Noriaki Kakyoin

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Noriaki Kakyoin is a male character that features in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

Biography

Noriaki Kakyoin (花京院 典明|Kakyōin Noriaki) was a young red haired Japanese male who was born in the 20th century. After his birth, he developed the mystical ability of the Stand with his becoming known as Hierophant Green. However, no one was able to see the Stand except for himself with this leading to him having difficulty in making friends. A reason for this was because he felt that no one could ever understand him as they could not meet his Stand. His teachers informed his mother that Kakyoin was not disliked but that he was unapproachable with no one wanting to make friends with him. Such was the case with his mother as she herself whilst saddened felt that she did not know where her own son was so withdrawn. Noriaki in the meantime felt isolated and never knew the sense of family or friendship that he saw in others making him feel alone. Around 1989, Kakyoin travelled to Egypt along with his family where he encountered the mysterious DIO who sensed the Stand power within him. DIO asked for a demonstration of his powers with Noriaki unleashing his Stand leading to a fight which he lost. In the aftermath, DIO brainwashed Kakyoin by implanting his flesh bud cells within him making him a servant as he saw him and other Stand users as useful additions to his followers. By this point, a threat to DIO emerged in the form of the Joestar family which Brando intended to destroy. Thus, Kakyoin was dispatched back to Japan in order to deal with Jotaro Kujo who attended the same school as him.

The manner in which he carries out his assault upon Jotaro differs from the manga and anime. In the manga (and the video game), the assault happens inside a clinic of the school when his Stand possesses the school nurse. However, in the anime, he attacks Jotaro by possessing the body of a female student with his Stand. He is defeated by Jotaro either way.

Jotaro soon discovers that Kakyoin was under the influence of Dio. Jotaro then used his own Stand, Star Platinum, to remove Dio's implant buds from Kakyoin's head in spite of the risk that it may openly attack both of them. Kakyoin is freed from Dio's slavery afterwards and he joins the heroes as thanks for helping him.

In the fighting game JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, (a follow up to the game JoJo's Venture), this appearance is named "New Kakyoin", or 恐怖を乗り越えた花京院 (trans: "Kakyoin who overcame his fears") in the Japanese version of the game. He has different attack methods and physics than the original.

During the confrontation with DIO, Kakyoin and the Joestars group quickly escaped his mansion as they did not know the true nature of his Stand's power. They went deep into Cairo where Kakyoin and Joseph Joestar attempted to evade the pursuing DIO. Despite their attempts, DIO managed to quickly gain on them leading to the potential of their eventual confrontation with him. It was then that Kakyoin decided to force a confrontation and risk his life in order to get DIO to expose his Stand's power. With Hierophant Green's power, he created an elaborate trap for DIO where he launched numerous attacks from various directions thinking that he would be forced to reveal The World's power. Unknown to him, DIO's Stand was stopping time which he used to inflict a mortal wound on Kakyoin's mid-section and sending him into the water tower. Joseph Joestar was thus left to face the vampiric DIO alone and unaware of The World's power. Whilst bleeding out, Kakyoin figured out the nature of the Stand's ability but was unable to directly convey this knowledge to Joseph. As Joseph faced DIO, Kakyoin used the last of his energy to have his Stand's Emerald Splash power to strike a nearby clock tower in the hope that Joseph would get the clue. He shortly died afterwards but his sacrifice led to Joseph Joestar determining the true power of The World which he passed to his grandson Jotaro Kujo in his fight with DIO.

Overview

Personality and attributes

He was recognizable for his green and tight student outfit, green eyes, two cherry-shaped earrings and pinkish red hair with a unique side hair. His appearance with sunglasses is a direct result of his eye injury from N'Dour's attack.

Kakyoin is said to be cold-looking from the outside, but his inner personality is completely different; he's a warm and loyal fighter. He will support his comrades actively, and he fights for things that are ethically right.

After the battle with Jotaro, he realizes his mistake of being used as Dio's pawn and to make up for that, he joins Jotaro in his quest to destroy Dio, even at the expense of his own life.

Some of his personality undergoes changes in the middle of the story, and this is attributed to the events after his encounters with Mannish Boy and N'Dour. He eventually sheds this "repentant" attitude. In addition to the above traits, he now has more confidence and has regained a lot of his pride.

He also has profound respect for his parents, remembering them right before his eventual death.

Powers and abilities

Hierophant Green is an elastic and remote Stand, capable of 'scouting' (as seen in the manga series in the fight against 'Strength') and performing actions from far distances. Kakyoin has wielded this Stand since birth. His Stand looks humanoid but robotic with yellow eyes, no distinguishable mouth, and green-colored appendages that resembles a watermelon in texture. The exterior features of the Stand sports a cream-white or beige color. The composition of this Stand isn't solid; instead it is a compact winding coils of itself that can unravel at a moment's notice. The Stand is approximately as tall as Kakyoin himself. Whenever the green appendages glow, the Stand is priming for an attack, such as Emerald Splash.

Kakyoin is the only protagonist to wield a long-range Stand in Part 3, and hence, is the first ever protagonist in the JoJo universe to do so.

The abilities of this Stand are the following:

• Extend its appendages - The Stand can extend its bodyparts and tentacles to a theoretically unlimited distance.
• Constrict an enemy - Using its own features of flexibility, it can hold, choke or pull a given object. Its true strength is unknown, but it is limited by the endurance of Kakyoin's body, as stated during the fight against Wheel of Fortune, when Joseph Joestar thought Kakyoin was going to use his Stand to pull their car to safety from a gorge, and said that the strain would tear him apart. Kakyoin avoided this by attaching a rope with a hook onto the car possessed by the Wheel of Fortune Stand.
• Surround a given place with its own appendages - Just like extending his Stand's own parts, Kakyoin can make his Stand deploy several appendages of itself that would act independently. This is his basis of setting traps, like in the video games, and during his battle with Dio.
• Possess and take control of an enemy - Kakyoin's Stand can be uncoiled completely inside a person. Fully exploiting this ability, he can turn anyone into his own marionette. If Kakyoin possesses an individual, he controls the person exclusively.
• Shoot emeralds in high velocities - His Stand can emit emeralds and shoot them in rapidly multiple succession like bullets, in a techique Kakyoin calls Emerald Splash. The speed and velocity the emeralds travel at is enough to crush objects like concrete and flesh. These emeralds are usually fired in a wide spread, but they can be focused for more damage.

Hierophant Green is also very sensitive to movement and can react very quickly. Its appendages can also deliver an electrical shock in some cases. However, his Stand is relatively weak in direct hand-to-hand combat, as a tradeoff of its great distance-based abilities.

Notes

In other media

Video games

Appearances

• JoJo's Bizarre Adventures: Stardust Crusaders:

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