Simple Plan

**Simple Plan** (シンプル・プラン *Shinpuru Puran*) is the Stand of Pierre Comeau. It's small and humanoid, and appears to be made of paper. It wields some sort of baton.

## Simple Plan

### Type

Close-Range Power Type Artificial Humanoid Stand

## Appearance

Simple Plan is a humanoid of a similar size and build to its User, Pierre, approximately 4'5" from head to foot and appearing childlike. It appears to be made of paper, consisting of largely shades of white and tan, and resembling origami. Its neck and head are largely uniform in shape with subtle folds in the back, its hands and its fingers uniformly and tightly wrapped in paper. Its face is largely featureless, having only two black 'void' eyes and eyebrows, with a mask over the top left corner of the face. The mask consists of three parts; a pleated ring that encircles the left eye, a section that fans out behind the ring from the top to the left side in accordion fold, and three 'tails': long strips of paper that are folded over several times and trailing off to the side and behind the Stand, seemingly unburdened by gravity. It appears clad in 'clothes' of a slightly similar texture to the rest of it, but with a more clothlike consistency, comprised mainly of a large, frock-like tailcoat which is connected by a large paper bowtie around its neck, and drapes down to the knees, flaring outward towards the back, the coattails appearing folded similarly to the mask tails. The sleeves appear to have button cuffs with two buttons each on both sides, and the pants appear to be of a more clothlike material. It has loafer-like shoes alike many humanoid Stands.

It resembles an orchestral conductor and is frequently seen carrying around a pointed stick of some kind, likened to a conductor's baton.

It has no mouth and seemingly cannot speak.

## Personality

Like most Stands, Simple Plan does not display much personality of its own independent from its User. It does have some autonomy, able to interact with others and do some tasks independently from Pierre; it typically still reflects Pierre's personality, but is noted as being slightly more passive and childish.

## Abilities

As a humanoid Stand, Simple Plan is capable of participating in Stand-to-Stand combat, and is capable of performing any motor skills that Pierre is able to perform. Like most Stands, it does not walk on the ground and typically hovers.

### Linguistic Deterioration

Simple Plan's primary ability is the decomprehensibilisation of language. When Simple Plan strikes something, typically a person, any language conveyed or produced by the target becomes incomprehensible. When a person is hit by Simple Plan, their ability to speak slowly deteriorates, typically following a pattern of progression; upon the initial hit, the victim may begin to mix up words, mispronounce words, and mistakenly omit grammatical features. After about a minute, grammatical structure begins to break down, and sentences become shorter. If the victim is speaking a second language, they typically become stuck in their native language, and are completely unable to switch out of it. Eventually, the victim can only say subject words, and their sentences gradually get shorter and shorter; ultimately, they are unable to speak more than one or two words in a sentence, and may sometimes even be unable to properly say those words. Though its most commonly seen in the deterioration of verbal speech, it also extends to any other form of language the victim attempts to use, including making the victim unable to write comprehensibly, either through a lack of detail and grammar, or through persistent typos and misspellings. Though it's most prominently seen in its use on people, it can also be used on preexisting written language. When Simple Plan makes physical contact with written language, it can decomprehensibilise it, however, the effects on pre-written language are different from the effects on human victims; when used on something such as a written paper, the text tends to scramble or rearrange, becoming unreadable, and the deterioration is near-instant rather than gradual. It possibly also has some control over how the words are changed, seemingly by use of its baton, however, the extent of its control is minor.

The effects on humans can last to around two hours or longer if the victim remains in Simple Plan's range, until the target is knocked out, or, if outside of Simple Plan's range, around an hour. The effects on written word typically must be undone manually.

Pierre has been seen using Simple Plan on the homework sheets of classmates he doesn't get along with.

Words frequently appear on the Stand's paper skin, typically when it's using its ability, particularly when it's using its ability on written word; it typically displays the words that it is changing, but it is also able to create this effect independently and manipulate the words that appear to communicate with other Stand Users non-verbally. However, it can rarely display more than a three-word sentence on its own.

Due to its apparent composition of paper, it is fragile, not to hits, but to tearing and dismemberment. Pieces of it can be easily torn off and the damage reflects upon its User, however, the pieces retain heteronomy with the main body, and can still display words while detached.

## Trivia

* Its Stand cry is "Ru-bi".
* It vaguely resembles Heaven's Door.

## Significance

Simple Plan's ability seems to reflect the expressive aphasia that Pierre developed as a result of a stroke he had while infected with the Stand virus.