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*THIS WORK WAS CREATED 100% BY HAND, NO AI WAS UTILIZED IN THE WRITING OF THIS WORK
Regarding the “no smut” tag:
Figured I’d get this one out of the way first. I personally am rather uncomfortable writing smut in general, but especially with this particular pairing since they’re both minors. So obviously there will be no smut in this fic. If you have an issue with that, maybe you should take a step back and take a good look at what you’re doing with your life and why you’re upset about me not wanting to write about minors having sex. Also, this fic is going to span over several years, so yes the characters will age up, however, in canon unfortunately one of them does not live to be past 17, so in my mind he is always 17 and I still feel weird about writing smut including him.
Thanks:
First of all I wanted to thank my friend Strawberry for being my biggest supporter and always being excited about the things I do. I honestly could not have done any of this without them and their input and support has carried me through this entire thing so far. I also wanted to thank Chicken for yapping with me about ideas all the time, and for always being interested in what I write. Also big thanks to my beta readers, your critical eyes help me to ensure the things I put out are high quality!
About my writing process:
I started writing this work in late 2025 after my brain was violently ripped from hyperfixating on Arcane to Jojo’s, which I actually hadn’t watched in a long time (because of the aforementioned Arcane obsession), but all of a sudden it was all I could think about. So I strapped in and rewatched everything and became rather obsessed with Jotakak (or Noritaro if you’re cool). So, I thought to myself, I should write a fanfic, despite the total failure my previous Jayvik one had been, and despite my tendency to give up on things halfway through.
And now here we are. I, for whatever reason, am incapable of planning shit out. I have a rough storyline thought out, but details, chapter count, etc are not planned. I do know I want this fic to be very, very long, my goal is 50 chapters, with each chapter being around 3k words, but I’m not sure how realistic that is.
[EDIT 7/7/26: 50 chapters is actually incredibly modest for how much I want to write, but I'm going to keep the tentative chapter count there until I get closer to that point]
At the time of me posting this, I already have a good amount of chapters written and ready to go. At this point I have more chapters written for this work than I had for my previous one, so I think this inspiration will last at the very least longer than it did for Stake of Ash. I will try my hardest to stay on a fairly regular schedule, but knowing myself and how I write, I doubt it will be very consistent. This is also worsened by the fact that I am a full time student and also have a part time job so like I never have any freetime at all lol. When I write I tend to have bursts of energy where I can write a lot in a short period of time, but then there are times when I open the doc and stare blankly at it as if that will somehow translate my thoughts into tangible sentences. Sometimes the up times last a while, sometimes they last an hour, and sometimes the down times can last for a month or more. I apologize for my scatterbrained approach to writing and hope you will bear with me while I pour my soul into this work at an inconsistent pace.
A word on the original characters in this work:
All of the non canon characters you see in this fic were made by me literally pulling ideas out of my ass and they are only there to make the story less boring. Personally it's a bit of a pet peeve for me to read a fic where the author just randomly throws in oc’s and makes them extremely plot relevant cause like thats not what I’m here for. The characters here have minimal plot relevance and any part they do play is mostly for development of the main characters.
Disclaimers:
This work is as period accurate as I could make it. I did a ridiculous amount of research to make it that way. Unfortunately, I was not alive in the 80s, in fact my mother was only like 11 during the time this work takes place, so there may be some glaring issues with the accuracy. Please, if you notice something that's inaccurate, leave a comment so I can fix it (even if it's a huge thing, I will rewrite the entire work I’m not even kidding).
I am also not Japanese. I have never even been to Japan. I don’t even watch a lot of anime, other than Jojo’s. So I know for a fact my surface level knowledge of Japanese school and culture is very bad, sorry about that. Again, please let me know if there’s something I should change.
I am also aroace and do not know what the fuck I’m talking about, so sorry if this feels a little robotic or unrealistic. I have never been in love nor do I plan to. I dated someone for 2 years before but there was never really anything there and it was more like just a best friend who I was extremely co-dependant with. (Do NOT date people off discord folks it isn’t worth it.)
This fic uses crow symbolism, yes really, I just felt like doing that I guess, so every time you see crows it means something.
The way the characters behave in the fic, especially towards the beginning, may seem a little childish. This is because they are children. I don’t care what the fandom or Araki himself wants me to believe, in my heart Jotaro is an obnoxious little shit who thinks he’s cool and mysterious but everyone just thinks he's weird and autistic.
Jotawife WILL be appearing in this fic and having a semi major role. She is there because I love Jolyne with my entire heart and could not bear to not have her here.
Chapter titles:
Each chapter’s title is a song title or lyric from a song I have in my writing playlist, the titles are either based on songs that play during the chapter or just based on vibes. You do not have to listen to that specific song while reading the chapter, but you can if you want.
How their school works:
To reiterate, I have no clue how a typical high school in Japan would function, this is simply how I'm chosing to write the school. The school day consists of four classes, with a break for lunch after the first class. There are eight classes they take, and they alternate day to day. Below is the schedule I have made:
A DAYS:
Literature
Biology
English
Math
B DAYS:
History
Home economics
Japanese
Gym
* Club time after classes on B days
* Cleaning duty on Wednesdays
From my understanding, unless students are required to go to a specialized classroom (like for gym or home ec for example, and biology when they're in lab), they stay in the same classroom the entire day, and the teachers who only teach one or two subjects move from classroom to classroom depending on that class's particular schedule. And typically the students in one class (for example 3-2 where our boys are) have all of these classes together. This may be completely wrong though I have no clue lmao.
The ridiculous extent of the research I have done (if you wanted to know) *subject to change:
- Listened to the entire pre-90s discography of both Sting and Toshinobu Kubota
- Bought/used a walkman
- Read some classic Japanese literature (yes really)
- Spent several hours researching 80s game consoles and popular games
- Researched crow symbolism
- Spent a VERY long time learning about the ocean/marine biology
- Hours of research on Japanese school culture
- Watched several 80s romance movies (cheesy right)
So in conclusion, I worked very hard on this, too hard some might say, enjoy!