Kiss
Kiss (キッス, Kissu) is the Stand of Ermes Costello, featured in the sixth part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Stone Ocean. It is a short-range humanoid Stand that creates stickers. When a sticker is stuck onto an object, it creates a duplicate. When a sticker is removed, the two objects merge back together, causing severe damage.
Appearance
Kiss is a humanoid Stand with an athletic build, similar to Ermes's.
It wears a dark jumpsuit along with light shoulder pads, knee pads, and gloves sharing a metallic texture. Along the middle of its torso is a vertical studded metallic slab engraved with its name, "KISS", and the letters are contained in separate circles.
Its head is bald with a metallic texture except for a couple of straight spikes pointing upward with round edges, giving it the appearance of a crown. It has two studs on the sides of its head that resemble ears.
Kiss is covered in lip-designed stickers, particularly on the neck, arms, and head. There are also individual stickers placed in between each letter on its torso.
Color Scheme
Abilities
Kiss is a powerful close-range Stand who compensates its short range with speed, physical strength and the versatility of its duplicating stickers.
Ermes receives this Stand after picking up Jolyne's amulet. After the arrow fragment inside pricks her finger, Ermes sells the amulet to Gwess. She discovers her stand after being pierced by the Arrow, during her first medical visit in prison.
Duplicating Stickers
Kiss is able to place lip-designed stickers on objects, causing them to rapidly produce an exact copy of the original.[1]
Ermes and Kiss are able to create distinctive square stickers out of their palms.[2] If they put a sticker on an object, an exact copy of it emerges with the sticker either remaining on the copy or the original. There is no restriction on how far the copy can be taken away from the object. If Ermes places a sticker on someone, the corresponding limb, be it a finger,[1] an arm[3] or the head,[4] will sprout out of the body like an additional body part. She is also free to use it on herself.[1] When Kiss’s sticker is placed on someone’s tongue it speaks concurrently with the affected individual.[5]
When the sticker is removed or destroyed, the two objects spring toward each other and fuse back into one object with great force, causing a fissure and effectively damaging it.[1] No matter the distance, the surrounding conditions like shifted gravity,[6] or the weight attached to them,[7] the two will always head toward each other, even broken parts of the copy will return to the original.[8] It allows Ermes to create traps by making it so the duplicate will fly at an enemy while returning to the original,[1] or depending on the object, to move rapidly from one place to another by hanging on to them.
Chapters / Episodes
- Stone Ocean Chapter 21: Ermes's Sticker, Part 1
- Stone Ocean Chapter 22: Ermes's Sticker, Part 2
- Stone Ocean Chapter 23: Ermes's Sticker, Part 3
- Stone Ocean Chapter 24: Ermes's Sticker, Part 4
- Stone Ocean Chapter 25: Ermes's Sticker, Part 5
- Stone Ocean Chapter 27: There's Six of Us!, Part 2 (Cover only)
- Stone Ocean Chapter 28: There's Six of Us!, Part 3
- Stone Ocean Chapter 29: There's Six of Us!, Part 4 (Ability only)
- Stone Ocean Chapter 31: Foo Fighters, Part 1
- Stone Ocean Chapter 36: Debt Collector Marilyn Manson, Part 3
- Stone Ocean Chapter 51: Kiss of Love and Revenge, Part 1 (Cover only)
- Stone Ocean Chapter 52: Kiss of Love and Revenge, Part 2
- Stone Ocean Chapter 53: Kiss of Love and Revenge, Part 3
- Stone Ocean Chapter 56: Kiss of Love and Revenge, Part 6
- Stone Ocean Chapter 57: Kiss of Love and Revenge, Part 7
- Stone Ocean Chapter 111: It's Been a While, Romeo (Flashback)
- Stone Ocean Chapter 113: Sky High, Part 2 (Flashback)
- Stone Ocean Chapter 114: Sky High, Part 3 (Flashback)
- Stone Ocean Chapter 117: Sky High, Part 6 (Flashback)
- Stone Ocean Chapter 120: Under World, Part 2
- Stone Ocean Chapter 123: Under World, Part 5
- Stone Ocean Chapter 124: Under World, Part 6
- Stone Ocean Chapter 125: Heavy Weather, Part 1
- Stone Ocean Chapter 130: Heavy Weather, Part 6
- Stone Ocean Chapter 145: C-MOON, Part 5 (Description only)
- Stone Ocean Chapter 147: C-MOON, Part 7
- 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 (Death)
- Stone Ocean Episode 6: Ermes's Sticker
- Stone Ocean Episode 7: There's Six of Us!
- Stone Ocean Episode 8: Foo Fighters
- Stone Ocean Episode 9: Debt Collector Marilyn Manson
- Stone Ocean Episode 13: Kiss of Love and Revenge, Part 1
- Stone Ocean Episode 14: Kiss of Love and Revenge, Part 2
- Stone Ocean Episode 27: Sky High (Flashback)
- Stone Ocean Episode 37: Made in Heaven, Part 2 (Death)
Gallery
Trivia
- According to Araki, he had worked extra carefully to make sure Kiss' silhouette did not look too similar to her allies stands'.[9]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Stone Ocean Chapter 21: Ermes's Sticker, Part 1
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 22: Ermes's Sticker, Part 2
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 31: Foo Fighters, Part 1
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 25: Ermes's Sticker, Part 5
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 111: It's Been a While, Romeo P.9
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 147: C-MOON, Part 7
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 152: Made in Heaven, Part 4
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 56: Kiss of Love and Revenge, Part 6
- ↑ JOJOVELLER: Araki's Stand Commentaries - Kiss