User:Chritin/Sandbox

A place for me to test things I don't understand

"T-This is... my body's moving on it's own...! There's no doubt about it! This has to be that Parrot's... stand attack!"

- Hol Horse

The unnamed Parrot's Stand is the Stand of the Parrot, main antagonist of Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak, a spinoff manga of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

Appearance
The Parrot's Stand has the appearance of a mechanical bird, slightly larger than its user. The head is small, with it having tubes protruding out from it, and a large ridge along the top. While its central body is unseen, it appears to have a thin torso with several appendages. These arms have several circular joints which connect to several circular reels. These reels can unfurl into long thin strips, similar to a tape dispenser.

The Stand's legs are also fully mechanical in appearance, with them starting from the center of one of the reels. These legs have another reels attached at where a knee joint would be, and they connect to large mechanical talons (similar to that of a large predatory bird)

Abilities
The Parrot's Stand, while still having an undefined ability, is a devastating long-range Stand.

Memory Punch Cards
The Parrot's Stan appears to use as its primary form of attack. These punched cards are released from the reels on the body of the Stand. They are then punched and inserted into the target, before bursting out of their body through the mouth, ears, and other holes. Their eyes also gain a dimpled texture, with multiple holes appearing in them.

These Punched Cards force the enemy to re-experience past events, such as when it was used on Hol Horse he began to relive his confrontation with Dio. These past events even force people to reenact the event, such as Hol Horse moving to shoot as he did in his confrontation with DIO. This can even be done to those who have not lived through the said past event, as Hiraoka was forced to relive the experience of Wilson Phillips, which caused him to crash his car.

Trivia

 * While no direct connection has been made, the eyes on the Parrot Stand's victims bear a striking resemblance to that of Moody Blues, another Stand that revolves around replaying past events.

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"My Stand, Satanic Coupler, solidifies and displaces matter. Unlike yours it is visible and tangible, and if I skillfully shape it into a locomotive, it is most unlikely that it will be taken for a Stand."

- Absalom

Satanic Coupler (サタニック・カプラー（凶悪連結器）) is the Stand of Absalom, featured in the "One-Way Trip from the Desert to Hell City" chapter from the novel The Genesis of Universe, based on Stardust Crusaders.

The Stand solidifies and displaces matter, allowing it to create a powerful locomotive.

Appearance
Satanic Coupler takes the form of a diesel locomotive. It is implied that the Stand can take any form as long as Absalom can gain knowledge of it, but he keeps it in the form of a train as to not raise suspicion that it is a Stand. Satanic Coupler consists of two cars, a locomotive car with an engine and a passenger car. These two cars take two main forms throughout the story, being the pre-upgrade version and the post-upgrade version.

Pre-Upgrade
The front car of the Pre-Upgrade version is determined to be a DP35 EMD by Joseph. The locomotive is orange, with the initials "SK" written on the side (most likely the initials for the Stand's name). The passenger car of the train possesses numerous characteristics of different trains from across different time periods. It has an LED board on the side which can display messages (dated to be from the 1980s), an old fashioned loudspeaker which Absalom used to talk to the Joestar Group from within the front cabin (dated to be from the 1930s), and various other decors from the same time period as the loudspeaker.

Post-Upgrade
After collecting information from the minds of the Joestar Group, Satanic Coupler changes into a more advanced locomotive. While still retaining its two-car structure, it gains the appearance of a -A, a high-velocity train by. The locomotive gained more modern characteristics, such as hydraulic breaks, air valves, and halogen headlights

By gaining the memories of Iggy and what he sees trains as it also gained more monstrous characteristics. These include a pair of serrated horns and many sharp quills.

Abilities
Satanic Coupler acts not only as a form of transportation for the user but also as a powerful offensive tool, especially if the user is able to gain more knowledge on how to improve his Stand.

Locomotive Creation
Satanic Coupler's primary use is to create a train. This train has high power, being able to crash through buildings and the walls of a subway tunnel with general. It also displays high endurance, with the outer wall hard enough to only receive scratches after attacks from Silver Chariot's and Star Platinum's and the inner wall capable of warping to dodge attacks, or parry and absorb any impact. However, the bottom of the train is vulnerable and can be damaged easily. The structure itself can also be damaged, even if not destroyed (e.g. By removing the tow hook, the wagons detach from the locomotive). The train is extremely fast and agile, with it traveling at around 200 km/h in its pre-upgrade form, and up to 515.3 km/h in its post-upgrade form.

In addition, the Stand can self-destruct. This is usually done by Absalom as a last resort, as he shrinks his Stand down to enter a human body to kill its enemies from inside their bodies.

Tentacles
Satanic Coupler can produce multiple tentacles within its inner hull, which can restrain people inside. These tentacles also release a viscous liquid which can paralyze those it comes in contact with. The primary use of these tentacles though is to gain access to a person's memories. By sucking the blood out from someone, Satanic Coupler can gain their memories, specifically about trains. Absalom uses this knowledge to upgrade Satanic Coupler with newer parts. He can also use someone's imagination to form new parts, as it used Iggy's idea of a train being a monster to make Satanic Coupler more monstrous.

Trivia

 * While Joseph describes Satanic Coupler as a DP35 by, no such train by EMD actually exists. The closest train by name is the and  (both produced by EMD), while his description of the train more matches the GP35.