Made in Heaven

"The 'time for Heaven'. It has finally arrived..."

- Enrico Pucci,

Made in Heaven (メイド・イン・ヘブン) is a Stand belonging to Enrico Pucci, featured in Stone Ocean.

This Stand is the final metamorphosis in a chain following Whitesnake and C-Moon; one of the very last elements of the plan referenced in DIO's Diary. It was considered by DIO to be the ultimate Stand and the key to achieving "heaven".

Appearance
Made in Heaven takes the appearance of a thin, masculine humanoid fused at its waist to the front end of a horse, resembling a two-headed, two-legged. A large cable, forming a clean arch, joins the humanoid half between its shoulder blades to the truncated posterior of the horse.

Its head is slightly elongated with a long vine wound around the top. The center of its face has a smooth, black surface and a large speedometer embedded in the region of where its eyes and nose would be. The rest of its face is lighter, matching the colors of its body. It has long feathers protruding out of its neck and the sides of its forearms are slightly furry.

The horse half of its body wears and, held in the hands of the humanoid half.

In contrast with its predecessors, it does not have "GΔCT" symbols on its body. Instead, the Stand has large speedometers embedded in its body on the horse's forehead and above the horse's shoulder blade. Smaller speedometers are on the sides of the humanoid's shoulders, its forearms, the back of its hands, and on the horse's blinkers.

Made in Heaven is white in most media featuring this Stand.

Abilities
Made in Heaven is an extremely powerful close-range time controlling Stand. Although its physical abilities may not be remarkable, its control over time grants it an overwhelming speed advantage and even counters abilities that function with a time limit like Star Platinum's time stop.

However, Pucci isn't particularly interested with Made in Heaven's time acceleration, but rather its capability to bring about a new universe with extraordinary properties.

Time Acceleration
Made in Heaven's power is to dramatically speed up the flow of time; achieved through its ability to control the gravitational forces of the earth, moon, and seemingly the entire universe (in reference to aspects of the ).

Upon activation, time will gradually flow faster and faster in the whole universe. However, Made in Heaven prevents any living being from catching up with the acceleration, with the exception of its user, Enrico Pucci, and essentially. The lag between people's perceptions and the actual flow of time causes everyone to see all non-biological events as being sped up, which is considerably dangerous in case one is in a vehicle or in remotely dangerous environments.

People in a cold environment seem to freeze instantly, all phenomenon like melting, flowing, drying, movements of objects will accelerate to the point people cannot react; the sun eventually seems to rotate at high-speed in the sky, objects and corpses seem to decay in seconds, one can even witness the erosion of the water on rocks. Interestingly, Made in Heaven can accelerate otherworldly events like time stop, and reduces the window of action of its user.

Meanwhile, Pucci himself appears to possess extraordinary speed and reaction time, and effortlessly outspeeds any of his opponents, even Star Platinum. Because of it, he can freely approach and use Made in Heaven to inflict mortal wounds like slitting the throat. However he retains all of his human weaknesses: running or swimming around will tire him, while being exposed to a hazardous environment will endanger him noticeably faster than his opponents.

Consequences
"You might think that knowing the ill fortunes of the future is despair but it's the opposite! Even if you knew you were going to die tomorrow, it is that 'resolution' that makes one happy! One's 'resolution' eradicates 'despair'! Humanity will change! This is what is strived for! This is Made in Heaven!"

- Enrico Pucci, SO Chapter 157

As time continues to accelerate, the universe will hit a "vanishing point", and a new universe will be created, where everything repeats itself, according to "fate".

Every surviving organism is brought into the new world, positioned where they should be, according to a date chosen by Pucci. Anyone that has been recently killed in the previous universe will not cease to exist, but simply be replaced by a similar substitute, though Pucci states that their souls and personalities will have been erased and that they will appear as completely different people.

The most esoteric property of the new world is that people have technically lived everything that has happened and will happen to them in the previous universe. The memories of the events are engraved into them and they will subconsciously realize what will happen to them in the future, although they usually cannot change the course of their fate. Pucci aims to make humanity feel at peace with their destiny that way, and as a result, understand his vision of heaven.

If the user of this Stand is killed before the point where the original acceleration of time began, the universal reset is aborted, and the universe reboots into an alternate timeline where the effects of Made in Heaven are undone. Those who died in a previous universe are still replaced, although the replacements will retain their original souls.

Made in Heaven Ultimate Requiem
In the light novel JORGE JOESTAR, Dio Brando stabs Kars's Whitesnake Ultimate with the Arrow. The Wound gained from the Arrow evolves the Stand into C-Moon Ultimate Requiem, and then finally into Made in Heaven Ultimate Requiem (メイド・イン・ヘブン・アルティメット・レクイエム).

Made in Heaven Ultimate Requiem resembles Pucci's Made in Heaven but also retains the resemblance that Whitesnake Ultimate and C-Moon Ultimate Requiem have, with its three heads. The number of limbs it has is unknown but the lower half of its body has three horse heads as well rather than one.

Like its predecessors, its middle head has the same face as the original Made in Heaven, its right head has skeletal teeth, and its left head has large protruding lips. Each head is elongated longer than the original Stand. The heads are black at the top with the remainder of its faces and body being white. The three heads are connected by a long vine.

Each humanoid head has a large speedometer in the center of their face, whereas each horse head has one on their foreheads and on the sides of their blinkers. Large feathers protrude out of its wide neck.

Abilities
The true capabilities of Made in Heaven Ultimate Requiem and how it differs from the regular Made in Heaven is not clearly depicted, but it appears to accelerate time faster than the original. Dio Brando uses it to escape to another universe where he can find a new body. After its activation, time accelerates dramatically, looping through thirty-seven universes in the future. The sky strobes with the sun, moon, and stars spinning around everyone, and there is a blinding light and pitch darkness each time the universe ends and begins.

Made in Heaven Ultimate Requiem also seems to be able to target an individual and speed up time for only them. Kars uses it on Antonio Torres so that he would constantly create new clones from his Wound ability as a way to prolong the death of the giant Antonio, whom they needed to stay alive for a little while longer. Jorge Joestar also suggests that Kars could have used it on himself to shrink his perception of Bites the Dust's explosions.

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Trivia

 * The original name of this Stand was Stairway to Heaven (ステアウェイ・トゥ・ヘブン（天国への階段）), based on the song of the same name by Led Zeppelin. Later, in the tankōbon release, it was changed to Made in Heaven, the name of a single by Freddie Mercury and an album by Queen.
 * Just like C-Moon and Green, Green Grass of Home, Made in Heaven's abilities make reference to the concept of.
 * In All Star Battle, it is shown that Gold Experience Requiem can function normally under the time-accelerating effect of Made in Heaven and that Giorno remains immune to the effect as long as he has Requiem active.

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