#stand-stand

Namesake: Princes of the Universe by Queen

Appearance: A set of three tiny, ornate gold crowns, each about 10cm in diameter. One is decorated with rubies, another with sapphires, and the third with emeralds. When all three are deployed, a thin beam of white light connects each to the other two, so long as there is line of sight between them and they are no more than six meters apart.

Power: A

Speed: C

Range: C

Durability: C

Precision: A

Potential: A

Ability: The triangle of space defined by the three crowns of 「Princes of the Universe」 is under the absolute control of the user. What this means is that any object intersecting that region of space can be examined or manipulated in any manner that 「Princes of the Universe」’s user can imagine. While they are not constrained by the laws of physics (apart from conservation of mass-energy), changes made by 「Princes of the Universe」 will follow those laws unless they are made not to – for example, a person transmuted into a huge chunk of plutonium will go nuclear unless the user specifically stops this from happening.

Namesake: Death and all his friends by Coldplay

Appearance: 「Death and all his friends」appears as a second shadow following the user. The shadow holds a large scythe and appears to be wearing a simple shawl. Its outline is very hard to spot over its user’s shadow. Its size changes with the size of its user’s shadow. If its user is in extreme danger or close to death 「Death and all his friends」may appear to aid them. When in this form it appears as a skeletal figure carrying a scythe.

Destructive Power: B (C)

Speed: - (B)

Range: D (C)

Durability: - (C)

Precision: A (A)

Development Potential: B (C)

Abilities:「Death and all his friends」activates when someone is in its user’s shadow.  When triggered 「Death and all his friends」will infect the person who crossed the user’s shadow. The infection is quite slow and hard to notice in its early stages. It begins with little things such as lack of appetite, unexplainable bruises and minor hair loss. As the infection progresses the victim begins to loose teeth and painful develop sores. As the infection reaches its final stage the victim’s skin begins to rot and the brain looses the capacity for higher thought. When the infection is complete the victim’s shadow gains the same effect as 「Death and all his friends」.  What remains of the victim will then begin to seek out other unfortunate souls to continue the cycle. The original user of 「Death and all his friends」is capable of taking control of the husks that his stand leaves behind and bending them to his will. While quite durable the husks can be dispatched by normal methods.

Withering: when any living thing other than a human enters 「Death and all his friends」’s area of effect it will begin to quickly wither and die. 

Namesake: American country rock band of the same name

Appearance: A stick figure of a stand, maybe four inches thick at its widest and 5'4" overall. Black in coloration, with bright red conical goggles over a normal-sized head. Its arms are very long, and tipped with eight-inch-long black claws.

Power: B

Speed: A

Range: C

Durability: E

Precision: A

Potential: D

Ability: Soul generation – by scratching a target, 「Creedence Clearwater Revival」 can impart it with a soul. These souls are generated from scratch to match the nature of the target, and their ‘contents’, so to speak, are not under CCR’s control. Targets can be anything, animate or inanimate, apart from stuff like “the whole planet”. If the target already has a soul, nothing happens.

A soul granted by CCR does not, on its own, do anything unless the 'receptacle’ has the necessary equipment to let it shine – typically, some sort of brain or computer is necessary for the soul to become conscious and properly possess its receptacle, with the complexity of the expressed consciousness being a function of the brain/computer’s own complexity. Likewise, motion and communication only arise if there’s already a system for them in place. CCR is generally best used on computers or other automatons, or humans who have been deprived of their souls by a stand such as 「Osiris」, 「Atum」, or 「Whitesnake」.

In certain cases, the provision of a soul may allow things to manifest stand powers of their own, even if they are otherwise unable to use the soul; this cannot be predicted or controlled.

Namesake: The card from the French card suit

Appearance: A humanoid figure made out of roughly-cut, blue crystal. It has light blue crystals for eyes and a hinged jaw. Its legs are digitigrade, with talons on its feet.

Power: A

Speed: C

Range: D

Durability: A

Precision: B

Development Potential: C

Abilities:

「Diamond Jack」can cause crystals to grow on any surface. The crystals are tangible, and are dark blue in color.

「Diamond Jack」can manipulate crystals on any kind, shaping, breaking, and merging them in any way that the user wants.

「Diamond Jack」can reshape itself into anything, such as armor, simple weaponry (such as a sword or spear), a wall up to 5 meters in length and width, or a small cube that can be as small as 5 cubic centimeters. While shaped, 「Diamond Jack」becomes tangible.

Notes: Due to 「Diamond Jack」’s powers, breaking 「Diamond Jack」apart isn’t enough to kill the user, only injure them. 「Diamond Jack」must be fully turned into powder to kill the user, which can be done with enough strength. If broken apart, 「Diamond Jack」will slowly remerge any remaining parts together, forming any missing parts.

Namesake: Takyon (Death Yon) by Death Grips

Appearance: A limber, six-armed, dark-green humanoid stand with intricate, jagged tattoos that glow with purple light. Its eyes are similarly luminous. 「Takyon」’s tongue, which hangs out of its perpetually-open and sharp-toothed mouth, is pitch-black and several meters long; it is tied around its torso in a webbed pattern reminiscent of a bondage harness, and terminates with a forked tip hanging over 「Takyon」’s top left shoulder. Each of 「Takyon」’s six hands terminates in six 5cm-long claws, arranged radially. 「Takyon」 also possesses a lizard-like tail, which extends about 1.5 meters before splitting in six parts, each of which continues for another meter before terminating in an arrow-shaped tip.

Power: C

Speed: A

Range: Line of sight

Durability: A

Precision: B

Development Potential: C

Abilities: Triple Six Five Forked Tongue: By touching any object or surface, 「Takyon」 gains control over that object’s internal timeline – effectively, the user can change that object to the form it took (or will take) at any point in its existence. This ability can be used so long as there is nothing between 「Takyon」 (which does not leave its user’s side) and the object, and will not affect the mental state of living beings. The speed at which the object can be moved along its timeline is proportional to its level of illumination; as a baseline, direct sunlight lets an object be moved at 10 years per second in either direction, while moonlight allows almost none.

Subatomic Penetration Rapid Fire Through Your Skull: A specialized application of 「Takyon」’s timeline manipulation that is delivered through its fists, making up for its average physical combat skill. When 「Takyon」 cuts a human or that human’s stand, regardless of the level of illumination, it can perform a short temporal regression on that person’s brain, ranging from five seconds to five minutes depending on the strength of the punch. For the victim, it is as though the period of time in question never occurred – complete and total amnesia.

Six Million Ways to Die: When the user is on the verge of death, 「Takyon」 can send information to its user up to 30 minutes into the past, using the past iteration of 「Takyon」 as a conduit. This gives 「Takyon」’s user a fighting chance to avoid most causes of death, making them exceptionally difficult to dispose of.

Namesake: Fire of Unknown Origin by Blue Oyster Cult

Appearance: A bright orange plant not unlike ivy that creeps along the ground or climbs up walls. It grows golf ball-sized seedpods.

Power: B

Speed: E

Range: E

Durability: A

Precision: E

Potential: E

Ability: 「Fire of Unknown Origin」 is a rapidly-growing plant-like stand that, similarly to 「Green Day」’s mold, grows from the bodies of its victims. Its life cycle is as follows:

1. 「Fire of Unknown Origin」 manifests as a large mass of tangled vines that quickly grows out of the host’s body, spreading a maximum of nine meters in any direction.

2. When a human comes within a meter of 「Fire of Unknown Origin」, the nearest seed pods will violently combust, creating an explosion that flings many tiny seeds over a wide area.

2a. After its initial growth spurt, 「Fire of Unknown Origin」 will generally live for only a few days before withering away.

3. Any seeds that land on a person’s skin will be ‘absorbed’ by that person, permanently, and migrate to the brain. There is no way to remove one of 「Fire of Unknown Origin」’s seeds.

4. The seeds will remain dormant, potentially for years, until the host truly and entirely forgets about their initial encounter with the stand. Sometimes this won’t ever happen, in which case, 「Fire of Unknown Origin」 dies with its host. But if it does happen…

5. 「Fire of Unknown Origin」 will sprout. The newly formed leaves will secrete volatile fluids into the brain, which react violently and produce enough heat energy to let the seeds create more of these fluids, creating a chain reaction that causes the host’s head to combust and go up in flames in seconds. This heat energy is quickly consumed to fuel 「Fire of Unknown Origin」’s expansion.

Namesake: Fire Coming Out of the Monkey’s Head by Gorillaz

Appearance: ⌈Fire Coming Out⌋ is comprised of two entities. The first is a small monkey-like figure, crouched on all fours and walks with an awkward, hunched and spider-like gait. ⌈Fire Coming Out⌋ possesses no actual eyes, merely sunken and dark holes. Out from these comes the secondary form, small shadowy maggots which ⌈Fire Coming Out⌋ can fire reliably at a range up to 50 metres. These maggots are referred to as ⌈Monkey Heads⌋.

Power: C Speed: D Range: E (B) Durability: B Precision: B Potential: B