Analysis: The Star (Part 6)
He's my favourite, oh my God I could ramble about this man. The character arc is chef's kiss. Will do proper headcanons another day.
Superman with a bad ending. Part 6 is a sad but fitting culmination of Kujo Jotaro's character arc.
The consequences of being distant and misunderstood combined with the burden of being "The Man" turn his life into a tragedy.
His anxiety has grown with his responsibilities. Look how his thoughts evolve from Part 3 to Part 6.
Divorce never happens for only one reason, but there are a few things shown in the story that make me raise my eyebrows.
Most obviously, I think the events of Part 4 scared him. He spent 10 years trying to live a normal life, didn't maintain his ability to stop time, and he almost died because of it.
"Stand Users attract Stand Users" - that and the effects that the arrows had on Morioh are enough to give anyone pause.
Jotaro is a protector first and foremost. He absolutely felt compelled to chase down the remnants of DIO's legacy to keep his family safe.
He also had a child VERY young, and that's stressful on a relationship no matter how much you love them. Recall that Jolyne is born only 3-4 years after the end of Stardust Crusaders.
But we know he loves Jolyne deeply and probably never wanted her to get mixed up in all of the Stand mess. He never wanted to get involved in this himself, remember?
The greatest gift he could give his daughter is the peaceful life he never had. That's all any parent wants for their child.
He probably had some awareness of Pucci's activity (though likely not his identity), but didn't put it together until it was too late.
Jotaro wasn't expecting to wake up after his encounter with White Snake. 100% was furious with Jolyne for putting herself in danger like that.
He's not proud of her at all for this stupidity, damn it.
I am soooo sick of the "lol Jotaro got nerfed why was he so dumb" rhetoric around the final fight.
In the end, he makes the same choice he's always made: to defend his loved ones because that's who he's always been. Pucci knew that, too.
And let's be real, Made in Heaven is a horrible matchup for Star Platinum.
Jotaro is among the most controversial of Joestars, and I get it, but I adore his complexities. He's a flawed hero, and he bears the heaviest burdens of the Joestars.
Like many, I wanted Part 6 to have a happy ending, but I loved it anyway. In the Ireneverse, he's still Jotaro. He's probably still divorced. But without Pucci around to carry DIO's legacy, I hope he got the peaceful life he wanted.
Feedback and discussion always welcome. :)
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on another note i finished part 6 and like... are we okay like genuinely what the fuck was that ending
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love being insane about weather report and i need to spew my thoughts about him and pucci and their stories aligning greatly with those told about cain and abel. as well as emporio being awfully similar to seth- cain and abel's lesser known younger brother. a LOT of biblical talk which i know most people aren't fond of, so it's going under a read more.
the story of cain and abel is so widely known, but i don't think most people know everything - such as the upbringing, the buildup, and the inevitable downfall of the two. the story of cain and abel have been done over and over, each told a varying degree of success, so i think it's interesting to see araki's version of it. (if he even intended the similarities to be there, which could be possible. but i don't doubt it since he is quite well versed in christianity / the imagery.)
honestly, when you think about it at first ... the similarities don't seem to be there besides the obvious "pucci killed his brother and betrayed him" since weather got in the way of him achieving heaven. but the longer you look, the more you can see the similarities. so please bear with me as we try to unscramble these thoughts together and best explain the betrayal story of cain and abel, and how seth comes in to save humanity.
the most striking for me is the usage and importance of weather report's disk. when cain strikes abel, he is coated in the blood of his brother and because of this- the blood of abel that's staining his clothing, cain would never be able to reach heaven and inevitably leads to his downfall. the blood of abel preventing cain's entry in heaven reminds me a lot of the final showdown between pucci and emporio- the final stretch before gaining eternal greatness, where he is stopped by emoprio's utilization of weather report's disk, effectively preventing him from achieving heaven. while not quite the same, weather report's disk act's as the perfect replacement for abel's blood- a final haunting reminder of the killing of his brethren, now stopping pucci within his tracks and being used against him despite being so close to heaven even after his endless offerings.
this is also where emporio's role of seth comes into play- and, in relation to cain and abel, seth services as a replacement for abel after his death- essentially becoming abel's new mouthpiece and ushers in our current humanity. which emporio does after weather's death, acting as his mouthpiece and successfully helping joylne create a new humanity- all while the disk comes back to haunt pucci and prevent him from achieving his goal. it's beautifully poetic, in a way. while obviously not shared by blood, the bond between emporio and weather cannot be underestimated. they had a great deal of trust in each other and it's clear weather even seemingly regarded emporio as a little brother to him, going to immense lengths to keep him safe.
there's a lot more in relation to weather report and other biblical allegories- such as heavy weather being triggered subconsciously by weather's hatred for humanity, turning anyone affected by the rainbows into snails. the important bit is the snails, and how snails are thought of as "the symbol of the wicked passing away" within the bible- obviously signifying how weather truly feels about humanity and how vile and "slimey" it has become when regaining his memory. he can feel at ease knowing there will be no more wickedness plaguing humanity anymore.
don't know how to properly conclude these thoughts. just hoping my rambles are coherent and don't seem too far stretched, especially since i do believe, in some way, this may be araki's personal retelling of cain and abel to some extent. the man is obviously into christianity and it's aesthetic's, it's not like jesus christ isn't an actual character in the damn series unironically 😭 but i hope theres some cohesion when explaining these thoughts because whew there’s a lot of them.
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Okay. I feel comfortable enough to share this story with everyone.
When I was 13, I made my first friends online. I was in the Splatoon community, the Octo Expansion just came out and I had just started to become part of communities in the Internet. My first friends were a group of 5 older teens to adults.
I trusted them. My parents emotionally neglected me at the time and I was an outcast at school because I was different. And we rarely started leaving the house after my little brothers were born, so most of my days were and still are on the internet. I had little experience with friendships, so often the friendships I formed in real life often failed because I had no idea what I was doing. No one would teach me what I even did wrong.
The same trend continued here. I started having awful ideas (And I'm talking about ideas about sensitive topics that I learned about but poorly handled due to not doing my research) and they started to ignore me. It wasn't until I suddenly turned my oc into a trans male that they kicked me out.
They said I was being insulting to trans people, when all I just did was suddenly turn my oc into a guy. I was new to the LGBT community, I didn't know how long the process of transitioning was at the time. However, they didn't explain it to me. The group gained a couple more members since then. It was 6-7 older teens to adults, all ganging up on a child through 3 of them talking to me. A child who was 13 at that.
They kicked me out and they didn't tell me what I did wrong, never to let me back in. I was scared of even making trans characters after that. I wasn't transphobic, I was just so scared of accidentally screwing up and offending people again that I just decided it wasn't worth the risk. Ironically, here I am now, a trans man who's closeted in real life.
This fear of screwing up bled into more things. A combination of that and a couple more failed friendships not only caused me to get scared of making mistakes, but also losing trust in people. I'd forget about the next two, but never the first. Team Dark Fuchsia was forever burned in my memory, the group of adults who taught me that mistakes are something to be ashamed of, and that you must always expect to be abandoned at any moment. (DO NOT GO HARASS THE BLOG. It's long dead, and it's been so long. Just do the right thing and leave it alone.)
I'm turning 19 in a couple of months. I still panic whenever I mess up even over minor things, and I still fear getting abandoned. Sometimes, I still think about my ex friends and what could've been if I had known better. What could've been if I was enough.
The moral of this story? Children are very impressionable and sometimes have gone through much that you don't know about. Please be considerate and patient, at least with children. Your actions could potentially affect them for the rest of their lives.
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