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so yes, i have given this some thought... and here’s what i’ve come up with

shiki in stardust crusaders:

a lot of how well shiki does depends on whether you view stand users as human or not. i think of them as human-adjacent, if that makes sense... enough for the nanaya blood to sense that something is “off” but not enough to send him into an episode

that said, i get the feeling that stands would trigger shiki’s nanaya blood, and if the end of stardust crusaders is any indication, destroying a stand seems to kill its user. so as long as you don’t use your stand around him, you’re safe, but the moment you do...

well. jotaro is always worried about hurting those who are close to him with his phenomenal levels of power. but the nanaya programming is SO strong that shiki has no sense of restraint at all (see: what he initially does to arcueid). so i think shiki would spend most of the story blindly killing everyone who so much as summons a stand

that said, shiki coexists with some nonhumans in tsukihime itself, so he might do alright with the rest of the crusaders at least. but even then he’d have to hold himself back pretty much 24/7, which cannot be healthy... especially for someone whose health is already poor. so even in the best-case scenarios, i honestly do not think shiki would make it very far before his body gives out on him from the stress

of course, even with all that in mind, the concept of shiki making it to dio is really funny to me. dio can stop time all he wants, shiki’s just gonna keep coming at him... and i think he’s pretty used to knives ;)

also mystic eyes of death perception let him see stands now i just decided

jotaro in tsukihime:

hahaha okay so. here’s the thing. jotaro would not kill arcueid. jotaro has enough restraint not to murder her even if he sees her as a threat, which i don’t even think he would do right away--as a human (stand user), i don’t think he’d sense anything “off” about her

so maybe arcueid seeks jotaro out on purpose because he has a weird ghost that can punch people? that might be helpful, right? at least when it comes to going up against nvrnqsr and roa it could be

jotaro might befriend ciel at least a little bit--she’s got some of that kakyoin sass in her, so they’d get along to some degree

i think the fights here would be less one-sided than shiki’s are in the jojo universe, but jotaro still has a pretty huge advantage because no one knows how his powers work. of course, jotaro being jotaro, he’d try to take on everything himself and get into fights alone, which i’m sure arcueid and ciel would be particularly stressed about

in fact, jotaro would constantly try to get these girls out of trouble, especially hisui and kohaku. “oh, i can do this--” “no you can’t. get inside.” honestly, jotaro’s pretty good at reading people, so i think he’d figure things out about kohaku way before shiki did, even if he can’t exactly comprehend what happened to her without hearing it from her or hisui

now that i’m thinking about this, though, jotaro does not fit into shiki’s place at all, and it’s because jotaro does not work as a VN protagonist. hear me out: we spend all of tsukihime (except for one of akiha’s endings iirc) in shiki’s head, and we get to bear witness to all his thoughts and feelings. jotaro is SO closed off in stardust crusaders that most of what he’s experiencing is utterly foreign to the viewer. also i can’t help but wonder how generic shiki would come off as if we didn’t get such a clear window into his head...