Jolyne Cujoh

"Yare yare dawa..."

- Jolyne Kujo

Jolyne Kujo is the main heroine of Part VI: Stone Ocean. She is the daughter of Part III: Stardust Crusaders 's hero, Jotaro Kujo, and is the only female "JoJo" to date.

Story
Born to Jotaro Kujo and her unnamed mother in Florida, Jolyne Kujo is the sixth generation Joestar in the Joestar bloodline (counting Jonathan Joestar as first). Her childhood was often spent without her father, as Jotaro was mostly at work even when Jolyne was in need of the most attention. When she was 14, her life as a teen began to spiral downward upon being mistaken for a suspect in a robbery she didn't commit and then fleeing from an officer by stealing a motorcycle. Upon being arrested and detained in a holding cell, falsely charged with the crime, she and her mother pleaded her innocence and even begged Jotaro to bail her out. However, as he did not believe her, in the end she was sent to juvenile detention.

When her mother divorced Jotaro, Jolyne became even more frustrated when he left the family. Soon, she joined the Hell Riders motorcycle/carjacking gang and spent more time getting into trouble. At 19, having cleaned up her act and left the gang, she went on a date with a preppy rich boy named Romeo. Upon driving home, Romeo and Jolyne were in a car accident, Romeo having fatally hit a pedestrian. Worried that he would be charged with reckless driving and dropped from a university's waiting list, Romeo decided to take the corpse and dump it somewhere, persuading Jolyne to help him and forget about the entire incident. A few days later, however, Jolyne was found at home and arrested.

While serving time in Green Dolphin Street Prison, she was confronted by Emporio to not initiate her visit with  her father which led to the explanation leading to Jolyne's frame-up by a follower of  Dio, Jongalli A who used  his stand to attempt to snipe her from the Men's ward which ultimately placed  Jotaro in a coma resulting in his stand and memory disk being stolen by  Whitesnake.

In an attempt to receive the stand disk, she encounters F.F. and after a lengthy confrontation (which included Hermes Costello), finds a new ally after F.F. takes the form of the dead prisoner Etro.

After receiving Jotaro's stand disk, she finds herself confronting other stand users before being placed in the maximum security vicinity where she fought more stand users (which resulted in the birth of the Green Baby and a bloodbath that only she survived. After defeating Miu Miu, she escapes from the prison and encounters Romeo who she requests money and a car from. Romeo, apparently sorry for his actions that led to her arrest, gives her a thousand dollars and a helicopter before appearing to call the police to report her whereabouts but in reality, he tells the police that he received a call from her (rather than say she was at her place), despite his nobility, Jolyne uses  Hermes' stand to destroy his tongue.

While in the helicopter, she encounters a random stand that makes herself,  Hermes and  Emporio partially blind and sick before crashing the helicopter. Jolyne fights Rykiel (a son of Dio)after learning of  his stand powers which included her igniting herself. Once the fight is finished, she, Hermes and  Emporio go to the hospital where  Pucci and another of  Dio's sons, Donatello Versace are planning to hide until the new moon in order to defeat  Pucci.

Personality
Quick to anger and snappy with her elders, it seemed like Jolyne was a lost cause. She was irresponsible and flighty, at first only looking to satisfy a cheap thrill. Bitter at Jotaro for leaving the family for so long, she blamed him for her misguided outlook. However, she still had honorable morals and treasured her mother. She would selflessly do everything in her power to help her friends (as evidenced with F.F.). Jolyne believed that her loved ones had a good heart and an honest nature. Unfortunately, she could believe in them to the point of gullibility as it was through Romeo's lies that she was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

When Jotaro sacrifices himself for Jolyne's freedom, she noticeably matures and her resolve to "revive" Jotaro turns into her first priority. She adopts more traits like her father and her wardrobe even changes to resemble Jotaro's look. She eventually gains pride for her Joestar bloodline and becomes rather tough by the end of the series. Her strength and infallible integrity shine in her fights and her willpower soon echoes that of the other JoJos.

Family
Her distant and near-fatherless childhood bore a tinge of loneliness in her. Her relationship with Jotaro is challenging at first, not really fitting the typical father-daughter mold. When Jolyne was fourteen, she was wrongfully accused of pickpocketing. Panicked, she stole a car, sloppily tried to make an escape from the authorities, and was arrested soon afterward. Jolyne anticipated that Jotaro would pay her bail, but was sorely disappointed when she overheard her mother's frantic and unsuccessful pleas with him on the phone. Her father's absence following this led to her teenage years of delinquency (she later reflects that these events were a desperate call for attention). As time passed, Jolyne came to respect her father more and idolized him somewhat, adapting his trademark "Yare yare daze" into a more feminine "Yare yare dawa". When Jotaro returns later, both father and daughter show considerable care to one another, each in their own way.

Jolyne's mother rarely appears and is hardly talked about. It's assumed that she loves Jolyne very much and dotes on her in Jotaro's absence as she stated to have been the only person to be allowed to call Jolyne "JoJo". It's mentioned that she is an Italian-American, making Jolyne 1/4 Japanese, 1/2 Italian, and 1/4 British.

Appearance
Perhaps one of the strangest things about Jolyne is her constantly-changing appearance. Although her outfits reflect her changing personality, some changes occur somewhat illogically and can damage the story's continuity.


 * Look 1: Short skirt or pants, shin-high boots, halter top. Introduced as somewhat frail and not too muscular.


 * Look 2: same as look 1 with pants and added prison shirt/jacket. Worn while spending first week in prison. The jacket is short, covering her lower back to hip area. Still drawn as a somewhat frail girl.


 * Look 3: "The series 3 look". Basically, look 2 with a longer jacket to match Jotaro's coat length. Jolyne is now shown with a bit more muscle than before. She is presented as stronger than before, but still smooth and curvy.


 * Look 4: After F.F dies. Look 3 with a belly ring that she gave herself while she was in solitary confinement, purportedly due to boredom. Jolyne starts to lose her femininity a bit and becomes borderline masculine. She has a highly visible Adam's Apple now.


 * Look 5: After she escapes prison. Shredded muscle shirt that resembles her halter top from before, with an altered design on the chest. Two mini-belts over the rib area (one belt by the end). A cloth armlet adorns one forearm. Still has unexplained belly ring, but she loses it in the end chapters. Different belt with a long cape attached to back. Jolyne looks significantly more muscular than look 4. Depending on the frame, she sometimes looks female, sometimes looks male.

In one of his introduction columns, it is hinted that some fans may have complained about Jolyne's appearances being too "manly". Araki responded that "whether he draws women or men doesn't matter..." and entreated readers to focus on the importance of character.

She has an image of a knife sporting butterfly wings tattooed by the hollow of her left elbow - the design/butterfly type of it changes frequently. The tattoo is a sign of her past membership in a car-stealing gang. It's hinted that she had been arrested before while in the gang, presumably to protect the other members.

Love Interests
Romeo - Cowardly rich kid. She gave him permission to call her Jojo (if she could call him Rome-chu). Their relationship ended when Jolyne discovered that Romeo had framed her for a murder, landing her in prison for a crime she didn't commit. After she escapes from prison, Jolyne pays him a visit and he weeps for forgiveness. She hushes him, asks for cash and a car, and, after warning him not to betray her again, leaves him. Hermes held a duplicate of his tongue which transmitted whatever he said aloud and also served as a quick silencer should he chose to report them. Romeo gets a call from the police moments later but he misleads them, saying that Jolyne was headed for Mexico (when she's actually hunting Pucci). Though touched by his surprising loyalty, Jolyne still removes the sticker to rip his tongue apart.

Weather Report - Amnesiac Stand user. When they first met, Jolyne seemed somewhat speechless around him (rare for her usually energetic personality). Anasui even suspects him to be a rival for Jolyne's love and is jealous when Jolyne is with him. For a while, fans in Japan speculated that these two were the official couple for series 6 until his past revealed him to be well into his thirties. Regardless, there are hints of Jolyne caring for Weather in a more-than-fraternal way.

Narciso Anasui - Crossdresser with homicidal tendencies. Though Anasui fell in love with Jolyne at first sight, the feeling wasn't mutual; Jolyne was not really sure what to think of him. He would sometimes try to seduce her in underhanded ways, such as threatening F.F. to trip her down the stairs so he could romantically catch her or prompting a french kiss from a temporary-mute Jolyne. His romantic ploys are sources of comic relief, earning him a punch or tears of melodrama when he fails. Even so, he's truly devoted to her and will do everything in his power to keep her from being distressed. He has risked his life for her on more than one occasion and turns murderous when Jolyne is severely hurt. He's probably the closest to marrying Jolyne, as is hinted at the end of series 6.

Trivia

 * Jolyne is often symbolized with a butterfly. The butterfly design on her shirt combined with the spiderweb design of her outfit suggests her entrapment and innocence in life.
 * Her prison card that she holds states that her name is "Cujoh Jolyne".
 * Her sentence was to be 15 years in prison for vehicular manslaughter while under the influence of alcohol. After her father's attempt to break her out, she was given an extended sentence of up to 20 years in prison.
 * Some people have also joked about her hairstyle mimicking a "mouse head". This comparison was further reinforced when Jolyne was forced into a mouse's body by Guess.
 * Her hair color's most commonly used combinations are pink and blue, blond and green, or green with purple.
 * Her alter ego in the alternate universe of Steel Ball Run is named Irene (phonetically Aileene), a pun with Anasui's alter ego name: Anakiss. It is also a tribute to one of Araki's earlier works before JJBA, Gorgeous Irene.
 * Apparently her design was influenced by Britney Spears' music video Baby One More Time. Britney was also a known member of the Mickey Mouse Club, a possible reason for Araki styling Jolyne's hair into mouse ears.
 * Interestingly enough, Jolyne was the first female protagonist and the star of Part 6; similarly, Final Fantasy VI was the first Final Fantasy game to feature a female protagonist as well.
 * Quite commonly in fanart, she is paired with Giorno. Even Araki has drawn official art of them together.
 * Her design seems to have been an inspiration for the character Juri from Super Street Fighter 4.
 * Despite falling victim to Pucci's  stand, she has a counterpart in the "new world" named Irene (who has a boyfriend named  Anakiss) who picked up  a hitchhiker,  Emporio and  another hitchhiker during the end of Stone Ocean.