Burning Down the House

This Stand has no figure to speak of, existing instead as a pure ability tied to a place and a set of objects. It calls up the ghost of a music room concealed behind an unseen crack in a staircase wall of Green Dolphin Street Prison. A grand piano and its bench sit at the center on a wide carpet, a Lichtenstein print hangs on the wall, and a small table holds orange juice and a Mars bar, with drawers and shelves of books rounding out the space. A ghost gun rests there too, though its spectral nature leaves it harmless.

Burning Down the House gives Emporio the power to see, touch, and use the spirits of objects and rooms. When Green Dolphin Street Prison burned in 1984, many rooms were gutted and later rebuilt, and Emporio can still reach the things lost in that blaze, including the ruined piano room by way of its hidden crack. The ghost items have their limits: a phantom chocolate bar can be tasted but not swallowed, since it slips through his mouth, yet he can operate a ghost computer for research with no trouble. He can also stow these objects in his pockets or a small bag no matter how large they are.

Reaching the piano room means passing through a narrow crack where everything looks flattened. Any Stand user can spot that crack, but anyone unaware of Emporio simply pays it no mind.

Emporio Alniño, a child raised inside the prison, is the sole user. Though the Stand grants him no fighting strength, its ghostly tools let him quietly support Jolyne Cujoh across the whole of Stone Ocean.