Axl RO

Background

During his youth, Axl RO wanted to be a musician but was drafted into the army in 1863, where he was stationed in a tree to be a lookout in Gettysburg, a remote town in Pennsylvania. Having no one to talk to, and being completely alone, Axl resorted to alcohol to relieve his despair. His job had been to light the lamp in order to warn the soldiers nearby of an incoming enemy troop. However, he did not do so in fear that the enemy would find him in the tree and kill him.↗↗

The people and soldiers of the town being massacred marked the beginning of continued losses for Axl's side in the war.↗

Ever since, Axl has always been looking for ways to repent his sins, and when he obtained his Stand, he was hired by Funny Valentine to kill Johnny and Gyro.↗

Steel Ball Run

Axl RO is dispatched in Gettysburg. Installing himself in a building in the city, Axl lures Hot Pants in. Because of her great guilt, she is easily neutralized and Axl RO takes her Corpse Parts. Johnny Joestar and Gyro Zeppeli soon follow.↗

Confronted by Civil War, Gyro attacks the Stand but it separates into pieces. He then discovers the many Steel Balls he's discarded over his life, and overwhelmed by the amounts of things he's discarded over the years, is swiftly defeated.↗

Meanwhile, Johnny interrogates Hot Pants but instead is warned of an enemy ability as she gets covered in a strange film. He cannot throw away things and must purify himself with water. Suddenly, a knife Johnny had left at the camp reappears and merges with his body. Warned, he tries to go outside to his water canteen, but is pursued by Danny, his old pet mouse, and the damning visions of Nicholas.↗

Johnny manages to douse himself in water, but the mouse comes out of his body and escapes the water. Seeing a well nearby, Johnny shoots the ground and manages to find more water. He then crawls back inside the garbage dump, where he too starts to see random objects he's discarded over the years. He's attacked by Danny and his father George Joestar, but Gyro has been listening to the ground and tells Johnny the location of Axl RO. Johnny shoots Axl in the throat, killing him.↗

However, this is what Axl RO was waiting for. The power of Civil War brings Axl back and transfers the specters of Axl's own victims to Johnny and Axl is happy to let him bear the burden of his sins. Swarmed by specters that tear him apart, Johnny sees Jesus again, telling him not to shoot if his heart is wavering, and Johnny takes the hint. He shoots himself and unlocks Tusk ACT3.↗

Using Tusk ACT3, Johnny manages to catch up and with his hand and drags the Corpse towards the hole. Axl is shocked due the hole destroying everything save Johnny, which could endanger the Corpse. Axl desperately stabs Johnny in the throat, which kills him. Thus, all of Johnny's sins are transferred to him, cornering Axl RO. However, someone then shoots Axl from outside. It is Funny Valentine, who has come to collect the pieces of the Saint's Corpse, before leaving.↗

Personality

He does however lose his temper and panic when Johnny risks damaging the Corpse, shouting and desperately trying to stab him.↗↗

Abilities / Stand

Another part of Civil War's ability is that whenever he's killed and his killer feels even the slightest of guilt for killing him, he is brought back to life.↗

Appearances

Steel Ball Run Chapter 59: A Dream of Gettysburg (Death)↗

Profile details

Status: Deceased (Part 7)↗

Date of Death: December 18, 1890↗↗

Cause of Death: Shot by Johnny Joestar via Tusk (First death) | Fatal gunshot wound via Funny Valentine (Second death)↗

An agent to President Valentine, Axl RO attacks Hot Pants, Gyro and Johnny with his Stand in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, summoning corporeal representations of figures from their pasts in order to steal the Saint's Corpse parts.↗