Blackmore (ブラックモア, Burakkumoa) is a minor antagonist featured in Steel Ball Run.
Blackmore is one of Funny Valentine's henchmen. When Lucy Steel's intrusion is discovered while she investigates Valentine's schemes, Blackmore is tasked with tracking and eliminating whoever tried to spy on the President.
Blackmore is a Stand User, wearing his mask-Stand Catch the Rainbow to literally walk on falling raindrops.
Blackmore is a man of average to above-average height and medium build.
He wears a black, hooded poncho, punctuated in two columns on its chest and lining its sleeves by small metallic rings. Through the top of its hood is threaded a long ponytail of his light hair. Underneath, he wears light clothes covering his arms to his metacarpals; and his pants and boots in a piece, patterned by a symbol resembling a halved taijitu.
Blackmore is an efficient assassin, deeply loyal to Valentine; equally believing in his authority and cause.
Blackmore usually has a placid personality, talking slowly and being impassive to most things. However, his mission about the corpse part makes him more and more excited and he even becomes exalted when he feels the presence of Jesus when holding the spine. Usually obedient to Valentine, he falls to a brief temptation to take the Corpse Part for himself but regains his sense after being shot, deeming that Valentine is the worthiest of them. Alongside his calm personality is his great analytical acumen, effortlessly tracking an intruder and unmasking Lucy Steel through the various indirect clues he's seen throughout his short investigation. As one of the President's men, he also coldly approaches murder, murderous Mountain Tim without a second thought and being ready to do the same to both Lucy and Gyro and Johnny, even calmly threatening to gut Lucy if she ever swallowed the message she intercepted.
Blackmore has a notable verbal tic, as he regularly mutters "'Scuse me" (すいませエん, Suimasēn) to people, an informal derivative of "Excuse me" (済みません, Sumimasen). He keeps the habit even with his employer and current President, Funny Valentine.
With his Stand, Catch the Rainbow, Blackmore may manipulate rain, including by halting falling drops, making them into threatening obstacles or a path he may cross in air; and relocating functioning parts of/or his entire body with their moving touch and force.
Blackmore is introduced as one of Funny Valentine's loyal men, and an especially skilled assassin. His mission is to recover the Saint Corpse Parts that Johnny and Gyro had so far collected.
Valentine enlists Blackmore's help in searching for a local saboteur, who is Lucy Steel. When Mountain Tim helps her escape, Blackmore confronts him. After incurring one gunshot wound, he incapacitates Tim in a Stand duel before executing him.
Meeting the protagonists, they are quickly surprised and overwhelmed by Blackmore and his Stand, which demonstrates novel defensive and offensive capabilities. Blackmore takes the Corpse Parts back with him along with Lucy Steel. Using a phone to talk to Funny Valentine, he is distracted by the image of the Saint, before Lucy shoots him with a gun she had been hiding.
Though fatally injured, Blackmore resists, plugging his wounds with raindrops harnessed with his Stand. Chasing the protagonists, another battle ensues before his weakness is discovered and he is defeated. As per his Stand's limitation, he finally dies when it stops raining and he exsanguinates.
Manga Appearances
Blackmore casually appears before Funny Valentine
Blackmore's umbrella
Utilizing his Stand, Catch the Rainbow to walk along raindrops
Killing a carrier pigeon
Blackmore peers through a window
Blackmore interrogates Mountain Tim on the saboteur's whereabouts
Shot by Tim's pistol
Blackmore mercilessly executes Mountain Tim
Blackmore talks to Lucy with his Stand half-visible
Holding a Saint Corpse Part
Recieving his vision of the Saint
Blackmore's defeat and subsequent death
