Meltdown

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Meltdown (メルトダウン *Merutodoun)* is the Stand of Iroha Rin'na.

## Appearance

Meltdown is a Stand that is roughly the same size as its User, and its main body is black or dark grey in colour, including its arms and head. It appears as though it is wearing a black leotard, but has two coattail-like protrusions at the back that extend down to just above its knees. It has a face without ears, a nose or a visible mouth, but has a pair of pupil-less neon-green eyes with yellow "eyelids" divided into five parts by thin vertical lines. In the centre of its face and between its eyes, it has a bright purple heart shape, with a smaller heart shape within it that is of the same colour as the rest of its face. Above this heart shape are a set of two darker-purple rectangular shapes. Located from the outer corners of its eyes down to its jawline are small, vertically-aligned rows of rivets surrounded by a line of purple. It appears as though it wears a purple headset, with a row of rivets on the headband and a ring shape on each ear. Its fingers end in neon green claw-like nails, and each finger has two small, yellow stripes an even distance apart. It appears to wear purple bell-shaped detached sleeves that start with a gold cuff at the elbow and end with a wide cuff by the wrist. On its right shoulder, it bears the hazard symbol denoting ionising radiation in green. Hovering behind its right shoulder blade is a small, pale pink, wing-like attachment with two semicircle "holes" by the ends of it. On its lower back, it bears a gold symbol in the form of an isotoxal star with long horizontal arms and short vertical arms. Below this, it has a tail in the form of an extension cord, with a gold cable and Type B plug, and neon-green prongs. Its legs are bright purple, with bright green on its inner thighs and the soles of its feet, and a gold lightning-shaped design running from the top of the thigh down to the ankle. Its form appears to be constantly dripping or melting.

## Personality

Meltdown and its sister Stand Donut Hole appear to be capable of acting independently of their Users, unlike most Stands. However, Meltdown's personality appears to in most aspects mirror its User's. The main difference in personality seems to be Meltdowns slightly harsher or assertive nature. It seems to be more easily agitated than its User. It is capable of audible speech, but the speech is synthesised and fairly hard to parse at times, whether it's speaking Japanese or English.

## Ability

### Panic-Activated Melting

Meltdown's primary and most powerful ability is its melting ability. When using this ability, by making contact with someone, it will leave a marking behind on an area of skin. The markings resemble lightning scars. Initially, they don't do anything, have any effect, or cause any particular sensations. The ability is activated by a strong emotional response, specifically panic, fear or rage. Once activated, the marked area begins to melt. It starts to hurt, slowly progressing to a searing pain as the melting occurs. In some cases, blood may thicken and gain a similar consistency to the melting skin. The melting often persists until death or amputation when the melting occurs on a limb, unless the affected person can calm down. The severity of the melting is generally proportional to the level of emotional response experienced by the affected person.

The Stand can stop the melting manually through contact with the affected area, but it cannot undo the damage done by the melting itself. The process of removing the markings and thus stopping the melting is noted to be incredibly excruciating and cause a severe, searing pain. Likewise, if Meltdown is particularly angered when applying the marking, it'll hurt with a similar intensity.

The User, Rin'na, is seemingly perpetually affected by this ability. She seems to have a tendency to melt around her face, often resulting in hyperlacrimation and hypersalivation (excess watering of the eyes and drooling).

### Object Melting

Meltdown is also capable of melting objects, but to a lesser scale. It works by direct contact with the object, and takes quite a bit of energy.