Name: Gold Experience
Namesake: The Gold Experience (Prince Album)
Physical Description: Gold Experience is a golden-hued humanoid Stand of slender build and average height. The top of its head is similar to that of a typical helmet of a soldier with a ladybug-like design, with curved markings similar to the letter J coming down from the eyes on both sides. There are stylized white wings on its shoulders and large purple ladybugs all over its body and smaller purple accents elsewhere, like its knuckles and insectoid eyes. Small white slings like loosed suspenders hang from its waist. The Stand has an overall insectoid theme similar to a beetle, and several portions of its body appear to be "armored" with an orange "carapace"-like material, including the upper torso, shoulders, pelvic area, forearms and forelegs.
Personality: Gold Experience doesn't have any personality to speak of and follows its user's commands without manifesting any will. Its Stand Cry, communicated by itself or Kasumi, alternatively, is "MUDA MUDA MUDA~!", sometimes punctuated by a "WRRRYYY~!" in moments of particularly high emotion. Without a will of its own, the Stand's combat style defaults to Kasumi's, being fairly decisive and ruthless; it also showcases the use of actual martial arts to close the gap between it and conventionally stronger opponents.
Stand Stats:
Destructive Power: C
Speed: A
Range: C (2 meters)
Durability: D
Precision: C
Development Potential: A
Abilities: Gold Experience is a close-range Stand, one that isn't conventionally very strong, relative to other close-range Stands, around the strength of an average human. Despite this, it is mind-bogglingly fast, outspeeding some of the best of the best, and capable of easily destroying and even launching vehicles such as cars and motorcycles through sheer quantity of strikes delivered in a short amount of time.
The main ability of Gold Experience is to manipulate life. It can both sense life energy and inject it on physical contact, pulling from a seemingly endless well of power, which has a variety of effects depending on what it touches.
Injected into inanimate objects, the life energy can transform it into a living organism of Kasumi's choosing, plant or animal. This ability does not appear to observe conservation of mass, as an object as small as a bullet can become a full size tree or a car something as small as a frog. This transformation persists for a fairly long time and even at large distances from Kasumi, and she can cancel it at any time, immediately reverting an object back into its original inorganic state. Plants grow/change faster and take whatever form and direction of growth Kasumi desires. However, scaling much faster in complexity and thus creation time, animals are entirely independent organisms, following their natural instincts in a given situation, which Kasumi must guess beforehand; though, she does have some limited influence in being able to cause the animals to be "attracted to their source". Life forms created from parts of a whole, such as someone’s tooth or debris from a statue, will have the natural instinct to make their way back to whatever it came from, and a "part of a whole" can even include someone's shoe or money taken from a wallet. She can even ensure the lifeforms at least return to her, and her creations are never hostile to her, developing increasing loyalty the longer they exist. If the local area happens to be a zone completely unsuitable for any form of life, then life forms cannot be created. Alternatively, creating a life form in a deadly substance will cause the result to be an animal that is naturally adapted with the correct biology and resistances to survive remaining in that substance.
If any lifeform created by injected life energy is struck, plant or animal, the effect of the blow will be completely nullified and inverted, the severity of the retaliation proportional to how harmful the effect would have been to the thing struck, which can be easily lethal in the cases of smaller creatures being the target. This affects not just physical blows but will even reflect the esoteric abilities of other Stands. Kasumi is immune to this backlash effect and can harm her creations freely.
If life energy is injected into an already living being, their thought processes will radically accelerate, to the point of losing control of their body and Stand and causing an out of body experience. The victim perceives the world in slow motion but finds themself unable to react to it, barely able to move their actual body and feeling far more acute and intense pain over a much larger time period when an injury is taken, enough to think full sentences and internally describe the pain in great detail. This ability is, however, ineffective when used on a Stand directly and must reach the User instead. Gold Experience can also use life energy to radically accelerate personal metabolism, able to cause the likes of a long-lived tree to rapidly wither and rot in moments; to say the least, the results on a creature are likely to be fairly horrific.
Gold Experience is capable of healing in several ways, able to support and accelerate natural healing processes, stitch severed flesh back together (which can reconnect amputated limbs), or transform inanimate objects into replacement flesh and organs. In the latter case, much like transforming inanimate objects into creatures, conservation of mass is generally given the middle finger, as the likes of a small brooch could be turned into a whole hand and forearm, for example, while bullets will easily provide enough mass to restore not just their resting place in a wound but the tunnel created to get there. This process of healing and integrating replacement flesh is apparently quite painful.
If life energy is injected into a corpse, Gold Experience's power has a rather unique result. While it cannot ultimately bring the corpse back to life, it can reanimate it temporarily, providing an anchor for the disconnected soul to hang onto. The corpse will have all the memories and personality traits of the person when it was alive, and if they were a Stand User, they will retain their Stand abilities in full as well (this being the real hint that the actual soul is, in fact, present). The reanimated person ultimately lacks body functions, such as breathing, a heartbeat or the ability to feel pain, and they are immune to abilities that only affect living creatures. However, while this may prove advantageous at first, it doesn't change that the corpse is still dead, causing them to gradually physically weaken and lose their sense of sight and hearing. In exchange, however, they can develop the ability to converse with others by sensing the presence and thoughts of other souls. That said, the timing for this phenomenon to occur successfully is very tight. A corpse cannot be animated without a soul to drive it, so for this to happen, Gold Experience must perform the infusion within bare moments of the initial time of death. Otherwise, the corpse shall remain lifeless and inert, the will long since passed on.
Gold Experience's mastery of life provides Kasumi the ability to sense life passively. To her, life exists largely in "clusters". When she touches someone or something, she can more finely sense any other life forms within them, allowing her to check if someone is alive or scout out a confined area before entering it. The ranged detection capacity of this sensory ability is precise enough that Kasumi can track individual targets she is familiar with, including life forms created by her. She can also infuse an inanimate object with a time-delayed or conditional transformation or can simply have the injected energy loiter inactively, providing her a beacon to track from afar.
One particular technique of Kasumi's is to toss severed -but life infused- portions of her body away, keeping them "alive" and thus seeding "anchors" from which her Stand can manifest and bypass her normal range limit, while also ensuring that these "anchors" can heat-seek back to her once their purpose is fulfilled. She is also well-practiced in utilizing the universal capabilities of Stands, like selective tangibility, perspective sharing, and self-enhancement via cloaking her body in her Stand. And through the last of those abilities, there is currently percolating the conception of an ability that yet remains highly rare among even Stand Users aware of the universal utilities.
Misc: None.