01Basic information

Japanese Name
スティーブン・モーターライズ↗
Romanized Name
Sutībun Mōtāraizu↗
Age
18 (Ch. 7) | 28 (Ch. 11) | 33 (Ch. 13)↗
Birthday
1887↗
Gender
Male↗
Nationality
British↗
Species
Zombie | Human (Formerly)↗

02Appearance

Steven is a tall young man with an average build. He has thick eyebrows and short wavy light hair that is kept tidy and swept to one side. He is shown wearing a collared light shirt with sleeves folded up to his elbows and dark pants when he is younger. Ten years later, he wears a flight jacket.↗

03Personality

Steven is friendly and caring of his family, described by George as being hopelessly nice. He is creative and knowledgeable in crafting various concepts of gliders. He doesn't take school seriously, believing that he could learn more on his own and would have more time to spend working on gliders while he's home.↗↗

Steven is the type to bottle up his emotional and physical pain, pretending not to be angry or sad. He would smile and act like the pain of growing wings out of his back was nothing. According to George, Steven didn't have many friends.↗↗

04Abilities

Wound

Steven develops his Wound after his mother commits suicide by throwing herself off of some cliffs, as a result of the trauma and guilt he felt from not being able to save her.↗

Wings

Steven can grow large white wings out of his back, made of his own flesh and bones. Steven grows his wings when he is in a hurry to save someone, although it's mostly to save his sister Kenton. Every time his wings tear through his back, Steven feels immense pain. They take three weeks to heal and go back to normal.↗

05Story

SPOILERS

Background

Steven was born in 1887 as the eldest son of Ben and Harriet. After his mother committed suicide, Steven and Kenton suffered a lot, which developed Steven's Wound ability of growing wings. Kenton eventually tries killing herself as well, and the siblings would go into a repeated process of taking their stress out on each other.↗↗

Around 1903, they soon became interested in creating gliders and studied wing warping controls. They named each glider they constructed "Motorizing" with a number attached to it and tested them on the cliffs. Motorizing 5 sank in the water and Motorizing 6 was destroyed by a sudden gust of wind which smashed it against the cliff.↗↗↗

1905

One day, Kenton goes inside their Motorizing 7 glider while Steven pushes her off the cliff. A bystander who witnesses the incident, George Joestar, quickly jumps off the cliff trying to save her, only to see that she just rose above him. Surprised, Steven jumps off as well to grab George and they fly along the surface of the ocean. George sees that the boy has wings on his back, covered in blood.↗

Around March, Kenton begins seeing a monster while gliding and tells Steven about it. He would appear whenever she flew in the dark or when it was raining and then do things to her plane. They didn't take it too seriously since Steven couldn't see anything no matter how closely he watched and they were used to weird things happening like Steven's wings manifesting.↗↗

1906-1915

Steven tries finding evidence of Kenton's real murderer to prove that George is innocent. However, Steven becomes a suspect himself in 1908. Ben has Steven flee to France, worried that they would force a guilty verdict on Steven so that the military could do experiments on him due to his Wound. Meanwhile, George and Penelope theorize that Steven was the actual murderer, although George doesn't want to believe it.↗↗↗

Soon, Steven and Ben begin researching ways to bring back the dead. They discover a folk religion called Vodou where a sorcerer called a Bokor could turn the dead into zombies. They learn about the Aztecs, how Jonathan Joestar studied the Stone Mask, how Dio Brando became a vampire, and the events surrounding George Joestar I 's death. They also learn of the incident in Windknight's Lot, where Dio Brando wiped out the town and created several zombies.↗↗

1915

George takes a photo of a mysterious plane's silhouette close to the Dover coast, which he later realizes is Steven's Motorizing plane. George had only seen the schematics for it when they were younger, before it was actually built. George wonders what Steven is doing in England since he was apparently in France. George had asked his French pilot friends about Steven, but nobody there had heard of him. Curious, George decides to go visit the Motorize home for the first time in five years.↗

The trio climb into the Motorizing and head to France, leaving George's Star Shooter plane behind. Steven flies his plane, while George sits behind him with Lisa Lisa on his lap. George tells them about the rumors of the gremlins and how Faraday had seen one in 1905, just before Kenton was murdered. Lisa Lisa realizes that it must have followed George from the Canary Islands. They finally reach France and the Ripple masters take the trio to their secret underground lair.↗↗

After the battle ends, George introduces John Moore-Brabazon and Steven to each other, mentioning that John has political connections now and may be able to help Steven be pardoned from being a suspect since he helped save London. Soon, Steven is finally able to go back home to the Motorize manor.↗↗

1920

John campaigns to be George's best man for his wedding, but it's a tough choice for George, who ends up choosing Steven instead. They have a bachelor party and John wonders if Steven drank too much when he doesn't show up the next morning for the wedding. Realizing something is wrong, George decides to head to the Motorize manor. George assumes that William Cardinal did something to Steven since Steven didn't get along with his brother-in-law.↗↗

06Plot details

SPOILERS

Profile details

Status: Deceased (JORGE JOESTAR)↗

Date of Death: November 11, 1920↗↗

Cause of Death: Killed and turned into a Zombie by Antonio Torres↗

07Relationships

CharacterRelationshipNotes
Ben MotorizeFather↗
Harriet MotorizeMother↗
Kenton MotorizeYounger Sister↗
Darlington MotorizeYounger Sister↗
William CardinalBrother-in-Law↗

08Sources & attribution

Source text: JoJoWiki and its contributors. This entry has been reorganized and condensed for readability under CC BY-SA 4.0. Archived records reflect their capture dates. Referenced manga, anime, and artwork retain their respective copyrights.
Source bibliography (5)
  1. Inferred based on Darlington and William Cardinal's ages, since Steven knows William and still goes to school. Open ↗
  2. JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 13: Enemy Open ↗
  3. JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 7: Airplanes Open ↗
  4. JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 9: Cliff Open ↗
  5. JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 11: Gremlin Open ↗

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