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[b]Name:[/b] DIO

[b]Universe:[/b] Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

[b]Appearance:[/b]
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[b]Personality:[/b] Dio is naturally intelligent; manifesting between cunning, perceptiveness, comprehension and/or foresight. As a result of a passion for reading, he is also very knowledgeable about the world. He is consistently manipulative and violently domineering, apparently lacking much conscience or empathy. Dio will normally not attack anything or anybody unless provoked (although probably more out of regarding them as inconsequential, and so not worthy of attention, than anything akin to kindness). Even when trying to remove an obstacle, he will first try persuading people to work for him, and only fight them if they oppose.  He does not hold the capacity to truly love anyone.

[b]Powers/Skills:[/b] Dio is a cunning, charming and intelligent individual. In addition to Stand users, whom Avdol and Joseph suggest he recruits through sheer charm or charisma, he has charmed many women through his life. 

Dio attains massive strength as a Vampire, allowing him feats such as forcibly walking on walls and single-handedly deflecting attacks.  Dio can regenerate his body faster than fire can consume it. His incredible vitality is maintained by consuming human beings (or their blood), which he commonly does by piercing them with his fingers. Like all JoJo vampires, Dio sucks blood through tentacles in his fingers and has been seen at least once drinking blood from an unnamed girl. His body is able to live even after having vital body parts amputated and he can also control his detached body parts. Dio is also able to pressurize liquid in his eyeballs and then create small openings in his pupils, eventually creating two fluid jets (referred to by others as "Space Ripper Stingy Eyes") powerful enough to slice stone. 

Dio's humanoid [url=http://jojo.wikia.com/wiki/Stand]Stand[/url] is The World; facilitating melee attack roughly equal in its immense force and speed to Jotaro's Star Platinum.  For reference, it can punch many times per second, a single one of which is capable of punching through a living body.  It's most notable ability, however, is its power to stop time, during which Dio can move and act freely.  His current limit is nine seconds.

[b]Brief Bio:[/b] Where to begin?  Dio Brando was born back in the 1800s to poverty and an abusive father, but his evil goes beyond upbringing.  When given the chance, he employed whatever methods he could to get ahead.  When offered the kindness of the Joestar household as payment for his father's debt, he worked to upstage and ruin the life of young Jonathan Joestar, but in the end it was Dio that was destroyed.  He then willingly relinquished his humanity to a stone mask to become a vampire, and the rest, as they say, is history.

He has been stolen from the timeline during the events of Part 3, not long before the heroes find his place of dwelling.  Naturally, with important matters afoot he wants to return, and is not much interested in wasting his strength on anyone here.  He is not totally opposed to gathering new recruits for his army of followers, however.

[b]Equipment:[/b] Ten knives and a book

[b]Others:[/b] Obviously, Dio is really, really powerful.  However, he does not break the criteria in rule #2.  His power is balanced by his personality; if he has no investment in any of the other characters or events, he is not likely to take action, and even if someone opposes them he'd rather try to persuade them to join his side than to fight them.
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