Hot Pants

Background

When she was a child, Hot Pants went to collect nuts in the woods with her younger brother. Attacked by a grizzly bear, they hid in a rock crevice. Injured and scared, Hot Pants pushed her brother out of the crevice - saving herself at the price of his life. The people in her hometown were very kind to her and her parents after the "tragic accident", but Hot Pants became unable to bear the burden of the truth surrounding her brother's death.↗

Hot Pants left her home and joined a convent in Italy, becoming a nun in the hopes of earning forgiveness from God and her brother. At one undisclosed point in life, she acquired Cream Starter. Working for the Kingdom of Naples and the Vatican, she was then sent on a mission in the United States, participating in the Steel Ball Run to gather the Saint's Corpse under an alias. Her real name is unknown.↗↗

Hot Pants remained among the top racers in the 1st and 2nd Stages of the Steel Ball Run but didn't make any waves until she finished the 3rd Stage placing first. She arranges for a cow to be deposited on her route so she can slaughter and eat it.↗

The World of Man

Hot Pants first appears at the beginning of the race's 4th Stage in a forest. She confronts Johnny and Gyro, accusing them of having killed the cow she's arranged for herself. Hot Pants attacks them both with her Stand Cream Starter. Cream Starters sprays flesh, which blinds and chokes Gyro and Johnny. Gyro uses his ability to punch Hot Pants's spine with his Steel Ball, and the Spin blocks her arms.↗

After the fight, Johnny discovers that Hot Pants is a woman when he checks for her heartbeat but inadvertently gropes her breasts.↗

Chasing the Corpse Parts

At the end of the 4th Stage, in Kansas City, Hot Pants is seen meeting Norisuke Higashikata I at the waterpoint set up for the racers. She cuts in to take her water but politely lets Norisuke take it since he was there before. Norisuke tries to engage in conversation but eventually speaks about his double navels, which disgusts her. Norisuke sees through her disguise and agrees that it wouldn't be proper for her to touch them.↗

While searching the duo, Hot Pants doesn't find the right eye and deduces that they have a third collaborator who has it. Hot Pants drops out of the race in its 6th Stage to further pursue the Corpse Parts. Hearing about a government search for a woman, Hot Pants finds Lucy Steel in Chicago and cooperates with her to take the Corpse Parts.↗

Pursuing Valentine

In Philadelphia, Hot Pants finds Diego in the river port. A short fight ensues during which Hot Pants tries to ambush Diego, only for Diego to sniff her out and leap to attack. Cream Starter covers Diego's mouth and nose and disables the small dinosaurs he sends. Hot Pants pins Diego and intends on incapacitating him with another flesh spray but Diego grabs her and merges her face with the flesh she's just sprayed.↗

They arrive in a trainyard and see a train depart with Valentine in it and thus continue their pursuit. However, alternate Hot Pants and Diego fall from the train. The two Diegos leave to pursue the train, leaving Hot Pants and her counterpart facing each other awkwardly. The tension escalates between them and they attack at the same time, blinding each other with Cream Starter.↗

Hot Pants watches Lucy and marvels at the mosaic of the Corpse Parts on Lucy's body. However, the evolution of Valentine's Stand, D4C Love Train, finally takes form and causes further spatial anomalies. Hot Pants is the first to fall victim to the Stand's ability as multiple insects and a window frame merge with her, puncturing her heart, and inflicting a mortal wound. This causes Hot Pants to fly out of the moving train and tumble onto the ground, where she perishes.↗

Personality

For example, she heals Johnny and Gyro's life-threatening injuries after their fight with Sandman, but not before knocking Johnny out and taking his Corpse Parts.↗↗↗↗

She is dedicated to the search for the Saint's Corpse as she hopes that in gathering them, she will also be granted forgiveness from the Saint. For instance, she shows a rare bliss when taking a Corpse Part and is ready to risk her life against Funny Valentine.↗↗↗↗

Appearances

Steel Ball Run Chapter 77: D4C, Part 10 (Death)↗

Profile details

Goals: Cleanse herself of her sin using the Saint's Corpse↗↗

Status Status based on their final appearance in the part(s) they are featured in: Deceased (Part 7)↗

Date of Death: January 19, 1891↗↗

Cause of Death: Multiple lacerations of the heart and vital organs via D4C Love Train↗

Hot Pants is a jockey who enters the Steel Ball Run race under orders by the Kingdom of Naples and the Vatican to investigate the Saint's Corpse. Over the course of the race, she alternates between helping Gyro, Johnny, Lucy, and Diego, all the while hoping to foil the American government 's plan and seize the corpse for herself.↗