Lovers

Tied to the tarot card of the same name, Lovers serves Steely Dan in Part 3 as a long-distance Stand. Its power reaches across hundreds of kilometers, which means once it has latched on, fleeing offers no real safety.

Though it answers to Steely Dan without argument, the Stand shows a distinct character of its own. It jeers at foes, carries itself with sly arrogance, and boasts that it could topple both Silver Chariot and Hierophant Green. Backed into a corner, however, it abandons the fight and runs.

Being smaller than the eye can track lets Lovers slip inside a human body without notice. Its central trick is to reach the brain stem and tamper with the host's pain receptors. Whenever Steely Dan feels the smallest sensation, even the crack of his own knuckles, the Stand thrashes wildly within the victim and multiplies that feeling into overwhelming torment. It can conjure phantom aches in limbs that no longer exist. Joseph Joestar is held captive this way.

Once lodged in the brain, it can grind cells into paste to cloak itself as a different Stand or spawn crowds of decoys, false copies that still bruise any Stand shrunk down to match its scale. It also ferries one of DIO's flesh-buds inside a skull, feeding it on brain tissue until the growth ruins the host entirely, the fate it inflicted on Enya.

Steely Dan, an arrogant servant of DIO, is the Stand's owner. He uses Lovers to enslave Joseph Joestar and torment the Crusaders until Jotaro finds a way to strike back without hurting the hostage.