being rightfully upset about the way those with DID and systems were treated and bringing that to light and holding jojo accountable for it is a completely separate thing from being upset just because your headcanon was rejected. i think jojo has every right to have their own “canon” way of doing things in their art and comics. they make it for us but it is still theirs. that being said, it likely would have been more reasonable for jojo to offer an explanation for how they will be characterizing four and the colors but kinda making it a disclaimer? like “hey this is how it works in the comic and how I will be writing it but if you have other hcs that’s fine too”
as for the way they phrased their explanation, that’s another story entirely. i am not very knowledgeable on the subject myself so i don’t want to speak for those they offended, but it’s alright to still enjoy lu so long as we hold everyone—even the creator—accountable. <3
I had no idea there was drama about the new update but here are my thoughts wrapped up pretty well along with one other I’ll be posting soon.
It’s okay to have your headcanons, but Jojo is still aloud to write canon as whatever they want it to be.
I agree, this is disrespectful of fans. Jojo literally doesn’t have to draw for us. Plus they apologized! Twice!
Having Headcanons is fine. Deciding you like those Headcanons more than canon is also fine.
But going after the creator, especially after said creator apologized twice, is just wrong.
I hope everyone is proud of themselves for the witch hunt that’s been happening over the past few days. I will neither be surprised nor able to blame Jojo should she decide that the LU comic will no longer be continued after this whole debacle. The amount of hate that has been going on is ridiculous and not justified. The whole ordeal started from a mistake that has been fixed and apologized for, but sadly it seems that an apology was not what people actually wanted.
Everyone needs to remember that Jojo is a normal person not a corporation, celebrity, or influencer. She had an idea based off of a game series and decided to share it like many of us do with fanart or fanfictions,ie; she does not owe us anything and we are not entitled to her work.
Comics are extremely time consuming to make, more so then regular art or writing, and she isn’t doing the work to get compensation for it. This is FREE content. She’s making this comic because she wants to and because people liked the idea of nine different Links interacting with each other at the same time.
If you think harassing a creator for the free content that they put out is okay, you need to see a therapist. Harassing someone for a mistake is not okay, and bringing up mistakes/misconceptions from the past (I’ve see people going back to posts dated 4+years) is even worst.
There have also been people that apparently do not know what an immigrant is. Just because someone lives in the US and their spoken English is fine does not mean that they are from the US and spoken word does not correlate to writing abilities. People that have learned any second language will know that speaking is easier then reading/writing. I personally am able to talk in polish, but I am completely unable to write because there is a difference. English on its own is a hard language and people that do know it as a first language still make mistakes when writing.
If this was the last update I and probably many others will be saddened to see the comic end like this, regardless it’s completely understandable and justifiable if this is the end and Jojo does not feel comfortable enough to continue. I wish her all the best in the world because this was blown completely out of proportion and I can’t imagine the psychological harm that it has caused.
@gliphyartfan tell me if I’m being annoying but I had an idea smack me across the face and ask me to call it a parental figure.
Somehow the mafia chain find out that (y/n) is needing money for her classes cue them being distressed cause they cant just send her money cause thats werid. I mean yeah its money but where the fuck did it come from and ‘do I have an old rich creeper or some shit. No. Shut down.’ So they cant. Thier goddess should be taken care of an not have to worry about anything. Let then take care of and worship you. Not to mention that their darling baby is a strong independant person who wants to do things on thier own. Respect.
What are our boys to do?
Well Time manipulatesarranges for her to wind up working at one of thier front businesses. The safest, easiest, job for her. Is it a made up position. Maybe. Does it pay way too much for what work she is doing. Probably. But its on the up and up.
Cue the boys making sure she doesnt catch wind of anything going on. Bullying any employee until they know she is to not know anything or its thier head on a platter.
The boys now have ready access to thier Goddess…..
That’s a really good idea!
(Who said you’re annoying me??? I’ll smack them with a fish!!! I’ll always enjoy additions to my aus! That’s the best thing you could give me!)
Maybe she kept it her family because she never wanted to burden them.
Surprise school fees? Maybe she decided to take more courses? Who knows, but she needs work and in a college area? Work is hard to come by.
So it would have to be close enough that she can get there in time from school while also having time for studying.
Plus she would want to save for the future. (Not that she would need to anytime soon with the boys around.)
She lives away from home so she would have to pay rent too. So a sudden debt would make her need to work.
And what a surprise that she gets a job that does everything she needs???
A bit of work cause she would be suspicious if it were TOO good to be true but it’s worth it for the benefits.
Plot twist: since it would still be when they first made contact with her, she wouldn’t be known by the chain’s men. So imagine her 'boss’ (one of Time’s men) deciding to treat her awful.
I won’t continue that line of thought but we all know how it ends for the ex-subordinate~!
Please don’t. I don’t want my brain smelling like fish lol.
I can just see it now. she works hard on handling it and handling on her own. Or just grins and bears it cause come on, that’s adult life. No matter how good a job is or how well you like it there is bound to be jerks or just sucky days. The days just become more frequent I guess. And sure maybe she ends up venting to one of the boys my money is on Wind cause come on, what is the harm in telling him. He is a totally safe bet right? He’s old enough to get it and not say ‘well just quit’ but young enough for him not to do something right?….right
Huh? What do you mean he was transferred out of the country?!
@gliphyartfan tell me if I’m being annoying but I had an idea smack me across the face and ask me to call it a parental figure.
Somehow the mafia chain find out that (y/n) is needing money for her classes cue them being distressed cause they cant just send her money cause thats werid. I mean yeah its money but where the fuck did it come from and ‘do I have an old rich creeper or some shit. No. Shut down.’ So they cant. Thier goddess should be taken care of an not have to worry about anything. Let then take care of and worship you. Not to mention that their darling baby is a strong independant person who wants to do things on thier own. Respect.
What are our boys to do?
Well Time manipulatesarranges for her to wind up working at one of thier front businesses. The safest, easiest, job for her. Is it a made up position. Maybe. Does it pay way too much for what work she is doing. Probably. But its on the up and up.
Cue the boys making sure she doesnt catch wind of anything going on. Bullying any employee until they know she is to not know anything or its thier head on a platter.
The boys now have ready access to thier Goddess…..
That’s a really good idea!
(Who said you’re annoying me??? I’ll smack them with a fish!!! I’ll always enjoy additions to my aus! That’s the best thing you could give me!)
Maybe she kept it her family because she never wanted to burden them.
Surprise school fees? Maybe she decided to take more courses? Who knows, but she needs work and in a college area? Work is hard to come by.
So it would have to be close enough that she can get there in time from school while also having time for studying.
Plus she would want to save for the future. (Not that she would need to anytime soon with the boys around.)
She lives away from home so she would have to pay rent too. So a sudden debt would make her need to work.
And what a surprise that she gets a job that does everything she needs???
A bit of work cause she would be suspicious if it were TOO good to be true but it’s worth it for the benefits.
Plot twist: since it would still be when they first made contact with her, she wouldn’t be known by the chain’s men. So imagine her 'boss’ (one of Time’s men) deciding to treat her awful.
I won’t continue that line of thought but we all know how it ends for the ex-subordinate~!
You said to at you so I at’ed you. Ignore if you like.
Trigger warnings: abuse, gore, and suicidal ideations.
Delilah Rossi, better known as Lilah was only a young college student when she was thrust into the world of Hyrule and becan accompanying the Chain in hopes of making it back home. Her story started before that, though the Chain was definitely more interesting than anything her life ever gave her before. It wasn’t her first exposure to the darkness that eats away at the edge of a man’s morality. That was something she lived her whole life with.
But instead of sickened love it was only contempt her father felt for her. When she was young he didn’t want anything to do with her really. Because what use is a baby, it’s rather annoying.
Lilah isn’t sure what her father had been like before the injury that took away his ability to compete as a gymnast, as it had been before she was born. She wasn’t sure if he had ever been different from the controlling narcissist who hadn’t cared about her until she could give something to him. The one thing he was missing.
He had been an-almost-olympic medalist. But due to an injury he never made it that far, what was rightfully his was ripped right away from him and no one seemed to care except him. It was unfair. And one day while watching his neglected wife and child an idea struck. He watched his wife coach their baby into taking steps.
He could work with this. He thought as he approached the two and picked the girl up from under her arms and held her up, her other just watching on allowing the man to hold her
“Yes…yes I can work with this.” And thus began hell.
Her father was a controlling man. What she could eat and drink, who she spoke to and associated with (a very limited list), and all her free time was dedicated to gymnastics. Restrictive diets, endless hours of cardio and time in the gym brought the girl into an almost constant state of exhaustion, wandering through life in an enervateddaze.
And she could not step a toe out of line, or it will be much worse for her. She can’t count the number of concussions she must have gotten from being beat upside the head after stumbling on a landing. Her pinky had been broken when she couldn’t get the uneven bar routine right- twice. And that is in combination with the regular ‘incidents’ when her father is in a bad mood. He was always good at hiding the marks, after all appearance is half the point of winning a competition. The prettier she was the more likely she would win medals.
Lilah could feel the chains tightening around her, drowning her will to fight…to want. What was the point of anything, desiringanything, if she could never have it. Having to dampen her natural curiosity and ambitions in fearof displeasing him. She felt suffocated and broken, oddly enough those chains being the thing that kept her from fully falling apart. Keep your head down, just do the tasks in front of you. Go to sleep and wait for the next morning where it would start again. Praying that maybe you just wouldn’t wake up. Keep one foot in front of the other and you won’t stumble as much. Don’t look down into the abyss or you’ll loose yourself in it. She was forgetting what her own laugh sounded like. When was the last time she saw any light in her own eyes? So she existed…she just did that…existed. Why did she have to exist?
It all fell apart for her father when she was 16.
It had been a minor competition but would be the greatest victory of her monochrome existence. She had been ill, most likely a common cold or flu but due to her poor lifestyle it was hitting her harder than most. She blacked out on one of the turns on the uneven bars. She awoke mere moments later to burning in her side and a difficulty breathing, what she later learned was a broken rib. Everything felt underwater and muffled, but he could hear her father yell at her to get the fuckup, even if it sounded far away. She remembered the world turning as her body moved to obey the command out of habit. Lilah was barely on her feet before she was hunched over vomiting, the motion doing horrific things to her broken rib, sending a scorching burningburningburningI’mburning fire ripping through her chest. Was that screaming, she thinks she hears screaming but her eyes are blurry with tears and a red haze that starts to overcome it. Later she learned her eyes had turned bloodshot from her blood pressure spiking.
She had never been more thankful to lose consciousness. She hoped that waking never happened with this blissful sleep….
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Lilah’s mother finally came clean under the pressure of authorities and CPS, though her fathers actions had very much sealed the deal with the witness’s presence. Lilah was removed from their care and put in foster care with a wonderful family. Her father was put in prison and her mother disappeared. She was guaranteed a restraining order the moment her father left prison.
It took years of therapy and multiple missteps but as she became a young woman, she bloomed. Her curiosity was back, and she developed an open and friendly deposition. She became rather goofy, as if she had bottled all those years worth of joy and energy up, only to open it and experience it all at once. She was laughing almost every day now, her eyes practically glowed. She had a special love for life because she didn’t have one for a long time. She felt like Pinocchio when he was turned into a real boy and she would not waist one moment of it.
There’s no strings on me.
But similar chains will return…in another world and form.
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Hey guys! that was Lilah’s backstory right up until she got transported to meet the Chain. I will be doing a piece on how she fell for each of our handsome boys and became desperate for each’s love. Then I’m doing on on the decent into madness. As you can guess the controlling behavior from the boys will ring the bell a little too close to home for her.
And I want to add that she never told any of the Chain about her father. She calls her foster parents her parents. She keeps her father dead and buried in her life.
