Yoshikage Kira being pierced by the Arrow
The Six Arrow Heads discovered by Diavolo
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La Flèche (矢, Ya)), aussi nommé L'Arc et la Flèche (弓と矢, Yumi to Ya) si mentionné avec l'arc, est un artefact puissant introduit durant Diamond is Unbreakable.
La Flèche permet de tourner tous ceux qui lui survivent en manieurs de Stand. Durant les parties 4 et 5, la Flèche est un objet et objectif majeur et son influence va jusque dans la partie Stardust Crusaders.
L'influence de la Flèche est ressentie jusque dans les partie 5 et 6 Vento Aureo et Stone Ocean et son passé est expliqué dans Vento Aureo.
Il y a près de 50000 ans, une météorite est tombée sur Cape York, au Groenland. Elle a été formellement découverte en 1978 lorsqu'une équipe d'excavation minérale a découvert son cratère. En approchant la météorite, l'équipe à éveillé un virus endormi dans la météorite et la roche environnante et deux membres été contaminés. Bien qu'ils soient morts, ils ont montré des pouvoirs surnaturels avant de succomber Des recherches ont été conduites mais les chercheurs n'ont pas déterminé que le virus n'aurait pour but que de tout exterminer. Le virus pourrait consumer toute vie mais une poignée d'individu à fort caractère pouvaient survivre et acquérir un pouvoir Stand avec.[1]
Plusieurs siècles avant la découverte de la météorite, des hommes voulaient déjà utiliser le pouvoir contenu dans la météorite un pouvoir divin et sculpté six flèches à partir de la roche. Ces flèches furent perdues jusqu'en 1986 lorsque Diavolo les découvrit dans des ruines en Egypte dans le cadre d'une fouille archéologique. Il a gardé les Flèches pour lui. En conservant une flèche pour son retour en Italie, il vendit les cinq autres à Enya. Ces flèches furent ensuite distribuée à différentes personnes dans l'organisation de DIO puis trouvées par ceux qui les avaient vaincus. Certains de ces propriétaires de flèches furent Keicho Nijimura, Yoshihiro Kira, et Jean Pierre Polnareff.[2]
Ceux qui sont percés par la Flèche ou le pouvoir d'acquérir un Stand, qu'ils soient des humains ou des animaux.
Si la cible n'a pas la force spirituelle suffisante, elle vont mourir de leur blessure. Cependant, il semble aussi que les Flèches sont automatiquement guidées vers ceux qu'elles jugent dignes d'être percés.
It is theorized that the meteorite sought out Earth through the will of its many strong spirits, rather than striking the planet by chance.
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In certain cases, such as with Ken Oyanagi and Stray Cat, with neither of them being exposed to regeneration or regenerative abilities, the wound caused by the Arrow will heal and leave a hole about the size of an average coin.
The Arrow's effects are also transferable down bloodlines, generally without exception as the Arrow that pierced Jonathan Joestar's body taken over by Dio awakened Stands in the rest of the Joestar family, with certain people without the necessary spiritual strength suffering from the strain (such as Holy Kujo and Josuke Higashikata at the time). A family member without the spiritual strength to control a Stand will be slowly overwhelmed by it as if they were suffering a severe fever as it happened with Holy Kujo and Josuke.
If the Arrow pierces or cuts the Stand instead of the user,[3] the Stand completely changes form and its powers become drastically greater than usual, if they are not wholly replaced by a new set of abilities. These new, evolved Stands are referred to as Requiem Stand. In the two instances where this form was achieved, Requiem was added to the end of the Stand's name. Little is known about the mechanisms of this transformation, and the only constant is that Stands become magnitudes more powerful, or rather dangerous, than their previous form. It is unknown if the same principle of having a high enough fighting spirit still applies either, but the possibility of the Arrow rejecting a Stand User that isn't worthy has been raised by Diavolo. Whether the transformation can be reversed or not is also unclear. When Silver Chariot first turned into Chariot Requiem, Polnareff managed to cancel the transformation by snatching the Arrow from its hands. When it reappeared, Chariot Requiem could remain even without the Arrow in its possession.
Fragments of Arrow-heads can retain the effects of the Arrow and seek out potential Stand users. Jotaro gives a shard of an Arrow-head in an amulet to Jolyne which awakens Stone Free.[4]
Six Arrows have been revealed to date. Following their theft from an archaeological site in Egypt by Diavolo in 1986, five of the six were sold to Enya the Hag. Their subsequent provenance is outlined below:
The whereabouts of the remaining two Arrows sold to Enya are unknown.[9] However, there are several instances in the series where an unidentified Arrow appears:
A similar case happens in the alternate universe, in a desert along the trail of the Steel Ball Run.
In this case, a meteorite crashes into the desert and forms a mobile formation of land known as the "Devil's Palm" that would change location every time and was feared by the natives near the area.
As was the case with the Arrow, it was rumored that the "Devil's Palm" sought out future Stand users, and like the Arrow, imposed a heavy affliction upon them from which the person would survive and obtain a Stand.
In JoJolion, an unexplained phenomenon causes several people to acquire a Stand after being bitten by something, only leaving a bite mark.
Yoshikage Kira being pierced by the Arrow
The Six Arrow Heads discovered by Diavolo
The Bow and Arrow seen hanging on DIO's wall in Stardust Crusaders
from I Want You
Enya's Arrow
The Arrow inside Black Sabbath's mouth
Polnareff's Arrow
Keicho's arrow, as seen in the film.
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