Mercy Mercy Me

**Mercy Mercy Me** (マーシー・マーシー・ム Maashii Maashii Mu) is the Stand of JoJazo's main JoJo, Josefa Alejo.

Coming to the climax of JoJazo, Josefa is pierced by the Stand-Creating Arrow in secret and his stand evolves into the Mercy Mercy Me: Distant Lover.

## Appearance

Mercy Mercy Me is a feminine-humanoid stand of mostly deep purple colour who's taller than the average woman but of about the same build. Its lower jaw, its pelvis guard and four rear-head rings are all mechanical, each being detailed in different ways. Except for its right leg, the connections between its split body parts (its right wrist, neck/trapezius area, upper right arm, and left leg) are made of metallic, green rods with wiring wrapped around them. The connection for the right leg looks more telekinetic, being held together by floating glass ovals. On its neck, it has small, pink, glass circles wrapping around, with the addition of a pink heart at the front and a green anchor on the back (out of view in the image). This same pattern is applied to the pelvis guard, with two of the circles - to either side of the hips - being slightly bigger.

Around its elbow and knee joints, it has a strip of dull grey wrapped around it - indicative of the joint birthmarks shared by Josefa. Down its front, it has two parallel strips of pink going from its upper chest to the silver pelvis guard. The right one is split into 4 small strips which each read "JOJO" (the first one has the word facing in an opposite direction to the others). Scattered around its body are strips of parakeet green with large pink diamonds on them. Three can be found around the left arm and one can be found around the right arm; coming out of dispensers, three can be found on the upper right leg while one large one can be found on the upper left leg. There's also on the tiny dispenser on the top of its head, however, this has a purely pink strip rather than one with a pattern.

Though it's clear to see its left eye - which is green and has a stripped pattern - its right eye is completely concealed by a upwards-facing, pink, crescent moon. Wires stem from its neck and into the rectangular, vertical green slaps on either shoulder. Both of Mercy Mercy Me's hands are grey, with their middle finger being completely purple. Similarly, both of its feet are completely grey.

## Personality

To date, Mercy Mercy Me has never shown any signs of a personality, instead simply following the commands and orders of Josefa, however, it has been shown to work separate of Josefa while she is unaware of an issue. It does only work to favour her though and shows no signs of personal intent. The Stand Cry it releases is "PARARAR..." which is a completely unique in comparison to the other main JoJo's stand cries. Additionally, it would seem it stems from the Spanish word for stop, 'parar'.

Though Mercy Mercy Me doesn't have a personality, Mercy Mercy Me: Distant Lover does. Due to her voice, its safe to assume Distant Lover is female and its arrogance is overwhelming. It believes it is and always will be the most powerful stand - which is pretty accurate - however, it doesn't let its hubris make it vulnerable, as it will never let itself be beaten.

Unsurprisingly, she likes to toy with her foes, tricking them into believing things that aren't/are real or making them functionally powerless. She wants to be free and so traps her foes in a prison of their own mind as a form of revenge.

Her Stand Cry is a direct copy of her predecessors, being "ORA ORA ORA", possibly as symbolic way of showing that Josefa has finally made her name as one of the Joestars.

## Abilities

    Mercy Mercy Me is an incredibly Close-Ranged Stand, only being able to travel a metre from its user. Unlike many other main JoJo stands, it lacks heavily in physical strength - possibly being slightly weaker than Josefa herself - but makes up for it in its great durability, amazing precision and unmatched speed. Its been seen to go so fast that it can easily move out of the way of military-grade machine-gun bullets. Mercy Mercy Me also has a rather useful ability to go along with this.

### Impairment Redirection

Mercy Mercy Me's ability makes Josefa the perfect healer (almost). You see, Mercy Mercy Me can transfer damage from one substance, object or life form onto another. Not only does this restore the damage on the original object, but induces it onto the target. Though the thing with the damage original taken can't be a Stand, the target can be a Stand. The damage isn't exactly the same as, depending on the differences between the target and the source, the damage will be proportionally changed. Additionally, Josefa can choose to change the radius of the damage, having all of the damage be targeted into one spot or little amounts of damage scattered everywhere over the object. Alternatively, she could leave it completely the same when shifting to over.

It does come with it's limitations, however. She can only redirect damage within one minute of the original object taking the damage and must have touched the original object within one second of touching the target object to transfer it. She also can't transfer certain types of damage due to their indirectness. What this means is that she can't transfer disease or illness (germs or genetic) as well as being unable to transfer someone's impairment that only came about due to their Stand being hurt, as users tend to share wounds with their stands. Furthermore, damage can't be taken away as to bring someone back to life, but can be used to make a machine functional once again.

One of the most unique uses of her power was her transferring "being hacked" from one object to another, though it did cause the target object to become so faulty that any other uses of it could no longer be done performed (due to the proportionately change that took place during shift). Though, in most circumstances, the originally damaged source can't be a stand, Mercy Mercy Me's leg strips are an exception to this. She tear off the a piece of the strip and use it to transfer the torn damage (which would then be for the stand healed due to the way in which the ability works).

#### Impairment Intensification

Though she has to move the damage, it doesn't necessarily have to be moved onto another object. Instead, she can chose to move the damage around the original object, and because she can manipulate the radius, she could turn small, scattered pain into one, very powerful piece of damage.

## Distant Lover

### Type

Close-Ranged Stand
Range Irrelevant Stand
Natural Humanoid Stand
Evolved Stand

## Stats

### Development Potential

E

**Mercy Mercy Me: Distant Lover** (マーシー ・マーシー・ ム ・ ディスタント・ ロバー Maashii Maashii Mu Disutanto Robaa), more commonly just known as Distant Lover ( ディスタント・ ロバー Disutanto Robaa), is the Requiem form of Josefa's stand that she manifests nearing the end of JoJazo after it was pieced by the Stand-Creating Arrow. This form replaces her original stand's form but retains its prior abilities of impairment redirection and intensification while also gaining a new ability.

    Many things lead to her birthing this stand specifically, with just a few being Josefa's burning desire to get to the arrow faster than Fleetwood Max, her passion to stop him from ever hurting Belinda, and her anxieties that time may collapse in on itself if she can't stop it. These, collectively, led to Distant Lover.

Distant Lover is far more physically powerful than Mercy Mercy Me usually is, though not on the level of a stand like Star Platinum. Additionally, even though we don't get to see these in action, we can assume its durability and precision have also intensified, as well as her range, which seems to have increased to three metres. However, it's speed seems to have been increased tenfold - possibly even more. It's as if with every motion Distant Lover makes, she gets even quicker. Because of her ability, her speed, in relativity to everything else, could be considered infinite.

#### Halt

Distant Lover's primary ability allows it to cause anything to slow down. The distance at which the target is doesn't matter, with the only limitation being that the ability can't travel through time. Not only can it slow down physical movements or even energy, but also concepts (like time or the ability to comprehend). She's able to slow things down so much that they effectively come to a grinding halt.

As revenge, Josefa commands the usage of her ability to slow down everything about Fleetwood Max to the point of pausing (like his aging, his comprehension of the world around him, his movements, etc) except for his thoughts, meaning that he's stuck in an eternity of paused time with nothing but his thoughts as company while everyone else experiences time as usual. If his thoughts had also been slowed down, because everything else was also slow, then really nothing would be slow (through his eyes anyway). The only difference would be that the world around him would be moving incredibly fast - which, in both the eyes of Josefa Alejo and Distant Lover, isn't very satisfying.

#### Theme Music

This theme plays in the background when climatic moments happen during the usage of Distant Lover like its first appearance and it laying the final beatdown on Fleetwood Max. The music used is an instrumental of Charli XCX's Pink Diamond.

## Chapters

* JJZ Chapter 1: "Mercy, Part 1"
* JJZ Chapter 3: "Mercy, Part 3"
* JJZ Chapter 4: "At The Mercy Of A Gasoline Dream"
* JJZ Chapter 5: "Mercy Mercy Me"
* JJZ Chapter 7: "Hard Times, Part 2"
* JJZ Chapter 10: "Hard Times, Part 5"
* JJZ Chapter 11: "Snake Eater!"
* JJZ Chapter 12: "Paramore's Pearl"
* JJZ Chapter 13: "What's It All About?"
* JJZ Chapter 15: "I Got To Get Out Of California"  (Mentioned only)
* JJZ Chapter 16: "I Met A Little Girl, Part 1"
* JJZ Chapter 17: "I Met A Little Girl, Part 1"

## Gallery

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## Trivia

* In the beginning, I had laid out Fleetwood Max's abilities, Belinda's powers and even many minor foes' stands, but I still hadn't come up with Mercy Mercy Me. As you can tell, I eventually got there, but it took a long time.
* Originally, Distant Lover's ability was going to be called Timeless Energy Manipulation, in which she could steal energy from anywhere in space and time to use it in anyway she so pleases. Though I could have limited it, it was just far too broken and so I decided to change it to one both a bit more meaningful in what it represents and one more interesting, while also being less absolutely broken (but still pretty broken).