Thousands of years ago, Kars failed to wipe out his people. In 19th century England, Robert E.O Speedwagon encounters a foreign giant named Gabriel Wamuu. The rest is soon history.
The Twilight Man
is a JoJo's Bizarre Adventure What If? Series Fic by Gioia_Rodica and LeilaHann, focusing on the Joestar legacy where the Night Men were never killed by Kars and his Pillar Men.
The first part, Blood Obligation, is based upon Phantom Blood. A sequel based on Battle Tendency is in the works, with Let The Good Times Roll acting as the interquel.
Tropes for the entire series:
- Adaptational Name Change: Instead of being referred to as Pillar Men, the ancient super-human race that Kars and Esidisi are members of are called Night Men, due to their weakness to the sun. Although, in this case the Nazis never got to dub the race after Kars, Esidisi and Wammu sleeping within a pillar.
- Protagonist Title: Twilight man is a term referring to hybrids (first generation or otherwise) born with both daymen and nightman ancestry. The Twilight Man refers to Jonathan and his descendants.
- Related in the Adaptation: The epilogue of Blood Obligation and a chapter from Let the Good Times Roll hints that Elizabeth "Lisa Lisa" Joestar is now Jonathan and Erina's child instead of George II.
- Spared by the Adaptation:
- The premise of the series is that Kars and Esidisi were unable to wipe out all their people when they protested against Kars's experiments with the Stone Mask.
- Due to being a Decomposite Character with Wamuu, William A. Zeppeli does not die during the events of Blood Obligation. Chapter 6 of Let the Good Times Roll shows him in his 70s and taking in his wayward grandchildren, including Cesare.
- Uneven Hybrid: As Mary Joestar was the daughter of a human woman and a nightman father, all of her descendants from Jonathan onwards have Nightman lineage.
- What If?: What if the Pillar Men survived Kars' attack?
Blood Obligation has examples of:
- Adaptational Badass: Both Erina and Speedwagon can use Hamon.
- Adaptational Heroism: Canonically Wamuu was the Noble Demon among the Pillar Man, though his Undying Loyalty to Kars meant he aids him in the latter's goal. With Wamuu never raised by Kars and Esidisi, he remains with the rest of his people. He dedicated his life to stopping Kars from using the Mask on the innocent Day Men.
- Adaptational Wimp: While Wamuu is still a powerful and skilled Nightman, the fact that he was never raised by Kars and empowered by the Stone Mask means he is much weaker than in canon. Case in point, he is killed holding off Santana, who in Battle Tendency was said to be the weakest of the Pillar Men by Kars.
- Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": Wamuu's race refer to themselves as nightmen, while normal humans are called daymen.
- Decomposite Character:
- Wamuu takes up William Zeppeli's role as The Mentor for Jonathan and the others, even performing a Heroic Sacrifice to protect them against a powerful opponent. Zeppeli appears in the epilogue of the Blood Obligation.
- Dio's role in controlling Jack the Ripper and taking over Windknight's Lot are split between different vampires.
- In Spite of a Nail: Johnathan still dies in his final fight against Dio, though this time in the Joestar mansion.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Kars had entrusted Santana to create the vampires plaguing England.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Mary Joestar, Johnathan's late mother, is revealed by Wamuu to be the daughter of a daywoman and a nightman.
- Lineage Comes from the Father: Subverted, as it is revealed that Jonathan inherited both his immense height and star-shaped birthmark from his late mother. It is later revealed his nightman heritage also came from her.
- Mentor Occupational Hazard: Wamuu dies in his battle against Santana to protect Jonathan and the others.
- Polyamory: Jonathan, Erina, and Speedwagon enter a relationship together during the events at Windknight's Lot.
- The Reveal: In chapter 13, it is revealed that Jonathan's mother, Mary Joestar, was the daughter of a human woman and a male nightman. This makes Jonathan (plus his descendants) having nightman heritage.
- Wham Line: Two in the final chapter, when Straizo and William Zeppeli come to visit Erina and Speedwagon after Erina tells them that her and Jonathan's child can use the ripple even at a few months old.
- When Erina introduces the pair to her child, it becomes clear her child isn't George Joestar II like in canon.
Erina: Yes. My and Jonathan’s child. She started doing it just a month after I took her home.- Not long after, Straizo and Zeppeli take a look at the child, specifically at the Joestar star birthmark inherited from her father Jonathan and his mother Mary. Straizo's question to Erina expresses why that mark is so significant to them.
Straizo: When you were at the monastery, did Master Tonpetti ever happen to mention the prophecies?
Let the Good Times Roll has examples of:
- Adaptational Badass: Susie Q goes from a normal human to one already capable of absorbing and storing the ripple even as a child.
- Anthology: Various chapters that flesh out the time between Book 1 and Book 2.
- Happily Adopted: In "Oh Susanna", it's revealed that Lisa Lisa had adopted Susie Q when she was a little girl after the latter's parents died from influenza and Lisa found out the girl could absorb the ripple.
- Let Me Get This Straight...: Straizo has this reaction when he finds out that Lisa hadn't yet officially adopted Susie, but instead she essentially kidnapped the runaway orphan (at said orphan's request) instead of following the proper protocols. He then instructs Lisa to find the exact orphanage Susie came from so she could adopt her properly.
- Show Within a Show: “The Adventures of John Gabriel: the Slaying of Jack the Ripper,” a pulp adventure story based on the events of the "Twilight Man."
- Spell My Name With An S: Caesar's name is spelled Cesare when he debuts in chapter 6. The author confirms that he will change it to his canon spelling by the events of book 2.
- Raised by Grandparents: After the death of his son Mario, William returned to Italy to take in his grandchildren from their maternal uncle and make up for the time he had been away from his family.
