Erina Pendleton

Erina Joestar (エリナ・ジョースター, Erina Josuta) (née Pendolton (ペンドルトン, Pendoruton)) is a key character appearing in Part I: Phantom Blood and Part II: Battle Tendency. She is wife to Jonathan Joestar, mother to George Joestar II, adoptive mother to Lisa Lisa, and grandmother and guardian to Joseph Joestar.

Though her appearances are few, she plays a significant role as love interest in the first part of Part I.

Personality
Raised in Victorian England, Erina is a very sweet, caring young woman who is every bit the proper lady. Though polite and gentle in her youth, Erina did show quite a bit of pride and impudence, such as when after having her first kiss taken by Dio Brando she proceeded to wash her mouth with dirty water, spiting the boy. Furthermore, Speedwagon noted when first meeting her that her eyes were icy cold, making it clear she did not want her treatment of Jonathan to be interrupted.

Her twlight years did little to curb that inner fire, Erina being one of the few people capable of tempering her grandson, Joseph while also not betraying her grace and showing deep wisdom. Though significantly more stern, she was still the caring person she had always been, not hesitating to befriend Smokey and not standing for bigotry despite the times she lived in.

Phantom Blood
Erina Pendolton first appeared as a young girl, with Jonathan Joestar rescuing her from bullies. He mentions his aspiration of knighthood and leaves behind a handkerchief. When she appeared again, she and Jonathan were going out, and eventually they fell in love. However, after Dio Brando seized her, kissed her, and then brutally beat her, she felt humiliated and stayed away from Jonathan for a long time. Erina did not appear again until after Dio's first near-defeat, when she nursed Jonathan back to health. After that, Jonathan finally defeated Dio using Hamon. They subsequently renewed their relationship and got married. They took a ship to go on their honeymoon to America, but the voyage was cut short by the reappearance of Dio. The ship went down, and Jonathan stayed behind, using the last of his life energy to kill Dio and bring down the zombies with him. Erina took an orphaned infant whose mother had been killed by Dio and escaped as the ship sunk.

Battle Tendency
Years later, she and her grandson Joseph Joestar were the last of the Joestar family, and they traveled to New York on the invitation of Robert Edward O. Speedwagon. Erina is introduced as the old grandmother of Joseph Joestar and held on to great fortune from Speedwagon. She was mostly shown living with her grandson in New York in the US.

At the end of the part, Erina was mentioned to have taught English at a school, and died at the age of 81.

Trivia

 * Lisa Lisa mentions that Erina was pregnant which resulted in her being adopted by Straizo.
 * One error in Jojo's Bizarre Adventure is related to Erina's survival from Dio's attack on the boat. It is shown she survived the explosion by hiding inside Dio's coffin, but later it is revealed Dio (with Jonathan's body) also survived inside the coffin. It is speculated that there were two coffins; one for Dio and one for Wang Chan, however nothing official has been said about it.
 * She is the first ally character to be a love interest on the main protagonist of her debut PART, in her case, Jonathan Joestar.
 * Lucy Steel in Steel Ball Run may represent an alternate universe counterpart to Erina. Like Erina, Lucy's maiden name is Pendolton, and it is possible for a romantic interest to develop between her and Johnny Joestar. Unlike Erina, Lucy was married at a young age to Stephen Steel. This 'marriage' however seems to be a deep kinship rather than a genuine romantic interest given the marriage has not been consummated.