madimpossibledreamer

Main Points:
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure/Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Stardust Legacy)
Summary: Buffy and Jotaro share a somewhat odd sense of humor.
Word Count: 55
Rating: Teen
Pairing: Referenced Buffy/Faith

         “Go to your room.”
         “You can’t tell me what to do; you’re not my dad!” They stare at each other awkwardly for a moment. “...Sorry, I got used to saying that to Giles.”
         “...Fine.” Jotaro leans forward. “Go to your girlfriend’s room.” Buffy can’t help but laugh at that.
         “You people are all very weird.”

Main Points:
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure/Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Stardust Legacy)
Summary: Jotaro thinks it's probably best to pass on a warning.
Word Count: 300
Rating: Teen

         Josuke is just as excited about meeting “his little baby grand-niece again” as expected, and most of the conversation goes exactly as expected, so Jotaro settles into responding easily. A thought occurs to him, and he frowns suddenly, turning to stare out the window, cradling the phone in his ear as he tries to decide whether or not he needs to send Star Platinum out there. “Just a warning, but Sunnydale might be a bit strange.”
         From the tone, he’s pretty sure Josuke’s rolling his eyes. “Pff. As if it could be weirder than Morioh-cho. No problems here.”
         “Mmm.” Jotaro hums noncommittally—it’s not his fault if his uncle refuses to listen, and he’s not here to watch the Inflatable Tube Arm Man—is that the name in English?—chase someone down the street outside his house.
         It’s not dismissive, that’s the thing, and that’s why he likes his uncle better than his grandpa. Well. Not that Joseph meant to sound condescending most of the time, probably, and honestly it probably came from the same place. They’re both overconfident, but Josuke’s is a kind of...collaborative overconfidence. He tends to think there isn’t anything between himself and his friends that he can’t tackle; while Jiisan...well, it felt a lot more like “I’ve got this” than “we’ve got this”. Not that there’s any problem with it; Jotaro tended toward being a loner himself, but he never presented himself to be different. Then again, his uncle may not be completely wrong; if anything could prepare him for Sunnydale, Morioh might be it. “Don’t forget to email me about your flight.” Fortunately, it seems like Josuke’s got work, too, or he’d want to keep talking, when Jotaro doesn’t have too much to add and yeah, he probably should deal with this. Whatever this is.

Sometimes family is you, your daughter, your daughter’s girlfriend, your daughter’s supervisor, your ex on a good day, your daughter’s coworkers-slash-friends in saving the world, one of whom technically doesn’t live here but is here often enough that’s in name only. And your mom. And an ‘uncle’ who’s a turtle. And an uncle younger than you. And a great-something granduncle who’s also younger than you. And a grandfather who might be getting a little senile but is still sticking around somehow. And an invisible baby

Main Points:
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure/Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Stardust Legacy)
Summary: Jotaro brings along his daughter and her girlfriend to a long-awaited reunion.
Word Count: 485
Rating: Teen
Pairing: Faith/Buffy (background)
Mild Vento Aureo/Golden Wind spoilers (but not any more so than Eyes of Heaven there)

 

( local frenchman can tease but can't take it in return )

 

I hadn't expected this ship in Stardust Legacy, but after To Spite Authority (and honestly Buffy being Jolyne) it just seemed kind of natural.
~Dreamer~

Main Points:
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure/Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Stardust Legacy)
Summary: Jotaro is awkward, but still supportive, just surprised.
Word Count: 180
Rating: Teen (extremely vague suggested makeout session)
Pairing: Faith/Buffy

         Jotaro-san stands frozen in the doorway, eyes wider than Buffy’s ever seen them. It looks like he’s entirely forgotten what he’d come to ask her, which is fair, and she’s pretty sure she’s never actually seen him as scared as he is right now, probably because he has absolutely no idea what he’s supposed to do in this situation. Buffy sympathizes. She wants the ground to swallow her up, right now. She doesn’t even care that she’d have to claw her way out like in her nightmares. Right now she doesn’t want to be visible at all.
         Finally, like time has started again, he speaks. “You are both getting a health exam. You are going to be careful if you’re not already.” And then the door slams, probably harder than he intended.
         “That went well,” Faith remarks, smug.
         Buffy shoves her off and promptly attempts to smother herself in the blankets, which is the closest she can get to disappearing into the ground. “Don’t talk to me.”
         “Can’t hear you, babe.” Her girlfriend is still far too happy given the absolute embarrassment of the moment.

I was as blindsided as Xander because this particular idea started with Jotaro announcing that out of the blue, and Jotaro. Jotaro. I know you’re not particularly good at this social stuff, but you don’t start with that. Though he continues to make really good observations about the Watcher’s Council, Giles (though it’s not all his fault, obviously), and sort of become Scooby Dad.
Like, we didn’t see any of this in DiU, but I’d guess he kind of half invited Josuke, and then once Josuke was convinced he wasn’t in the way the rest kind of followed suit like aloof cats until suddenly several days in a row there are just snoring teenagers on the hotel couch, and Jotaro goes “yare yare daze”, has Star cover them with a blanket, and wander into the bedroom to crash on his own. And grumpily glare at everyone in the morning because they’re teenagers and they’re loud and then Josuke just puts in the effort to learn exactly how Jotaro takes his morning caffeine, and Jotaro doesn’t stop glaring but he’s much less angry about it.

this is obviously not right after the other Stardust Legacy chapters but is probably before the Thanksgiving one

Main Points:
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure/Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Summary: Xander desperately wants help with his homework, but interacting with Buffy's dad is still a little weird.
Word Count: 1016
Rating: Teen

( Xander hasn't gotten the hang of this yet )

this is kind of a bookmark to Remnants of Stardust.

Main Points:
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure/Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Summary: Jotaro thought he was the only one at fault.  He was wrong.
Word Count: 1479
Rating: Teen (Jotaro swears, + the warnings below)
Warnings: ableism (Joyce), slight racism (anti-Asian-canonically from Joseph, probably-canon but not shown hafu stuff, possibly anti-Asian against Buffy), PTSD

 

( take a second to breathe )

 

sneaking this into the queue.  reading about joyce for Stardust Legacy, someone said that she's more plot device than character because Whedon didn't want to write the parents but thought it'd be weird if he didn't since we see a lot of Buffy's home life.
Insert obligatory warning that in this house we treat Whedon as thoroughly and utterly jossed (i.e. rendered completely irrelevant because of word of Whedon).
Ignoring the 'you could write an emancipated minor, you could write an adult, you could write a bunch of orphans in an orphanage' decisions that he could have easily made for that effect, but I suspect what he really wanted was a shorthand for 'normal family dynamics that lead to Normal Kid *insert vaguely ableist thoughts here*' and didn't want to deal with Consequences as those are, like, some of the least favorite things, seriously, he hates writing character arc and growth and yes I'm still bitter about him regressing Tony's character arc and having him and Pepper break up offscreen because he didn't like the ship...
So, ignore the fact that all choices have Consequences and you really should be trying to think about those as a writer and pay attention to your own continuity (and others', if you're playing in their playground). Ignore the fact that emancipation is a thing we never see in fiction so it'd be an interesting choice to take, or that orphans is a little cliche but you could've done interesting stuff with that.
There was a perfectly acceptable, perfectly interesting, perfectly easy story decision sitting in front of him and he didn't take it.
Buffy really is Giles' daughter.  The better, less cliche, more interesting route here is biologically, and he's a Watcher, and she knows at least a little about what he does, but then she gets Called and suddenly they're both having to deal with that.  From what we currently see of the Council, they *probably* wouldn't allow him to act as her Watcher, given how upset they are about him being unrelated and treating her like his daughter, but.
Maybe they keep him in line with threats on her life.  Maybe we work up the wetworks team much earlier.  Maybe we get some angst from Buffy about how he's stopped treating her like his daughter and become more distant once she got Called, only she finds out they've been threatening her life this whole time and he's been trying to protect her the best way he can.
The more cliche option involves fridging Joyce at the beginning of the series, so Giles adopts her.  I'm against this because fridging is so overdone (and offensive because it's overdone), but it's an option, too.
Now I'm kind of mad that I have a more creative imagination here, because actual parent Giles would've been awesome and I feel like we were robbed.

spotted by beta-senpai in a Life of Richard Burton biography, paraphrased because I don't have it in front of me: "The saving of Kars was thought to be a necessity by the British."  They failed to tell one Brit-American.  (Kars being a fortress.  In searching for it, Google gave me 'Kars4kids is a scam'.  So yes, thanks to Araki's Stand everything is now a Jojo's reference.  (He is also still a Pillar Man, but apparently this Pillar Man was able to acquire a Stand.)

Main Points:
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure/Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Summary: Buffy needs to know.
Word Count: 520
Rating: Teen
Warnings: some problematic parenting, some ableism, for a slightly spoilery analysis go here

 

( he's imperfect but he's trying. )

 

Jotaro sitting at the table: these kids are all so damn nosy and boisterous...yare yare at least I have experience dealing with this from Josuke and his friends
also Jotaro: plans on never having old man Joseph meet Xander if he can help it.  his instincts are good

Main Points:
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure/Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Summary: Things can't stay quiet in Sunnydale for long.
Word Count: 750
Rating: Teen
Warnings: More references to slight racism re: Jotaro's parentage

 

( got to go )

 

everyone comes off better than Dead Man's party, but most of that is because no one (except Buffy) has a clue of how to deal with Jotaro so they're not comfortable enough to start with the lectures.

Main Points:
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure/Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Summary: Jotaro continues to be super awkward even when meeting his daughter's friends.
Word Count: 1550
Rating: Teen
Warnings: More references to slight racism re: Jotaro's parentage and a reference to Japanese 'hafu' racism-Buffy has no patience for it and shuts it down, though.

( not the expected party )