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2024 Christmas Event

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Day 1: Snowball Fight, Josuke Higashikata

Warnings: Fluff, Sneaking out, multiple endings

It had been snowing for who knows how long in Morioh. School had been canceled and your parents didn’t want you going anywhere. They kept saying;

“Oh (_____)! Don’t go outside, it's so damn cold. You’ll freeze like an ice pop!”

Your Mother would say while your Father would only just nod along. So here you were, stuck in your room, listening to the neighbors kids happily play. Time felt slow and like it wasn’t moving. That was until something hit your window.

Bam

You look over and see a snowball has hit your window. Thinking one of the kids had hit it you ignore it. That is until another one hits it again. This time you go over and open the window. The cold winter air hits your skin, sending a chill all over your body. Then..

Bam

Another snowball, but it had hit you in the face. Frantically you wipe it off and hear laughter. Looking down you see Jouske Higashikata. A proud smile on his face and another snowball in hand, ready to throw it if needed.

”What the hell Jouske?!?!” (_____) yelled down at him. Some snow stuck in their eyelashes.

”Why aren’t you out here yet? It’s a perfect snow day.” Jouske replies, tossing and catching the snowball in his hand.

”My parents won’t let me.” (_____) says with a sigh. Leaning against the window sill.

“Damn, that sucks.” Jouske says, kicking the snow an idea pops into his head. Smirking he says. “Well come down anyway.”

”What?! Are you crazy? My parents are downstairs right by the front door watching cricket!” (_____) yells at him.

”Exactly.” Jouske says. “So come out your window, I’ll catch you.”

(_____) contemplates his idea for a while. Taking a deep breath they run to their closet and put on their winter clothes. Carefully they stand on the ledge and close their window. And as soon as they close it they slip off the sill, falling from the second floor. They’re caught by Josuke as their momentum knocks them both into the snow. Laughing it off they head out together. The two walk together for a while. Admiring how the snow has made Morioh look like the small town in a Christmas movie. But all that was soon destroyed by Jouske who had pushed them into the snow. He laughs but doesn’t see (_____) grabbing his leg and pulling him into the snow as well. Soon they start to have a snowball fight between each other.

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Platonic Ending:

The two friends ended up walking all the way to Tonio’s. There they bumped into Okuyasu, Koichi, Yukako, and Shigechi. The friends all started talking and they ended up having a snowball war between each other.

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Romantic Ending:

The two ended up next to each other, their stomachs hurting from so much laughter. Soon their laughter died down and they gazed up at the winter sky. (_____) reached over and gently brushed some of the snow off of his hair. Jouske blushed as (_____) did this. Shyly Jouske grabbed (_____)’s hand. Soon he gets up and leads (_____) to a coffee shop where they get some hot chocolate together.

Hey I’ve been stressing over college and I’ve been in the biggest art block of my life

so take some Oc drawings and our favorite Anarchist because I finally saw the movie a few weeks back✨

Have I told you about my favourite boy yet?

the aftermath was NOT fun </3

low effort doodles of modern jojo au <3

Posting something back from January bc I need to redraw them

Oh so eepie it's like. six in the morning I don't know for the life of me how to make dramatic expressions

I be putting them in A Situation

Hopefully cleaning lineart and doing the background tonight before eeping.

The doodle of Josuke healing ppl is turning into a whole ass full rendered drawing. Apologies for the delay 😭

Btw Johnny and Yosaku's squads are main Water. Johnny has some Dark and Grass type, while Yo definitely has an Audino and other Psych Pokémon. They're raising a Gyarados together too

Josuke is a Fairy type trainer. Maybe some Ice??

Oku's squad is probably all Fight aside from Giratina and Sprigatito. Mayyybe a Steel Pokémon?

Keicho is full Ghost/Dark. Edgy boi.

Tonio probably Fairy and Fire? Uuh some Grass too

I love throwing Pokémon at ppl on their lore/vibe/aesthetic

Thinking about a Pokémon AU, I have some ideas but I'm still unsure about Tonio and Yosaku

Johnny has a baby Houndoom (tied with his origins) and a Cherrym (his Stand ability)

Yosaku... Probably a Dhelmise? Or a Dondozo, he needs a sea Pokémon since he's a fisherman. Oh and a Castform for his Stand ability, even thought I don't really like Castform's design

Josuke has Diance and Quaquaval. Because I mean, look at him.

Okuyasu has a broken op Stand, so he totally has Giratina. Shiny so he matches The Hand's palette. And a Sprigatito for Stray Cat

Keicho got a Decidueye (mostly because of the bow and arrow plot) and Falinks. His own little bug army ;;

Tonio surely has a Dachsbun. I'm not entirely sure about his other Pokémon, probably Smolive? Or Fuecoco. Or Appletun. Or really any other food related Pokémon ;w;

Breaking news: sad Italian man wants to cook but he'll cover the food in fur, more at 11

Talking with @wheredidalltheusersgo about werefox Tonio and yeah he'd be a giant fox puppy

Also he's a fox, Keicho is a Pallas cat, Okuyasu is a Dobermann and Josuke is an otter because yeah

Tonio took the pic

Drawing my silly little Duwang gang for my silly little mental health

Thanks Tumblr for letting me post uncropped pics

Those are the characters sheet for my AU, "Worlds Collide"

Aka I needed a way to make Josaku and Josuyasu interact because they'd be bffies

giorno screencap redraw + a bunch of redraws of some of my first jojo artworks 😋

your art is very pretty!!! have a lovely day/evening :]

Thank you so much! That means a lot to me 🥺✨ JDKKSJD SO SWEETNESS !! You may have this doodle 🫶

some Josuke doodles from my sketchbook bc part 4 is a treasure 

A drawing I made for my little sister of her two favorite characters

Old art I’m very fond of (including 3d)

DIGITAL EDITION ✨✨✨✨✨

(some of these r from 2023 and a lot r on Roblox)

I think I’ve gotten worse-

WIP FROM ME AND @20meterradiuscheetosplash’S GAPPY AND JOSUKE BROTHER AU

(They r eating breakfast at home and Gapoy wont shut up)

G: …And that’s why they should ban limes from the store, it could give people Lyme disease :(

J: …wtf How did you get into college???

G: Hard work :)

J: sigh

I was inspired by this

HC: Josuke’ tousled hair is young Joseph’s hair

Nothing to see here

the boys saw something and I don’t know what

I drew every Jojo as a DnD class 💁💥

The thing about Josuke is that, since the age of four, he’s had 24/7 access to a secret superpower that lets him instantly and completely fix anything that goes wrong in his life. Anything that breaks, anyone that gets hurt, anything that happens and has a negative result can be immediately rewound and brushed off as if it never happened with nobody ever the wiser; after all, it’s not like anyone he’s met can even SEE his stand, let alone realize he’s using it to do anything. Even if he does it while someone else is present, would they really believe that Josuke has some sort of healing superpower over the idea that they were just wrong about the thing having been broken in the first place? Probably not.

What kind of effect would that power have on a developing kid?

Imagine that he’s playing a video game and he’s getting really frustrated because he keeps dying in the same place over and over. If that happened to you, what would you do? Maybe gear up to chuck the controller into the TV? But, wait, you can’t do that! If you did, it might be satisfying for a second, but then you’d have to deal with the fallout of a broken TV and an angry parent. Not worth it. Josuke, on the other hand? If HE totally destroyed the TV, he could have that momentary satisfaction of letting the frustration out, then just quickly fix the TV and get back to the grind. No harm, no foul, no bits of glass to sweep out of the carpet or mother tearing her hair out in upset. Of COURSE he’d do it. Why wouldn’t he?

Imagine that he forgets his locker combination, because oops head too full of teenage miscellany. Would he go through the effort of fumbling around to find whichever pocket he shoved the slip of paper with his combination in to open it while he’s already late to class? Or would he just tear the door off its hinges, retrieve his stuff, and shove it back on in two seconds flat? Imagine that he’s messing around with some friends trying to climb a huge tree, when one of them falls getting two broken bones and a concussion. Would he call the friend an ambulance and decide climbing tall trees is too dangerous? Or would he just climb down, heal the friend back up, say something to the effect of “oh wow, good thing you ended up okay!”, and continue doing what he was doing safe in the knowledge that his stand could save him or cushion the fall if HE ever slipped? (He may not be able to HEAL himself, but he can certainly protect himself from the same kinds of damage other people get.)

Those are all just hypotheticals, but we do see examples of him doing those kinds of things in the series. He beats up anyone who pisses him off only to instantly heal them afterwards. He tears off Hazamada’s locker door to look inside without a second thought. In the wake of his grandpa’s murder, he destroys and fixes a ton of furniture in his house. He mentions fixing a friend’s broken leg. He DEFINITELY doesn’t shy away from anything dangerous, and not just out of general shounen recklessness. When Aqua Necklace hides inside his mother’s body, he forgoes any convoluted plan to save her and just punches her through the stomach without hesitation because he knows with 100% certainty, the certainty of lived experience, that she’d be completely fine afterwards, that she wouldn’t even notice. He waited to try healing his grandpa when he saw him sprawled across the floor because he didn’t have a doubt in his mind that, even if he took his time getting there, as soon as he did he’d be up again like nothing happened. (He was only wrong once.)

The thing about Josuke is that, since the age of four, he’s learned that being reckless almost never leads to consequences. He’s learned that its okay to make mistakes because pretty much any mistake he makes can be quickly and easily fixed with no lasting damage. He’s learned that, as long as he’s the one who takes responsibility for something, everything turns out okay for everyone.

We can see all that easily in his personality and the way he acts. He’s unbelievably chill, cool-headed and reasonable even in situations where NOBODY would be; stakes are very different for somebody who can effortlessly reverse anything short of death, so of course he doesn’t panic at those sorts of things. By contrast, things like “no money” or “waded into leech pool” (or, for a more serious example that comes up in the series, “friend/family is missing”) are not as easily fixed and thus are a much bigger deal.

Despite how much it takes to make him full on panic, though, he is far from careful on a regular day. Sure, he may be chill, but all that means is that he’ll calmly and deliberately do something insane instead of doing it in a panicked frenzy. We see dozens of examples of Josuke casually thinking his way out of situations by coming up with a crazy reckless solution on the spot that would be a last-ditch measure by anyone else, just because he’s so used to thinking with his stand’s ability in mind. (While you could maybe argue this applies to most Jojo protagonists, I still think Josuke manages to be one of the most reckless on-the-spot planners in the series while also being one of the most generally well-collected AND having a solidly in-place sense of self preservation, which is still an interesting combination in contrast with the other protagonists.)

It’s worth noting, of course, that Josuke DOES have a bit of a (literal) hair-trigger temper, but rages on Josuke are short, concentrated, and in a strange sense, controlled. While he’s certainly much less reasonable and more destructive than usual when in rage mode, said destruction never extends past the source of the anger; he feels mad, so he lets it out, handles the situation, and almost instantly falls back to baseline. Like chucking a controller at a TV and fixing it back up. A controlled explosion.

All of this is to say that, even when Josuke does reckless or destructive things, it’s not because Josuke himself is a reckless or destructive person; far from it. Josuke’s top priority is keeping the peace. Why else would he choose to be so meek towards bullies on the first day of school, even knowing he could wipe the floor with them? Why else would his first reaction to being told he was the result of an affair be to humbly apologize for the trouble his existence caused, instead of any kind of personal confusion or upset? The only reason he acts how he does is because he knows from experience that inserting himself into a situation, striking fast and hard however is appropriate, then fixing up the aftermath, is the most efficient way to solve problems for himself and everyone around him. He’s not a pushover. He’ll stand up for himself and what’s important to him when he needs to. But ultimately he just wants the best for everyone, and since he’s been gifted the ability to fix things, to heal, doesn’t it make sense to use it?

In that way, Josuke acts as a perfect foil to Kira. Neither of them deny themselves whatever they want, neither of them are used to experiencing consequences for their actions, and both of them just want a peaceful life; the difference is, Kira destroys problems. Josuke fixes them.

An interesting side effect of this mindset is that Josuke ends up taking on responsibility for all sorts of things that are in no way his burdens to bear. We see a number of times throughout the series that he never backs away from a situation he could potentially do something about, to the point of even inserting himself into situations he really doesn’t need to. Any time he CAN heal someone, he does; in the Harvest episode, in particular, Josuke heals a number of tiny injuries Okuyasu picked up without comment as soon as he could. It’s so ingrained that, during their dice game, Rohan mutilates himself in order to keep Josuke from running away, since he knew Josuke would never leave him like that even though they hate each other. Of course Josuke would consider it his responsibility to heal the hand Rohan messed up himself such that he’d stay in a terrible situation he could easily walk away from just for the opportunity to heal him. It’s a no-brainer.

And because Josuke takes on so much extra responsibility, because Josuke is considered by both all his friends and himself to be the multi-purpose get out of jail free card, he takes it that much harder whenever anything seriously goes wrong. There’s almost a level of existential disbelief to it. Sure, anybody would be upset when something bad happens, like, say, a family member or friend dying because of your own negligence, but with Josuke… When his grandpa dies, and then paralleled later when Okuyasu gets blown up by Killer Queen, he sounds confused. Like he just experienced something impossible. People can’t die around him. It’s not even a question. He has a healing superpower! People can’t die around someone with a healing superpower, especially not when they’re literally a few steps away!! So, then, if it really did happen, what does that say about him? When he gets the call from Koichi during the fight against Sheer Heart Attack, he panics and rushes into action immediately. It’s easy to imagine what could have been flashing through his mind.

Because of his stand, the stand he got after a formative experience when he was just a small kid, he always has the unique ability to help. To help himself, to help others. All he has to do is put in the effort, show as much kindness as he can as soon as it’s needed, and he can keep everyone happy and healthy. At the end of the day, if he can do something, he will. Every time.

The thing about Josuke is that, since the age of four, he decided that he wanted to be like the person who saved him when he and his mom were stranded in the snow. He saw the way that guy went out of his way to help a total stranger, showing kindness to people who needed it more than he could ever know, taking off his coat in the cold despite his own injuries just because it was the right thing to do, and he thought: “I want to be like that”. Through that decision, he received the power to do just that. Over the years, he used that power again and again; for himself, for others, for everyone he could. And eventually, that’s exactly the kind of person he grew into.

GUYS I wrote this months ago for JOSUYASU WEEK 2019 and then I ended up being late and then I became a Reddie fanatic so my luck is completely out of the door and I’M SORRY.  Summary: Written for Day 1 of Josuyasu week with the prompt “Sports AU.”