Character Name: Jo Katsuragi Canon: Innocent Venus Reference picture and Wiki link:WIKI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innocent_venus) and PICTURE (http://www.animint.com/encyclopedie/dossiers/image/i/innocentvenus/jo.jpg) Point in the time-line taken: End of series o/
Character History: Innocent Venus can very much be summed up as "Sana and her two daddies take a road trip on the run from the government oh shit." Jo is one of these two daddies! Once upon a time he was a government soldier doing government soldier stuff like killing and getting his joy sucked out of him through death and despair. He pretty much became emotionally constipated to the point of being able to lock them all down appearing empty and slightly sociopathic (in terms of lack of regret, etc). And he met Jin, who gave him direction and orders and Jo was pretty much "Okay, I guess I'll model my life as following Jin's orders."
Basically, Jin was the brains and Jo was the brawn. This included following Jin's command to steal a government project created child and going on the run. It's pretty unfortunate for Jo that Jin turned out to be a revenge seeking psychopath who didn't really care that much for the government project created child or Jo himself. This took a betrayalful stab in the gut to sink home.
Despite his emotional repression, Jo was actually pretty moral and went up against his formal-friend in an epic mecha duel. Jo won, and then decided to wander a bit and find more of his somewhat newly discovered self.
Canon Personality: Jo is, as mentioned above, pretty repressed. He's the stoic strongman. He doesn't expression his emotions much for most of the series, and he doesn't talk much. Jin says jump and Jo doesn't even have to ask how high, he just does it.
You could say that he's pretty purposeless and he's part of a government soldier group which only sociopaths are part of. Which, he really isn't a sociopath as he can feel his emotions but he's so far divorced from them that even he doesn't recognize this.
He's basically the best attack dog/puppy. Devoted, loyal, silent and strong. He doesn't question things and goes as far to say things like "If Jin hates them, then so do I. That's all I know." But underneath it all he has a strong moral center and a buried sense of self/what's right.
I LIED.
Canon: Innocent Venus
Reference picture and Wiki link: WIKI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innocent_venus) and PICTURE (http://www.animint.com/encyclopedie/dossiers/image/i/innocentvenus/jo.jpg)
Point in the time-line taken: End of series o/
Character History: Innocent Venus can very much be summed up as "Sana and her two daddies take a road trip on the run from the government oh shit." Jo is one of these two daddies! Once upon a time he was a government soldier doing government soldier stuff like killing and getting his joy sucked out of him through death and despair. He pretty much became emotionally constipated to the point of being able to lock them all down appearing empty and slightly sociopathic (in terms of lack of regret, etc). And he met Jin, who gave him direction and orders and Jo was pretty much "Okay, I guess I'll model my life as following Jin's orders."
Basically, Jin was the brains and Jo was the brawn. This included following Jin's command to steal a government project created child and going on the run. It's pretty unfortunate for Jo that Jin turned out to be a revenge seeking psychopath who didn't really care that much for the government project created child or Jo himself. This took a betrayalful stab in the gut to sink home.
Despite his emotional repression, Jo was actually pretty moral and went up against his formal-friend in an epic mecha duel. Jo won, and then decided to wander a bit and find more of his somewhat newly discovered self.
Canon Personality: Jo is, as mentioned above, pretty repressed. He's the stoic strongman. He doesn't expression his emotions much for most of the series, and he doesn't talk much. Jin says jump and Jo doesn't even have to ask how high, he just does it.
You could say that he's pretty purposeless and he's part of a government soldier group which only sociopaths are part of. Which, he really isn't a sociopath as he can feel his emotions but he's so far divorced from them that even he doesn't recognize this.
He's basically the best attack dog/puppy. Devoted, loyal, silent and strong. He doesn't question things and goes as far to say things like "If Jin hates them, then so do I. That's all I know." But underneath it all he has a strong moral center and a buried sense of self/what's right.