Giorno Giovanna in Stone Ocean is a concept I've had before, but I haven't followed up
with it. So, let's see how this plays out. Now originally, the idea was Giorno Vs. Pucci, but
this is after that now. How does the world continue now that Giorno has stopped Pucci?
With GER in mind, Giorno has the upper hand in every situation. So now, while Giorno
could get rid of Pucci outright, he's the type to get an entire scope of the case.
Interrogating everyone at the scene doesn't seem like a Giorno thing because I think he'd only
want answers from two people at max. Talking to Pucci would only annoy him because while
Pucci is trying to finagle a way to win, Giorno is just trying to get answers. And when he realizes
he can't do anything, Giorno, I imagine his mind stops working because of the immense
gap between the two. So the only people to talk to are Jolyne and Jotaro. Jolyne,
at this moment, would probably be like, "Yo, that guy over there is out of his mind and has been
trying to kill us this whole time." And Jotaro will specify a bit here and there, but I imagine
there would be at least one mention of Dio. Now that's going to trigger something Giorno
because that picture of Dio is labeled in the manga. He knows his name. This
description of Dio from Jotaro would be a scathing review of his character,
but I don't think this would be something that Giorno would be slighted by too much.
He might show Jotaro and Jolyne the photo of Dio and explain that he's his father,
but since Giorno can recognize someone's intent and resolve by doing something
as simple as interacting with them, I can't imagine he'd attack any of the Joestars here.
It would be a semi-deep hit to Giorno, but at this age, he's matured a lot by now, and it's
not in his character to defend the evil nature of someone who has never participated in his life.
NOW PUCCI, ON THE OTHER HAND! There's a lot he can do. But imagining it right now, he'd probably be
starstruck as Giorno is the spitting image of Dio. Yeah, sure, he's worked with Dio's
other children, but this is a power that stands above him in the same way Dio did.
I cannot see Pucci attacking Giorno when he's hugely starstruck, but he may be swayed
when he hears that Giorno isn't defending Dio or taking his side on this. So,
I'll say Pucci tries Giorno one last time, and GER isn't having it.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Pucci is gone, and now this is a significantly different world. Giorno is connected with Jolyne
and Jotaro, meaning we have every Joestar since Joseph. In the world of JoJo, what would that
mean? Well, narratively speaking, I think that Araki would have to introduce another big villain
to close it out since Giorno halted Pucci's enormous presence. This situation is terrifying
because unless Araki pulls another problem where it's like, "Oh hey, this guy has always been
there, " we'd need a complete introduction of a new guy. Pucci was an out-of-nowhere thing that
Araki made to work because it's more believable than whatever following situation we conjure up.
I promise y'all that having Giorno in Stone Ocean actually does more damage than good.
Imagine this build-up of conflict for volumes on volumes, episodes on episodes,
just for someone who wasn't here in the story to come through and fix it.
It would be unsatisfying. But let's keep this pushing.
Everyone goes home, Jotaro and Jolyne fix up their relationship, Giorno continues his job as
leader of Passione, and Josuke is still doing Josuke stuff. At this point, the situations
I see in the future for these characters would be on-par with what goes on with Rohan Kishibe.
I wouldn't see this as a bad thing, but it wouldn't be as eventful as a whole part of JoJo.
If we were to make a part for JoJo, I can tell you what we'd have on the table if we continued
using this universe. There's Shizuka Joestar, who isn't related by blood, but would be the
old option out of the family. If not Shizuka, the protagonist would have to be one of the children
of the Joestars from parts 3 through 6. Meaning
Jolyne could have a sibling if Jotaro got back on the market, Josuke could have a kid, Giorno might
adopt one because my headcanon is that just seems like his character, or Jolyne could have one.
If that were to happen, I think it would be possible that the next enemy would be someone
who has been watching the Joestars not because of their actions but because of their connection
to the Speedwagon foundation. So I think it's an interesting situation to work with because
that would put the new Joestar in the position that Polnareff was in against Diavolo,
but now on a grander scale. Joseph would hopefully be dead by this point, and Jotaro would be
too old of a user to be in action like that. At that point, all you have to
do is make sure that Giorno gets no notice of this, then Jolyne and Josuke have their
connections with the Speedwagon foundation compromised because of this new evil force.
My philosophy with this is that what Diavolo did was so effective;
it's not impractical for someone to do this with just more numbers. Remove their
resources and stack a bunch of your best stand users to take out each Joestar individually.
Giorno wouldn't be possible unless they come out with a new user that's on-par, but I feel like
if we did have a major antagonist to this, they should be able to make Giorno a significant loss.
If the idea is that the new Joestar is supposed to take over in this part, having a Franklin
Richards situation where the kid is significantly stronger than their family wouldn't be that bad.
I want to make this more of a story rather than an outline, but I
think it's up to y'all if you want to see this fiddled around with in the future.