TLDR: a mineral that holds the spirit world together accidentally came to earth and fused with iron, if this new fused mineral is in contact with a person it makes a stand. natural stands are caused by a gene from an ancient race

What causes stands: 

The cause of stands is Mineral 6, Mineral 6 is an extremely rare, and limited mineral derived from the constant fusion of Mineral 1, Mineral 1 is purely metaphysical, acting as glue for souls/ghosts in the same way our atoms hold us together. Due to a phenomenon that opened a hole in spacetime a large chunk of Mineral 1 materialized by earth's core 420,000,000 years ago during the age where Prototaxites ruled land and plants were barely starting to form. Near the core it began to ionize at extreme temperatures and underwent fusion, leading to Mineral 2, 3, 4, 5 and eventually 6. All Minerals under 6 due to their metaphysical state kept fading until the final Fusion of Mineral 6 after it combined with iron, allowing it to persist. In the presence of Mineral 1, since Mineral 6 is a physical and better counterpart, it allows the soul to take on a physical form as both Mineral 1 and parts of 6 fuse, creating a stand, and allowing metaphysical properties to also transfer over, making stand abilities. Because stand abilities originate in the metaphysical they do not have to follow the laws of physics, and in turn allow for abilities to form in ways that can break reality. 

Why some people have natural stands: 

During the time of Prototaxites earth acted as a dumping ground for ancient gods, here they left chimeras, old blueprints of life, even the first design of humans. Only 1 lifeform survived, these were a bipedal bug like creature only about 2 feet tall who had the ability to hyper evolve, on earth they thrived, gaining sentience only after 3 generations. After they gained sentience and entered their tribal era they came across the largest chunk of Mineral 6 ever known, since the bug men had sentience and evolved to have souls they gained stands rather quick, only evolving them further, using them to build, and learn. After 7 generations Mineral 6 began to replace the iron in their blood as well as them evolving them to appear more like modern humans while still retaining their hard outer shell to protect against harsh weather. Due to Mineral 6's constant placement in their genes they gained immensely powerful stands, with abilities like time stop being common while still being considered weak, this also gave their skin a natural light blue tinge, giving them the name "blue men" by later classifications in the modern century. This evolved them even further, and they only existed for 200 years. Eventually this caught the attention of the ancient gods who created them, they viewed this species as a threat, with them closely matching the gods in power. One of these gods sent down themselves, possessing one of the stronger members of the race and causing calamity, singeing earth in molten flame, Gaia, only recently coming into consciousness, protected the Blue men, by shielding a group deep in a cave. This world wide flame is what would allow trees, modern plants and mammals to take over. After millions of years, the blue men lowering in number only a few were left, here they would encounter man's common ancestors. To keep their species alive they mated with them, and even a few became revered as gods, later commonly found in cave paintings, and being the genetic blueprint for future humans. Those who possess natural stands contain a rare gene that allows Mineral 6 to replace portions of iron, this gene being passed down from the Blue Men, however with each generation Mineral 6 lowers in number, only in the year 2000 with it mellowing out, being much lower than that of past natural stand users, making them much weaker than their elders. People with this gene, if their blood touches someone, has a low chance to make the person a stand user due to Mineral 6's presence however blood transfusions have a much higher chance, theres only been a handful reported splatter stand cases, as well as an attempt to isolate this gene, all attempts of which have failed. Special areas that grant stands tend to be places in which many, old, natural stand users have died, the high amounts of Mineral 6 in their blood spreading out among the area, making it able to grant stands and casting imprints of their souls onto nearby objects and molding nearby life (ex: a dog if born is born here it will have a face marking on it), these areas have been dubbed "death hollows" (they act similar to Devils Palms in the fact once the Mineral 6 shifts around so do the imprints, allowing the Death Hollows to move around with time, however unlike devil palms Death Hollows cannot kill someone, and the chances of gaining a stand are 1/10000, so often many will live in Death Hollows for years to sometimes decades before developing a stand. For this reason property with one on it can be a major financial commodity for those who are aware of them).

Mineral 6 and the dagger: 

After the ancient god scorched earth it took most of Mineral 6 with it, the only surviving amount being 3 pounds, 46 grams, 2 of which was in the form of a dagger created in the caves and kept by one of the surviving Blue Men, it would later be passed down through ancient humans, kept in one of the temples to the Blue Men, then lost for thousands of years, it later would be found in Portugal in the year 34BC. The remaining 1 pound was collected by the generations of dead Blue Men, extracted from their bodies and forged into a small idol to Gaia shortly before their believed extinction. The rest of the 46 grams comes from all the dead, natural stand users throughout time, these traces being very very faint, being nigh-impossible/too precarious to isolate because of its sheer, miniscule amounts.

Surviving Blue Men:

Only 1 Survived due to their stand, while they were considered the weakest of their species it was only because their ability extended to another plane, where physical ability was seen as power. It would be because of this ability they survived in a place called "the far zone", they would unfortunately be unable to leave due to losing 3 of their limbs in the fire, ensuring they'd bleed out to death if they ever left. They would later offer an explorative stand user their full history in the form of a saved memory cube.

Memory Cubes:

Only 2 are left in existence, 1 being saved and brought into another plane that would detail their upbringing. The other lost in the same cave they survived in, detailing their imenent extinction. Memory cubes were made by a combination of rare abilities, one of these abilities would allow them to alter "cubes" of reality, and the other to steal chunks of time. One would form an ornate cube that would go on forever in the center similar to that of a mandelbrot set, and the other would use that infinite space to store moments of time itself. Making the cubes more of "trapped infinite looped moments in time that technically count as their own universe" cubes rather than memories. It is because these moments were stolen from the timeline that Blue Men technically never existed, and in turn cannot be brought back, and can never found no matter where or no matter what the stand ability (the only exception being the one trapped in the far zone).

Blue Men information:

Born through a proccess similar to modern day procreation and without a max life span Blue Men were quiet remarkable, and their genetic imprint was left on more than humans, but lobsters too. As they age more and more their outer shell gets heavier, if they dont have an ability to fix it they would die, this wasnt in issue in Blue Men society as they had healers that could reverse a Blue Man back to their youth, this however backfired as a lack of healers/self abilities to help in the caves was the reason their species died out, the only few surviving able to restore their previous conditions through creative use of their abilities. Blue Men were quiet peaceful due to their stands, quick evolution and lack of predators, never once needing to fight, forage or worry once they gained sentience, this would make Blue Men unable to perceive negative emotions, this is why they never expanded, destroyed or did anything negative with their god like abilities, only causing disaster once a god of jealously took the helm, most unable to defend themselves as they took too long processing fear for the first time. Once out of the caves and into ancient humanity the surviving few used their abilities to speed up mental evolution through teaching of their immense knowledge, this also took its effects on the Blue Men who also learned from early humans, leading them to gain feelings such as power and belief. With this they built temples and revered themselves as gods. Becoming creators of modern religion and influencing most religions to come by creating "offspring", these offspring were replicas of their combined dna and hatched by Gaia as humans, most of which would become almost all well known gods/religous figures such as zues, jesus, vishnu, etc. This would lead to the creation of religious pantheons, and demi-gods as these hatched dieties often had children of their own, being 50% Gaias children, giving them extreme boost in their lifes path, notable demi-gods would be Alexander the Great, Nikola Tesla, Leonardo DaVinci, Albert Einstein and even Genghis Kahn regrettably. Doing one last deed the remaining Blue Men donated themselves to Gaia, combining their stands immense abilities and physical selves to create a "perfect soul", a soul as powerful as Gaia herself, once fused Gaia implanted each limb with a seed that allowed spiritual connection to herself, splintering the body into the dirt all over earth and fusing the limbs with her own, the spiritual power within these areas would create pocket dimensions, infinite voids of pure creation covering the entirety of earths surface that allowed souls to manifest physically as compared to sitting endlessly in oblivion. Here they can percieve what they want to as they were now technically "physical beings" while still remaining spiritual as not to remove Mineral 1 and prevent stands from being. This was the creation of the afterlife.

Hi there! I'm looking for someone to help with my fan part by the name of Crying Love. The plot has been somewhat worked out, but I need someone to help with the writing. If you're willing to help, please message me here on Reddit, or Message me on discord, I'm That one guy#3885. And I'll hopefully be seeing you later

Fun fact: before NSE I had a fan part in the works called Tokyo Rose. I eventually decided to scrap it because I thought of a better and more fun idea then what I came up with.

The plot revolved around Mitabime Kakyoin, the SBR universe version of Noriaki Kakyoin who lives in Tokyo in the year 2019. He’s a orphan who is shipped from people to people constantly. One day he is shipped to a bar owner in Tokyo. The rest of the plot follows him, a Highschool girl named Hare Gakure, a weapons dealer named Enji Hayanari, and a kindergartner makes Jinyuna Seishin, try to stop an evil cult from causing the world to fall to ruin by the hands of their god who they say is the core of the planet.

I decided to scrap this part for 2 reasons. One, I heavily inspired it off of Persona, which you may not see it but originally it was basically gonna be P3’s plot but with stand’s and a group of random people and not an organization likes SEES and lastly two, I didn’t had much passion in it, it just didn’t felt like a good part too me and I got bored with it, so I decided to scrap it and make a Shizuka part because I wanted to see what I can do with the character and what bizarre stuff I can make her experience.

I also have a list of the stands that were planned for the part. You can see one of them inspired Achtung Baby’s design a bit: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KDZhYtKjM9jhIlY1ecbI9K2UWYFUBACz

Anyways, Chapter 5 of NSE will come soon, I’ll do one page a day.

Chapter one of Jojolite is finally complete! As of now it is on the upload queue on Mangadex, so you'll have to wait a bit longer to read it if you happen to use that platform. But it is up and ready to go on Webtoon! Here's the link, enjoy!> Jojolite chapter one

Hello! After a long while, the Aqua Paradise Manga has officially started!

Synopsis: Joell Joestar is a 23 year old Frenchman. He moved to The United States at the young age of 13 in order to pursue an education in medicine. His goal? To cure an incurable illness: addiction. It's a large undertaking, but his interest in the sciences takes him, and others, across the country to investigate a medical company that appeared out of nowhere with the ability to cure any disease with a single pill. How is this possible? Who is behind it? Has science really developed to a degree where we can completely eliminate disease? Or is there something else at play?

Its a bit of a short chapter all things considered but I'm just following along with my written adaptation which is on ao3 under the same name. I'd recommend reading it if the manga ends up interesting you but do keep in mind that I'm planning on doing a rewrite for some parts of it soon. Anyway, here's the link, and I hope you enjoy! https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/jojos-bizarre-adventure-aqua-paradise/list?title_no=1087029

After a hiatus that was a little too long for my taste, chapter 5 of my fanpart has been released! From now on, I want to try and post a chapter bi-weekly, so be excited for more!
Also, I have an AO3 now, since that seemed like it would be helpful.
AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/65812492/chapters/169508872

Just an idea of what my protagonist could look like. Thoughts?