apogeal | re: Jorge Joestar

Jorge Joestar is a JJBA side story light novel by Maijō Ōtarō, in which Kars is a major character; the quote on the sidebar of this journal layout comes from it. I gather the novel isn't very popular in the fandom, though I enjoyed it quite a lot for what it is, but that's an aside! Just as a general statement in case anyone is curious about my characterization/recognizes that I quoted it there: I'm not using it as a canonpoint, and for the most part it won't inform the way I play him, as even though I like the novel and I also like Kars, my feeling is that it softens him quite a lot and treats him too sympathetically to be compatible with canon. That said, the one part I'm taking is the novel's backstory explanation of how exactly Kars was inspired to create the Stone Masks by humans themselves, as 1. it's a really interesting expansion of what little the original story gave us and 2. it doesn't contradict anything about the main canon's events or his characterization, only adds to both.

But with that out of the way, if anyone out there actually roleplays from the novel, especially modern-day-Japanese-version-Jorge, HMU. 😘