Hermit Purple

Hermit Purple (ハーミット・パープル Hāmitto Pāpuru) is the stand of Joseph Joestar. It is featured in Part III: Stardust Crusaders and, to a lesser extent, in Part IV: Diamond is Unbreakable.

Appearance/Personality
Hermit Purple manifests as multiple purple thorny vines that spawn from Joseph's right hand. They are relatively weak; however, Hermit Purple also provides Joseph with considerable telepathic ability, enabling him to sense locations or thoughts by projecting them into a camera, or a TV, or even into an image made from the sand of a dusty street.

Abilities

 * Psychic Photo: Apart from combat purposes, this versatile stand can perform remarkable feats. It can produce psychic photographs and live psychic videos on a television, but at the expense of the camera or television being destroyed. While the video will show the person and allows communication as well, the photo will reveal the intended target as it is in that moment of time to show were the person is located.


 * Living Map: It can also conjure real-time maps (capable of tracking moving subjects) and (apparently) read minds. Hermit Purple can even make a map out of the dust on an unpaved road.


 * Pseudo-Grappling Hook: Joseph demonstrated that he can use the vines as a means of transporting himself between buildings, like a grappling hook or whip.


 * Hamon Transmission: Joseph has shown the ability to transmit hamon through Hermit Purple as an extension of his body. Wrapping himself in Hermit Purple in such a manner was able to prevent Dio Brando from touching him.

Trivia

 * Hermit Purple is the only stand wielded by a Joestar (Johnny of the alternative universe may fall into this category) that does not have a humanoid appearance.
 * Hatate Himekaidou's psychic photography ability from Touhou Project functions in the same way as Joseph Joestar's Purple Hermit; Hatate even wears purple clothes.
 * 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.