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|engname = Father Pucchi<br />Enrico Pucchi

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A loyal follower, friend, and protégé of [[DIO]], Pucci aspires to implement a plan long formulated by DIO to "achieve heaven". Working as a {{W|Chaplain|chaplain}} at [[Green Dolphin Street Prison]], he secretly frames [[Jolyne Cujoh]] and uses her as bait to lure [[Jotaro Kujo]] and his memories of [[DIO's DiaryNotebook|DIO's diarynotebook]].

In early depictions, his irises had a plus sign -shaped star design which changed into a solid color incomplete disk, missing a circular section either on the left or the right side. These star irises appear again in the anime, however only for certain scenes, such as when he first meets Jolyne.

After fusing with [[the Green Baby]], Pucci's appearance takes a number ofseveral superficial changes. Strands of hair join to his eyebrows, forming a five-pointed star on his forehead and his right sideburn joinjoins with it. His hair changes design with three shaved lines going from his left temple to the base of his skull. He grows ponytails or dreadlocks, which thread through the holes of his collar. A [[Star Birthmark|star-shaped birthmark]] also appears on his shoulder.<ref>{{Ch|SO Chapter 96}}, p.2</ref>

In early depictions, like the Green Baby, his eyelashes grow into spikes and his skin has lines going over it and he replaces his previous belt with a much larger double belt, and his wrists now have golden bands. He has five ponytails, his sideburn has 4 lines going to his eyebrows with one going to the left eyebrow and the shaved lines follow the top of his scalp. Later depictions have only 3 ponytails, 3 lines joining his sideburn to his right eyebrow, and the shaved lines following his left temple.

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The priest Enrico Pucci is an amicable man turned fanatic, committed to a heretical notion of God's will and to [[DIO]]'s plan.

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Enrico Pucci then became a radical believer after frequenting DIO, whose principal credo was that humans were helpless before many forces whichthat ruled the Universe. Among these forces, God's will and Fate — which Pucci dubs "Gravity" — were the most brought up. Pucci's backstory, full of near-impossible coincidences and twists of fate; and Perla's death whose responsibility couldn't be pinned on anybody, in particular, were the probable inceptions of this belief.<ref name=":0" /> Prone to chitchat, a lingering effect of his many discussions with DIO, Pucci often brings multiple random trivia to drive his point: observing [[Miraschon]] try to steal a golden cross, Pucci explained how Miraschon couldn't escape her nature;<ref>{{Ch|SO Chapter 34}}, p.15</ref> similarly, Pucci explained to Jolyne how a certain species of reckless swallows died young because they didn't realize their limits, and used this as a metaphor for the Joestar bloodline.<ref>{{Ch|SO Chapter 94}}, p.8</ref> Mixing this belief with DIO's plan to "attain Heaven", Pucci sought to make every human know their fated paths via Made in Heaven's power, and give them the "resolution" to accept their destiny, calling it true "happiness". Essentially, Pucci wished that humans realized that they couldn't fight Fate and makeput them at peace with their status as subordinates of Fate.<ref>{{Ch|SO Chapter 157}}, p.8-10</ref>

In his quest forto attainingattain Heaven, Pucci used many immoral methods including murder, manipulation, and bribery, being merciless with his words and actions. Pucci was particularly callous about human lives, considering that he worked for the greater good anyway and that these sacrifices were insignificant. DIO's plan notably included the sacrifice of 36 human lives, and Pucci also sought to murder anyone who would cross his path, even [[Emporio Alnino]], who was a helpless child, or used minions he would recruit with manipulation or promises of favors as the priest of Green Dolphin Street. Underhanded tactics are not beneath him: Pucci favors imposing cruel choices toon his enemies, for instance throwing Jotaro's Memory DISC into the dying [[Narciso Anasui|Anasui]],<ref>{{Ch|SO Chapter 94}}, p19</ref> and asking Jolyne whether she wants to stop him or save Jotaro, as the DISC will disappear if Anasui dies and her father as a result, and Pucci would drive Jotaro through a similar choice in his final battle.<ref>{{Ch|SO Chapter 154}}, p.6-8</ref>

Generally, Pucci is a rather immoral person, having no qualmqualms about being violent (his first appearance has him smashing Miraschon face-first into the edge of a cabinet after discovering a theft)<ref>{{Ch|SO Chapter 34}}, p.13</ref> or collaborating with various criminals, viewing them as tools to further his plans. As a fanatic, Pucci neither enjoys nor dislikes the numerous immoral acts he commits, being focused on his plan above all. As DIO planned for, his friend Pucci doesn't take any interest whatsoever in worldly concerns such as wealth or sex, and his only drives are his friendship with DIO and his belief,<ref>{{Ch|SO Chapter 96}}, p.8</ref> although, during their first meeting, DIO noticed a burgeoning evil in the priest who was reading a book about a clergyman committing adultery and running from his office to become an artist.<ref name=":0" /> In his goal to obtain DIO's plans, he sacrificed Johngalli A., the only one of his original allies left, and DIO's son Donatello. His twin brother [[Weather Report|Wes]] told him when he regained his memory, that he was "the worst evil: an evil man who didn't know that he was evil".<ref>{{Ch|SO Chapter 136}}, p.10</ref>

A rather reserved priest, Pucci became more and more exalted as the plan neared its completion, having occasional outbursts of enthusiasm and celebrating the Green Baby's conception. Prior toBefore acquiring Made in Heaven, Pucci was an anxious person and used to recite the prime numbers,<ref>{{Ch|SO Chapter 49}}, p.7</ref> which calmed him thanks to their indivisibility. Upon unlocking it, however, Pucci became supremely confident, and began to express his emotions more freely, exasperated at Jolyne's persistence to resist him and angrily shout her name.<ref>{{Ch|SO Chapter 155}}, p.6</ref>

Pucci develops C-MOON with the instructions in [[DIO's DiaryNotebook|DIO's diarynotebook]] and with [[DIO's Bone|DIO's bone]], which manipulates gravity. It can create a gravitational field around Pucci, and its punches pull things inside out, essentially destroying them in the process.

Pucci finally develops Made in Heaven with further instructions in DIO's diarynotebook, which steadily accelerates the speed of time by manipulating the universe's gravity. Unlike C-MOON, the effect has no range limitation and affects the whole universe.

Pucci is able to eat a pair of cherries without removing the seeds from their stemstems in his mouth.<ref>{{Ch|SO Chapter 34}}, p.12</ref>

*[[Rikiel]]: Rikiel is another of the 4 known illegitimate children that DIO had during the events prior to Stardust Crusaders. Rikiel is a minor character of Stone Ocean and when he fatefully meets Pucci he awakens the stand [[Sky High]] which allows him to control a colony of {{W|Cryptidscryptids}} known as the [[Rods]]. Before meeting Pucci, Rikiel was not confident with his abilities but when Pucci unlocked his stand he had newfound confidence within himself.

*[[Jolyne Cujoh]]: To Pucci, he only saw her as bait at first in order to get to Jotaro but proved to be a bigger threat upon her determination on getting her father's Stand and memory disksDISCs. They became enemies right away once informed that [[Whitesnake]] was, in fact, Pucci and was eager to take his life but Pucci proved himself to be a lot more challenging when he threw her father's memories into a dying Anasui which gave Pucci the edge of achieving victory. Jolyne became more than determined in stopping him and putting an end to his plans, but her efforts would soon be fatal as she almost fell to Pucci's newly evolved [[C-MOON]] and would finally fall to his [[Made In Heaven]] while protecting Emporio, but has managed to cut the right side of his eye before dying.

=== Relationships in [[Eyes of Heaven]]===

*{{Ch|SO Chapter 111}} {{Flash}}

*{{Ch|SO Chapter 112}} {{Flash}}

*{{Ep|SO Episode 26}} {{Flash}}

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