White Album

Almost pure power, the Stand nonetheless takes a visible shape as a pale bodysuit that sheathes nearly all of Ghiaccio, leaving only a narrow gap at the nape for air. Two stubby cones jut from its crown like the ears of a cat, a spiral marks its brow, and a transparent visor splits into a Y that frames just his eyes, nose, and mouth. Long blades run beneath its feet in the manner of ice skates. White dominates the design, with the various grooves and accents shifting between blue, pink, yellow, and green across adaptations.

White Album is unusual in that Ghiaccio wears it, gaining both a shield and the fearsome ability to freeze nearly anything, though its neck vent leaves one lingering weakness. Its central power crashes the temperature of whatever he lays hands on, reaching roughly minus one hundred degrees Celsius with ease, hardening gasoline, and spinning huge quantities of ice from seawater more quickly than a person could swim clear. The cold cripples the body, threatening vital functions and turning limbs brittle enough to snap. As the chill deepens, motion itself grinds to a halt, so bullets and blows simply stop dead before they land. He steers the effect with precision, sculpting blades to skate on, and any object he releases warms back to normal the moment he lets go.

He can also freeze the moisture around him into a shell of armor that shrugs off gunfire and withstands even Gold Experience's flurries, since it arrests each projectile before it fully bites in. A heavy enough object like a large bolt can still punch through, and a sharp point underfoot can be driven home by the armor's own weight. The suit multiplies his strength, letting him shatter a stone statue in a single blow and skate fast enough to catch a car doing eighty kilometers an hour, while its insulated interior keeps him warm like an igloo. Its lone gap, the air hole at the back of the neck, is both its greatest liability and something he can seal at will.

His ultimate technique, Gently Weeps, drops the temperature past minus two hundred fifteen degrees Celsius until the very air turns solid. With it he hangs invisible panes of frozen air that bounce incoming shots back at whoever fired them, and he can slip frozen matter straight into his suit without any opening, which frees him from relying on the vent at all. The catch is a heavy drain on his stamina and imperfect coverage, since exposed gaps let the Sex Pistols thread their bullets through the frozen sheets toward him.

Ghiaccio alone commands White Album. Its name nods to Beatles material, drawing on both the White Album record and the song While My Guitar Gently Weeps.