Nicholas Joestar

Nicholas was a slight, thin youth whose hair rose in spiked, interlacing strands atop his head, giving the effect of a bird's crest. That crest-like styling would later echo in the crowned figures spawned by the Stand Babyface.

In the memories that survive him, Nicholas comes across as gentle and understanding toward his far younger brother. He also seems to have been a well-regarded student, trusted enough by his teachers that one lent him a dead mouse so he could cover up the truth of the pet Danny's fate from their father.

Nicholas was widely considered a riding prodigy, and his father rated him well above both Johnny and the young Diego Brando. His talent rested on an uncanny inner clock: told to cover two hundred meters in seventeen seconds and the next stretch in twenty-three, he would finish each to the exact instant, a gift he was born with rather than trained into. He could also handle enormous mounts such as Black Rose as easily as any smaller horse. The tragedy of his childhood began when young Johnny smuggled his pet mouse Danny to the dinner table; caught by their father, Johnny was ordered to drown the animal, and unable to do it, he followed Nicholas's advice to let Danny loose in the woods instead. A while later, as Nicholas trained for a race, his horse Black Rose stumbled over something on the ground, a fall that killed him. Diego insisted a white mouse had caused the accident, a mouse Johnny feared was Danny. When Johnny himself rose to racing fame seven years on, their father still refused to honor him, even asking why God had taken Nicholas rather than his surviving son. During the battle with Axl RO, images of Nicholas and Danny surface once more, drawn out of the guilt Johnny carried over that death.