commentary (as of 2025): this is a big one for me strap in... pink phantom and lewis!! its a miracle that i was even able to get my hands on this project. the only reason i have it now is because of an old remix by @wRyyyyyyyyytard2 that only swapped out the music so it was really easy to get the project back to its original state. so thanks to them, wherever they may be now <3 if some people here arent too familiar with what i did with jsc, this was the very early stages of it (lets call this 2nd wave cause there are some very big steps up from my original projects). which i guess now i should properly introduce because ive been saying jsc this and jsc that without really explaining. the jojo-scratch community (studio: https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/28405311/) was a studio i started back in 2020-2021 (somewhere within that time frame) in collaboration with @The_Permeator. at the time, jjba projects on scratch were a bit fractured and scattered all over the place so i wanted to make a place where people could post the sort of thing me and @The_Permeator made. (which from what i remember the studio project jojo was a thing but it wasnt very active.) if you didnt know the only real reason i rejoined scratch in the first place (yes, i had a scratch account before jsc but that's a story for another time) was because i took inspiration from @The_Permeator to make a project similar to his (this was before his account was even a year old too). but pink phantom and lewis were my jjba OCs and really the only OCs ive made... and sort of my self insert/main identity moving forward in jsc as a collective. i remember pink phantom originally coming from like a jjba stand stats randomizer website or something of that sort? the framework for him was there and i wanted to expand. lewis (the stand user) is i guess THE self insert but the only real similarities i have with the character is similar names and a shared enjoyment of a cheap detective aesthetic. i based the stand off of the song "pink phantom" by gorillaz which i wouldnt doubt was my favorite song then and made some concepts. i wrote a bit of stuff too way after the creation of this project to really flesh him and his abilities out (which ill put snippets of at the end of these notes). he is in reality nothing like this project anymore but hey this is still really cool to look at. mechanically i wanted to do a lot with him. i played a bit of heritage for the future at the time of making this and loved playing hol horse. so i made a slide (that uses the hol horse slide sound clip too) and added a jump which i never did for any of my other testing projects i dont think? you can crouch with S and jump with W. being in the air and crouching does change your move set which i remember being really proud of. also also for some reason i used hero voice clips from smash bros ultimate? dont ask why i thought they would just fit him. weirdly enough im a very big fan of how this project feels, its jank yeah but its a good kinda jank i think. maybe im a little biased. also the stage background? was supposed to be eluding to a completely new, very nice stage that was "under construction" (i remember using it a couple times so the fact i didnt go through with it is crazy) but i think i dropped the idea after i revamped my dummy model and stuff. orr i forgot, i dunno. EXCERPTS FROM: "PINK PHANTOM" "Pink Phantom is an elusive stand with some signs of sentience. Its intentions are overall unknown but it remains loyal to its user, Lewis, and assists him in his endeavors." PHANTOM DUST "Phantom Dust is a tool at Pink Phantom’s disposal that allows it to manipulate the immediate reality around its victim. To do this, Pink Phantom must cough the dust up into the air. Breathing the dust in will instill panic in the victim and they’ll begin to see illusions relating to fears of theirs in the cloud of dust. Pink Phantom feeds off this panic and fear, making the illusions more potent the more afraid the user becomes. If the user becomes afraid enough, Pink Phantom is then able to come in contact with enemies within the cloud, gaining enough energy to become temporarily tangible to users and stands within it. This tangibility however is not as useful due to Pink Phantom not being particularly strong." ARIES "Aries is Pink Phantom’s sub-stand and coexists as Pink Phantom’s tangible counterpart. Aries manifests as ghostly strings that hold a faint yellow glow. Aries is as sentient as Pink Phantom and requires commands from the user or Pink Phantom to whether or not be tangible to certain enemies, other stand users, or specific physical objects. These strings allow for multiple uses and can manifest from either Pink Phantom’s fingertips or from under the user’s fingernails. Aries, if instructed to be tangible to physical objects, can stick and bounce off of them to create a web of strings. These strings when cut will split off into two different strings, extending the web."
