Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26873003-20150830214630

I am currently on the 71st chapter, so please no spoilers from that moment onwards.

The question: How does exactly Stand possession via corpse parts works? Do you automatically absorb some part of corpse if you are in the devil's palm? Is it that you need to have a corpse part with you all the time in order to retain your Stand? Or maybe you just need to possess the corpse part for a moment? That would explain why Hot Pants let Johnny have that piece of backbone, while he took the rest, but then again, there are more Stand users in Part 7 than there are corpse parts, so I'm not quite sure. Either there is a huge plot discrepancy or I'm a dumbass. 