Board Thread:Fanmade/@comment-30179626-20180629093221/@comment-31598739-20180629195459

Nabukun wrote: Well I don't think it's a good method, not bad, but there are definitely better methods imo.

What usually separates the good Stand from the bad Stand is that the power is thought with an unusual mechanism. A good Stand doesn't shoot rays. A good Stand doesn't make something happen just because it's here. There should be a trigger, even as simple as the Stand touching something. Frankly, you can always look at the XMen and then add a restriction to a power.

You should also expand your sources. You should look at many more things than songs. There'll always be a song to name your Stand with, the name is not important.

Look for illnesses, especially mental disorders. Look at everything around you and ask yourself how you'd die from it even if it involves a stupid scenario. For instance I invented Champagne Supernova which when you drink it, makes you attracted to a star in the sky and make you "fall" into the sky, forever. Look for verbs. For instance "dry". What if a Stand dried you to death? How can you use a chewing-gum to attack someone.

Look outside the box, seek esoteric beliefs. Araki use cryptids, fengshui, pseudosciences, religion to fuel his imagination, no reason why you shouldn't.

Instead of imagining powers, for one-off villains, imagine a scenario like a mugging, and then ask yourself how the villain can make it easier through a Stand.

Here I just imagined a chewing gum. You chew it, you stick the gum on something, and that something will inflate until it violently explodes. Now it's a chewing gum Stand, where does it come from? Does the User produce it automatically, at which interval? Let's say he's got a Pez dispenser that always deal chewing gum. Let's say he's got to chew it until it's not solid anymore. What's its name?... What about Sugar Shack from the Phish? I like the song. Here it is I got a Stand.

Then I'd build a character from the power. He chews gum, he sticks them somewhere. He must be laid back, surely a little disrespectful, surely young. What about being a girl? A kid? Or go for the contrast and make it someone mature and respectable looking? I'll decide later. I have to agree with that. A lot of the thought process should come from outside sources. I made another stand based off of orbs on photos, another on information theory, etc. Araki does write about what he's interested in

But if you want to create the most reasonable stand, you should be like Araki again and put extra thought into it. For example, you could think of a stand revolving around speed, and then use Speed King. That's the flaw, it becomes predictable. Paisley Park might seem like an environment-type stand, but instead it's a stand that gathers information and guides the user. Tusk could be about walruses, but instead its about using the Spin to shoot your nails.

And I have talked about this before. Take Tusk for example once again. It's a marching band song by Fleetwood Mac, referencing Johnny's goal to walk again. Tusk will literally be the song for him to march to.

Another obscure one is Green Green Grass of Home. The song is about what seems to be a man returning to his childhood home, but the song gives context mid-way through to show that the man isn't returning home alive. Instead, he's being buried there. His body is taken from a train, walked down a road, and buried under a tree where all his family gather under to mourn. This is most likely a reference to the Green Baby as a symbol of return to DIO's legacy, before it becomes the fuel of Pucci's rampage. Goes from nostalgic to dark with the right involvement.

And the problem with becoming too crazy in how you write is that explanations have to be done to get the message across, or the reader would never understand. Ozone Baby suffers greatly from this, as the entire arc Poor Tom was in, Joubin has to go off on dialogue to explain what is happening. It really ruins the mood of the story. Stands like White Album and Chocolate Disco are written to be interesting but not crazy, and the story they give work well. Giorno and Mista slowly learn what White Album can do through the attacks without describing it in detail, and Gyro learns what Chocolate Disco can do by being attacked and given description without going on a huge dialogue.

But besides that, a lot of the writing is done on the spot, because you never know how things are going to turn out until later, so just push it off until later.