Tsurugi Higashikata

Tsurugi Higashikata is a major character featured in Part VIII: JoJolion.

Tsurugi is the son of Jobin and Mitsuba Higashikata, and the youngest of the Higashikata Family.

Appearance
Tsurugi is a 9-year-old boy of average build.

Intentionally dressed in a traditionally feminine manner, his attire consists of a scarf, a polka-dot dress and a pair of flats. The majority of his face is occasionally covered by a large pair of black sunglasses. On top of his head, he wears an origami frog, a reference to his stand ability.

Personality
Like all first born sons in the Higashikata family, Tsurugi is being raised as a girl for the first 12 years of his life to ward off a curse.

He displays an interest in origami and has an unusual interest in the scent of Yasuho Hirose's hair. Despite his young age he regularly goes out of his way to 'hit on' or flirt with Yasuho in a perverse manner.

Like his grandfather, he is interested in the Higashikata Family's prosperity and is originally suspicious that Yasuho spends so much time with them.

Tsurugi has targeted Yasuho with his Stand, manipulating or toying with her. He explains afterwards that he simply likes her, implying he has a schoolboy crush on her.

Tsurugi also demonstrates a very deep seeded fear of dying from the stone disease, as the mere possibility of Yotsuyu being able to cure him is enough to manipulate him into complying with Yagiyama's demands whole-heartedly. He expresses frantic dismay when confronted about his motives.

Abilities
Tsurugi's Stand is Paper Moon King, enabling him to give a degree of life to origami of his creation. These origami display different capabilities depending on the type of animal or object they are shaped into, similar to Tubular Bells. After they touch his target, the target is subjected to the illusion that all people and/or symbols appear the same.

Synopsis
As Jobin's "daughter", he appears to fit in quite well in the Higashikata family. He was present during the family photo and was introduced by Norisuke Higashikata IV. He is usually being carried around by Mitsuba.

Later, Yasuho encounters him after being taken to the Higashikata's basement. After attempting to play with her and having taken her phone, she discovers that he is male after some struggle, at which point he reveals that his family's first born always crossdresses in order to ward off the "curse" that strikes them at age 11, at which point their bodies stiffen and turn to stone, just as happened to Rina Higashikata. Daunted, Yasuho leaves to the outside, though not before Tsurugi activates a Stand ability on her after having touched her phone, which he transformed into an origami frog.

Trivia

 * He was first introduced as being 2 years old, but his age was later retconned to 9.
 * He is the Third introduced cross-dressing character in the series, the first being Part II's Joseph Joestar  and the second being Part VII's Hot Pants.