Civil War

Civil War answers to Axl RO and features in Steel Ball Run. The Stand appears as a humanoid whose head, its true focus, is a busy stack of upright oval discs pressed together, three of them narrowing into arrow points, with gas-mask-style filters sprouting where the neck meets the shoulders. A bare spine shows between ribcage and pelvis, and its lower legs flare out like frayed bell-bottoms drawn to suggest roots. It carries a mocking, superior attitude, and in color it shows red-and-yellow tones alongside silvery metal accents. Beyond spawning the spirits it uses to attack, it has no fighting strength of its own.

Everything Civil War does hinges on guilt. It conjures the objects and people a target once abandoned, discarded, or feels remorse over, and these can surface out of nowhere, even from a shadow or a mirror. As they press against the victim they seep through the body and spin a thin film across it, while summoned specters claw at the victim and attempt to merge with them; the membrane then tightens until it crushes whoever it covers, though survival is possible, as Hot Pants proves. The moment a target touches one of these manifestations, the memory of the sacrifice or the guilt behind it comes flooding back, and the greater the guilt, the more items or spirits appear. Axl RO can also direct the specters himself, and the Stand dodges harm by splitting into pieces, even neutralizing Gyro's Steel Balls. Its confinement to the garbage dump limits it, but the spirits can chase a target outside. Water is its undoing, dissolving the membrane because rinsing off reads as washing away one's sin.

A second, self-feeding effect targets killing itself. If anyone within the Stand's reach is slain and the killer feels even a flicker of guilt, the victim revives while the user's own guilt and sacrifices rise up to punish the killer. The restored victim comes back as a fully aware specter with their sins wiped clean, the moral weight shifted onto the murderer, and they cannot be harmed by that same killer because the killer's guilt is what sustains them. The loop cuts both ways and can be exploited by either side. To slip past it, one can wound the victim fatally and flee before they expire, or simply feel no remorse at all.

Axl RO is the lone user, luring the protagonists into a garbage dump to ambush them with Civil War's guilt-driven assault before he is defeated.