Ace of Hearts

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## Stand Stats

* Pawn
* Rook

## Stand Stats

The cane is long and yellow with a heart at its top.

The cape has a "seven" in roman numerals, as well as other symbols one would find in a slot machine. It also has a collar of white fur.

### ACT II

ACT II takes the form of a floating cloak, head, and four hands, holding the cane from ACT I.

The head is shaped like a heart with black eyes, wearing a golden royal crown with forty-eight pearls around it. Where its mouth would be is a slot machine with all the symbols that were on the back of the cloak of ACT I.

The cloak resembles that of ACT I, though lacks the symbols on the back, and has a heart with the roman numeral for "two" on the clasp.

The four hands are all golden gauntlets, hollow on the inside. Each has a different suit of cards on it. Each hand also has a white knuckle with each suit of cards on them.

### ACT III

#### Pawn

The pawn is roughly 77 cm tall, with a very patched together suit of armor, with many bits not fitting together properly. They wear a classic medieval helmet and hold a shield and sword. A single pearl is imbedded into the hilt of its sword. It has a heart with the roman numeral for "three" on a piece of its armor connected to it's shoulder.

#### Rook

The rook is 200 cm tall, with a helmet resembling a castle tower, as well as shoulder pads resembling the same. It has a black horizontal stripe pattern for its limbs, as well as white and red gauntlets and red boots. It holds a mace flail with a heart mace covered in spikes. The breastplate has a heart with the roman numeral for "three" in the center, surrounded by five pearls.

#### Jacob

ACT III gives Jacob a small crown on his sleeve, that has a heart with the roman numeral for "three" and a single pearl imbedded above it. Sixteen pearls also float around Jacob in two formations of eight, resembling hearts.

## Personality

Ace of Hearts has never been shown to have a personality.

## Background

Jacob A. D'Arby awoke Ace of Hearts after winning the Joker's Wildcard Casino business from his father.

ACT II awoke when Jacob experienced 'Vard Renaissance's feelings and motives. The realization that stands were more than just abilities gave Ace of Hearts a form beyond just a cloak and a staff.

ACT III awoke after regaining the memories that awoke ACT II.

## Abilities

### ACT I - Monophobia

ACT I allows any bet Jacob takes place in or oversees to bet memories in the form of chips. When you lose a memory, you also bet the memory's concept, meaning that you can never regain the information taken, unless you regain the chip. If someone does not have the chip of a memory and something that would happen that would cause you to regain the information that was lost, the person does not see it, hear it, or sense it in any way. If it is a person or object and they look at it, it gives a slight headache.

If someone loses enough of their memories, they will enter a suit and become a worker at Jacob's casino.

### ACT II - Lighter Than Air

ACT II is otherwise known as "Perfect Negotiation." By offering a chip or memory upfront, the person proposing the bet and the person being proposed to, will enter a pseudo done of non-violence. Any attacks from or towards either party are rendered ineffective and simply pass right through, as well as any physical damage they attempt to deal to the area around them. Neither party can leave until it is resolved, and the dome maintains effect until both parties agree to terms, or the one proposing the bet rescinds the offer.

### ACT III - ???

ACT III's ability is unknown, but has been shown to be a colony stand based around chess, that overlays a chess board on the ground' walls, and ceiling around Jacob in a large radius.

## Trivia

* Jacob treats Ace of Hearts as if it is sentient, despite having never shown any semblance of being so.
* Every ACT of Ace of Hearts has the heart cane somewhere.
* Jacob's original stand was not Ace of Hearts, as their first EP, Monophobia, released June 4th, roughly 2 months after Severed Strings started. His original stand was named "Shape of My Heart" based on the song by Sting. This was changed because the band Ace of Hearts lent itself to the themes of Jacob better.
	+ Ace of Hearts being based on a different song, had a different ability. It was originally the ability to make someone forget the rules of a bet once it's accepted, and to lay out a world presented as one game when it in reality is another. Jacob would have also been affected, but knowing the secret of his stand would have an advantage. This was changed not due to the complexity of making one game look like another, but because Westley was worried he would make rules the players would never have agreed to in the first place, after already saying they had accepted said rules.