Hierophant Green: Notes by Willow (Stands So Far Series)

Following Buffy’s example. I thought writing about Kakyoin would be interesting. I-I mean his Stand.  Oh, and don’t worry about this appearing in your records.  It’s a witch thing.

Speedwagon Foundation's Notes on Hierophant Green

Willow’s Notes on Hierophant Green

Stand User: Noriaki Kakyoin

Hierophant Green, apparently, is considered one of the Stands that can travel the furthest from its User.  And he’s kind of adorable.  And purrs like a kitten if you scratch his head.

…I miss Miss Kitty Fantastico.

And, well, I mean…I have a longer range (of course I do, since I can connect with Slayers all around the world and that’s a pretty big range), but in terms of actual combat I’m not able to reach that much further, considering I’m still staying away from the heavy stuff.  Darth Willow might’ve had the want and the ability to destroy the world all at once just with her brain, but I’m just plain ol’ me.  And I don’t have book-sucking cheaty shortcuts anymore, anyway.

It’s decent in being fast and durable.  Nothing wrong with that.  Being able to take a few hits and get out of the way is a time-honored Scooby survival technique.  Less good at other things.

It also somewhat reminds me of that accordion I enchanted once.  I haven’t tried that again.  One of our Slayers screamed bloody murder when she noticed it moving around in one of our antique vases.  It’d curled up like it wanted a nap or something.  Let me tell you, Slayer lungs are something.

It’s a pretty good scout, which we should keep in mind when we’re being smart and actually thinking for once instead of charging in screaming, axes held high.

The one thing we got to see was the Emerald Splash, which is basically his Stand summoning a ton of supernaturally-enhanced emeralds and bombarding people with them.  It’s really kind of pretty.

You know, as deadly combat techniques go, and I have to say, I’ve seen quite a few as the years have gone by.

He also let slip, at some point, after he’d asked me about the way people treat me when people bring up ‘magic’, that he’d had the ability to control people.  Well, Hierophant does.  It can go inside people and do that, and I brought up the whole ‘memory control’ thing, and, well.

…It’s good to know that I might not be the only recovering addict.  Not that he was half as bad as me, and, well.  I’m not sure how ‘icky vampiric mind control’ matches up to ‘the woman I love is dead’ in terms of bad motivation, but…I don’t think he was addicted to it?  Persay?  But he does seem like he misses that kind of control, and is scared by it at the same time.  So much so that he hasn’t used it since.

I can understand that.