Dragona Joestar

"Be sure not to push yourself too hard but don't give up."

- Dragona Joestar, TJL Chapter 1

Dragona Joestar (ドラゴナ・ジョースター) is the deuteragonist of The JOJOLands. He is the older sibling of Jodio Joestar, as well as the user of the Stand, Smooth Operators.

Appearance
Dragona is a slender 18 year-old boy with tanned skin and long dreaded hair that parts into long straight bangs. Upon his head he wears a wreath of flowers with some having elongated petals that are reminiscent of hands.

His appearance is heavily themed after dragons, as he has several stylized dragon tattoos on his shoulders and left thigh. He also has triple claw-like tattoos on his chest, arms, and left thigh. Moreover, he wears a necklace bearing a plate engraved with a stylized "D" which is made to look like a dragon. During his first appearance, he wears a plain dark bikini with a belt and arm rings, however in later appearances he dons a dress. To appear even more feminine, his chest has been given filler injections to make them resemble breasts.

As a descendant of the Joestar Family, Dragona has the Joestar Birthmark on his left shoulder.

Personality
Dragona Joestar is a jovial and carefree individual. His most distinctive character trait is that despite being born a male, he looks and acts more feminine. He makes an effort to look like an attractive woman, most notably through his breast injections, and he has a passion for female fashion, often wearing women's clothing. This passion has lead to him working at the Iko Iko Boutique of fashion. Dragona also speaks effeminately, using the feminine first-person pronoun あたし (atashi) to refer to himself and saying things in a cute, feminine manner such as elongating the word "OK" into "Okaayy". Despite this, his brother still refers to him as his older brother, and seeing as how Dragona doesn't reprimand him for doing so, it's implied that he still identifies as man.

Dragona is an amiable, active youth who participates in various crimes alongside his brother. His Stand Smooth Operators doesn't have the same offensive capabilities as Jodio's Stand, however, so his methods of dealing with a threat tend to revolve around subterfuge or persuasion. Compared to his younger brother, he seems to have a stronger moral compass, even demanding Jodio spare the policeman who molested him. In addition, Dragona also takes his regular job at the fashion boutique seriously and heavily disapproves of his fellow gangster Paco stealing from the clients, scolding him and even pulling his ear to punish him.

From Jodio's narration, it can be inferred that Dragona is physically active. He jogs every morning and follows yoga courses. His motto that he heard from an Indian yoga instructor is to "Be sure not to push yourself too hard, but don't give up", indicating a preference for steady effort. One of Dragona's favorite foods is seemingly watermelon, as it is the only thing he eats for breakfast.

Background
Dragona is the grandson of Joseph Joestar and Suzi Q, and the son of Barbara Ann Joestar and an unnamed man. He works at a fashion boutique in Kalihi called Iko Iko. At some point, he joined a gang in the neighborhood.

One day, Dragona and his younger brother Jodio go on a job to smuggle drugs in surfboards. They steal a pickup truck and Dragona creates a fake driver's license using his Stand, replacing the original photo on the license with his own.

THE JOJOLANDS
Jodio sits in the passenger seat of the pickup truck while Dragona drives, blasting music. They are suddenly stopped by police officers because of their music. One of the cops forces Dragona out of the car and harasses him, believing that they have drugs in their car. Jodio decides to intervene and steps out of the car, ignoring the officers' orders to stop. Instead, he demands that the officer takes his hands off of his big brother, threatening to kill him otherwise. The officers point their guns at Jodio but he summons his Stand, causing rain droplets to pin the officer behind him to the ground, flattening him.

Just before the other officer fires at Jodio, Dragona uses his Stand to slide the officer's eyes to the back of his head, throwing off his aim. Finally, Jodio attacks the officer with rain drops as well, crushing him. He continuously stomps on the cop before Dragona stops him, calming him down so that Jodio doesn't kill the man.

Jodio then burns the officers' body cameras and dashboard camera along with their car, so that the officers would have no evidence and won't be able to go after them. Moreover, Dragona uses his Stand to change the numbers on the truck's license plate and gets rid of his fake license before they head to their gang's rendezvous point. One of the gang members praises them for doing well but reprimands them for being late. He also asks them if they heard about a police car being burned down but Jodio and Dragona pretend to be ignorant. They walk until they get to a major road and then call an Uber to go home.

Later, Jodio, Dragona, and Paco are summoned by their boss, Meryl May Qi, to the fashion boutique named Iko Iko. Paco attempts to steal from one of the customers but Dragona stops him by grabbing his ear. Meryl makes an announcement to close the shop and then orders the three gang members to turn off their phones before showing them her own phone. On the screen is a 24-carat natural blue diamond worth $6 million. It is owned by a Japanese tourist who owns a villa on the Big Island of Hawai'i and plans to stay there for around 12 more days. Their group will be getting a 2% split all together, while Meryl gets an 18% cut after they sell it on the black market. She also informs them that they will be going as a team of four. The student who Jodio and Paco sold drugs to at school in the morning arrives as their fourth member, as Meryl guarantees that he will be useful to them.

Stand
Dragona wields Smooth Operators, a colony stand which take the form of robotic humanoids on tank treads. They are able to grab and displace anything, even if the object affected is supposed to be fixed in place.

Trivia

 * The tattoos on Dragona's body bear a resemblance to those on the album cover for the Dragon album, O Zambezi.

Site Navigation
Dragona Joestar