JOJO: MIRACLE MILK
Filler episode - Jojo rides a jeepney.
Date & Location: Unknown
Due to some complications that I don't really feel like explaining, my usual mode of transportation isn't available.
It was grocery shopping day for us again. Jomi and I; Joker went off once again to restore our stock of apartment sustenance. The most important sustenance... Junk Food.
So here we are, out in broad daylight in the afternoon waiting for a commute vehicle to arrive. On our hands plastic of goods which seem way heavier than they should be.
"Oh my god..! This heat is unbearable! Is this the result of climate change? I know seasons aren't a thing here in the Philippines but isn't winter supposed to be at least a little cold!?" I groan out in annoyance as I wipe off the sweat on my forehead. "What are you talking about Joker? This temperature is pretty standard here in Manila at least." Jomi replied, W1tch appearing simply to nod in confirmation. WHAT!? This unbearable humid heat for a weather is standard!? This fancy suit I'm wearing isn't suited for weather like this... I look at Jomi. She seems somewhat unfazed by the heat for the most part. I've always thought she didn't wear enough clothes and that she was needlessly exposing her skin. But now I know better.
"This heat is like upwards of 30 degrees celcius!" I scream as I stare at the sky. "Not a single cloud in the sky... Just the sun... Mocking me! Ugh... Can't a cloud show up to give us a bit of a breeze?" I continue to complain while we wait standing up when suddenly Jomi calls out. "Oh! Joker there's a jeep coming this way headed where we want! PARA PO!" Jomi waves her hands in the air commanding the incoming strange vehicle to stop.
So this is a jeepney? A filipino's most common method of public communal transport. Despite the big size... It seems pretty crowded in there.
Jomi and I take a step and enter through the back. The inside is pretty crowded. All the passengers without even anyone commanding them all step aside to make room for the new passengers, even the person on his phone slid.
Without much room, we weren't given much choice but to sit in different sides of the cargo near the exit.
Just glad that we finally found commute I breathe a sigh of relief and began to slouch down.
It was a few minutes into the ride when Jomi suddenly reminded me of something important. "Hey Joker, did you pay the driver yet?" "Huh!? Oh crap you're right..!"
I may be part of a criminal organization but petty thievery is something I don't and will never do. I was about to stupidly say 'stop' when I realized that wouldn't be a good idea to say.
I looked at the driver, it's not that far, but it seems like quite a cramped and long walk of shame on a long hallway to me... But it's the only way! Ugh... This sucks.
I stood up, or rather, squatted up and slowly but carefully made my way towards the driver's pay box. I almost fell a couple of times and I was constantly asking people to excuse myself... It was embarassing, but finally I did it... Until I realized... I now had to do it again but on the other way around...
Repeat that and finally I return back. I notice Jomi staring at me from the other end as I return back slouching on my seat. I ask her "What?" and she responds with "Oh, it's just... You... Nevermind." confused I almost wanted to make her clarify but ultimately decided not to as it didn't matter anyways probably.
The car suddenly stopped a few minutes in once again. It seems a passenger asked to stop here, the person just beside me leaves and as he does another comes forward to enter.
Well this is gonna be fun to watch, he's gonna have to walk all the way over and back for his payment too! The jeep started without any consent for him! Hah! Now it's my turn to watch someone else suffer!
I looked at the man sitting beside me, the man who just entered, as he scrounges around his bag for his wallet. He takes out a piece of paper, a bank note and casually brings it towards the man next to him. The man simply said "Bayad po." the guy beside him took the money and passed it onto the next person, and the next, and the next, until the bank note made it's way to the driver in record time without any effort on anyone's end. I simply stared dumbfounded, I look to Jomi and she simply chuckles at my dumbfounded face.
we arrive back at last a few minutes later but... I feel like I'll never really live that down for as long as I live...
I'M AN IDIOT. STAYING TRUE TO MY NAME AS ALWAYS I SEE...
Paint me japanese and call me Hirohiko Araki, because the very thing I set out to do in Chapter 8, I FAILED HORRIBLY AT.
A certain line near the end there might have confused you, or maybe not?
It was Sophia saying that Zeppeli was a lot younger than she says...
Yeah, that was because I thought I wrote her to be 300 years old or something stupid like that.
Her canon age is still 73-ish.
RemixTheIdiot forgot...
So apart from that, there's something else I really wanted to say that I'm pretty proud of.
And that's that I've finally caught up to ALL of Jojo! I read the manga and have now caught up to the latest chapter of Jojolion! (103 as of me writing this)
My knowledge of the world of Jojo is at an all time high now.
Due to how this is simply supposed to be a re-telling, and that at the time of writing anyway I wasn't caught up with Jojo anyway, there are a lot of things in this fanfic that is wrong. Such as the meteor containing the stand virus landing on Egypt.
Alternate universe shenanigans, let's just leave it at that.
Something I really enjoyed while reading Part 7 Steel Ball Run were the "filler" chapters of just Gyro and Johnny being good buddies. There are already pretty much scenes in this fanfic that are like that, but I haven't read part 7 yet when I made those. There's a difference, trust me! Because now, in order to fulfill my 1 month per chapter promise, you might see me litter some of these "X point 5" chapters here and there. Hope you don't mind! I know I didn't, but that's because Araki's a genius and I'm... An idiot.
Well, I've read all of Jojo's Miracle Milk, read my Game Master notes and re-watched our campaign recordings again! I'm ready to continue posting more chapters again. Maybe I should consider getting World Anvil or Campfire or do ANYTHING to organize my story to avoid Araki Forgot nonesense from happening...
Regardless, look forward to it! I wanna try posting monthly since I have all the time in the world now for the first time in forever... And I decide to spend that time writing cringy fanfiction. Wonderful.
The new chapters might look very different. I'm using a different program to write now you see? Hopefully the new format looks better than previous chapters...