Welcome to the first installment of Stand Up, where I will basically discuss how would
stands if they were upgraded would work.
This is going to go over all stands and what if they were pierced by the arrow.
The comments will be able to discuss what would happen if the user was struck instead
of the stand.
There’s the requiem versus the requiem ability basically.
Today, I’m going to be going over Noriaki Kakyoin.
A core ally in part three, Stardust Crusaders.
When acknowledging Hierophant Green, you have to notice the main things about the stand.
Emerald Splash.
Range.
Tentacles.
Range.
Uh.
Green.
Mostly range.
So if you follow through the story of stardust crusaders or anything I’ve said in the past
20 seconds,you know that when Kakyoin’s hierophant is brought up on action scenes
or in general, his range is made apparent.
Hierophants range is very large when compared to the rest of the stands in Jojo.
It’s destructive power isn’t as strong but that’s sacrificed for range if anything.
A point blank emerald splash is a real big threat unless you’re Dio, or Jotaro, or
anyone who has an A in speed.
His durability is B, for the reason is that you can’t really do much to it’s body
when it’s all split up, the only time to damage his Hierophant is when it’s in it’s
humanoid form.
It can uncoil to avoid damage in general and it doesn’t hurt Kakyoin at all.
Now what would happen if Kakyoin was pierced.
How would we go about that.
Well, what was the one thing that Kakyoin desired the most in the last moments before
and after The World.
The main thing between Kakyoin Vs Dio is that Kakyoin needed to find out the power of Dio’s
stand.
Not saying that it’s possible for the group to just pull out an arrow and pierce their
stand, but this is just fairly speculation.
So how exactly would Hierophant cover all possible options?
There was the 20 meter Emerald Splash and that would work fully if it was anyone that
can’t manipulate time.
So aside from that how would Hierophant Requiem go about that?
Expecting to just throw in a broken ability and calling it a day isn’t how it works.
If you take notice of the previous requiems that actually exist, their ability relates
to the situation.
Giorno needed to defeat King Crimson’s ability, so what Gold Experience Requiem did is that
it had an ability where attacks and willpower go to the state of “zero”.
Meaning any action will be reset.
That’s how he got rid of the Diavolo and King Crimson as a whole.
I ran through all possible outcomes where it Hierophant Green Requiem could win, without
involving time.
Here’s the thing, Kakyoin didn’t know what The World does so he wouldn’t have
a stand that’s time based when he doesn’t have any knowledge of it.
The only thing Kakyoin knows is that if he covers enough ground, he can sense any movement
from the stand as a whole.
If he can sense the movement, he can punish it with Emerald Splash and that would be curtains
so it all goes back into the whole main aspect of range.
Range to where Kakyoin is safe and cannot be harmed from the enemy stand.
When researching Hierophant Green, I referred back to the tarot card that Kakyoin’s stand
is based off of.
The Hierophant.
That’s where the key would lay.
Hierophant Requiem, I’m going to be calling it that now because removing the color in
the name leaves room to grow but that’s something else.
I call the new main ability of Hierophant Requiem, Emerald Space.
There’s a new 5 meter radius around Hierophant.
If anyone with intention of damaging or killing Kakyoin, they enter into the Emerald Space.
No one can see the giant emerald sphere all around Kakyoin, it’s also not something
that can be broken or even held.
For an example of how it works, you see Kakyoin but you don’t see anything at all around
him.
You’re 9 meters away from him and you have a knife in your hand or you had brought your
stand out and you plan to kill him.
If the intentions are in your head while you’re in range, you’ve already entered but you
don’t see until Kakyoin makes it noticeable.
It isn’t stand physical where you can affect the area or the membrane that makes up the
Emerald Space but it’s very much there.
What happens in the Emerald Space and how does it work.
You’re in a pocket dimension of Hierophant Requiem where nothing besides you and Kakyoin
exist.
You know you’re in it when you’re on a bridge constructed of Hierophant green’s
original membrane.
It's a bridge with what looks like two dark ends, the only light is coming from the bridge
so it's a giant void of darkness.
The bridge by itself is endless.
The stand of the enemy can be brought out and any ability the stand has can be used,
but none of the effects matter because it’s the emerald space.
If Dio was to stop time, it would appear as if he stopped time but the actual effect of
stopping time is non existent.
There’s no time in the emerald space and there’s no dimension or reality besides
it when you’re in it.
Meaning you cannot connect to the original dimension or any other when inside of it.
Your stand doesn't matter when you're in it basically.
Ok, space where nothing happens.
Is that it?
Well no.
Emerald splashes come from behind you every time you turn around, so you're being constantly
attacked.
By every time you turn around I mean every time, so if you turn around to deflect the
first emerald splash there's going to be another one right behind you.
If you do suffer enough damage to where you're dying, or if you do die then you come back.
Nothing exists in the emerald space so not even death.
So it can feel like you're getting killed again and again for days, months, or even
years but in real time no time passes.
No time in the real world would pass but what seems like any sense of time in the emerald
space does.
The enemy would never get older or anything like then when in there but feels like time
is passing when they're in there due to them living and all.
The only way to escape the emerald space is when you're intention killing Kakyoin is completely
gone with no way of coming back to that thought or you mentally just go blank just like Kars
in space.
When you go mentally blank or your intention is cleaned then one of the ends actually light
up the whole space and return the enemy back to the original world.
Kakyoin doesn't have to be in the emerald space for it to work.
The whole point is that the enemy brings out their stand and tries to do any and every
possible tactic and reveal everything about their stand.
The reasoning for how hierophant requiem works.
The Hierophant is generally one of the more wiser and more higher tarot cards.
Known for being the builder of the bridge between deity and humanity.
I took off of that and built on it even more.
When thinking of wise fighters, I had remembered a couple of quotes from Sun Zu.
You would know or remember Sun Zu from history class or from the Joseph Vs. ACDC fight.
“All warfare is based on deception.”
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
“To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence
consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
“ All of these relate to being the bigger and
wiser opponent and to fight without fighting.
That’s how I built more on the Emerald Space.
Since all warfare is based on deception, why not have the most deadliest weapon be the
one you can’t see.
There’s no fear of the stand or the stand’s power if you can’t see it.
That can be a lie for certain stands you can think of, because sometimes the absence of
evidence can be a scary thing.
Making more of a reference to I’d say early Koichi before Echoes, when it was just an
egg and you have no clue about it.
“Subdue the enemy without fighting”, another big part of making this.
By not being able to enter the Emerald Space unless you have intentions of killing, is
a big part.
It shows who your enemy, and it’s all on them at that point if they’re the one that
strikes first.
Kakyoin now would never strike first, there’s no reason to.
I’d say he matured like Bites The Dust Kira at that point of receiving a requiem stand.
He becomes steps higher from what he originally was both mentally and stand .. mentally.
He becomes smarter with using his stand, you get what I mean.
“If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.”, this by
itself is why I built so much on it so it would deepen Kakyoin’s knowledge.
He wouldn’t be the same one that thought he had it all figured out and screwed himself
in the end or the one that had to die to let everyone know one thing.
Like that really made no sense if you think about it.
After what Polnareff said and what they saw in front of their own eyes, they should have
built on that by itself.
The situation was pretty much alike to the fight between Kakyoin and Dio anyways.
There wasn’t any time missed or anything, they were all focused on the coffin.
I’m trying to keep Kakyoin alive and you guys woke to this.
Not letting this go, but on to the bridge.
The endless bridge that the enemy is on is a reference to how Hierophant is the bridge
builder.
The Emerald Space is like both hell and purgatory because it has the effects of hell, but there’s
no going no side to go to until the enemy has given up.
Running down the endless bridge will not get the enemy anywhere, obviously.
It’s only when they give up, that’s when they meet the light.
Going back to the real world.
Making the Emerald Space seem like both purgatory and hell, and the enemy returns to earth praising
it like it’s heaven because they’re finally out of it.
Side abilities or aspects.
Projectiles don't work on kakyoin because they become absorbed into the emerald space
and just cease to exist.
Emerald splash in the real world is a bit faster from what it was originally too.
Appearance, that's up to anyone who would want to draw it.
I'd make it resemble the tarot card, but do what you guys want because a lot of you are
really creative.
Now this is where you guys can comment what would be Hierophants new ability if Kakyoin
was pierced by the arrow or how you think Hierophant Requiem would work.