The Weeknd

The Weeknd is the Stand of Fedel Agnello in Fate of Zephyr.

## Appearance

The Weeknd appears to have a height and build similar to Fedel, similar to Moody Blues's appearance compared to Leonardo Abbadia. Its face, upper body, and two hands appears to be covered up with bandanges and gauzes underneath a pink-red suit jacket. The lower body is bare, revealing the whoe body underneath the gauzes and bandages to be a very dark blue and a black leather belt is hung around its lower waist resembling a police holster belt.

On its face, the gauze covers everything but its two eyes and a notable pink stain heavily appears in the center where the nose and mouth should be, appearing as if the stain is coming from underneath and seeping to the top layer. This stain is also seen on the top of the hands too and both stains can glow in the dark to appear bright pink. When in heavy combat, the stain seeps through heavier and the pink liquid causing it begins dripping out as a result. The liquid, when in the dark, will glow neon pink, but will evaporate within a few seconds of appearing. The most notable part of the Stand's appearance is its eyes. The eyes appear to have irises colored in hues of magenta and gold while its scleras are blue.

When using Beauty Behind Madness, the user's eyes are transformed to match the same color scheme of the Stand's. The eyes appear slightly larger than normal when appearing outside of the face. The eyelids resemble the color of whatever surface it is on.

## Personality

The Weeknd has no personality, although often reflecting the user's mood based on its eye movements.

## Abilities

### Starboy

Starboy has the ability to manipulate emotions and memories of whoever the Stand touches. When a victim is touched, they hallucinate a warming light that falsely represents their inner conciousness personified. Sometimes the warm light can turn into someone, deceased or living, in the victim's hallucinations. Believing that they are talking to their internal thoughts, the Stand user can use that to find memories of the individual they deem useful and manipulate the victims thoughts for various purposes. These thoughts can be beneficial to the user of the Stand, such as affirmations, or harmful, such as doubts. Oftentimes, they are used to help grab memories or blindly perform tasks for the user, making the victims become scapegoats that were driven to insanity as a result.

Although the victim, if mentally strong enough, can break out of the trance caused by Starboy, they are still immune to its power unless they are able to cause harm to the Stand or its user or the user decides to call back the Stand. When called back, the victim will hallucinate a bright, blinding light before returning back to their sense of reality. The after effects of the Stand are unknown, though implied to cause psychological damage to those who are exposed for longer periods of time.

### Beauty Behind Madness

When activated, the user can transfer either one or both of their eyes to anything they touch and the eyes can move around in the solid medium that they are placed on, returning back to the user when commanded to. Notably, this can be done by touching an area, like a wall, with the user's palm and waiting until the eye is transfered to it. This allows the user to use the eyes as a security camera at far distances, watching through the perspective of the eye's location in a discrete way, and can take in sound based on where it is placed. The eyes can be placed onto human bodies as well, either being rearranged on the user's body or stuck on someone walking by.

When hit, the pain and damage is reflected back onto whatever or whoever harmed it. However, it can still cause damage to the user's own eyes as a result. Because the user only has one pair of eyes, they will not be able to see where they currently stand and have to rely on what their eyes currently see on the surface they current are on.

The ability can also be used alongside Starboy to get better details and information regarding memories.

## Trivia

* The Stand's appearance is based on The Weeknd's half-time performance for the Super Bowl LV and his recent promotions for his song "Blinding Lights", which he appears beatened and heavily bleeding from his face and appeared in public bandanged up at award shows prior to the half-time performance.
	+ Notably, a lot of performances and music videos featuring the Weeknd or other characters portrays the artist as injured in those particular areas. Other music videos portray him as getting injured in some way instead.

* When The Weeknd teased his song "The Hills" at SXSW, he nicknamed his song as "Mood Music", which is referenced as the Stand's localized name. It is also a reference to Leonardo Abbadia's Stand Moody Blues.
* References to science fiction can be seen with the Stand.
	+ Music videos such as "I Feel It Coming" and "Die For You" reference science fiction, with the latter being a reference to the Sci-Fi movie *E.T*. and the former showing The Weeknd meeting an alien dubbed "Stargirl".
	+ The eye color use of blue sclera and the Stand's psychedelic powers are in reference to *Dune*, a science fiction franchise set in an interstellar world where artificial intelligent machineries are banned and a drug known as "Spice Melange" is primarily used for interstellar travel instead of computers.
* The use of neon lights is more commonly seen in his recent works, such as his Super Bowl LV performance and the neon cross appearing in the music video "Die For You" and "Starboy".

## References

* The Weeknd's half-time performance at Super Bowl LV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rhadTURsrw
* *The Highlights* tracklist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgaFNC\_I\_Zkl8QQflyqLFjYP9JeUoTqWA
* "The Hills" music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzTuBuRdAyA
* "Die For You" music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPD0QOGTmMI
* *Dune* trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g18jFHCLXk

The Weeknd's album cover art for "Starboy", in reference to the Stand's color palette.The effects of Spice Melange causing blue eyes in "Dune", in reference to The Weeknd's appearance.The Weeknd's outfit alongside his backup dancers during the Super Bowl LV, in reference to The Weeknd's outfit.