Chariot Requiem

Chariot Requiem is the transformed state of Silver Chariot, born the moment the Arrow strikes the Stand a second time during Vento Aureo. It stands among only two Stands in the series to carry the Requiem label, the other being Gold Experience. Because Polnareff dies just after the Arrow does its work, the Stand outlives its master and begins acting on its own.

Its build is slim and roughly average in height, yet the whole figure reads as a flat black silhouette, drained of any detail and likened by Bucciarati to black plastic. A musketeer's hat sits atop it with one brim folded back, and it wears a long coat ringed with hoops at the shoulders, a decorated belt, and trousers laced near the ankles. Unlike most Stands, it is fully materialized, so even people without Stands can see and touch it. A single hollow eye dominates its face, marked below by an arrow shape. The design nods to the legend of a black-clad stranger, an image of Death, said to have commissioned Mozart's unfinished Requiem, and it was drawn to read as neither male nor female.

Left without a living user, Chariot Requiem runs on a single inherited order: shield the Arrow whatever the cost. It trudges forward almost mindlessly, deaf to anything around it, but turns violent against anyone reaching for the Arrow, a state Polnareff calls berserk. It shows no fighting technique of its own, yet its grip on the soul makes it among the deadliest Stands the series ever produced. It is also strikingly durable, snapping severed limbs back into place with ease.

The Stand is, in essence, the shape of the soul made visible. Whoever looks at it sees a shadow that always falls opposite themselves, ignoring where the sun actually sits. Diavolo works out that this shadow is really the viewer's own soul, and that Requiem lives inside it, anchored by a glowing orb hovering behind each person's head and visible only to that person. Destroy the orb and the shadow vanishes, taking Requiem apart with it. That is its hidden weakness.

When it activates, every living thing across a vast area, at minimum the whole of Rome, drops into a forced sleep, and during that slumber each soul is swapped into the nearest living body regardless of species. A soul dies with whatever body it occupies, though the original owner can return to their own body if it remains fit to sustain them. Because Stands mirror the soul, Requiem reaches them too: soul swaps leave Stands supercharged and barely controllable, and any Stand user who threatens the Arrow is turned on by their own Stand, the retaliation scaled to the size of the threat.

Given time, the effect deepens into something far worse. The souls it has touched begin warping into unrecognizable, otherworldly forms while their bodies transform to match, a change so smooth the victims carry on unaware. Polnareff concludes that its ultimate reach is to trade every human, animal, and plant on Earth for something entirely alien, remaking all life on the planet in body and soul.

Jean Pierre Polnareff is the former user, the man whose dying wish still drives the Stand after his death, much as Notorious B.I.G continues without its owner. In practice, Chariot Requiem answers to no one during its rampage, forcing Diavolo, Bucciarati, and Giorno alike to contend with it before it is finally brought down and the swapped souls settle back into place.