Jean-Pierre Polnareff

Polnareff is currently living in an apartment located above the Spelahund Street Eatery a dingy little 24 hour diner that keeps just barely passing health inspections.


It's not a nice apartment and the furniture is old and a little worn out, but it's been fixed up in earnest. The layout looks something like this (courtesy of Usagi) and it has some cool wallpaper. It is also very much an apartment designed and built for typical humans.


The diner proprietor fixed the place up and is renting it out to monsters with no stable income out of the goodness of their heart---and also because monster tenants can be used to implicitly threaten health inspectors.



Is your character looking for somewhere to live? Awesome! There's space in this really cool apartment! Benefits of living here include, but are not limited to:


Reasonable rent!


A landlord that doesn't ask a lot of questions and who probably won't bug you too much if you're late paying rent.


All the rats you can eat (if you're into that sort of thing).


A really talkative roommate! You will never be lonely.


A place to get cheap coffee and greasy breakfast food right downstairs.

UPDATE: There are bloodstains all over the walls, floors, and some of the furniture. He is not getting the security deposit back.

OOC INFORMATION
Name: Trish
Contact: scaryshark#0626 on discord
Are You Over 18?: And how!
Other Characters: Rick Sanchez

CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Jean Pierre Polnareff
Age: 22
Canon: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Canon Point: Right after the Stardust Crusaders arc
Character Information:

Note: A stand is essentially a physical manifestation of your soul that fights for you and usually has one very specific superpower. Some people have them and others don't. At this point in the canon, nobody thinks too hard about why they exist. They just are. (If you're interested, Polnareff's stand is called Silver Chariot and he looks like this.)

Anyway, here's a wiki link.

Personality:

Polnareff doesn't feel or do anything in half measures. He wears his heart on his sleeve, enthusiastically throwing himself into everything he does and marveling at the many and varied strange occurrences he encounters with loud, earnest awe. Every single time. He flirts shamelessly, cries openly, has one-sided conversations with a dog, and manages to come across as loud and dramatic in a world where loud and dramatic is the norm.

He has little to no impulse control and thinks nothing of throwing himself into danger headfirst. Waiting for someone to attack him "isn't his style" and if he perceives that he or his companions are being followed, he will wander off to look for the enemy on his own. He doesn't appear to have a filter and rarely, if ever, appears to think before he speaks or acts. His allies deliberately withheld sensitive information from him, and only him, for a pretty substantial part of the series. Not out of malice, but because they genuinely just didn't think he would be able to keep it secret, and they were probably right.

He appears to have a strong sense of justice and he adheres to a code of honour. When he first meets Jotaro and company, he was under the influence of mind control flesh tentacles and tries to kill them. However, in spite of being mind controlled, he openly announces his intentions instead of staging an ambush, challenging Avdol to a deathmatch. He then moves their fight to open terrain and explains his stand's powers in detail so he wouldn't have an unfair advantage.

His sense of honour sometimes manifests as a fatalistic romanticism. At one point, he admits that before he joined up with Jotaro and company, he thought he would be willing to die as long as he got his revenge. Furthermore, after Avdol defeats him in their initial fight by setting him on fire, he offers him a swift, painless death. Polnareff refuses, choosing to burn to death out of respect for his opponent. (Incidentally, this is what makes them realize that he wasn't really evil and ultimately leads to him joining the party.)

Polnareff is not a complex thinker. He often accepts the simplest explanation for most dilemmas and takes the most straightforward approach to most problems. This occasionally makes him vulnerable to underhanded tactics. At one point, he's targeted by Devo, whose stand can only attack you if you injure him first. Devo goads him into attacking almost effortlessly and at no point does Polnareff suspect a trap or question how easy his alleged victory was.

He generally adopts a remarkably carefree attitude given his circumstances and doesn't tend to worry or think too hard about things unless they're immediate threats. When he found himself in a mysterious dreamscape (that was going to kill him), he was completely unconcerned. According to his logic, nothing that happens in a dream can hurt you because it's not real. He also thought nothing of wagering his soul on which piece of fish a cat would eat first.


He's obnoxiously vain and deeply arrogant. He has excessive confidence in his own abilities and consistently underestimates enemy stand users. He repeatedly charges off on his own and bites off more than he can chew. He often needs to be helped out of the many and varied scrapes he gets himself into, which can make him an inconvenience at best and a liability at worst.

This is especially notable during his initial eencounter with his sister's murderer, J. Geil. During their first encounter, J. Geil deliberately sends his stand after him to lure him out and it's super effective. Polnareff immediately drops everything in favour of pursuing him. When his allies point out that charging off by himself might not be a good idea given that he didn't know who he was looking for or what powers they had and he lashes out at them in a cruel, defensive rage. He dismisses their concern, interpreting it as doubt in his abilities and his dedication, and abandons them in order to pursue his vengeance quest by himself and on his own terms.

As it turned out, going off to fight someone without knowing who they are and what they're capable of was not a good idea. When he attempted to challenge J. Geil, he was severely unprepared and outmatched and would have been killed if Avdol hadn't turned up to save him---sacrificing his own life in the process.

In spite of his initial insistence that he fights alone, Polnareff has a great capacity for devotion and when he cares about something or someone, he cares very deeply. He set off on a worldwide quest to avenge his sister's death even though he knew virtually nothing about her killer or his whereabouts. Furthermore, while he initially joined Jotaro and company in order to avenge his sister's murder, he stayed with them and continued to risk his life fighting by their side even after he'd resolved his personal quest.

He was gutted after Avdol sacrificed his life to save him and it prompted him to seriously reflect on his attitude and behaviour. He accepted responsibility for Avdol's death in earnest, declaring that he would come back after their quest was over to give him proper burial. He resolved to change his ways, to curb his recklessness and "fight to live" from there on out. (As genuine and heartfelt as his resolution was, he doesn't actually manage to keep it very long before wandering off into more danger. Old habits die hard.)

While he's a reckless, obnoxious liability at his worst, he's a skilled fighter who's surprisingly competent and valuable in times of crisis. His tendency to act without thinking makes him almost invulnerable to the perils of overthinking, so when the chips are down, he will be the kind of person that can be counted on to do something.

At one point during their adventures, Kakyoin, one of his companions, appeared to be losing his mind because he was carving words into his arm and trying to attack a baby (who was evil and trying to murder them). When Kakyoin's apparent madness came to a head, Polnareff knocked him out because he didn't know what else to do. This ultimately helped them survive the encounter, albeit not for the reasons he thought. It was very much a case of doing the right thing for the wrong reasons, but he was an asset because he stepped up and took action.

He can also be observant and even clever sometimes, but usually only when there's an obvious, immediate threat. He was able to defeat a remarkably powerful enemy while severely injured because he figured out that said enemy had been turned into a vampire. But on another occasion, he was completely oblivious to the fact that he was in danger even though there was a presumably dead body lying right out in the open right behind him.

He isn't incapable of rational thought, but he often gets blinded by raw emotion. When he encountered a genie who offers him three wishes, he was initially suspicious and openly acknowledged the possibility that it might be a trap or an enemy stand. However, he ultimately gave in to his feelings and wished to bring Avdol and his sister back from the dead.

As it turned out, the genie was an enemy stand and his loved ones came back as horrible zombies that tried to eat him. Whoops. He then resigned himself to being eaten by the zombies out of a twisted sense of guilt over their deaths and over bringing them back. In a sense, allowing himself to be eaten was his way of making things right.

He can also be fiercely determined. Once he's decided to do something, it's very difficult to dissuade him from doing it and he can be a real force to be reckoned with. After he's freed from the mind control tentacles and he declares his intentions to join Jotaro and company on their quest to Egypt, Joseph remarks that he would probably accompany them whether they wanted him to or not. He is also extremely reluctant to withdraw from a fight. Even after a prolonged battle, during which he lost a pretty substantial chunk of his leg and what I assume were about half of his toes, he climbs up a flight of stairs to confront DIO by himself. He then determinedly delivers a heroic speech while coughing mouthfuls of blood up onto a nearby curtain.

Generally speaking, Polnareff sees himself as the charming and chivalrous hero of his own story. He postures, grandstands and talks himself up, often referring to himself as "a nice, handsome guy" both internally and out loud. In reality, the way he's perceived by others is more along the lines of a bull in a china shop. While his heart and values are in the right place, his absurd overconfidence and his tendency to speak and act without thinking makes him come across as brash, abrasive and tactless.

Ultimately, both perceptions are correct. At his core, he is a loyal, caring man who will heroically defend what's right. However, he's almost entirely ruled by his heart and his impulses, so he's also the kind of guy who will meet a superpowered dog and immediately try to fight it for no good reason.

5-10 Key Character Traits:
Sentimental
Excitable
Righteous
Devoted
Irrepressible
Impulsive
Guileless
Arrogant
Romantic
Brash


Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, EITHER, or opt for 100% RANDOMIZATION? EITHER

Opt-Outs:

Werewolf
Werebear
Wendigo
Slime
Simulacrum
Minotaur
(Also Demon)

Roleplay Sample:

From the test drive meme