Absalom

Absalom presents as a young man with brown skin, and there is little else remarkable in his build. What truly represents him is external, taking the shape of his Stand, a locomotive that embodies the obsession ruling his life.

A deep, corrosive hatred of civilization drives Absalom, so total that he would end his own life to see a world stripped of it. The same fixation once ran the opposite way as love, since trains fascinated him before one destroyed everything he cared about. When DIO dangled the promise of a brand-new world unlike anything civilized, Absalom proved willing to die to help make that vision real.

Raised amid the Egyptian desert, Absalom grew ashamed of his rough upbringing and idolized city life, dreaming as a boy of driving a train and convinced that only civilization could grant a person happiness. That faith curdled after his parents were killed in a Cairo rail accident four years prior, a crash that also robbed his sister Michal of her voice. Both siblings swore themselves to DIO, who vowed to forge a world unlike either the desert or the cities should the Joestar group fall.

In the novel, the heat-exhausted Joestars meet Absalom posing as the driver of the Satanic Coupler, who lures them aboard and seals them inside his Stand, intending to grind their hope into despair before destroying the train with everyone in it. Jotaro Kujo, Jean Pierre Polnareff, and Iggy outthink him and escape. He confronts the group again near his home village, but after harming a local boy he draws Jotaro's fury; guided by a plan from a freshly rescued Joseph Joestar, Jotaro exposes the Stand's weakness and pummels it.

A last gambit, shrinking the Stand to slip it inside Avdol's body, fails against a likewise-shrunken Hierophant Green and Star Platinum, leaving Absalom helpless. The villagers, mistaking the Joestars for villains, rescue him, and he chooses to settle among them in peace.