Donatello Versus

Versus keeps his light hair short, cut through with a black stripe that runs to the back of his head in the shape of a Y, framed by blunt bangs across his forehead, long sideburns angled toward his mouth, and two small ponytails. A spiral-patterned choker rings his neck, and he wears a deep V-neck shirt with matching trousers threaded by an excess of heavy loops, through which shoulder and belt straps run. Like DIO's other sons, he bears the Star Birthmark, though it never appears on the page.

A life of abandonment, mistreatment, and a wrongful prison sentence left Versus bitter toward the world and fixed on seizing happiness by any means. When Pucci finds him, he is drifting through petty crime with no job and no direction. He carries some of DIO's ruthlessness, selfishness, and fast thinking, but none of his father's grand ambition or cunning, and beneath a more ordinary surface he is rash and impulsive.

He has no objection to taking orders and at first trusts Pucci, yet years of being used by those in charge have left him proud and quick to bristle at any disrespect. The moment Pucci starts doubting his abilities, that resentment boils over into betrayal and a conviction that carrying on DIO's design is his by right. Desperate and reckless enough to endanger innocents and himself alike, he wears every emotion loudly and tends to crack under real pressure.

Born the second of DIO's illegitimate children, Versus grew up with a mother and stepfather who plainly favored his two half-sisters, and he ran away at thirteen. A pair of baseball shoes then dropped out of the sky onto him; he put them on, was arrested, and learned in court that they belonged to the ballplayer Ichiro Suzuki and had been meant as a gift for disabled children. An outraged judge convicted him on flimsy evidence and shipped him off to juvenile detention for half a year, his family raising no protest. The true thief confessed months later, but by then a string of freak misfortunes, all quietly caused by his own dormant Stand, Under World, had nearly broken him, from a buried knife impaling his hand to a fever that almost killed him.

In 2012 he woke in an Orlando hospital and met his half-brothers Ungalo and Rikiel, all three mysteriously pulled toward Enrico Pucci, who revealed their shared father and drew out their Stands. Under World let Versus dredge up events buried in Florida's soil and imprison people inside them, and he used it to trap Jolyne Cujoh and Ermes Costello in the memory of a doomed airplane. When they broke free and beat him, his simmering resentment of Pucci erupted; he stole Weather Report's memory disc to return it to its owner, inadvertently restoring the memories of Pucci's own twin brother. Fleeing the chaos of Heavy Weather, Versus next tried to seize Jotaro's disc from Emporio, only to be caught again by Jolyne and forced to drive her group to Pucci. His end came when Whitesnake disguised him as the priest, luring Jolyne and Anasui into cutting him down while the real Pucci slipped away.