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Just about everything below this point contains spoilers for Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 5: Golden Wind.
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Vinegar Doppio
Age: Appears 17-19, is actually 33-35
Canon: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind
Canon Point: Post-death
Character Information: First of all, I'm so sorry. Here is Doppio's page on the Jojo wiki.
... And since that page doesn't actually contain backstory info, here is a link to the Early Life portion of the much longer page on Doppio's Boss. This is relevant because, as it turns out, Doppio and Diavolo share a body.
While it isn't a clear-cut case of Dissociative Identity Disorder, a character in canon does explicitly name it as such, outdated terminology aside. The fact that they are also two souls within one body, as demonstrated by a Freaky Friday incident where a bunch of people swap bodies and these two become separated, can be chalked up to two things: a) stand weirdness probably, and b) the author's method of writing is sometimes very obviously "Whoa I read/saw/learned something really cool last week, I want to put that in my comic now." The latter is also probably the reason why their appearance shifts so drastically depending on which personality is fronting - Doppio doesn't seem to have aged a day since his late teens, even though Diavolo is in his thirties.
All this to say, the canon point I'm taking Doppio from is this very incident, during which he dies. His boss is dealt with shortly afterwards, but he's kind of in an infinite death loop, so Doppio is the only one in his body (he didn't... die in his body, but Diavolo's whereabouts are unclear due to the aforementioned death loop, so I'm assuming the Fog God can just pull some strings and, you know, put body and soul together).
A couple more notes before I move on to personality: The bits of backstory in the two wiki pages I linked are basically all we get. We don't know when the "split" happened: the anime implies the two personalities have been there since birth; the manga explicitly states that the boy adopted by the priest and allegedly-but-not-really-died in the Sardinia fire was named Diavolo, but the anime does not name him because they moved this flashback to an earlier point in the story, right before Doppio's introduction. It's completely unknown which or even if either of them was the original personality.
Likewise, there is no mention of how Doppio and Diavolo "met", or even when he started working as his closest subordinate in Passione. However, judging from how Doppio seems to be completely unaware that he shares his body with his Boss (in fact, it isn't even clear if he knows Diavolo's name), it's safe to assume Doppio remembers little to nothing of his early life.
These are things that may leave some blurred lines or even gaps in characterization, but I'll do my best to elaborate on anything that needs to be clarified!
Personality: Risotto Nero, the traitorous assassin Doppio has to fight in his introductory arc, refers to Doppio as "a walking contradiction". This bodes well for this section.
But let's take things one step at a time. The young boy from the flashback in Sardinia is described as "rather cowardly and a bit slow," but kind, which is fully in line with how Doppio initially presents himself. (Which is part of what lends credence to the idea he was the "original" personality, along with the fact that they look very similar, but that's beside the point. They both seem to have a soft spot for small animals though!) As soon as he's introduced, Doppio jumps in front of a vehicle to save a boy (who immediately says yeah, he saw the car, dumbass) and gets mud all over his pants for his trouble. Shortly afterwards, he cowers away from a taxi driver trying to charge an outrageous fare, and then begs for Risotto to leave him alone, looking like a perfectly innocent civilian.
The thing is, with Doppio, the line between what's real, what's a façade, and what's his other half showing through can be unclear.
It's a fact that he displays the behaviors described. It is ALSO a fact that he's second-in-command to the leader of the most influential Mafia family in Italy, and fervently loyal to him, as well. Doppio may be meek, but once he's actually engaged in combat with Risotto, he turns determined and relentless, quickly figuring out how his opponent's stand ability works, standing up to downright debilitating physical injury and refusing to withdraw from the fight despite his Boss's insistence (more on their relationship in a moment).
Further complicating matters is that, while Doppio isn't aware of his true connection to Diavolo, Diavolo is, and he appears to be able to communicate with Doppio at will (he does this through "phone calls", which are how Doppio seems to frame and rationalize their conversations: whenever available, he will use phones or approximations thereof, but in a pinch, and since he seems to break his phones awfully often, he has resorted to using things like toys, live frogs and cigarettes as a phone, going so far as to loudly imitate a ringtone with his mouth. He is completely unaware that he's doing this, or that it looks downright bananas to anyone looking at him) and to take control of their body at any time. This, as alluded to above, changes their appearance significantly, increasing their muscle mass and making them look their actual age, in what would seem to be an exaggeration of reports that the alters of people with DID can have different physical characteristics. This does usually make it easy to tell who's in control, but it muddles things a bit when it comes to one factor: Doppio's violent mood swings.
There are two things that seem to set Doppio off: prying into the Boss's identity, and getting in the way of one of their "phone calls". However, when these mood swings happen, causing him to violently threaten or even attempt to injure the target of his anger, his eyes tend to resemble Diavolo's and not his own (the difference being mainly that Doppio's eyes look like a regular human being's while Diavolo's are one solid color, with no pupil, and strangely fragmented). This makes it a little hard to tell whether Doppio is the one fully in control at those times; it seems likely that, when the Boss's identity is in jeopardy, Diavolo would come out to defend himself - and that's explicitly what he does at one point, but that much is clear because the body then proceeds to change... but another time, Doppio nearly gouges a man's eye out, his own freaky eyes on display, when Diavolo "calls" him and tells him to let the man go. Given the latter example, and the idea that keeping him from answering a call could be seen as preventing him from tending him to the single most important thing in his life, I'm personally inclined to say that the Doppio-Diavolo Temper Situation is a continuum, and Doppio does have a temper of his own. His eyes just change for... visual impact? Sure, let's go with that.
(Additionally, after coming back down from one of these transitions, full or partial, Doppio seems to experience something akin to dissociative amnesia, having no memory of whatever Diavolo did and sometimes only even remembering parts of their conversations.)
So. A continuum, two souls on one body, a dual personality - an ambiguous canon situation that can easily be interpreted as It's DID But It Gets Fucky Because Jojo Is Inherently Weird And Also Takes Liberties With Things. Either way, there is one important question that derives from this: how does Doppio deal with being his own person?
In canon, his existence seems to revolve around his Boss. The only goal we ever see him pursue - his "reason for living", in his own words - is to support Diavolo and his goals. Even when he disobeys him, such as when he refuses to run from Risotto, or when he snaps back because he's getting a "call" at an inopportune time, Doppio's fundamental loyalty to his Boss does not falter, and much of the time, he seems to rely on his guidance. Their bond runs very deep: Doppio is the only person Diavolo seems to care about and treat with affection (although it's unclear if that's purely only out of self-preservation - can't have his body getting injured, after all), and even as Doppio lays dying, he expresses loneliness, wishing to hear from Diavolo as he always does... while also asserting, without a doubt, that Diavolo will defeat the protagonists.
Who is Doppio without Diavolo? Who is Doppio without a goal, without a counterpart, without the ultimate end of his anger? He is still only one part of a fragmented whole; once his transformation into a monster begins, how will he adapt? Will his identity solidify, or fragment even further?
My hope is to find out.
5-10 Key Character Traits: Good-natured, clumsy, meek, forgetful, eccentric, deceptively perceptive, volatile, determined
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, EITHER, or opt for 100% RANDOMIZATION? Either
Opt-Outs: Slime, Arachne, Kelpie, Simulacrum, Pooka, Goblin (and Merperson, since I've already got Marco!)
Roleplay Sample: TDM thread
Name: Naem
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Other Characters: Marco Evangelisti
Just about everything below this point contains spoilers for Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 5: Golden Wind.
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Vinegar Doppio
Age: Appears 17-19, is actually 33-35
Canon: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind
Canon Point: Post-death
Character Information: First of all, I'm so sorry. Here is Doppio's page on the Jojo wiki.
... And since that page doesn't actually contain backstory info, here is a link to the Early Life portion of the much longer page on Doppio's Boss. This is relevant because, as it turns out, Doppio and Diavolo share a body.
While it isn't a clear-cut case of Dissociative Identity Disorder, a character in canon does explicitly name it as such, outdated terminology aside. The fact that they are also two souls within one body, as demonstrated by a Freaky Friday incident where a bunch of people swap bodies and these two become separated, can be chalked up to two things: a) stand weirdness probably, and b) the author's method of writing is sometimes very obviously "Whoa I read/saw/learned something really cool last week, I want to put that in my comic now." The latter is also probably the reason why their appearance shifts so drastically depending on which personality is fronting - Doppio doesn't seem to have aged a day since his late teens, even though Diavolo is in his thirties.
All this to say, the canon point I'm taking Doppio from is this very incident, during which he dies. His boss is dealt with shortly afterwards, but he's kind of in an infinite death loop, so Doppio is the only one in his body (he didn't... die in his body, but Diavolo's whereabouts are unclear due to the aforementioned death loop, so I'm assuming the Fog God can just pull some strings and, you know, put body and soul together).
A couple more notes before I move on to personality: The bits of backstory in the two wiki pages I linked are basically all we get. We don't know when the "split" happened: the anime implies the two personalities have been there since birth; the manga explicitly states that the boy adopted by the priest and allegedly-but-not-really-died in the Sardinia fire was named Diavolo, but the anime does not name him because they moved this flashback to an earlier point in the story, right before Doppio's introduction. It's completely unknown which or even if either of them was the original personality.
Likewise, there is no mention of how Doppio and Diavolo "met", or even when he started working as his closest subordinate in Passione. However, judging from how Doppio seems to be completely unaware that he shares his body with his Boss (in fact, it isn't even clear if he knows Diavolo's name), it's safe to assume Doppio remembers little to nothing of his early life.
These are things that may leave some blurred lines or even gaps in characterization, but I'll do my best to elaborate on anything that needs to be clarified!
Personality: Risotto Nero, the traitorous assassin Doppio has to fight in his introductory arc, refers to Doppio as "a walking contradiction". This bodes well for this section.
But let's take things one step at a time. The young boy from the flashback in Sardinia is described as "rather cowardly and a bit slow," but kind, which is fully in line with how Doppio initially presents himself. (Which is part of what lends credence to the idea he was the "original" personality, along with the fact that they look very similar, but that's beside the point. They both seem to have a soft spot for small animals though!) As soon as he's introduced, Doppio jumps in front of a vehicle to save a boy (who immediately says yeah, he saw the car, dumbass) and gets mud all over his pants for his trouble. Shortly afterwards, he cowers away from a taxi driver trying to charge an outrageous fare, and then begs for Risotto to leave him alone, looking like a perfectly innocent civilian.
The thing is, with Doppio, the line between what's real, what's a façade, and what's his other half showing through can be unclear.
It's a fact that he displays the behaviors described. It is ALSO a fact that he's second-in-command to the leader of the most influential Mafia family in Italy, and fervently loyal to him, as well. Doppio may be meek, but once he's actually engaged in combat with Risotto, he turns determined and relentless, quickly figuring out how his opponent's stand ability works, standing up to downright debilitating physical injury and refusing to withdraw from the fight despite his Boss's insistence (more on their relationship in a moment).
Further complicating matters is that, while Doppio isn't aware of his true connection to Diavolo, Diavolo is, and he appears to be able to communicate with Doppio at will (he does this through "phone calls", which are how Doppio seems to frame and rationalize their conversations: whenever available, he will use phones or approximations thereof, but in a pinch, and since he seems to break his phones awfully often, he has resorted to using things like toys, live frogs and cigarettes as a phone, going so far as to loudly imitate a ringtone with his mouth. He is completely unaware that he's doing this, or that it looks downright bananas to anyone looking at him) and to take control of their body at any time. This, as alluded to above, changes their appearance significantly, increasing their muscle mass and making them look their actual age, in what would seem to be an exaggeration of reports that the alters of people with DID can have different physical characteristics. This does usually make it easy to tell who's in control, but it muddles things a bit when it comes to one factor: Doppio's violent mood swings.
There are two things that seem to set Doppio off: prying into the Boss's identity, and getting in the way of one of their "phone calls". However, when these mood swings happen, causing him to violently threaten or even attempt to injure the target of his anger, his eyes tend to resemble Diavolo's and not his own (the difference being mainly that Doppio's eyes look like a regular human being's while Diavolo's are one solid color, with no pupil, and strangely fragmented). This makes it a little hard to tell whether Doppio is the one fully in control at those times; it seems likely that, when the Boss's identity is in jeopardy, Diavolo would come out to defend himself - and that's explicitly what he does at one point, but that much is clear because the body then proceeds to change... but another time, Doppio nearly gouges a man's eye out, his own freaky eyes on display, when Diavolo "calls" him and tells him to let the man go. Given the latter example, and the idea that keeping him from answering a call could be seen as preventing him from tending him to the single most important thing in his life, I'm personally inclined to say that the Doppio-Diavolo Temper Situation is a continuum, and Doppio does have a temper of his own. His eyes just change for... visual impact? Sure, let's go with that.
(Additionally, after coming back down from one of these transitions, full or partial, Doppio seems to experience something akin to dissociative amnesia, having no memory of whatever Diavolo did and sometimes only even remembering parts of their conversations.)
So. A continuum, two souls on one body, a dual personality - an ambiguous canon situation that can easily be interpreted as It's DID But It Gets Fucky Because Jojo Is Inherently Weird And Also Takes Liberties With Things. Either way, there is one important question that derives from this: how does Doppio deal with being his own person?
In canon, his existence seems to revolve around his Boss. The only goal we ever see him pursue - his "reason for living", in his own words - is to support Diavolo and his goals. Even when he disobeys him, such as when he refuses to run from Risotto, or when he snaps back because he's getting a "call" at an inopportune time, Doppio's fundamental loyalty to his Boss does not falter, and much of the time, he seems to rely on his guidance. Their bond runs very deep: Doppio is the only person Diavolo seems to care about and treat with affection (although it's unclear if that's purely only out of self-preservation - can't have his body getting injured, after all), and even as Doppio lays dying, he expresses loneliness, wishing to hear from Diavolo as he always does... while also asserting, without a doubt, that Diavolo will defeat the protagonists.
Who is Doppio without Diavolo? Who is Doppio without a goal, without a counterpart, without the ultimate end of his anger? He is still only one part of a fragmented whole; once his transformation into a monster begins, how will he adapt? Will his identity solidify, or fragment even further?
My hope is to find out.
5-10 Key Character Traits: Good-natured, clumsy, meek, forgetful, eccentric, deceptively perceptive, volatile, determined
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, EITHER, or opt for 100% RANDOMIZATION? Either
Opt-Outs: Slime, Arachne, Kelpie, Simulacrum, Pooka, Goblin (and Merperson, since I've already got Marco!)
Roleplay Sample: TDM thread
ADDENDUM
All of this is because Doppio and Diavolo are deeply, (almost) inseparably linked, and that's precisely what makes it so hard to pin down where one ends and the other begins. Again, though, a closer look at canon may make things a little clearer: both of them have anger to spare, but the way they express it is different. While Diavolo tends to be more composed and purposeful - unlike many other stands in the series and their infamous punch rushes, his King Crimson seems to prefer delivering a single, fatal blow - Doppio is erratic and unfocused. Diavolo has to stop him from gouging a cab driver's eye out; Diavolo asks him to calm down when Doppio's temper explodes in his fight with Risotto. While Doppio's mood swings do seem to be closely tied to dissociative states, or simply to Diavolo taking over, the way his anger is expressed is still uniquely Doppio's, and that must mean the anger itself is his as well.
In summation: Doppio and Diavolo's joint existence muddles things up, as they seem mutually protective of each other - fitting for a bizarre Jojo-flavored DID - and as such their behaviors can seem tangled up. However, looking at Doppio's actions in canon and at ALL the ways he seems to differ from Diavolo, rather than just the obvious ones, it can be surmised that the naive, boyish parts of Doppio's personality can and DO currently coexist with his more violent tendencies, and both are independently true, no matter what the situation may have been in the more distant past or "who" the original personality really was.