutting them down.
Dio has a love of intellectual pursuits as well, often being seen reading a book, which can be of any number of subjects. He also went to a prestigious academy, where he had intended to graduate as top of his class in law, though he never got to graduate due to the whole 'trying to kill his father, being found out and turning into a vampire' thing. Even so, his love of knowledge does not stop at old-fashioned knowledge or the liberal arts. He is impressed and fascinated by the technology of today, and has not had many issues in keeping up with it, being willing and able to use television, automobiles, and quite likely telephones and other such modern conveniences. He even mentions watching television at some point(a Micheal Jackson concert, at that), and he shows particular interest in automobiles(he touches one in a manner that is usually taken as suggestive as he mentions that 'in his youth, there were only carriages). He even interjects a simile about an airplane stewardess serving a first-class passenger when he orders a woman to fetch him his leg, and is known to travel the world quite a bit, so it's fair to assume he takes red-eye flights often.
He is not, however, the calm, cool and intellectual villain that he likes to portray himself as. He certainly does fake it well, when things are going his way, but he is prone to panic when he is cornered, and does things that he later feels ashamed for(though his pride would never allow him to admit his shame). He has cried after being punched by his adopted brother, attempted to reason with him that 'he was only acting out because of his upbringing' and lied saying that he would turn himself in to the police, and even tried to offer his brother(then his enemy) immortality in order to get him to release him so that he would not be killed by an impending boat explosion. In his older years, he is more cautious, and so he gets less opportunities to show this panicked state, but in the end, after he's nearly defeated and he realizes that he can't win he does lose his composure again, showing fear and attempting to run away.
POWER:
-Vampire Physiology(Jojo-version)
- Super strength/speed
- Quick-healing
- Hypnotism and Flesh Buds(which get into a host's brain and allows Dio to control them)
- Freezing things by touch
- Flesh Shaping/Full Body Control(able to create hybrids of creatures and also can reshape a person's body, as well as using his own veins as tentacle-like appendages. Also able to control all bodily functions as if each muscle/organ were an appendage)
- No need for sustenance outside of blood, ability to survive anything aside from crushing his head(ex. being drowned for 94 years, starvation, being a decapitated head, being shot or stabbed in the brain)
Weaknesses
- Sunlight[Disintegrates his form anywhere it touches)
- Sun energy and similar light energies, including some forms of artificial light. Same effect as sunlight.
- Limited healing- Dio regrows lost body parts VERY slowly(as in, numerous years, probably) and prefers to replace or reattach them if lost
- Head injury- Crushing his brain will kill him
- Fire- It injures him more quickly than he can heal, and at a certain point he can't heal(Or heals much more slowly) without new blood
-Stand: The World
- Can be projected up to 10m away
- Extreme strength/speed and precision
- High endurance
- Can stop time for around 5 seconds, with the potential to stop time for longer with practice.
Weaknesses
- Unused to being time stopped himself, can see in the stopped time, but movement is frozen.
- refractory period between Time Stops. Only a few seconds, but that can be enough in a fight.
- Injuries to the Stand and User are reflected upon both bodies(Ex. a punch to the leg that cracks the entire Stand is what kills him in canon)
-Stand: Hermit Purple
- Usable for making maps with granular substances,taking Spirit Photos of people in faraway places, or just watching others in general.
- Able to 'read hearts', showing a person's desires.
Weaknesses
- Cannot predict the future or read minds outright, only able to see a heart's true desires in an overarching manner(ex. being able to tell that someone has a fixation on getting revenge and who they want to exact that revenge on, but not able to tell if they are willing to give up their freedom in exchange for it)
- Physically weak. No good for combat.
-Needs to be used on a camera, television, or other screen-like surfaces(mirrors, windows, undisturbed still water)
More on powers:
- Flesh-Shaping in canon is a pretty open-ended, but he uses it to indefinitely switch the heads and bodies of animals, as well as create hybrid human-animal zombies. It is also how he gets his fingers into peoples' skin in canon, since in Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, vampires can suck blood through any orifice and choose to mostly do so by putting their fingers into a person's body and sucking it out through their blood vessels. The Full Body Control in addition to flesh shaping was used in canon to extend his own blood vessels and hair in a similar fashion to tentacles, using those for mobility and to attack when he was decapitated.
-Stands are a spiritual energy given form that is connected to a 'host', the Stand User. Most are humanoid in nature, but some are not. All of them are invisible to 'normal people', and in canon that means anyone without a Stand cannot see one. In panfandom games, I usually have that mean those incapable of seeing auras or spirits are unable to see them or affect them(without using magic), much like having a ghost attached to your person. In fact, fans often refer to Stands as 'Punch Ghosts', as they act like a supernatural force that is used in fights with other similar forces. Most have a set range, Dio's The World(seen here, manifesting as a ghostly, golden humanoid with some kind of armor alongside Dio) is only able to go about 10m(approx. 32.8 feet) away from his physical body, and while Hermit Purple(seen as purple vines being used by Dio here) seems to be able to see things anywhere on the planet, the physical range of the vines that manifest is probably also around 10m.
In reference to Dio's Time Stop from The World, it is a newer ability of his that he learned to use for five seconds. Of course, all time is stopped, but it never really affects anything he can't reach in five seconds or less, and 'five seconds' just means that Dio can count to five before time resumes as normal. The refractory period is likely 15-30 seconds in length, as he usually talks through any period that he can't stop time through.
In addition to their given powers, Stands may also be used as the physical form they are given, such as Dio using his Stand to pull out a chair in a fighting game, Jotaro using his Stand to open a door for him as well as steal various objects unintentionally, Joseph using Hermit Purple to bind Dio, as well as swing on the vines Indiana Jones-style. In fact, having them punch IS generally the typical way to fight each other, and they can and will punch anything that the User commands them to(no verbal command is needed).
Most Stands do not manifest any amount of sentience or personality outside of their users, acting more like a Summon Monster in any rpg of your choosing, and though some of them do manage to show some personality, for the most part it seems to simply be an expression or something else that stems from the User's personality. A very rare few last beyond a User's death, as most Stands and users 'share a health bar', the damage on one being done to the other in a 1 for 1 ratio. If The World were to get a finger cut off, Dio's finger would also be cut off, and vice versa. This is how Dio is ultimately killed in canon, with an injury to his Stand causing his own head to explode. Hermit Purple, not being a humanoid Stand, seems to be capable of being cut or torn without User repercussions, as is seen when Dio tears Joseph's Hermit Purple after it wrapped around him, Joseph suffering no damage at that.
Unfortunately, not much of this can be really put under an umbrella as 'all Stands act this way', because of later Stands in the series, but Dio's both are standard. The wiki page on Stands in general gives a decent idea of all of them and the numerous exceptions, though it fails to mention Dio possessing two Stands despite Hermit Purple being used at least twice by Dio 'on-screen' to do surveillance on his favorite protagonist family and also to seer another character's desires through a crystal ball.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[So, some blackout had left a bunch of people running around that were of a rather seedy nature. Dio didn't generally mind that, he liked a little bit of chaos, and he liked seeing a bunch of evil people having the run of things.
What he liked less was someone attempting to turn that chaos onto him, and Dio had turned the device on with full video, using his Stand so that the full glory of the scene could be captured. Dio stood in his small apartment(a travesty that it was, but he was working on that, don't judge), seemingly holding a man by the neck until further inspection showed that his fingers were underneath the flesh.]
Now. I have a question to propose to you, dear listeners.
If... I kill this man, is it self defense? [He was going to kill him anyway, but just let him muse aloud. He wanted to hear opinions. Experiment, if you would.]
He broke into my home, a place that should be safe for me, and attempted to choke me to death. A silly thing to try, considering that I've no need for my neck, or air for that matter. The intention was clear, though. He meant to kill me, I'm simply too powerful for him, which really isn't his fault.
[The man didn't look good. In fact, his body almost seemed to be losing mass as Dio spoke. He could drain him in about five seconds flat, but it was more fun to watch him struggle and weaken slowly in his grasp while Dio televised it.]
So, then, would self-defense hold up in a court of law, if one were to attack someone that they simply had no ability to harm? Or is it just slaughter at this point? A mercy, given to a man who can only fail... A useless person who means nothing to society, who deserves nothing and will receive it in abundance?
[Dio shrugs. Useless. He is waiting for people to jump to his victim's defense, but that was the fun of it, wasn't it? Defend one murderer or defend the actions of another? He gave a scoffing laughter at that thought.]
Anyway, he's got about five minutes left. If anyone wants to come lock him up, they'd better hurry. [As he turned off the feed, he speed up the process of feeding, killing the man in another few seconds instead. Like hell he was going to let him live.]
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
If anyone thought that Dio wasn't going to take full advantage of the discounts given in Heropa, you thought wrong. He might be a villain, a straight-up, full-fledged evildoer, but fashion is still very high on the vampire's priority list. The minute that the sun is down and Dio is able to get out into that marketplace, he was there. Nearly on the dot as well, as he'd managed to Time Stop most of the way there. Life was good for a a vampire who could simply seem to teleport from place to place.
Flash forward an hour or two and Dio was already in the midst of getting himself a completely new wardrobe. Without needing to pay for food, all of the money not put into rent or saving for a nicer place could go safely to clothing and accessories.
Upon noticing others watching, some with envy and some with curiosity, Dio puffed his chest out with pride, making certain that everyone knew what he was buying and how much it cost him. He'd even managed to charm a few of the onlookers into following him around and holding things for him. He licked at his teeth as he had to pull down his brand new sunglasses, vibrantly colored, in order to look over the next stall. Yes he was wearing sunglasses at night. He was nocturnal, what of it?
"What do you think?" he said off-handedly, turning his head only slightly to one of his entourage, not honestly intending to take their opinion into consideration when he held up a pair of pants that looked about his size. They'd probably be tight where it really counted, but something about the seams turned him off, and he ended up sneering at the article in disgust before looking to the shopkeeper. "I appreciate what you are doing, really, truly", he didn't. Dio didn't care, even a little, "It's very noble of you to sell these things to me at a discount, but you have to admit that the craftsmanship of this item leave you a little.. wanting."
"If you drop another mmhhh, ten percent, I'll bite." The money wasn't really the object here though, and Dio knew it as his red eyes peered out over his glasses and pierced into the shopkeeper. It was about power, showing this person and the somewhat awed crowd around him that he could get whatever he wanted without force. Yes, he was charming enough alright, and the people who milled about around him seemed equal parts intrigued and uncomfortable, but he eventually got his way, turning around to see someone else staring at him. Seemingly another one of these imPorts, if Dio could tell by the glowing tattoo.
"What?" he asked, taking hold of his new spoils, looking as cocky as ever. "You looking for a bigger discount too, or are you just simply in awe of me as well?" It was possible. Hell, probable.
As he walked away from the stall that he'd just strong-armed a 10% price decrease out of, he walked nearer to the newcomer, his lips pulled up in a snarl. "If you're about to scold me for some friendly haggling, then you can keep your mouth shut." Always assuming the worst out of people, perhaps, but he generally expected people to expect the worst of him. And for good reason, he usually was up to no good, but he'd managed this time without any hypnotism. Now, his current followers on the other hand? They might be a mix bag. In fact, they were most definitely so. Some were genuinely interested in being near to him(with some convincing), and then there were a couple that he'd just managed to snag with some eye contact when his arms were getting a little too full.
The real question was how many of them would leave unscathed from his apartment once he'd gotten his clothes home. Getting Dio Brando a driver's licence might save some lives in the future. Or very possibly end some more.
FINAL NOTES: I WASN'T SURE whether I should write a history or link it so I just wrote it and I'm so sorry.