Highway Star

"Highway Star may not be strong, but its pursuit is relentless."

- Yuya Fungami about his Stand

Highway Star (ハイウェイ・スター) is the Stand of Yuya Fungami, featured in Diamond Is Unbreakable.

Appearance
Highway Star is an almost naked, humanoid Stand with a dark, checkered body, and an ornamental fake beard on its chin reminiscent of that worn by the Pharaohs.

When chasing a target, it splits itself into multiple thin layers of its body, giving the impression of a group of footprints chasing after the target.

Personality
Highway Star relentlessly pursues its prey by following their scent and has no personality though Yuya's habit of speaking through his Stand can give the impression of sentience.

In the anime, Highway Star speaks with a calm and slightly sinister version of Yuya's own voice.

Abilities
Highway Star is a long range Stand, and thus is defined by a mediocre fighting power but a longe range of action which enables Yuya to pilot his Stand rather precisely while resting far from danger.

Highway Star possesses a disjointed set of powers that makes fighting it a perilous endeavour, and even Josuke must flee the Stand to find the user and beat him.

Two of its basic but most remarkable characteristics are its speed and range: Highway Star can run up to 60 km/h (roughly 37 mp/h) and indefinitely maintain that running speed in order to chase after its prey ; moreover its chase after Josuke around Morioh while Yuya was in Grape Hills Hospital demonstrates its great range.

Room Creation: Highway Star's first witnessed power is a rather odd ability to attract spiritually aware victims by creating a room in a wall to lure them in.

The room itself only contains a handful of furnitures, plus a window and door to peek and get in or out of it. It was also only noticed by Rohan Kishibe and eventually Josuke Higashikata, both being Stand users, and originally lured Rohan by showing a vision of Yoshikage Kira killing a woman.

Anyone who enters the room is targeted by Highway Star who acquires their scent, who then relentlessly chases after them.

Enhanced Sense of Smell: Highway Star possesses a superhuman sense of smell which Yuya himself obtains. While Highway Star can acquire someone's scent and automatically lock on to their position if they go out of sight (meaning it can automatically summon itself near the target), Yuya's nose becomes subtle enough to pick up and distinguish faint odors. It allows him to guess if a fruit is rotten and even smell someone's mood by the adrenaline they release.

Body Dismantlement: Highway Star can section itself into many slices as it flies at high speeds, breaking apart in flat horizontal segments that move independantly from each other, then reassemble itself piece by piece. This allows Highway Star to be impervious to physical attacks like punches, slip though narrow passages or do large scale multi-angle attacks by striking with all its pieces at once. However in that state, Highway Star acts automatically and mindlessly follows the scent, allowing Josuke to temporarily trick it.

Life Force Theft: Highway Star's main ability is to suck life energy from its victims when any part of it touches the target and transfer it to Yuya in order to heal him.

When it sucks out the energy, the victim's skeleton can be seen, and they are left severely exhausted and unable to move or even use their Stand, as was the case with Rohan. Yuya implies that if he wishes, Highway Star can fatally drain a target until they're an emaciated husk. In addition the life force of Stand users give more energy to Yuya and heals him faster, thus he specifically targets Stand users.

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Trivia
Its body-splitting ability was inspired by the Daruma Otoshi children's game.