Tohth

Tohth takes the shape of a comic book that even people without Stands can see and handle. Titled Oingo Boingo Brothers Adventures, it renders its scenes in an odd, whimsical style full of distorted, heavily stylized figures and abstract flourishes, and it narrates what lies ahead in a childish tone with eagerly scrawled captions. The Stand honors the Egyptian deity Thoth, god of writing, a fitting patron for a power that prints the coming future onto its own pages. Though useless in a straight fight, it is a potent tool for anyone seeking the upper hand, and through it the Joestar Group is nearly killed at Aswan by Oingo and in Cairo by Hol Horse.

Tohth foretells the future. Most of its pages sit blank, but as time passes they fill in, mapping events up to several minutes ahead, and always the events that matter to whoever is reading. A tourist who borrows it sees his own death drawn out, while Oingo reads his own attempts on the Joestar Group. Boingo insists the depicted outcomes come true without fail, and they always do, if sometimes by a crooked route: a page showing Jotaro's head blasted apart instead befalls Oingo, who had taken Jotaro's shape. Should anyone stray from the script, even by accident, events bend to fulfill the prophecy anyway in a manner that punishes whoever went off course, as when Hol Horse fires early and is struck by his own ricocheting bullets.

The book only sketches key moments, omitting the steps between and the finer details, so its incomplete pictures and misleading captions leave everything open to interpretation. It once foretells that Hol Horse will kick a woman and be thanked with her jewelry, never showing that the kick saves her from a scorpion's sting. Because it looks only minutes ahead, a seemingly helpful act can carry later consequences, which makes the Stand demanding to use and easy to misread. Damage to the book, such as Hol Horse's bullets punching through it, never carries back to Boingo.

Boingo is the chief user of Tohth, reading its pages to guide his brother Oingo and later Hol Horse against the Joestar Group. Ryoko Kakyoin holds the Stand temporarily. Araki conceived it while pondering his own future soon after marrying, and its comic-book form nods to the legendary Book of Thoth said to grant godlike knowledge.