Board Thread:Manga Discussion/@comment-31598739-20180504024721

Araki in the past has written two of the Jojo's stands to have specific abilities. Both ended up having parts written out. Those being, Gold Experience and Soft & Wet. What is the problem with the two.

Well the issue stands that they are way too versatile; mostly because of their absurdly good and complex ability.

Take Gold Experience for example. It's ability is to give life. While a little out there, it's not too weird. It can make non-living things become living creatures. This doesn't get too OP, until you consider the other part. Any living thing created by Gold Experience reflects damage back. Araki either forgot, or purposely wrote it out. Whenever Giorno created a new replacement body part, they should of from then on out, started reflecting damage when hurt there. However, it seems that this was completely forgotten, as Bruno literally never did such. Same thing with some parts of Mista. Gold Experience is way too versatile and strong that it had to be tweaked just to make things fair

Same thing with Soft & Wet. It's ability is to create bubbles from Josuke's birthmark. The bubbles can carry any form of matter, releasing when popped. They can also act as barriers to stop thing from touching him. However, it's main ability is to steal thing from people. Soft & Wet can steal sight, friction, etc. This ability was way too versatile and could be used in completely story-breaking ways, so Araki must of written it out. Look at the last arcs of Jojolion, and you'll see it. In fights like Fun Fun Fun and California King Bed, it removed friction and sound. Now, in recent fights like Schott Key No. 1 & 2 and Brainstorm, it carries stuff around and acts as protection.

If you end up deciding to create your own main character, don't be like Araki. Make the stand like Stone Free, where it's just string, but can be used in a multitude of small but useful ways. Don't make your stand really complex, or you will end up coming to a crossroad where you can either write out parts of it and portray the character as forgetful, or just go with it and have the main character be a total boss at the cost of fights being close and actually engaging to read. 