PhantomKnightPercival: Yes, it really is.
TheSBRdude, and Coco Jumbo: Those were probably the best reactions I have ever seen. I'm not going to say much, but they are on the verge of getting together, all they need is one final push.
Tengoku21: Well, I might give the Midnight thing a shot. It depends on how much people will enjoy it.
OKKO3 Requiem: I'd say the color changes happen when a character has a badass moment, like the final moments between Kyoka and Don't Stop Me Now when she tricked him into crashing into a fuse box.
AshenOne: You're welcome! It was a great idea! Thank you for your input!
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One bad day.
You're probably sick of all the Joker references going around, but in the case of Susan Cujoh, this philosophy could not hold more merit.
Perhaps she was a good person once...or perhaps she always had the monster deep inside her, and that she finally had a reason to let it out.
Whatever the case, she didn't always act so twisted.
"Congratulations Ma'am, you're having twins!" The doctor said. Susan's face lit up as she rubbed her pregnant belly. "Twins...I'm going to have twins JoJo!"
Jotaro looked at her belly, and Susan was pleased to see one of his rare smiles. "I want to name one Johnathan." Jotaro said. "After one of my ancestors...if that's okay with you."
Susan looked into her husband's eyes. "Of course, I think the other one should be Nicholas...after my father."
Jotaro nodded.
Susan smiled as a three year old Jolyne came into the room. "Guess what JoJo? You're going to have two brothers!"
Jolyne's face pinched up. "But I wanna sister!"
Jotaro sighed. "Yare yare daze..."
...
"I'm...I'm sorry ma'am."
"What's wrong?! They made it, right?! Did something happen to my babies?!" Susan pleaded from the hospital bed. After a staggering twelve hours of labor, she had finally given birth to the twins.
"One of them...didn't make it, I'm sorry."
"Oh God..." Tears began to flow down the woman's face as she mourned the death of one of her sons. "W-which one?"
"I believe it was...Nicholas, yes it was Nicholas. You see, the umbilical chord got wrapped around...his throat. Luckily, Johnathan was on the other end of it, but when Johnathan came out, there was a tug and...well we know how fragile...babies...are."
"Are you telling me that Johnathan SNAPPED-"
"When he came out, yes. Unfortunately, we didn't catch it in time...I'm so sorry..."
Susan put her head in her hands and sobbed. How could fate be so cruel? In order to give birth to one baby, they had to sacrifice another. Then the doctor brought in her surviving son. His eyes were open, and he was looking at his mother curiously, extending a chubby hand to her face. He was smiling...
Why are you smiling...? Do you...know what you did?
You just accidentally killed your own brother...why are you happy?
And...why isn't Jotaro here?
Susan weakly grasped her infant son's hand, attempting to return his affection.
Suddenly, a horrifying image of an adult version of her son, standing over her own mangled corpse flashed through her mind. His green eyes indicated that he had no love for her whatsoever.
Susan recoiled, almost dropping Johnathan in the process. A strange voice sounded in her ears.
"He won't be the one to kill you, Susan...but he will...inspire...your killer..."
Susan felt a chill as the shaky form of a shadow figure appeared. It had long hair, but she couldn't see the color. All she could see, were his piercing red eyes.
"He will be the reason you, and many others, die. Do you think it was an accident Nicholas didn't survive?"
"N-no, he's just a child, he would never."
"Susan...poor naive Susan...you didn't even realize you gave birth to a monster. Jonathan was a monster the moment Jotaro picked his name. Your family will become your enemy, your friends will abandon you, and it will all be due to your child's machinations. "
"NO!"
"YES! He has already claimed one life, are you going to let him claim yours? "
"I don't believe you!"
" Just wait! Soon, very soon...he will drive your husband away. Yes...VERY SOON. It's USELESS to deny it."
"NO!"
...
Susan sat up, gasping for air.
It was modern day, and so far everything the shadow had claimed had come true. Her family had turned against her, her friends despised her, and she was pretty sure Johnny had already killed a few people.
Johnny was the cause of all of her problems, just as the shadow said...
Except he wouldn't be the death of her.
Because now, she was taking action. Her son was born a monster, she knew that from the moment Jotaro had left, but he was a monster that she created.
She was the only one who could stop him, and she would go to any length to do so. She tried to keep him down over the years, make him obedient in the hopes that she could save him from this fate, but it didn't work. Somehow, he found the strength.
The only solution, as much as Susan hated it, was to put him down. Johnny was her responsibility...and she would see it through till the end.
Susan was ready.
After she got out of bed, she took to the streets. There was a big meeting between hero agencies today, she knew because she had been following Johnny and his loyal dogs for weeks.
Zeppeli, Midoriya,...Jiro, they were all Johnny's puppets. He was using them.
Susan would cut their strings.
She had to catch him when the puppets weren't looking, however, because they would most certainly leap to their master's defense.
"I'll be right back Johnny, I have to piss." The Italian, Zeppeli, said as he left the room. She was watching through the window, and now Johnny and Jiro were sitting together, alone.
So...he's lured her in with the prospect of romance...Susan thought to herself. Poor girl...he doesn't care about her in the slightest...I'm pretty sure he isn't capable of love.
"So...about what happened the other day..."
The other day? Now Susan was curious, did something happen between them?
Johnny turned to Jiro. "Are we finally talking about it? We've been dancing around each other ever since...I was starting to get worried."
"NO! Don't get worried...I just needed some time to process things. Having a stand user fuck with your emotions...you know how closed off I can be. I needed to recover, I'm sorry if I seemed like...you know..."
"Kyoka, I get it. I've only recently got over all the shit with my mom, and then this guy created a possibly fake romance between us...in a way, I'm still a bit vunerable. Whatever the situation is, even if there WAS something there, we shouldn't let it ruin our friendship."
"Of course! Your friendship is important to me, hell, I might be dead without it. So...no matter what, we'll still be friends, right?"
He...got over me?
Impossible.
"Absolutely."
Jiro smiled. "Good. I'm going to get ready, I'll see you later!"
"Bye Kyoka." Did Johnny sound...sad?
"I know you're there, mother."
Shit.
Susan crawled through the window to face her son. "You...grew your hair out."
"And you suddenly have the skills of a cat burglar. How did you get past security?" Johnny asked. There was no malice in his voice, but he wasn't happy to see her, that's for sure.
"Like you said, cat burglar." Susan said, choosing to avoid mentioning that she paralyzed most of the security detail, and Midnight. She currently had them all tied up in a closet.
Johnny sighed, and motioned for his mother to sit, leaving Susan confused. "When was the last time we met face to face? We were fighting over...a hat, right?" Johnny gave Susan a smile, not a happy one, but it looked like he was trying to be reassuring. "It's a couch, not a death trap. I've...actually been meaning to have this conversation with you for a while."
Susan reluctantly sat down, perplexed by Johnny's kindness. "What do you want out of this Johnny? Aren't you going to take revenge or something?"
Johnny shook his head, sitting across from his mother. "No. Revenge is a fool's game, I'll only play it when someone gets hurt. However, I guess I just want to understand how you think. I mean, you blamed me for something that happened when I wasn't even born...and you tried to defame Dad after you said you loved him. So...where do you think we should go from here?"
Susan decided it was time to strike. She had Johnny where she wanted him, all she had to do was throw one insult his way, and Blood on the Dance Floor would do the rest.
"Where do we go from here? Heh, I'm not sure about myself...but maybe a nice trip over the balcony could do you some good. Hell, everyone might benefit from it...what?!"
Johnny wasn't falling over. He wasn't under her stand's ability at all, he was just looking at her with one eyebrow raised. "Was...something supposed to happen there? Did you think I wasn't expecting insults? Insults are your forte, they're the only thing I know from you."
HOW IS HE IMMUNE TO MY STAND?!
Johnny got up and walked to the window, the same sad expression on his face. "Have you ever watched the Princess Bride? It's one of my favorite movies. You know the scene where Wesley and that one guy are going to take a sip of wine, but one of the cups had poison in it? Wesley secretly put the poison in both cups, because he had developed an immunity to it.
In order to develop an immunity to a poison, you have to be exposed to it, constantly. That way, your immune system can get used to it. You...your words, are poison, and I've become so used to them that I don't feel anything when you use them. A VERY good friend of mine, one you've hurt before, by the way, was the one who finally gave me the strength to get rid of the shadow you've cast over my life."
Susan could only stare, her entire plan had been shattered. Johnny, really doesn't...it doesn't work on him...
Johnny closed his eyes and took a deep breath. "Actually, I want to thank you."
"Thank me?!"
Johnny nodded. "If you weren't such an abusive prick...I might not be the same me, you know? My life has changed, and it wouldn't have if I never had the background that I did. I might have never met Gyro, or Kyoka...and if you didn't attack the family, we wouldn't have united to push back. You brought the family back together."
Susan didn't have any words. So Johnny continued.
"You will...never be a mother to me, I see that now. We are related by blood, nothing more. I'm grateful that you were in my life, because it taught me a valuable lesson, but I can't forgive you. I don't think I ever can, I just don't have any love for you, not anymore."
Johnny sighed. "The most I can offer is pity."
Pity?
PITY?!
YOU THINK YOU CAN PITY ME?!
Susan stood up, her face contorted in seething anger, before a fist collided with her face.
"GET AWAY FROM HIM BITCH!" Kyoka snarled. Gyro and Izuku were standing behind her, looking equally as pissed off.
"This is why I said thank you, Susan. If you hadn't tortured me, I would never had found such amazing friends." Johnny said, going to stand with them. "I suggest you leave, before Kyoka tears you apart."
Susan backed up, rubbing her bruised cheek, glaring at the group. "This...isn't...over." Susan jumped out of the window.
Johnny sighed as he put a hand to his forehead. "Yare yare daze...she's such a pain in the ass."
...
"I can't believe she snuck in here!" Kyoka ranted, pacing back and forth. "That's trespassing you know!"
"Well, at least we know that Johnny has thick skin." Gyro said. Johnny had left to go report Susan to the principal. "Still, the fact that she got past U.A's security, couldn't a villain do the same?" Izuku asked, concerned.
"I'm a little bit more concerned with how much I hate her!" Kyoka said. "She hurt Johnny too many times...I'm tired of seeing him suffer."
"She hurt the whole Joestar family! The only reason she didn't get a steel ball to the skull was because I didn't want to brain her in front of Johnny!" Gyro said. "I hate that woman as much as you do...but attacking her is what she wants. Imagine the headlines: 'Hero Students Assault Civilian' you know damn well she probably still has connections to the press."
"Imagine if that bitch found out about One For All! It would be all over the newspapers, and you would get a whole lot of attention." Kyoka pointed at Izuku. "I mean, she was spying on us! She could have easily eavesdropped on one of our meetings with All Might."
Izuku shuddered at the thought of Susan knowing about OFA. That sensitive information in the hands of a woman like Susan Cujoh would be...devastating.
"That's terrifying." Gyro muttered. Ever since Gyro had become their classmate, he knew about OFA. How could he not? He was Johnny's right hand man, and vice versa. Besides, Toshinori had figured that three students were better than one.
"Still, I think you were just protecting your man." Gyro said, smirking in Kyoka's direction. "Dude, sh-shut up." Kyoka stammered out.
Izuku blinked. "Wait...her...is there something going on between you and JoJo?"
Kyoka began banging her head against the window as Gyro turned to Izuku and explained. "You see, I'm fairly certain those two are in love with each other."
"Why are you telling Midoriya this? I told you I liked him in confidence, Gyro."
"And I know that you trust Midoriya too. I figured, since he's known Johnny the longest, he could help out with the situation."
"I'm fine with being his friend Gyro, you know this."
"That wasn't the first time you two have almost smooched, Kyoka."
"How many times do I have to tell you? We weren't about to kiss on I-Island."
"Sure."
"Look, we're getting off topic, how the hell are we going to deal with Susan?"
Izuku looked down. "We do nothing...for now. She trespassed on school grounds, that would be enough for her to be arrested...but if she does something else, we protect JoJo with everything we've got!"
"Because he would do the same for us."
The three unanimously agreed. If Susan were to try anything, they would be ready, because only heaven knows where they would be if a certain Joestar wasn't in their lives.
...
Jotaro slowly opened the janitor's closet after hearing banging and yelling, only to find his colleague laying in the middle of the floor.
"Nemuri...care to explain yourself?"
"Well if it isn't my knight in shining armor!" Midnight said, still lying motionless except for her mouth.
"Nemuri, you are lying on the floor in the middle of a janitor's closet, and it sounded like you were calling for help...you can't move."
Midnight sighed. "Nope, thanks to your ex, I'm going to be stuck like this for a while."
"Susan?"
Midnight attempted to nod, then remembered that she couldn't. "Yeah, just broke in here and called me a stripper...next thing I knew I couldn't move. She dragged me in here and locked the door."
Jotaro frowned, and slowly bent over and scooped up his limp co-worker. "Oooooh, bridal style, such a forward approa-"
Jotaro slung her roughly over his shoulder.
"OOF! Didn't your mother ever teach you how to treat a woman?"
"Quit complaining, I could've left you there."
"But you wouldn't, you like me too much."
"As a friend, Nemuri."
"Of course, did you think I was talking about something else?"
"Yare yare daze..."
While getting Nemuri to Recovery Girl was his top priority, Jotaro couldn't help but feel...disturbed by what she had told him.
It sounds like Susan has a stand...
What is she about to do...?