Father Styx

"Father in Heaven, it seems you have a thing for sending me to crappy places... (神よ、あんたはこのおれをくせー所へやるのがお好きなようだ…)"

- Father Styx

is a tertiary character featured in the first part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Phantom Blood.

Styx is an alcoholic priest who boards a voyage to Mexico for a. While on the ship, he discovers Dio Brando's coffin.

Appearance
Father Styx is a tall man with an average build. He has wavy neck-length hair with parted bangs and long sideburns. He also has sunken cheeks, a long nose, and a light stubble. He is seen wearing a with a cross necklace.

Personality
Styx is an individual who is respected by his fellow priests as they have high hopes for his missionary trip. However, in reality, he doesn't want to travel for them, and seems more motivated by money rather than spirituality. While he's alone and intoxicated on the ship while drinking, he complains that God often sends him to nasty places, which suggests that he is xenophobic. He doesn't like getting dirty and would have no problem leaving his rosary behind in the cargo hold if it wasn't his precious business tool for making money. Consequently, his motivation for wealth leads to his demise when he closely inspects Dio's coffin, assuming something important would be inside it.

Phantom Blood (1889)
Styx is told by three other priests that his new religious mission is to go a village in Mexico. They wish him good luck in spreading the word of their faith and mention that they have high hopes for him. In the anime, the three priests are shown seeing him off before he leaves. He boards the ship on February 7, 1889, and drinks alcohol until he is intoxicated.

Later, Styx accidentally drops his rosary while drinking and walking around the ship. It falls through a grate, landing in a cargo hold. He contemplates leaving it there but realizes he has no choice but to pick it up since it's his tool of the trade. He heads down to the cargo hold and retrieves his rosary on top of a. Intrigued, he inspects it assuming that it's a safe, but realizes that it's strangely unlocked. Taking a closer look, he notices that it's actually locked from the inside. Immediately after he realizes this, a metal ball above the lock shoots out from the coffin and obliterates Father Styx's head, making his eyeballs fly out and sending his body flying. Wang Chan opens the box afterward, revealing that it contains Dio Brando's head.

Phantom Blood (PS2)
Father Styx appears in the secret alternate version of Chapter 23 in the Phantom Blood PS2 game. Like in the original story, Styx discovers Dio's coffin and realizes that it is locked from the inside before his head suddenly explodes. Dio then emerges from the coffin and grafts his head onto Father Styx's body. Jonathan Joestar enters the room and sees the man from behind, wondering what a priest is doing there.

Dio reveals that although he got this body instantly, it is not suitable for him because he has no respect for the priest's body. Instead, he desires Jonathan's body and starts his final battle with him. This version of Dio is identical to his previous form moveset-wise and is non-playable. He is defensive during the battle, dodging most of Jonathan's attacks and letting his three zombie knights, Winzaleo, Eijkman, and Caineghis fight instead. He occasionally fires Space Ripper Stingy Eyes and uses his Vaporization Freezing Technique.

After Jonathan defeats him and his zombies, his Ripple flows through Styx's body, destroying it. However, Dio cuts off his head before the Ripple can reach it so he remains alive.

Trivia

 * In the anime, Styx's dialogue during his complaint to God is altered. Rather than complaining that God often sends him to nasty places, Styx asks why God must always place him in difficult situations.
 * Dio took over Father Styx's body in the secret final battle of the PS2 game because the game producer, Yusuke Sasaki, thought Wang Chan wouldn't be a good final boss if he remained completely accurate to the story. However, he didn't want to completely stray away from JoJo's story, so Araki gave him various ideas.
 * Although the entirety of Styx's canon appearance is preserved in the alternate final chapter of the PS2 game, he is cut from the normal final chapter.