White Album (ホワイト・アルバム, Howaito Arubamu) is the Stand of Ghiaccio, featured in Vento Aureo.
White Album is mostly an ability, but it can be inferred that it takes the form of a light-colored suit, covering nearly all of Ghiaccio's body; the only unprotected area is a small opening at the back of his neck allowing air flow.
Its head bears two short cones, positioned somewhat like cat ears. It has a spiral on its forehead, which along with its cheeks pushes a clear visor into a Y-shaped fork, showing only Ghiaccio's eyes, nose and mouth.
Its feet stand on long blades, in the style of ice skates (or speed skates).
Befitting its name, White Album is presented in the digitally colored manga, TV anime adaptation and PS2 video game as being primarily white. The different hollows and decorations on the suit vary between adaptations, but are usually depicted as either blue, pink, yellow or green.
White Album is rare among Stands in that it appears as a suit for Ghiaccio to wear.[2] Protecting its user from harm and giving him the potent ability to freeze everything, White Album is a fearsome Stand in battle. It does, however, possess a weak point in the form of a vulnerable hole at Ghiaccio's neck.
White Album's signature ability is to dramatically decrease the temperature of anything Ghiaccio touches.
When the assassin touches something, the affected object's temperature decreases dramatically. White Album's power is so powerful it can reach temperatures of about -100 °C easily,[2] freeze gasoline,[3] and rapidly create a large quantity of ice out of sea water (faster than someone could swim).[4] Naturally, the cold is dangerous to the human body: White Album can freeze people, dropping the temperature to the point vital functions are threatened[2] and can solidify limbs to the point they can break like ice.[3][4]
As White Album drops the temperature, so does the ability of objects to move. At low enough temperatures, Ghiaccio can simply stop attacks in their tracks, making conventional attacks like gunshots or punches ineffective.[2][5]
Ghiaccio can also precisely control his power. He can form specific shapes of ice such as blades to ice skate on[3] or redirect the freezing of a large body of water.[4] Moreover, if he cancels White Album's freezing willingly, the previously affected objects immediately return to their normal temperature.[4] If Ghiaccio stops contact with a frozen object, it will return to its normal temperature.[2]
White Album can solidify the moisture surrounding him into an armor of ice.[3]
The armor is invulnerable to bullets[3] as it stops their movement long before they fully penetrate, and is at least strong enough to withstand Gold Experience's punches.[3] However, a massive enough object like a large screw bolt can pierce through it[6] and if Ghiaccio trips on something sharp, his armor's weight is enough to push the sharp object through the layers and threaten Ghiaccio's life.[5]
White Album also enhances the physical abilities of its user. With the armor, Ghiaccio becomes strong enough to break a stone statue with a single punch[7] or can skate so fast he's easily able to reach a car running at 80 km/h.[3] Like an igloo, the inside of the armor is kept insulated, meaning he is always warm.[8]
The only opening in the armor is an air hole on the back of the user's neck, making it the Stand's greatest weak spot.[6] However, Ghiaccio mitigates this by incorporating chunks of frozen air inside his armor as reserve and defrosting the air as he needs it, thus free to seal the airhole.[5]
When using Gently Weeps (ジェントリー・ウィープス, Jentorī Wīpusu), White Album can decrease the temperature to reach -210 °C or less, at which point the surrounding air itself freezes solid. With this technique, Ghiaccio is able to create floating sheets of invisible frozen air that are able to reflect bullets back to an attacker.[7] The two downsides of this ability is that it burns through Ghiaccio's stamina[7] and it doesn't perfectly cover Ghiaccio's body: if exposed, Sex Pistols can guide their bullets through the frozen air sheets to hit Ghiaccio directly.[5]
Manga Appearances
Anime Appearances
Stats
Ghiaccio uses his Stand to encase himself in thick ice
Ghiaccio manifesting White Album midfall
The Stand first full appearance
chasing Mista & Giorno
Taunting Mista from the safety of his Suit
The Stand's Durability, being able to withstand a punching barrage from Gold Experience
White Album Gently Weeps first used
The Stand covering its master with a thick layer of ice
White Album freezing Sex Pistols No. 2
The Stand's form manifesting
Fully formed, Ghiaccio chases the duo using his Stand
Ghiaccio's furious face, visible through the suit's visor
White Album's suit is strong enough to block bullets
Mista firing at the pursuing Ghiaccio
The Sex Pistols sabotage the Stand's Skates
Ghiaccio sliding head first along the pavement
Ghiacchio freezing the leaking gasoline to cling on to the car
Not even Gold Experience can manage to break through White Album's armor
White Album in GioGio's Bizarre Adventure
Super Action Statue figure
Chara Heroes; Part 5 Vol.3
