Hermit Purple
- For a similar Stand, see Joseph's Stand
Hermit Purple (ハーミットパープル(隠者の紫), Hāmitto Pāpuru) is the Stand of Joseph Joestar, featured in the third part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Stardust Crusaders, and briefly in the fourth part, Diamond is Unbreakable.
Hermit Purple is a vine-like Stand that Joseph summons on his hands. It allows its user to divine information and messages from other locations.
Appearance
Hermit Purple manifests itself as multiple, purple,[3] thorn-covered vines that spawn from Joseph's hands. The vines are strong enough to support his own weight and long enough to bind someone completely.
Hermit Purple represents the tarot card, The Hermit, which symbolizes introspection and contemplation, best represented in the Stand's powers of divination.
Color Schemes
Abilities
Hermit Purple's vines are relatively weak in combat, but they provide Joseph with considerable divination ability, enabling him to materialize any type of information, such as an image, a location or even thoughts.
Joseph demonstrated that he can use the vines as ropes, whose movements he can control at will. Their length and resistance make it possible for Joseph to swing from place to place[4] and tie someone.[5] The vines have limited resistance as a sufficiently strong Stand or even a strong Vampire can break them.[5] The vines are dexterous enough to manipulate a video game controller.
Divination
Hermit Purple's main ability is to divine information. By using any object or material in conjunction with Hermit Purple, Joseph Joestar can display any information he wishes to see. To date, he has used Hermit Purple to:
- Produce psychic photographs by destroying a camera.[2] The broken camera then produces a photograph which will reveal the information as it is in that moment of time, such as a person in their current situation.
- Produce live psychic videos on a television.[6] It can randomly display different TV channels to formulate a coherent sentence which will either show a person's thoughts[7] or film a place, even the most improbable ones such as the interior of Joseph's brain.
- Conjure a map out of dust on an unpaved road, with precision on the location of a desired item.[8]
- Analyze machinery to see if it has been tampered with in some way as he did with Telence T. D'Arby’s video game cartridges and console.
Electronics Manipulation
Hermit Purple seems to be able to interface and tamper with electronic systems beyond its ability to divine information. Joseph uses this ability once to take control of a Cessna's electronic system and force it to stabilize.[9] He also uses Hermit Purple to check Telence T. D'Arby's video game console to confirm whether it has been tampered with or not.[10]
Techniques
Joseph has shown the ability to transmit the Ripple through Hermit Purple as an extension of his body. Joseph utilizes this property of Hermit Purple to attack DIO[5] or prevent him from touching him by wrapping himself in it.[11] In the anime adaptation Joseph uses this ability to transmit the Ripple in the encounter with Steely Dan. When Lovers exits his brain, he uses his Ripple to kill all the growing flesh-buds.
Chapters / Episodes
- Chapter 117: The Man with the Star Birthmark
- Chapter 121: The Power Called a "Stand"
- Chapter 127: Dark Blue Moon, Part 1 (Cover only)
- Chapter 136: Yellow Temperance, Part 1
- Chapter 148: Empress, Part 3
- Chapter 149: Empress, Part 4
- Chapter 155: Justice, Part 2
- Chapter 160: Lovers, Part 1
- Chapter 162: Lovers, Part 3
- Chapter 163: Lovers, Part 4
- Chapter 164: Lovers, Part 5
- Chapter 170: Death Thirteen, Part 3
- Chapter 181: High Priestess, Part 3
- Chapter 182: High Priestess, Part 4
- Chapter 185: "The Fool" Iggy and "Geb" N'Doul, Part 3
- Chapter 188: "The Fool" Iggy and "Geb" N'Doul, Part 6 (Mentioned)
- Chapter 201: "Bastet" Mariah, Part 3
- Chapter 202: "Bastet" Mariah, Part 4
- Chapter 203: "Bastet" Mariah, Part 5
- Chapter 204: "Bastet" Mariah, Part 6
- Chapter 211: D'Arby the Gambler, Part 1 (Mentioned)
- Chapter 228: D'Arby the Player, Part 2
- Chapter 229: D'Arby the Player, Part 3
- Chapter 230: D'Arby the Player, Part 4
- Chapter 237: D'Arby the Player, Part 11
- Chapter 250: DIO's World, Part 4
- Chapter 252: DIO's World, Part 6
- Chapter 253: DIO's World, Part 7
- Chapter 254: DIO's World, Part 8
- Chapter 255: DIO's World, Part 9
- Chapter 256: DIO's World, Part 10
- Chapter 267: Jotaro Kujo! Meets Josuke Higashikata, Part 2 (Mentioned)
- Chapter 308: Red Hot Chili Pepper, Part 2 (Mentioned)
- Chapter 315: We Picked Up Something Crazy!, Part 1
- Chapter 412: Cheap Trick, Part 1 (Mentioned)
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 1: A Man Possessed by an Evil Spirit
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 2: Who Will Be the Judge?! (Flashback)
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 3: DIO's Curse
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 8: Devil
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 12: Empress
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 14: Justice, Part 1
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 15: Justice, Part 2
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 16: Lovers, Part 1
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 17: Lovers, Part 2
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 19: Death Thirteen, Part 1
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 24: High Priestess, Part 2
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 25: "The Fool" Iggy and "Geb" N'Doul, Part 1
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 30: "Bastet" Mariah, Part 1
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 31: "Bastet" Mariah, Part 2
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 32: "Sethan" Alessi, Part 1
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 33: "Sethan" Alessi, Part 2
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 40: D'Arby the Player, Part 1
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 41: D'Arby the Player, Part 2
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 42: The Miasma of the Void, Vanilla Ice, Part 1
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 45: DIO's World, Part 1
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 46: DIO's World, Part 2
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 48: The Faraway Journey, Farewell Friends
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 11: Red Hot Chili Pepper, Part 1 (Mentioned)
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 13: We Picked Up Something Crazy!
- Golden Wind Episode 29: Destination: Rome! The Colosseum (Silhouette/Photo only)
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 1 (OVA): The Evil Spirit
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 7 (OVA): Justice
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 8 (OVA): "The Fool" Iggy and "Geb" N'Doul, Part 1
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 9 (OVA): "The Fool" Iggy and "Geb" N'Doul, Part 2
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 12 (OVA): DIO's World: Kakyoin - The Duel in the Web
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Novel)
- JOJO'S BIZARRE ADVENTURE OVER HEAVEN
- Iggy the Stray Dog
- El Aleph Final Chapter: Epilogo (Mentioned)
Creation and Development
Because Hermit Purple belonged to the previous part's protagonist, Hirohiko Araki decided not to make it combat-oriented nor have a humanoid appearance so it wouldn't stand out too much.[12] In fact, he wanted to make Joseph's ability fitting for his role as a navigator. He was inspired by both telephone lines or network cables and the fact that a guide would use "lines" that connect them across the world to receive information; therefore, he made the Stand's vines represent those "lines". Hermit Purple's color was chosen because, according to Araki, purple is a classy color and easy to make work with older characters. He figured that purple would work better with an old Joseph rather than someone younger.[13]
With Joseph returning in Part 3, Araki wondered about how to visualize the Ripple in terms of a Stand. The Ripple is life energy that spreads throughout the body, and Hermit Purple's vines are meant to be an explicit visual expression of such, by literally wrapping itself around Joseph's body.[13]
Gallery
Trivia
- Hermit Purple's thorns can briefly be seen in the background of the second opening of the anime, "BLOODY STREAM". This acts as foreshadowing, as the opening is for Battle Tendency, and Joseph does not develop Hermit Purple until he is much older in the following part, Stardust Crusaders.
References
- ↑ JOJO A-GO!GO!: STANDS, p.104
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 117: The Man with the Star Birthmark
- ↑ JoJonium Volume 9 (Joseph Joestar) - Special Interview
- ↑ Chapter 252: DIO's World, Part 6
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Chapter 254: DIO's World, Part 8
- ↑ Chapter 162: Lovers, Part 3
- ↑ Chapter 160: Lovers, Part 1
- ↑ Chapter 149: Empress, Part 4
- ↑ Chapter 170: Death Thirteen, Part 3, p.9
- ↑ Chapter 230: D'Arby the Player, Part 4, p.8
- ↑ Chapter 255: DIO's World, Part 9
- ↑ JOJOVELLER: Araki's Stand Commentaries - Hermit Purple
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 JoJonium Volume 9 (Joseph Joestar) - Special Interview