Voodoo Child

Voodoo Child is the Stand of Sheila E, appearing in the novel Purple Haze Feedback and counted among the close-range types. Its name is lifted from a Jimi Hendrix song. On the stat charts it leans on speed and lands middling marks for power, precision, and potential, while its reach and staying power both bottom out.

In form it resembles a humanoid rat measured at two meters, a full meter of which is tail. The frame is broadly human, though the arms are spindly and the clawed feet oversized. Rows of jewels run down the center of its head and along the outer arms. The rat-like skull carries large hollow eye sockets and perhaps a small lower jaw, topped by two ear-like spikes. Downy patches soften the chest and pelvis, metal plating edges the wrists, hands, and ankles, small triangles sit at each knee, and the segmented tail bristles with spikes jutting upward along its length.

The Stand's power, called Repeating Lips, triggers on its punches. Every blow spawns a pair of lips that echo back anything spoken by those near where the strike landed, working like a hidden recorder, and each set of lips mimics the mouth of whoever originally said the words. When Voodoo Child instead punches a person directly, the lips that form on that target dredge up their most buried secret and announce it aloud, inflicting emotional harm that, against a weaker mind, can prove fatal. These mouths behave like real ones, able to bite down or tug at things, and Sheila E can conjure as many of them as she wants.

Voodoo Child also holds the distinction of being the first novel-only Stand given a battle cry, the sound it makes on attack rendered as Erierierieri.

Sheila E is the only character to wield Voodoo Child, using it through the events of Purple Haze Feedback.