The Weight Of Living

### Namesake

Weight Of Living, Pt. I  (Bastille song) Weight Of Living, Pt. II  (Bastille song)

### Type

Natural Humanoid
Long-Distance
Colony
Reconnaissance

## Stats

### Development Potential

C

**The Weight Of Living** (ス・ウィート・オフ・リビング Su Wiito Ofu Ribingu) is a Stand featured in JoJazo and belongs to Icarus Bastille.

This is one of the few stands in existence that has exactly two units.

## Appearance

The Weight Of Living appears as two humanoids of average height and build. Both humanoids have blue upper-torsos with swampish green lower-torsos. Across their chest, they have a red cross and up their green arms they have square pattern that leads to their long, sharp, blue hands. Each has an orange and yellow flower pattern going down both of their grey legs. Coming off of both of their white shoulders is a line of string that loops around the front and back round to the other shoulder.

Living I (リビング① Ribingu 1) has a green face covered by a blue mask with dark blue lips. Coming down the face is a light blue arrow that's surrounded by two bold, white eyes. At all times, there are tears running down its face. Living II (リビング② Ribingu 2) has a massive grin with crimson lips and hollow black eyes. It also has a light blue arrow however it bends more into a nose at the tip.

## Personality

Though one looks very sad while the other looks very happy, neither display much personality. It should be noted however that Living I does tend to act a bit more calm than Living II, though this may just be down to how Icarus controls them individually.

## Abilities

The stands have been shown to be agile and acrobatic while having the strength of an average person. Their ability can make them very deadly, even though it technically creates no damage at all.

### Fog

The Weight Of Living's sub-ability allows it create a low riding fog in whatever building Icarus chooses. This fog is able to scale stairs but can't raise any higher than about knee height in terms of whatever you'd consider the floor beneath it is. This means the fog can be upstairs and downstairs simultaneously but is only a few foot off the floor in both places.

Both Living I and II are bound to the fog and can't move any further than it.

### Pain Inducement

By Icarus or one of the stands touching someone, they're able to choose for a point in their body to begin experiencing inexplicable pain. The pain is experienced as a sharp stinging. The intensity of the pain is proportional to how long they touch the person. Once he lets go of his target, the pain will continue to slowly increase further the longer the person is in view of Icarus or one of his stands. When they exit his view, the pain won't increase but will persist.

The amount of pain it induces has been shown to causes sweating (in turn, dehydration), hyperventilation, high blood pressure, dangerously high bpm, reddening of skin, paralysation, crying (to the point of bloody tears) and, according to Icarus, even death out of pure bodily exhaustion.

### Victim Orb

This pain can be abolished if a person agrees to strike up a deal with Icarus. The deal states that if the target says "I am your Victim", then the pain will cease and Icarus will manifest a blue orb with the person's face on it. With this orb, he's able to track his target's every movement, hear their every though and known their every feeling. This meyans that even after escaping his stand physically, they'll never actually escape him. Icarus uses this to to his advantage during his battle with Bran and Bangtan.

The orb is able to be dematerialised into the fog for safe keeping.

All effects of Icarus' The Weight Of Living can be reversed if he is beaten.

## Chapters

* JJZ Chapter 8: "Hard Times, Part 3"  (Ability only)
* JJZ Chapter 9: "Hard Times, Part 4" (First appearance)
* 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"  (Appears in flashback(s))

## Gallery

The Weight Of LivingThe Weight Of Living TransparentThe Weight Of Living's ParametersThe Weight Of Living's EyecatchIts user, Icarus Bastille
## Trivia

* The Weight Of Living being two units was inspired by the fact that the song its a reference to has two parts.
* Each unit's (Living I and Living II's) 'personality' is derived from its respective part in Weight Of Living, its namesake.
* Icarus states that he was able to manifest a second unit out of sheer force of will, though this is highly unlikely.
* Their designs are meant to resemble the kind of clothes you'd imagine an orphan wearing in a move from about the 1970's.