Now after Golden Wind was animated, the cast got a revitalization of...
Well, memes, attributed to them.
Mista never misses if he's the target, Narancia is 17 and he airplanes, and Bruno is the mom
of the group who likes to go to Olive Garden a lot.
Everyone had something tied to them due to the frequency of said attribute showing in
said character.
With Bruno's trait, I believe that it was the most adaptable and used across all of
the fandom.
It's such a noticeable trait we can see on Bruno, and that's not something that's commonly
bound to leaders of groups.
There's this something to Bruno.
An inviting, nurturing, and guiding energy.
And the question is why, and how you get someone like Bruno.
Now on why, I'd like to talk about "social resilience" here, but first, I want to cover
trauma, and it's the effect on the brain.
I, myself, am not a psychologist or scientist by any means.
That requires documentation for which I do not have.
But what I am, is someone with the ability to research and cite those that are qualified.
Multiple studies have seen trauma's effect on the brain, specifically childhood trauma.
I want to go over an article provided by Radboud University from the Netherlands first.
" Stress in early childhood leads to faster maturation of certain brain regions during
adolescence."
Further into the article.
"During adolescence, our brain experiences a natural pruning process in which previously
made connections between brain cells are refined, allowing the creation of more useful and efficient
networks."
Our brains already have a steady pace that it goes at to mature, but it's stress and
trauma that speeds up the process.
Further on, it gets specific.
"Stress due to negative experiences during childhood, such as illness or divorce, appears
to be related to faster maturation of the prefrontal cortex and amygdala in adolescence."
More evidence that proves this.
With what we have now, let's look back to Bruno in his early life.
We can try to connect the divorce as a reason for him maturing, but the thing is, Bruno
had shown that he was capable of more developed thoughts than the average seven-year-old.
He had recognized the circumstances his father was left with, considered the future, and
then chose to stick around him.
We could attribute that to him potentially being this type of person from the womb, but
JoJo has an on-going theme of "living."
Circumstances are a significant thing in this series, so I believe this was something that
Bruno had grown to learn.
Now, with both parents' descriptions, nowhere does it imply that they had put Bruno through
troubles to provoke a speedy maturation of the brain.
And I don't think that was the case either.
The father's description gives a dialogue of him being a man trying to protect his family
from everything wrong with the world.
Now, we had seen how bad it gets in Golden Wind.
With that idea in mind, it could've been the environment alone and what Bruno had seen
around him.
It could even be things where he and his dad come across unfortunate people.
As much as I don't want to make assumptions, I do think that Bruno's dad could be someone
who understands the circumstances of unfortunate people.
With the combination of that and a loving mother, I could see Bruno becoming the overly
sympathetic person he is.
Now, after the divorce, a few years later, there was the incident with his father.
What was the first thing to happen after that?
He waited for the people to come for his father so he could take them out.
Then, he found himself in the mafia to protect himself.
As crazy as all of these effects happening back to back sound, it makes a lot of sense.
See, there's another article I'd like to mention here.
It was titled "Unraveling the Link between Trauma and Male Delinquency: The Cumulative
Versus Differential Risk Perspectives."
The point I'd like to use from there is that traumatic experiences themselves link to juvenile
delinquency.
In Bruno's case, he did take a nosedive straight into the darkness of the world.
What Bruno had done in retaliation to what the gangsters did to his father is not something
to be understood by officials.
Though that thought alone implies that they're understanding, but in the world, Bruno lives
in, we know that's there's a significant chance they're not.
There's an even larger chance that they're crooked, so that's reason enough to take matters
into his own hands regardless of what he's labeled.
Because what's great about Bruno is that no matter how deep the descent is, his character
is immovable.
He had still stayed true to himself in the face of adversity.
Even with being in his situation, he held up his core values through all of it.
That's his resilience.
He had taken new means to approach the problems that conflict his life, while also not entirely
losing himself in the process.
He did change a lot, though.
After joining Passione, a lot had happened to Bruno.
He lost his father, found out Passione caused it, recruited a team of trustworthy people,
and built a name for himself in his community.
Now, this is where I'd like to bring up Social Resilience because it's similar to the idea
I have here.
Sometimes there are times when you see communities and their ability to tolerate, absorb, cope
with, and adjust to various kinds of environmental and social threats.
You've probably seen this with a lot of things.
When things face enormous and long-lasting problems, the only thing to do is to adapt.
What creates the people that develop the resolve to face these problems is usually unknown.
With our case in Bruno, we can get an idea.
See, Bruno could've easily been apart of the problem, but the way that Bruno had come up
doesn't align with that path.
Instead, he's taking the means of bettering his community with a group of individuals
that share similar beliefs.
And between them, they share a trust in Bruno.
But why?
Why does Bruno do it?
What keeps him going?
Well, there are multiple reasons, so here are a few.
First reason, Bruno is overly sympathetic.
That has yet to change about him, and honestly, I believe that's one of the most significant
things focused on when Araki had been writing him.
Look to what got Giorno's trust when they had first met.
Hesitating on a final blow because he was in shock that this teen was using.
Or when anyone comes to Bruno because they need help.
He feels the pain of the people.
And for the second reason, he feels a sense of responsibility.
That's what's getting him to do all of these things, and it connects back to his overly
sympathetic behavior.
Now on why.
There's his whole thing with sympathy.
But, it's most likely due to him being an active member of the group poisoning the people.
Being apart of Passione isn't being the solution to what's plaguing the country.
With the group being under the control of Diavolo, Passione is a contribution to the
problem.
In Passione, it's just a bunch of people trying to stack their bread, rather than worry about
the grand scheme of things.
Bruno is the shining light in the midst of all of it.
He recognizes what the gang does.
Then along with trying to be an active, helpful role in his community, Bruno had a plan set
to end the dealing in his country.
It's an extreme weight to bear, and he takes it upon himself to do so.
Now, he has a team to lighten the amount of weight he carries, but being a leader becomes
a burden itself.
His world is his responsibility, and his responsibility is his burden.
Now, what's left is what he does with all of this.
And the answer is simplified to Part 5 itself is the answer.
Bruno alone couldn't see the path to the future he wanted.
That was because it wasn't something he was to do alone.
He needed his guiding light of resolve, and he had that in Giorno.
Bruno's plans were stagnant before Giorno had come around.
The best thing he could do is fix immediate problems in the community rather than fix
what's causing said problems.
He was missing that drive and direction, but once he found Giorno, it all made sense.
After that, we just see the extent that Bruno will go to protect the grand plan.
The extent he'd go to see the world be a better place.
He was powered by the drive to change everything, powered by those around him, and everyone
that supports him.
I love Bruno's character.
He had carried the world's weight with his responsibilities, and the key to progressing
was not doing that.
Instead, sharing the burden, accepting guidance, and not being in the center of it all was
the actual key.
Being a leader, or just a role model of sorts usually means the world expects a lot from
you.
Since you're the guidance, there's usually this idea that you can't learn.
You're the teacher, and you're supposed to know all there is.
You're the leader, and you can't give wrong directions.
The room for error will have you claustrophobic.
But the truth of it all is that people can fail, and people can learn from said failures.
The truth is that you're not going to know it all, and it's okay that you're learning.
There's nothing wrong with accepting help.
Sometimes that's just the key
to progressing.
Be the change
you want
to see.
And that's Bruno.
Thank you all for watching.