Kars

"I don't intend on being a warrior like Wamuu, nor am I an idle dreamer. I don't care what method I have to use, victory justifies any means!"

- Kars to Joseph Joestar. Kars is the leader and also eldest member of the Pillar Men. Kars was born sometime over 100,000 years ago into a race of immortal humanoids who presided at the top of the food chain, consuming ordinary humans to keep themselves alive. Disillusioned with his races' lack of ambition, Kars created a series of stone masks which he planned to use to tame the sun and become the ultimate being. Testing them on humans he found that it transformed them into bloodthirsty vampires but when he tried to use it on himself he found it was unable to penetrate deep enough to unlock his true potential, only serving to make his appetite more insatiable.

Fearing that this increased hunger would threaten their way of life if it became widespread his own race turned on him and sought to execute him. Kars along with Esidisi, the only member of the tribe to agree with his ideals, slaughtered the rest of the humanoids apart from two children which he and Esidisi took on their travels to induct them into their beliefs. Kars would later discover that a rare gem called the Red Stone of Aja would amplify the effects of the mask enough to evolve him and the other Pillar Men into the perfect beings he desired. Unable to find the Stone in time, Kars and the other Pillar Men would go into hibernation by fusing themselves into a stone wall, ready to be awakened in the future to continue their search.

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