Keith

you're essentially correct, yes lol

It's a nen power that's also a pokemon that's also your soul.

yeah it's your ghost buddy except sometimes it can hate you also

yeah, that's badically it. they show up in Part 3, Stardust Crusaders, which imo is the best arc. (and by "best" I do mean "stupidest.")

from what i understand, yes

What stands are, or can be, gets expanded and complicated with enough weird edge cases that it’s better to think of it as a schema for supernatural abilities that can interact, and any time a character talks about stands as a single kind of thing you know they’re either just wrong or full of shit.

But for at least 9 out of 10 cases yeah you’ve got it.

Basically, yes. They made a whole tabletop game about how the two are similar.

A persona is what happens if you over explain a stand

a stand is like a pokemon that is also your soul, except that you can't catch or trade them, unless you can, and you can't evolve them, unless you can. hope that clears things up

Well, stands came first, so a persona is a stands, but yeah.

[has read/watched JoJo but never played Persona voice@] Yes.

Please Watch Part 4 Of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

Depending on the Persona game, yeah pretty much. It's definitely the same thing in Arena

A.P.R HxH is also a good touchpoint, that lil guy is pretty much a stand