Caesar Anthonio Zeppeli

Caesar Anthonio Zeppeli (シーザー・アントニオ・ツェペリ, Shīzā Antonio Tseperi) is a primary ally featured in the second part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Battle Tendency. Caesar is an Italian Ripple user and disciple of the Ripple master, Lisa Lisa. He is the grandson of Will Anthonio Zeppeli and battles the Pillar Men alongside Joseph Joestar and others to honor his heritage as a Zeppeli.

Caesar A. Zeppeli is a young man of muscular build, whose distinctive features are two colored spots on both cheeks (which are his birthmarks) and blond unkempt hair. He is also noted to have a cavity.[2] Caesar's primary outfit is a jacket on top of a shirt tucked in to his pants. He wears a long scarf, belt, weighted-knuckle gloves, kneepads, and boots. Caesar's trademark accessory is his long thin headband patterned with a row of tessellated triangles. He is adorned with two feathers on each side of his head.

COLOR SCHEMES: Skin(Fair, purple cheek-marks) Hair(Blond) Eyes(Green) Headband(Purple and light orange) Main Outfit (Light blue and gray jacket, white undershirt and pants, pink scarf, and blue-gray shoes.)

Caesar Zeppeli is a hot-blooded but focused man, dedicated to the fight against the Pillar Men. When he was young, Caesar and his siblings were seemingly abandoned by his father, making him a bitter and extremely violent delinquent. When he was saved by his father from the Pillar Men's trap at the cost of his life, Caesar changes his hate into great pride in his family name.

Caesar is introduced as an arrogant Ripple user looking down on Joseph Joestar's sub-par Ripple ability and missing no occasion to ridicule him and antagonize him in general. However, he reveals himself to be an honorable man, taking pride in his family's tradition of battling evil as well as wishing to avenge the death of his friend, Mark, at the hands of the Pillar Men. When Joseph reveals himself to be an honorable individual as well, their relationship considerably improves. In general, Caesar is respectful to his elders and superiors, most notably his master Lisa Lisa. When it comes to his peers, while he maintains at best shallow relations with those around him, when he truly cares for someone, it is true love, best evidenced by his relationship with Joseph (and pointed out by Messina)

Caesar's other defining trait in his short-tempered personality. He is quick to jump to a fight, even though he knows it is detrimental. Taking great pride in his family name, when Joseph told him that he didn't care about that, Caesar hit him without thinking. That character flaw proved fatal when he made the mistake of rushing to Kars's lair alone, and after engaging with Wamuu at the entrance, trying to finish him off up close. Having great determination, Caesar kept on fighting despite being fatally wounded and made a loud eulogy of the human spirit just before dying. Caesar is nonetheless a very serious person most of the time, zealously fighting the Pillar Men and is exasperated by Joseph's antics.

Caesar is a ladies' man and has a habit of flirting with beautiful women whenever he can, invoking deeply romantic gestures. With his charm and charisma, as well as his own words, he is able to steal the kisses of multiple women with some to minimal interaction beforehand. He has many girlfriends. It is stated that if he sees a lonely girl, he thinks he has to go up to her. It is also stated that he lies to the girls he woos but doesn't consider it is wrong. The only exception to this treatment is Lisa Lisa, despite her noteworthy beauty. She is Caesar's Ripple instructor, whom he claims to respect as much as his own mother.

Caesar dislikes unsophisticated, irresponsible people, and bugs. He also has "Mamma Mia!" as his catchphrase.

Physical Ability

As a skillfully trained individual, Caesar possesses very high physical abilities: along with a vast amount of physical strength and proficiency in hand to hand combat, Caesar has demonstrated an amazing sense of balance, even being able to perform the "seated jump" that his grandfather previously performed.

Caesar also boasts a high level of endurance far surpassing normal humans, being able to survive for a few days without food, and taking high amounts of physical punishment while still being able to get up and continue fighting. His endurance was best demonstrated when even after receiving Wamuu's Divine Sandstorm head on, he still managed to get up and continue fighting for a short amount of time, even managing to produce a Ripple after losing huge amounts of blood.

Ripple

Being a natural born Ripple user through his grandfather's bloodline, Caesar was able to project its power from an early age, though it was only under Lisa Lisa's guidance that he learned how to properly use it. Caesar is able to use more advanced techniques such as focusing the Ripple in his fingertips, and much like Joseph can channel the Ripple through objects, such as weapons, food, or even living beings. In one particular instance, he put a young woman into hypnosis by charging Ripple through her via a kiss.

The base for most of his attacks relies on his gloves, which are loaded with a special soap-like substance. Because of this, he is able to release bubbles from his hands at any time and fuse them with the Ripple to create deadly projectiles.

Caesar fires out a barrage of bubbles from their gloves, each coated in the Ripple. This increases the density of the bubbles and allows them to hit objects with a greater impact. When hit by the barrage, a grown man would be completely blown away.

Caesar can hypnotize people and animals by using the Ripple on them. The process can involve a kiss or simply touching one's head with their hands. The hypnotized person will act according to his demands and be stronger than an ordinary being, being imbued with the Ripple. Caesar uses it on a woman so she could fight Joseph.

Sometimes used in conjunction with Bubble Launcher; the difference is that instead of multiple being used in a barrage, Caesar conjures a single gigantic bubble capable of absorbing and trapping its target.

Caesar is able to use the Ripple as a repellent and to adhere either himself or objects to other objects and liquids. Joseph and Caesar manage to climb a pillar covered in oil with adhesion, and Caesar uses it to deflect a high pressured oil jet. Later, Caesar and Joseph force Esidisi out of Suzi Q's body. Joseph sends the positive repellent ripple into various points across Suzi Q's body while Caesar focuses attractant negative ripple on only her heart, forcing Esidisi to leave after he can't handle it anymore.

Based on his grandfather's Ripple Cutter, this technique is a direct improvement on the Bubble Launcher, and creates bubbles with the ability to slice. Unlike the original attack, the bubbles spin at high speed and use centrifugal force, but are able to stay intact due to the Ripple. This causes them to form shapes much like saucers with a small blade-like ring surrounding each bubble. These bubbles move at a higher velocity and have higher tractability, allowing the user to fire them in any direction with ease.

A more versatile version of Bubble Cutter, Caesar sacrifices the quantity of the attack, and focuses on effectiveness. By launching a few bubbles, he is able to aim them much like homing projectiles. They are able to go around objects and have a higher chance of hitting the opponent.

Caesar produces Ripple-infused bubbles that have the ability to refract light and focus them into beams, much like a magnifying glass. After launching them, the bubbles become stationary and any light source passing through will cause a domino effect, connecting the bubbles together and eventually shooting multiple beams at their target.

Background Caesar Zeppeli was born on May 13, 1918 in Genoa, Italy, but later lived in Naples with his family. As a child, Caesar idolized his father, Mario Zeppeli. When he was 10, however, his father left him and his siblings with no explanation or warning. As a result, Caesar grew to hate his father, thinking he was out living a new and carefree life without them. His mother had passed away years prior for unknown reasons, and relatives soon stole everything left from his now-orphaned family. Although the family's neighbors took care of Caesar's family, Caesar himself became a violent youth who had to be sent to the orphanage. Due to the poor state of orphanages in the 30's, it is said that his life in there was worse than prison, which only emphasized his delinquent ways. He eventually ran away and became a homeless vagrant sleeping in the streets. Caesar made a name for himself committing every crime imaginable short of murder, and was widely feared. He used a wrench to start all his fights and quickly finished them. Back then, Caesar wasn't aware that his Ripple energy had fully awakened, and that he was using it in his battles.

When he was 16, Caesar spotted his father walking in Rome; he tailed him with the intention of killing him, going through a secret passage under the Colosseum that leads to the Pillar Men. Caesar saw a jewel in the wall they'd been encased in. Not knowing that it was part of a trap set up by Wamuu, he accidentally activated it, but his father pushed him out of the way before he could be killed himself. Having sacrificed himself despite not recognizing his own son, Caesar regained his respect toward his father and swore revenge on the Pillar Men.

Sometime after the event, Caesar found Lisa Lisa in Venice at the dying request of his father. He trained with her to use the art of the Ripple but apparently has learned little more than the fundamentals, since he still has to go through the final part of the Ripple training in order to master it fully, alongside Joseph. Caesar continued living in Rome, and the Nazis became interested in his Ripple while searching for a way to defeat the Pillar Men. At one point, Caesar traveled to Germany and befriended Mark, a German soldier. He notably helped him in getting a girlfriend. He also enrolled in university as a student.