Board Thread:Fanmade/@comment-26977364-20170728084918/@comment-32848394-20170813174400

STAND NAME - The Man Who Sold the World

NAMESAKE - David Bowie song

USER - Pravin Taylor, mild mannered and unassuming college professor going through a mid-life crisis.

APPERANCE - The Man Who Sold the World is more or less humanoid in shape, though it is impossibly tall at 8 feet and it's proportions make it's gender ambiguous. It's body looks to be made of cracked, transparent glass, and it is adorned with black leather straps from neck to toe, which only barely prevent total nudity.

It also wears a heavy, white fur trenchcoat, which often obscures the fact that it's legs terminate into feet which resemble that of a bird of prey, like an owl, thought the skin texture is still human. It's hands also sport 4 inch long, sharp nails pianted black.

Most striking is it's head, or rather lackthereof. In it's place, there are two tiny balls of red light roughly where it's eyes would be. In one of it's hands, it carries a mask at the end of a stick, which can warp into a handful of different expressions. It uses this mask to express itself to compensate for it's lack of a face.

STATS:

DESTRUCTIVE POWER - A (This stand's physical strength rivals that of Star Platinum)

SPEED - B (The stand itself is quite fast, but it's powers are somewhat time consuming to use)

RANGE - B (The stand can only manifest at a range of 2 meters, but it's abilities have unlimited range)

DURABILITY - A (It's skin is hard enough to survive high caliber gunfire)

PRECISION - A

POTENTIAL - E

ABILITY 1: Contractual Wish Granting, AKA Heroes - The Man Who Sold the World posseses the power to grant any wish or combination of wishes, effectively allowing it to warp reality itself. However, in order to do so, it must forge a contract between itself and the wisher, be they the user or another person. This is made complicated by the fact that The Man Who Sold the World is a fully sentient being, whose thoughts and actions are independent from it's user and totally out of their control.

In order to trigger Heroes, one must say the words "I wish to make a bargain", followed by a sumation of their request. It can be as detailed or vague as you like, but it is dangerous to give The Man Who Sold the World any unintended freedom, as it can and will exploit contractual loopholes to fulfill it's own agenda. After the request is heard, the stand manifests a formal legal document detailing the request. Then, to activate the contract, the one who made the wish must bleed on it.

Once this is done, the contract will manifest in reality to the letter.

ABILITY 2: Sense Scrying, AKA Ground Control - The Man Who Sold the World is able to expereince the senses of anyone whose blood it ingests. Once a person't blood has been tasted, the effect is permenant. The Man Who Sold the World can see, hear, feel, taste, and smell everything that the targets do at will. It can manually toggle these sensations on and off, and can target any number of people at once. This has allowed it to effectively create a network of spies and gather great knowlegde.

ABILITY 3: Visible Contracts, Audible Voice, AKA Life on Mars - The Man Who Sold the World is invisible normal humans, like most stands, but it's contracts are visible to everyone, and it can, if it wishes, make it's voice audible to non-stand users. This is useful for makind deals.

Weaknesses - The Man Who Sold the World is cruel, calculating, manipultive and utterly devoid of compassion. It takes sadistic pleasure in granting it's user's desires, only to watch them fall into despair when they comprehend the cost. Since it's contracts are manifested from the users words and always go into detail about the nature of the wish, The Man Who Sold the World cannot directly lie about what it will do. But it is under no obligation to point out the potential drawbacks or unintended consequences of a wish. Even if it could lie, it likely would refrain from doing so; it is the hubris and naivety of it's victims on which it feeds. It only feels satisfied when their downfall is their own fault.

The Man Who Sold the World is still bound to it's user, meaning that if they die, it dies as well, so it will do everything in it's power to protect them.

The Man Who Sold the World has used wishes to jump from host to host for many years, and the fate of it's original user is unknown. Pravin, after being initally decieved by it's genial facade and making wishes that nearly destroyed his life, has taken to a life of solitude in order to protect the world from the evil that haunts him. He would have committed suicide, but immortality was his first wish.