CHARACTER PROFILE
Hair Clip
- Primary work
- JoJolion
- Species
- Rock Insect↗
An unnamed Hair Clip (髪留め, Kamidome) appears as a tertiary antagonist featured in the eighth part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, JoJolion.
It is a Rock Organism that disguises as a traditional hair clip from the Chinese Qing dynasty and attacks Yasuho Hirose when she is thirteen years old.
Image attribution details
Hair Clip. Source illustration via JoJoWiki; copyright remains with the original rights holders.
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Original image ↗ · Archived image ↗01Basic information
02Appearance
The creature is pink and disguises as a hair clip with a large crystal in the middle. Surrounding the crystal are five petals of various sizes, making the hair clip resemble a flower. One petal has a flower imprinted on it while the other longer petal displays the Chinese character for Double Happiness (囍), which is a common decoration on traditional ornaments. The three petals on the other side of the crystal are smaller with a carinate -shaped outline on them.↗
Its actual form reveals that the crystal in the middle of the hair clip is the creature's head with one eye in the center. It has an extended mouth with an outstretched tongue which grows thinner. Its joints are mechanical and it has two large feet with three claws on each. The smaller petals on its back are actually the creature's wings, and the larger petals form its legs.↗
03Personality
04Abilities
Jewelry Disguise
The Rock Organism can disguise itself as jewelry by folding its limbs inward.↗
Dandruff Generation
The creature licks its victim's dandruff and can generate more with its tongue. By piercing its victim's scalp, they will begin producing an abnormal amount of dandruff from the victim's hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes. It affects the rest of the victim's skin as well; Yasuho's elbow becomes really itchy and starts shedding a lot of skin cells while she is under the effects of the Hair Clip's powers. The effect only seems to last a day, as Yasuho seems to be healed when she wakes up the next day, but she also attempted to treat the dandruff with a strong medicine and an alkaline water treatment a pharmacist recommended to her.↗↗
Hallucination Inducement
After generating more dandruff, the creature's victim will suffer from severe visual and auditory hallucinations. The hallucinations are negative in nature, bringing out its victim's fears to cause emotional anguish and trauma.↗↗
05Story
SPOILERS
Background
One Sunday in the autumn of 2005, Yasuho Hirose visits the flea market in Kotodai Park and thinks the hair clip is really pretty. According to the vendor, the hair clip was made in China during the era of Empress Dowager Cixi of Qing. There was later a war and a Taiwanese girl owned it. The man sells it to Yasuho for 7,800 yen, which she considers cheap as she believes the hair clip to be authentic.↗
The Rock Organism hides within Yasuho's hair and drills into her scalp with its long tongue. Its ability causes her skin to flake abnormally, giving her lots of dandruff, even from her eyebrows. It also causes her to have many hallucinations. First, she sees several false text messages from her friend Miko and other friends because she forgot to wish Miko a happy birthday. Later, she gets into a fight with her mother Suzuyo Hirose, thinking that she threw away the hair clip.↗
During Yasuho's recovery at TG University Hospital, Yoshikage Kira brings Yasuho the fragments of the broken hair clip, apologizing to her that he accidentally stepped on it. He also reveals to Yasuho that the hair clip was fake. The pink "crystal" was merely a rock that resembled a crystal. Kira drops it by Yasuho's bed as it crumbles.↗↗
After it's destroyed, Yasuho keeps it inside a box on her bookcase.↗↗
JoJolion
Six years later, Yasuho recalls the story to Rai Mamezuku. Then she realizes that it was a Rock Organism and goes back to her house to investigate it with her Stand Paisley Park.↗↗
07Sources & attribution
- Hair Clip
Source text: JoJoWiki and its contributors. This entry has been reorganized and condensed for readability under CC BY-SA 4.0. Archived records reflect their capture dates. Referenced manga, anime, and artwork retain their respective copyrights.
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