CHARACTER PROFILE
Ben Motorize (Original Universe)
- Primary work
- JORGE JOESTAR
- Version
- Original Universe
- Species
- Zombie | Human (Formerly)↗
Ben Motorize (ベン・モーターライズ, Ben Mōtāraizu) is a tertiary character featured in the light novel, JORGE JOESTAR.
He is the husband of Harriet and the father of Steven, Kenton, and Darlington Motorize. Ben is initially antagonistic towards George Joestar (Universe O) Jorge Joestar (First Universe) from the first/original universe but later becomes neutral.
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Original image ↗ · Archived image ↗01Basic information
02Appearance
Ben is a large middle-aged man with short wavy hair and a thick mustache. He is shown wearing a suit.↗
03Personality
Ben is a stubborn and rash man, who is described by his daughter to always get his way when he makes up his mind about something. He goes as far as strong-arming his friends in the justice department to ignore juvenile laws so that George would be charged as an adult for a crime he didn't commit. He cares more about his noble reputation than the wishes of his family, not allowing Kenton to get a job despite her wanting freedom. He also claims to want revenge on George but is actually just protecting his own reputation because his son is also a suspect for the crime. He loses his motivation and desire for business when he fails to get his way in the trial.↗↗↗
04Story
SPOILERS
Background
At some point, Ben marries Harriet. In 1887, they have their first child, Steven Motorize. Soon after, they have Kenton in 1888, and Darlington in 1889.↗
1905
As soon as George Joestar arrives home from Rome, Ben has George arrested for Kenton's murder despite George being innocent. Ben has many friends in the justice department and strong-arms them into ignoring juvenile laws to charge George as an adult at age 16 with first degree murder. Darlington admits that the trial is a mess and that everybody knows it's only happening because of her father wanting revenge for Kenton's death.↗↗
1908-1915
Three years later, Steven ends up being a suspect. Ben wants to protect Steven as well as the reputation of the Motorize family so he tells Steven to go work in France to get away from everything until it settles down. Ben worries that if Steven is arrested, they would force a guilty verdict to do military experiments on him because of his ability to grow wings.↗
After the Kenton murder case ends up impossible to prosecute further, Ben Motorize loses his desire for business. He withdraws from it and goes on a retirement trip to a resort town in Miami, leading to Darlington running the estate and business along with William Cardinal taking over the Motorize family's affairs.↗
In the following years, Ben and Steven research methods of reviving Kenton. They learn of a folk religion named Vodou which uses sorcerers named Bokor. Bokors have the capability of chanting spells that cause the dead to revive as zombies. They learn about the Stone Mask and Windknight's Lot and then find out that Poco and Poco's sister are the only survivors.↗↗
1920
On November 11, 1920, Antonio Torres kills Ben and the rest of the family and turns them into zombies. George finds half-eaten bits of them twitching and pulsing.↗↗
06Relationships
| Character | Relationship | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Harriet Motorize | Wife | ↗ |
| Steven Motorize | Son | ↗ |
| Kenton Motorize | Daughter | ↗ |
| Darlington Motorize | Daughter | ↗ |
| William Cardinal | Son-in-Law | ↗ |
07Sources & attribution
- Ben Motorize
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