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CHARACTER
Name: Okuyasu Nijimura
Canon: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable
Age: 16
Timeline: post-vol 47
Items with character at canon point: just his Sweet Threads
Personality: Okuyasu is a good kid. Not the best kid, because he's 16 and comes wholesale with all the annoying, dumb things immature 16-year-olds do, but a good kid. What you see is pretty much what you get when it comes to Okuyasu; his heart is on his sleeve and he doesn't hide things or keep secrets. It's obvious looking at him once how his day is going, because he's just so loud and expressive with everything he does. What he'll say is that he's not good at bluffing or trying to fake it and so he doesn't, and that's not untrue. He's just like that on top of his decision to take subtlety and toss it out a window into traffic.
But first, Okuyasu is a great friend. He's incredibly loyal and always willing to help out his friends, whether it's in a fight or on a regular school day or with ill-advised romantic advice. The friends he has are more important to him than anyone else and to be one of his trusted friends is to have his support basically for life; he's definitely the friend who will start fights over a third party trying to talk shit about his buddies. The caveat to this is if you aren't his close friend, he cares waaaaay less. Not that he's apathetic or particularly rude to other people, but his actions can be dismissive if not outright petty. He considers his help, for example, to start and end when he feels like it; when he uses his Stand to put out a fire on a girl's head by vanishing her hair, he demonstrates absolutely zero sympathy for the fact that she's then bald, even saying that she should be grateful and that's it. He's also been shown to have no second thoughts about cheating someone out of their money/stuff/whatever, following the logic that if they're going to offer, they might as well have that taken advantage of. Part of that is simply because he's stingy, but Okuyasu really treats people outside his social circle as way less of a priority, even if he's nice to them or has done something kinda shitty to them. Either way.
Gaining his trust however is relatively easy, as all one has to do is help him out in a significantly selfless way and he's pretty much sold. This betrays a soft squishy center of Okuyasu's, under the posturing and bluster of a delinquent thug. He looks and acts like one, but he's liable to cry at the drop of a hat over other people's kindness or any kind of good fortune. Selfless people impress him, the most obvious case being his best friend Josuke, who heals his injuries once when he doesn't have to and then can't get rid of Okuyasu ever again after that. He's not stingy with his friendship, and his very basic view of people and things can make gaining his trust really easy, too. This basic view is what it sounds like - Okuyasu tends to slot people into "good" and "everyone else feat. enemies" because he honestly can't make more detailed judgments on his own. He'll make up his mind about someone based on one or two actions or hearsay and those opinions are hard to change because he doesn't think about doing it. This can lead to some very black and white opinions with very simple reasoning behind them. It happens.
On that subject, the fact that Okuyasu "can't think well" is both his own opinion and somewhat the truth. Okuyasu thinks very little of his own intelligence and mental capabilities; he says often that he's not too smart and that's why he opts for the easiest path if not the most logical or correct (e.g. choosing both out of 2 choices because choosing the correct one is too hard). He doesn't make big decisions well because he's never had to, given that he followed his older brother around for years since childhood and after his brother's death kind of latches onto Josuke in the same way. Okuyasu is a follower and not a leader, very willing to go along with what someone else tells him to do without argument or questioning. It didn't help that his older brother used to tell him what useless dead weight who can't make the right choice anyway he is; making the big decisions on his own is challenging because he's never had to and on some level doesn't believe he's smart enough to do it. Often when challenging choices come up, he opts for the quickest way out rather than the quickest way to solve the problem. He skips the thinking part and leaps right into acting on instinct; if it's difficult enough he even loses his temper at both it and himself. By the end of Diamond is Unbreakable he realizes he has to decide things for himself and manages to do it once, but going along with the crowd or one particular person is still a bad habit of his.
The other real truth is that he honestly isn't all that intelligent. He misses obvious clues and thinks basic solutions are genius when proposed by others, and his offered solutions to things are generally childish and silly (you want to reject a girl? stop showering instead of talking to her!). Or the things he does instinctively are kind of questionable (picking up trash off the ground because it's there, and such). Despite this he's almost always in an insanely upbeat mood and doesn't seem interested in doing anything about his lack of smarts, so he seems to be doing well enough in that area. He's no genius but he isn't gullible-- while quick-thinking leaps of logic and reasoning aren't his style, he isn't so out there that he's easily tricked into falling for someone else's scheme. Some of this is a natural suspicion that anyone actively trying to confuse him - he can tell - is up to no good, and some of it is his temper leaving him to snap and throw a punch and damn the consequences. Still, not being the brightest doesn't make him easy to manipulate.
Underneath his plucky friendly guy exterior, Okuyasu's serious side manifests pretty much entirely in his temper. He'll lose it on someone trying to trick him, or self-serving people trying to take his dues, and he's demonstrated a capacity for revenge. His temper doesn't get the best of him though; even when he wants to avenge his brother's murder, he can still take a step back and admit that his brother was a real asshole and was going to get his eventually - it's just that that's someone who was important to him, and he's willing to look past some things to avenge him. He'll still put you in a headlock for cutting in line to buy lunch, though, that's still on the table as far as his temper is concerned.
Okuyasu himself is pretty selfless; he's stingy with money honestly only because he's very poor and has been squatting in a derelict house with his mutant abusive father for a while now. Other than that he's helpful, a good team player, kind to the elderly... he has nothing at all in the world and doesn't resent others for having more than him at all. In a surprisingly mature twist he's aware enough of his lot in life and his own responsibility for it that he gets really excited about putting money in a savings account. That on top of the fact that his mutant dad can no longer care for himself and Okuyasu does take care of him shows that he has a big heart and will always look out for the people he's close to without complaint.
Finally though, he's just a kid. He's usually off doing something dumb with Josuke like making up cool tricks with their Stands, and he insists on eating ice cream every morning or he just can't get through the day. He gets excited about good food and bad jokes. He follows his friends around in secret to spy on their dates in what can only end in a comedy of errors. All in all he's just a decent kid who's learning to be a little more independent than he's had to be before this point in his life. He's doing okay!
Background: wiki
Abilities: Okuyasu is a Stand user; his Stand is called The Hand (yes) and is primarily an offensive fighting Stand. It has several noteworthy traits:
Elimination: The Hand's right hand can, with a swiping motion, eliminate whatever happens to be in its path. This ranges from objects to other Stands to space itself, giving Okuyasu the ability to "teleport" if he "cuts space," as the surrounding space will immediately fill in the void The Hand creates. Okuyasu has no idea where the things he erases actually go, but it's noted that not even Josuke's Crazy Diamond, a Stand that can restore anything to its "fixed" state, can bring back what The Hand has erased. So if he were to erase, say, somebody's weapon, he wouldn't be able to whip it out and use it himself - it would just be gone.
Strength: The Hand is very physically strong, to the point where Okuyasu believes that not even a steel transmission tower would be no trouble at all for The Hand to break down.
Speed: While not as fast as the notable speedster Stands in the canon, The Hand's speed is at a B rank, which puts it pretty high. The only problem with this is that Okuyasu tends to attack the same way every time (cut space -> punch), so The Hand's comparative speed isn't often used to its fullest advantage. He's trying.
Without his Stand, Okuyasu isn't bad in a fist fight. That's all he's got.
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CHARACTER
Name: Okuyasu Nijimura
Canon: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable
Age: 16
Timeline: post-vol 47
Items with character at canon point: just his Sweet Threads
Personality: Okuyasu is a good kid. Not the best kid, because he's 16 and comes wholesale with all the annoying, dumb things immature 16-year-olds do, but a good kid. What you see is pretty much what you get when it comes to Okuyasu; his heart is on his sleeve and he doesn't hide things or keep secrets. It's obvious looking at him once how his day is going, because he's just so loud and expressive with everything he does. What he'll say is that he's not good at bluffing or trying to fake it and so he doesn't, and that's not untrue. He's just like that on top of his decision to take subtlety and toss it out a window into traffic.
But first, Okuyasu is a great friend. He's incredibly loyal and always willing to help out his friends, whether it's in a fight or on a regular school day or with ill-advised romantic advice. The friends he has are more important to him than anyone else and to be one of his trusted friends is to have his support basically for life; he's definitely the friend who will start fights over a third party trying to talk shit about his buddies. The caveat to this is if you aren't his close friend, he cares waaaaay less. Not that he's apathetic or particularly rude to other people, but his actions can be dismissive if not outright petty. He considers his help, for example, to start and end when he feels like it; when he uses his Stand to put out a fire on a girl's head by vanishing her hair, he demonstrates absolutely zero sympathy for the fact that she's then bald, even saying that she should be grateful and that's it. He's also been shown to have no second thoughts about cheating someone out of their money/stuff/whatever, following the logic that if they're going to offer, they might as well have that taken advantage of. Part of that is simply because he's stingy, but Okuyasu really treats people outside his social circle as way less of a priority, even if he's nice to them or has done something kinda shitty to them. Either way.
Gaining his trust however is relatively easy, as all one has to do is help him out in a significantly selfless way and he's pretty much sold. This betrays a soft squishy center of Okuyasu's, under the posturing and bluster of a delinquent thug. He looks and acts like one, but he's liable to cry at the drop of a hat over other people's kindness or any kind of good fortune. Selfless people impress him, the most obvious case being his best friend Josuke, who heals his injuries once when he doesn't have to and then can't get rid of Okuyasu ever again after that. He's not stingy with his friendship, and his very basic view of people and things can make gaining his trust really easy, too. This basic view is what it sounds like - Okuyasu tends to slot people into "good" and "everyone else feat. enemies" because he honestly can't make more detailed judgments on his own. He'll make up his mind about someone based on one or two actions or hearsay and those opinions are hard to change because he doesn't think about doing it. This can lead to some very black and white opinions with very simple reasoning behind them. It happens.
On that subject, the fact that Okuyasu "can't think well" is both his own opinion and somewhat the truth. Okuyasu thinks very little of his own intelligence and mental capabilities; he says often that he's not too smart and that's why he opts for the easiest path if not the most logical or correct (e.g. choosing both out of 2 choices because choosing the correct one is too hard). He doesn't make big decisions well because he's never had to, given that he followed his older brother around for years since childhood and after his brother's death kind of latches onto Josuke in the same way. Okuyasu is a follower and not a leader, very willing to go along with what someone else tells him to do without argument or questioning. It didn't help that his older brother used to tell him what useless dead weight who can't make the right choice anyway he is; making the big decisions on his own is challenging because he's never had to and on some level doesn't believe he's smart enough to do it. Often when challenging choices come up, he opts for the quickest way out rather than the quickest way to solve the problem. He skips the thinking part and leaps right into acting on instinct; if it's difficult enough he even loses his temper at both it and himself. By the end of Diamond is Unbreakable he realizes he has to decide things for himself and manages to do it once, but going along with the crowd or one particular person is still a bad habit of his.
The other real truth is that he honestly isn't all that intelligent. He misses obvious clues and thinks basic solutions are genius when proposed by others, and his offered solutions to things are generally childish and silly (you want to reject a girl? stop showering instead of talking to her!). Or the things he does instinctively are kind of questionable (picking up trash off the ground because it's there, and such). Despite this he's almost always in an insanely upbeat mood and doesn't seem interested in doing anything about his lack of smarts, so he seems to be doing well enough in that area. He's no genius but he isn't gullible-- while quick-thinking leaps of logic and reasoning aren't his style, he isn't so out there that he's easily tricked into falling for someone else's scheme. Some of this is a natural suspicion that anyone actively trying to confuse him - he can tell - is up to no good, and some of it is his temper leaving him to snap and throw a punch and damn the consequences. Still, not being the brightest doesn't make him easy to manipulate.
Underneath his plucky friendly guy exterior, Okuyasu's serious side manifests pretty much entirely in his temper. He'll lose it on someone trying to trick him, or self-serving people trying to take his dues, and he's demonstrated a capacity for revenge. His temper doesn't get the best of him though; even when he wants to avenge his brother's murder, he can still take a step back and admit that his brother was a real asshole and was going to get his eventually - it's just that that's someone who was important to him, and he's willing to look past some things to avenge him. He'll still put you in a headlock for cutting in line to buy lunch, though, that's still on the table as far as his temper is concerned.
Okuyasu himself is pretty selfless; he's stingy with money honestly only because he's very poor and has been squatting in a derelict house with his mutant abusive father for a while now. Other than that he's helpful, a good team player, kind to the elderly... he has nothing at all in the world and doesn't resent others for having more than him at all. In a surprisingly mature twist he's aware enough of his lot in life and his own responsibility for it that he gets really excited about putting money in a savings account. That on top of the fact that his mutant dad can no longer care for himself and Okuyasu does take care of him shows that he has a big heart and will always look out for the people he's close to without complaint.
Finally though, he's just a kid. He's usually off doing something dumb with Josuke like making up cool tricks with their Stands, and he insists on eating ice cream every morning or he just can't get through the day. He gets excited about good food and bad jokes. He follows his friends around in secret to spy on their dates in what can only end in a comedy of errors. All in all he's just a decent kid who's learning to be a little more independent than he's had to be before this point in his life. He's doing okay!
Background: wiki
Abilities: Okuyasu is a Stand user; his Stand is called The Hand (yes) and is primarily an offensive fighting Stand. It has several noteworthy traits:
Without his Stand, Okuyasu isn't bad in a fist fight. That's all he's got.
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