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Daiya's Collection of Borrowed Memories by winter_dawn
Fandoms: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
04 Feb 2023
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Sunday is shadow-stepping day. Daiya wakes up early to relive her favorites of the memories she’s borrowed that week.
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It shouldn’t hurt anyone, and she’s giving them back anyway, so it’s not stealing. It’s like a library. So as long as she follows her rules she doesn’t have to worry about feeling bad.Daiya borrows memories from her family and friends. It's no big deal; they're small memories and she always returns them soon enough. But Daiya has another, hidden collection of memories stolen from strangers. She doesn't know who they belong to, so she can't step into their shadows and return them. They're a source of shame that she figures she's stuck with forever.
But Josuke has a knack for uncovering secrets, and a frustratingly strong moral compass when it comes to stealing memories. And Daiya would do anything for his approval, even if it means she has to enlist help of a very unlikely ally to make things right.
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Ascension by winter_dawn
Fandoms: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
14 Mar 2022
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Vampires can sleep for a long time, but not forever. They wake when their body wants to feed. If they are hungry, slumber is fitful and temporary.
Dio sleeps and wakes, sleeps and wakes. He tests the lid of the coffin each time, pushing, punching, kicking. He’d thought his strength was limitless, but he’s useless against the crushing pressure on the ocean floor. Jonathan’s head watches blankly - tauntingly - from the corner.
He's trapped.
Dio Brando, buried alive at the bottom of the ocean, reflects on his situation.
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Heart to Heart by winter_dawn
Fandoms: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
13 Dec 2021
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The Higashikata family is like a puzzle: fractured, separate pieces, but they still fit together to make a whole.
Hato doesn’t notice when her family begins to fall apart. There’s no way for her to know where to look.
When it does, she doesn’t see each piece fall until it hits the ground.
The Higashikata family keeps a lot of secrets, even from each other. A series of vignettes from Hato Higashikata's perspective, before and during Jojolion canon.
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Zeno's Paradox by winter_dawn
Fandoms: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
22 Oct 2020
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Something about the sky in Morioh makes his thoughts turn inward. It’s absurd, really - he has more distractions than ever here. He’s searching for that damn serial killer and handling the mess of new Stand users he’s left behind in his wake, dealing with Josuke’s existence. And, as always, his academic work.
He should have no space or time to think so much - more than usual - about his past.
Something about the sky in Morioh makes him feel watched. By who, or what, he doesn’t know - he has so many ghosts by now they could fill a theater as his audience, enemies and allies all together.
Various little in-between scenes and thoughts from Jotaro’s perspective during the events of Diamond is Unbreakable.
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Version Control by winter_dawn
Fandoms: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
03 Oct 2020
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Giorno knelt shivering in the pool of Bucciarati’s blood.
The pool of his blood.
Something occurred to him.
Mere minutes ago, he’d created a new instance of Coco Jumbo, the tortoise, with exact precision - it’s Stand was even replicated - from his ladybug brooch. Gold Experience had replicated its brain structure as well - likely it would behave exactly as the original would, memories and all. All he’d needed were some cells from it to use as a blueprint.
He could create a frog that jumps, a bird that flies, a tortoise that slowly ambles onward. Why not a human being that speaks and fights and dreams? A human is just another type of animal, after all. And if he could recreate a tortoise...
He might be able to recreate Bucciarati.
Giorno arrives just a moment too late to save Bucciarati from death. But he’d been able to create a perfect copy of the Coco Jumbo that looked and acted just like the original. In his despair, he gets a new idea - can he do the same with a human being?
And once he learns he can, can he stop?
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where we keep the light we're given by brella
Fandoms: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
24 Feb 2024
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“I… I wanna open a restaurant,” Narancia says. “A really good restaurant! But shit’s expensive, and I don’t just want Giorno to pay for it all, so…”
A restaurant. The simplicity of it throws her, for a second—but she remembers the afternoon that Giorno had gone with Fugo and Abbacchio to Pompeii, and the rest of them had stayed behind in the safehouse by the vineyard, and after an hour or so she’d heard Narancia banging around in the kitchen, throwing together something with spaghetti and garlic and anchovies. She remembers the song he’d been humming, off-key. La varca mia, Santa Lucia.
She remembers so much more of Narancia—so much more of that fistful of days of hiding and running and hating—than she wants to. Even today. Even now.
“Or,” she says, “you could come on tour with me. My bodyguard just quit. Like, this morning.”
Trish, Narancia, and what comes after.
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19 Jul 2020
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disjoint by queenieofaces
Fandoms: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
05 Apr 2020
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dis·joint: (transitive verb) to take apart at the joints | (intransitive verb) to come apart at the joints
A Bruno Buccellati character study.
(Now with chapter 1, chapter 2, chapter 3, more chapter 3, and cover fanart by Anticia!)
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18 Jul 2020
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a soft place to fall by brella
Fandoms: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
08 Jun 2019
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“This is my wound, too,” Narancia softly says, eyes shadowed by so many dark lashes. He presses down over her pulse, and Trish’s heart jumps to meet it. “And this is my heartbeat. I can be brave because you’re brave.”
In the ten days between Corsica and Sardinia, Trish learns about her new power, reflects on the past, and finds her reasons.
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17 Jul 2020
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remember me as a time of day by strikinglight
Fandoms: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
27 Sep 2019
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“This boat looks a mess, Bucciarati,” says Abbacchio, without preamble or pretense, the only way Bruno has ever known him to say anything.
“Of course it does,” Bruno tells him, like it is a matter of fact. “I bought it for a song.”
Bruno Bucciarati learns what the living do.
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17 Jul 2020