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Applications Two
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Athleticism:
He's not quite superhuman and can still be damaged and killed, but even without his abilities, Caesar is at a physical peak. He's a competent hand-to-hand fighter, with good reflexes, good fighting instinct, and the strength to back it up. And although his status as a Ripple user enhances his endurance and tolerance to pain some, it's not enough to put him past the level of a very exceptional baseline human (unless he specifically uses it to dull pain or heal a wound).
also he's a big ol beefcake but that's a parts 1-3 jojo standard soRipple (Hamon/Sendo):
Caesar, like his grandfather Will Zeppeli before him, is capable of utilizing Hamon, also known as Ripple, or Sendo. Only a select few possess the ability to use it effectively enough in combat, but Through careful breathing techniques, it channels the energy of sunlight through the body of the user to create a powerful, multipurpose energy. As Ripple is linked to breathing, it relies heavily on the ability of its user to do just that: if made unable to breathe, Ripple is unusable. Hindering the flow of blood in any way (blood loss, rapid temperature decrease, etc) also renders Ripple unusable.
--Attack
Ripple energy can imbue a user, or an object imbued with Ripple, with a greater amount of strength: for example, Will Zeppeli was able to split a large rock in half with a Ripple punch. The energy is capable of going through objects to attack (just kidding, Will gently touched a frog with his fist and broke the rock with Ripple, leaving the frog completely unharmed). It is especially effective against vampires and undead and other evil beings, to the extent of melting through their skin when the energy or an object imbued with the energy is used on them (i.e. Joseph Joestar using Ripple-infused string to wrap up and kill a Pillar Man), based on the idea that the power of the undead is the flip side of the coin of Ripple energy.
Objects usable as Ripple weapons tend towards organic objects (human hair, wool, oil, wine, noodles, a scarf with fibers made from beetles). Metals and other liquids are also shown to conduct Ripple.
Against normal humans, Ripple still hurts, of course-- but it would take a great deal of it to harm anyone to the level that it damages vampires and the like.
--Defense/Healing
Ripple energy can be used as a defense through using Ripple to repel an object: for example, Caesar once used repelling Ripple to go through a high-pressure sheet of oil (razor sharp and strong enough to slice the top off a pen) completely unharmed. It can also strengthen the surface of objects, such as when Caesar creates a shield (or enclosure) out of bubble. And although Caesar himself is not capable of this just yet, Ripple can also be used to heal injuries, to the extent that Jonathan Joestar once inadvertently brought dead blossoms on a tree back to life.
--Control
The bodies of living creatures can be controlled through the Ripple: Caesar once used Ripple on a woman and was able to control her movements thoroughly enough for her to fight Joseph Joestar to a standstill. The control is both initiated and concluded through physical contact (Caesar did so in the form of a kiss) and is not limited to human beings, as Joseph once controlled a pigeon through use of the Ripple.
Hamon can also be used to contain objects, such as holding the water inside an upturned glass by blocking its movement with a thin film of the energy, and even keeping a liquid in a specific shape when not held in by anything at all through the use of slightly more advanced Ripple technique.
--Movement
In opposition to the repelling technique, Hamon can also be used to stick to objects or to stick objects to each other. When used effectively, it can do things like turn disconnected objects into a rope connected by the energy (such as when Joseph used a string of icicles as a rope) or allow someone to scale a Hamon-conducting surface (i.e. a pillar covered in oil) by clinging to solid objects with Hamon.
Bubble Hamon:
Caesar's particular specialty is using the power of the Ripple on bubbles. Through a special soap solution that his clothes are coated in, he creates bubbles, charges them with the Ripple, and uses them as projectiles. He can launch single bubbles or large barrages of them, and can alter their shape and size (sharp, edged discs or powerful lenses to reflect light thousands of times and create lasers), keeping them from popping through the Ripple energy. He's also capable of creating large, difficult-to-pop bubbles as enclosures. The bubbles aren't completely limited to soap (most notably, he creates a bubble out of his own blood right before his death in-canon), and his Ripple isn't limited to what he can make bubbles out of, either.
JoJo Posing:
Like basically every other JJBA character, Caesar has the innate ability to pose really dramatically, and also totally unprompted.
It's an extremely important power, okay.
Items/Weapons: Wham's ring, a pack of cigarettes, and a lighter. (His clothes don't technically function as a weapon, but his jacket and gloves are coated in a soap solution that allows him to make bubbles for Ripple attacks more easily; he's not limited to making bubbles with just that soap solution, however. If that would count them for an item slot I'd be cool with giving up the ring.)
Sample Entry: Haven Test Drive: small threads, and if that's not allowed, 10 comments in one thread
Sample Entry Two:
The irony of a smoker wielding a lung-based power has never been lost on him.
Caesar shifts forward, resting his arms on the railing of Lisa Lisa's balcony. Venice fades in the twilight, thirty minutes away by boat; the end of his cigarette smolders gray and red and he takes a drag, exhaling a thin wisp of smoke through pursed lips. It isn't the best habit he's ever formed, but, hey-- a man deserves a vice or two. He deserves it, anyway. Now more than ever.
The fact that he could be having his last cigarette any day now isn't lost on him, either.
He could dwell on the ways this could all go wrong: what to do if Joseph dies, what to do if Lisa Lisa or their teachers cannot pull through, what they'll end up doing if Caesar ends up dying instead. But, he figures, those worries are useless. Five Ripple users, three Pillar Men, right? They'll succeed. They'll save the world. They have to.
He flicks ash into the ocean far far below. There's no other option, of course: none he cares to think too deeply about. Their strategies are solid. His strategy is solid. There's no way that they will lose.
Inside, a peal of laughter, unmistakably Jojo's, rings out; in spite of himself he feels his eyes roll and the corner of his mouth turning up. Figures that he's making trouble, even the week before they fight the Pillar Men, doesn't it? Caesar breathes smoke one last time, crushing the cigarette butt into an ashtray, and turns, following the sound.
It might do him good, at least once, to take a page out of Jojo's book and be frivolous while he's still got time. He can afford another little vice for now.
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