Aya Tsuji

Aya stands at average to slightly above-average height with a slender frame and delicate features. Her light hair is styled somewhere between a low beehive and a ponytail, the bangs split into two halves that sweep down in a tidy arch to her cheeks, while her dark brows sit high on her forehead. She wears a pink dress cinched by a broad corset belt with two smaller buckled belts over it, and the anime gives her a fuller bust.

At heart Aya is a hopeless romantic who wants nothing more than to act as the fairy godmother from Cinderella. Though some of her beauty work is rigged to keep clients paying, her real aim is to bring people love. She holds firm to that mission and expects genuine commitment in return, turning cold when Yukako broke her promise to reapply the lipstick and even prepared to strip her of her fingerprints and sight as punishment. She can just as readily see the good in people, restoring Yukako's face once she recognized Koichi's sincere devotion and refused to harm an innocent.

Even under threat she seldom panics, staying composed when Yukako attacked her with her face peeling away. She has little patience for anyone who bends her Stand toward selfish ends, a sentiment she voices in her final words to Koichi, and she carries a clear appreciation for beauty, lingering over Yukako's face and figure. A quirk of low blood pressure leaves her trailing off many of her sentences with a sigh.

Aya's Stand, Cinderella, can reshape a person's looks either partially or completely, usually toward greater beauty, and the change lasts only if the client reapplies a special lipstick every half hour, unless she makes it permanent. Trained in England and inspired by the fairy tale, she won cosmetic honors before opening her Morioh salon, where she uses the Stand to help women find love.

Her central role comes when Yukako Yamagishi, crushed that Koichi Hirose shows no interest, comes seeking a new face. Aya reworks her entire appearance on the condition that she reapply the lipstick every thirty minutes, but Yukako neglects it and her face begins to fall apart. She storms back in a fury, and Aya offers to undo the damage if Yukako can pick her real face out of dozens of copies, none of which are actually hers. Koichi then follows her in, and when Yukako has him choose despite not caring about the outcome, his sincere concern and willingness to go blind for her move Aya to restore Yukako's face and bless the pair.

She returns during the hunt for Yoshikage Kira, who murders Kosaku Kawajiri and hauls the body to her salon before forcing her to swap the dead man's face and fingerprints onto himself. Josuke's group finds Aya gravely wounded and rigged into a bomb by Killer Queen; she manages to warn them that Kira has changed his face before she detonates. The light novel JORGE JOESTAR keeps her fate the same, with Kira killing her and Shigetaka Yangu through her Stand, there called Face/Off, as a warning against anyone tracking him.