Talk:Holly Kujo/@comment-28977069-20160815190609

I have a theory about Holy's sickness in Part 3.

Short version: Holy's 'Stand sickness' isn't caused solely by her lacking a fighting spirit, but also because of DIO's influence, all for the purpose of making her a bait so that Joseph and Jotaro would come to him.

Long version: As we all know, Holy, despite her cheery disposition, is a Joestar, and all Joestars possess this innate spiritual strength. Hell, even Lisa Lisa, a Joestar by marriage, Holy's grandmother, was a strong woman in skill and spirit, so it stands to reason that Holy has this innate spiritual strength, perhaps at a much weaker level compared to the protagonists who became or will become Stand users.

Considering that all people with Joestar blood are affected when Dio acquired his Stand, Holy's Stand must have partially manifested at the same time Joseph and Jotaro got theirs, but for most of her appearance, she seemed fine... until Kakyoin is defeated and one of DIO's flesh buds is extracted from his brain.

Now this is the core of my theory: DIO, aware of Kakyoin's defeat by Jotaro either through Jonathan's body's Hermit Purple-like Stand that he can use to check up on Joseph and/or Jotaro, or through having one of his flesh buds extracted from Kakyoin, affected Holy's Stand from afar using Jonathan's Hermit Purple-like Stand, which only worked because of her weaker spiritual strength, so that Joseph and Jotaro would come for him, a gambit in which DIO would eliminate the two most dangerous living Joestars to his existence in one fell swoop if he played his cards right. It's too much of a coincidence that Holy just fell sick after Kakyoin's defeat, so this is what I came up with. It's something that I can see DIO do, being as manipulative as he was.