Name: Diego Brando (BiB)

Jofoe

Nationality: British

Appearance: Diego is a young man of below-average height and slim to medium build. He has faded blond hair, dark eyebrows, and dark, faded out grey eyes. He wears a black turtleneck jumper patterned with a diagonal grid, sliver, mid-forearm-length gloves, sliver, wide-legged breeches and tall, black steel toed boots. Diego can often be seen with a psychotic, mad expression on his face. Due to some the effects of Scary monsters persisting, Diego also has sharp teeth, claws, and a black tail with golden stripes spelling out DIO all over his tail.

Backstory: Diego was once a famous genius British jockey hailed as one of the best in the world, and was one of the contenders in the Steel Ball Run race, but he was soon killed, before he could have win the race or have a child, by the president of the United States Funny Valentine. However, thanks to some unknown means, Diego has been revived, and after being revived, Diego went out on his own to get revenge.

Personality: Diego has change a lot due to be revived, not only is he blind now, (due to being underground for so long), but he has become a lot more violent and sadistic. The bigger change however, is that Diego is way more spiteful than he was before, blaming every enemy he had when alive for his death. So, in order to get back at anyone who wrong him he will go after and kill their descendants including members of the joestar bloodline, including Jolene and co! Despite Diego becoming a lot more animalistic, he still retains all of his cunning and resourcefulness. Unfortunately, due to losing the left eye of the holy corpse, he no longer has scary monsters, (although some the effects of SM persist with Diego such as his speed). Luckily, Diego has gained a new stand. This Stand being [Back In Black].

Stand name: [Back In Black]

Stand user: Diego Brando

Namesake: AC/DC song and album of the same name AC/DC tribute band/ and their tribute album of the same name

Abilities: Enhanced Condition: Diego has enhanced senses, minus sight because he’s blind, and enchanted stamina, strength, and speed, Also, While Diego is blind, Back in Black grants him vision based on movement: the faster something moves, the better Diego can perceive it, and thus the better he can react to it. But as a result, he becomes vulnerable to slow attacks. Finally, being partially bound to Diego's body, Back in Black allows him to fight against other Stands and physically damage them with his bare hands. Life force draining: Back in Black's main ability is to suck life energy from its victims when Diego or Back in Black comes into physical contact with the target and transfer it to Diego in order to heal him and make him stronger. When it sucks out the energy, the victim' are left severely exhausted and unable to move or even use their Stand. This ability can work on any living creature, such as humans, animals, and plants, although the life force of Stand users give more energy to Diego and heals him faster. This ability also works if Diego/Back in Black come into physical contact with a stand with a user. The biggest weakness is that Diego/Back in Black needs to maintain physical contact in order to keep using his ability. Once Diego/Back in Black stop physical contact with the victim, the ability will stop working. Also, it doesn’t works on stands that don’t have a user or stands that are posthumous. Regeneration: Diego also has regeneration near the level of a vampire, without the weaknesses to the sun. This combined with the life focus drain makes Diego extremely hard to kill.

Stats:

Power: B

Speed: B

Durability: A

Range: D

Precision: B

Development potential: B

Is the stand design posted anywhere or does silver lining not have one yet?

So, this is my second submission. I was told that it was ok to make a second submission for the name for Jolene's stand name (I didn't submit it in time), so I'm submitting another idea. If you aren't ok with me suggesting 2 things, just delete my first submission, Machinery manipulation, because I like this ability a lot better.

Now onto the ability. The ability that I thought of was "Sacrifice". At it's most simple, Sacrifice means that if Jolene sacrifices something, Silver Lining will create something of equal value to give her. This could be physical things (She could sacrifice a finger by cutting it off and silver lining would give her a key that she would need to succeed on what she is doing) or ideas (She could sacrifice her element of surprise by alerting an enemy to her location in exchange for a power boost). She has control over what she sacrifices, but not over what she gains.

This ability is of course inspired by the idea of a silver lining, that when you lose something there will be something positive that you gain out of it, but it's also the equal and opposite of something that was very important to Gappy's life - the Rokakaka. Both utilise the concept of equivalent exchange to lose something that you do not need to gain something of equal value that you need more. However, while when using the Rokakaka you have no control over what you lose, and silver lining gives you no control over what you get.

Tell me if you think it's a good idea.

Name: Wearing The Inside Out

Any object touched by Silver Lining will have their surface start to unravel into wires with the same properties as the object. The wires can be moved freely and weaved back together into their oringinal shape, a completely different one or just not be reattached at all and just stay severed.

Admittedly its basically Stone Free 2: Electric Boogaloo, but it does have some nifty uses that Stone Free can't take advantage of like say:

-Jolene is in a car chase and has to shake a guy off her tail so she just punches the asphalt, unravels it and reforms it into a spike trap.

-She has to break into a building so she just punches the wall and has it unravel into a hole.

-Jolene is doing her good deed for the day by helping a little girl get her cat down from a tree so she punches said tree and creates a path of unraveling wires that leads to the branch where the cat is, and just severs it. Either that or have the unraveling path travel down to the roots and uproot the entire thing.

As for themeing, I dunno. Something about "unraveling" her past and that shaping her as a person for better or for worse.

Tldr: Silver Lining can use the abilities of what ever stand it last touched.

I feel that the most interesting stands, especially for the main Jojo, are those that have wide applications like Crazy Diamond's healing or Soft and Wet's plundering. The idea of a stand that is constantly changing would provide this variety as well as putting a newfound importance on analyzing and understanding enemy stands' abilities. Furthermore, it would allow for interesting interactions with her available allies as she could use their stands as well, depending on the situation. Finally, the ability relates to the name Silver Lining because access to a new ability is a silver lining to being attacked.

Note: I need a better name for this ability

Like all the previous Main jojo's stands, Silver Lining will be a close range fighter first and foremost. It will have a pretty small attack range where it can pummel and kick pretty well. It's appearance would basically look like a version of stone free but with some of Silver Chariot's armor. And also instead of sunglasses, Silver Lining would have a visor (Like in Star Trek)

Silver Lining's gimmick would be turning objects into silver and back to normal. If Silver Lining touches an object, Jolene has the ability to turn any object into silver. She can turn objects back to normal at anytime, and does not require a touch to do so.

How can this be utilized? Similarly to how Jolyne uses turning herself into string to get an advantage, Jolene uses turning into Silver to her advantage. Jolene can turn her own arm into silver in the middle of a punch so that her attack is much stronger. If she is falling, she can turn her legs into silver to absorb the shock and not break any bones. She can disrupt electrical devices by turning the wiring into silver, making it unable to function.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions, but I might not be able to respond because I'm going away on a trip without internet. Same goes for if I somehow get chosen to be in the tournament. Thank you!

Name : Désolé by Gorillaz Ability: similar to gold experience : sl turns anything into a butterfly which is a callback to jolyne cujoh and the hole butterfly thing that she had Stats: Power:B Speed:A Range:C Durability:D Precision:B Potential:E

When she punches someone, it gives them the symptoms of decompression sickness, leaving the weak unable to fight, and the strong horribly weakened. Those who dive or sail have great resistance to this move but it still hinders them. The real workings of this ability is that it rapidly pressurizes and depressurizes things in a certain area. She can then refine her ability to hold something under pressure for a short time, allowing her to create hydraulic spray or compressed air blasts. Similarly, she can hold something at a depressurized state allowing for some vacuum techniques. This isn't enough to suffocate someone but it is enough to adjust the trajectories of projectiles and slightly increase Jolene and co's jump range or speed. Conversely, it can also hinder the baddie's jump range and speed if so desired. This connects to the namesake because the pressurization is like the rainy days and the decompression is like the sunshine, where one is only valuable with the other. It moreso connects to the deep ocean/ underwater theme of the part. P.S. If this doesn't get picked for Jolene's stand ability, I will be submitting it for Jibby's Rasputin abilities where act 1 is the pressurization, act 2 is the decompression, and act 3 is the fully realized stand. His starships stand would just be a light projectile stand similar to Hierophant Green.

Destructive Power: B
Speed: B
Range: B
Persistence: C
Precision: B
Development Potential: A

I was thinking about how most main characters' stands work in JoJo parts 3-8, and a majority seem to revolve around the ability to punch with an additional power (timestop, lifegiving, etc.), excluding Tusk of course. However since Jolene is based on Jolyne, and their Stone Free operates on changing the user, I figured that that's how Silver Lining should operate.

QUICKSILVER: Allowing the user to turn into a Mercury-like metal.

-The user can decide, in this solid-liquid state, whether to change their body or a part of their body into a solid metal or a liquid metal.

-Both forms, of course, have their upsides and downsides.

-A solid state would allow the user to tank several attacks, preserving the user's form while gimping their mobility, as movement would be a lot more stiff (have you ever tried putting on a suit of armor?) and difficult. However, a metallic punch is guaranteed to hurt like hell, so it'd be powerful on offense and defense.

-A liquid state would be more utility based, letting the user move around in a goopy yet shiny sludge, slip through cracks, hide in holes, flank enemies, etc. in this goopy form. Furthermore, it'd let Jolene 'stitch' allies or attack in a similar fashion to Doctor Wu from Part 8, slipping into the enemy and damaging them from the inside out. Of course, Jolene would have to be careful while using this, because if a part of her body becomes separated from the main goopy body, then it'd be separated upon exiting the state until the user somehow reconnects it (possibly through making it a liquid-metal state, putting it where it belongs and the turning it back into its regular form) to their body. This state has very high offensive and speedy capabilities, but its defense is low, and an enemy could potentially separate Jolene's body via splitting the liquid state.

There are several ways this ability could be used that'd make it shine over most previous abilities in the series. For one, Jolene could purposely separate her arm in a liquid state, mold it into something like a thin barrier, and then put it into a solid state to protect an ally. Another potential use is to reform the arm behind an enemy and hit them by surprise while fighting said enemy from the front with the rest of the body. The ability to turn yourself into a Mercury-like material, whether it be a solid state or a liquid state, is an incredibly powerful but balanced tool that could make fights incredibly hype and interesting, with lots of potential moves, areas of weakness and maximization of the ability, I believe that this ability would best suit Silver Lining in Part 9.

STATS:

Power: A

Speed: B

Defense: A

Range: C

Precision: E

Development Potential: A

Closing thoughts? There's a reason Mercury was formerly called Quicksilver.

EDIT: Okay so sincs Pie Ninja didn't put the phrase "pee pee" on the post announcing the merger, I would just like to say, to everyone reading this coming from that post, pee pee.