What if Dio Survived as Joseph Joestar?

Imagine DIO saying OHHHH NOOOO! like Joseph!

Jotaro after being trolled: "For God's sake, gramps! Avdol, Iggy and Kakyoin just died! HAVE A BIT OF SERIOUSNESS!!!!" Joseph: "Seriousness? Listen, kid. You are talking with a guy that, with your age, killed a vampire and four fitness Aztec Gods with the help of a nazi-cyborg, an italian who used bubbles as a weapon and a hot chick who turned out to be his mom after watching her bathing. Seriousness doesn't exist in my vocabulary."

Love to picture Pucci getting a text (or an email I guess) from Dio that's just like "would you still love me if I looked 68 specifically"

Caesar watching from Heaven how Joseph trolls his grandkid just after being resurrected: "Could someone explain to me why I sacrificed my last reserve of energy for this idiot?!"

"You thought you'd face DIO again, but it was me, JOSEPH"

Imagine almost dying, and your first idea when waking up is to troll your grandson. Fycking madlad.

Love how part 3 shows for most of its duration a mature and reasonable old Joseph, depicting him as a different person from the happy-go-lucky young idiot from part 2. Then BAM, Joseph suddenly behaves like a happy-go-lucky idiot in the last episode, showing us that that the cocky youngster who defeated four Aztec vampires never completely disappeared 🥲

Joseph: "Come on, Jotaro! It was just a prank! You cannot deny it was funny!" Jotaro: "Wanna hear sonmthing funny? I just got a call from a woman you met years ago in the city of Morioh. She told me her child is recovering from a mysterious disease similar to the one Mom had" Joseph: "Sh*t..."

simple plan for Dio to defeat Jotaro in this situation: - ask Holly if you can sleep over for the next month while you recover - kiss Jotaro's forehead every night and say "good night sweet prince" - eventually Jotaro will become desensitised, so in one of the last couple days of the month, smack his head with a shovel instead of kissing him; since his guard was down, he'll die.

The one counterpoint to everyone universally thinking dio couldnt impersonate joseph is dio spent like 8 years pretending to be Jonathan's best friend, Jonathan could still tell there was something wrong and i think jotaro could too but people have very little faith in dio. Id also think possibly josephs body could send out a similar distress signal, especially since he has his full head and brain

DIO: "Ah. Wait, what happened to The World?" Summons Green Green Grass of Home DIO: "...What the fu-"

Speaking of vampiric Joestars, there's actually an amazing fan-manga called "Until We Eternally Rest" in which Dio turns JoJo into a vampire with the Stone Mask, and despite of that monstruos transformation and all the suffering it makes him feel, he never stops being a pure innocent being. 😢

I believe that DIO would never be able to act like Joseph, he is way too cocky and like you said "vampirism makes you think that you are untouchable". so he will probably just blow his cover and get killed in the ambulance or just outside of it (edit, I just finished the vid and you already said it sooo yeah)

I wonder how he would react to being able to safely feel sunlight for the first time in over a century.

You know, this would be a great premise for another Stardust Crusaders OVA movie with Jotaro going solo this time and potentially unlocking a new ability. Maybe he learns how to use Hamon, extends his Time Stop duration, get a completely new ability, or all of the above.

Poor Jonathan. Just when he thought his soul could finally rest, his nemesis took posession of his 70-year old grandson. Damn DIO. 😅

this would be just another episode of kosaku kowujiri episode, like when kira took over someones life, but the stakes are high on this one

I think DIO would wait at the hospital until Jotaro left to investigate his mansion, and tell the Speedwagon foundation he needs to go alone to America to wait for his wife (he would first ask them if she's home), then he would go on his own to reunite with Pucci and accelerate as much as possible the heaven plan, since that would also allow him to travel back time by resetting the universe and become a vampire once again

A Josuke swap would be a cool 2 part video, Gappy in DiU and Josuke in Jojolion

Overall a bit of a reach tbh, we know that being a vampire can physically change even master hamon users like Straizo. In the measure that Joseph is dead, Dio taking over his body through his blood fully would just be instantly very obvious. Holy would also probably still be ill. I think it would be harder for Jotaro to fight his grandpa’s body than his estranged great great grandpa’s, but he’d still fold him to save Holy, and avenge the other crusaders. Also, it’s a bit convoluted to assume he’d become a normal person again, when his vampiric blood would be the only thing allowing him to survive in Joseph’s body anyways. If the vampiric blood gets neutralized, he just fades away and dies—- just like he did in canon, pretty much. Idk, not your hardest hitter, tbh.