Made in Heaven
Made in Heaven (メイド・イン・ヘブン, Meido in Hebun) is a Stand belonging to Enrico Pucci, featured in the sixth part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Stone Ocean.
This Stand is the final metamorphosis in a chain following Whitesnake and C-Moon; one of the very last elements of the plan referenced in DIO's Diary. It was considered by DIO to be the ultimate Stand and the key to achieving "heaven".
Appearance
Made in Heaven takes the appearance of a thin, masculine humanoid fused at its waist to the front end of a horse, resembling a two-headed, two-legged centaur. A large cable, forming a clean arch, joins the humanoid half between its shoulder blades to the truncated posterior of the horse.
Its head is slightly elongated with a long vine wound around the top. The center of its face has a smooth, black surface and a large speedometer embedded in the region of where its eyes and nose would be. The rest of its face is lighter, matching the colors of its body. It has long feathers protruding out of its neck and the sides of its forearms are slightly furry.
The horse half of its body wears blinkers and reins, held in the hands of the humanoid half.
In contrast with its predecessors, it does not have "GΔCT" symbols on its body. Instead, the Stand has large clocks embedded in its shoulders, forearms, hands, and on the horse's forehead, shoulders, and blinkers, and a speedometer on its face.
Made in Heaven is white in most media featuring this Stand.
Color Schemes
Abilities
Made in Heaven is an extremely powerful close-range time controlling Stand. Although its physical abilities may not be remarkable, its control over time grants it an overwhelming speed advantage and even counters abilities that function with a time limit like Star Platinum's time stop.
However, Pucci isn't particularly interested with Made in Heaven's time acceleration, but rather its capability to bring about a new universe with extraordinary properties.
Time Acceleration
Made in Heaven's power is to dramatically speed up the flow of time; achieved through its ability to control the gravitational forces of the earth, moon, and seemingly the entire universe (in reference to aspects of the theory of relativity).[1]
Upon activation, time will gradually flow faster and faster in the whole universe. However, Made in Heaven prevents any living being from catching up with the acceleration, with the exception of its user, Enrico Pucci, and essentially God.[1] The delay between people's perceptions and the actual flow of time causes everyone to see all non-biological events as being sped up, which is considerably dangerous in case one is in a vehicle or in remotely dangerous environments.[2]
People in a cold environment seem to freeze instantly, all phenomenon like melting, flowing, drying, movements of objects will accelerate to the point people cannot react;[2][3] the sun eventually seems to rotate at high-speed in the sky, objects and corpses seem to decay in seconds, one can even witness the erosion of the water on rocks.[4]
Meanwhile, Pucci himself appears to possess extraordinary speed and reaction time,[5] and effortlessly outspeeds any of his opponents, even Star Platinum. Because of it, he can freely approach and use Made in Heaven to inflict mortal wounds like slitting the throat.[6] However he retains all of his human weaknesses: running or swimming around will tire him,[7] while being exposed to a hazardous environment will endanger him noticeably faster than his opponents.[8]
Consequences
As time continues to accelerate, the universe will eventually reach a vanishing point; after this point, a new universe will be created where everything repeats itself according to fate.[9]
Every surviving organism is brought into the new world, positioned where they should be, according to a date chosen by Pucci. Anyone the user has killed during time's acceleration is replaced by a similar substitute: Pucci states that their souls and personalities no longer exist, having been left "beyond".[9]
The most esoteric property of the new world is that people have technically lived everything that has happened and will happen to them in the previous universe. As such, the memories of the events are engraved into them and they will subconsciously realize what will happen to them in the future, although they cannot change the course of their fate. Pucci aims to make humanity feel at peace with their destiny, and understand his vision of heaven as a result.[9]
If the Stand's user is killed before the point where the original acceleration of time began after they reactivate time acceleration, the universe reboots into an alternate timeline where fate has changed entirely[8], though the force of gravity between individuals appears to persist. This is shown after Emporio kills Pucci, foiling his plans and creating such a timeline.[8]
Chapters
- Stone Ocean Chapter 148: C-MOON, Part 8
- Stone Ocean Chapter 149: Made in Heaven, Part 1
- Stone Ocean Chapter 150: Made in Heaven, Part 2
- Stone Ocean Chapter 151: Made in Heaven, Part 3
- Stone Ocean Chapter 152: Made in Heaven, Part 4
- Stone Ocean Chapter 153: Made in Heaven, Part 5
- Stone Ocean Chapter 154: Made in Heaven, Part 6
- Stone Ocean Chapter 155: Made in Heaven, Part 7
- Stone Ocean Chapter 156: Made in Heaven, Part 8
- Stone Ocean Chapter 157: Made in Heaven, Part 9
- Stone Ocean Chapter 158: What a Wonderful World (Death)
JORGE JOESTAR
Made in Heaven also appears in the novel 'JORGE JOESTAR', although it belongs to an incarnation of Enrico Pucci from the 37th universe. Later, Kars gets his own enhanced copy of the Stand, known as Made in Heaven Ultimate Requiem.
Gallery
Trivia
- The original name of this Stand was Stairway to Heaven (ステアウェイ・トゥ・ヘブン(天国への階段), Suteawei Tu Hebun), based on the song of the same name by Led Zeppelin. Later, in the tankōbon release, it was changed to Made in Heaven, the name of a single by Freddie Mercury and an album by Queen.
- Just like C-Moon and Green, Green Grass of Home, Made in Heaven's abilities make reference to the concept of vanishing points.
- In All Star Battle, it is shown that Gold Experience Requiem can function normally under the time-accelerating effect of Made in Heaven and that Giorno Giovanna remains immune to the effect as long as he has Requiem active. This is because GER can nullify Made in Heaven's ability.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Volume 80, in-between Stand stats, Stone Ocean Chapter 154: Made in Heaven, Part 6
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Stone Ocean Chapter 150: Made in Heaven, Part 2
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 154: Made in Heaven, Part 6
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 156: Made in Heaven, Part 8
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 152: Made in Heaven, Part 4
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 151: Made in Heaven, Part 3
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 155: Made in Heaven, Part 7
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Stone Ocean Chapter 158: What a Wonderful World
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Stone Ocean Chapter 157: Made in Heaven, Part 9