Ryslig App

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OOC INFORMATION
Name: Usagi
Contact: usagisquared
Age: 29
Other Characters: Reira Akaba, Noa Kaiba, Jonathan Joestar

CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Emporio Alniño
Age: 12 (Presumed)
Canon: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean
Canon Point: Ch. 158 while 'Fading to Black'
Character Information: Be Advised there will be Series Spoilers here; while Stone Ocean the manga has been complete as of 2003, this will cover episodes that have not yet aired, due to the adaptation's recent status.

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Personality: In all JJBA parts, there's someone who can arguably be considered the 'designated braincell holder'- the one who actually has some Thoughts up in that there noggin, and tries to keep everyone from getting themselves killed.

Emporio, unfortunately, is that person, and he is an 11-12 year old in a cast of grown felons. Initially shown in small amounts, Emporio is visibly a boy of caution. And one can't blame him for that- he's an eleven year old who's been hiding himself within the very walls of the building for as long as he can remember, and has very little reason to believe it'll go well if he were found, given that the priest who 'rules' the place is the one who killed his mother. He hides about in objects resembling trash-cans, makes use of various passages and vents he's carved for himself, and all simply to keep himself alive. Even within more comfortable circumstance, he tends to take a more passive role. He's a boy surrounded by adults, and very dangerous ones at that. It would already be risky to try and argue someone to their side if he were the same size and strength- at the stage he is, it would be suicide.

It comes as little surprise that with this cautious and anxious nature, it takes until he meets Jolyne and connects to her at a personal level, before he begins to step up and more properly act on morals he's otherwise held close to the chest. For all his timidness, Emporio has an incredibly strong sense of justice about him. His very first appearance is to warn Jolyne of Pucci, sneaking after Jolyne to warn her multiple times to that end (though readers may interpret this warning as referring to another antagonist). Even before this- though the reasons are admittedly unclear- he's allowed two prisoners to hide away in his ghost room with him, a form of safety that only he can grant. It would be incorrect to say that in bonding with these people and acting on his just nature, that he abandons his fear- but as the series progresses he manages to push against it more and more, to the point that he voluntarily follows the cast along in an eventual prison break; not necessarily because he himself is in danger, but instead because people he's come to care about are.

With all of that established, perhaps it comes as less surprise that a mere child is the one who can be considered the most well-thought in the group, particularly given their own lack of strategy based thinking. Incredibly intelligent, albeit in the way a child who has had nothing to do but hide and read trivia is, he's had to learn a lot in order to make it this far. Green Dolphin Prison is a place filled with Stand Users, the equivalent of superpowered humans who can't even be detected by normal means. It's the place where his mother wasted away before his eyes at a young age, and he's had to provide for himself entirely on his own while avoiding conflict and detection as much as possible. Essentially, Emporio learned to be self-sufficient, and it's easy to see how that could be- not only because of how dire his situation has been, but because of where he is. Any objects he had access to for self-learning are geared for adults, any books, any media, would either have come from the older prison's burned 'ghosts' or been pilfered from the present prison's storage.

Of course none of this lends particularly well to a child's social development. Between the isolation and the learning material, Emporio is an awkward boy indeed. While overly cautious and incredibly selective in his trust (however strangely placed, given that he himself warns others in the friend group that one of his regulars at the ghost room is imprisoned for murder), his quiet, stammering nature is but one part of how he presents himself. Even in the heat of danger, he moves quickly into a talkative state akin to a narrator, making small talk where there would be silence or expositing on what would otherwise be a mere exchange of names. Rather than leaving anything short, Emporio will turn an introduction into a waterspout of trivia about a person's behavior, an anxious flight in a helicopter (and yes he can fly a helicopter) into a ramble about auto-pilot and its cause for over-reliance on technology...and perhaps most notably in the final battle, he turns a tense face off into a science lesson while he stands on the winning end and explains precisely to Pucci what the Stand 'Weather Report' is doing to poison him into submission.

It is never a matter of pride, or grandstanding- it is simply an explanation, and it is a habit that points to a curious and inquisitive nature just as much as it indicates an awkward one. Emporio has spent all his life in fear and behind stone walls, with mere glances at the world beyond it. He craves a sense of peace and freedom, and the ability to act on his desires to know more is just as foreign an experience as the knowledge of most anything typical for boys his age. His experiences after all are restricted to interactions with a very small handful of not-so-outstanding people (They're Inmates, Jan,)...and they're interactions that were primarily under the lingering sense of their lives being in danger.

The fact that Emporio has been able to come out of things with as great a heart as he has is perhaps the greatest surprise of it all. It all came down to him in canon, and for all that he was chased into a corner for it, the kid can Fight Back...and brutally. But the drastic matters it took to get him there prove without a doubt the kind of heart he has, as the kind of person with a tendency for 'flight' over 'fight', and a desire to prevent trouble rather than encourage it.

And perhaps Ryslig is the sort of place where his continued survival will be at too dire a cost.

...But then again, perhaps despite everything, the world he wakes up to will give him reason to smile again instead.

5-10 Key Character Traits:

• Intelligent
  
• Strategic
  
• Curious
  
• Adaptive
  
• Self-sufficient
  
• Cautious
  
• Survivant
  
• Anxious
  
• Socially Awkward
  
• Just
  

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