Stand Definition
The Stand (スタンド Sutando) is a supernatural power unique to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. A Stand is an entity psychically generated by its proprietor, generally referred to as a Stand User (スタンド使い Sutando Tsukai). It is viewed as a physical manifestation of the User's fighting spirit. A Stand generally presents itself as a figure hovering near the user and possesses abilities beyond that of an ordinary human, which, depending on the Stand User, can be wielded for good or evil.
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Uses
- Invisibility: A Stand is defined as an invisible spirit energy, and those who can see stands with they Heart's eye is called stand user. The only exception to this rule are Stands that are already visible by default as a consequence of being bound to an object, such as Anubis.
- Selective Intangibility: Stands can only be affected by other Stands, they are selectively intangible when interacting with the world around them. You cannot touch or walk into a Stand. Inversely, they can affect the environment around them. This means they can touch you while you are unable to touch them. This is applied to all Stands by default unless it is the type that is bound to an object.
- Non-Corporeal: Stands are defined as personifications of "life energy" or "spiritual energy" whose abilities are given visual form. Stand also represent the manifestation of an individual's innate "fighting spirit" and embodies, to an extent, the individual's psyche. However, Stands may also derive through the exploration of possibilities and expression of the mind, in which case, only a large amount of mental strength is required. The destruction or damage of a Stand is not permanent and can be restored and forgotten about by simply re-manifesting it (though, destroying the Stand usually means death for the user). Furthermore Stands have demonstrated the ability to interact with ghosts, a traditionally non-corporeal figure in fiction. This isn't applied to stands like Love Deluxe.
- Soul Manipulation and Non-Physical Intraction: Stands are made up of the user's spiritual energy and their soul. And stands can damage, interact or destroy other Stands.
- Energy Manipulation: In some cases they can store energy in objects such swords and guns, they can also take specific forms of mudane objects such as dolls, playing cards, boats, cars or words.
- Resistance to Disease Manipulation: Stands are connected to an alien virus contained in the rock of a meteorite that fell in Cape York, Greenland. . It is explained that the virus can infect people and for the most part kills them, but the few who survive are granted a Stand ability.
- Size Manipulation: Users possess the ability to shrink their Stands to a microscopic level, but the one time it was shown, Polnareff indicated that it was difficult to manipulate the Stand at such a subtle level and that it was taxing to maintain the small size, making that property impractical in most cases.
Note: About the physiology for the stands that are physical or corporeal, it should be taken on a case by case basis, since they are very different. If possible, specify which skills they do not have.