#bizarreanthros

Giorno time! I’ve made him a proper chimera- trust me on the fact that the traits are evenly distributed along his body- his clothes pretty much hide that. (Head, back, legs being Serval, and arms, chest, and tail being monitor lizard)

Giorno’s animal choice for me was something that was pretty easy- he was already going to be some sort of feline because of Dio, but I didn’t want him to be a big cat since he’s definitely not as imposing as his dad. I had that reflect onto his other half as well. Instead of being a massive monitor lizard, I picked a smaller one. Serval came pretty easy as a feline pick though, mainly because of their lankiness.

Giorno’s storyline in Part 5 doesn’t really keep either Dio OR Jonathan very relevant- so it was important to me that Giorno did not look like a more cohesive version of my Part 3 Design for Dio, and instead looked like his own character.

Jolyne time! I pretty much immediately wanted to make her an alligator. Aside from the obvious ‘Florida Woman’ excuse, I feel an alligator is fitting for Jolyne on several levels.

I think it’s important on some level for Jolyne to take after Jotaro, even if not to an insane visual degree, so both of them being large predatory animals commonly misunderstood as ‘dangerous’ and ‘overly aggressive for no reason’ makes sense. Alligators are aggressively protective over their own, and Jolyne is very much the same for her own companions and her father. And you cannot fucking tell me she ISN’T using Stone Free to grip some poor fool so tightly and death rolling them into oblivion. Jolyne is a fucking FIGHTER and she’s throwing it down any day of the week.

Most importantly, I really wanted her and Jonathan to be the only reptiles out of all the protagonists up to part 6. I briefly debated making Joseph a bearded dragon, but it didn’t fit him enough to justify breaking that rule for me. Story-wise it just is fitting, with Jolyne being the Joestar that embodies Jonathan’s legacy most out of any protagonist. Genuinely she’s one of my favorite protagonists in JoJo, probably one of my favorite characters PERIOD.

Additionally:

I like the idea of her and Jotaro just. Floating in the water. Both seals and gators do this. Father-Daughter marination time.

Josuke wasn’t a tricky one to figure out. I’ve seen a lot of people make him a raccoon and I think that’s genuinely really fitting, so I stuck with a gray animal with dark patterns. Snow Leopard was really easy to narrow down from there- they’re very playful and silly which I think matches Josuke’s personality perfectly. Additionally, it gives him and Jotaro a little bit of resemblance since both are spotted animals.

Jonathan was a bit of a harder one to do- I wanted him to be an animal that could look both friendly and intimidating, and I wanted him to be a reptile for Reasons™.

I wanted a big lizard, but didn’t just want to slap him with ‘Komodo Dragon’, so I looked to other monitor lizards. I eventually settled on the Crocodile Monitor lizard, since they’re quite large. I wanted to try to include the spots the irl lizard has, but it ended up making the design a bit cluttered.

Now there are two specific reasons I wanted Jonathan to be a reptile, one of those being I wanted to link him up with Jolyne, who I’ve made an american alligator, the second being that I elected to make Dio a lion, so when he steals Jonathan’s body, he becomes a chimera.

This was the first design I actually fully completed- surprise no surprise, it’s Jotaro!

I knew I had to make him some sort of marine animal, but I didn’t know that ‘Dolphin’ would fit him all too well, despite him canonically being a dolphin fan. I thought for a minute to make him a marine iguana, but that didn’t feel right either. I eventually settled on some species of seal, and then I recalled my plans for Jonathan. After that, I had Leopard Seal locked in.