Ermes Costello

Background

Ermes is of at least partial Mexican descent through her immigrant father. She had lived her youth in the slums, her family managing a restaurant there. She had an elder sister named Gloria, who was 10 years older than her. In the anime, it is shown that their mother passed away when Ermes was a kid, so Gloria took on the role of being Ermes's mother. Gloria would eventually inherit the restaurant at the age of 20 but would receive no assistance from her little sister.↗↗↗

Meeting Jolyne Cujoh

Ermes first meets Jolyne Cujoh when they are held in jail in adjacent cells. Annoyed by Jolyne constantly banging her head due to her humiliation earlier that day, Ermes yells at her to pipe down. When Jolyne confesses to having been masturbating and being seen by a guard, Ermes's mood turns from anger to amusement and defends her against a co-prisoner. The two of them are then brought out of their cells to be transported to Green Dolphin Street Prison.↗

Battle Against Thunder McQueen

Ermes uses her power to make a trap and duplicates a mop to trap the janitor's face in between the mops when he passes by, knocking him out. However, Ermes notices that DISCs are sticking out of his head and instinctively takes one of them. On her exit check-up, Ermes inquires about the janitor but the guard refuses that she learns anything. In the toilets, Ermes examines the DISC and sees Whitesnake confronting the janitor near the janitor's secret hiding spot where he stashes his money.↗

Battle Against Foo Fighters

By looking at McQueen 's DISC, Jolyne and Ermes find a hidden stash of DISCs near a farm.↗

Kiss of Love & Revenge

Ermes decided to accomplish her primary objective: assassinate Sports Maxx and avenging Gloria. She stalks him for a time to learn his habits and see where he is the most vulnerable. At the chapel, Ermes's approach is interrupted by Enrico Pucci, the prison priest. Later, Ermes singles out Maxx in the workshop where he stuffs animals. She lures Maxx near a pipe with a photo of Gloria.↗

Escaping Prison

Ermes remains in intensive medical care after her battle with Sports Maxx.↗

Battle Against Donatello Versus

Jolyne, Ermes and Emporio soon reach the hospital in which Pucci is hiding. Before going in, Jolyne lets Emporio stay outside and gives him Jotaro's memory DISC. However, Donatello Versus, the third of DIO 's sons, intervenes with his Stand Under World. A stray bullet flies from a room, catching Jolyne and Ermes's attention. They enter the room and see a sinkhole in which are Pucci and Versus. Jolyne goes into the hole.↗

Heavy Weather Unleashed

As Weather regains his memories, he awakens a previously sealed power named Heavy Weather. When Ermes accidentally touches the rainbow, her arm turns into a bunch of snail eggs and she herself slowly turns into one. They try to get out of the hospital, but a swarm of snails is blocking the exit. Moreover, Jolyne has touched Ermes and is also slowly turning into a snail.↗

Battle Against Pucci and Made In Heaven

Some time later, the group wakes up unharmed while approaching helicopters confirm that gravity has returned to normal. Somehow, everyone was moved 200 meters from the shuttle, and the priest has disappeared. Jotaro can still sense Pucci though, and Ermes claims that Pucci is hiding, entering a building to protect herself from an incoming rain. However, everyone finds themselves soaked, and the rain has already stopped.↗

Alternate Universe

After Emporio Alnino manages to defeat and kill Pucci, Ermes is reborn but with a different fate. She is seen being ejected from a bus for attempting to pay with a fifty-dollar bill. She feels infuriated and even wonders if the bus driver mistook her for an inmate of Green Dolphin St. Jail. She then meets Emporio and asks him for change for the bill. Afterward, she and Emporio meet the reincarnated Anasui, now named Anakiss, and the reincarnated Jolyne, named Irene.↗

Personality

Pucci's idea of predestination especially disturbs and enrages her, in no small part because it would mean that her sister's death was meant to happen.↗↗↗

Relationships / Family

When she is killed by Sports Maxx, she went as far as getting herself arrested to avenge her.↗

Relationships / Allies

However, Ermes still cries when Weather Report dies, implying they grew close some time before his death.↗

Relationships / Enemies

Sports Maxx: As the man who had her sister killed, Ermes despised Sports Maxx and got herself imprisoned just to take revenge. She finally gets her revenge when she pummeled his reanimated corpse.↗

Appearances

Stone Ocean Chapter 154: Made in Heaven, Part 6 (Death)↗

Stone Ocean Chapter 155: Made in Heaven, Part 7 (Corpse only)↗

Stone Ocean Episode 37: Made in Heaven, Part 2 (Death)↗

Profile details

Status Status based on their final appearance in the part(s) they are featured in: Deceased (Part 6)↗↗

Date of Death: March 22, 2012 (Accelerated)↗↗

Cause of Death: Blood loss after losing both arms to Made in Heaven↗