Hierophant Green

"My Hierophant Green loves nothing more than to rip things to shreds."

- Noriaki Kakyoin to Tower of Gray, Chapter 123

Hierophant Green (ハイエロファントグリーン（法皇の緑）) is the Stand of Noriaki Kakyoin featured in the third part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Stardust Crusaders.

Hierophant Green is an elastic, remote Stand, capable of being deployed far away from its user and performing actions from a distance. Its signature move is the radiant "Emerald Splash".

Appearance
Hierophant Green is an athletic humanoid with robotic features, such as the eyes and legs, but its true form is that of a long web of tentacles. It is only slightly taller than Kakyoin himself, though it can stretch itself to great lengths. Hierophant Green possesses a body covered in veiny lines, which is protected by a light-colored armor. Despite its emotionless face, it seems to have a human-looking mouth underneath its mask.

Whenever the appendages glow, the Stand is priming for an attack, such as its Emerald Splash technique.

Hierophant Green is consistently portrayed as being green across all media featuring it, befitting its name. All Star Battle features a turquoise-colored version of it. However, its armor is white-green in the colored manga and grey in the anime and games.

Personality
Hierophant Green appears to not have a personality, serving Kakyoin without hesitation or question, even seeming to act as Kakyoin's mouthpiece; although Kakyoin mentions that it hates wide open spaces and enjoys ripping things apart, such a trait is never shown.

It represents the Card, which represents the bridge between Heaven and Earth, relating to the Stand's long-range abilities.

Abilities
Hierophant Green is the very first Long-Distance Stand shown in the series, and it has a large number of abilities to assist it in combat and scouting. However, the Stand is relatively weak in direct hand-to-hand combat, as a trade-off for its great distance-based abilities.

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Trivia

 * During the original run of Kakyoin's introductory arc in Weekly Shonen Jump, his Stand's name is written as "Hierophant Emerald" (法皇の緑 (ハイエロファントエメラルド)). The name was rewritten as Hierophant Green (ハイエロファントグリーン) after Kakyoin joined Jotaro's party, though it was corrected entirely in the tankōbon release of the aforementioned arc.
 * Hierophant Green ended up green because Araki wanted some color balance between the allies and enemies. Green reminded him of melons, and he was really into green at the time as he used the color in several illustrations.