CHARACTER PROFILE
Wekapipo's Brother-in-Law
- Primary work
- Steel Ball Run
- Occupation
- Royal Guard | Nobleman↗
Wekapipo's brother-in-law (ウェカピポの妹の夫, Wekapipo no Imōto no Otto, lit. "Wekapipo's sister's husband") is an unnamed tertiary antagonist featured in the seventh part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Steel Ball Run.
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Original image ↗ · Archived image ↗01Basic information
02Appearance
03Personality
Wekapipo's brother-in-law is shown to be highly abusive, aggressive and cruel towards his wife. Due to his noble status, he takes advantage of his status and takes any dishonor or shame to his family's name personally while maintaining an appearance of nobility by upholding tradition. He chastises Wekapipo's requests that the nobleman divorce his sister for her safety as a divorce, with the church's approval, caused by physical abuse would bring great shame to his family's name. He regards Wekapipo's sister as a "boring lay", regularly using physical violence against her to the point she eventually became blind.↗↗
Adding to his dishonorable nature, he accepts to duel Wekapipo as a way for him take responsibility with ulterior motives. He brings several members from the royal guard, including Gregorio Zeppeli, as witnesses to the duel as a ruse to get Wekapipo eliminated by the Kingdom of Naples under the guise of being "observers" to keep the duel fair, resulting in Wekapipo's exile upon winning.↗
04Abilities
Wrecking Ball
As a royal guard member, Wekapipo's brother-in-law possesses a unique type of steel ball that is traditionally wielded by the imperial guard serving the royal family.↗
05Story
SPOILERS
Background
Born into a noble family from the Kingdom of Naples as the son of a wealthy financial commissioner, Wekapipo's brother-in-law had his position, wealth and status secured from birth. He would eventually became one of the royal guards and learned to use the Spin with his Wrecking Balls. While his position in the royal guards is unknown, he is known to have been a friend of Wekapipo beforehand from a similar line of work.↗
However, behind the backs of everyone, the nobleman would regularly abuse Wekapipo's sister in private out of anger as well as for sexual gratification. Six months later, Wekapipo would visit his sister. After finding her sobbing in a corner, her face swollen due to her husband's beating, he regretted the arranged marriage. Wekapipo began to seek the husband in anger while his sister protested, believing the abuse to be her fault.↗
Wekapipo decided to annul the marriage between her and his brother-in-law and successfully pulled strings to secure the church's approval to have the marriage annulled, helped by the fact that his sister was childless. Due to the shame this would bring onto the nobleman's family, he confronted Wekapipo and beat him while berating him, furious at the humiliation of having the Church permit the annulment of his marriage.↗↗
After his death, in a twist of fate, the brother-in-law's abuse would end up being the very thing sparing Wekapipo's sister from a far more tragic future imposed by his father, as when Gyro Zeppeli failed to perform surgery to cure the widow's blindness against the advice of his mother, his father Gregorio would reveal to him the only reason she was kept alive was because the rich father of her dead husband assumed she'd die on her own, inadvertently saving her life.↗↗
06Plot details
SPOILERS
Appearances
Steel Ball Run Chapter 51: Wrecking Ball, Part 1 (Flashback) (Death)↗
Profile details
Status Status based on their final appearance in the part(s) they are featured in: Deceased (Part 7)↗↗
Cause of Death: Fatally injured by the satellites from Wekapipo 's Steel Ball↗
He is the abusive husband of Wekapipo 's sister who is later killed by Wekapipo in a duel, with his death being the catalyst to Wekapipo's exile from the Kingdom of Naples.↗
07Appearances
08Relationships
| Character | Relationship | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Wekapipo | Brother-in-Law | ↗ |
09Sources & attribution
- Wekapipo's Brother-in-Law
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