Lovers
Lovers (ラバーズ(恋人), Rabāzu), is the Stand of Steely Dan featured in the third part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Stardust Crusaders.
It is a minuscule humanoid Stand with insectoid features. It can infiltrate the brain of a designated target and manipulate their pain receptors. Any damage that Steely Dan receives will be doubled in the victim.
Appearance
Lovers is, unlike most Stands, of microscopic size, enabling it to infiltrate the human body unnoticed. It resembles a robotic humanoid creature with an insectoid head and with crab pincers for hands.
Its design is a combination of a fly, a flea, and the robot from the 1986 science fiction film Short Circuit.[1] More precisely, its appearance is based off of Johnny 5 from Short Circuit.[2]
It represents the tarot card The Lovers, which symbolizes the forming of a bond between people.
Lovers is red with blue lenses in the colored manga. It is portrayed as light brown with red lenses in the anime.
Color Schemes
Personality
Although it obeys Steely Dan's command without question, Lovers also displays its own personality. It has a sly and sneaky temperament and taunts its opponent in combat. Although it recognizes its weakness, it also considers itself terrifying because it has mastered its own strengths and is confident that it can beat both Silver Chariot and Hierophant Green.[3] When pushed into a corner, it will flee.[4]
Abilities
By Steely Dan's own words, Lovers is very weak, unable to even lift a single strand of hair.[5] Because of its microscopic size, Lovers is by itself very vulnerable. However, its ability to infiltrate the brain makes it nonetheless a formidable and elusive Stand that is very difficult to reach and its reach of hundreds of kilometers makes escape impossible.[5]
Chapters / Episodes
- Chapter 160: Lovers, Part 1 (Mentioned only)
- Chapter 161: Lovers, Part 2
- Chapter 162: Lovers, Part 3
- Chapter 163: Lovers, Part 4
- Chapter 164: Lovers, Part 5
- Chapter 165: Lovers, Part 6
- Chapter 167: Sun, Part 2 (Mentioned only)
- Chapter 179: High Priestess, Part 1 (Mentioned only)
- Chapter 213: D'Arby the Gambler, Part 3 (Mentioned only)
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 16: Lovers, Part 1
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 17: Lovers, Part 2
Gallery
Trivia
- The Lucky Land print of the associated card lacked an "s" in the "The Lovers" text on the bottom in manga prints. This was corrected in the anime.
References
- ↑ Artbook: JOJOVELLER
- ↑ https://pastebin.com/Eh5C3ENT
- ↑ Chapter 164: Lovers, Part 5
- ↑ Chapter 165: Lovers, Part 6
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Chapter 162: Lovers, Part 3
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Chapter 163: Lovers, Part 4
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Chapter 161: Lovers, Part 2
- ↑ Chapter 160: Lovers, Part 1