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    In General 
  • Action Girl: The most prominent examples of the series, in the form of the JoJo of this part and two of her earliest allies. They get far more fair fights compared to previous Action Girls of the series.
  • Adaptational Badass: Downplayed, but present in the anime, where Emporio is given an additional monologue directed at Pucci that stresses that his ultimate defeat was the result of a combined team effort and not one of random chance.
  • Anyone Can Die: The most tragic example of the whole series. All of them sans Emporio are killed by Pucci's hand, with F.F. being burnt alive with scalding water, Weather being stabbed through the heart, and the rest being bludgeoned by Made In Heaven during the universe reset.
  • Back from the Dead: Sans Emporio and F.F., they're all brought back to life after Pucci's own demise, albeit without any memories of their experiences in Part 6.
  • Dysfunction Junction: A horny delinquent with father issues, said father being forced to stay away from her and his wife for the greater good, an impulsive woman who got herself into prison to avenge her sister's death via witness, a boy who lived his whole life in a prison, a colony of plankton given sentience inhabiting a human corpse, an amnesiac who unknowingly had a relationship with his sister that ended in tragedy, and a murderer who follows them out of deluded love for Jolyne.
  • The Friends Who Never Hang: Due to the prison having separate wards, the group doesn't join together at several instances until they escape. Ermes never really interacts with Anasui or Weather. For that matter, F.F. never even has a on-screen interaction with Weather or Emporio before they die.
  • Gender-Equal Ensemble: Jolyne, Ermes, and F.F. to Emporio, Weather Report, and Anasui. Though, this depends on whether you actually count F.F. as female due to their Ambiguous Gender Identity, or add Jotaro, who spends most of the part in a coma before joining as an 11th-Hour Ranger, to the male side.
  • Sir Swears-a-Lot: By virtue of the English dub allowing F-Bombs as of this part, they're the most foul-mouthed group yet (sans Emporio).

    Jolyne Cujoh 

Jolyne Cujoh (Stand: Stone Free)

Voiced by: Fairouz Ai (TV anime JP, All-Star Battle R), Kira Buckland (TV anime EN), Miyuki Sawashiro (All-Star Battle, Eyes of Heaven) Foreign VAs

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"If there's an hierarchy in this prison, then I'll follow it as much as I need to."
Stone Free

"I'm gonna get my dad's disc out of this prison, and that includes the one Whitesnake's holding onto, just watch."

Jolyne is the daughter of Jotaro Kujo. After being arrested for a crime she didn't commit, Jolyne is incarcerated in Green Dolphin Street Prison. Her father, realizing that something is amiss, sends her a package containing the tip of one of the Stand Arrows, activating her latent abilities in the form of Stone Free. After her father is attacked by Whitesnake, she sets out to stop the priest Enrico Pucci and get Jotaro back to normal.

Her Stand is Stone Free, which allows her to unravel her body into strings. This has various applications, including hearing distant sounds similar to a tin can phone, manipulating objects by wrapping them up and pulling the strings around, and whatever else she can think of.

She is named after the Dolly Parton song "Jolene", while her Stand is named after the Jimi Hendrix song "Stone Free".


  • Action Girl: She has shown to be capable of defending herself without her Stand, seen in full detail against Officer Westwood. She has extensive knowledge of self-defense, which she demonstrates throughout the series, notably against Pucci.
  • Adaptational Curves: The anime gives Stone Free slight curves to match Jolyne's chest.
  • Art Evolution: In the manga, Stone Free started out with a robotic-looking face, eventually gaining a more human facial features in the form of a nose and mouth, with the latter design being used in the anime.
  • All Love Is Unrequited: Anasui is heads-over-heels desperately in love with Jolyne, while she either ignores him or reacts with surprise as his Skewed Priorities. She does eventually agree to marry him if they both survive, but only when it's obvious they both aren't going to survive. It literally takes recreating the universe for him to have a shot.
  • Amazonian Beauty: She's shown to be pretty muscular, with exceptionally large biceps and is considered especially attractive in-universe and out.
  • Ambiguous Situation: Does Jolyne reciprocate Anasui's feelings? It's hard to say, she seems to be oblivious or outright ignores his attempts at capturing her heart, never so much as even blushing as much as she reacts with genuine surprise at his Skewed Priorities. But right before the final battle, she encourages Anasui in his plan to propose if they survive the fight, though it seems to be a moment of Let Them Die Happy considering his plan could very well be fatal for him. In the end it doesn't matter as they die minutes later, but at least the alternate versions of themselves are planning to be married.
  • Ambiguously Bi: Expresses envy at the fact that snails don't have to take gender into account when looking for sexual partners, implying she's had problems with Incompatible Orientation in the past. Earlier than that, her utterly shameless behavior when ordered to strip down naked in an attempt to humiliate her indicates that she has no problem with women looking at her in sexual ways.
  • Animal Motifs: Butterflies, and judging by the spider-web patterns on her clothes and the forms her strings take, spiders. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven even gives her the same clothing motif when she's a child.
  • Anime Hair: Possesses the most unique hairstyle out of all of the JoJos, having multicolored hair, Braids of Action, and Odango all into one. Her counterpart in the brief Made in Heaven universe has an even more impossible hairstyle, with four buns instead of two.
  • Anyone Can Die: She is one of only two focal JoJos in the first eight parts to get killed during the course of her arc, following in the footsteps of her great-great-great-grandfather, Jonathan Joestar.
  • Arachnid Appearance and Attire: All of her outfits throughout the Part feature spiderweb-like printing on them. This ties into her thread powers like how spiders shoot webs, and being the first female JoJo, as female arachnids are often more deadly than the males of their species.
  • Awesome by Analysis: She pretty much figures out how to counter C-Moon upon seeing it action exactly once, and becomes so effective at dealing with it that Pucci has to save his stand from her. The second time they fight, she effectively nullifies most of what the stand can do, despite her abilities being far less destructive than Pucci's own..
  • Badass Biker: She joined a biker gang when she was a teenager, and she is definitely badass.
  • Badass Boast: Gives one when she decides to stand up for herself and escape the prison:
    Jolyne: Good freakin' grief, Gwess. Shut up, and listen. You said everything has a name, didn't you? Then, I'll name my ability, too. It'll be Stone Free. 'Cause, somehow, I'm gonna free myself from this stone ocean. Did you hear me? STONE FREE! That's the name!
  • Badass Cape: After escaping from Green Dolphin Street Prison, she adorns herself with a grey cape hanging from her lower belt, emphasizing how free she finally is.
  • Badass Family: She's the daughter of Jotaro, great-granddaughter of Joseph, and great-great-great-granddaughter of Jonathan. Need we say more?
  • Badass Longcoat: She has two prison coats that show off her fighting spirit. From arriving in Green Dolphin Street Prison to Jotaro getting his Stand and Memory discs stolen, she wears a teal coat, and from meeting F.F. to breaking out of prison, she wears a grey coat.
  • Battle Cry: She shares her father Jotaro's signature warcry of "ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA! ORA!"
  • Berserk Button:
    • Initially, the mere thought of Jotaro was this.
    • Don't call her JoJo if you're not her mom.
  • Big Sister Instinct: She protects Emporio during the fights with Miumiu and Rikiel. The last thing she ever does is fearlessly face Pucci and Made In Heaven alone, knowing she's going to be killed, so that Emporio can get to safety.
  • Birthmark of Destiny: Like all the Joestars, Jolyne has a small star-shaped birthmark on the rear of her left shoulder, close to her neck.
  • Body Horror: Using Stone Free requires Jolyne to unravel herself into strings. It doesn't look so bad when she only uses a little string, but when she has to exude a large amount of string from her body, holes start appearing in her face and neck through which the strings can be seen.
  • Book Ends: The first fight we see a Joestar get into is Jonathan taking on the bullies of Erina and getting beat up for it, after which he declares that a true gentleman needs to be brave enough to go into a fight he knows he'll lose. In her last fight, Jolyne, the latest member of the Joestar bloodline, faces off against Pucci, knowing he'll kill her, in order to save Emporio.
  • Breaking Old Trends: Jolyne is the first Joestar protagonist in the series to be a girl. She is also the first (and so far only) Jojo to be capable to physically beating her opponents and their stands using her physical body, thanks to how Stone Free can be channeled through Jolyne herself.
  • Breaking the Bonds: The first opening of the anime shows Jolyne ripping apart a pair of handcuffs with her bare hands before staring into the camera with a determined expression.
  • Bring It: Her final words towards Pucci before he kills her, as she charges towards him for one last attack.
  • Broken Bird: Her father was absent for most of her life, not even coming home when she was very sick. She was so desperate for attention that she stole a car when she fourteen, joined a biker gang, and became pretty bitter. When she became an adult, she tried to clean up her act and go to college. Then she was framed for murder by her boyfriend, betrayed by her crooked lawyer, and sentenced to prison. Shortly after, she found out her father, whom she had disowned long ago, had sent her the means to defend herself and was trying to protect her. Then her father told her he had always cared for her right after getting hurt because he was protecting her and right before getting his soul and power stolen. Her reaction? Becoming a badass like all of her family to get her father back and kick all her enemies' butts in the process.
  • Butterfly of Death and Rebirth: Butterflies are a motif in her character design, with a butterfly tattoo on her left forearm and butterfly emblem on her halter top. Her remains even turn into butterflies when she dies, and sure enough, she gets reborn in the new universe.
  • Call-Back:
    • Much like how her ancestor Jonathan Joestar set his fist on fire to defeat her family's archnemesis Dio Brando in 1888, Jolyne set herself on fire 123 years later to defeat an enemy Stand user; a son of DIO no less.
    • Stone Free's power to unravel her into strings is reminiscent of Hierophant Green, a Stand possessed by her father's old friend, Noriaki Kakyoin. Its Cool Shades might remind readers of when Kakyoin himself wore sunglasses after his eyes were slashed up by N'Doul.
    • Feeling like your father doesn't love you and going to hang out with your delinquent friends, only for them to hang you out to dry and leave you to end up in jail? Narancia Ghirga would know what that's like.
  • Calling the Old Man Out: Slightly downplayed. Upon meeting Jotaro at the prison's visitation, she immediately assaults the guard with intent of getting sent to confinement just to be away from him. She doesn't verbally assault Jotaro with him being absent when she was a child but does make her disdain of him clear towards him. It's only after seeing Jotaro reduced to a comatose state that she changes her mindset.
  • Captured on Purpose: She willingly allowed herself to be sent to the Maximum Security Ward for a chance to locate the bone sent there to find out its purpose.
  • Caught with Your Pants Down: In the first chapter, she gripes about being caught masturbating by the guards.
  • Character Catchphrase: "Yare yare dawa", the feminine equivalent of her father's "Yare yare daze".
  • Character Development: Jolyne is probably tied among the Joestars for just how much she develops over the course of the story. In short, she goes from someone desperately attempting to find someone to love her and easily manipulated to being an independent, crafty, take charge person who's capable of getting herself out of nearly any situation that comes her way.
  • The Coats Are Off: In the anime adaptation, after escaping from Green Dolphin Street Prison to pursue Pucci, she tosses her prison jacket aside as it's carried away by the wind.
  • Combat Medic: She's no slouch in a fight with Stone Free, compressing her string for a barrage of powerful punches, and she can also use her Stand to sew up wounds, even her own mid-battle if need be.
  • Civvie Spandex: Her clothes seem to be inspired by this costume design — her Long Pants and her top share the same Spider-Man-like pattern and color-scheme, and she wears a loose long coat that resembles a cape. It wouldn't look out of place in the X-Men comics. Ironically, Jolyne is about as far from being a superhero as the series gets.
  • Combat Pragmatist: It's a given in the JoJoverse, but out of almost all the JoJos in the series so far, she has the second most seemingly harmless ability, first being her grand-uncle Josuke Higashikata's Crazy Diamond. She uses her Stone Free to turn herself into ordinary string. The very fact that she can weaponize this, let alone to this extent, shows how clever and smart she can be.
  • Combat Tentacles: She can use her prehensile string in a few ways combat tentacles are used, such as grappling onto things and throwing things around, but most of the other ways are completely different.
  • Contrasting Sequel Main Character: While Giorno and Jolyne are both criminals with hearts of gold who start out underestimated by the villains, their similarities stop there. Giorno is elegant, polite, calm, and shows his altruism in his desire to overthrow the Boss, making him perhaps the most proactive protagonist in the franchise, but he shows an incredibly ruthless side to his personality, and is very driven towards his goal. In contrast, Jolyne is vulgar, rude, highly emotive, and is pretty much forced to fight for her survival first because of the Pucci's Evil Plan, but she doesn't like to kill her opponents, usually leaving them retired, and goes out of her way several times to help the people along the way to her goal. In essence, Giorno has the qualities of DIO with lesser versions of his viler characteristics, while Jolyne has the flaws of the Joestar line magnified but retains their core heroism.
    • Jolyne knew her father, Jotaro, and despises him more than anything due to his absence and his apparent lack of affection towards her, and her relationship with him drives a good part of the plot of Stone Ocean as well as her character development. Meanwhile, Giorno never knew his father, DIO, one of the vilest villains to ever face the Joestars, but doesn't seem to hate him, as evidenced by the picture of him he keeps in his wallet, and him being his son doesn't come up again after his introduction.
    • Their combat styles differ as well: Jolyne's biggest edges in combat are her creative use of her strings, coupled with her intuition, and her street smarts, while Giorno's are his ability to analyze his opponents' moves and the situation and his extensive knowledge of biology which he combines with his ability to create life.
  • Cool Big Sis: Towards Emporio. He even addresses her as onee-chan ("big sister").
  • Cool Shades: Stone Free wears green-shaded glasses.
  • Curb Stomp Cushion: While Pucci's victory against her once Heaven was achieved was inevitable, she manages to cut one of his eyes and buy enough time for Emporio to escape.
  • Dark Is Not Evil: Wears dark colored clothing with spider and butterfly motifs and she is the heroine of Part 6.
  • Decon-Recon Switch: Before major Character Development kicks in, Jolyne starts out with many of the Joestar family's traits... but twisted into extreme flaws. Her hotblooded and berserk-button prone personality constantly led her into trouble with authority. Her flighty and impulsive behavior led her to make some extremely bad decisions. The lack of a consistent father figure did not inspire her to become truly independent or find an honorable person to emulate, but just made her resentful of Jotaro for his apparent inability to care about his family. Her delinquency has landed her in juvenile hall and later in jail. And finally, her extreme faith in her delinquent friends left her to be hung out to dry when they abandoned her. After meeting with her father, however, she starts to emulate Jotaro's Nerves of Steel and combines it with her inherent passionate demeanor. A lot of her flaws end up becoming her strengths when she finally gains friends who have the same undying loyalty to her that she has for them.
  • Delinquents: Must run in the family, but Jolyne is the latest in a long line of JoJos to get in trouble with the law. It was mentioned that she has a Freudian Excuse of her father Jotaro being absent for a long time.
  • Detachment Combat: She can detach her arms from her body or her stand's body to give herself or Stone Free longer range to pummel or grapple the enemy..
  • Determinator: Her drive to rescue her father is what makes Pucci consider her a tough foe. Once she sets her mind on a goal, she will not give up, and is willing to stomach whatever the consequences of her actions may be. She turns down a chance to escape from prison, because she realizes that Jotaro's discs are still on the inside of the penitentiary, and thus willingly turns herself in, accepting that this will mean spending several weeks in solitary confinement. She gets even tougher after being sent to the Punishment Ward; while she briefly seems unsure whether or not she'll make it out, she quickly decides that she must not allow herself to cross the Despair Event Horizon, which grants her even more mental fortitude, with Jolyne even being willing to eat bug-infested bread and unidentified mushrooms in order to survive. By the time she does get out of jail, she's able to go as far as lighting herself on fire if that's what needs to be done to defeat an enemy.
  • Dub Name Change: English localizations, including the English dub of the anime, rename Stone Free into Stone Ocean.
  • Eagleland: A mixture of type 1 and 2. Jolyne is the second American protagonist in the series and is very crass and aggressive, but she ultimately ends up being a heroic character.
  • Earn Your Happy Ending:
    • Of a sort. While Jolyne and her group (minus Emporio) die because of Pucci after all the hard work of trying to stop him, Emporio manages to finish him off for her, and unlike Pucci's new universe where a new version of her (with some changes) was put in her place, in this new universe she's called Irene, where she lives happily dating her boyfriend Anakiss (Anasui's new counterpart), meets all her friends from the previous timeline and even has a better relationship with her dad.
    • Another timeline created at the end of Eyes of Heaven strongly implies that her father, who retains his memory of the game's events, will be around a lot more during her childhood. To the point where he lets her come along with him in what appears to be the beginning of Diamond is Unbreakable.
  • Easily Forgiven: Subverted, unlike other protagonists, Jolyne makes it very clear that any attempt to betray her trust will result in her holding onto the grudge as long as she pleases. She does spare and befriend Foo Fighters, but only because she picks up and their Blue-and-Orange Morality that their murders and actions against Ermes and Jolyne was a case of their determination to do what they were ordered to, not out of some sort of Undying Loyalty to Whitesnake.
  • Embarrassing Nickname: She hates being called "JoJo" unless it's her mom that's saying it.
  • Enemy Mine: She's forced into temporary working with Versus upon Weather Report going rogue with his Heavy Weather ability, causing The Virus and putting everyone at risk.
  • Establishing Character Moment: She's first introduced in a cell complaining about having been caught masturbating by the guard, and then manages to figure out certain details about the other nearby prisoners.
  • Even Bad Women Love Their Mamas: Just like Joseph and Jotaro, she isn't a bad person by any means, but is still a crass delinquent; though, she feels guilt that her criminal behavior is making her mom cry and worry about her, and wants to hear her voice when she's incarcerated. Must run in the family, considering her father, a fellow delinquent, went to great lengths to protect his own mother.
  • Even the Girls Want Her: When doing some very suggestive poses while naked in the inspection ward, the female wardens were enthralled to see it and did not stop her from doing so.
  • Everyone Has Standards: When meeting Pucci for the first time prior to discovering his identity as Whitesnake's user, she's hesitant on knocking a priest out and instead explains her request to reach the prison courtyard. She even felt guilt after blatantly lying when asked if anyone was with her.
  • Expository Hairstyle Change: Her and her mom both have longer hair in one scene to indicate a flashback.
  • The Faceless: When she appears as a 7-year-old in Eyes of Heaven, her face is not shown.
  • Face Death with Dignity: When faced with impending death in the form of Made in Heaven, she attempts one last stand with the full knowledge that she could do nothing but buy a few more seconds for Emporio. Thankfully, her efforts are not in vain.
  • Feel No Pain: Jolyne takes some of the hardest hits in the series without flinching, such as getting her hand literally turned inside out, bones jutting and flesh pulping and everything, or setting herself on fire.
  • Flipping the Bird: She even demonstrates how to do it in several different cultures.
  • Frame-Up: The hit and run incident that got her incarcerated was masterminded by Pucci to have Jotaro Lured into a Trap.
  • Freudian Excuse: A psychoanalyst assigns her Disappeared Dad as the reason she's been Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places.
  • Genius Bruiser: Played with. She's scrawnier than the JoJos that preceded her, but not only is she just as capable of outwitting her opponents, she's a much scrappier fighter to boot.
  • Good Old Fisticuffs: As Stone Free is channeled through Jolyne herself in addition to having it's own body, Jolyne is perfectly capable and willing of physically hurting stands with her own hands and feet and does it a couple of times throughout the part.
  • Go Out with a Smile: Dies smiling in order to not only protect, but to comfort Emporio to the very end.
  • Going Commando: She tends to not wear panties, typically by complete accident. When Gwess tells her that she forgot to put panties on, Jolyne freaks out and high-tails it to the top bunk to put some on.
  • Good Thing You Can Heal: One of Stone Free's applications is to quickly stitch up wounds, something which Jolyne finds herself using a lot.
  • Gory Discretion Shot: In her Last Stand against Pucci she rushes towards him, and in an instant, Pucci delivered an attack that not only sliced off Stone Free's arm, but smashed in her head as well, signified by the Cool Shades blown away. The attack was severe enough that her remains turn into butterflies.
  • Gratuitous English: In Eyes of Heaven, when paired with a younger Jotaro, she talks about getting his disc back from Pucci, but because Jotaro comes from 1988, he's confused by the term. She then exclaims "Generation gap!" in English.
  • Guile Hero: Jolyne is deceptively clever for it to easily be mistaken for her being insanely lucky rather than her using her wits. Not only does she have what is the weakest stand out of the previous three parts main Jojosnote  but uses Stone Free's more simple abilities in a wide variety of ways, and abuses the fact it can be channeled through her own body to give her more opportunities to defeat her opponents that think they have her in a corner. She's quite pragmatic, Cutting the Knot when she can, laying low until her enemies think she is defeated before striking, even being willing (with some regret) to use her own allies to defeat or hinder her opponents while also being willing to put herself in danger to give her allies a shot at winning. Pucci himself outright admits he underestimated how dangerous she truly is.
  • Hairstyle Inertia: Eyes of Heaven shows her as a 7-year old with the same braids-and-buns hairstyle she has at 19.
  • Head-Tiltingly Kinky: A variation. When Anasui first says to Jolyne that he loves her, Jolyne's first reaction is to tilt her head in utter confusion.
  • Heart Is an Awesome Power: Her main ability is to unravel her body into a string-like substance, which doesn't sound particularly impressive compared to stopping time, reverting anything to its original state, or summoning any living organism imaginable. However, she finds an incredible amount of uses for this, utilizing them for mobility, stitching up wounds, holding enemies in place, detecting movement, among other things. Another aspect of this is that she is one of the few main characters who has to channel her Stand ability through her body, essentially giving her all the powers instead of her Stand, and making her one of the very few characters who can outright punch or kick an enemy Stand. While this means that she can't use her floaty ghost partner to do all the heavy lifting, it does mean that said floaty ghost partner has both hands free to wreck shit up while Jolyne is busy with her strings. And Stone Free is quite the badass, even with only brute force.
  • Heart Symbol: While Josuke wears a heart pin on his uniform and Giorno has a heart-shaped Cleavage Window, Jolyne's shirt features an emblem of a butterfly inside a heart. Her Made In Heaven doppelgänger replaces the heart with a spade, and the butterfly with a wasp.
  • The Hero: Acts as this for most of the Part until her death, at which point Emporio takes her place.
  • The Hero Dies: Bites the dust trying to save Emporio and making a Last Stand against Pucci. Although she's reincarnated as Irene, so it debatable if it truly sticks.
  • Heroic Lineage: Jolyne's personality is very similar to her great-grandfather Joseph — very excitable, hot-headed, and snarky. Her kinder moments also bring his own to mind (her revival of F.F. by wringing out her wet cloak on top of their remains is highly reminiscent of Joseph's pouring blood over a dying Wamuu to ease his pain, for instance). In a crisis situation, she's more like Jotaro — cold-blooded and willing to throw herself into danger without hesitation if need be. Her tactics are similar to both Joseph's and her father's — she's extremely quick-thinking and favors misdirection and mindgames like Joseph. She is also fond of lateral thinking like Jotaro, taking the most efficient and often unexpected route in a fight. She also has the recurring "conscience/spirit" resulting from character development that Josuke and Giorno were explicitly referred to as developing.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Bites the dust trying to save Emporio and making a Last Stand against Pucci.
  • Hollywood Genetics: Jolyne's hair is a mixture of black and blondenote , even though her father's hair is black and her mother's hair is brown. Fixed in the anime, where her mother's hair color is changed to blonde.
  • Hope Bringer: Considered as such by Pucci, who believes that if he kills Jolyne then all resistance from Anasui and Jotaro would disappear.
  • Howl of Sorrow: After failing to revive Jotaro with CPR, she lets out a cathartic scream of despair.
  • Human Notepad: When affected with amnesia by Jail House Lock, she writes all over herself with a pen to try and remember what she's supposed to do.
  • I Choose to Stay: After nearly escaping prison the first time, she realizes Whitesnake retreated back into Green Dolphin after stealing Jotaro's discs and decides to return in order to retrieve the discs and find out what Whitesnake's plan is.
  • I Just Want to Be Loved: Love, whether it be platonic, familial, or romantic, is what defines Jolyne's motivations, and determines whether or not she grows to be on good terms with somebody. For example, the care for her shown by Emporio, F.F., and Weather Report allows her to trust them to the bitter end, even if some had a rocky history with her, and when romantic love is shown to be mutual, like between her and Romeo (at first), she's shown to be incredibly playful, cheery, and loyal. Conversely, if a friendship or romance is shown to be one-sided and possessive, like with Gwess or Anasui, or if the love is shown to be cold and not well-conveyed, like with Jotaro, she's very much not willing to trust said people, and even hate them if push comes to shove.
  • Infinite: When struck by Pucci's C-Moon, Jolyne manages to counteract the effects of her body being destroyed by constructing a band of infinity; the Mobius Strip, with her strings. With no concept of inside or outside on the Mobius Strib, Jolyne is able to undo C-Moon's ability of inverting objects.
  • Insanely International Ancestry: Jolyne is Japanese-British-Italian-American. Japanese from Jotaro, American from her mother, British from Jonathan, and Italian in Suzi Q's part.
  • In-Series Nickname:
    • JoJo by her mother. Then again, she's far from the first to have that nickname.
    • Emporio calls her Jorin-onee-chan ("big sister Jolyne").
  • Instant Knots: Justified, as the strings she unravels into are prehensile.
  • Invisible to Normals: Her Stand power partially averts this. While Stone Free is invisible like all Stands, the strings Jolyne creates are created from her body, and therefore visible to anyone.
  • It's All My Fault: She holds herself responsible for the incapacitation of Jotaro, and the deaths of F.F. and Weather, despite the fact it's pretty much Pucci alone responsible for these tragedies.
  • It's Personal: Initially, she just wanted to get out of Green Dolphin Street Prison and bring her father back to life. However, once she manages to accomplish both, she still gives chase to Pucci, because through reading Jotaro's Memory disc, she finds out what DIO means by "Heaven" and has to prevent it from happening.
  • Jack of All Trades: Stone Free may not be an overpowered or invincible stand, but it has offensive, defensive, supportive and even utility capabilities all possible by Jolyne's quick thinking. This pure versatility ends up giving her an edge over both allies and enemies alike.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Must run in the family, again; she's a crass, rude female thug, yet she ultimately has a good heart.
  • Kick Chick: She fights with her Stand, but she kicks a lot. She's even been shown to take on the likes of police officers in hand-to-hand combat without using her Stand.
  • Knows the Ropes: She takes the rope tricks used by Joseph, Kakyoin and the like and turns them up a notch. How? She can unravel herself into string and use its properties instead of merely using it to influence her surroundings.
  • Lady Swears-a-Lot: She even knows how to flip people off in four different languages! Fittingly, she drops the first F-bomb of the English dub.
  • The Lad-ette: She's the rudest, crudest, horniest JoJo of them all. As well as the only female one.
  • Last Stand: After taking a knife blow while the others were killed by Pucci, she manages to get Emporio far towards safety just to stay behind and take on Pucci before he finishes her off.
  • Let Them Die Happy: She tells Anasui to follow through to his idea to propose to her if they all make it through the battle with Pucci, but given that Anasui just confessed to making a plan that would very likely end in his death, it seems this trope is in play.
  • Lightning Bruiser: Another thing that makes Jolyne very unique in comparison to her predecessors is that in addition to having a capable Jack of All Trades stand, she also is pretty durable, strong, and thanks to the grappling ability of her stand, she can move pretty ridiculously fast as well.
  • Like Brother and Sister: Over the course of the story, Jolyne and Emporio quickly build a dynamic of big sister and little brother respectively.
  • Locked Out of the Loop: For Jolyne's entire childhood, Jotaro never told her about Stands or the true nature of his work with the Speedwagon Foundation, wanting to keep her safe. This effort backfired because Jolyne thought her father was simply being neglectful and did not love her at all.
  • Lovable Sex Maniac:
    • Jolyne is one of the most perverted JoJo's on par with her great-grandfather Joseph. Her first scene is of her complaining about a guard catching her masturbating.
    • Jolyne is jealous of snails for rather eyebrow-raising reasons: they don't have to worry about gender.
  • Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: She had relationships with some rather questionable men in the past — the most recent of which, Romeo, landed her in prison. Who will later regret that.
  • Made of Iron: Much like Jotaro, Jolyne goes through some pretty bad injuries and powers through them to ensure either a victory or the safety of her friends. However, what Jolyne endures is definitely much worse than what her father did, and still pushes through. Case in point, she set herself on fire and comes out of it without scars or severe medical treatment needed. She even gets her hand and leg turned inside out and still manages to push through.
  • Master of Threads: Jolyne Cujoh's Stand, Stone Free, allows her to turn her body into strings for a multitude of different uses. She can also use it for healing by literally stitching people up.
  • Meaningful Name: In-Universe, Stone Free is named after Jolyne's desire to escape jail, which she refers to as a "stone ocean".
  • Morality Pet: Pretty much the only reason Anasui is trying to be something resembling good.
  • Mundane Utility: She can use her string as a form of walkie talkie, as well as a printer.
  • Ms. Fanservice: The manga takes care to highlight her pretty face and curvy figure that almost always has her stomach uncovered (complete with a navel piercing later on). One of the manga covers has her covered in cuffs. Look closely enough and you can see she doesn't wear anything under them.
  • Naïve Newcomer: Her first days at Green Dolphin Street Prison were a harsh learning of the prison's spoken and unspoken rules.
  • No-Sell: She manages to use her abilities to effectively nullify the effect of C-Moon. Transforming any part of her body that gets hit by C-Moon's inverting gravity punches with strings, she ties them up into a Mobius strip so that if it starts to turn inside out, it won't have effect since Mobius strips don't technically have an inside out.
  • Not Afraid to Die: In spite of witnessing her father and friends killed right in front of her, Jolyne does not show any sign of fear as she focuses on getting Emporio to safety before her sacrifice.
  • Not as You Know Them: She initially views Jotaro in her memories as a dim-witted fool who left her for petty reasons. After having a meeting with him and later seeing his Memory disc, Jolyne comes to fully understand the reason her father's decision.
  • Personality Powers: Stone Free represents Jolyne's drive to escape Green Dolphin Street Prison; with its powers of string transformation, doing so would be a piece of cake if the jail wasn't rife with other Stand users. Jolyne even names it that because of her desire to escape.
  • Playing Possum: After narrowing surviving a rainfall of poisonous frogs, she wraps herself in dozens of them to fool Pucci and Whitesnake as he locates Jotaro's disc.
  • Powers Do the Fighting: A notable aversion among JoJo protagonists: she can channel Stone Free's string through her body, allowing her to make direct physical contact with other Stands. This means that unlike most other characters, who mostly use their Stands to attack while they focus on dodging, Jolyne often finds herself in the center of the brawl, doing the punching and kicking herself.
  • Precision F-Strike: Jolyne delivers the first instance of an F-bomb in the entire series when she drops a swift "Shut the fuck up!" towards Gwess.
  • Prisons Are Gymnasiums: Not only is Jolyne on a path to be mentally stronger during her time in prison, but she grows physically stronger as well and this is reflected by her gaining noticeable and defined muscles.
  • Pulling Themselves Together: She loses her arm after getting ambushed by Whitesnake, but once Pucci arrives to finish her, she immediately uses Stone Free to reattach her arm back.
  • Razor Floss: Her first offensive use of Stone Free's power is using her string to slice an ear off one of the prison guards assaulting Ermes.
  • Revenge: Jolyne has a noticeable vindictive side, repaying those who've committed wrong against her, like when she used her new Stand to crash her crooked attorney's car for setting her up.
  • Running Gag: She often forgets to wear her panties.
  • Savage Piercings: Upon being placed in the Punishment Ward for a second time after escaping from the Maximum Security Ward, she gives herself a belly piercing, with a ball in her navel and a star directly underneath it.
  • Shameless Fanservice Girl: She started doing poses during her cavity search. Not that her officers minded.
  • Shared Family Quirks: Besides her father Jotaro, Jolyne takes the most heavily after her great-grandfather Joseph. She shares his brash troublemaker attitude and boisterousness, but also his heart of gold and scheming nature, his questionable record with airplanes, and especially his penchant for rope-based trickery. Interestingly, this mirrors how Jotaro has shared a number of similarities with Lisa Lisa.
  • Shut Up, Hannibal!: When Kenzō first introduces himself to her, Jolyne immediately tells him to fuck off in her own unique way.
    Jolyne: (flips her middle fingers) I can do an American style. (places hand under her chin while drooping her other hand) Or how about French style? (pulls her eyelid while touching her chin) Japanese style work? (pulls her eyelid with her thumb while pointing to her forehead) And of course, Italian-Naples style. All around the world, there's a finger that says, "Fuck you!"
  • Signature Scent: For some reason, Stone Free always smells like soap.
  • Smarter Than You Look: As Pucci internally admits, he had written off Jolyne as a bratty daughter that he could exploit Jotaro's love for in order to further his own plans, but as it turns out that she's far more crafty, adaptable and plainly, just much smarter than he ever expected. He gives her some measure of respect that mixes with his animosity due to this.
  • The Smurfette Principle: The only female JoJo protagonist in the series so far.
  • Spoiling Shout-Out: Jolyne had apparently watched The Sixth Sense all the time as a kid, as when she sees some prisoners watching it in the rec room, she recognizes the movie and spoils the twist that Malcolm was Dead All Along.
  • Statuesque Stunner: She's 175 cm tall (5 ft 9 inches), and extremely fit and attractive, not unlike her great-great-grandmother Lisa Lisa.
  • Stealth Pun: In the anime, her leitmotif has a prominent strings section.
  • Super-Hearing: Stone Free's strings can extend into places where Jolyne can't physically get to and listen to faraway conversations like a tin-can telephone. She did this before she was even fully aware of her Stand and what it was.
  • Super-Toughness: Once her Stand's ability gets going, she starts turning to string. Her body is then resistant to stabbing and blunt-force trauma due to the string absorbing all that energy.
  • Swiss-Army Superpower: On paper, Stone Free is a fairly unimpressive stand with good, but not fantastic abilities with Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs and the capability to control string. While its power is simply to manipulate strings, Stone Free allows Jolyne to use it to eavesdrop on distant conversations in the form of sound vibrations through her string by the same principles behind the tin can telephone but also converse through them, slice people with the sharpness of the strings, pickpocket small objects, weave a tight net instantly strong enough to stop bullets to protect herself, create a large net to capture enemies, tie people up for various uses, mainly pulling them in range or choking them, stitch her wounds deploy a "string barrier" to detect movements over a large area, create complex patterns to the point where Stone Free can make a portrait, swing from place to place, pick a car lock to start the engine without the key create a net strong enough for her to run on and counteract an enemy's ability to turn things inside-out by meshing affected areas of her body into a Möbius strip. And that's not even getting into the fact she can unravel most of her body or her stand's body to increase her stand's effective range or minimize damage against herself!
  • Symbolically Broken Object: Made In Heaven killing her is never directly shown, but it's made clear what has happened by Stone Free's sunglasses shattering.
  • This Is Unforgivable!: Unlike some of the other Joestars who readily befriend defeated enemies, Jolyne does not forgive easily those who have seriously wronged her. She refuses to be cordial with Gwess after the latter stuffs her into the corpse of a dead rat and tries to kill her using Goo Goo Dolls. Later, after encountering Romeo again, she rips out his tongue in retribution for him sending her to jail. F.F., however, is an exception, as Jolyne recognizes they weren't malicious like the other Stand users she fought, but instead trying to do what they were ordered to, and is therefore the only Stand user Jolyne befriends after defeating.
  • Thou Shalt Not Kill: Jolyne ends up killing none of the opponents she fights, not even some of the more depraved ones like Johngalli A. or Donatello Versus, with her main target being Pucci. Her moral code makes her prevent others from recklessly killing, such as stopping Anasui from murdering the Green Baby, and when she thinks to herself that she wants to kill Officer Westwood, she realizes that something about the Maximum Security Ward's atmosphere isn't right.
  • Tomboyish Voice: The anime gives her a pretty low voice, fitting her delinquent, tomboyish personality.
  • Town Girls: The Neither to Ermes' Tomboy and F.F.'s Girly Girl.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Went into prison a flighty, love-starved delinquent and came out as a quick-thinking badass Determinator who pulls stunts like setting herself on fire to counteract an enemy Stand.
  • Touch the Intangible: The fact that her Stand powers are primarily channeled through her body means she's one of the very few characters in the series who can make direct physical contact with otherwise intangible Stands instead of relying exclusively on her own Stand to fight them.
  • Trash Talk: She is a former delinquent, after all. In a fight Jolyne often taunts enemies, and has used this tactically with her street smarts to gain the upper hand.
  • Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: How many 14-year olds do you know that have committed grand theft auto?
  • Underestimating Badassery: Pucci first regarded her as little more than the bratty teenage daughter of the last roadblock preventing him from achieving Heaven. Instead, she became his most persistent enemy, and her indirect actions leads to his defeat.
  • Use Your Head: She takes down Officer Westwood by delivering a single headbutt after he got slammed by a flung shoe.
  • Walk on Water: During the initial encounter with Foo Fighters, Jolyne creates a net from her string and deploys it in front of her as she runs across the water to reach Ermes.
  • Weak, but Skilled: Jolyne's string-based Stand may be on the weaker side, but she more than makes up for it with resourcefulness, being able to find ways out of nearly any situation she's put in, adapting to problems as they come. Pucci himself tries to warn Versus of this, pointing out that her time in prison molded her into an experienced fighter.
  • Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Shares a hatred of alligators with Ermes after dealing with an invisible one in prison. She even throws something (a wedding ring Anasui was going to sneakingly give to her while she was asleep) at one at random.
  • Woman on Fire: In the battle with Rikiel, she does this to herself in order to protect Emporio and herself from his Stand that steals her body heat.
  • Worf Had the Flu: The reason Jolyne struggles against Kenzou (and why F.F. fought Kenzou in the first place) is that Viviano's fight with her mere minutes ago left several gaping wounds in her body and put her in a position to struggle to do anything.
  • You Killed My Father: Sort of. Her goal of taking down Pucci is in the name of Jotaro, but he didn't exactly kill him. Whitesnake taking Jotaro's Stand and Memory discs are slowly killing him, but he's mostly rendered comatose while the Speedwagon Foundation places him on life support. Ultimately, though, aside from escaping Green Dolphin Street Prison, Jolyne's main goal is to kill Pucci and retrieve her father's discs to bring him back.
  • You Shall Not Pass!: Gives her life to hold off Pucci just long enough for Emporio get to safety.

    Jotaro Kujo 

Jotaro Kujo (Stand: Star Platinum: The World)

Voiced by: Daisuke Ono (TV anime JP), Matthew Mercer (TV anime EN)

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Star Platinum

Jolyne's estranged father. Upon discovering that his daughter was framed for a crime she didn't commit, he makes it his mission to free Jolyne from Green Dolphin Street Prison.


See Jotaro Kujo for tropes on him

    Ermes Costello 

Ermes Costello (Stand: Kiss)

Voiced by: Mutsumi Tamura (TV anime JP, All-Star Battle R), Tiana Camacho (TV anime EN), Chizu Yonemoto (All-Star Battle, Eyes of Heaven)

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"You're one interesting chica. How'd you end up here? What're you in for?"
Kiss

"Here's my official license to avenge: Kiss! There you are, Sports Maxx!"

A fellow inmate of Jolyne's, both before and after the transfer to Green Dolphin Street Prison. While she claims to have gotten into jail for holding up a convenience store, it was a deliberate gambit so she could get close to the gangster Sports Maxx and kill him in revenge for the death of her sister Gloria, who was killed for accidentally witnessing his criminal operations.

Her Stand is Kiss, which allows her to duplicate any object by applying a special sticker to it. Once she removes the sticker, the two objects will violently recombine into one, resulting in damage to the original.

Her name references the luxury brand Hermès and either the fashion designer Paul Costelloe or rock artist Elvis Costello, while her Stand is named after KISS.


  • Adaptational Curves: She's considerably bustier in the anime than in any of her other appearances.
  • And This Is for...: Her revenge against her Sports Maxx goes into this.
    Ermes: This next one is for Gloria, too. Oh yeah, and one after that, as well! Not to mention the next one after that, and so on, forever! They're all for my Gloria! This one! And this one! And this one! And this one! And this one, and this one, and this one, and this one, and this one, and this one, and this one! They're all for GLORIA!
  • An Arm and a Leg: She dies when Pucci cuts both of her arms off.
  • Big Sister Mentor: To the extent, though the aforementioned nickname mocks her for being rather masculine looking.
  • Butt-Monkey: Much like Polnareff, Okuyasu, and Narancia in previous parts, Ermes often gets the short end of the stick with luck, especially when it comes to enemy Stand abilities. The first battle focusing on her is a particularly humiliating one where she is targeted by an incredibly self-destructive stalker willing to drag her down with him in his repeated suicide attempts. Later, Ermes is inadvertently targeted by Made In Heaven's time accelerating ability, first by a sliding door which is made as fast as a hydraulic press, before getting her head squashed by a falling rock.
  • Cast from Hit Points: She can use Kiss to duplicate her own body parts (and by extension, Kiss') which allows for a lot of things like duplicating her arms to hold off an enemy or duplicating her nose to prevent suffocation. The only downside is that like with all other duplicates once the sticker comes off they combine violently and damage her.
  • Contralto of Strength: Has the deepest voice of any woman in the franchise in All-Star Battle and Eyes of Heaven, fittingly for a powerful combatant with a deadly Stand.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: Ermes' mother died when she was a child, and then when she was an adult, her older sister Gloria witnessed a mob hit and was killed to keep her from going to the police. Their father died of despair soon after, leaving Ermes alone in the world and hellbent on getting revenge on the gangster who had ruined her life.
  • Deuteragonist: Serves as this over the course of half of Stone Ocean, as most of her scenes show her present with Jolyne, or aiding her in some way. She eventually drops out of this role completely after being critically injured from a battle with Sports Maxx. From here on out, the role completely switches over to Anasui. Weather and Pucci also occasionally slip into this role.
  • Dreadlock Rasta: Has shoulder length dreadlocks.
  • Dub Name Change: Her Stand is renamed from Kiss to Smack. Weirdly enough, the anime design of the Stand still kept the name "KISS" written on its torso.
  • Due to the Dead: In the anime only. After being told of F.F.'s death by Emporio, Ermes pours a glass a water out of the infirmary window and promises to avenge them.
  • Extra Digits: When figuring out the capabilities of Kiss, she accidentally gives herself a sixth finger on her left hand.
  • Fatal Flaw: Impulsive to a fault, Ermes makes many decisions that go badly for her more often than not.
  • Flight, Strength, Heart: Her Stand, Kiss, has excellent physical statsnote , but its main power of duplicating objects sounds rather weak compared to other Stands' more straightforward and offensive abilities. Like other Stand users, however, she gets around that by being really creative with it.
  • Good Is Not Soft: Unlike Jolyne, who would spare Stand Users once they're defeated because she believes they won't pose a threat or aren't worth killing, Ermes won't hesitate to kill an enemy in the blink of an eye.
  • Good Scars, Evil Scars: She has two Good Scars — one on her forehead and another on her chin.
  • Genius Bruiser: She consistently makes game-changing strategies with her apparently simplistic abilities.
  • Heart Is an Awesome Power: In classic JoJo fashion. The gambits she puts together with Kiss' stickers are incredibly clever and can be so complex that the reader may have trouble keeping up.
  • Hidden Depths: She knows a surprisingly decent amount of info considering snails and their predators.
  • Hot-Blooded: Definitely. But it's also her Fatal Flaw, as it nearly gets her killed agains Sports Maxx.
  • Informed Ability: Araki gave Kiss an A in every stat except Precision (which got a C). If this is to be taken seriously, Ermes would be more powerful than DIO, which definitely doesn't seem like the case in her actual appearances.
  • It's Personal: She initially denies Jolyne and F.F getting involved in her business against Sports Maxx, as she figures it would be best if she handled it herself.
  • Kick Them While They're Down: Ermes is perhaps one of the most cold cut Jojo ally in this regard, as she has absolutely no issue attacking or killing her enemies once they're already defeated, as she attempts to finish off Foo Fighters and Rikiel after the fight had already reached an end point.
  • The Lancer: To Jolyne. Ermes is the first of her allies to appear in the actual story, and fights alongside Jolyne the most out of the heroes.
  • Lady Swears-a-Lot: A frequent offender in certain translations, especially in the anime's English dub.
  • Latino Is Brown: She's of partial Mexican descent and has tan skin and dreadlocks. Notably, her sister looks completely different, with pale skin and blonde hair.
  • Libation for the Dead: In the anime, there is an additional scene where Ermes pours a glass of water out the window in F.F.'s memory after learning of their death from Emporio.
  • Matter Replicator: Kiss creates stickers that allows Ermes to duplicate any object she puts them onto. If she removes the stickers, the two copies of the object will forcibly combine back into one, possibly causing damage in the process.
  • Meaningful Name: A kiss is a symbol of love, and Ermes is driven by love for her deceased sister and desire to avenge her unjust death.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Yes, you got your revenge. Unfortunately, killing him had the not-so-minor side effect of putting his Stand into overdrive...
  • Not Quite Flight: Uses her stickers on a harpoon (which the Speedwagon foundation launched into the Kennedy Space Center's visitor center) to get Jotaro and herself to Pucci's location. She later does the same thing during the group's final confrontation with Pucci.
  • Power Incontinence: While first figuring out how to use Kiss, she accidentally duplicates her finger, her shoe, and a glass pitcher.
  • Put on a Bus: After the fight with Sports Maxx, Ermes ends up being put in the infirmary and doesn't get out until Jolyne decides to break out of Green Dolphin Street Prison. Ironically, she wasn't out for that long, at least four or so days, it's just that a lot happened in that time.
  • Revenge is Sweet: Killing Sports Maxx made her feel accomplished.
  • Single Tear: In an anime-only scene, she sheds one after finding out that F.F. has been killed.
  • Straight Man: She's arguably the most normal out of Jolyne's allies, which plays off of their weirdness.
  • Spicy Latina: She's Mexican on her father's side, and just as Hot-Blooded as any Joestar. In the dub of the anime, Ermes sprinkles Spanish phrases into her sentences every now and then.
  • Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Polnareff from Stardust Crusaders. Both are Hot-Blooded deuteragonists of foreign descents, be it French or Mexican, who have intentionally placed themselves in less-than-heroic allegiances in order to get themselves close to notorious Serial Killers so they can get revenge for the deaths of their sisters.
  • Tears of Joy: Once she's killed Sports Maxx, she starts happily crying before passing out.
  • They're Called "Personal Issues" for a Reason: Initially, Ermes wants neither Jolyne nor F.F. to be involved when it comes to her plot to kill Sports Maxx, but she changes her mind once his Stand ability comes into play and endangers them both. That said, she already got her revenge by the time they found her, but she thought he was still in the process of dying. When she finds out that he's been revived, she nearly gets herself killed in her determination to make sure he stays dead.
  • Tomboyish Voice: In All-Star Battle and Eyes of Heaven, her voice is quite deep.
  • Town Girls: The Tomboy to Jolyne's Neither and F.F.'s Girly Girl.
  • Travel to Projectile: Using her Stand, she can achieve this by shooting the original and holding onto the copy after removing the sticker. She uses it with a harpoon to quickly join the fight at the Kennedy Space Center, and not much later with bullets fired from Emporio's gun to have the whole group evade Pucci's attacks.
  • Treasure Chest Cavity: Had her breasts surgically altered so that she could smuggle money into prison.
  • Vengeance Feels Empty: She defies this trope completely. Ermes acknowledges the claim that revenge is never fulfilling, but speaks out against it, due to Gloria dying from undignified circumstances.
  • Victoria's Secret Compartment: She had her breasts surgically altered to be able to smuggle money in them for bribing the prison guards.
  • Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: After dealing with an invisible alligator in prison, she and Jolyne come to despise them all in general.
    Ermes: They think they're so goddamn safe 'cause they're federally protected, but they scared the crap out of us back in prison!
  • You Killed My Father: Sports Maxx killed her elder sister because she witnessed him performing a mob hit. Ermes got herself imprisoned at Green Dolphin Street Prison on purpose, just to have a shot at killing him while he was serving time for racketeering.

    Emporio Alniño 

Emporio Alniño (Stand: Burning Down the House)

Voiced by: Atsumi Tanezaki (TV anime JP, All-Star Battle R), Casey Mongillo (TV anime EN), Junko Kitanishi (All-Star Battle, Eyes of Heaven)

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"It's Emporio... E-Emporio. That's what you can call me. If you wanted to know, my name's Emporio!"
Burning Down the House

"I don't want to be the one to tell you, but a dead body just rots. That bone I gave you... was from my mom. He took her soul, as well. She died."

A little boy who was born within Green Dolphin Street Prison's walls. He has complex knowledge on the prison's layout due to a life of constantly sneaking around it.

His Stand, Burning Down the House, forms a pocket dimension that emulates the "ghost" of the prison's music room, along with all the objects contained within, before it was destroyed in a blaze. He can also carry around these objects with him.

He is named after the Emporio Armani fashion label while his Stand is named after "Burning Down the House" by Talking Heads.


  • 11th-Hour Superpower: He tricked Pucci into pushing Weather Report's Stand disc into him, thus giving him access to Heavy Weather. Ironically, he doesn't use Heavy Weather's unique ability that made it an 11th-Hour Superpower to Weather Report, instead opting for its most basic (albeit enhanced by lingering vestiges of Weather Report's sheer hatred as well as being in a small room) ability to generate oxygen; more than any living organism is allowed to take.
  • Adorably Precocious Child: Despite being only eleven years old, he is the one entrusted with the task of driving both a car and a helicopter.
  • All Up to You: After Pucci kills the rest of the team prior to the universe reset, Jolyne stays behind after getting him to safety, telling him that he's their only hope before her death. He would later succeed in defeating Pucci after inserting Weather Report into his body.
  • The Baby of the Bunch: Emporio is a preteen child accompanying a gang of prison inmates who are grown adults (and one sentient plankton colony possessing a woman's reanimated corpse).
  • Bag of Holding: After leaving Green Dolphin Street Prison, this is how Emporio uses his Stand. By using a small bag that he carries inside his belt he can hold various "ghost" items the group needs, including a computer and Jotaro's Memory disc. The latter becomes very important in the final fight with Pucci as Emporio holds onto Weather Report's Stand and implants it into his own body to use against Pucci.
  • Barely-Changed Dub Name: His Stand name is often shortened to just "Burning Down" in English localizations. In the anime, it's instead changed to "Burn the House Down".
  • Bequeathed Power: Before Weather's death, he leaves behind his Stand disc in hopes that his friends will be able to defeat Pucci. During the final battle, Emporio tricks Pucci into inserting Weather's Stand disc into him, then uses Weather Report to kill him.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: He is a sweet little boy, and one of the kindest members of the team. He's also the one who kills Pucci.
  • Bigger on the Inside: Burning Down the House is pretty similar to the last part's Mr. President, being an extradimensional space that emulates Green Dolphin Street Prison's music room as it was before fire destroyed it.
  • Bland-Name Product: Emporio's baseball uniform in the manga has a red "C" with a blue outline on it, a reference to the Chicago Cubs logo. The logo on the anime's key design and trailers is instead a red "C" on a blue circle, which was censored in the final release, removing the "C". This was updated sometime in late December 2021, still resembling the Cubs logo but now using the initials "GD" and a picture of a dolphin to represent Green Dolphin Street Prison.
  • Break the Cutie: His mom was a prisoner and he's been hiding in a prison his whole life, so he's pretty broken by the time the series starts. And that is not getting to the events of Stone Ocean itself... culminating in the deaths of all of his comrades and having to live with their Alternate Universe selves with the guilt of being the only one from the original universe.
  • But I Read a Book About It: He mentions a few times that the very advanced topics he knows about for his age, he learned about through the books found inside of the piano room that Burning Down the House recreated. This includes the hypothesis of the Big Crunch that Pucci managed to create using Made In Heaven, and how 100% pure oxygen is highly toxic, which he uses to defeat Pucci using the Weather Report Stand.
  • Cathartic Crying: In the ending, he releases all of his tears as he introduces himself to Irene.
  • The Chew Toy: He goes through an incredible amount of pain and torture throughout the series. One of the most cringe-inducing is during Jolyne's encounter with MiuMiu, where he also got affected to only remembers the last three things he learned after a certain point, but ended up spilling water on an outlet so he repeatedly touches an electrified puddle of water, screaming and crying in agony. Each time, the only thing he remembers are the things he must do to help Jolyne, so he repeats the process again... and again... and again.
  • Combo Platter Powers: He, along with DIO, is the only character to own two Stands. Additionally, he's the only character ever to use two Stands simultaneously — he fights Pucci in the hidey-hole he generates using Burning Down the House at the same time that he uses Weather Report to attack him with excess oxygen.
  • Creepy Child: Thanks to his Stand ability to live in the "memories" of places, he can appear in random corners of Green Dolphin Street Prison.
  • Determinator: The premier example in Stone Ocean. He will not stop trying to help his friends. Because of this, he's the only one to survive against and ultimately defeat Pucci. His tactics to do so implicitly rely on his determination as a strength rather than any actual fighting skills or unique abilities: aware that he has no chance of being an Instant Expert with Weather Report and cannot overcome Pucci in a straight fight even if he was, he simply uses his knowledge of how the human body cannot withstand 100% pure oxygen to have the stand use its basic ability to generate a massive amount of it within the closed confines of Burning Down The House, one-sidedly poisoning and crippling Pucci's body despite his Super-Speed because Made In Heaven's fast-forward ability actually makes him more vulnerable to hazardous environments the faster he goes. However, Emporio himself is not immune to said poisoning as well, graphically shown by his suffering the same effects of bleeding eyeballs as Pucci, but withstanding it anyway to ensure Weather Report can beat him to death before Emporio dies.
  • Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: He manages to defeat Pucci, who easily trounced everyone else in his way after awakening Made In Heaven, and by that point had become able to manipulate the universe itself, by trapping him inside a room and poisoning him to death.
  • A Dog Named "Dog": A rare example with a human being; he's a young boy whose surname, Alniño, appears to be a corruption of "el niño", literally Spanish for "the boy". However, this could also be a Genius Bonus; "El Niño" is also a Spanish name for the Christ Child, turning Emporio into a Messianic Archetype, especially given that he's implied to be a virgin birth.invoked
  • Final Guy: Emporio is the only character to survive Pucci's plot, with the lead-up of their final clash even playing out akin to a Slasher movie with Pucci relentlessly hunting Emporio when he cannot hope to defend himself from him in a straight fight. Granted, destroying Made In Heaven restores the slain heroes in slightly altered form, but...
  • Foil: Ultimately one to Pucci in too many ways to list, but most noticeably, both were non-prisoners at Green Dolphin Street Prison, both had a friend they deeply cared about, were entrusted by that person to carry on if they fell with something, and avenged said friend after they fell in order to achieve a better world.
  • Guile Hero: He has very few combative capabilities, so he usually hides from or outwits any enemies he faces. He finally kills Pucci by realising his stand's Super-Speed actually makes him more vulnerable to hazardous environments like a room full of poisonous pure oxygen, and exploiting his entry into his Ghost Room to trick Pucci into accidentally empowering him with Weather Report to create said environment.
  • Had to Be Sharp: Was forced to wisen up due to growing up in a prison and being at the potential mercy of violent criminals and guards.
  • Heroic Second Wind: He gathers his courage to face Pucci after having a brief Loved Ones Montage, to utilize Weather Report's Stand after having tricking Pucci into inserting it.
  • Latino Is Brown: Averted; his surname (which is not an actual surname, but derives from a Spanish word) seems to imply Hispanic ancestry, but he has pale skin and blonde hair, and is never even shown speaking Spanish.
  • Lethal Harmless Powers: Burning Down the House is a completely non-combative Stand that's more like a Pocket Dimension than a Fighting Spirit...but when Weather Report is used to flood it with 100% pure oxygen, the Deadly Gas and the small enclosed space makes for a lethal combination. As a certain priest discovered the hard way.
  • Like Brother and Sister: Over the course of the story, Jolyne and Emporio quickly build a dynamic of big sister and little brother respectively.
  • Meaningful Name:
    • Burning Down the House manifests the prison's music room that got, well, burned down.
    • Emporio is the old word for warehouse, and he utilizes his Stand as storage Hammerspace.
    • His last name, Alniño, is a portmanteau of Armani, a fashion brand, and El Niño, which Spanish for "The Boy", but also means a climate pattern that makes weather warmer than normal. His Stand is called Burning Down the House, and eventually gains use of Weather Report, and uses its abilities in conjunction with Burning Down the House to kill Pucci. In addition, "El Niño" is also a Spanish name for the Christ Child (the climate pattern received its name from its appearance during Christmas), which may reference him ultimately becoming the savior of humanity.
  • Messianic Archetype: Emporio has quite a number of parallels to Jesus, ultimately making his defeat of Pucci prophetic. He was born in prison to a mother whom Pucci killed, without any indication of who his father was, alluding to how Mary birthed Jesus a virgin. Of the heroes, he's the one who has the most knowledge of the outside world, which mirrors how Jesus was said to be the one to know everything. Alniño is a corruption of El Niño, which is Spanish for "the boy", but also has a secondary meaning of "Christ Child". Finally, his defeat of Pucci, a devoutly religious person, and subsequent saving of humanity is analogous to the Son of God eliminating a false God for the sake of humanity, complete with shutting down Pucci's arguments in favor of speaking the truth about Fate.
  • Minor Living Alone: He spent his early youth within Green Dolphin after his mother's death with the ghost room being the only place he can hide in.
  • Mission Control: Spends most of the arc in his Stand pocket dimension, providing Jolyne with information and advice on dealing with the prison and Stand users. He's forced to take action himself after Jolyne dies saving him from Pucci.
  • Nice Guy: While a bit odd and creepy, Emporio is unfailingly kind and loyal to Jolyne and the rest of the group (except perhaps Anasui).
  • Out-of-Clothes Experience: In the story's climax, his clothes disappear off his body as Pucci's acceleration of the universe reaches its final point.
  • Please, Don't Leave Me: Begs Jolyne to stay by his side as Pucci is closing in to attack. Jolyne explains that she's unable to go with him since Pucci would be able to sense where she is.
  • Pocket Dimension: Burning Down the House manifests itself as the "ghost" of the prison's destroyed music room, hidden between the cracks of Green Dolphin St. Prison's walls.
  • Poor Communication Kills: Because his warning to Jolyne is rather vague, and Jolyne is hoping her mother will be coming to see her, Jolyne doesn't heed his advice to stay out of the visitation room.
  • Recurring Element: Like Hayato Kawajiri from Diamond is Unbreakable, he's a young boy with a Disappeared Dad who gets caught up in the Joestars' adventures and has to use his smarts to outwit his enemies, having little fighting ability of his own. Unlike Hayato, however, he has a Stand of his own and eventually gains a more powerful one that makes him able to fight and even defeat the Big Bad.
  • The Smart Guy: Thanks to having spent his entire childhood in a room full of books, Emporio is very well-versed in scientific knowledge, which he often uses to give his allies information on the situation. Later on, he also uses his ghost computer to look up information that can help the fighters.
  • Sole Survivor: He is the last man standing amongst the Stone Ocean crew, even outliving Jolyne and Jotaro.
  • Strange Minds Think Alike: Emporio and Toshikazu Hazamada independently came up with the same theory that Stand users unknowingly attract each other.
  • Superpowerful Genetics: While it was unknown whether or not Emporio's mother was an actual Stand user herself, she also was able to manipulate "ghost objects" exactly like he can.
  • Survivor's Guilt: A rather unique case. This was initially played straight when Emporio became the Sole Survivor of the heroes, but this gets turned on its head when he receives the Weather Report Stand and musters up the courage to defeat Pucci once and for all. That said, this becomes a Double Subversion when he's placed in the new universe post-snapback, and sees that none of his friends are the same anymore, leaving Emporio to bear the guilt of being the only hero left unchanged.
  • Taking You with Me: Seems implied in his final stand against Pucci since Weather Report poison air seems to be affecting him too. He manages to live since the universe being remade saves him at the last second. Well that and Pucci's head literally getting torn apart by Weather Report.
  • Took a Level in Badass: He gains Weather Report as a Stand and is basically the one to kill Enrico Pucci.
  • Tragic Keepsake: His mother was Stripped to the Bone by Pucci. The bone he gave to Jolyne to help her was the only piece of her that remained.
  • Tragic Time Traveler: He's the only member of Jolyne's group who manages to survive Made in Heaven's time acceleration causing a new Big Bang, and is ultimately the one to kill Pucci before he completes it again, causing the universe to be rewritten again with Emporio the only remnant of the old universe.
  • What Were You Thinking?: He calls Jolyne out on making a phone call to the Speedwagon Foundation and mentioning Jotaro's Stand disc over the phone, noting that their enemies are likely listening in. He ends up being right when Pucci listens to the recording.
  • Wise Beyond Their Years: Due to growing up in prison raised only by his mother, a library, and the internet.

    F.F. 

F.F. (Stand: Foo Fighters)

Voiced by: Mariya Ise (TV anime JP, All-Star Battle R), Brittany Lauda (TV anime EN), Ryōko Shiraishi (All-Star Battle, Eyes of Heaven),

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"I am Foo Fighters! You will call me by my name, or not at all!"
Foo Fighters

"I finally understand now, that living is more than just being alive. It means making memories. If I lose that, I lose everything."

A colony of zooplankton that gained consciousness and the Stand, Foo Fighters, when Pucci threw its disc into a lake.

The line between Stand and user is rather blurry, and Foo Fighters' ability simply amounts to manipulating the plankton into various configurations (although, as with most Stands, the applications are diverse). After their defeat and befriending by Jolyne, they decide to possess the corpse of a female prisoner named Atroe.

They are named after the alternative rock band Foo Fighters.


  • Ambiguous Gender Identity: Well, F.F. originally has No Biological Sex, so it makes sense. While F.F.'s body is female, their behavior isn't especially masculine or feminine, and while they use the feminine pronoun "atashi" (most likely emulating Jolyne), their speech patterns are rather masculine. Some translations, such as the Netflix subtitles, use "she/her" pronouns for F.F., while the English dub uses "they/them" (which can be seen as either a gender-neutral singular pronoun, or as referring to F.F.'s biology literally being composed of millions of individual planktons). It's also worth mentioning that the JOJOVELLER art books lists F.F.'s gender as "female(?)".
  • Anime Hair: It's way too smooth to actually look like hair. It's more like someone stuck half a broken eggshell on their head.
  • Arm Cannon: Can morph their index finger and thumb into a gun.
  • Badass Adorable: A colony of plankton possessing the corpse of a Shrinking Violet, F.F. themself is also quite the Cloudcuckoolander.
  • Because You Were Nice to Me: After Jolyne tricks them into chasing the tractor that had Pucci's discs, they step into the more porous field and are left at Ermes' mercy. However, Jolyne shows mercy and gives them just enough water to keep from completely drying out knowing that it was self-preservation rather than loyalty that was driving them. Afterwards, F.F. joins Jolyne out of loyalty and gratitude.
  • Berserk Button: Do not drink F.F.'s water. Do not take away F.F.'s water. Do not even sit next to F.F.'s water. Not unless you want to get shot by an angry plankton colony.
    F.F.: HEY, YOU FUGLY HO! TAKE THAT OUT OF YOUR MOUTH, NOW!!!
  • Cloudcuckoolander: Skirts it a bit due to their lack of worldly experience.
  • Combat Medic: Can heal deadly wounds by filling them with their plankton and sewing them on a microscopical level, which makes them very valuable as the healer. However, they can also fire pieces of said plankton like bullets, which, coupled with their ability to withstand a massive amount of damage, makes them just as useful as a fighter.
  • Crazy Enough to Work: In order to not stand out at the lunch line, they let several other prisoners go in front of them. They start fighting amongst themselves, which lets Jolyne and F.F. get food easily.
  • Curb Stomp Cushion: While they ultimately lose the clash with Kenzou, they come close enough to beating him that it's by pure chance that Kenzou managed to hang on long enough to fight some more.
  • Cute Monster Girl: After losing Atroe's body, their third form combines aspects of their host body and their previous form, shaped like Atroe with the coloring and features of Foo Fighters.
  • Defeat Means Friendship: Starts as an antagonist, but befriends Jolyne and Ermes after their Heel–Face Turn.
  • Dying as Yourself: F.F.'s greatest fear was losing their intelligence and not being able to say goodbye to their friends if they died. Therefore, they're actually quite happy that, even though they died, they got to say goodbye to Jolyne and tells her not to bring back their disc, as the new Foo Fighters wouldn't be them.
  • Easily Forgiven: Played With. Ermes rightfully points out that sparing Foo Fighters is a wild action to do when they had killed five people and nearly killed her and Jolyne. However, Jolyne counters with that Foo Fighters was more simply acting without malice and more attempting to defend the reason their life had meaning, and Jolyne makes it a condition that F.F. can't go killing any more humans without regard anymore, something they easily agree to.
  • Everyone Knows Morse: After uncovering Pucci's true identity and being nearly wounded, F.F. crawls away while tossing several rocks in a manner to emulate morse code to pass the information towards Weather Report.
  • Extreme Omnivore: F.F. doesn't have a human's sense of taste, so they're not disgusted by drinking any sort of liquid, including blood, sweat, and even vomit.
  • Finger Firearms: Using the massive plankton colony inside their body, they're able to use individual plankton as bullets by creating a slit in their finger and propulsing them at breakneck speeds. They later stop concealing this method of weaponization by using more plankton to form a gun handle on their thumb and index finger.
  • Foreshadowing: F.F.'s last words to Jolyne that if they're reborn, they won't have the memories and experiences of the first Foo Fighters. This actually foreshadows the effects of the reborn universe thanks to Pucci, whereby those killed by Made In Heaven will be reborn as slightly different versions of themselves but without the memories or experiences their original counterparts went through.
  • Forgotten Fallen Friend: Aside from one instance of Anasui being inspired by their sacrifice in order to save Jolyne from Pucci, F.F. is completely forgotten about after they die in the manga. Averted in the anime adaptation, where they're still prominently featured in advertising for the final episode batch, and a scene is added of Emporio informing Ermes of their death, along with her pouring out a glass of water in their name and promising to avenge them. And unlike the manga, F.F. was included in the final shot of the ending along with the rest of the dead heroes.
  • From a Single Cell: Since their body is made out of sentient plankton that can quickly multiply, they can survive as long as just a little piece of their body stays intact and grows the rest of the body back from said little piece in a matter of seconds.
  • Gigantic Gulp: They take to carrying a large cup of water around the prison to stay hydrated.
  • Good Is Not Soft: They have no reservations killing an already injured and helpless D an G.
  • Good Thing You Can Heal: Due to their nature, F.F. can recover from pretty much any injury as long as a piece of them is able to get to a water source. Also, like Giorno's Gold Experience, they can use some of their plankton to patch up the others when they get hurt, but the process is very uncomfortable.
  • Heel–Face Turn: Jolyne's decision to spare their life, even though they were enemies, motivated them to join Jolyne's side and protect her from future threats.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Expends the last of their already-depleted plankton to save Anasui.
  • Humanity Is Infectious: F.F.'s Inner Monologue reveals just how much Jolyne's influence led them to desire being human.
    F.F.: I remember everything since the day I met Jolyne on the farm. It's still so clear, it might as well have been yesterday. The weird scribbles on the public phones, the fluffed-up blankets on the bed, the stink of the trash, the guards yelling, the sound of the doors opening and closing; hearing the toilets flushing all day long. I even remember all those silly talks with Jolyne and everyone else, laughing hysterically. But still, even though I lived at the farm for many years, I don't remember anything from before that. All I can pull from that time are robotic thoughts; almost like recordings. I simply followed orders, and my task was to protect Whitesnake's discs, without knowing or even asking why. I finally understand now, that living is more than just being alive. It means making memories. If I lose that, I lose everything. Jolyne takes all these actions on behalf of her dad and risks her life to help Ermes and the few other people she trusts, because... she has pleasant memories from living her life. That's the remarkable thing about humans. Their memories... give themselves courage. The knowledge that I am... F.F. I never had that in the past. That's it. I know it. That... that is what intellect is!
  • Kill It with Water: An inverted version; dehydrating F.F. is one of the more common ways their opponents attempt to harm them.
  • Master of Your Domain: Since they fully have control over Atroe's body, they're able to alter its own properties to get them through certain situations, and can even utilize Finger Guns.
  • Nice Girl: Despite their Berserk Button and Good Is Not Soft tendencies, Foo Fighters is a pretty affable and happy go-lucky person who's content to just live their life helping their friends rather than act as a guard dog for Pucci.
  • Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Implied. F.F. is pretty good at guarding Pucci's stand disks for a few years, which only normal humans are really shown getting near, but the same day Jolyne and Ermes fight them is the same day they're at the other two's mercy. When they then have a chance to fight against other active stand users, they lose their fights with the exception of D an G, who was barely even conscious and most certainly defenseless at that point.
  • Only a Flesh Wound: Due to the nature of their ability, they're able to survive the electric chair and a bullet to the brain, but they lose Atroe's body.
  • Out of Focus: They're introduced about a third of the way into the part and they're killed off right about at the 2/3rd's mark, so they don't get a lot of opportunities to shine before their untimely death.
  • Past-Life Memories: After possessing Atroe's body, F.F. can remember some things about their host body's personality traits, such as her preferences for pork, salt, and coffee, or her habit of using about 4 squares of toilet paper when she goes to the bathroom.
  • Possessing a Dead Body: After Atroe's death, F.F. possesses her corpse in order to assist Jolyne while moving freely about the prison.
  • Progressively Prettier: F.F.'s Stand form originally looked rather malformed and long faced, but later becomes more humanoid and looks more like Atroe to represent their growing humanity.
  • Recurring Element: In the vein of Anjuro Katagiri's Aqua Necklace from Part 4 and Squalo's Clash from Part 5, Foo Fighters is the series' third Stand with the power to teleport through bodies of liquid.
  • Redemption Demotion: Subverted. No matter what side Foo Fighters is on, they never end up winning a single battle against another stand user.
  • Ret-Gone: They refuse Jolyne's offer to take the Foo Fighters disc, on the grounds that even if it's placed into something else, it won't be them. Keeping with this, they're the only hero not to have a counterpart in the new world after Pucci's defeat.
  • Reused Character Design: Their initial corpse disguise looks like a mixture of Squalo and Tiziano from Golden Wind, with the former's hairstyle and the latter's manga hair color. Interestingly, they share their power to teleport through bodies of water with Squalo's Stand, Clash.
  • Serial Escalation: One could probably accept falcons, dogs, and even turtles getting Stand powers, but plankton?!
  • They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: When first meeting Jolyne and Ermes, they specify that they are to be called Foo Fighters, and gets unreasonably pissed when they're called anything else, malicious or not. After possessing Atroe's body, however, they're content with just being referred to as F.F.
  • Town Girls: The Femme to Ermes' Tomboy and Jolyne's Neither.
  • Token Non-Human: The heroes' team has badass women, badass men, and badass... corpse-possessing plankton.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: F.F. is obsessed with drinking water, even if the water is part of a larger composition (like blood or sweat), but it's justified in that they're incredibly dependent on it to stay alive.
  • Turned Against Their Masters: They were originally a colony of plankton that Pucci imbued with a Stand and intelligence in order to protect his large stockpile of stolen Stand discs. However, after befriending Jolyne, F.F. decided to help her fight against Pucci instead — a fact that he was not happy about.
  • Uplifted Animal: Like other animals in the series who gained a Stand. And yes, even a colony of plankton can gain human intelligence and superpowers this way.
  • Victoria's Secret Compartment: After taking over Atroe's body, F.F. hides Star Platinum's Stand disc inside their cleavage. However, they have to inflate their breasts slightly with plankton to make sure it stays hidden.
  • Weaksauce Weakness: Because they're a corpse filled with plankton, F.F. has to be constantly hydrated. In fact, this stops them from winning about any of their fights. The water also has to be at a temperature that plankton can survive, which Pucci takes advantage of by forcing F.F. to install a Stand disc that boils water.
  • Weaponized Teleportation: F.F. can travel through bodies of water almost instantaneously. They use this offensively by dragging opponents along for the ride, drowning them in the process.
  • What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Averted after F.F. is defeated and joins Jolyne's side.
  • Worf Had the Flu: Has an unlucky streak of running out of water at least once per fight, which results in them losing all of them.
  • The Worm That Walks: Of a sort. Foo Fighters is an independently intelligent Stand created by a colony of plankton, animating the body of a dead woman. This works against her, since this allows Pucci to insert a water-boiling Stand disc into one part of the colony, forcing all parts of the colony to use that Stand.
  • Younger Than They Look: Is only a few years old, her humanoid guise is this as well, as the persona only lasts a few months at most.

    Weather Report (UNMARKED SPOILERS

Weather Report / Wes Bluemarine / Domenico Pucci (Stand: Weather Reportnote )

Voiced by: Yuichiro Umehara (TV anime JP, All-Star Battle R), Stephen Fu (TV anime EN), Tōru Ōkawa (All-Star Battle, Eyes of Heaven)

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"If you have the strength within you to keep fighting, you may be able to survive."
Weather Report

"He's here. My only reason for continuing to live is to settle the score with him once and for all!"

A male prisoner whose Memory disc was stolen by Pucci. Since he can't even remember his name, he simply goes by that of his weather-manipulating Stand, Weather Report.

His Stand is named after the jazz group Weather Report, while his secondary ability is named after Heavy Weather, one of the band's albums. His real name comes from the fashion brand Blumarine, while his birth name comes from fashion designer Domenico Dolce.


  • '80s Hair: In flashbacks, his hair looked like a mix between Polnareff's hair and his buffalo hat.
  • Achilles in His Tent: After F.F.'s death, he secluded himself in his cell room for a duration of time until the team makes their escape from the prison.
  • Adaptational Nice Guy: After regaining his memories in the original manga, Weather decided to use his powers to force two women to give him a massage for no reason other than he could, even setting aside his desire to kill Pucci. This scene is completely omitted in the anime, with Weather completely deadset on finding Pucci.
  • Ambiguously Brown: Inverted. One of Perla's classmates describes Wes as having attractive brown skin, which they presumed was the result of a sun tan, but the KKK, who had mistaken his adoptive African-American father for his biological father, later describe Wes as mixed but looking like a white man. However, his tan complexion is an Informed Attribute in colored adaptations as he is usually depicted as being quite pale, but in the anime, his true biological father is shown to also have been a very dark-skinned man, just like his brother Enrico Pucci.
  • Amnesiac Dissonance: Normally, he's stoic, soft-spoken, and basically a good person. When he gets his memory back, He suffers violent mood swings between pre and post-amnesia before eventually calming down for his final fight with Pucci.
  • Amnesiac Hero: Played for drama, as his memories returning cause devastating effects, not to mention he's not really nice as his real self.
  • Anime Hair: Subverted. What many mistake for his hair is actually just a flat-topped buffalo hat. Granted, his actual hair is still rather weird, but a lot more believable than having actual horns in his hair.
  • At Least I Admit It: When fighting Pucci, he starts begging that he's only trying to bring humanity to eternal happiness, but Weather then regards him as worse than before, because, "The kind of evil that doesn't know it's evil is the worst kind of evil there is."
  • Badass Family: He's actually Enrico Pucci's twin brother, and easily the superior one.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: Becoming a Nice Guy after getting his memories stolen didn't change how ruthless he is in combat. For instance, when he and Jolyne are both left bleeding out and incapacitated, he unleashes a Desperation Attack that involves raining poison dart frogs in an attempt to kill Pucci, knowing full well there was a chance that Jolyne could die in the storm, too.
  • Big, Screwed-Up Family: Not counting how Enrico is Obliviously Evil, there's the whole Brother–Sister Incest thing with their younger sister, Perla, though he didn't know about that, with the whole Switched at Birth ordeal.
  • Birthmark of Destiny: Also inherits the Star mark via his connections to Enrico.
  • Brainwashing for the Greater Good: Pucci stole his memories to prevent him from destroying the world. This is not an exaggeration, nor Pucci trying to rationalize his actions. Heavy Weather really is that dangerous.
  • Bright Is Not Good: Heavy Weather initiates Forced Transformation into snails by using rainbows.
  • Brother–Sister Incest: An unwitting variety, what with the whole Switched at Birth problem. Enrico's reaction to this sets in motion the events that will lead to him being fully under DIO's influence...
  • Brought to You by the Letter "S": Weather wears a belt with a W-shaped buckle.
  • Byronic Hero: Upon getting his memories back, he fits this trope like a glove. He's extremely perceptive of scientific details surrounding his Stand, he internally feels torment due to his Dark and Troubled Past and expresses it through violent mood swings, he's crossed the Despair Event Horizon and grew overtly cynical and self-loathing as a result, and he stops at nothing to complete his goal of striking Pucci dead. Anasui even notes after Weather's death that the heavy winds have become a gentle breeze, indicating that his anguished soul had been put at ease for the first time in his life.
  • Cain and Abel: In a rare heroic variety, the Cain to Pucci's Abel. With his memories returned, he comes across as the bigger Jerkass, killing a doctor for no reason and torturing two women into massaging him. Though he is killed by Pucci, Pucci having to extract Weather Report to win came back to bite him when Emporio uses it to kill Pucci.
  • Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Apparently how Heavy Weather works. Observers start thinking they're snails on a subconscious level, so they start actually turning into snails. Although there are some implications that the whole thing is one big mass hallucination or induced mental illness.
  • Chick Magnet: If your chicks are slugs anyway. Also, the flashback sequence focusing on Weather's youth involves a group of high school girls fawning over him in a cafe, which includes Perla as well. In the present, both he and Anasui spontaneously attract the attention of two young women, both of whom consider them very hot.
  • Chocolate Baby: Inverted. Racist KKK members assume him to be this because his adoptive father is a black man, even though he looks white and is the biological brother of Perla who is also considered a white woman.
  • Connected All Along: He and Pucci are revealed to be brothers.
  • A Death In The Lime Light: Not long after Weather gets his memory restored and his backstory revealed, he is ultimately killed by Pucci due to some bad luck and his own Power Incontinence.
  • Deadpan Snarker: He makes a deeply sarcastic remark about how Jolyne's plan to knock out some guards to get to the courtyard will not only add five years to her sentence (on top of the original 15 plus the additional five she got for her first escape attempt), but will result in her being sent to solitary confinement for six months.
  • Death Seeker: Although he becomes just as omni-vengeful after regaining his memory as before losing it, Weather quickly decides it's better for the world if he and his Stand are dead. He just needs to make sure it's meaningful by taking Enrico with him. Doesn't quite work.
  • Dub Name Change: The Cyberconnect games and the anime change his name to Weather Forecast. The anime dub also changes his adopted name to "Wes Aquamarine" and his original name to "Domenic Pucci."
  • Forced Transformation: Heavy Weather, which turns living things into snails.
  • Hand Wave: Heavy Weather manipulates the ozone to cause light to refract oddly, making observers subliminally think they are snails, which causes them to actually become snails. Araki handwaves this nonsense application of weather control by pointing out that meteorology only extrapolates from past events and still can't predict the weather, there could be crazy things like snail transfiguration that we simply haven't observed yet.
  • Happily Adopted: Zigzagged. Back when he was Wes Bluemarine, he genuinely loved his adoptive family, but due to him being Switched at Birth, he's not aware that the Bluemarines adopted him rather than giving birth to him. Him being adopted by them also ended up having repercussions, as the private investigator hired by Pucci turned out to be a KKK member who thought Wes' adoptive black father was his birth father, leading to Wes being lynched.
  • Heel–Face Revolving Door: Justified. Weather starts out as antagonistic towards Pucci back when he was Wes Bluemarine, and Pucci had every right to be angry with him. Then, upon becoming amnesiac, Weather instilled himself with heroic virtues and wanted to do the right thing. Finally, upon regaining his memories, he becomes just as Ax-Crazy as he was before he had amnesia, to the point of antagonizing his former friends.
  • Hoist by Their Own Petard: Weather Report had Pucci dead to rights and almost succeeded in killing him. Unfortunately, right before he was able to land the killing blow, Versus crashes the car carrying Jolyne and co. in the middle of their fight due to Weather's own powers causing a dust cloud, distracting Weather long enough for Pucci to kill him. Jolyne blames herself for his death afterwards.
  • I Cannot Self-Terminate: After surviving his initial lynching, Wes tried to throw himself off the same cliff Perla threw herself off of, only for Weather Report to cause a wind to blow him back to the cliffside. Later, he tries to drown himself in the lake, but the waves pushed him back to shore. Later still, after forcing the private investigator to shoot himself, Wes tries to shoot himself with the same gun, only for Weather Report to waterlog the bullet casings. When Weather gets his memory back and Heavy Weather is activated, he asks Anasui to kill him, presumably because he knows he cannot kill himself.
  • I Have Many Names: Domenico Pucci is his birth name, Wes Bluemarine is the name he was given after being adopted, and Weather Report is the name he uses after losing his memories.
  • Imagination-Based Superpower: It seems that Weather Report's power allow his to do anything so long as it can be described as a weather phenomenon. This includes raining frogs and rainbows encoded with subliminal messages that turn people into snails.
  • In-Series Nickname: He was apparently known as Weather in high school.
  • Intergenerational Friendship: With the entire main cast sans Jotaro (who he never meets anyway). Weather is 39, readily approaching 40, with the only other main character close to his age being Anasui at age 25. Everybody else is 21 years or younger, with the youngest of his friends being Emporio at age 11.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He becomes a much less pleasant person after he gets his memories back, obsessed with revenge against Pucci. Despite this, he's also motivated to take F.F. and Jotaro's Memory discs, showing that his sense of righteousness still remains. He's also plainly disgusted with his brother's actions, and when he can't beat him he makes sure to leave behind his own Stand disc for his friends, setting the stage for his Stand to deal the finishing blow to Pucci.
  • Kick the Dog: Twice upon regaining his memories:
    • The first being pushing a physically disabled man out of his seat, and when a nurse came to the patient's defense, Weather proceeded to drown then and turn them into a grotesque blob for no reason other than he could.
    • In a moment Adapted Out of the anime, Weather coerces two women into massaging his back via electric shocks because he had no desire to confront Pucci as his first priority.
  • Killed Offscreen: Weather, sadly, is killed offscreen by Pucci as the dust is clearing. We do however get a recreation of the scene only a couple of minutes after it happened.
  • Laser-Guided Amnesia: Courtesy of Enrico using Whitesnake to extract his Memory disc, Weather has absolutely no recollection of his time before he appeared in Green Dolphin Street Prison. Considering what happens after he gets his memory back, that's a good thing.
  • Leg Focus: Weather's a very tall, very long-legged man which is emphasized by his form-fitting pants and the fact that he prefers walking tiptoes. A group of fawning high school girls even comment on his legs and tanned skin in a flashback sequence.
  • Making a Splash: Creating rain is one application of his Stand. In his first appearance, he controls raindrops to make markers fall on the keys of a piano, playing a short song.
  • Mass Transformation: The effect of Heavy Weather seemingly causes much of Orlando, Florida's population to turn into snails, though the fact that it's caused by subliminal messages leaves it ambiguous whether it's just a mass hallucination or if the mental suggestion is powerful enough to actually cause physical change. Everyone turns back to normal once Weather is killed.
  • Morality Chain: At the start of the story, Emporio notes that he acts as one towards Anasui, and that if Weather isn't around to keep him in check, Anasui would likely go on a rampage.
  • Never Bareheaded: He's never seen without his hat on, not in fights, not in flashbacks, not even in death.
  • No Sense of Personal Space: Tends to lean in very closely when he's speaking.
  • Older Than They Look: Weather looks like a young man, but turns out to be 39, just like his twin brother Pucci. In fact, he's only a year younger than Jotaro.
  • The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Once his memories are restored, Weather Report declares that he'll be the one to kill Pucci. Despite being killed by Pucci, Weather's goal is fulfilled when his Stand is passed onto Emporio, who uses it to defeat Pucci.
  • Personality Powers: Heavy Weather is a manifestation of his misanthropy.
  • Power Incontinence: Weather Report never really had the best of control over Heavy Weather, which is part of why Enrico took his memories in the first place.
  • Power Limiter: His amnesia keeps him from gaining full access to his powers. Once the memories come back, everything goes to hell.
  • Power Stereotype Flip: Weather Report has the ability to manipulate air and the weather, but he has a quiet and withdrawn personality. However, after regaining his memories and unleashing the Heavy Weather ability, he Took a Level in Jerkass, which can be read as another straight example of the trope, or a subversion given how harsh the weather can be in real life.
  • The Quiet One: Until he gets his memories back and returns to being a Jerkass.
  • Rain of Something Unusual: Weather Report can make it rain frogs, including poison dart frogs that are deadly to the touch.
  • Redemption Equals Death: More so self-redemption. Weather agrees with Pucci's sentiment that he's a destructive menace, albeit he finds Pucci worse than himself, and it isn't until he's killed by Pucci that he manages to finally come to terms with his being, as Anasui notes when the heavy winds begin to die down.
  • Revenge Before Reason: He goes rogue after recovering his lost memories, fully wanting vengeance against Pucci for ruining his life. But in the process, his desire for revenge puts civilians and his allies in danger once his Stand begins spreading The Virus.
  • Roaring Rampage of Revenge: When the goons Pucci hired went farther than planned (he didn't know they were KKK) and hung Weather, and drove Perla to suicide, Weather came to desire revenge against the entire world, in the process awakening his Stand. In Heavy Weather mode. When Donatello restores Weather's memory, we're back to Heavy Weather.
  • Rousseau Was Right: As the vengeful Wes Bluemarine, he's an unrepentant murderer willing to kill everyone in a city if it meant easing the pain in his heart. As the amnesiac Weather Report, however, he's an alright guy if a little strange at first glance. There's even the possibility that Weather Report is what Wes would have been if things were even a little different.
  • Signature Headgear: He wears a large, fluffy buffalo hat with horns on it.
  • Silly Walk: He prefers walking on tiptoes.
  • The Stoic: While he's amnesiac, he's incredibly mellow, not showing much emotion when he's in the presence of others and being incredibly curt with his conversations.
  • Story-Breaker Power: Weather Report (the Stand, not the Stand User) is a contender for one of the most powerful abilities a JoJo ally has ever had in the entire series. By having full control of the weather, it already gives its user the ability to have incredible destructive powers like wind and lightning that puts it on the same punching power as Star Platinum, Kiss and Stone Free, and arguably surpasses them (as Weather Report can suck out all the oxygen in a room or overload it on toxic gases, which is a death sentence to anyone who's in an enclosed space where Weather Report is in action), Weather Report eventually evolves into Heavy Weather, which is revealed to allow just about any kind of power as long as it's tied to the phenomena of weather, and is genuinely believed by the Stand user as such. This manifests into truly esoteric applications from it raining frogs to rainbows encoded with subliminal messages that morph those who see it into snails. It's telling that not only was the full extent of Weather Report's power being limited by its Stand user, Wes Blumenthal, having Laser-Guided Amnesia for the vast majority of the part, but as soon as he got his memories back, he almost killed Pucci minutes later, only failing to do so due to unforeseen circumstances.
  • Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum: When he regains his memories, he still loves his friends, and his main goal is to kill Pucci, but he's still determined to let the world know his pain and subsequently fall to ruin by killing everyone around him using Heavy Weather, while also still maintaining being a Death Seeker triggered by Perla's suicide.
  • Superpowered Evil Side: Not only does his power become harmful due to the fact he can't turn off his snail transfiguration ability, he's also much more of a jerk than before.
  • Superpower Lottery: At full power Weather Report/Heavy Weather's abilities make Weather a global threat, able to control rain storms, turn people into snails, and suck all of the oxygen out of a room. It's pretty telling that, had Jolyne and co. not distracted Weather at the critical moment due to his own powers, he would have successfully killed Pucci. And his Stand still manages to kill Pucci even after the latter gains the ability to speed up time.
  • Switched at Birth: A mother whose own child was stillborn stole him, and made him think she was his biological mother—in the process leaving his fraternal twin Enrico Pucci without his brother. And, more importantly, left Perla without the knowledge that she had more than one brother.
  • Theme Twin Naming: Domenico and his twin brother Enrico.
  • Token Evil Teammate: After regaining his memories, Weather Report becomes a much less decent person and is on par with Anasui in terms of ruthlessness, threatening a random patient with violence for calling him out on taking his seat before gravely injuring or even possibly killing a doctor in cold-blood for coming to the patient's defense. In the manga, he even picks up two girls who were flirting with him, forcing them to give him a massage via electrocution. Weather's hatred on humanity is mirrored by his Heavy Weather ability: being an automatic Stand ability capable of massive calamity. While Weather does kill one nurse for little reason, it's also shown he simply doesn't care about people at large either, showing his inner rage and misanthropy is mostly a passive one. Although much like Anasui, he too lacks remorse.
  • Took a Level in Badass: The initial description of his Stand indicates that he can only affect the weather in the air immediately around him. After the requisite first bout of nearly dying, he can legitimately make it rain outdoors. Then he gains Heavy Weather.
  • Unskilled, but Strong: Weather Report's ability to manipulate the weather is more than capable of mass destruction while also being a power-type Stand, making it able to kick ass up close and from a distance. However, while he does become more proficient with it as time goes on, he neither has the best control nor understanding of his Stand. This is best shown during the Savage Garden arc, as his solution to the problem at hand is to summon a tornado of poison dart frogs from South America and cross his fingers. And when Heavy Weather enters the picture, this is put to the extreme: its capable of turning any lifeform that touches the rainbows it generates into snails, and with completely unknown Stand stats that's probably only a fraction of what it can do. But Weather Report has no control over it whatsoever, and it ends up killing him when his allies fall under its influence. Noticeably, this is in stark contrast with his brother Pucci, who has much more precise control over his multiple Stands' abilities while never truly obtaining a physically powerful Stand like his brother's.
  • Used to Be a Sweet Kid: As shown during flashbacks during his time as Wes Bluemarine, he used to be a kind man with a strong sense of justice. However after the Ku Klux Klan members that Pucci unwittingly hired beat Wes to (almost) death, strung him up on a tree, and caused his girlfriend to commit suicide, Wes became enraged at the entire world enough to develop Heavy Weather.
  • Viral Transformation: After regaining his memories, his Stand transforms into Heavy Weather that subconsciously creates rainbows that contain subliminal messages making people who look at the rainbows and touch them turn into snails. The transformed snails also actively seek out other living organisms and contact with a snail also initiates the transformation.
  • Walking Spoiler: Weather's true identity, his status as Pucci's brother, and the true extent of his abilities are all important plot twists in the last third of this Part.
  • Weather Manipulation: As his Stand's name suggests, Weather Report can control the weather. This ranges from rain, wind, and lightning, to more out-there phenomena such as frog rain. Once he regains his memories, he can even manipulate the ozone layer itself to project subliminal messages which hypnotize people into thinking they're snails.
  • Worf Had the Flu: At full power, and once he gets his memories back, Weather easily has the most broken Stand of the entire main cast. So it's pretty telling that after the fight with Jumpin' Jack Flash, he spends the next 50 or so chapters in the infirmary and only gets out after the main cast has left the prison and the group is forced up against enemies that can warp reality.
  • Your Mind Makes It Real: Maybe. The translation is kind of unclear, but we know that the way Heavy Weather works is by manipulating the ozone layer to change the properties of sunshine, in a way that causes rainbows to appear more easily and subliminally affects the mind; Pucci proves that being completely unable to see makes you immune to the effect, and everything goes back to normal immediately when Weather dies, which all makes it seem more like the weird rainbows just slowly convince people that everything is snails.

    Narciso Anasui 

Narciso Anasui (Stand: Diver Down)

Voiced by: Daisuke Namikawa (TV anime JP, All-Star Battle R), Howard Wang (TV anime EN), Yūichi Nakamura (All-Star Battle, Eyes of Heaven)

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"Do you feel my rapid heartbeat, suddenly being so close? Now, do you fully understand my feelings for you?"
Diver Down

"I asked you for your blessing. Please, Mr. Jotaro. Respectfully, I want to marry your daughter."

A crossdressing male prisoner convicted of murdering his girlfriend and her lover. Despite Emporio's claims that he would never help anyone for any reason, he decides to help with Jolyne's quest after falling in love with her at first sight, despite her having no interest in him.

His Stand, Diver Down, can dive into objects to later ambush opponents or tamper with the objects' inner workings.

He is named after the fashion designers Narciso Rodriguez and Anna Sui. His Stand is named after the Van Halen album Diver Down.


  • Adapted Out: In the anime adaptation, Anasui's female body no longer appears. Instead, he's still presented as male when he's first introduced.
  • Agent Peacock: He is a skilled fighter who wears attire and a hairstyle that is more associated with members of a glam metal rock band.
  • Alliterative Name: His Stand is named Diver Down.
  • All Love Is Unrequited: Anasui's entire character arc revolves around his desperately one-sided love for Jolyne. She does eventually agree to marry him if they both survive, but only when it's obvious they both aren't going to survive. It literally takes recreating the universe for him to have a shot.
  • Aloof Ally: At the very least, he only agrees to partner up with F.F to have them follow a deal just so he could rescue Jolyne and have her fall in love with him. He would later ask F.F to deliberately trip Jolyne off stairs to perform a Rescue Hug.
  • Amazon Chaser: While it was largely Love at First Sight for him, he does confess internally and externally that his love for her grew at seeing what a fierce and determined woman she could be.
  • Ambiguous Gender Identity: Not only is his look fairly effeminate, to the point that his constantly shirtless state might be the only thing that stopped people from confusing him for a woman, but he first appeared in the manga with the appearance of a woman, secondary sexual characteristics included. As such, it's unclear if Anasui is a man who likes to crossdress, a transmasculine person, or even genderfluid.
  • At Least I Admit It: Unlike most of the villains, who try to justify their atrocities with good intentions or their tragic pasts, Anasui has no issue with outright admitting that he's nothing more than a murderer. Though, it probably wasn't a good idea to mention this to Jotaro, since he needed his blessing in order to marry Jolyne.
  • Ax-Crazy: His obsession with "taking things apart" doesn't stop at inanimate objects.
  • Body Horror: Diver Down's ability to manipulate things from the inside sometimes has extremely gruesome results. Kenzō has his bones and muscles rearranged so his legs are turned into springs, and Guccio's ribcage is turned into a beartrap that erupts from his body.
  • Brought to You by the Letter "S": Diver Down has stylized Gothic "D"s on its forehead and body.
  • Camp Straight: With his fairly effeminate appearance and crossdressing tendencies, you'd be surprised to find out that the guy was sent to jail for murdering his girlfriend. Then there's his obsessive attraction towards Jolyne... Unfortunately for him, she doesn't seem to be the least bit interested in him.
  • Card-Carrying Villain: At least in All-Star Battle, Anasui is comfortable admitting to the fact that he murdered his ex-girlfriend, and when Rohan calls him a murderer, he doesn't try to deny it.
    Anasui: I'm a murderer, and I don't have to hide it. But I won't let you invade my privacy.
  • Character Development:
    • He starts out rather nasty, only caring about Jolyne and not caring as F.F.'s fight against Kenzō begins to go sour. He gets a bit better over time, being nicer to others, offering to give up his body to save F.F.'s life, and doing his best to comfort the group after Weather's death. Though, this was mostly to please Jolyne. Mostly.
    • This applies to his powers, as well. He initially uses Diver Down to mess with the insides of people in brutal fashions, such as turning Kenzō's legs into springs by shattering and rearranging his bones. As he becomes a "kinder" person, he instead uses Diver Down to protect people by going inside of them and taking the damage they would have received, such as saving Jotaro from a fatal neck slice during the fight against Pucci.
  • Crazy Jealous Guy: Freaks out when Jolyne hugs Weather Report, and in Eyes of Heaven, he briefly turns hostile upon seeing a 17-year old Jotaro with Jolyne (Granted, he didn't know they were father and daughter at the time).
  • Creepy Crossdresser: Skirts pretty close to it, which is the in-universe explanation for his appearance, though considering how his Stand can rearrange things from the inside, he may have decided to change it to make him more feminine for whatever reason.
  • Cuteness Proximity: In Eyes of Heaven, some of his lines are exclaiming about how cute Jolyne is.
    Anasui: Oh, I bet she's just so adorable! She always has been!
  • A Deadly Affair: Killed his ex-girlfriend and the man she was cheating on him with.
  • Deuteragonist: After Jolyne manages to break out of Green Dolphin Street Prison and gives chase to Pucci, Anasui usurps this role from Ermes and has much greater focus.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: Anasui landed himself in Green Dolphin Street Prison after he offed his girlfriend and her lover upon catching them in bed together, tearing them apart so they could "never come back together again".
  • Dogged Nice Guy: He tries to act nice towards Jolyne in hopes of making her fall in love with him. This utterly fails, usually resulting in his humiliation (like when he tries to give her an expensive ring, only for her to think it's a rock that she can throw at an alligator).
  • Dub Name Change: His surname of "Anasui" is often removed from adaptations, presumably out of concern of receiving lawsuits from the Anna Sui estate. The English version of All-Star Battle changes his name to "Narc Anastasia", while the English anime adaptation uses "Narciso Anastasia" instead. As for his Stand, its name was changed to "Diver Drive" in adaptations.
  • Early Personality Signs: Starting from childhood, he had an obsession with taking things apart and would disassemble his toys, pocket watches, and whatever else he could find. When he was 10, he had to be institutionalized after disassembling his neighbor's car.
  • Emasculated Cuckold: What landed him in prison in the first place. When he went over to his girlfriend's apartment one night, he caught her having sex with another man, which suddenly provoked him to murder them both, causing him to be arrested and tried for manslaughter. It's for this reason that he takes his love for Jolyne so seriously, as he refuses to let another woman he falls in love with drift apart from him again.
  • Everyone Has Standards: Even Anasui gets freaked out by Weather Report's sudden increase in Jerkassery after his memory is restored, calling Weather out for attacking a hospital orderly with Heavy Weather.
  • Falling into His Arms: He tries to do this with Jolyne by asking F.F. to trip her on a staircase so he could catch her. He doesn't get the chance since Jolyne was focused on the prisoner with DIO's bone.
  • Fantastic Racism: He is the only one on the heroes' side that calls F.F. "plankton".
  • The Friend Nobody Likes: Although Jolyne accepts his help and his status as an ally becomes firmer the further the story progresses, Anasui isn't particularly well-liked among the group because of his Jerkass and Yandere tendencies and for being an unapologetic murderer. If it weren't for Weather Report's influence over him (and to a degree, Jolyne's "charms"), he would be considered completely unreliable by everyone.
  • Gender-Blender Name: In the anime, Anasui gets a Dub Name Change into Anastasia, which is otherwise a feminine name.
  • Global Ignorance: A Running Gag in the manga has him wondering where Mickey Mouse is. Someone should probably tell him that Port St. Lucie and Orlando are a good 100 miles apart.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: With his dying breath, he offers up his body for F.F. to take so that they themself could stave off death. They one-up him by using the last of their power to heal him. F.F.'s sacrifice heavily affects him by the end of the story, and citing their example, he makes himself the primary target for the Made In Heaven-empowered Pucci by openly using Diver Down to give everyone Super-Toughness. His plan to give Jotaro an opening required his complete impalement.
  • Hidden Depths: While still showing serious Skewed Priorities, Anasui makes it clear that he knows that Jolyne will not fall in love with him instantly, and that his past as a criminal makes things hard to accept, showing a bit more introspection than he shows any other time he talks about Jolyne.
  • Hopeless Suitor: No matter what he says or does, Jolyne doesn't even remotely return his affections.
  • If We Get Through This…: He asks Jotaro if he can marry Jolyne after the last battle. He gets killed by Pucci not long after saying this.
  • In the Hood: Prior to getting arrested, his clothing of choice was hoodies, as he's seen wearing a hoodie both as a child, and as a 21-year old.
  • I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: How he justifies giving his body to F.F., as he lays dying, he realizes Jolyne is mourning and that F.F. is the only one who can hope to turn things around for them. So he says he'll give his body for them to inhabit so they can live on. Surprisingly, they reject the offer and save him instead.
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: How he meets his end, impaled by Pucci using Jolyne's Stone Free.
  • Inexplicably Identical Individuals: Anasui bears an extreme resemblance to Diavolo from Golden Wind, with his toned physique, long pink hair, and penchant for wearing a mesh shirt. To highlight this similarity, the chapter in which we're properly introduced to him is titled "His Name Is Anasui", mirroring the "His Name Is Diavolo" chapters of Part 5. Despite this, there aren't any actual connections between these two characters.
  • Intangibility: Diver Down's primary ability. It differs from the intangibility all Stands are capable of by being able to bring solid objects along for the ride and being able to rearrange objects it is inside of.
  • Ironic Death: He meets his end impaled by Stone Free after Pucci's meddling during Made In Heaven, inadvertently dying to the Stand of the woman he loved most.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Or... tarnished bronze. He has a vaguely altruistic side, is the point. He's willing to die for his friends, at least, even if it's only because they are Jolyne's friends.
  • Jerkass: To everyone except Jolyne, Weather Report, and Jotaro.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: He was correct in saying the Green Baby had to be destroyed, but instead of doing it immediately, he asks for Jolyne's consent on the matter. Which, unfortunately, allowed Pucci to get close enough to attack them off-guard and successfully fuse with the Green Baby.
  • Kick the Dog: His treatment of F.F. after they nearly died is to only refer to them as "just plankton" and show he doesn't think of their life as equal to a human's. This is turned on its head a few minutes later, where he completely offers his body to host them.
  • The Lancer: A secondary one after Ermes is Put on a Bus following her battle with Sports Maxx. Even after she returns right in time for everyone to break out of jail, he retains the role in the "standoffish-but-loyal foil" style to the "close ally" lancer-mold of the former.
  • Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Initially a shorter-haired girl before the Unsettling Gender-Reveal.
  • Love at First Sight: Claims to have fallen in love with Jolyne at the very first sight of her. Despite her lack of interest.
  • Lovecraftian Superpower: Diver Down's main power is the ability to "dive" inside any object and manually reconfigure its innards, which allows the Stand to do things like turn a man’s ribcage into a functional bear trap.
  • Love Redeems: His love for Jolyne helps him grow from a sadistic, unrepentant killer into a much better person who is even willing to put his life on the line to protect Jolyne and make her happy. Though it takes a bit more than that, and he's still not the nicest guy out there. Still acts hostile.
  • Mistaken for Pedophile: In Eyes of Heaven, one of his lines is asking Jotaro for permission to marry Jolyne. Problem is, he can end up saying this to Part 4 Jotaro, whose response is, "Are you nuts? Jolyne's only 6 years old."
  • Mr. Fanservice: His mesh shirt exposes his muscular body. It's worth noting that during the main reveal event for the anime, Anasui's official art is introduced with a zoom-in of his crotch.
  • Not in This for Your Revolution: Makes it clear to the group that his only motive in helping defeat Pucci is to gain Jolyne's love and approval, and that he has no loyalty towards anyone else. That being said, as the adventure continues, he begins to gain some appreciation for his friends and allies, but no love from Jolyne.
  • Not So Above It All: He's one of the more serious members of the team, however, after Jolyne unknowingly tossed out a ring he gave her towards alligators, Anasui reacts by comically crying.
  • Personality Powers: From childhood, Anasui has always been obsessed with taking things apart. He got a Stand that can dive into objects and dismantle them from the inside.
  • Pet the Dog:
    • Comforts Jolyne after Weather is killed by assuring her that Weather's tortured soul will be able to find peace in death. It's even more poignant as he doesn't try to take advantage of Jolyne hugging him.
    • He catches Emporio of his own volition when he sees the boy tumbling helplessly through the air, especially notable considering he believed Jolyne was seconds away from death, and still stopped to grab the boy.
  • Psycho Pink: Anasui has bright pink hair (apparently his natural hair color, as he had it even as a child) and is more than a little bit Ax-Crazy.
  • Single-Issue Wonk: Anasui is almost entirely defined by his obsessive love for Jolyne and desire to marry her. Too bad for him.
  • Smarter Than They Look: For all his obsessive traits, he's actually quite intelligent, and is vital in outsmarting Yo-Yo Ma's threat as well as finding out a way to counter the Green Baby's Stand.
  • Sociopathic Hero: His proper introduction has Emporio describing how Anasui got into jail by dismembering his girlfriend and the person she was cheating on him with, and the only reason why he sticks around the other protagonists is because he wants Jolyne's affection. Which he never gets. All of his opponents also happen to be explicitly disfigured past the point of recovery, leaving them in a And I Must Scream situation.
  • Soft-Spoken Sadist: In both Japanese and English, he hardly raises his voice, which highlights the unhinged undercurrent to his personality.
  • Stalker with a Crush: His ideas for courting Jolyne leave something to be desired. Trying to get F.F. to push Jolyne down a flight of stairs, just so he can catch her, and trigger her love for her savior.
  • Straight Man: Surprisingly enough, when he and Weather Report are paired up and off on their own during the post-escape chapters. He's the only one of the two who has any real knowledge of the outside world, leading to him commenting on Weather's ignorant antics, and when Heavy Weather turns out to be an even more Sociopathic Hero than he was at his worst, all he can do is react with the shock and horror that any reasonable person would show at such antics as electrocuting two girls and subconsciously turning everyone into snails.
  • Swapped Roles: In his introductory chapter, Emporio describes him as a twisted murderer whose nature is only kept in check by Weather Report's presence. When Weather gets his memory back, Anasui ends up being the one trying to keep his murderous nature in check.
  • Suspiciously Similar Substitute: His pink hair, mesh shirt, lipstick and aggressive demeanor are strongly reminiscent of Golden Wind's Diavolo.
  • Token Evil Teammate: Anasui's backstory makes him an unrepentant murderer with few sympathetic elements, having brutally killed and dismembered his girlfriend and her paramour after catching her cheating on him. When he's first introduced, his motivation is entirely based around getting with Jolyne, not caring about anything or anyone else. This also makes him willing to absolutely brutalize his enemies, to the point of Body Horror, and some of his behavior borders on harassment (like when he orders F.F. to make Jolyne trip just so he can catch her). Weather ends up usurping this role from him after regaining his memory.
  • Toy-Based Characterization: His childhood habit of disassembling his toys is a precursor to him getting a Stand that takes things apart in adulthood.
  • Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: As a child, he had a passion to take things apart, ranging from toys to large vehicles.
  • Unknown Rival: Unlike the rest of the group, Pucci does not see Anasui as a target he must go out of the way to eliminate, or a credible threat at all, really. Even Emporio receives more scrutiny from him than Anasui does.
  • Unsettling Gender-Reveal: His original appearance is as a woman, presumably using Diver Down's internal restructuring ability to give him a disguise to infiltrate the Women's Wing. Later, when she finds out, Ermes is actually pretty surprised to find that Anasui's actually male. Manga-only though, as he starts out as a male in the anime.
  • Walking Shirtless Scene: Technically he's wearing a mesh shirt. And even then, it's more like he wrapped himself in maybe a dozen strips of thread and called it good.
  • Wall Crawl: He can do a variation, having Diver Down travel through a wall while he hangs onto one of its limbs.
  • What You Are in the Dark: When he's fatally wounded and bleeding out, instead of cursing F.F. for dooming them by accident, he fully offers his body to them so that they may live on. Luckily for him, they refute his sacrifice by saving his own life at the cost of theirs.
  • Would Hurt a Child: He's both perfectly fine with killing the Green Baby (though asks Jolyne's permission first) and makes it clear to Emporio his safety doesn't compare to Jolyne's wellbeing.
  • Yandere: He ended up in prison for murdering his ex-girlfriend for cheating on him. He's also quite violent towards anyone who he perceives as getting in the way between him and Jolyne.

 
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