Daiya Higashikata
Daiya Higashikata (東方 大弥, Higashikata Daiya) is a supporting character and tentative ally featured in JoJolion.
At 16, she is the youngest of Norisuke Higashikata IV's four children.
Appearance
Daiya is a pretty, petite teenage girl. She has black, chin-length hair with eyebrow-level bangs, and large, dark eyes. Her outfits usually feature headwear with faux bear ears. She also wears vertically-striped thigh highs.
Personality
Daiya is the youngest member of Norisuke Higashikata IV's progeny at 16 years of age. She personifies a certain kawaii, between the toy-like nature of her Stand's appearance and the game-playing it facilitates, her childlike possessiveness of and offense at Josuke Higashikata's betrayal, and the playful manner of her speech.
She is infatuated with Josuke. After engaging him with her Stand, she assumes a threatening possessiveness; however, upon her defeat she settles for a warm preference. Josuke finds Daiya as an easy source of information and guidance in the Higashikata household by relying on her need for him to like her, as if to atone for her prior actions.
Daiya is severely sight impaired being barely able to see light or read a paper right under her nose, yet she is highly self-reliant and capable of orientation, at least within the family home.
Abilities
- Main article: California King Bed
With her Stand, California King Bed, after engaging them in a unique game, Daiya is able to win and enjoy an opponent's memories.
Synopsis
When Daiya was two, she fell into the area where the Wall Eyes are nowadays. Her vision continuously worsened from that instant, but she acquired her Stand California King Bed in exchange.
Daiya is introduced as the second daughter and youngest child of Norisuke Higashikata IV's family. She is a big fan of progressive rock, especially the band Yes. At her first encounter with Josuke, she questions him if he likes the Misty Mellotron, an electronic instrument. When her father asks Josuke to look after her. She refuses to be treated in a special way for being blind, saying that he should act natural.
Daiya uses her Stand on Josuke in order to take advantage of him via seduction. She takes his very limited memories of what transpired since he was discovered by Yasuho. While taking his memory of the symbol that Yoshikage Kira had that the Higashikatas had, the memory of Yasuho and the memory of using his Stand, Soft & Wet. She almost succeeds in keeping them until she finds herself standing on his shadow (which reverses the memory taking abilities of her Stand).
Despite her mischief, Josuke uses her to go into the secret room that he was forbidden to enter only to come across a book of the family tree which connects Yoshikage Kira of the Joestar family as a distant relative to the Higashikata family. Afterwards, she still is infatuated with Josuke, albeit harmlessly, but the feelings are definitely not mutual, much to her father's increasing dismay & worry.
Trivia
- In Japanese, "Daiya" is a phonetic shorthand for "Diamond", keeping with the "card" naming theme of the Higashikata girls.
- The way she holds memories is similar to how the D'Arby Brothers Stands Osiris and Atum holds souls, due to how the three Stands can hold items (Memories & Souls) & the items that it is inside of (Chess pieces, poker chips, dolls) cannot be destroyed or the memory or soul is destroyed as well.
- Daiya's love for the progressive rock band Yes and the song "Heart of the Sunrise" is reflected in the choice of the song "Roundabout", both from the album Fragile, for the ending theme to Season 1 of the JoJo anime.
- When riding a bicycle she makes a reference to the single "Bicycle Race" by Queen, continuing a tradition of Queen references across both incarnations of Morioh, previously centered on the Stand Killer Queen.
- Daiya greatly resembles Sugar Mountain, both being nearly blind, with a similar hairstyle, hood-like headwear and a short dress with stockings.
- She is hinted at being the Alternate Universe version of Yukako Yamagishi, seeing as both of them try to capture and detain a protagonist (Yukako kidnaps Koichi, Daiya kidnaps Josuke.) how they both seemingly feel some sort of attraction towards the person they take captive, and how both ask the respective person they kidnapped if they hate them afterwords, as well as both characters becoming minor allies later in the story.
Gallery
Daiya with California King Bed
Daiya with Memory chess
- Daiya.PNG
Daiya's most known and first outfit
Daiya's second outfit
Daiya in her swimsuit
References
- ↑ JJL Chapter 7: Josuke, Go to the Higashikata Family, p.15
- ↑ JJL Chapter 11: Family Tree, p.20
