Noriaki Kakyoin



Kakyoin is a Japanese student who was brainwashed by DIO during an earlier trip to Egypt and is sent to kill Jotaro Kujo. After being freed from DIO's influence, he decides to join Jotaro on his quest to Egypt to save Jotaro's mother and find redemption.

Kakyoin is a Stand User and wields the long-ranged Hierophant Green.

Appearance
Kakyoin is a young man of average to above-average height and fit to slender build. He is typically seen wearing a slim-fitting long ​gakuran/tsume-eriW​, but was also shown wearing striped pajamas during his initial encounter with Death Thirteen. In the anime, he wears the pajamas when admitted to the hospital.

Kakyoin keeps medium-length hair, characterized by a large, twisting bang hanging before his face. He wears cherry shaped earrings: each is a long, fine arch, tipped by small spheres.

He is considered handsome and has captured the attention of a few women. One of Jotaro's own admirers commented on his looks and during the Tower of Gray encounter, he swooned two female stewardesses. He is also referred to as beautiful upon arriving in India by a man trying to sell him a tattoo.

Later, Kakyoin acquires two thin scars vertically crossing both eyes; which he often hides with a pair of dark sunglasses.

Personality
Noriaki Kakyoin is first introduced as an evil and cruel teenager because of DIO's brainwashing. Thus he remorselessly attacks unrelated civilians and adopts a might makes right mindset.​ However, he reveals himself as a righteous, though blunt individual. Kakyoin is ruthless with his enemies but loyal to his companions.

His reason for joining the Joestar Group is for both fighting evil, as he mirrors Jotaro's own explanations for saving his life,​ and of course a sense of debt toward Jotaro for saving his life. Thus Kakyoin is also a brave individual, willingly participating in the dangerous journey to Egypt, and is also able to keep his nerves even in the direst situations such as having been punched through by The World.

Kakyoin is noted by Araki to be "the honor student type",​ and thus can be described as haughty and somewhat introverted. Though he normally keeps a polite and somewhat formal behavior, Kakyoin is a rather cold and prideful man. He hates bowing down or brown-nosing. The humiliation of having been weak enough to bow to DIO was a part of his motivation for seeking redemption and revenge during Stardust Crusaders.​ Kakyoin mentions he could never relate to people because of his ability, and thus never desired to make friends for most of his life.​ He thinks only respectable individuals are able to be friends of his.​ The Joestar Group is the only group with whom he has attached himself, but he cares very strongly for them. Araki himself mentions that if it weren't for their Stands, Kakyoin and Jotaro wouldn't have been friends.​ Kakyoin has shown to lighten up with Polnareff, although he can also be very brutal and vindictive, having elbowed Polnareff too as a "reconciliation".​ His attitude is notably worse with his enemies, whom he frequently threatens and belittles, and during his fights, he is very ruthless against them. Both as a hero and an antagonist, Kakyoin is particularly violent as he remorselessly kills all of his opponents (ripping Tower of Gray without qualm​), arguing that they were evil beyond redemption; moreover, he viciously takes revenge on Mannish Boy by forcing him to eat his own excrement,​ the first and only time he took exception.

Kakyoin has stated that if he were to fall in love, he would fall in love with someone like Holy, who gives off the feeling that anything will be alright and can calm anyone's hearts, making them feel at ease.​

Like Avdol, Kakyoin is quite knowledgeable about the nature of Stands—apparently more-so than Polnareff who was also born a Stand-User. He was for example, able to correctly hypothesize that Stands could shrink to a microscopic size. However, his knowledge is much more limited than Avdol’s; he didn’t know about the existence of colony type Stands, nor was he aware of Stands turning against their Users as was the case with Holy.

Abilities
Hierophant Green​ Kakyoin's long-range humanoid Stand is Hierophant Green; able to extend tentacle-like limbs or unravel to a modest extent; as well as fire a barrage of hard projectiles (an "Emerald Splash"). He is often seen shouting his signature attack (like the Emerald Splash) in fights.

Mastery
Kakyoin is, due to a lifetime of possessing Hierophant Green, quite proficient at using it. Although it is mostly seen as a humanoid, Kakyoin states that its true form is that of a bunch of strings; as such one of his key tactics is to secretly unravel Hierophant Green's tentacles while keeping the main body as a distraction. Thanks to that, Kakyoin can infiltrate bodies, suddenly avoid attacks by unraveling his Stand, use the strings as ropes, and even perform piercing attacks. However, Hierophant Green's otherwise straightforward Emerald Splash does not lend itself to the imaginative use of it.

Background
When Kakyoin was younger, he had difficulty making friends due to the fact that he felt no one could understand him since no one he met could see Hierophant Green. One day, one of his teachers even told his ​mother​ that none of the other children disliked Kakyoin, but that he was unapproachable and just didn't seem to want to make any friends. His mother, saddened, admitted that even she didn't know much about her own son or understand why he was so withdrawn. Kakyoin observed the children around him writing down the names of their friends and thought about how the people around him had someone who could understand them. He felt even his own parents had each other, but that they would never be able to relate to him. This caused him to become a withdrawn individual who felt different from others.

About two to three months prior to the start of Part 3, Kakyoin was approached by DIO while traveling in Egypt with his family. DIO, having sensed Kakyoin's Stand powers, asked for a demonstration which led to them fighting. When Kakyoin lost, he was brainwashed into following DIO's will via buds from DIO's own cells and given the mission to kill Jotaro Kujo. Kakyoin returned to Japan around the same time as Jotaro left prison and attended the same school as JotaroKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOINKAKYOIN

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