Gertrude (Echo) Inkwell

> *"THAT'S ONE HELL OF AN UGLY NAME IF WE'VE EVER HEARD ONE!!" - Echo*
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## Echo

Image Created by CallMeOreo

**Echo** is an original character created by, and played by, CallMeOreo. It is a stand user who manifested **Fergalicious**, a sentient stand minicking that of a 5-year-old's drawing.

Echo is an assassin for **Passione**, more specifically Doppio. It's been given several assignments so far, some successful and others not so much.

## Stand

### Appearance

**Fergalicious** is a giant daffodil drawn with crayons and appearing as if cut out of a piece of paper, with eyes on each petal and a mouth over the corona that is seemingly cut out of a magazine. Its stem is a tube of paper that connects to Echo’s back whenever it manifests, and always appears in 2D regardless of which angle it is perceived in except for its spindly arms that appear to also be made of floating crayon scribbles. When countering the Stand of an opponent, Fergalicious becomes a crayon-drawn, simplified and cartoonish cutout of that Stand.

### Personality

Fergalicious possesses a curious nature and often asks about its surroundings whenever it and Echo are alone, acting as a lookout when its master is asleep and taking this chance to play with its surroundings. While it often helps its user to think on its feet by wanting to play out seemingly absurd “play tests” with the abilities it counters, Fergalicious looks up to Echo almost like a little sibling. When neither Echo nor a friendly Stand user are looking, Fergalicious will often make secret attempts to get the other Stand to notice it whenever both are out.

### Abilities

**Counter**

Upon learning the name of a Stand user, Echo and its Stand can take on appearances identical/similar to the opposing user and their Stand. Fergalicious will then develop an ability designed to perfectly counter the opponent's and Echo will learn of all the weaknesses of the opponent. However, there are many conditions when using Fergalicious:

* Fergalicious cannot activate **unless the user hears the opponent say their full name or hears their full name within hearing distance of the opponent.** Hearing nicknames, first and last names in separate sentences, or aliases will not count and activate Fergalicious.
* This ability cannot be used with two Stand users at the same time **unless the mods permit this to change sometime down Echo’s development as a character.**
* If Echo attempts to use Fergalicious' abilities outside the hearing range of the chosen opponent, the transformation period will go from instantaneous to **around four minutes, leaving it highly vulnerable and incapable of action during this period.**
* Fergalicious’s counter abilities will not instantly be mastered upon manifesting. **Echo must learn how to fully utilize the new abilities just like new Stand users.**
	+ Additionally, the more complex the Stand Fergalicious counters (ie. possesses ACTs, is tied to other power techniques such as the Spin), the more specific its abilities become to more accurately counter the Stand. **These powers often take more time for Echo to master, and sometimes are either incredibly difficult and/or require a higher amount of creativity than other abilities.** For example, if Echo were to counter Tusk in all ACTs, it would be forced to acquire a horse and be as well versed in Spin as Johnny in order to perfectly produce a counter-rotation to cancel out Johnny’s nails every time they encounter each other. Otherwise it would only know that it has to “reverse-spin his spin” and would take significantly longer to achieve a successful Spin, even if every rotational motion it makes while in Johnny’s form will be in the opposite direction. Meanwhile more relatively straightforward Stands like Secco’s Oasis result in simpler counter abilities like turning anything inanimate within a 10 meter radius into water and manipulate said water.
	+ The counter abilities **only work as designed properly when used against the target, but can be easily overcome by others in some scenarios.** If Fergalicious were to counter Sticky Fingers, it can create purple cubes that can jam the Stand’s zippers or trap whatever comes out of fully opened zippers just by it or Echo looking at their direction, but the cubes can be broken in a few blows by Giorno and Gold Experience or someone from Passione. Bruno and Sticky Fingers, however, cannot break the same cubes.
* Echo’s internal organs will change in size **only when taking on the form of younger/smaller Stand users.** Additionally, **its health condition will not change regardless of which form it takes on.** Echo’s split tongue is often one of many indicators of it not being the original as a result.
* **Fergalicious cannot mimic the species of the Stand user targeted, nor mimic any species that lacks a Stand and animal Stand users.** Echo can copy SDC’s Dio and develop a counter to The World, but it will not become a vampire and can stand in the sun, and cannot turn into PB Dio as this version hasn’t manifested The World yet.
* **Echo only learns of its target’s weaknesses, not their memories or positive traits.** This leaves it highly disadvantaged if it ever somehow desires to fool others into thinking it is its target, especially when a language barrier is to be considered.
* It may choose to transform with the target’s clothes as well or reshape its original clothes to fit its chosen form and even produce anything such as hair products to make its hair similar to its target, but **it cannot copy whatever is in its target’s inventory and give it to itself. All Echo will get is their clothes and their appearance.**
* It cannot keep a permanent hold on the counters it possesses, and will be unable to access them after a week. **Echo must stay in regular face to face contact with their target in order to keep its counter abilities and the target’s form.** Additionally, it can also lose its counters if a memory erasing ability is used on it.

## Personality

Echo is cheerful and enthusiastic, sometimes coming off as childish from how carefree it acts. It prefers to be casual in every setting even if the other person is overly formal, and gets as comfortable as the weird poses it makes are twisty. Ever since it ran away from home, however, it has gained a slight paranoia of those seemingly magnetized by it and is capable of being dangerously hostile to any stranger that approaches them, demanding names in case its parents sent Stand users to find it.

If said person isn’t going to deliver it to its parents and is sincere, however, it latches onto them emotionally and becomes as sweet as a puppy.

## History

Back when Echo referred to itself as “I,” its life was predictable, normal, safe, and *boring.* The predetermined heir of a stationary company, an only child spoiled dirty with whatever it desired, and everything done by others instead of giving it the satisfaction of completing tasks. Dull, dull, dull, that was all its life was to it. Its only escape was in school as a competitive gymnast, and even then the silver and bronze awards it won brought little comfort despite the pride they granted.

That was till one day, it had fallen under a strange fever and a ghostly flower had grown from its back, speaking to it in a soft voice and peeking over its shoulder at everything. This was its Stand, and its name was Fergalicious.

The next three years, albeit wrought with Stand user encounters it struggled to keep secret from its parents, were one of the most exhilirating parts of its life, Echo learning to use its new abilities while finally having someone who gave it the constant positive attention it needed. It had something to prepare for outside of gymnastics and school, and somebody gave actual responses to its voiced thoughts and complaints. Even if Fergalicious was technically part of it, Echo didn’t feel lonely for the first time.

When the news of the Aokijima Festival finally reached the gossip at its family’s dinner table, Echo and its Stand felt both their curiosity spike up, and a tug in its gut told it to go to Aokijima. But did it really want to leave behind everything? To escape its comfortable life for one much harder all because of a gut feeling and its pent up emotions?

The answer was yes, and now it’s on the run from the private detectives and investigators its parents sent after it.