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MetallicKaiser wrote: I think while it can be considered one being, the manga also constantly differentiates between the organism and the stand ability. It very rarely states that F.F (the character) is just a stand, and makes it a point as the story progresses. The only thing throwing it off is the similar name, which the manga does try to fix via the nickname. Apologies for being absent.

I checked the manga, and it does not differentiate anything though.

Even the texts in your link describe Foo Fighters as a mix of plankton and Stand that is unique. It is created out of two separate things sure, plankton and a Stand, but FF is a result of a mix of them, not the simple addition of them. Moreso in the official French translation of the Stone Ocean volumes. The "girl body" is described as a "borrowed body", the "Stand" is the "Stand form" in French.

Foo Fighters, even in its late flashback, is what you see as the Stand. It'd be more appropriate to call FF some sentient Stand like Anubis whose powers are a complete part of it and not a separate entity like a Stand.

The confusion comes from how the name Foo Fighters is used alongside the nickname FF and the representation of its different forms together. But, whether Foo Fighters or FF is used, I believe it's all to designate one thing only, which has different forms. You mention that Jolyne wants to recreate FF with the Stand disc that has been maintained even after FF's death, but it's a faulty argument because, again, FF is the mix between plankton and Stand, not simply plankton + Stand, you see what I'm talking about?

Also, it doesn't have anything to do with the subject, but FF is mentioned to have a memory disc at the very end of Whitesnake Pursuer (2). But it doesn't really mean anything.