Paisley Park
Paisley Park (ペイズリー・パーク Peizurī Pāku) is the Stand of Yasuho Hirose, featured in the eighth part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, JoJolion. Its technology manipulating abilities allows it to effectively gather information and guide Yasuho down the right path.
Appearance
Paisley Park is a humanoid Stand of a feminine figure and a height slightly above Yasuho's; usually appearing two-dimensional by occupying the place of Yasuho's shadow or spread across any surface. It has Yasuho's hairstyle, and a blank face save for one round eye on its right with three bold eyelashes, and a semi-functioning mouth underneath what would be its skin. Its face and body are covered by various road map symbols.[1]
It later appears three-dimensional after it is discovered by Yasuho. When the Stand changes its shape, its round eye always stays present.[2]
Paisley Park is pink in the colored manga.
Color Schemes
Personality
It has an independent personality, since it first manifests unconsciously by Yasuho in order to assist Josuke by bringing him to safety from his pursuer. Paisley Park is loyal to Yasuho and helps her as well as her friends to reach destinations or bypass security. Its primary objective is protecting Yasuho which doesn't change even after it is discovered by Yasuho herself.
The Stand can be aggressive when protecting its owner if she is threatened, as shown when it allows Yasuho to flee from the vehicle of kidnappers by twisting the ankle of the driver, causing the car to crash and the kidnappers to smash headfirst through the windshield.[3]
Abilities
Paisley Park has been described by Yotsuyu Yagiyama as a long-range Stand, resistant to conscious control and of low physical potency. Paisley Park isn't suitable for direct confrontation, but it is highly automonous and able to assist its user and allies constantly through various ways.
Guidance
Paisley Park's primary ability involves assisting individuals significant to Yasuho in finding and reaching destinations more expediently, or escaping perilous situations. Paisley Park has for example manipulated a phone's GPS application,[4] the results of a web search engine to enhance the efficiency of her investigations[5] and instigated a chain of events allowing Yasuho to bypass security clearance through mistaken identity.[6] Paisley Park can also separate from its user and go far away to help another ally in need.[7]
When Yasuho discovers Paisley Park for herself, it displays time-limited choices on her cellphone or laptop.[8] After selecting an option, the Stand provides her with the item she asked for which then comes in handy later. For example, the choice of flashlight results in Paisley Park giving it to Yasuho, which then illuminates the location of something else she ends up needing a few minutes later. The Stand offers a choice whenever Yasuho needs to solve a problem, despite whether or not she's aware of what's going to happen, but doesn't act when Yasuho is too slow to choose.
Electronics Manipulation
Although it mainly resides in her cellphone, Paisley Park enables Yasuho to interact with various electronics at a level beyond humanly possible.
Paisley Park can hack into various electronic devices with ease and use them to help Yasuho in her investigations or any other activity she is focused on, bypassing any security they may have. For instance, it could break into the data servers of the local police to identify Dolomite by linking a tooth to medical records and dental prints.[9] It can also travel through computer networks from Yasuho's mobile phone in order to interact with other systems without being near the hardware. This particular ability is portrayed as Paisley Park going through endless corridors full of doors and breaking locks. At a more basic level, Paisley Park can delete/wipe files such as images or videos from other people's phones if Yasuho wills it.[10] Paisley Park also seems to be able to "copy" certain technological abilities. For instance, she is shown using her hand as an X-Ray to find the pieces of rock in Yasuho's face. [11]
Somehow, Paisley Park could also transport one of Soft & Wet's invisible bubbles from a cell phone connection, bringing the bubble from one place to another.[12] A somewhat similar occurrence happened before as it was shown that Yasuho could also make a 3D representation of the picture of a car partially emerge from her mobile phone's screen.[13]
Shapeshifting
Paisley Park can freely change its shape. It can shift from a three-dimensional humanoid form into a flat, shadow-like figure,[14] or even a formless puddle. This ability isn't limited to shape alone, as it was able to turn its head into a globe,[15] changing usual road map symbols into the map of the Earth, and then into a map of the town.
Chapters

- JJL Chapter 12: "Paisley Park" and "Born This Way", Part 1
- JJL Chapter 13: "Paisley Park" and "Born This Way", Part 2
- JJL Chapter 14: "Paisley Park" and "Born This Way", Part 3
- JJL Chapter 16: "Paisley Park" and "Born This Way", Part 5
- JJL Chapter 17: The Lemon and the Tangerine
- JJL Chapter 21: "Shakedown Road", Part 4
- JJL Chapter 23: Paper Moon Deception, Part 1
- JJL Chapter 25: Paper Moon Deception, Part 3
- JJL Chapter 26: Tsurugi Higashikata's Goal, and the Architect
- JJL Chapter 36: Every Day Is a Summer Vacation, Part 3
- JJL Chapter 38: Jobin Higashikata Is a Stand User
- JJL Chapter 39: Doobie Wah, Part 1
- JJL Chapter 40: Doobie Wah, Part 2
- JJL Chapter 41: Doobie Wah, Part 3
- JJL Chapter 42: Doobie Wah, Part 4
- JJL Chapter 43: Love Love Deluxe, Part 1
- JJL Chapter 47: Hato Brought Her Boyfriend Home, Part 1
- JJL Chapter 61: Dolomite's Blue Lagoon, Part 3 (Mentioned only)
- JJL Chapter 62: Dolomite's Blue Lagoon, Part 4
- JJL Chapter 63: Dolomite's Blue Lagoon, Part 5
- JJL Chapter 64: Mother and Child (Cover only)
- JJL Chapter 65: The Plant Appraiser - Rai Mamezuku (31), Part 1
- JJL Chapter 67: The Plant Appraiser - Rai Mamezuku (31), Part 3
- JJL Chapter 68: Urban Guerrilla and Doremifasolati Do, Part 1
- JJL Chapter 71: The Qing Dynasty Hair Clip (Cover only)
- JJL Chapter 72: North of the Higashikata House. The Orchard
- JJL Chapter 78: Orthopedic Surgeon - Dr. Wu Tomoki
- JJL Chapter 79: Doctor Wu and Awaking 3 Leaves, Part 1
- JJL Chapter 81: Doctor Wu and Awaking 3 Leaves, Part 3
- JJL Chapter 82: Doctor Wu and Awaking 3 Leaves, Part 4
- JJL Chapter 83: The New Locacaca (Cover only)
- JJL Chapter 84: The Wonder of You (The Miracle of Your Love), Part 1
- JJL Chapter 85: The Wonder of You (The Miracle of Your Love), Part 2
- JJL Chapter 86: The Wonder of You (The Miracle of Your Love), Part 3 (Cover only)
- JJL Chapter 90: The Wonder of You (The Miracle of Your Love), Part 7
- JJL Chapter 91: The Wonder of You (The Miracle of Your Love), Part 8
- JJL Chapter 93: The Wonder of You (The Miracle of Your Love), Part 10
- JJL Chapter 94: The Wonder of You (The Miracle of Your Love), Part 11
- JJL Chapter 95: The Wonder of You (The Miracle of Your Love), Part 12
- JJL Chapter 96: Just Don't Move
- JJL Chapter 98: The Wonder of You (The Miracle of Your Love), Part 15 (Cover only)
- JJL Chapter 101: The Wonder of You (The Miracle of Your Love), Part 18
- JJL Chapter 102: The Wonder of You (The Miracle of Your Love), Part 19
- JJL Chapter 103: Endless Calamity, Part 9
- JJL Chapter 104: Endless Calamity, Part 10
- JJL Chapter 105: The Invisible Soap Bubbles
- JJL Chapter 106: TBA
Gallery
Trivia
- The idea of the Stand came from bad GPS units which would show the wrong directions. The fear of opening things was the theme for the chapter where Paisley Park first appears.[16]
- Paisley Park is the only Stand in the series so far to have the same hairstyle as its user.
References
- ↑ JJL Chapter 14: "Paisley Park" and "Born This Way" (3)
- ↑ JJL Chapter 38: Jobin Higashikata Is a Stand User
- ↑ JJL Chapter 25: Paper Moon Deception (3)
- ↑ JJL Chapter 13: "Paisley Park" and "Born This Way", Part 2, p32
- ↑ JJL Chapter 21: "Shakedown Road", Part 4, p25
- ↑ JJL Chapter 17: The Lemon and the Tangerine, p6
- ↑ JJL Chapter 26: Tsurugi Higashikata's Goal, and the Architect, p37
- ↑ JJL Chapter 38: Jobin Higashikata Is a Stand User, p8
- ↑ JJL Chapter 62: Dolomite's Blue Lagoon, Part 4, p34
- ↑ JJL Chapter 65: The Plant Appraiser - Rai Mamezuku (31), Part 1, p13
- ↑ JJL Chapter 65: The Plant Appraiser (2)
- ↑ JJL Chapter 105: The Invisible Soap Bubbles, p32-33
- ↑ JJL Chapter 36: Every Day Is a Summer Vacation, Part 3, p4
- ↑ JJL Chapter 14: "Paisley Park" and "Born This Way", Part 3, p14
- ↑ JJL Chapter 38: Jobin Higashikata Is a Stand User, p12
- ↑ JOJOVELLER: STANDS - Comments by Hirohiko Araki