Hermit Purple

"Did you see it? The thorns on my hand? That is my Stand!"

- Joseph Joestar, Chapter 117

Hermit Purple (ハーミットパープル（隠者の紫）) is the Stand of Joseph Joestar, featured in Stardust Crusaders, and occasionally in Diamond is Unbreakable.

Appearance
Hermit Purple manifests itself as multiple, purple, thorn-covered vines that spawn from Joseph's hands. The vines are strong enough to support his own weight and long enough to bind someone completely.

Hermit Purple is consistently portrayed as being purple across all media featuring it, befitting its name.

Hermit Purple represents the Card, which symbolizes introspection and contemplation, best represented in the Stand's powers of divination.

Abilities
Hermit Purple's vines are relatively weak, but they provide Joseph with considerable divination ability, enabling him to divine and materialize any type of information, such as an image, a location or even thoughts.

Joseph demonstrated that he can use the vines as ropes, whose movements he can control at will. Their length and resistance make it possible for Joseph to swing from place to place and tie someone. The vines have limited resistance as a sufficiently strong Stand or even a strong Vampire can break them. The vines are dexterous enough to manipulate a video game controller.

Further, Joseph on at least one occasion used Hermit Purple to create a purple aura around him, in order to prank Jotaro.

Divination
Hermit Purple's ability is to divine information. By using objects or material in conjunction with Hermit Purple, Joseph Joestar can display any information he wishes to see. Hermit Purple's divination can be achieved and used in various way, including:
 * By using Hermit Purple to strike and destroy a camera, the broken camera will produce a psychic photograph which will reveal the information as it is in that moment of time, such as a photo of the person who is causing their current situation.
 * By using Hermit Purple through a television, it can be used to produce live psychic videos, by either displaying a series of different TV channels to formulate a coherent sentence, or acquiring a visual of a chosen location, even the most improbable ones, such as the interior of Joseph's brain.
 * By drawing a map, it can display the location of a desired item, identified with an "X marks the spot". Joseph once drew a map of the city out of dust on an unpaved road.
 * Analyze machinery to see if it has been tampered with in some way as he did with Telence T. D'Arby’s video game cartridges and console.

Notably, Hermit Puprle's divination becomes more accurate when closer to the target. When Joseph was in Japan and tried to get a picture of Dio, who was in Egypt at the time, the only image that appeared was Dio hidden in the shadows. However, when they were both in Egypt, Joseph was able to get a picture of the mansion where Dio was living.

Ripple Transmission
Joseph has shown the ability to transmit his Ripple through Hermit Purple as an extension of his body. Joseph has used this property of Hermit Purple to attack DIO or prevent him from touching him by wrapping himself in it.

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Trivia

 * Hermit Purple's thorns can briefly be seen in the background of the second opening of the JoJo TV anime, "BLOODY STREAM". This acts as foreshadowing, as the episodes that the second opening is attached to adapt Battle Tendency, and Joseph does not develop Hermit Purple until the following part, Stardust Crusaders.
 * However, when speaking about Joseph Joestar in JoJonium Vol. 9, Araki states "If Jotaro's group time-traveled to the world of Part 2, they would probably be able to see "Hermit Purple" wrapped around Joseph just like in Part 3."