I always viewed it as Tooru not begin the one who has power so much as Wonder of U has power over him. As explained in the beginning of chapter 100 (or around that chapter, cant quite remember), Tooru's species is essentially cursed by God to exist below carbon life, only able to rise to prominence once the original trajectory of the tree of life begins to fail. Tooru seems to be aware of this, on some level (else, why even bring it up?), and is cursing God right back. He's blaspheming, his whole species is; they revere the Earth and not the Heavens, thus God despises him, but it can't act against him directly by the logic that governs the Steel Ball Run universe. Good and bad fortune come to each in equal measure. Presumably, those who suffer or give their fortunes to others in life go to heaven as reimbursement in good fortune. Thus, in order to have something bad happen to Tooru, he has to be granted an extraordinary boon to begin with. That's Wonder of U. It's a divine power, a fundamental governing law of the universe, weaponised (it also seems to affect the story in an absolute tonne of really esoteric ways: the last chapter leads me to believe that WWII happened so as to keep Fumi out of Japan, because he could've threatened Tooru, being the SBR universe's Joseph Joestar, notorious cheater of fate and shower-up to his own funeral. There's also the changing of Mamezuku the plant appraiser's backstory so as to focus on Tooru, which I view as WoU altering the past in an act of calamity, considering that Mamezuku himself termed his death by approaching WoU to be good fortune, thus the calamity must have happened elsewhere, and that elsewhere ended up being his past). Paisley Park is WoU's opposite, and I think that the flow continuously pulled Tooru and Yasuho together throughout their lives. Possibly it was the calamity energy generated whenever she attempted to get closer to him that caused her family issues. Note that Yasuho never actually asked Tooru's last name. Paisley Park may have unconsciously guided her away from pursuing his identity. Yasuho's ultimate piece of good fortune was finding Josuke, who is something to be viewed as a miracle and a mistake. Something absolutely WILL kill Tooru, his stand is the only thing keeping a wall of karmic calamity from slamming into him, but nothing in the universe actually has the power to do it until a string of coincidences brings Josuke into being, and Josuke's will and objectives are forcibly focused on Tooru by God.
That sounds a bit overly mythological and religious, but there's a lot of mythological allusions that can be made, and here are a few if you're still interested:
Tooru's a real Shylock figure. A monster of circumstance. His stand is effectively the Mark of Caine: it prevents him from joining society, because he can't get close to anyone, and it keeps anyone from doing him harm, with the promise of seven times the harm on anyone who'd try. I've also seen him compared to Prometheus (gives a human fire in chapter 102, suffers at the hands of the gods) and the Demiurge (there's the symbol on his shirt that some have compared to the lion-headed serpent, and he is trying to supplant God with a belief system that venerates the physical Earth).
It all sounds a bit silly, I'm aware, but I've read Japanese YouTube comments and put them through Google translate and they sound just as unhinged as me, so I must be onto something. I'll link you the one I saved, if you'd like. It mentioned the trees of knowledge and life in the garden of Eden, and said that that was where carbon and silicon humans split off from each other. |
