Telence T. D'Arby

Telence keeps a wrap around his head and wears a pair of earrings fashioned as the initials T and D. His hair rises in segmented tiers above him, and over a black shirt bearing a doubled heart emblem he wears a bluish vest. Parallel bars are inked across his nose, chin, and forehead, echoing the markings his older brother wears on his cheeks.

The polished manners of a butler form only a thin shell over a smug, cruel nature. He greets provocation with practiced calm, yet he once beat his brother Daniel bloody for flirting with his girlfriend, and real strain makes him look visibly older and rattled. He believes his gift for foresight makes him the superior sibling, though Jotaro and Joseph note he never developed the sharp gambler's cunning Daniel earned, and he sneers at those without Stands, such as Nukesaku. Genuinely brilliant and a formidable gamer who once beat a child prodigy with a 190 IQ, he grows overconfident and leans too heavily on Atum's predictions. Under real pressure that pride collapses into cowardice, leaving him to beg for his life. A habit of asking only yes-or-no questions and a fondness for the number fifteen, drawn from his January 5 birthday, round out his quirks.

Atum lets Telence lift the soul of anyone who concedes defeat to him, and it silently answers his yes-or-no questions by reading an opponent's mind, which turned his gaming hobby into an easy means of collecting people as puppets. He claims Daniel never once beat him at a game, and he entered DIO's service after DIO rose from the ocean, becoming one of the Egypt 9 Glory Gods.

Posing as the mansion's butler when the Joestars arrive, he lures them into betting their souls on video games. He beats Kakyoin at the racer F-Mega with a planned maneuver and claims his soul, then Jotaro challenges him to baseball. Telence relies on Atum's foresight, but Jotaro manages to cheat in a way he cannot decipher, and the mounting frustration cracks his composure until his soul admits defeat and Kakyoin is freed. Only then does he realize Joseph, not Jotaro, held the controller through Hermit Purple. Begging fails him, and Star Platinum's barrage blasts him clear through the false sky Kenny G. had conjured. DIO later muses that Telence will never grasp his loss because, unlike Vanilla Ice, he was never willing to die for his master, leaving his ultimate fate uncertain.