Tonpetty

Tonpetty is an older man of moderate height and build with dark skin and eyes, heavy brow ridges lacking eyebrows, deep frown lines, and shadowed bags beneath his eyes. His head is bald and he sports a white chinstrap beard. He usually dresses in a pale yellow monk's robe with brown shoulder armor, and on occasion adds a piece of facial armor resembling a hanbo.

Wise and weathered by the world, Tonpetty carries a genuine concern for others. When he foresaw the grim fate awaiting Zeppeli, he warned him plainly yet never pressed him to turn away from the path he had chosen.

As a Ripple master out of Tibet, Tonpetty trained Dire and a twenty-five-year-old Zeppeli in the technique, and his skill runs deep enough that he can read a person's future simply by holding their hands. He warned Zeppeli that continuing would lead to a brutal end, yet his pupil pressed on toward the Stone Mask and later wrote asking his master's help to destroy it. Answering that call, Tonpetty traveled to Windknight's Lot with Dire and another student, Straizo, though they reached Jonathan Joestar and Robert E. O. Speedwagon only after Zeppeli had already fallen. In the final struggle against Dio Brando, Dire was killed while Tonpetty and Straizo cut down the remaining zombies, and afterward he burned Dio's clothing to blot out his memory. He was last glimpsed at the docks seeing Jonathan and Erina off, and Straizo went on to succeed him.