CHARACTER PROFILE
Mariah
- Primary work
- Stardust Crusaders
Other recorded work links
- Stand
- Bastet↗
Mariah (マライア, Maraia) is a secondary antagonist featured in the third part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Stardust Crusaders, specifically the " 'Bastet' Mariah " story arc. She also appears as a tertiary character in the spin-off manga Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak and the light novel Crazy Heartbreakers.
As Alessi attacks Jean Pierre Polnareff and Jotaro Kujo, Mariah attempts to take out Joseph Joestar and Muhammad Avdol by magnetizing their bodies with her Stand, Bastet of the Egypt 9 Glory Gods.
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Original image ↗ · Archived image ↗01Basic information
02Appearance
Mariah is described as a beautiful woman with striking legs, dark skin, and short, light-colored hair. Her main attire consists of a hooded short-sleeve jacket resembling Red Riding Hood, a low-cut shirt, and a high-waist mini skirt coupled with dark satin stockings. She also wears gloves, bow-knotted flat shoes, and a pair of sunglasses which she keeps perched atop her head.↗↗
Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak
In the spin-off Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak, Mariah's appearance and outfit have changed. Mariah has longer hair, with two long bangs on each side of her face. In addition, she has kept her sunglasses and habit of smoking. She now wears a dark revealing and form fitting dress with a low cut that goes down to her abdomen and reveals most of her legs. Like her previous design, she still wears a stockings and gloves. Moreover, she has a light colored coat which she wears loosely, revealing her shoulders. For accessories, she has a choker and ankle rings made of interlaced lozenges and a belt made of large rings. Her high heels also have a lozenge decoration at the top.↗
03Personality
Mariah comes off as a calm, cool-headed person. Like most Stand users, Mariah has great confidence in her Bastet, notably in that everyone will eventually succumb to it given time. However, she easily loses her cool whenever things don't go according to plan; in such cases, she's been shown to contort her face and bite her lip comically out of frustration and anger.↗
Mariah is quite devious and has worked out many ways in which she could render her power truly dangerous. She keeps on her many metallic objects, from nuts and bolts to metallic wires, to use them as projectiles in a pinch or exploit the magnetism to tie up her targets into dangerous machinery. She's also adept at baiting her targets to dangerous locations such as train tracks or places under power lines so that she could expose them to deadly hazards.↗
Mariah has a bit of a sleazy streak. On occasions, she likes to talk suggestively, saying for instance that "You always want to touch what's off-limits". The few relationships she talks about have also centered on the men's appearance, revealing that she's also superficial. She notably complimented Joseph Joestar and confessed that she found him very attractive for a man his age and that, if he was a few decades younger, they would have been a great couple; she nonetheless tried to kill him without second thoughts because it would please DIO, whom she considered much more attractive.↗
04Abilities
Stand
Bastet takes the form of an electrical outlet which magnetizes whoever touches it, causing metallic objects to be attracted to them.↗
05Story
SPOILERS
Stardust Crusaders (1989)
Mariah is deployed by DIO once the heroes reach Egypt to assassinate them. In Luxor, Mariah places her Bastet on a rock while Joseph is isolated in the toilets. Once he gets out, he notices Bastet and, thinking that it is a mere strangely placed electrical outlet, tries to touch it, only to be shocked. Joseph is now magnetized and metallic objects begin to be attracted to him.↗
The next morning, Mariah stays in the hotel where the Joestar Group is in to keep the effect of the magnetism on. Joseph eventually realizes his condition but is alone. She ambushes Joseph on an escalator and uses metallic wires to entangle Joseph's hands to the machinery of the elevator, threatening to crush his hands. In doing so, she reveals her identity. When Muhammad Avdol comes to deactivate the escalator, Mariah has already placed Bastet near the stop button, also shocking Avdol.↗
Mariah disappears and waits for Joseph and Avdol to find her. After trying to separate themselves, Joseph and Avdol accidentally roll down a slope where Mariah awaits them. She baits them into stepping on metal train tracks, just as a train approaches. When the train passes, Mariah assumes that she's won but she then discovers that Avdol has dug a hole underneath the train, frustrating her to no end. Magician's Red melts the train, allowing the pair to confront her.↗
After separating themselves again, Joseph and Avdol begin to chase Mariah through the streets of Luxor and split up to surround her thanks to a map created by Hermit Purple. On their way, they gather many metallic objects that are stuck to them. However, Mariah then reveals that she's baited them near power lines. Throwing a knife, she cuts the lines, which are then attracted to the pair.↗
However, Joseph has accounted for the whole battle and unveils his stratagem. He lets go the pavement and lets himself fly toward Avdol. The mass of metal violently closes on Mariah, taking her out and, according to Avdol, breaking a few bones. Mariah is retired.↗
06Plot details
SPOILERS
Profile details
Status: Retired (Part 3)↗
07Appearances
Chapter 184: "The Fool" Iggy and "Geb" N'Doul, Part 2 (Mentioned) Mentioned only↗
Chapter 185: "The Fool" Iggy and "Geb" N'Doul, Part 3 (Mentioned) Mentioned only↗
Chapter 188: "The Fool" Iggy and "Geb" N'Doul, Part 6 (Mentioned) Mentioned only↗
Chapter 199: "Bastet" Mariah, Part 1↗
Chapter 200: "Bastet" Mariah, Part 2↗
08Relationships
| Character | Relationship | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Kenny G. (Husband) | Spin-Off only | ↗ |
09Sources & attribution
- Mariah
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.
Source bibliography (1)
- JOJOVELLER: STANDS, p.60 Open ↗
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