Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27894850-20170305182709/@comment-31598739-20190512020935

It wasn't just that Kira was pierced by one of the regular arrows, it's also the fact that he himself was pierced. Bites The Dust wasn't considered a requiem stand because Kira pierced himself, while the stands that are requiem are the ones where the stand itself was pierced. This isn't just an opinion, this is a logical and accepted inference by the community. The whole "nearly dying" argument doesn't really seem to make sense and I don't know why that would be a specific standard that has to be made for a requiem stand, especially given that Bites The Dust isn't a requiem.