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thematically, there’s some extremely interesting moving parts here

don’t look back has already seen parts of jodio’s heart, and is reflecting to him in the manner that he sees himself, in the same way that it referred to dragona with feminine pronouns when targeting her. this is what makes it so effective at getting under their skin; it pulls from their own subconscious beliefs and uses it against them.

in this way, this stand tells us what jodio believes to be true (or is afraid is true) about himself

so, from this we can see that jodio is not comfortable in his aspd diagnosis, and that he is actually afraid of his own violence and rage (school bus line)

what’s also interesting is that it mentions potentially killing an animal, and that jodio would enjoy doing that, when multiple times araki has gone out of his way to show jodio's fondness for animals (him putting out the fire on the bus for the parrot and him liking rohan's dog). to me this suggests that jodio is worried that he may enjoy killng an animal despite his actions showing that he goes out of his way to protect them.

also, the fact that the ghosts mentions bedwetting (a typically embarrassing issue to have) right next to his aspd and his sadism suggests that he equates the shame from bedwetting to a sort of shame about his aspd and violence.

ong my favorite jojo araki you absolute goat

okay this part is just some more boring commentary on araki's character writing

araki has had a tendency to sometimes keep his “cool” characters more distant from the audience, like with jotaro. we really don’t see a lot about jotaro’s internal world beyond his want to save his mother in sdc. fortunately, he’s moved away from that over time to make characters that have explicit flaws or embarrassing moments (johnny’s bug bite fetish), which make them more relatable and move them closer emotionally to the audience.

it makes them less into perfect heroes and more flawed people

with jodio, we’ve seen his flaws in his character through his struggles with his personality disorder, but we didn’t get a real embarrassing moment until now

thematically, there’s some extremely interesting moving parts here

don’t look back has already seen parts of jodio’s heart, and is reflecting to him in the manner that he sees himself, in the same way that it referred to dragona with feminine pronouns when targeting her. this is what makes it so effective at getting under their skin; it pulls from their own subconscious beliefs and uses it against them.

in this way, this stand tells us what jodio believes to be true (or is afraid is true) about himself

so, from this we can see that jodio is not comfortable in his aspd diagnosis, and that he is actually afraid of his own violence and rage (school bus line)

what’s also interesting is that it mentions potentially killing an animal, and that jodio would enjoy doing that, when multiple times araki has gone out of his way to show jodio's fondness for animals (him putting out the fire on the bus for the parrot and him liking rohan's dog). to me this suggests that jodio is worried that he may enjoy killng an animal despite his actions showing that he goes out of his way to protect them.

also, the fact that the ghosts mentions bedwetting (a typically embarrassing issue to have) right next to his aspd and his sadism suggests that he equates the shame from bedwetting to a sort of shame about his aspd and violence.

ong my favorite jojo araki you absolute goat

okay this part is just some more boring commentary on araki's character writing

araki has had a tendency to sometimes keep his “cool” characters more distant from the audience, like with jotaro. we really don’t see a lot about jotaro’s internal world beyond his want to save his mother in sdc. fortunately, he’s moved away from that over time to make characters that have explicit flaws or embarrassing moments (johnny’s bug bite fetish), which make them more relatable and move them closer emotionally to the audience.

it makes them less into perfect heroes and more flawed people

with jodio, we’ve seen his flaws in his character through his struggles with his personality disorder, but we didn’t get a real embarrassing moment until now