

In Golden Wind, there are multiple episodes where Polnareff's stand Silver
Chariot is separated from him, which causes all souls in a radius to swap
bodies.

Polnareff ends up in the body of a turtle, and even though he no longer has a
stand (it is operating on its own) he can still see stands.

His lack of having a stand is also the reason he was able to grab the arrow at
the end of [episode 35 of Golden
Wind](https://jojo.fandom.com/wiki/GW_Episode_35).

**Why can he still see stands if he no longer has one?**


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Why was Polnareff able to see stands when he didn't have one?


I have two explanations why this is the case:

# Although Silver Chariot has gone Berserk, it's still his Stand

First of all, although he can't control Silver Chariot Requiem anymore doesn't
mean it's not his Stand anymore. In the flashback where Polnareff first found
out about what happens when Silver Chariot has the Stand-Arrow, we can see
that after taking the Arrow from Silver Chariot Requiem away again, the Stand
transforms back into it's former normal self. So I'd say that even in the case
of Polnareff not being able to control his Requiem-Stand anymore, he still
_is_ a Stand-User. Also, the reason why he was able to pick the Arrow up was
because his Stand was already active and the effect of the Arrow (your Stand
attacking you) still happens as we can see with Silver Chariot Requiem running
towards him after picking up the Arrow.

# Polnareff took over the Turtle's Stand

The second case why he can still see Stands is because the Turtle (aka. Coco
Jumbo) was a Stand-User and Polnareff's soul got transferred into the Turtle.
At the end we also see that Coco Jumbo's Stand "Mr. President" is still active
because we see Trish getting transferred inside the Turtle just like before
the Silver Chariot Requiem incident. I'm guessing that Polnareff just took
over the Turtle's Stand which is definitely plausible in certain cases.

**Part 6 Spoiler:**

> Obtaining someone else's Stand in addition to your own is possible in some
> special cases like we see with Emporio being able to use Weather Report in
> addition to Burning down the House at the end of Stone Ocean

So although it isn't explicitly stated in the anime/manga, Polnareff still
certainly _is_ a Stand-User.


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