Sultans of Swing

> "Oh yeah? You sure about that buddy?" - Sultans of Swing
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* Normal
* Shadow

## Appearance

Sultans of Swing has a pink body with white accents. He has red reverse symbols on his shoulder pads and the back of his hands. A red swirl goes down his legs. He also has red forearms.

Sultans of Swing has a red head and neck, with a white reverse symbol as a choker, and a larger reverse symbol on his face, around his eyes.

## Personality

Sultans of Swing is very sassy and uses a lot of subtle sarcasms, saying things that are clearly untrue or he does not believe with almost 100% seriousness. If ever asked if he was serious about something, his go to response is simply more obvious sarcasm.

When commanding The Rainbow Squad, Sultans of Swing is good at organizing and managing others, being able to organize who goes into what phone and when someone is to use their abilities based on subtle things 'Vard says and does during battle.

## Background

Sultans of Swing's original user, Syd Barrett, was a drug dealer. Syd would use his stand's ability on an assortment of bad drugs, which would then become highly addictive and pleasurable. By using his ability, Syd was able to create a drug ring that only he could provide, and even if anyone stole drugs from him, they would provide a terrible high if they didn't go through him right before use.

In 2129, Syd was found by 'Vard Renaissance, who had tracked him down through his drug ring. After a large fight between 'Vard's group and Syd's workers, 'Vard defeated them. Syd attempted to trick 'Vard by giving up as he died, but using his ability on 'Vard so he would survive and Sultans of Swing would die, however 'Vard saw through this and simply attempted to sever Syd from Sultans of Swing instead, resulting in their ability working as normal, and severed Sultans of Swing.

Sultans of Swing decided to use his new freedom to help 'Vard. Sultans of Swing had learned through their time being the stand of a drug lord and through their own ability, the art of deception and confusion. He suggested ways to make 'Vard more subtle about things, not stand out too much, and had an idea to use Radio Ga Ga's ability to confuse people into not understanding what their real ability was, by sticking hands out of 'Vard's coat that were not their own. Sultans of Swing and 'Vard chose a handful of people to help in this endeavor, and Sultans of Swing started the Rainbow Squad.

## Abilities

Sultans of Swing has the ability to reverse the effect of a cause. By pointing at something he can see, he can reverse what its effect is, making something that cools something down instead heat something up, or make a sharp knife unable to cut. This effect can be put onto ten inanimate objects at once. A group of objects under the right circumstances will count as one use, such as making a bag of bouncy balls all unable to bounce, and only using one instance of the ability until he stops concentrating on that group.

When applied to stand abilities or more complicated concepts, it normally takes the form of taking a brief description of the targeted cause, and reversing one or two words to make it do the opposite. This effect can only be on one thing at a time.

## Trivia

* Each member of The Rainbow Squad is meant to represent a different kind of crime/reformed criminal. Sultans of Swing represents drugs.
* In one of the earliest drafts of Severed Strings, Sultans of Swing was 'Vard's right hand man in place of 25.
* Similarly, there was a backup plan where Sultans of Swing was to be the actual main antagonist had 'Vard died during the campaign, or 'Vard decided to change the ideals of Overlooked Dreams. Sultans of Swing would have taken over (either via 'Vard dying and being next in command so to speak, or betraying 'Vard and taking over by force) and gone on the full offensive, getting people to kill any human rather than just those to be severed. As an homage to this part of development, Westley made him leader of the Rainbow Squad.
	+ A small joke implemented into the design of Sultans of Swing during this point was the reverse symbols. It was a small joke of, had he backstabbed 'Vard, he would have been the "twist" villain.