Moody Blues

Moody Blues stands at roughly the same height and build as Abbacchio, draped from head to knee in a semitransparent covering that tents out between its head and shoulders. A digital timer sits on its forehead, and shapes resembling cassette-player speakers repeat across its shoulders, the backs of its hands, and its knees. In the animated version it flickers with VHS-style static and gives off sounds like a dial tone, a hang-up click, and tape spinning forward or back. Its combat skill is modest, but its investigative power sets it apart.

The Stand's core gift is retrocognition. It can take the likeness of any individual Abbacchio names and then act out that person's earlier movements and words with total accuracy, the timer on its brow marking exactly which moment is being shown. Abbacchio does not even need to know who he is watching, since supplying only a time and place is enough for the replay to work. Events reach years, perhaps decades, into the past, but the deeper the target lies, the longer the Stand must sit motionless to arrive there.

A playback behaves like a video, so it can be sped up, paused, and interacted with while frozen, and it faithfully reproduces everything that occurred, down to background music a person once heard. Some things resist it, such as a teleport through water. Beyond investigation, the mimicry lets it copy a person's actions in the present, once letting Abbacchio fly a plane by tracing a pilot's recorded motions, or disguise itself to bait an enemy Stand. Its major weakness is that it cannot fight while a replay runs, leaving it exposed until the broadcast ends.

Leone Abbacchio, the somber ex-policeman of Team Bucciarati, is the only user. He made Moody Blues the group's investigative backbone, reenacting Narancia's abduction, uncovering Diavolo's face and past dealings, and even ambushing Illuso's Man in the Mirror by disguising the Stand as himself.