Working on a fan part and I’m still deciding on what the main jojo and their villain show be. I have two match ups
- Water Manipulation (JOJO) vs Vibration Manipulation. (Villain)
Water is pretty versatile but has room to grow. Vibrations when used as a weapon are incredibly dangerous and destructive. They’re also very versatile to a much larger extreme.
Pros: Interesting match up and allows the main character to have a versatile ability. Same with the villain, giving them much more of an intimidating power that seems really strong but can be countered with the standard jojo logic (Fog clouds can reduce vibrations so something to that effect)
Cons: While an interesting match up, Water powers are woefully outclassed by the ability to manipulate a part of physics. Unless I give the main character an ability upgrade akin to Tusk Act 4 or Go Beyond, the fog cloud is all the main jojo has to mitigate damage.
- Vibration Powers (JOJO) vs Superposition Powers (Villain)
Switching things up, the main jojo having vibration powers could shake things up (pun intended) while remaining grounded and feeling like proper progression. Maybe they start with sound based powers that upgrade over time like Spin did for Johnny. As for the villain, they’re a cult leader and a murderer styled after Charles Manson and other celebrity cult leaders, so his ability to basically have free rein while unobserved makes him really scary. He could just be there one second, you look away, and he’s gone. Vibrations can cancel out superpositions by collapsing the wave function which could counter the villain.
Pros: Much more thematic and fitting for the villain and less of an extent the main jojo. Feels like classic jojos to have the villain do some crazy thing that is hard to explain and fight back against until the main characters figure it out and break down their ability until they can win.
Cons: Same issue as before, except now it’s flipped. Also super position powers don’t feel as grand as vibration powers where can do a lot of damage. I know jojos has more subtitle powers and don’t do massive damage like other shonens but I want the villain to really fuck up anyone they touch with their powers.