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"Un poil trop tard...Jotaro. (「一手」遅カッタ…ナ…)"

- Whitesnake to Jotaro Kujo

Whitesnake (ホワイトスネイク) est le Stand d'Enrico Pucci, figurant dans la sixième partie de JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Stone Ocean.

Whitesnake possède la capacité de créer des illusion et d'extraire la psyché des gens sous la forme de disques contenant des parties de leurs esprits, comme le mémoire ou même leurs Stands.

Apparence
Whitesnake est un Stand humanoïde avec une taille et une carrure similaire à celle de Pucci, son manieur. Son corps de couleur claire est strié horizontalement avec des bandes larges de quelques centimètres et sur lesquelles sont inscrites les symboles "GΔCT" d'après les quatres de l'ADN. Whitesnake porte aussi quelques vêtements sombres. Une sorte de masque entourant sa tête et arborant des points entourant la tête comme une couronne, un col clouté couvrant aussi les épaules, entouré par des clous aux bords, et relié à une jupette par une bande sombre sur le devant, des manchettes, et des bottes assorties. Son apparence est basée sur celle d'un bourreau. Whitesnake a des yeux uniques qui n'ont pas d'iris mais qui comportent une fente courbée.

Personnalité
Whitesnake est actuellement un Stand doué de sa propre conscience et exhibe une personnalité froide, méprisante et haineuse. Il agit comme le porte-parole et l'avatar de Pucci tout au long de la Prison Green Dolphin Street, servant à imposer sa domination sur les autres gardes et le personnel tandis que Pucci regarde ses opérations de loin et se cache.

Pouvoirs
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.

Création de disques
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.

Attaque acide
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.

Histoire
Whitesnake est né du désir de Pucci de préserver la mémoire de Perla Pucci, sa bien-aimée petite soeur, qui s'est suicidé par sa faute et dont la mémoire a été préservée sous forme de disque.

Lorsque Pucci fusionne avec le Bébé Vert, Whitesnake évolue en C-Moon puis atteint sa forme finale, Made in Heaven.

JORGE JOESTAR
Whitesnake also appears in the novel , although it belongs to an incarnation of Enrico Pucci from the 37th universe. Kars develops his own enhanced copy of the Stand, known as Whitesnake Ultimate.

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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.