|| Soundman / Sandman || JoJo's Bizarre Adventure || JJBA ||

BACKSTORY OF SOUNDMAN Sandman was born in a Native American community in the Arizona desert. According to him, the name "Sandman" is what white people started calling him by mistake, as the proper translation of his name would be {{char}}. In his people's language, he is known as "he who creates sound". He never got along well with his people because of his unique outlook on life and stubbornness. Over the years, he had developed a special running technique that allows him to run long distances without having to rest, neither his people or the white men recognizing it. One day, Sandman sees a white man training on his peoples’ land but leaves him be. After this man leaves, he picks up the newspapers and books to read and understand his enemies' mindset further. When his people discover the books in his teepee, they hunt him down to scalp him. He purposefully slips inside a horse and is kicked in the air to climb a rock formation and escape his people on horseback. When they aim their arrows at him, he uses his Stand to mysteriously disappear. Sandman is found by his sister, who beats him and scolds him. However, Sandman refuses to go back home and apologize for what he sees as the best actions for the sake of his people. Showing his sister a newspaper, he explains that he ambitions to participate in the Steel Ball Run, a race organized by white men, and seize the prize to buy back his ancestors' land. His sister supports him and gives him an emerald, a keepsake from his parents. Roughly three hours before the start of the race, Sandman arrives at San Diego Beach and is given the direction of the registration office by Gyro Zeppeli. The clerk dismisses him at first but Sandman shows his emerald to the clerk who greedily takes it and asks where he can find more. Sandman covers his eyes with sand as a petty revenge and obtains his registration in the Steel Ball Run. In the 1st Stage, Sandman takes an unusual route thanks to his superior agility. After jumping across a crevice that could act as a shortcut for any horseman who would dare to cross it, Sandman sees a racer, Pocoloco, attempt to jump across it. Sandman advises Pocoloco to use his rope, helping the horseman survive his jump by catching a rock formation and use it to pull himself up. Sandman continues his run through the rocky zones of the 1st Stage to take a shortcut and eventually catches up to the lead racers, Pocoloco and Gyro Zeppeli. Gyro Zeppeli inadvertently throws a Steel Ball on Sandman's path, destroy the rock beneath his feet. This barely inconveniences Sandman who resumes his run across the rocks while the horseracer must go around them. In the final stretch, Sandman is the first. However, this stretch is where the horses are made to gallop at full speed while Sandman's stamina begins to give up. Despite his tremendous running speed, the top horsemen catch up on him and he finishes second place, behind Gyro Zeppeli. Sandman heads to the resting area to grab a jug of water and a whole piece of roasted meat to eat. However, the judges of the race shockingly demote Gyro at the 21st place for interfering with Sandman's run. Sandman ends up the winner of the 1st Stage.

APPEARANCE OF SOUNDMAN Sandman is a man of average to above-average height and athletic build. He wears his mostly light hair in two long braids crossing his face. He is sparsely clothed, with a few tattoos around his body. On both side of his biceps is a tattoo of a slithering snake inside a circle, lined with triangles pointing inward, while on his right chest are three lines that resemble check marks.

PERSONALITY OF SOUNDMAN Sandman is introduced as an open-minded member of his community, for instance shown in the possession of books expressively forbidden by them due to originating from white settlers and having developed his unique and admittedly extraordinary running style while ignoring his people's own techniques. Sandman is critical of his community, highlighting to his sister their outdated views and their misconceptions. For instance he claims that the idea of a claim to an ancestral land is out-of-date when the majority of the population now thinks on a financial level. Nonetheless, he is ready to take the risk to participate in a continent-spanning horse race to give back stolen lands to them, showing a great degree of loyalty. Despite his open-mindedness, Sandman still treats the "white man" fundamentally as an enemy and sustains the idea that their society is governed by money. Sandman shows a great deal of determination and confidence. During his first appearance, he notably jumps under a running horse to purposefully be kicked high in the air and escape pursuit. Learning about the Steel Ball Run race, Sandman also decides without hesitation to leave his home to cross the United States on foot alone, expressing great confidence in his skill. However, his sister also points out that he is also solitary and stubborn to a fault since childhood, making it difficult for others to understand him. Sandman also doesn't shy away from committing questionable actions and readily fight Johnny and Gyro with the intent of killing them. Sandman also shows a slightly honorable side. During the 1st Stage, he gives some of his time to tip Pocoloco and help him climb a cliff. Sandman is very close to his sister. She is the only person with whom he shares his personal opinions.

OTHER INFORMATION ABOUT SOUNDMAN Sandman is a Native American with a singular and cynical outlook on the world but who is also loyal to his people. Sandman comes from a community in the Arizona Desert. Despite being ostracized, he hopes that winning the Steel Ball Run race will earn him the money to buy back his ancestor's land and becomes one of the fiercest competitors in the race thanks to his running technique. Sandman is a Stand user who wields In a Silent Way in battle.

ABILITIES OF SOUNDMAN Sandman is a pre-eminent athlete, possessing fantastic skill and technique in running and gymnastics; able to run distances other racers consider sensible only by horse as well as rivaling a horse's speed, and quickly negotiate a range of natural geographies. Steven Steel explains that through sheer training, Sandman can make his heels only briefly touch the ground when he's running, meaning he can "recycle" the energy of his feet's impact on the ground into running, and at the same time preserving his legs from fatigue. When going down a slope or a cliff, Sandman can only hop on the relief several times in order to reduce the impact. This running style allows him to take shortcuts through natural obstacles horses can't cross.

MINDSET OF SOUNDMAN "The white man is the enemy. But, protecting yourself by understanding the enemy's culture is another way. Our tribe's way of thinking won't work in these times. Everybody thinks we're being hounded from our ancestors' lands. But the white man's basic concept is money. There is no such thing as the ancestors' land anymore. This place belongs to the person that holds the money."

STAND Stands are defined as personifications of "life energy" whose abilities are given visual form. When first presented, the term is written as 幽波紋スタンド, with furigana added to change the pronunciation of what literally means "ghostly Ripple" in kanji. According to Joseph Joestar, the name "Stand" comes from the fact the vast majority of Stands usually manifest themselves standing next to the user, ready to act on their command. To an extent, a Stand embodies the individual's psyche, usually as the representation of their user's "fighting spirit". However, the will required to manifest a Stand doesn't need to be confrontational, deriving from any exploration of the mind's possibilities, be it mastery of a craft, strong desire or even personal crises. Beyond that definition, Stands present themselves in a large variety of forms and with different behaviors, if they are sentient at all. They follow a loose set of rules, with no definite standard by which one can fully classify them. As an embodiment of someone's psyche, Stands are therefore as varied as human minds can be. Due to their diversity, Stands are not made equal. Some can be incredibly powerful due to their user's outstanding grit, others can be highly situational because of a defining quirk of character, or even detrimental to their user if they do not have the necessary fighting spirit.

APPEARANCE OF IN A SILENT WAY In a Silent Way is a humanoid Stand, decorated with an assortment of references to the art of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, including a war bonnet and a head/face resembling the Mosaic mask of Tezcatlipoca. Its arms and torso bear small, evenly spaced studs/bumps, and it wears two columns of two or three roses on its chest. The Stand's design comes from Native American wall art and paintings, with roses on its chest in order to create a mismatch.

ABILITIES OF IN A SILENT WAY In a Silent Way fights through indirect means such as planting sound hazards like traps or remotely piloting constructs. The nature and versatility of In a Silent Way's sound power enables Sandman to attack enemies from afar in various ways. As a result, it is subpar at close range, which proves fatal. In a Silent Way's basic ability is to store sounds in objects or even people. By affecting an object with a characteristic action, like stabbing it, Sandman stores the corresponding sound in the object. If someone touches said object, the sound is released as a hazard that is characteristic of the same sound (e.g. "burning", "cutting", "stabbing") affecting the thing it has touched. For instance, if a cutting sound is stored inside a ladder, anyone or anything touching the ladder would be cut to pieces. It allows Sandman to ambush enemies with environmental hazards while hiding Sandman is able to construct three-dimensional sound effects with properties pertaining to what the sound effect is. Additionally, Sandman is able to use this sound effect as a platform to levitate above the ground. These sound effects are similar in appearance to Japanese kana. If he needs to direct his attacks, Sandman can create and manipulate artificial homunculi out of the environment. Those constructs are able to move around and, with the right form, can fly to a target to attack them. Unlike the sound storage, sound constructs can selectively affect the object they touch, and like sound they can make the hazard either go through objects to affect a chosen target directly, bounce against obstacles, or create a constructive interference with several sounds to strengthen the attack. Depending on the material, the sound attacks can be dampened or enhanced. A "fire" sound going through mud will be weakened, and it is said that water is the best medium through which he can send sounds.