Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35130345-20180328073425/@comment-38952966-20200905163323

Fesppp wrote:

Hermits purple was never Jonathan's stand thought, just assumed to be, when writing part 3, araki planned for the world to have all the combined powers of the protagonists stands, but later on decided this was too powerful and couldn't be defeated, so he scrapped it and got us the world we all know and love, at this point thought, Dio had already used hermits purple too crucially to be removed, so it was, kept, meaning that Dio technically does have 2 stands, not 1 of his and 1 off his body.

That's something that has been floating around the forums for a while now, but there's no actual proof that this was Araki's plan. There's no evidence of it anywhere, at least not that I could find. If you have a source, I'll gladly take it.

Regardless, JOJO-A-GOGO! lists the Stand that DIO uses in part 3 as Jonathan's, and apparently it's official name is "Hermit Purple 2". So it is officially Jonathan's Stand.