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Zodazzle wrote: MSEAdvanced wrote: Zodazzle wrote:

MSEAdvanced wrote: Zodazzle wrote:

MSEAdvanced wrote: A world where stands are mysteriously vanishing and the main character has no stand anymore but can still see and interact with other people's stands and has to find out the cause of the declining stands and defeat enemies in well thought out ways without a stand but he does receive help from others with stands That doesn't really make sense, stands don't just vanish. Also, I'm pretty sure it would break the format if the main character didn't have a stand. That's the point, it makes no sense its bizarre, it would also shake things up a little, give the opportunity for more things to be introduced, give the story a greater ability to work with non-stand users, and show how a protagonist can make major accomplishments without relying on a stand. But there's a consistency to Jojo. Main characters, stands, rules, etc. Bizarre accounts for the newly introduced topics like hamon, stands, requiem, heaven, rock humans, etc. Also, I find that weaker abilities are better to make good accomplishments from the main character. Take characters like Johnny who is a cripple, but can use nail bullets to make up for his shortcomings. A non-stand user would probably just lose faith in that character. Can't really understand that last sentence but if you're saying you would lose faith in a non stand user look at characters like Gyro who didn't get ball breaker until the very end and Hayato who helped them defeat Kira dispite never having a stand. And on consistency there would still be stand users their just declining and that's the mystery, and Jotaro broke the norm by switching to a stand instead of Hamon. Gyro was a mentor, not the main Jojo. He had knowledge, which made it look like he knew what he was doing. And for Hayato, I actually can agree with that. However, he's not a main Jojo. I'm saying is that the main Jojo should have some sort of a power so that the readers keep faith in that said character. And Jotaro didn't really break much of a norm, stands were originally called "spirit hamon" after all. And since then, Araki hasn't broken the norm many times, typically in smaller ways. And this thread is for Part 9 possibilities, so we should base theories off of the most recent parts. Araki does improve his writing. But think about it, steel ball run kicked off another universe and in that universe part 9 would be the third part and in the original third part things changed. On the main Jojo, he can still see and interact with stands he just doesn't have his which is basically a greatly reduced ability compared to those around him and we've seen characters function with reduced ability. For example Jhonny couldn't walk but managed to make up for it in other ways and defeat Valentine, and Giorno had a stand but it wasn't the best stat wise but he got creative with it and eventually managed to beat Diavolo.