Whitesnake

"You were one move…too late…"

- Whitesnake

Whitesnake (ホワイトスネイク) is the Stand of Enrico Pucci, featured in the sixth part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Stone Ocean.

Whitesnake possesses the ability to create illusions and extract two types of discs from a person's psyche which can then be inserted into someone else's head, allowing them to either see the disc owner's memories or use their Stand.

After Pucci fuses with The Green Baby, Whitesnake evolves into C-Moon and later into Made in Heaven.

Appearance
Whitesnake is a humanoid Stand of a height and build similar to Pucci's. It is sparsely clothed in black, with a mask covering its face to the bottom of where its nose would be, in a piece that rises above its head by half its height in a row of peaks, like a crown. Its attire is based on Araki's image of an executioner. Its light skin is marked by horizontal stripes of roughly an inch's height, with "GΔCT" (after the four of ) repeatedly written on every other stripe. Its irises are also unique, appearing as if they are melting.

Whitesnake is white and black in most media featuring it.

Personality
Despite being controlled by Pucci, Whitesnake moves with its own sense of self-awareness and will often portray a cold, scornful, and hateful personality. It acts as Pucci's mouthpiece and avatar throughout Green Dolphin Street Prison, serving to enforce his dominance over the other guards and personnel while Pucci himself watches from afar.

Abilities
As a long-distance Stand, Whitesnake possesses an extended range (about 20 meters ), allowing its user, Enrico Pucci, to act undetected within the boundaries of Green Dolphin Street Prison. Despite this, it displays strength similar to that of close-range Stands and is capable of performing precise and deadly movements like stabbing Diver Down and Foo Fighters with its hands, due to having its own strong ego.

It's strong enough to fight Stands like Stone Free head-on, though not necessarily overpower them. Thus, Pucci relies on Whitesnake's esoteric set of powers to ambush enemies and take them down in one strike.

"Melt your Heart" & Illusion
Melt your Heart (心を溶かす) is Whitesnake's ability to produce an acid that slowly digests objects like stomach acid. It is first shown to constantly exude this acid and even take a partially molten form to hide, though this is only used once. While dissolving, targets of this attack are distracted in a delusional dream-state. A person trapped in the dream may wake up from it by noticing discrepancies between the dream and established reality. The melting portion of the ability requires a significant amount of time to use effectively, reflected in the "D" in its speed parameter.

Later, Whitesnake is shown creating sophisticated illusions to disguise itself as other people, having at one point impersonated Weather Report to ambush the Joestar Group and approach the Green Baby.

Disc Creation
Whitesnake's primary ability is to manipulate spirits through the use of special DISCS.

Whitesnake can first and foremost extract a portion or the entirety of a person's psyche out of their bodies in the form of tangible DISCS and then put them into people. To do so, Whitesnake must touch its victim and take the time to physically "extract" the disc from them; as such, partial extraction is ineffective.

There are two main types of DISCS: Memory Discs contain a person's memory and Stand Discs contain a person's Stand. Discs may be inserted into another person's head, allowing them to either freely consult the memories inside or use the corresponding Stand, much like the original user. Pucci can use this mechanic to force a detrimental power into someone, for example putting a water-boiling Stand DISC inside Foo Fighters despite its dependency on the water to survive. In certain instances, those with inserted discs can eject them, presumably through enough force to the head.

People whose Stand and Memory discs are extracted will fall unconscious and may die, their bodily functions stopping and having to be maintained through machines. Putting a Memory Disc back inside their rightful owner will restore them, however, the same does not apply with Stand Discs. A Stand User with only a Stand Disc can regain consciousness and be capable of learning, but the loss of their will to live results in muscle atrophy and eventual death of the body. Weather Report is an exception to this degradation for unknown reasons.

Whitesnake also demonstrates the ability to insert and extract Discs of miscellaneous use. Discs can contain instructions the host will instinctively obey without question, and enables them to do seemingly impossible feats like exploding, showcasing the power of suggestion over a physical body. Pucci has also inserted a music CD into Guccio's head, causing him to function as a music player. Whitesnake is shown to be able to extract senses, depriving Pucci of his sight, for instance, to protect him from Heavy Weather.

Whitesnake Ultimate
In the light novel JORGE JOESTAR, Pucci uses Whitesnake on Ultimate Kars causing a flood of discs to fall out of the Pillar Man. Kars immediately understands the ability and learns his own enhanced version of the Stand, named Whitesnake Ultimate (ホワイトスネイク・アルティメット).

Whitesnake Ultimate mostly resembles Pucci's Stand but is much larger. It bears similarities to an, having three heads and six arms. One of its faces is the same as Pucci's Whitesnake, whereas another has large sharp teeth covering the lower half of its face, and the third face has irises in its eyes and large lips.

Rather than the four nucleobases of DNA, the horizontal stripes on its body has "K△RZ" repeatedly written.

Abilities
Like the original Whitesnake, Kars can use Whitesnake Ultimate to extract Stand and Memory Discs out of anyone. After Kars learns how to use a Stand or Bound ability, he can make a copy of the ability and convert it into a disc. He can then give the copy of the ability to anybody while also keeping the ability for himself.

However, if he places discs containing copies of his ultimate Stands into an ordinary human, they will immediately explode as their bodies are not capable of withstanding Kars's ultimate power. Kars can create degraded versions of his Stands instead to give to others. There is a limit of one Stand per person unless they are an ultimate being like Kars.

Kars uses this ability to share Narancia Ghirga's U-Boat with Jorge Joestar.

Wound
In the final battle against Dio Brando, Whitesnake Ultimate is stabbed by Dio with an Arrow. This awakens a Wound in Whitesnake Ultimate, transforming it into C-Moon Ultimate Requiem.

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Trivia

 * Whitesnake and C-Moon's voice actor in All Star Battle, Takuya Kirimoto, also voiced J. Geil/Hanged Man in the Part 3 TV Anime and Eyes of Heaven.
 * It is revealed in the Heavy Weather arc that Whitesnake's ability was born out of Pucci's desire to keep his sister's soul and memory alive even after her death.

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