Jodio Joestar

Jodio Joestar is the protagonist of The JOJOLands, and ninth protagonist of the series. He has yet to be referred to as "JoJo".

He is a drug peddler in Hawaii whose main goal is to becomes filthy stinking rich. He deals drugs and commits crimes for the sake of protecting his mother with his sister Dragona and other Stand Users hired by Meryl May Qi, the principal of his school. His first mission was to steal a priceless diamond from a Japanese tourist on vacation in Hawaii, that goes awry, and ends with Jodio being in possession of a lava rock capable of defying the laws of nature. He is a Stand User and wields the Stand November Rain, with the ability to apply gravity to droplets of rain.

Physical Appearance
He appears to have short light hair, perhaps two-toned, that covers one of his eyes. He wears it in a tiny braid on the right side of his cheek, with a star shaped pin. His outfit is a light hoodie with a black collar and white trim. His sleeves are long and have black cuffs, and he wears black gloves. He wears one earring on his left ear that are in the shapes of the letters J and O stacked on top of each other.

Occasional Appearances
In Departure, Jodio appears in a flashback as 11 years old when he first started delivering drugs. His appearance is relatively the same, except for being smaller.

Also in Departure, while describing how different he is compared to the squares he goes to school with, he is pictured among other hooligans wearing gold chains and jewelry.

In South King Street, Jodio appears altered on the camera at the villa by Usagi's Stand The Matte Kudesai.

In The Villa on Hawaii Island, Part 1, Jodio wears the hood on his outfit while shielding himself from his Stand's rain.

In Battle in the Jungle, Part 2, Jodio is tied up by the stray cat's wire Stand and hung upside down from a tree.

Early Life
When Jodio was 11 he started peddling drugs and rose his way up to selling them for his school principal, Meryl May Qi. All of this is done so that his mother, Barbara-Ann, will be able to live peacefully and be taken care of.

The Villa on Hawaii Island
Jodio and his sister Dragona were on their way to deliver drugs when they were suddenly stopped by police officers. One of the officers assaults Dragona, and Jodio gets out of the car to use his Stand and defeat the both of them. Dragona thanks her brother and the two of them take the truck they stole to deliver the drugs again.

Later that day Jodio is called into Iko Iko, the fashion store that Dragona works at, by their boss, Meryl May Qi. They are accompanied by Paco Laborantes, another drug peddler in Meryl's gang. She sends them on a mission to steal a priceless diamond from a Japanese tourist staying at a villa on Hawaii Island. Before they leave, they are accompanied by a fourth party member, a boy named Usagi.

They infiltrate the villa and discover that the owner is famous Japanese manga artist, Rohan Kishibe. As they sneak around, they are attacked by a Stand power that controls string, possibly controlled by a stray cat wandering around nearby. They also discover that Rohan has been studying lava rocks and is keeping them in a safe along with the diamond they are there to steal.

Eventually, Rohan catches wind that they have arrived to steal it and attacks them with his Stand, Heaven's Door. He confronts them, but they do not give up information easily, but Rohan makes sure that they are not here to steal the diamond because they "know" what it is, they are just in it for the cash, which he is relieved about. Eventually Jodio catches back up with his friends and disarms Rohan, teasing him about how the lava rocks he kept in the same safe as the diamonds are probably more valuable than he let on. Rohan lets him get away with it but warns him that there is a responsibility that comes with having it, and that he will be chased for it.

Battle in the Jungle
After leaving the jungle, him and the group are apprehended by the three cats and attacked by their wire Stand. Jodio is hung upside down while the lava rock, diamond, and Pink Dark Boy manuscripts are stolen. Usagi is nowhere to be found while the rest of them are tied together in wire, and they assume he ran off with the valuables.

Jodio and the other two continue to be antagonized by the three cats, and they observe that the wires come from the fur on their tails. As the situation becomes more dire, Jodio tries to use his Stand to get an advantage, but to no avail. Suddenly, Usagi reappears with the car and rams into the tree, causing the cats to loosen the wires slightly. Usagi gets out to reassure them that he never abandoned them, and that he specifically put Rohan's 400-dollar caviar into the burger he bought at the airport for a situation just like this. He has Dragona call out to his Stand to turn into a net, which he lures the cats into using the lava rock, that attracts valuable objects (the caviar in their stomachs.)

Jungle Aftermath
Returning to the mainland after the jungle, the group decides to eat and test out the capabilities of the lava rock in the two hours before their flight takes off. They decide to test it on luxury watches in a nearby shop, where Dragona and Usagi go in, and Jodio and Paco stay behind. The two of them wait for a while until they look inside the fast-food bag they bought, and they realize someone has been watching them. Since before the lava rock got to Rohan's villa, he's been being watched, and whoever it was put the dead remains of the cat trio inside Jodio's lunch bag. Jodio realizes that this must be some mob connection, and stays firm in that he's protecting the rock, to Paco's confusion.

While they talk, Paco appears behind him and starts talking about how long the chicken line is, and Jodio realizes there was two Paco's this whole time. The imposter Paco's skin starts reeling back and he reveals that he wanted to nix this problem before Jodio found out too much, but it's too late for that now.

Personality Traits
The protagonist seems to be eccentric and immature. He is obsessed with "mechanisms" of the world and uses that word as a replacement for "system." As a Joestar he is very righteous and good hearted, but he is not afraid to do bad things for a good cause, exemplified when he brutally attacked two police officers who assaulted his sister, and how he deals illegal drugs all for the means of protecting his mother.

November Rain
Jodio possesses the ability to create rain drop pellets that is called November Rain. It is possible that Jodio is able to apply the weight, or "gravity" of the objects he is touching to the force on the rain drops, as when he attacks a police officer, he is touching his truck while the rain falls on him. These raindrops are so heavy that they are able to completely crush the adult police officers. The Stand itself seems to create a perimeter where the rain is able to fall, which itself gives November Rain a range of 7 meters.

When positioned correctly, November Rain is able to shoot out bullets of rain drops like a gun.

Part 9: The JOJOLands

 * Chapter 1: Departure
 * Chapter 2: South King Street
 * Chapter 3: The Villa on Hawaii Island, Part 1
 * Chapter 4: The Villa on Hawaii Island, Part 2 (voice)
 * Chapter 5: November Rain
 * Chapter 6: Battle in the Jungle, Part 1
 * Chapter 7: Battle in the Jungle, Part 2
 * Chapter 8: Let's Go Look at Luxury Watches
 * Chapter 9: Owner of the Lava Rock

Trivia

 * Jodio was first revealed in Hirohiko Araki's New Year's 2023 card.
 * "Jodio" is a Spanish word meaning "fucked up." This could relate to his actual personality, as he has gone to therapists to see if his is anti-social, and he has shown to have violent tendencies.
 * It might also be worth noting that his name seems to be a conjunction of "Joestar" or "JoJo," and "Dio." This may hint at how Jodio is righteous as a Joestar but is not afraid to do bad things to get what he wants, like Dio.
 * Another parallel to draw is that Dio's original motivation in Part 1 was to steal the Joestar fortune, and Jodio's primary motivation is to get rich.
 * Jodio is 15 years old in Part 9, and Araki describes in the author's note of Volume 1 that that is around the age where you start to think seriously about your future. Coincidentally, or maybe this was done on purpose, it lines up with Araki's own experience, as according to him in Manga in Theory and Practice, he was 16 years old when he decided that the career he wanted to pursue was that of a mangaka.

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