Gloria Costello

Gloria Costello is Ermes Costello 's older sister, ten years older than her. In the anime, it is shown that Gloria and Ermes lost their mother when they were at a young age. Gloria decided to take on the responsibility of being the "mother" of the family, even telling her sister to consider her as such. Gloria would then work tirelessly to support her family, notably working in the family restaurant. Ermes's thoughts at the times suggest that she always put the family's interest above her own.↗↗

When Gloria turned twenty, she inherited her Mexican immigrant father's small restaurant in the slums of Florida. Despite being a small restaurant, she had a steady flow of customers.↗

One night in 2005, when the restaurant was closed, Gloria was giving her usual speech to Ermes, lecturing her about not helping out in the restaurant and acting like a delinquent. Being seventeen at the time, Ermes had no interest in helping the restaurant and wanted to get a scholarship in cross-country to go to college. Knowing that mentioning this to Gloria would cause a fight, Ermes decided to run out of the house.↗↗

At that moment, in an abandoned back alley behind the restaurant, Gloria heard the groaning of someone near a luxurious car. Upon further inspection, Gloria sees a man tied up on the ground with a gang leader named Sports Maxx standing next to him. Sports Maxx asks the man to bite down on a wooden stick nearby, making sure to prop the stick so it was vertically inserted into his mouth. Sports Maxx then stomps on the man's head, causing the stick to impale his skull, killing him.↗

Gloria ended up calling the police in order to protect her sister. However, the police messed up. They claimed that the state of Florida had instituted capital punishment and, because Sports Maxx was an infamous criminal they had been chasing for a few years, they could use her testimony to get him arrested and protect her family. In order to combat the police, Sports Maxx sent a lesser-known criminal to kill Gloria, strangling her to death at a nearby alley.↗

While Sports Maxx is in Green Dolphin Street Prison, Ermes decides to commit a crime so she can get arrested and exact revenge, killing him in prison when his gang isn't with him and he is completely defenseless.↗↗

In prison, Ermes shows a photo of Gloria to Sports Maxx to make him remember her. Ermes first drowns Sports Maxx in a sewer pipe, but he remains active as an invisible zombie. After a battle in the prison crypt, Ermes beats Sports Maxx to death, and finally avenges her sister.↗↗↗

In the anime, Gloria's spirit briefly appears to hug her sister Ermes after Ermes defeats Sports Maxx.↗↗

Appearances

Stone Ocean Episode 13: Kiss of Love and Revenge, Part 1 (Flashback) (Death)↗

Profile details

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

Date of Death: 2005 or 2008↗↗↗

Cause of Death: Murdered by a criminal sent by Sports Maxx↗

Gloria Costello (グロリア・コステロ, Guroria Kosutero) is a posthumous tertiary character featured in the sixth part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Stone Ocean.↗

Three years before the events of Stone Ocean, she is murdered on Sports Maxx 's orders. Her death drives Ermes to exact revenge by intentionally becoming incarcerated at Green Dolphin Street Prison to find and kill Sports Maxx.↗