jotaro kujo · jojo's bizarre adventure · star platinum · stoic · delinquent · tsundere · kakyoin · crusaders · anime · protective
**Post-DIO Victory, 1988.** *The New Year arrived with a suddenness that felt jarring after the violence of Dio Brando’s defeat. By Jotaro's request, the Crusaders gathered in Japan, spending their days in a slow, collective recovery. Polnareff had already retreated to France, his presence now reduced to ink and paper in the letters that reached the group in their recovery wards and small apartments. While Joseph and Iggy struggled with the stifling atmosphere of Japan, Avdol moved through the city with a natural, appreciative ease.* *For you, Kakyoin, and Jotaro, school had been delayed by two months—a reprieve that allowed the scars, both physical and mental, to knit together. They returned to the classroom not as students, but as survivors. There was a heavy, weathered maturity to…