Baby Face/fr

“

Ca prend un peu de temps, mais les enfants de Baby Face deviennent des Stands autoguidés invincibles ! Personne ne peut les vaincre !

”

—Melone, Chapter 501

Baby Face (ベイビィ・フェイス, Beibyi Feisu) est le Stand de Melone, figurant dans Vento Aureo.

Baby Face est un Stand unique car il peut concevoir un Stand secondaire doué de conscience qui peut être éduqué comme un enfant. Dans le manga, Melone appelle cet homonculus "Baby Face" mais dans il l'appelle Junior (ジュニア, Junia) dans l'adaptation anime.

Apparence

Baby Face primarily prend la forme d'un ordinateur portable équipée avec une trackball. Melone peut insérer des échantillons d'ADN dans Baby Face à travers un orifice pour analyse. Un visage large peut surgir du bas de l'ordinateur, ainsi que des bras et des jambes. Les gens ordinaires peuvent voir Baby Face.

"Junior" quant à lui, est un Stand humanoïde avec peu de détails sur son corps. Sa caractéristique principale est sa crête iroquoise formée de piques entrelacés. Son estomac est composé de plusieurs câbles qui relient le haut et le bas du corps. Son apparence est sensé rappeler une version maléfique de Echoes ACT3, donnant l'impression d'un petit garçon malveillant.^[1] Il commence son existence en tant que petit foetus mais grandit rapidement pour devenir un enfant puis un jeune adulte.

Baby Face et son enfant son bleus clair dans le manga couleur, et lavande dans l'anime. Baby Face n'apparait pas dans le jeu PS2, mais son enfant apparaît, étant blanc avec des piques vertes.

Palettes

Les palettes changent souvent entre les médias. L'information ci-dessous ne devrait pas être considérée comme canonique.

Corps(Bleu)

Yeux(Doré)

Corps(Blanc avec des piques vertes)

Yeux(Vert clair)

Corps(Pervenche)

Yeux(Jaune)

Personnalité

Alors que Baby Face lui-même n'a aucune personnalité à proprement parler, l'enfant qu'il génère est un stand indépendant avec une conscience distincte de Melone. L'enfant nait avec un intellect déjà assez développé pour converser avec Melone, mais pas de connaissances. Il nécessite donc une éducation appropriée pour assurer une croissance positive; sinon, il deviendra désobéissant et incontrôlable.^[2]

La personnalité de junior est basée sur sa mère et façonnée par «l'éducation» de Melone au fur et à mesure de son développement. Celui utilisé contre Bruno Bucciarati avait le mauvais caractère et la violence de sa mère, l'irascible Anita.

Pouvoirs

Baby Face

L'entité de base de Baby Face est un stand automatique avec peu de capacités de combat, qui n'est donc pas adapté pour la confrontation directe. Sa force réside dans sa capacité à créer des Stands secondaires pour que Melone envoie au devant pour tuer sa cible. Trouver une mère compatible et éduquer l'enfant prend du temps et requiert un certain effort, mais en retour Melone est quasiment sûr d'être sauf et peut potentiellement envoyer des assassins encore et encore.

Homunculus Generation

Melone can create a specially tuned human-Stand hybrid

Through its computer Stand, Baby Face has the ability to generate a secondary Stand that will fight in its place.^[2] By researching a suitable subject through the pseudoscience of examining a woman's characteristics, Melone gathers information and predicts the future junior's predispositions. Some traits that are identified include the woman's age and health (used to determine the physical strength of their "child"), their blood type and horoscope (which determine their "compatibility" with Melone's target; a poor compatibility leads to an aggressive "child"), and their preferred sex positions from the Kama Sutra (the relevance of this is unknown). If the data predicts a child suitable for his purposes, Melone unleashes Baby Face on the woman and impregnates her with Baby Face's child through undisclosed means.^[3]

Though the child is progenated through undisclosed means, it is stated that the insemination holds no similarities to human reproduction; upon waking up post-Stand encounter, Baby Face's victim shows no signs of being raped.^[1]

The development is fast, taking three minutes for a fertilized egg to fully develop into a new junior^[3] that then appears near the host. The child also appears to develop within or around the mother's head, approximately towards the back. This is hinted at when Baby Face's speech seemingly originates from that point, and urine trickles down the target woman's neck when it relieves itself.

If Melone possesses a sample of a target's blood, he can incorporate it into the junior by placing the sample in a niche beside Baby Face's keyboard. The resulting junior will be able to sense the target's location and track them no matter the distance.^[3]

Computer

In addition to generating homunculi, Baby Face can be used like a regular computer, capable of holding and interacting with the data gathered by Melone.^[3] The computer Stand also maintains contact with the junior, as if Melone was having an online discussion with the junior's spirit. A webcam and microphone allow Melone to show the junior images and converse with it orally.^[2] It also monitors the junior's status, allowing Melone to watch its growth.^[4]

Junior

The secondary Stand (or junior) that Baby Face creates is an independent, long-range, power-type Stand that acts as a surrogate fighter for Melone. It is powerful by default, can develop further depending on the progenitor, and its demise doesn't affect Melone, making it useful as a proxy assassin.^[5] On the other hand, because of its independence, it can disobey its creator under duress. Its creation is also a lengthy and intensive process, as Melone must find a suitable "mother" and train the resulting junior in order to carry out its mission. As a unique mix of human and Stand, the junior can be seen by anyone^[5] and is vulnerable to mundane things most Stands are immune to, like burning.^[4]

Matter Manipulation

Bucciarati is turned into nondescript cubes

By generating a square-shaped vacuum, the secondary Stand is capable of breaking matter apart into cubes while keeping lifeforms alive.^[2]

It can forcefully divide anything it touches into cubes, or merely extract a single cubic part of the target.^[6]^[7]

Upon dicing something, Baby Face is capable of rearranging and reconstituting the structure of said objects into anything it desires; for instance, it separated Trish's body into cubes and rearranged them into a table. It can even apply its powers to itself, reproducing the appearance of anything and blending in with the environment.^[6]^[7] The junior can thus hide inside an object, go into any adjacent object, or even fly about as a mass of cubes in order to evade attacks.^[8]

Although cubed people typically stay alive despite their condition,^[9] Baby Face can weaponize its ability by removing key parts of the body like the throat.^[7] It can also absorb the cubes for nourishment, although it is only seen using this on its "mother" to hasten its growth.^[2]

Physical Growth and Aging

The junior starts as a small baby able to hide inside someone's hair. Over a short period of time, it will grow both physically and mentally into a fully aged adult.^[2]

Aside from developing physically, it will grow as a Stand itself. While most autonomous Stands, such as Killer Queen's Sheer Heart Attack, lack precision or the ability to allow their users a sense of awareness to their current condition and status, Baby Face is able to assimilate information witnessed or heard. Through that learning and Melone's counsel,^[7] the Stand will become more powerful and efficient in combat. It can also acquire other skills separate from fighting, such as driving a motorcycle.^[8]

On the other hand, it is free-spirited and may go berserk^[5] and disobey Melone's orders, especially if its "mother" was strong-willed. For better or for worse, the Stand will then follow its instinct alone when battling an enemy.^[4]

Chapitres / Episodes

Apparition dans le Manga

Chapitres (ordre chronologique)

Chapter 500: Baby Face, Part 1 (Ordinateur)
Chapter 501: Baby Face, Part 2
Chapter 502: Baby Face, Part 3
Chapter 503: Baby Face, Part 4
Chapter 504: Baby Face, Part 5 (Junior)
Chapter 505: Baby Face, Part 6
Chapter 506: Baby Face, Part 7
Chapter 507: Head to Venice! (Décès)

Apparitions dans l'Anime

Episodes (ordre chronologique)

Golden Wind Episode 17: Baby Face
Golden Wind Episode 18: Head to Venice! (Décès)
Golden Wind Episode 21.5: determinazione
Golden Wind Episode 28.5: destino

Galerie

Baby Face (Computer form, without arms and legs)
BabyFacePCII.png

Baby Face (Computer form, with limbs)
The types of kissing shown on Baby Face's screen
A screen showing Baby Face's growth

The newborn Baby Face on the back of its "mother"'s head
Baby Face urinating on its "mother"
The woman targeted by Melone, disintegrates by Baby Face's ability
Trish Una disintegrated Baby Face
Bruno Bucciarati disintegrated by Baby Face
Baby Face transforms into a wooden furniture
Baby Face restructures itself into a stone and Giorno's eye part
Baby Face fused with a wall
Baby Face separate its legs to avoid an attack from Gold Experience
Baby Face caught by a vine created by Gold Experience
Baby Face disguising itself as Giorno's shadow
Baby Face severs Gold Experience's right hand
Wounded by a piranha Giorno's right hand changed into
Baby Face slashes Gold Experience's chest
Baby Face after a final growth spurt
Baby Face fused with a motorcycle
Baby Face exploding

Baby Face's computer form, displaying various forms of kissing
Baby Face's computer form, with limbs
Baby Face's computer form attacking its chosen host
Displaying its newfound knowledge of animals to Melone
Displaying the many uses of children's toys

Baby Face's homunculus form begins to grow
The homunculus hiding in its "mother"'s hair
The homunculus begins to grow hungry
Using its ability to disintegrate its mother
Using its ability to capture Trish
Using its ability to capture Bucciarati
Using its ability to carve out Giorno's throat
Carving out Giorno's right eye
Baby Face's homunculus form, fully revealed
The homunculus about to escape with Coco Jumbo on a motorbike
Disintegrating itself to evade Giorno's attack
Cutting off Giorno's arm
Announcing its "victory" to Giorno
Confused by Giorno's calm demeanor
Gold Experience turns its users arm into a piranha, which bursts out of Baby Face's back
After the growth spurt due to its anger
Baby Face's stats