Jobin Higashikata

Jobin cuts a distinctive figure, marked most of all by the deep grooves that run down his face over and beside his eyes. He was born without them; two appeared mysteriously when he turned sixteen, and later art trims them to a single line on each cheek. One eyebrow splits down the middle and curls upward at its end. He keeps an undercut, the spiky sides in a medium shade and the pale crown swept to the right of his forehead beneath a barrette.

His clothing runs light and knobbly, a hooded top and trousers dotted with rounded spikes, the dark hood fastened by a button stamped with the Higashikata crest and finished with a small woven necklace. After losing a wager to Josuke, he shaves his left eyebrow clean off, leaving himself looking, by his own admission, distinctly weird.

As a boy Jobin was timid and gloomy, worn down by illness and quietly bearing a bully's abuse, though he still found the nerve to refuse an order to burn down a home. Everything changed once his Stand awakened and his mother Kaato persuaded him that he had done nothing wrong and was fated to rise while others sank. He committed his first killing soon after and emerged cheerful and outgoing, gripped by a belief that every person starts at zero and must claw upward to find happiness.

That conviction curdles into arrogance and a sense of entitlement, and he looks down on nearly everyone. He hides a dry wit and a fondness for quotations, enjoys stirring situations up simply to make them more interesting, and keeps a boyish streak alive through his shelves of exotic beetles and his talk of summer vacations. Toward Kaato he is meek and obedient, almost fearful, yet he coldly exploits his father Norisuke's trust to run trades for the Locacaca Organization. His ruling desire is to seize the Locacaca and lift the family's curse, a goal he places above every life around him, though for all that ruthlessness he adores his son Tsurugi.

Following a family superstition meant to ward off sickness demons, Jobin, being the firstborn son, was dressed and brought up as a girl through his early years, a custom the household kept until his twelfth birthday. In his youth the Rock Disease cracked his skin and robbed him of short-term memory, and two older boys in his scouting group tormented him. When one of them dragged him out one night and demanded he set a house ablaze, Jobin refused, and as the bully threatened to burn his face, his Stand Speed King awoke and boiled the blood in the boy's skull. Kaato used the moment to remake her son, walking him to a hole beneath a lone pine and having him bury the crippled bully there, an act she framed as a fair exchange.

Years later, frustrated by the family's lack of standing, Jobin was recruited by the Rock Humans and Yotsuyu Yagiyama into the Locacaca Organization, masking its dealings behind his fruit trades. Speed King itself is a mysterious close-range Stand able to generate pinpoint heat within a small radius wherever he makes contact, enough to trigger heatstroke or rupture blood vessels, as when he hands Josuke a tissue only to superheat his skull into a nosebleed.

Across JoJolion he smuggles a Locacaca tree home, spars with Josuke in beetle matches, and steadily eliminates anyone threatening his prize, killing Ojiro Sasame and betraying the Rock Human Poor Tom to save Tsurugi. His scheme finally unravels when the family uncovers the hidden Locacaca and Norisuke traces the murders back to him. Panicking, Jobin knocks his father out, but in the ensuing chaos the enemy Stand Wonder of U closes in, and he is struck down by its calamity the instant he spots Toru hiding nearby.