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“
Did you see it? The thorns from my hand? That is my Stand! It can reveal faraway visions and place them on film. Of course, I gotta bust a 3,000 yen camera every time I use it...
”
—Joseph Joestar, Chapter 117

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

 
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The Hermit

Hermit Purple manifests itself as multiple, purple, 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 is consistently portrayed as being purple across all media featuring it, befitting its name.

Hermit Purple represents the Tarot Card The Hermit, which symbolizes introspection and contemplation, best represented in the Stand's powers of divination.

Color Schemes

The series is known for alternating colors between media, the information presented below may or may not be canon.
Vines(Purple)
Vines(Purple)
Vines(Dark Purple)
Vines(Magenta)
Vines(Light Purple)
Vines(Purple and blue)
Vines(Purple)
Vines(Dark Purple)

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[1] and tie someone.[2] The vines have limited resistance as a sufficiently strong Stand or even a strong Vampire can break them.[2] The vines are dexterous enough to manipulate a video game controller.

Divination

 
Hermit Purple divining information from a television

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.[3] 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.[4] It can either randomly display different TV channels to formulate a coherent sentence which will show a person's thought or film a place, even the most improbable ones such as the interior of Joseph's brain.
  • 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.
  • Conjure a map out of dust on an unpaved road, with precision on the location of a desired item.[5]

Ripple Transmission

Joseph has shown the ability to transmit the Ripple through Hermit Purple as an extension of his body. Joseph has used this property of Hermit Purple to attack DIO[2] or prevent him from touching him by wrapping himself in it.[6]

Chapters / Episodes

Book Icon.png Manga Appearances
Chapters in order of appearance

TV Icon.png Anime Appearances
Episodes in order of appearance

Gallery

  • HermitPAvdol.png

    Joseph shares Hermit Purple with Avdol to save Polnareff and Kakyoin from Geb in the OVA

  • Joseph uses Hermit Purple to save himself from Geb attack

  • HermitWeb.png

    Joseph builds a web of Hermit Purple to defend against DIO

  • JosephTrollsDIO.gif

    Joseph uses Hermit Purple to weaken a structure to bait DIO into the trap and slow him down

  • As DIO approaches, Joseph arms himself with Hermit Purple

  • HermitHamon.png

    Hermit Purple infused with Hamon

  • Joseph covers himself with Hamon fused Hermit Purple

  • Hermit Purple in the OP, Bloody Stream (the vine next to Joseph Joestar)

  • Hermit Purple and it's tarot card

  • Hermit Purple used Divination through the television

  • Joseph's Hermit Purple "taking" a spirit photo.

  • Joseph's Hermit Purple used on a plane.

  • Joseph's Hermit Purple projecting what's on Joseph's brain onto a TV.

  • A map of Varanasi made with Joseph's Hermit Purple's ability.

  • Hermit Purple crumbles away as Joseph dies.

  • Hermit Purple Stats

  • Hermit Purple's stats in Diamond is Unbreakable.

  • Hermit Purple Part 4.png

    Hermit Purple being used by Joseph Joestar in Part 4

  • Hermit Purple Key Art

  • Joseph Joestar with Hermit Purple Action-figure

  • Another Joseph figure with Hermit Purple

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 the following part, Stardust Crusaders.
    • However, when speaking about Joseph Joestar in JoJonium Vol. 9, Araki states "If Jotaro's group time-traveled to the world of Part 2, they would probably be able to see Hermit Purple wrapped around Joseph just like in Part 3."
  • Since Hermit Purple belonged to the previous part's protagonist, Araki decided not to make it combat-oriented or have a humanoid appearance so it wouldn't stand out too much.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Chapter 252, DIO's World Part 6
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Chapter 254, Dio's World Part 8
  3. ↑ Chapter 117, The Man with the Star Birthmark
  4. ↑ Chapter 162, The Lovers Part 3
  5. ↑ Chapter 149, The Empress Part 4
  6. ↑ Chapter 255, DIO's World Part 9
  7. ↑ JOJOVELLER: Araki's Stand Commentaries - Hermit Purple

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