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Cream Starter (クリーム・スターター, Kurīmu Sutātā) is the Stand of Hot Pants, featured in the seventh part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Steel Ball Run.
Cream Starter manifests as a spray can that can emit and manipulate the flesh of enemies or Hot Pants' own.
Cream Starter takes the form of two hand-held spray canisters. The bodies consist of a nozzle attached to a half-cylindrical section covered in holes, a grip, and a vent-like bottom portion.
Much like Emperor and Beach Boy, Cream Starter functions as a tool and weapon for Hot Pants, who uses its ability to manipulate flesh in various ways. Its power is very versatile and deadly against humans.
A rare feature, Cream Starter can be used by anyone who can take hold of the spray. Unlike a lot of Stands, Cream Starter seems to be able to maintain itself and its power no matter the distance, and even through different dimensions of its user, as shown by Funny Valentine giving a Cream Starter to Johnny who uses it on his horse's throat.
The signature ability of Cream Starter is to spray flesh as a cream-like substance that then retakes its original consistence.[1]
Hot Pants can spray a certain amount of flesh to act as a projectile, using her own flesh,[2] or absorbing the flesh of an individual by directly touching them,[1] to use as fuel for her spray. It seems that for small uses, no flesh is needed. The flesh can fly tens of meter in the air if need be,[2] but Hot Pants typically uses the spray within proximity of herself.
If the sprayed flesh touches someone, it fuses with the individual in various harmful or beneficial ways depending on Hot Pants' goal:
Hot Pants can transform her whole body into fuel for the spray, allowing her to become more liquid-like and creep through narrow spaces, infiltrating a presidential residence this way.[6] She can also detach body parts such as a hand with Cream Starter and spray them away to attack and act from unexpected angles.[1] A downside of this ability is a detached body part transfers any pain it feels back to the user.
Hot Pants often dual wields both Cream Starters; like in her encounter with Ringo Roadagain, she detached one of arms whilst it was holding 1 of her Cream Starters and threw it on top of the Ringo's shack in order to attack him from behind.