[CHAR] Big Trouble In The Big Apple: A JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Roleplay. (CLOSED)

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Lorenzo Cifaretto/Sticky Fingers

Name:

Lorenzo Cifaretto

Age:

18

Gender:

Male

Ability:

Stand User

Appearance:

Lorenzo stands at 5'11 and weighs around 181 pounds of muscle, Having dark brown hair that is styled into a devil lock haircut.Having blue eyes with a small mole on the left side on his bottom lip. Some other noticeable things about his features are his thin nose, sunken eyes, high cheekbones and prominent chin.

His casual clothing consists of a leather jacket with a green wife beater shirt underneath, Wearing blue jeans with many rips under the knees or a bit above. Black combat boots with leather gloves. As well as having piercings in his ears, nose and lips.

Personality:

Lorenzo is a rough and tough kind of person, Not caring about what people think of him. Nor how tough a person thinks they are, Lorenzo is not one to back down from a fight, Especially when it is against someone he dislikes or being a bully. He has a tough guy personality, Breaking the rules when needed and not giving a crap about what people think of him. Also is friendly but he is mainly reserved for his friends and people he finds he can respect, He only respects people that he finds strong or resilient.

Lorenzo does have a softer side but he barely shows it, Mostly because he does not want to look weak. Mostly showing this side towards his family and especially towards his father. Having a strong sense of justice against people who are wronging others. He is also deeply religious and superstitious, Being a hardcore Roman Catholic.

Backstory:

Lorenzo was born to Maria Gualtieri and Dario Cifaretto. His mother worked as a nurse and his father was an archeologist. As a young boy, his mother was murdered by an unknown killer. Her murder has not been solved currently. At a young age, he worked in his father’s antique store to help it from going under. Lorenzo was into the greaser culture of the fifties, Ever since his father had shown him moves like Rebel Without A Cause or Wild Ones. As well as getting into punk music from his friends at school. Practicing how to sing and play guitar. Forming a small band with his friends, playing in local clubs

After graduating from high school while working at his father’s antique store, he is going to college for a bachelor's in music During this time Lorenzo got his motorcycle license. First using his stand to beat up some thieves trying to steal his bike.

Misc: He knows how to play the guitar, bass guitar, and drums. And knows how to sing as well.

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Sticky Fingers.

Stand Sheet



Name:

Sticky Fingers

Namesake:

Sticky Fingers (The Rolling Stones album)

Physical Description:

Sticky Fingers is a humanoid Stand that mirrors the height and build of its user, Bucciarati. Covering the upper half of its face, it wears a helmet adorned with a column of short spikes in the center, resembling a mohawk.

It has a dark body suit over its torso, exposing its chest and stomach. Sticky Fingers also wears lightly padded shoulder pads, elbow pads, forearm guards, knee pads, and shin guards. It has numerous zippers of different sizes all over its body: there is one on each cheek below its helmet, one hangs from the base of its neck and extends down to its abdomen, one is on each forearm guard on top of its wrists, a large zipper is on the center of its waist, and there is one longer zipper on each leg below its knees and extending down to its feet.

Personality:

Sticky Fingers usually have a serious expression or its mouth matches its user's expression. It tends to have its mouth open while attacking. Its Stand Cry is "ARI, ARI, ARI, ARI" along with its rapid punches, sometimes followed by Lorenzo saying "Arrivederci!" ("Goodbye" in Italian) in its finishing attack.

Stand Stats:

Destructive Power:

A

Range:

D

Speed:

B

Durability:

D

Precision:

C

Development Potential:

D

Abilities:

The main function of Sticky Fingers is to create zippers on what its fist touches, which it can remotely open or close at any time. It has various applications, such as using it to travelling through walls or floors, detaching and attaching limbs, and storing objects inside something. The idea of the zipper ability came from the Sticky Fingers album's cover, which featured a functional zipper on the vinyl release.

Misc: None.

[Lewascan2]

Kasumi Nakano (Gold Experience)

Name: Kasumi Nakano

Age: 25

Gender: Female

Ability: Stand User

Appearance: Standing at 5’8”/172 cm tall and weighing 145 lbs, Kasumi is a curvaceous and athletic young woman that clearly takes care of herself. Her skin is pale and clear with no distinguishing markings or tattoos, but dusted with a rosiness that indicates at least some preference for outdoors activity. Her shoulder-length, pink hair (dyed from black, she claims) lays neatly combed, framing unimpressed brown eyes; though often, she will pull it into a braid or ponytail.

Kasumi's wardrobe is one that rides a line between casual and business. While on the work daily, she dresses in smart, bright button-down tops and black pants and shoes, often with suit jackets and ties. A long-coat is not something amiss in her wardrobe. Under more casual (or clandestine) settings, she is also prone to comfortable darker clothes. Sweaters, hoodies, men-style jeans and sneakers all have their place and time, favoring navy blues and greys. No matter what her business, she is inclined to cleanliness. Even so, when practicality calls for it, Kasumi is far from adverse to shedding the trappings of well-to-do for the sake of convenience, and she expresses a preference for sufficient numbers of pockets no matter her garb.

Closest image I could find...

Personality: Kasumi is a spitfire of a young woman with a repressed bleeding heart, who seeks to catalyze her personal freedom and security first and foremost. Self-interested and pitiless towards those that obstruct her goals, she head-strongly pursues her own well-being and fortunes above and beyond all else, the goal being to achieve a peaceful, stable life of comfortable mediocrity. Though capable as a social chameleon, she is nonetheless quickly tired by socialization. An introvert in nature, she has little patience for playing a role contradictory to her selfhood long-term, which results in her attitude often being antagonistic towards those she doesn't need to appease for the sake of her comfortable life. Her loner tendencies are in part fueled by her desire to avoid being overt with her powers, seeking the path of least resistance by avoiding attention and the resulting trouble. Kasumi ultimately has no respect for the law and most societal conventions, willing to do whatever she must to get what she wants so long as she believes she can get away with it with little to no consequences.

All that said, buried within her shriveled heart are redeeming qualities. She does have a sense of empathy for the misfortunate. She is not truly apathetic, and when it wouldn't seriously inconvenience her, she is willing to put her neck out for others. She despises drugs and other addicting substances, seeing them as net drains on society and human productivity... to say nothing of how they can twist the mind, as Kasumi values few things higher than the sanctity of free will. She lives by the concept of taking one's own life and destiny into their own hands, no matter what tries to stand in your way, and she respects those that showcase similar values... just as long as they aren't at the cost of pointless malice and destruction. Though prone to being prickly and difficult to ingratiate oneself with, Kasumi is all the more loyal to those that she decides to truly trust, a loyalty she may express with actions others might deem... overkill.

Backstory: Kasumi has never truly sought greatness. Born to Japanese immigrants, Kasumi was raised with an American culture at school and a high-pressure Japanese culture at home. However, where most children might have conformed to expectations, Kasumi grew up feeling only stifled by them and increasingly resentful. Where her parents sought greatness for her, Kasumi was satisfied with mediocrity. Pressured for years at home while surrounded outside it with people that had it far easier, Kasumi became bitter and burnt out, extremely envious of the idea of a future carefree work-life balance. A naturally introverted person, she had little tolerance for social networking, and she had no desire to learn to overcome it to boot.

Over time, this resentment grew into a prideful stubbornness, and Kasumi decided that she would have only the life she wanted to lead. She decided she would seek out only a profession and life that she could enjoy comfortably and unstressed, and she knew she'd never have that under her parents' thumbs. Keeping her plans quiet, she made job applications and inquiries, and the moment she had graduated university, she packed what things of hers still remained at home and moved out entirely, cutting off all contact with her parents. Heading out into the wide world on her own, Kasumi obtained a job that allowed her to mostly work from home, performing programming and maintenance for a cyber security company. Unambitiously, she parked herself at a position midway up the ladder that paid well enough to live a decent life and settled into comfortable mediocrity, acquiring a small, cozy home in a quiet suburb soon thereafter.

So went her quiet life... until one day.

On an outing with one of the few neighbors she tolerated, Jennifer Wilson, they were mugged, and though the girls gave as good as they could, they were outnumbered and outmatched... up until an invisible force demolished their attackers. In that moment, Kasumi's Stand awoke and proceeded to enact her will to slaughter the men without hesitation or qualms... with her neighbor becoming quite aware that Kasumi was somehow to blame. In the aftermath, Kasumi would find herself shocked to find her neighbor both not repulsed by what happened and willing to keep it quiet, and for the first time, Kasumi had what she could actually call a friendship, one she couldn't help but cherish all the more for its lack of competition.

Henceforth, she and Jennifer proceeded to do nearly everything together every free moment they had, outings, taking martial arts, learning to shoot and earning firearm licenses, and Jen even gleefully provoking Kasumi into properly experimenting with her strange "punch ghost's" powers. Jen eased her apathy for others, coaxed her into considering other ways of living and was perhaps the only person that could get Kasumi to tolerate getting within 10 feet of a club. And in time, she would even be witness to Kasumi's first -thankfully nonhostile- encounter with another Stand User, awakening their eyes to the reality of the supernatural underground... one Kasumi naturally immediately decided must be avoided at all costs... They were, as the phrase goes, "inseparable", hardly any secrets between them.

Which is why Kasumi was all the more infuriated when Jennifer's corpse was found by police after an uncomfortably long disappearance. It was a raw, red-hot fury that filled her on that day, a motivation to act and thirst for blood that honestly took her off guard. But as she stewed in her own impotent fury, shoving it down to a low simmer, her wrath began to transform into something far more... calculating, as emotion was exchanged for a clinical cold-blooded homicidal determination. As she obsessively dug through every ultimately useless police report she could find, she didn't know how or when she would find a way to make her friend's murderer pay, but she knew she would make it reality. Not just for Jennifer's sake... but for the crime of stealing something from her that she hadn't realized she needed until it was gone.

Misc:

• Prior to the "start of canon", Kasumi has had limited experience with the Stand community due to going out of her way to avoid it whenever feasible. That said, she has not, in fact, always been successful in this respect and has had her share of encounters, some friendly, some hostile, but she's not made attempts to stay in touch that weren't extended in her direction first (for good or ill). She's earned her stripes in several serious fights, gathered fairly in-depth knowledge on the concept of Stands, and managed to stay unknown. New York City is a big place, and it's pretty easy to never run into people you feel like avoiding.
• Due to extensive experiments with her Stand's healing abilities, Kasumi has a rather unusual pain tolerance, able to shrug off pain that would cripple many others with a dead stare.
• Kasumi practices martial arts, her focus being a style that prioritizes defense and handling physically stronger opponents, which she intermixes with a form of "ad-libbed" street fighting.
• Kasumi carries a lighter, not because she smokes but because she just finds it a useful tool (pay no mind to the fact that it once belonged to a friend and that any who touch it will suffer).
• A small canister of pepper spray also lies within her everyday possessions.
• Kasumi is a registered concealed firearm carrier and possesses a FN High Power handgun that she usually keeps strapped under one arm; she also carries spare 17-round magazines.

Gold Experience

Appearance

Name: Gold Experience

Namesake: The Gold Experience (Prince Album)

Physical Description: Gold Experience is a golden-hued humanoid Stand of slender build and average height. The top of its head is similar to that of a typical helmet of a soldier with a ladybug-like design, with curved markings similar to the letter J coming down from the eyes on both sides. There are stylized white wings on its shoulders and large purple ladybugs all over its body and smaller purple accents elsewhere, like its knuckles and insectoid eyes. Small white slings like loosed suspenders hang from its waist. The Stand has an overall insectoid theme similar to a beetle, and several portions of its body appear to be "armored" with an orange "carapace"-like material, including the upper torso, shoulders, pelvic area, forearms and forelegs.

Personality: Gold Experience doesn't have any personality to speak of and follows its user's commands without manifesting any will. Its Stand Cry, communicated by itself or Kasumi, alternatively, is "MUDA MUDA MUDA~!", sometimes punctuated by a "WRRRYYY~!" in moments of particularly high emotion. Without a will of its own, the Stand's combat style defaults to Kasumi's, being fairly decisive and ruthless; it also showcases the use of actual martial arts to close the gap between it and conventionally stronger opponents.

Stand Stats:

Destructive Power: C
Speed: A
Range: C (2 meters)
Durability: D
Precision: C
Development Potential: A

Abilities: Gold Experience is a close-range Stand, one that isn't conventionally very strong, relative to other close-range Stands, around the strength of an average human. Despite this, it is mind-bogglingly fast, outspeeding some of the best of the best, and capable of easily destroying and even launching vehicles such as cars and motorcycles through sheer quantity of strikes delivered in a short amount of time.

The main ability of Gold Experience is to manipulate life. It can both sense life energy and inject it on physical contact, pulling from a seemingly endless well of power, which has a variety of effects depending on what it touches.

Injected into inanimate objects, the life energy can transform it into a living organism of Kasumi's choosing, plant or animal. This ability does not appear to observe conservation of mass, as an object as small as a bullet can become a full size tree or a car something as small as a frog. This transformation persists for a fairly long time and even at large distances from Kasumi, and she can cancel it at any time, immediately reverting an object back into its original inorganic state. Plants grow/change faster and take whatever form and direction of growth Kasumi desires. However, scaling much faster in complexity and thus creation time, animals are entirely independent organisms, following their natural instincts in a given situation, which Kasumi must guess beforehand; though, she does have some limited influence in being able to cause the animals to be "attracted to their source". Life forms created from parts of a whole, such as someone’s tooth or debris from a statue, will have the natural instinct to make their way back to whatever it came from, and a "part of a whole" can even include someone's shoe or money taken from a wallet. She can even ensure the lifeforms at least return to her, and her creations are never hostile to her, developing increasing loyalty the longer they exist. If the local area happens to be a zone completely unsuitable for any form of life, then life forms cannot be created. Alternatively, creating a life form in a deadly substance will cause the result to be an animal that is naturally adapted with the correct biology and resistances to survive remaining in that substance.

If any lifeform created by injected life energy is struck, plant or animal, the effect of the blow will be completely nullified and inverted, the severity of the retaliation proportional to how harmful the effect would have been to the thing struck, which can be easily lethal in the cases of smaller creatures being the target. This affects not just physical blows but will even reflect the esoteric abilities of other Stands. Kasumi is immune to this backlash effect and can harm her creations freely.

If life energy is injected into an already living being, their thought processes will radically accelerate, to the point of losing control of their body and Stand and causing an out of body experience. The victim perceives the world in slow motion but finds themself unable to react to it, barely able to move their actual body and feeling far more acute and intense pain over a much larger time period when an injury is taken, enough to think full sentences and internally describe the pain in great detail. This ability is, however, ineffective when used on a Stand directly and must reach the User instead. Gold Experience can also use life energy to radically accelerate personal metabolism, able to cause the likes of a long-lived tree to rapidly wither and rot in moments; to say the least, the results on a creature are likely to be fairly horrific.

Gold Experience is capable of healing in several ways, able to support and accelerate natural healing processes, stitch severed flesh back together (which can reconnect amputated limbs), or transform inanimate objects into replacement flesh and organs. In the latter case, much like transforming inanimate objects into creatures, conservation of mass is generally given the middle finger, as the likes of a small brooch could be turned into a whole hand and forearm, for example, while bullets will easily provide enough mass to restore not just their resting place in a wound but the tunnel created to get there. This process of healing and integrating replacement flesh is apparently quite painful.

If life energy is injected into a corpse, Gold Experience's power has a rather unique result. While it cannot ultimately bring the corpse back to life, it can reanimate it temporarily, providing an anchor for the disconnected soul to hang onto. The corpse will have all the memories and personality traits of the person when it was alive, and if they were a Stand User, they will retain their Stand abilities in full as well (this being the real hint that the actual soul is, in fact, present). The reanimated person ultimately lacks body functions, such as breathing, a heartbeat or the ability to feel pain, and they are immune to abilities that only affect living creatures. However, while this may prove advantageous at first, it doesn't change that the corpse is still dead, causing them to gradually physically weaken and lose their sense of sight and hearing. In exchange, however, they can develop the ability to converse with others by sensing the presence and thoughts of other souls. That said, the timing for this phenomenon to occur successfully is very tight. A corpse cannot be animated without a soul to drive it, so for this to happen, Gold Experience must perform the infusion within bare moments of the initial time of death. Otherwise, the corpse shall remain lifeless and inert, the will long since passed on.

Gold Experience's mastery of life provides Kasumi the ability to sense life passively. To her, life exists largely in "clusters". When she touches someone or something, she can more finely sense any other life forms within them, allowing her to check if someone is alive or scout out a confined area before entering it. The ranged detection capacity of this sensory ability is precise enough that Kasumi can track individual targets she is familiar with, including life forms created by her. She can also infuse an inanimate object with a time-delayed or conditional transformation or can simply have the injected energy loiter inactively, providing her a beacon to track from afar.

One particular technique of Kasumi's is to toss severed -but life infused- portions of her body away, keeping them "alive" and thus seeding "anchors" from which her Stand can manifest and bypass her normal range limit, while also ensuring that these "anchors" can heat-seek back to her once their purpose is fulfilled. She is also well-practiced in utilizing the universal capabilities of Stands, like selective tangibility, perspective sharing, and self-enhancement via cloaking her body in her Stand. And through the last of those abilities, there is currently percolating the conception of an ability that yet remains highly rare among even Stand Users aware of the universal utilities.

Misc: None.

Theme(s)

[scrawls]

West McAllister (Hierophant Green)

W E S T

West McAllister || 23 years old || New York City, USA || Theatrical Virtuoso || Hierophant Green

Gender: Male

Ability: Stand User

Appearance:

West is a lean, pale-skinned man of average height—5’9 to be exact. He has green hair that flows in wavy tufts, purple eyes, a thin nose, and a seemingly ever-present grin on his face. He has a range of outfits. Sometimes, he wears quite extravagant clothing: frilly uniform-like garbs, formal suits, or flowy outfits in theme with the production he is running at the moment. Other times, he wears minimalist outfits consisting of all black, so he can blend in behind stage. In casual everyday life, however, he can be seen wearing simple preppy clothing, such as sweaters, polos, button-ups, slacks, and leather shoes.

Personality:

West is a force of enthusiasm, a naturally sociable individual who seeks to connect with others and uplift them. Call it naivete, or call it genuine kindheartedness, even in the streets of the Big Apple, West manages to move forward through each with a smile on his face and a song in his heart. He’s the type of person who enjoys making friends with strangers and forming deep bonds with others, rather than simply networking for material or social advancement. Besides being open and friendly, West can be dramatic and theatrical, sometimes obnoxiously so, cracking jokes, humming, and just moving through life with a bit too much pep in his step.

However, just because he’s happy-go-lucky most of the time, doesn’t mean he’s a dolt. While rarely too selfish, he has a handle on his charisma and does know how to use his suave or leadership skills to his advantage when he needs to. He’s great at reading people’s body language and emotions, with excellent observational habits. He’s well-organized, sometimes even to a fault, becoming somewhat of a control freak. Plus, when those he cares about are hurt or threatened, he can be put into a furious rage. He has a deep love for the innocents and for those he trusts and will sacrifice himself to protect others or the common good.

Furthermore, despite his dramatic, personable demeanor, he has incredible stage fright. Although he can talk to people with ease, and navigates the theater with complete confidence, as soon as he tries to take on a character and act in front of an audience, he completely and utterly breaks down, his fight-or-flight instincts kicking in, the result of some sort of irrational, psychological trauma of some sort.

Backstory:

West always wanted to perform onstage, dreaming of becoming a broadway actor performing in the greatest city in the world. He grew up in a strict commune, raised by cult-like religious fanatics, and never got the chance to try acting. Yet he would sneak away at night to catch shows in a nearby community theater, enthralled by the stage. As soon as he was old enough to fend for himself, he ran away from home and headed for Broadway, hoping to become a starving actor, an artiste amongst others more supportive. And after months of working odd jobs, networking, and trying to get a shot in a play, he made it.

However, in this first production, he quickly found that he had debilitating stage fright. He floundered on stage, he stuttered his lines, and no matter how convincing or passionate his deliveries were alone, something just didn’t click once the audiences began to perceive him in character.

At first, he was devastated. But with nowhere left to go, he devoted all of his energy into mastering every other facet of theater, working his way through backstage as a man of many hats—lights, sound, props, costumes, dance, and even stage-combat skills. This is when he discovered that he had a Stand called Hierophant Green. He took this long-range manipulator as a blessing, quickly using it as a one-man crew. With Hierophant Green’s countless tendrils, he could control the stage, adjusting layouts or sound dials from a distance. In everything but being actually in the spotlight, he sought to be perfect. If he couldn’t be a star, he would do his best to make others shine brighter than he ever could, and people began to notice his skill.

Eventually, he found his way to become one of the youngest directors on Broadway. He was a well-liked, versatile young talent in the business, and this was his big shot at making history. But on opening night, the two leads were found dead, killed in the final act. After that, West was shaken, and for some reason, a rumor was going around that it was all his fault—some sick plan to gain more attention. The show was shut down, and his reputation was ruined.

While most people didn’t believe the rumors, West knew things wouldn’t be the same. Now, he is staging a much smaller production off-broadway in NYC. He still is sociable and friendly to all, but there is a part of him that mourns those actors and what his production could have been. West smiles, but deep down, he knows he cannot rest until he finds that killer.

Misc: None.

Stand Sheet:

Name: Hierophant Green

Namesake: The Hierophant (tarot card)

Stand Type

Physical Description: Hierophant Green is a humanoid Stand with green skin and light-colored pieces of armor all over its body that look mechanical in aesthetic. Its body can unravel in tentacles of varying size and connection.

Personality: The Stand does not typically emote and only speaks when its user uses it to. West will sometimes endow his Stand with a performative, dramatic personality, however, pretending it is a marionette or even his dance partner.

Stand Stats:

Destructive Power: C

Range: A

Speed: B

Durability: B

Precision: C

Development Potential: D

Abilities: Hierophant Green is a stand specialized in fighting at a distance, able to unravel its body into incredibly-long tentacles or rope-like formations. These uncoiled strings that makeup its body can be used to detect movements, sense those that touch it, or even control others by sliding into their body and manipulating their anatomy. Hierophant Green can also unleash a storm of energy through emerald-like projections, in an attack known as “Emerald Splash”. The blast has a high range and fires out with shotgun-like dispersion.

Misc: None.

[j8cob]

Alison Fintan (Achtung Baby)

Name:
Alison Fintan

Age:
29

Gender:
Female

Ability:
Stand User

Appearance:


Alison stands at a tall 5'11" and weighs 152lbs, combined with her toned musculature she is easily mistaken for a professional fighter. She regularly wears make-up, maintains her hair, and dresses fashionably, but one noticeable blemish upon her otherwise immaculate form is the scarring on her knuckles. Some wonder if her piercing red irises are colored contacts but they are actually natural, making her gaze both mystifying and unnerving. Her long, raven hair is similarly all-natural and with the appropriate brand of conditioner can be quite majestic in a breeze.

Personality:
Confident, clever, and experienced in her world, Alison Fintan has been around the block a few times when it comes to fighting and to Stands. She had become so effective in her line of work that she eventually came to a realization and swore a vow against killing, but not against violence. To that end she can be quite brutal and cunning, perfectly willing to beat someone near to death or cripple them so long as she keeps herself from delivering a fatal blow. Her experience as a fighter shows in many aspects of her demeanor and how she carries herself but in no way is it more evident than in her eyes. Her analyzing, piercing gaze can almost see through any ruse or plot. Rarely is she not all business but when she is relaxed and her guard is down she can be rather jovial and laidback, even to the point of being a prankster towards allies or even unsuspecting strangers.

Normally, however, she is cool and reserved with what many would describe as an intimidating presence. An observer by nature that isn't afraid to take matters into her own hands to achieve a goal. Due to adversity she has faced in the past she has become quite creative when it comes to solving problems, inherently searching for any "truth within the truth" in whatever situation she finds herself in. By all appearances she seems like a tough nut to crack but under all her layers of cool badass she is wracked by guilt, remorse, and regret. A facet that none have seen so far but always lingers in the back of her mind, in the back of her heart, whispering in her ear all of the wrongs and sins she has made in her life. In spite of this underlying torment she continues to move forward, challenging herself just like she challenges the world around her.

Backstory:
Unlike most people who come to understand the mysterious force known as Stands, Alison manifested her Stand powers from an extremely young age. She had periodically and unconsciously used her Stand's ability since she was an infant, creating numerous problems for herself and her family along the way. Through sheer luck she was able to avoid the potential tragedy this could've caused until she was six years old when she finally gained a full, conscious control of her power. While neither of her parents had a Stand of their own they had come to understand the general concept and kept Alison's Stand a secret to the best of their ability. Fate proved to have other plans when the Fintan family encountered another Stand user for the first time.

He was the leader of a small gang with big aspirations and he so happened to be collecting Stand users himself to that end. It was by pure chance that Alison was able to see his "ghost friend" in a public park as he passed, and it was unfortunate that he overheard her comments. His gang would attempt to kidnap Alison, only to fail when she used her own Stand ability to escape. The next attempt was through intimidation, threatening to kill her parents unless she would willingly accept their training and join their gang. At the age of eight she ran from home to join a world of crime, horrors, and the supernatural. In time she was hardened by her experiences, going from a scared little girl in over her head to a cocksure young woman that could take on the world. And she did.

By her adulthood the gang had evolved into a large mafia, populated by Stand users and effectively controlling a large part of the criminal underworld in the northeast United States. And her role in this family was a prestigious one: she was the prized assassin that could "solve" any problem her boss requested her to solve. Her Stand was perfect for subterfuge and surprise attacks. Though most of her targets were normal humans she did fight her share of Stand users over the years. Her victims were exclusively crooks, criminals, and genuine villains that the world was better off not having in it... until one night in Brooklyn she was tasked with killing a young girl no older than she was when she began this life. At first she went through with the mission, as this girl was a Stand user that was a danger to the family, but no sooner than when she had finished doing the deed did she realize what a monster she had become. After all these years a switch finally flicked in her head.

Her last kill would be the man at the head of the family, the man that had originally kidnapped her and molded her into his personal attack dog. Though he knew well of her ability it did him no good when had no clue that she had turned. The details of the aftermath largely didn't affect her, as his death created a power vacuum and further infighting that splintered the crime family into a fraction of its previous influence. All surviving members of this family know she killed the boss, but nevertheless she didn't fear retribution as she moved on with her life. Unable to bring herself to reunite with her parents, whom she tracked down to find were still alive, she vowed to never return to a life like the one she just left behind. Her powers must be used for good to make up for all the sin she had committed against her fellow man.

To that end she opened a business. A "paranormal" detective's office, selling itself on the front that she investigates whatever whims and fantasies her clientele come up with. But underneath the surface, for those in the know, she handles matters relating to Stand users. This is a fairly vague job with a wide range of tasks she has undergone for it, from simply finding Stands to mediating conflicts between users on the verge of coming to blows to being the one to come to blows on behalf of someone without a Stand. She barely makes any money, there can be long periods of time between actual matters of Stands, and she rarely takes time off, but every time she does a good deed she feels a little closer to atonement.

Most recently she was approached with a new job, backed by a blank check to get it done. A mysterious, anonymous client wants her to investigate the string of murders going on in New York City. And they are willing to bankroll her to do it. The client knows about Stands and is confident the police will never catch the murderer, and seemingly has exhausted their options before coming to Alison for help. One phone call, one trip to the bank, and Alison Fintan was already on her way to the Big Apple. She had a feeling this was going to be her toughest job yet but even more than the money she wanted to see justice. Perhaps this murderer isn't so different than she once was, or perhaps facing this murderer is just a way to continue facing herself. Either way she was confident when she stepped off her private plane, smirking quite smugly as she made herself disappear into city. She hadn't been to New York since she killed her former boss and she had some catching up to do.

Achtung Baby

Name:
「Achtung Baby」

Namesake:
U2's 7th Album

Physical Description:
This Stand is completely invisible, even to other Stands and Stand users. Despite this it does have a form and thus may be detected by other means beyond sight. This form is humanoid in shape but small, no taller than a few feet, and is profoundly ill-suited to direct combat. For this reason it is rarely manifested completely to begin with (if ever at all).

Personality:
Whether due to being manifested so infrequently or due to having very little complexity, Achtung Baby has no demonstrable personality to speak of.

Abilities:
Achtung Baby has the power to turn its user completely invisible. This invisibility is flawless and leaves no shimmer, fuzz, nor any other visual cue. This invisibility can be spread by contact with the user, allowing anything else to be made invisible too. This includes objects, living things, and even phenomena such as smoke, steam, etc. Anything made invisible by this power will remain invisible, regardless of distance from the user, until the ability is disabled manually or the user is knocked unconscious. Anything made invisible is still tangible and may be detected by other means such as sound, smell, or touch. Likewise anything that comes from inside an invisible person or object, such as blood, will not automatically be invisible once it leaves the invisible person or object unless it is made invisible directly through Achtung Baby's power as it would become visible, allowing it to remain invisible with such precision that it never became visible in the first place.

Stand Stats:

Destructive Power: E
Range: Null
Speed: E
Persistance: A
Precision: E
Development Potential: A

Misc:
N/A

Misc:
Alison is very strong and fast for a human, so much so that she can perform her own kind of "Stand Rush" with her fists. This won't hold up to any close-combat Stands but their users may be in for the beatdown of their lives if Alison can get her hands on them.

[Grimnir]

Marco Azzurra

Marco Azzurra
26 Years Old
Male
Stand: Moody Blues

Moody Blues detailed

Stand Sheet:

Name: Moody Blues

Namesake: The Moody Blues, an English rock band

Personality: Moody Blues is a very stoic and quiet Stand, with its user being the only one who can communicate with it. It is completely obedient to its user and carries out its orders without question.

Stand Stats:

Destructive Power: C
Range: A
Speed: C
Stamina: A
Precision: C
Development Potential: C

Abilities: Moody Blues' primary ability is retrocognition; in particular, the ability to reenact, or "replay" past events with utmost precision, allowing the user to freely investigate events. Every event happening to a particular location or person will be exactly recreated by Moody Blues, even if it is currently impossible. However, there are limits to what Moody Blues can replay.

At the same time, the digital timer on Moody Blues' forehead will remain to indicate the point in time it is reenacting. The "replay" can be controlled as if it was a video, allowing the user to fast-forward to skip uninteresting events, or pause it, allowing people to interact with the paused event if need be. However, it cannot attack when it is "rebroadcasting", making it vulnerable. The farther away the event is in the past, the more time Moody Blues must spend immobile to reach it. Once finished, however, it can again attack.

By using a replay, Moody Blues can imitate the form of an individual for a limited time. It enabled Abbacchio to pilot a plane by playing back the previous motions of the pilot. The imitation effect of its ability can also be used to disguise Moody Blue.

Personality:

Marco Azzurra has a complex personality, shaped by his experiences and the trauma he has endured. He is a deeply introspective and contemplative person, often lost in thought as he tries to make sense of the world around him. Despite the pain he has suffered, Marco remains a compassionate and empathetic person, driven by a desire to help others, though he often doesn't show it. He is fiercely loyal to those he cares about, willing to do whatever it takes to protect them. At the same time, he can be stubborn and single-minded, sometimes refusing to listen to others or consider alternative perspectives. Marco is also haunted by his past, and he struggles with guilt and regret over the things he has done. Overall, he is a complex and nuanced individual, grappling with his past and trying to find a way forward.

Backstory:

Marco Azzurra was born to Italian immigrant parents in the United States. Growing up, he had a tough childhood, as his family lived in a poor neighborhood and his parents worked long hours to make ends meet. Despite the challenges he faced, Marco was a bright and ambitious young man, determined to make a better life for himself and his family.

As he got older, Marco became involved in the local mob, working as a low-level enforcer. He found himself drawn to the power and money that came with the lifestyle, and he quickly worked his way up the ranks.

But Marco's life took a tragic turn when his wife was killed in a botched robbery. He was there with her when it happened, and he held her in his arms as she died. The experience left Marco devastated, and he became increasingly disillusioned with the mob lifestyle.

It was around this time that Marco discovered he had a Stand, Moody Blues. At first, he didn't understand its power, but as he experimented with it, he realized that he could use it to solve mysteries and uncover secrets. This newfound ability sparked something inside Marco, and he began to see a new purpose for his life.

With Moody Blues by his side, Marco started using his skills to investigate crimes and help people. He became something of a vigilante, using his Stand to bring justice to those who had been wronged. Over time, he earned a reputation as a skilled detective and problem-solver, and he became known as someone who could be relied on to get results.

Despite his past involvement with the mob, Marco managed to keep a low profile and avoid any serious trouble. He continued to use his abilities for good, determined to make up for the mistakes of his past. And with Moody Blues by his side, he knew that he could continue to make a difference in the world, one case at a time.

Misc:

[Mintz]

Kane Halderon (Diver Down)

Name: Kane Halderon

Age: 22

Gender: Male

Ability: Stand User

Appearance: Kane stands at what might be, in other people, a rather imposing 6'2 feet tall (or around 188 cm), were it not for his typically slacked stance, always carrying at least a slight slouch. On top of that, for all his height, he's rather wiry, only managing to weigh in a little over 150 lbs. His skin is a pale white, and his physical features are lightly gaunt, implying either a lack of care for himself, or perhaps a medical condition. He has no tattoos or markings to speak of, though he does possess a vague amount of facial hair in his shallow goatee, which shares the same jet-black coloration as his hair, while his eyes are a deep, harsh grey.

For attire, beyond the required ensemble that befits his workplace, Kane leans towards simplicity and comfort beyond all else. While it can vary slightly on the day-to-day, especially with highs or lows in temperature, he usually wears a long white coat with a metal pin attached that has the letter 'M' emblazoned upon it. Underneath that is a black samue with an equally black obi binding it somewhat about his midsection, which is sometimes paired with a white undershirt in cooler weather. This is followed by baggy black sweatpants, and his sharp white shoes, giving his desired outfitting a pleasant color contrast.

Kane's Appearance

Personality: Kane is a man with a backbone comprised of tissue paper. Not to say he's cowardly (at least, not overtly so), but moreso that he's quick to fold when things get tough, and prefers to simply coast along rather than try to push against anything. This has resulted in him becoming a rather lazy individual, trying his best to avoid any pressure or expectations in favor of his own exceedingly low bar. In his own interest of keeping things as calm and simple as possible, he tends to put on a very casual, laid-back air to himself, as a way of keeping himself out of a stressful mind space.

In spite of his self-evident slothful nature, Kane is a surprisingly hard worker when he puts his mind to something, and beneath his sluggish exterior lies a sharp and creative mind that allowed him to get this far; even if he has undoubtedly squandered his own talents. Due to his profession, as well as other things, beyond his devil-may-care attitude is a kind soul who can't help but empathize and wish to help those in need, much to his own anguish at times. As such, these two sides of himself clash on occasion, and he tries to repress those feelings when he can in the interest of keeping his life as easy as he can.

Backstory: Kane always had big dreams; in his youth, he was consistently hospitalized, afflicted with a natural frailness that sadly followed through his family. However, in spite of those sorrowful circumstances, where sometimes he had to wonder if he would even walk out again, the boy gained a deep admiration and respect for all those who practiced medicine and tried to make the world a better and healthier place.

While he never quite fully recovered, Kane eventually started to be able to live a normal life, and he had those wonderful doctors and nurses to thank for that. As such, the boy spent much of his youth trying to pursue the very same profession that had managed to change his life. However, dreams quite rarely survive the crushing reality of the world....While the young boy was sharp and made for an excellent student, the stress of his lofty goals began to crash into him the older and closer he got. In the end, he gave up on his dream of becoming a doctor, and only barely managed to do the bare minimum that would be required for him to become a nurse. Sure, for most, this would still be pretty darn acceptable, but for Kane, it was a deep wound in his pride, and convinced him that he would never be fit for anything more than that.

So, that was that. After med school, Kane rented out a decent apartment and got a job as a nurse for the closest hospital he could find. In his work, he never tried too hard or attempted to push where he was at, content with his new status quo. This dragged on up until recently, when something changed for him. They had an older cancer patient who couldn't receive the help he needed, the doctors convinced they wouldn't be able to survive the operation necessary to remove the late-stage tumor. Thus, it was all they could do to ease the man's suffering and keep him bedridden until his time came. Of course, Kane knew all too well there was little he could do for the man if trained professionals were certain of his fate. Still, during one late night shift, he found himself compelled to visit him. For a moment, he simply stared, unsure of what he was even thinking of doing. Before his thoughts caught up to him, however, he found himself reaching out towards the man...And in that same movement, a new hand reached out from Kane himself.

There was a lot that passed through his mind, not least of which being shock and fear, but something told him that he needed to press forward; this was something he couldn't quit on halfway through. So, with this newfound power, he reached forward. To even further his shock, the hand passed right through the old-timer's head, and instinctively grabbed something. Then, just as easily as it had invaded his body, it left, with a cancerous growth in hand. Now his panic fully caught up to him. Clueless on what else to do, he freaked out, tossing the tumor into one of the hospital's waste bins and sprinting out of the room posthaste. It didn't take long for the news to reach the staff, with the man himself absolutely befuddled as to what happened, only vaguely remembering a spectral figure reaching out for him, as if a guardian angel had descended upon him. The doctors were dumbfounded, even moreso once they found the exact tumor wasting away in one of the nearby waste bins. All they could do was write it off as something completely incomprehensible and leave it at that. Kane, of course, knew better.

That was the night he had awakened to his Stand, though to this day he still doesn't even know that term, having kept all this to himself, and sparingly using this newfound gift in the hospital at night, helping those who he could with this unusual power. He knew that if he used it a bit more frivolously, perhaps he could actually make something of himself, but...With all this time of being resolved to stay in the sidelines, the idea of that frightened him. And besides, he didn't even truly understand his own ability, so he kept an air of caution about the whole circumstance. That was, until last week.

A young woman named Megan came in, horribly injured and near-death, apparently a victim of the mysterious murderer prowling the streets of New York. Doctors and nurses worked in droves trying to stabilize the victim, though it was quickly becoming clear that their efforts would end up in vain. Kane, however, was particularly mortified. He knew that if he used his gift, perhaps he might be able to save her life, but....Doing so would undoubtedly have witnesses this time, and then he'd have to try and explain something even he didn't fully comprehend. In the end, that cowardly hesitance cost Megan her life, dying shortly after arriving to the hospital. In spite of Kane trying to shake this off, the thought that he could've saved this woman began to haunt him day and night. Eventually, he came to only one conclusion; if he was going to right his guilty conscience, he would have to at least try and figure out who would do this to somebody. And perhaps his gift could be just the tool he needs to track down a mysterious slayer...

Misc:

• While there wasn't a good place to dig into it in his backstory, Kane has a...Passable relation with his family. They're great, don't get him wrong, but he finds they're far too concerned with him and would prefer they leave him alone, if only so as not to bother them with his own troubles.
• Kane has zero combat experience, whether it be with or without the use of his Stand.
• Kane seems to live on a tighter amount of cash than one might expect. This is due to the fact he commonly donates to charity, though he does it discreetly.

Diver Down

Name: Diver Down

Namesake: The Van Helen album "Diver Down"

Stand Appearance: Diver Down appears as a humanoid Stand of average build attired with a highly stylized set of scuba gear to aesthetically resemble a diver. Its body has distinctive "D"-like symbols on its forehead, pecs, shoulders, and knees. Its has three dots on each side of its head as eyes and a thin vertical opening starting at its chin up to its nose.

Diver Down

Personality: Diver Down lacks a personality of its own, and unlike some Stands, never makes any sounds of its own, though it does have a distinct reverb-like sound effect when it makes impacts or quick movements. This makes it uniquely rather stoic in comparison to other humanoid Stands, which is compounded by their lack of almost any facial expression to speak of.

Stand Stats:

Destructive Power: A
Speed: A
Range: E
Durability: C
Precision: B
Development Potential: B

Abilities: Diver Down is a close-range Stand with plenty of speed and power to back it up, though of course, this is far from its limits, although they certainly help carry aspects of it much farther. Diver Down has two main abilities, though one of which is far less complicated, so lets handle that first.

Diver Down can store its attacks inside of the objects it strikes, effectively entrapping the full speed and strength of a strike to be utilized later. There's no discernable upper limit as to how many strikes can be stored at once, and the Stand User can decide exactly when the stored strikes are released, adding to their surprise factor. Not only does this serve as an interesting ace up the sleeve if used correctly, but it's also a shockingly lethal technique as well for as much subterfuge is behind it, as DD's raw strength and speed are more than enough to kill a human in a single solid strike, if connected properly. Of course, even beyond used directly for combat, there could be some more niche applications, should they arise.

The second half of Diver Down's kit is the one its most known for, that being its ability to restructure objects and entities by phasing inside of them and manipulating their structure internally. Interestingly enough, while almost any Stand has at least some phasing capabilities, Diver Down is actually able to phase through other Stands, adding yet another layer to this ability. Additionally, unlike other Stands, DD is capable of phasing objects it holds through things, which is a strange and potentially useful ability in a lot of scenarios.

Okay, enough of the weird stuff, let's get into the real deal. DD can restructure things it enters into, making it able to repair and heal as easily as it can destroy and kill. The only real limit to this ability is that it has to be actively phased into the target to alter its design, and that whatever it changes has to be physically holdable. It can warp musculature or bone structure all it wants, but it can't do anything about your blood or saliva, for instance. It can also take things out from the objects or creatures it phases into, or even add things into them, which can lead to a lot of gruesome options, should push come to shove. Alternatively, while phased into objects, the user can hold onto parts of Diver Down to allow for easy mobility on nearly any surfaces, making them all the more problematic. Also, if Diver Down is phased into a living creature, it can serve as a shield against attacks (though of course, any resulting damage will return to the User), and even simulate missing limbs. It is truly a versatile Stand, with its only major flaw being its incredibly close range, which even then, it has ways around.