Purple Haze
Purple Haze (パープル・ヘイズ, Pāpuru Heizu) is the Stand of Pannacotta Fugo, featured in the fifth part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Vento Aureo. The Stand, alongside its user, plays a key role in two light novels inspired by Vento Aureo: Golden Heart, Golden Ring and Purple Haze Feedback.
Purple Haze is a fierce humanoid Stand that stores a deadly flesh-eating virus in the capsules on its hands.
Appearance
Purple Haze is a humanoid Stand with a similar height and build to Fugo's. Its face and body are patterned by horizontal lozenges of alternating shades, and it has spikes along its back. Armor pieces are present on its shoulders, elbows, and knees. The Stand's lips and appendages are loosely stitched, and its eyes have distinct irides with miotic pupils. Adorning its head is a helmet inspired by Roman design,[3] with a transparent visor in the approximate shape of a beak.
The Stand also wears a codpiece and a waistcloth with a back flap bearing a similar lozenge pattern to its body. In the anime, the back flap is replaced by a solid-color cape extending from beneath the Stand's shoulder blades.
Color Schemes
Personality
Purple Haze is a Stand with an unstable personality. It usually behaves with unrestrained violence in its actions, and is prone to incomprehensible mumbling and roars of rage in equal measure. However, Fugo is still capable of controlling it. Despite its tendency to drool uncontrollably, it also possesses a habit of obsessively cleaning the drool off itself until it bruises its own arm. It is stated that its temper, cleanliness, viral ability, and desire to "clean" everything reflect Fugo's own personality.[2]
Abilities
Purple Haze is a close-range Stand with remarkable strength as shown when it breaks a brick wall with a punch.[4] However it has a small limited range, like all Stands of its type, which means it cannot go far from Fugo.
Because of its deadly ability and potential for indiscriminate destruction, Fugo rarely uses Purple Haze, as stated by Abbacchio.[5]
Killer Virus Infection
Purple Haze can release a deadly virus that dissolves flesh in seconds.
The three capsules on each of Purple Haze's hands contain a particularly deadly flesh-eating virus.[2] When one of the capsules breaks, which typically happens when Purple Haze punches something, the virus is released into the surrounding air. Any person or animal within range will get infected by the virus and have it rapidly multiply within their body. In mere instants, the flesh-eating virus will consume the body, causing blisters covering the victim as their flesh also loses cohesion and liquefies. An adult human being will melt into organic goo within 30 seconds of contracting the virus.[2] Once the virus infects something, not even Fugo himself could cancel the effect of his power. In cases where Purple Haze is unable to shatter the capsules through direct contact, it can also fire them like a pressurized gun.[6][7]Because the virus indiscriminately affects friends and foes,[2] including Fugo himself,[8] Purple Haze's presence is extremely dangerous for both Fugo and his allies. The virus is also capable of harming other Stands.[2] However, the range of the virus itself is poor and it is weakened by exposure to light from any source.[2] Even in a lit room at night, it would only take about 30 seconds for the virus to be completely neutralized. Once fully exposed to sunlight, the virus is sterilized, which prevents it from spreading.
Despite the deadly nature of the virus, an organism with the right antibodies can survive Purple Haze. In one instance, a snake Giorno creates from a brick inside the range of the virus is able to naturally create antibodies and survive; Giorno is then able to use the same antibodies to create a vaccine and save himself from being decomposed.[6] Purple Haze's ability description also notes, however, that the virus has not reached its full maturity and is still developing.
Chapters / Episodes
- Chapter 480: Man in the Mirror and Purple Haze, Part 2
- Chapter 481: Man in the Mirror and Purple Haze, Part 3
- Chapter 483: Man in the Mirror and Purple Haze, Part 5
- Chapter 484: Man in the Mirror and Purple Haze, Part 6
- Chapter 485: Man in the Mirror and Purple Haze, Part 7
- Steel Ball Run Extra Chapter 3: Untitled Stand Chapter (Mentioned only)
- Golden Wind Episode 12: The Second Order from the Boss
- Golden Wind Episode 13: Man in the Mirror and Purple Haze
- Golden Wind Episode 13.5: Inizio del vento aureo
- Golden Wind Episode 21.5: determinazione
- Golden Wind Episode 28.5: destino
- Purple Haze Feedback Chapter 1: vitti 'na crozza
- Purple Haze Feedback Chapter 2: me voglio fà 'na casa (Mentioned only)
- Purple Haze Feedback Chapter 3: 'a vucchella
- Purple Haze Feedback Chapter 4: tu ca nun chiagne
- Purple Haze Feedback Chapter 6: fantasia siciliana (Mentioned only)
- Purple Haze Feedback Chapter 7: luna nova
- Purple Haze Feedback Chapter 8: 'o surdato 'nnammurato (Mentioned only)
Gallery
Trivia
References
- ↑ JOJO A-GO!GO!: STANDS, p.104
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Chapter 481: Man in the Mirror and Purple Haze, Part 3
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 JOJOVELLER: Araki's Stand Commentaries - Purple Haze
- ↑ Chapter 480: Man in the Mirror and Purple Haze, Part 2, p.13
- ↑ Chapter 480: Man in the Mirror and Purple Haze, Part 2
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Chapter 485: Man in the Mirror and Purple Haze, Part 7
- ↑ JOJOVELLER: STANDS, p.153
- ↑ Feelin' JOJO (February 1998)