Holy Kujo

"Jotaro's mother...Holy can make people feel at ease, you feel like everything's fine when you're around her."

- -Noriaki Kakyoin about Holy Kujo

Holy Kujo née Joestar (空条[ジョースター] ホリィ), is a minor character appearing in Stardust Crusaders.

Appearance
Holy Kujo is an ethnically American fair-headed woman in her forties who has shoulder-long hair she keeps in a chignon.

Personality
Holy's sweet charm is known by all. She believes in her son deeply, proud of the compassion that he has despite his hard shell and somehow isn't disturbed in the least by his insults. As a woman who loves her family, she will deliberately lie about her illness so as to lessen their worry. She is caring even to strangers, as shown when she tends to Kakyoin's wounds She is cheerful, carefree and always shown with a smile. Kakyoin himself describes her as the type of person he would fall for because she can make anyone feel at ease and soothe their heart.

Holy comes as rather childish, notably tickling her father Joseph in public and refusing to answer if she isn't called by the japanese name she gave herself, Seiko, which also means "holy".

Battle Tendency
She is first mentioned at the end of Battle Tendency when a Japanese man bumps into Joseph with his suitcase, asking he is alright but also blaming Joseph for not looking where he was going. While Joseph is about to dismiss this, he notices the man is Japanese and knees him in the stomach. He then claims that he hates the Japanese because his beloved daughter fell in love with a Japanese man and left home to the other end of the world, rarely coming home to visit for the next twenty years.

In the anime, she was also shown as a little girl alongside her parents as they visited Erina on her deathbed.

Stardust Crusaders
Holy is introduced as the loving mother of Jotaro Kujo. When he locks himself in jail, claiming to be possessed by an evil spirit, Holy calls her father, Joseph Joestar, to see him. Joseph tells Jotaro and Holy that DIO had acquired the body of Jonathan Joestar, and with it had somehow developed a Stand ability. Because of this, all of Jonathan's descendants had also developed a Stand, the "evil spirit" Jotaro mentioned. Holy eventually develops one too, but doesn't have the strength to support it and falls ill. Holy's ailing condition becomes the catalyst for Jotaro and company's quest to Egypt, as the defeat of DIO would stop Holy's stand of showing itself. At the end of the adventure she is back on her feet and once more the loving person she was.

JoJolion
Holy is the mother of Yoshikage Kira in the alternate universe, making Kira of the alternate universe a direct descendant of Johnny Joestar. Holy Joestar-Kira is revealed to have been an ophthalmologist who worked at the T.H. Medical University Hospital from 1998-2008 and is currently a guest professor at T.G. University. As of 2011 in the alternate universe, she is shown to be a patient at a hospital.

Stand
While DIO was alive, she developed a Stand, but was incapable of using it both due to her gentle nature and not having the need to battle or fight. Her Stand gave her high-fever like symptoms while deteriorating her health. Her "ability" was the reason why her father Joseph and her son Jotaro went to kill DIO and cause the events of Stardust Crusaders to unfold.

Of note is that Holy was capable of perceiving Jotaro's stand, as she was able to see Star Platinum's arm take the policeman's gun and subsequently stop the bullet directed at Jotaro.

JoJo RPG (SFC)
Holy appears as a character the player can talk with during the first scenario, at Jotaro's house. Besides that she appears only in cutscenes.

Heritage for the Future (PS1/DC/Arcade Game)
During the game, Holy appears only in cutscenes, similar to the manga, when she gets sick and at the end of the game.

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Trivia

 * Her Japanese name is Seiko (聖子), meaning "holy girl". This is derived from her english name "Holy".
 * She may also be named after the British rock group "The Hollies".
 * Holy's Stand is one of two in the series to inadvertently cause harm to its user, the other being Ticket to Ride. It is the first unnamed Stand to make an appearance, and has no obvious abilities besides causing harm to its user.
 * Though it has no known name, Holy's Stand could be a reference to the 1970's band Raspberries, due to its shape resembling the fruit, vines and thorns.
 * At the beginning of Chapter 120, Holy is seen singing to herself: "Come on, Baby, do the locomotion", likely from Gerry Goffin and Carole King's song "The Loco-Motion", made famous in the 1980s when it was covered by Kylie Minogue. Similarly, in the 2014 anime adaption, she hums Seiko Matsuda's 1980s pop song "Ao no Sangosho" ("Blue Coral Reef" in English), fitting well into the timeline as a Japanese song popular around the time Stardust Crusaders takes place in and also making a reference to Holy's Japanese name being Seiko.