Cloud Nine Contrails/Starlit Labyrinth: Stella Octangula Profilette
A casual profile post for Stella-- that is to say, a quick outline version so i don't have to go through the effort to make an official ref set before I talk about Stella.
Here is Stella Octangula and her Stand Labyrinth, as depicted in her debut during Cloud Nine Contrails and the early section of Starlit Labyrinth (the part that centres around Stella).
Stella Octangula ~ Female (she/her) ~ 11yo ~ User of Labyrinth
A peppy and outgoing child prodigy. She lives in Detroit with her supposed "foster father", Marvin.
As far as she's aware, she was born and raised in France, though her name and knowledge of the Italian language since childhood may indicate otherwise.
Has the incredible ability to gauge exact distances and dimensions from a mere glance, and knows where she is spatially at all times. Because of this, she has been shown to excel in maths, and is in incredibly advanced classes for her age. During school months, she prioritises schoolwork over anything else, including her own well-being.
She's an orphan, and had been passed from foster family to foster family, exploited by nearly every family using her for her intellect, then sending her back when she was no longer "perfect" enough to show off.
Has a star-shaped birthmark on her back and a refusal to die.
In fairly poor health.
In the summertime, without school to keep her occupied and her 'foster father' beginning to look for something to take his intoxicated frustration out on, Stella spent a significant amount of time away from home... either because she didn't want to be there as an option, or because he would lock her out. The only person she initially really had as a friend was a boy named Gregory Vecellio (profilette for him coming soon too), who would sometimes share food with her, though she tended to run off anytime she saw one of his fathers approach...
Her Stand, Labyrinth, takes the form of a very large purple mouse with wings, and is built mainly for defence (mice cant exactly punch). It has two abilities; its primary ability is exactly what you expect. When the stella octangula (shape) in its forehead is removed, it raises a large, mazelike structure around itself, to make it incredibly hard to reach itself and Stella. The walls of the maze build themselves around preexisting structures and objects, so things don't usually get damaged from the labyrinth rising. The labyrinth frequently changes to further complicate reaching the centre, but the downside is that no matter how complicated the ability makes it to reach the centre, there will always be at least one path that leads to the centre, so it's never airtight. The labyrinth will remain up until the stellated octahedron is returned to the slot in which it belongs on the Stand's forehead, or (purportedly) until Stella is knocked out.
Its secondary ability is essentially inflicting inverted controls upon someone like in a video game: if the affected tries to move forwards, they'll move backwards; north is south, up is down, left is right, etc. It seems unable to be called back, but it can be seen by non-Stand Users; it simply appears to anyone who can't see Stands as a normal - if quite large - mouse.
Now the most important thing I have to mention regarding RP, naturally avoiding major plot details, is that Stella arrived at the Skylands Hotel, where she would regularly show up as it was a safe place away from home during summer break. In being there, she met and befriended Narancia and Giorno, and subsequently Fugo, whom she eventually developed a sort of brother-sister relationship with. His familial-type feelings were partially fostered by empathy for her situation, in that he felt a kinship to the academic trauma.
So yeah that's p much the context you need to understand any comics with Stella in them!
