[OOC] The City of Gems

[Akayaofthemoon]

Kindergarten, a vast canyon filled with numerous holes carved on the faces of rocks; these are referred to as the "birthplaces" of many Gems. All over the Earth are places such as these, mostly unfinished and forgotten while others are still very much standing as if a constant reminder of what lead to the events of the Gem War and the mistakes that were made by HomeWorld Gems. Not all of the gems made in these places were mistakes but most of them were corrupted, unable to take normal form and forced into monstrous form with only base thought as far as anyone could tell. If the corrupted gems weren't bad enough, the process to create these gems took the nutrients from the Earth, killing the planet slowly and leading to one outcome if not stopped.

Rose Quartz, the one that saw beauty in everything was enthralled with Earth and wished to protect it from being misused. She banded together with her friends and allies to start a rebellion. They fought hard to protect this world from the HomeWorld Gems. The War was intense and many gems were destroyed from both sides. In the end, Rose Quarts and her closest friends were the only ones left of the rebellion that was known as the Crystal Gems. The only ones left on Earth are now outcasts of their true home. The Earth was now their home and they felt responsible to clean up the mess that HomeWorld had left behind and continue their mission.

Little would Rose and the others know that not all the gems from the Kindergarten had awoken for the Gem War. They still sat, forming or even just staying in their gems and refusing to project a body. Others hid or stayed in there holes, making a choice not to be a part in the War. It wouldn't be long before they popped into existence or were tempted to form with a bustling metropolis now built on the remains of their birthplace and HomeWorld gems poking around in the Kindergarten once more.

Note: Always More Welcome! Ignore Post Counts! We Like To Talk!

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Gems Temple

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Crystalisis

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Banned gems(For different reasons):
Agate, Jasper, Quartz, Diamond, or Beryl of any color (unless the have a specific name. ex: Aquamarine is a type of Beryl)
Zirconia
Bismuth
Selenite
Moonstone
Canon Gems
Any gems currently being used by players or as a fusion gem

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Rebellion Gems
*Max of 6 and must be applied for through Akaya.
1. Aquamarine -Akayaofthemoon
2. Verdelite- EnterTheHero
3.
4. Moldsvite- Archmage MC
5.
6. Cavansite- December

Home-World Gems
*Max of 3 and must be applied for through Kronshi
1. Bloodstone -Kronshi
2. Tugtupite- rocketrobie2
3. Spinel- Spinna

Newborns
*Max of 8. This is a temporary limit to aid with fusions. Once fusions are complete the limit will most likely be extended.
1.
2.
3. Seraphinite- Raijinslayer
4. Indicolite- The1Rolling1Boy
5. Howlite- DracoLunaris
6.
7. Clinohumite- Gutshot
8.

Death
* This is for when you abandon the RP. You get warnings.

Waiting to Reform/Away
* This is for when you are on vacation or busy.
1.Sodalite- pyroman-Rebellion

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Rules & Information:

• Communication. There is a reason this one is on top! If you have a problem with anything at any time in this RP than please feel encouraged to talk with my Co-GM or myself. Speak up, I am not a mind reader but I do want everyone to enjoy themselves as much as I can.
• The first also leads into this one, if you are going to be gone for a few days than please notify again the Co-GM or myself. That way we can work in you being gone so everything doesn't come to a stand still. I do not expect everyone to be posting 24/7, after all this is supposed to be fun and entertaining, not pressuring. However, there's no fun with characters being away the whole time without notification if they're still interested in participating in this RP at all.
• If you have an idea, please share it! Speak your mind!I want everyone to be a part of this RP. The growing and the movement of it all.
• If you have read all my rules than put hail the king at the bottom of your profile
• You must post at least two paragraphs minimum (5-7 sentences per paragraph). More is always good.
• You can play a maximum of two characters unless permission has been granted by myself or Co-GM
• The king is a lie so write bow to the queen instead. Making sure not too many people skimmed. Be sure to read the rule under this one cause it is important and I will know straight away if you didn't read it.
• After an initial post, you most wait for two other people to post before you may post again. Sometimes conversations may force a post to have to be sooner but maybe not.
• Have fun and welcome to my magical RP!

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Newborn CS

Name:(What they go by)
Gem:(The gem they are)
Appearance:
Gem Placement:(Where their gem is located)
Gem Item:(This can be any item that would assist the gem in it's survival. Firearms and complexly made weapons such as a crossbow will not be allowed. Complex weaponry should be saved for fusions.)
Powers:(Newborns are allowed one active power and one passive power. You may trade in your passive ability to strengthen your active one but it will also cause it to become unstable.)
Other:

Rebellion Gem CS

*(These should be sent to Akaya for approval.)

Name:(What they go by)
Gem:(The gem they are)
Appearance:
Gem Placement:(Where their gem is located)
Gem Item:(This can be any item that would assist the gem in it's survival. Firearms and complexly made weapons such as a crossbow will not be allowed. Complex weaponry should be saved for fusions.)
Powers:(Rebellion Gems are allowed Four powers with at least one being passive. You may trade in one ability to strengthen one of your active powers but it will also cause it to be unstable.)
Backstory:(Not required, it can always come up in roleplay)
Other:

Homeworld Gem CS

*(These should be sent to Kronshi for approval. Note that his acceptation process is more strenuous than that of Akaya.)

Name:(What they go by)
Gem:(The gem they are)
Appearance:
Gem Placement:(Where their gem is located)
Gem Item:(This can be any item that would assist the gem in it's survival. Firearms and complexly made weapons such as a crossbow will not be allowed. Complex weaponry should be saved for fusions.)
Powers:(Homeworld Gems are allowed Five powers with at least one being passive. You may trade in one ability to strengthen one of your active powers but it will also cause it to be unstable.)
Backstory:(REQUIRED, Kronshi will use this to review your gem and decide it meets his standards.)
Other:

Humans

Name:
Age:
Appearance:
Backstory:

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Reserved

Wulfenite- Scyntell
Yellow Topaz- Peridot
Bixbite- Akayaofthemoon

Humans
- Carmen (BrassOtter)
- Maeve (Akaya)
- Reggie (Raijinslayer)
- Marcus ‘Mark’ (rocketrobie2)

Fusions
* Will add to the list when we decide fusions

*Note on Human Weaponry versus Gems:
-Bludgeoning (Ex: Hammer or Fists): Effective against gems as long as the human can put enough force behind it.
-Slashing (Ex: Sword): Very ineffective although multiple strikes in the same area can eventually leave a cut deep enough to poof them.
-Piercing (Ex: Spears): Ineffective but a continuous applied force can eventually pierce their form and poof them.
-Bullets and other long-range weaponry: Completely useless due to the high likelihood of ricochet before adequate force is applied
-Explosives: Really the only weapon that should be considered unless you're way too brave and/or stupid.

-On top of this, Gems have a naturally higher physical prowess than humans. So attacks will most likely be dodged unless you can surprise the gem.

[HaltingBlooper]

Newborn CS WIP (Still can't find an appearance)

Name: Cym, Cymophane
Gem: Cymophane

Appearance:
Gem Placement: Inner Forearm
Gem Item: 6 foot bill with the following hook.
Powers:
Passive: Can stick to any surface, at any incline. For reference, Spider-Man.
Active: Can blend into her environment, visible only as a (moving) bump in the terrain. Does not have full control of this yet.
Other:

[rocketrobie2]

The Hero Crystalisis probably Doesn't Need

Name:
Marcus ‘Mark’ Mettleton or 'The Indisputable Fuerte Supremisimo’!

Age:
25

Appearance:
Mark has pretty long, blonde hair that he hides under his mask and he has decently tanned skin.

Backstory: Marcus was born in Empire city and grew up as a pretty short tempered child. He lived in a painstakingly average middle class household where he spent most of his early days playing at home by himself. There wasn’t any one thing that kept Marcus in solitude but a combination of factors led him to being decently socially inapt when he was younger which resulted in him being bullied a fair amount in the likes of preschool up to the second grade. After preschool however, Mark hit a growth spurt and finally hit his breaking point, resulting in him beginning to pick on others to make himself feel better about himself. This continued on right up until the end of high school. Marcus’s grades weren’t good, he was a decently smart person, but he was a slacker and just didn’t do most of the assignment he was given in school which made his option for education after high school equal little to none.

Seeing as Marcus had already been working as a janitor in a small arcade for a while, he simply decided to keep going with his job and find out what to do with his life later on in life. Days began meshing into one another and soon Marcus had been stuck in his dead end janitor job for two years and apparently no better future in sight. Mark began spirally into a state of depression which continued to worsen by the day. At Mark’s lowest point he was contacted by one of his few friends from high school and invited to a halloween party that they were hosting. This would have brought Mark back from the brink and got him out of his house and doing something other than his job though this isn’t exactly how the events played out. Marcus got his costume together (a Luchador costume that he managed to make out of things he found at a dollar store and things he had around his home) got out the door and headed to his friends house for the party… only to find out he was two days to early.

Mark felt very embarrassed by the whole ordeal and began to walk home in a very bad state of mind. As Mark was walking he absent mindedly made his way near the fringes of town where he stumbled upon an unsightly scene strewn out before him. There was one of those monster with the gemstones on them chasing after a family. Mark was naturally frightened of this but rather than run away, Marcus dashed towards the creature, figuring this was as good a way as any to go out. The beast got quite a few hits on Marcus, with him being able to just barely being able to stand up time after time, but before the final blow was struck, some of the more humanoid gem-people showed up and quickly turned the beast to dust and were off without another word. Mark was a little stunned to say the least but he decided to check on that family and see how they were doing. The family was overjoyed that the monster was now gone and thought that Marcus was the one who did it. Mark was about to explain the situation to them and how this had basically been a failed attempt to get himself hurt but he then saw the potential that he now had to extort. He told the family that he had taken down the monster and saved them which seemed plausible enough to the frazzled family.

Soon word began to get around about Mark’s dabble in heroics and parents began asking him to show up at their children’s parties. Mark now had a new form of income and it was infinitely more gratifying than being a janitor. Mark continued working his hero angle and after five years he’s become a local celebrity

Abilities/Skills: Marcus excels in hand to hand combat thanks to taking wresting in high school and his numerous martial arts instructors that he now employs with he decent wealth. He is in nearly peak human condition and as such he can hold his own against most of the thugs that reside in Crystalisis. While Marcus’ main form of offence is his numerous forms of martial arts, he is also training with melee weapons such as staves and sword play though his skill with these are pretty abysmal at the moment.

Misc:
>Mark lives in a penthouse sweet in one of the biggest buildings in Crystalisis.
>Mark will have a strong distrust and hatred of gems to begin with but he’ll keep his hatred underwear’s for the sake of appearance.
>Marcus’ most prized possession is his motorcycle that he calls the ’Thunder-Cycle’ simply because it sounds cool. The Thunder-Cycle’s most defining feature is it’s rad sidecar and flames paint job.
>Mark has a motorcycle helmet that has the same design as his mask.
>Marcus doesn’t have much of a secret identity and as such he often times just goes by Mark, Marcus or Mr.Mettleton but most kids and fans will call him by his heroic name
>Bow to the Queen

The Gemeticist

Name: Tug (informally), Tugtupite (formally)
Gem: Tugtupite
Appearance:
Gem Placement: Shoulder Blade
Gem Item:Eskirma Sticks
Powers:
Tug is capable of replicating herself to a very large degree with her largest number reached being twenty copies, however, every time she copies herself she and her copies get weaker. She can only make around four or five copies on Earth before the atmospheric pressure and gravity poof her and her clones. Additionally Tugtupite can summon hexagonal, modular shield allowing her to protect herself from all manner of physical and energy based attacks though these shield are not nearly as strong as the likes of Stevens, hence their modular design. Terrakinesis is another power Tugtupite possesses allowing her to subject the earth to her will. This is by far her strongest power allowing her to float through the air on a suspended slab of earth or bash others with heavy rocks. Tug is also capable of ‘reading’ others to an amazing degree. This power allows her to deduce various facts such as their mental state and, with enough time, even able to predict their first action (after their initial action her predictions get less and less accurate).

Backstory:

Gemeticist

Tug was a 2nd era Tugtupite gem and originally created with a lack of any of her powers. She was assigned to overseeing colonization projects on various planets where she would mostly work on setting up kindergartens and looking to optimize gem production with the growing increase in inapt gems such as herself. However, while she fulfilled her main roll of caretaker over various kindergartens, she also began to delve a little deeper into the likes of gemetics and see what truly made a gem tick so to speak. As she continued her research she began to do experiments on gems deemed to defective to be used by Homeworld and soon came to an astonishing discovery. Through her research she managed to induce a rapid gestation process in an already formed gem, essentially allowing them to finish their development in a fraction of the time and produce some previously unheard of effects such as changes in maximum hard-light mass or different powers altogether. Of course this process had its drawbacks such as the need for countless other gem specimens to be sacrificed for just one gem to develop properly and if the gem’s cognitive functions hadn’t developed properly to start with, they would stay in their unaltered state of mind, essentially making the process useless.

Tugtupite took her research findings to her gem and asked to be reassigned so that she may work on the process and hopefully find a better and more efficient way of fixing malformed gems and turning them into valuable units. Tug was granted her wish and sent to Earth under the leadership of Bloodstone where she could further her studies into the inner workings of gems and take down the rebellion that had rooted itself on the planet as well.

Other:
-She once had a metaphorical heart of gold that came with attempting to raise so many beings from the menial wastes of a planet but she has since become much less nurturing since delving full time into her new studies.
-Contrary to most Homeworld Gems, Tugtupite doesn’t hate humans and even idolizes some for their advances in their own sciences, some of which she has been trying to replicate with gem technology such as cloning, lobotomization and transfusion to name a few.
-While the workings of human and gem bodies are Tug’s specialty, she is capable of building machines with some degree of finesse though not nearly to the degree of someone more devoted to the process.
-Bow to the Queen

[Archmage MC]

Heres Marry

Marry

Rebellion Gems

Name: Marry

Gem: Moldsvite

Appearance:

Picture

Although she tends to have more of an 'always curious about everything' look on her face than the one in the picture.

Gem Placement: Chest

Gem Item: Tower Shield

Powers:
Levitate(Passive) = Antigrav, fairly straightforward.
Portals(Enhanced) = A projectile that can be detonated to create a two way connection in space-time that can be of varying shapes or sizes. Portals can be made either in the air or on surfaces. Portals made on solid surfaces are very stable and take a good while to close if not closed manually while air based portals are unstable and will close a little bit after creation. Portals can be moved while they are open, but doing so reduces their lifespan. There can only be one pair of portals open at a time.
Blink = Short range teleport that breaks the character free of bonds.

Backstory: A scientist interested in the knowledge that other worlds could bring, Marry decided that the wanton destruction of Homeworld was far too much to deal with, and rebeled to save a planet that looked like it had great potential. Plus Homeworld had stagnated pretty badly in general and wasn't that fun to be at anyway.

Other: Tsareena's unique ability.
serebii.net/abilitydex/queenlymajesty...
There you go.

[Majoraa]

Snowy (Snowflake Obsidian)

Rebellion Gem CS

Name:Snowy

Gem:Snowflake Obsidian

Appearance:

Gem Placement: Head
[Seen in the photo]

Gem Item: Pickaxe
[Seen in the photo also]

Powers:
[color=black][/color]-passive

Frost Manifestation-active
The user of this ability is able to create anything from ice and frost. Can backfire.

Night Vision-active
Self-explanatory, Snow can see better in the dark than others are able to.

Backstory:
Snow formed while the rebellion was going on in the kindergarten. Looking outside of her hole, she saw other gems either being shattered or battling for their lives. Her instincts kicking in, she moved back to the corner of her hole in hopes of blending in with the darkness.

Moments past, and everything died down to silence. Snow looked out again to see the area barren of war from before. Well, not all that barren…other gems were getting out of the walls and either talking or looking around. She did the same, being curious about what's happened.

While looking around, someone tapped Snow 's shoulder. Flinching, she summoned her weapon to face a Aquamarine. Ever since that false alarm, they became good friends and banded together with other gems to create the rebellion.

Other:
In battle, Snow is the tanker of the group.

Snow is fascinated by the change of climate and weather on earth.

Her favorite earth animal is the snowy owl. (Ironic ain't it?)

Snow is 4 ft tall. (Yeah, she be short.)

Eliza Hart

Name:Eliza Hart

Age:19

Appearance:

Backstory:

Ever since she was a young child, Eliza was fascinated with old fables, myths, and the paranormal. some ranging from mostly fantasy to a tad morbid. One old fable she read upon was about aliens that weren't like the ones in sci-fi movies and novels, but we're just like humans, called gems. Fascinated by them, she began research on them for a few years of her life.

Eliza did have two eyes once, but an incident with a knife caused her to need an eyepatch for who-knows-how-long. In the aftermath, she once accidentally mistaken a blood-pack for a juice box in the hospital. She wasn't fazed by it and went away to continue research, growing a bit of a habit of drinking blood packs.

When she was 18, she moved to Crystalisis and finally encounters some gems..well, more like she fainted..not a good first 'hello'.

[The1Rolling1Boy]

Newborn
Name: Marnie
Gem: Indicolite

Appearance

Gem Placement: Chest
Gem Item: Trident
Powers: Enhanced Agility(passive): possess agility beyond that of a normal member of the user's species
Water Empowerment(active): The power to gain strength from the element of water, she becomes faster and more durable when around water
Other: She is very clumsy and prefers to run away from the fight then fight it, she also looses form easily do to the fact that there was a mess up in her creation. Marnie does try to keep a smile on her face whenever she can. She is also fascinated by the human's movie's which is where she got the name Marnie from a movie called "When Marnie was there." She stands at 7'11 so she pretty tall.

[Pathfinder]

Eisenkiesel

Name:
Eise

Gem:
Eisenkiesel

Appearance:
Eise towers over most Gems, standing at a mean 8'6 and being nearly half as wide. Like most quartz Eise's hair is long and wild, trailing down a little past her hips and a bright, almost violently white in color. In contrast her skin is a deep red, with "tiger stripes" of a dirty yellow running up her arms, back, and outer thighs. Eise has a very muscular appearance in accordance to her role as a frontline soldier. being As of now she still reforms with her original Homeworld uniform, primarily black with slight red accents on the torso and "boots". There is a yellow diamond symbol in the center of her "shirt".

Gem Placement:
Placed vertically over her heart.

Gem Item:
A crystal battleaxe that can be changed between one handed and two handed forms.

Powers:
Strength: As a Eisenkiesel Eise was built for brutal, frontline combat and it shows. Only a Diamond or some Fusions could out-feat an Eisenkiesel in terms of raw strength.

Durability: Complimenting her strength, Eise is able to take a staggering amount of damage before "poofing". However her throat and just under the ribcage are significantly softer.

Armor Up: Eise can summon crystalline armor anywhere on her body. This armor is incredibly tough and can be summoned quickly but can only cover a small surface area. In combat it is usually summoned along the forearms for blocking and parrying, however it isn't unheard of for her to use it to punch or kick with added "Oomph."

Charge: A common ability amongst frontline Gems, Eise is able to fill her body with energy before charging towards her foes. This charge makes Eise appear to have been swallowed by her hair and transformed into a spiked, crackling tire as she speeds towards her target. While powerful and fast she has very limited vision and turning ability, meaning she must commit to a path and hope for the best.

Backstory:
Eise was barely fifty years old when the Rebellion broke out on her home, consuming Earth in the fires of war. By the time she was deployed on the battlefield she had all the knowledge on how a war worked, but she didn't have "practical experience." She didn't know what it was like to feel of the power of a light cannon exploding near her, or the sound of a Gem shattering under her hands. She didn't know what it was to look a fellow Gem in the eyes while she cleaved them in half, full of fear and anger. But in the heat of battle it didn't matter, not at first. It was her job, no... her purpose to stomp out the Rebels whenever her superiors ordered it and she reveled in it, glad to serve.

But when it was all over, when she was alone with only her thoughts she could hear them. Every crunch, explosion, and scream would flood to the forefront of her mind. It only got harder to push them away as the battles grew in intensity and more and more of her sisters were struck down, becoming jaded with the whole affair.

It all came to a head in a seemingly apocalyptic battle that occurred towards the end of the Rebellion. The battle was the fiercest yet, with both sides losing countless Gems in the chaos. Eise's unit had pushed too deeply into the enemy's battle ground, cutting themselves off from the rest of the force. Surrounded and with no way to escape, what started as a breach through enemy lines became a desperate fight for survival. The squad fought valiantly, but it was many strong opponents versus the few and Eise and her squad were beginning to become overwhelmed. However the Rebellion seemed to think that wasting anymore Gems on this pocket of warriors was foolish and instead unleashed a volley of Light Cannon fire onto Eise and her squad's location.

Upon reforming all Eise could see was ash and grey, it covered the ground for miles around her. Fires still roared in the distance but none of it mattered as she dug through the ash desperately for her squad, any of them. She didn't find them, only shards and fragments of what they used to be. Eise couldn't even tell the gems apart they were in so many pieces. In that moment, cradling the remains of her only friends in her hands, Eise began to wail. She sobbed for what could have been an eternity, all of her repressed feelings flooding out in waves. The only thing that brought her back was movement out of the corner of her eye, a rebel who was apparently wandering just as lost as Eise was.

Eise wanted to fight her, to stand up and strike her down and shatter her gem... but she couldn't. As pitiful as it was, she couldn't stop her crying nor her cradling of her friends remains. Away from the heat of battle, away from her superiors, Eise couldn't muster the strength or hatred to strike the rebel down. Apparently the rebel couldn't either, eyes full of pity and sorrow. She left, most likely to return to her forces instead of going for the kill. Eise stayed for many more hours, mourning her comrades.

When she was able to return to her superiors Eise was a changed Gem, no longer having the fire to fight on the frontlines. Eventually she was shuffled to a kindergarten, stationed as a guard for the newborn Gems who would be shipped off to the grinder. It is here that she became to resent not only her superiors, but the Diamonds themselves. However in the end she was a grunt, ill equipped to do anything other than to fight. She could do nothing to help the newborns, their lives becoming a very closely guarded commodity were trying to smuggle them off Kindergarten would only bring Eise closer to her Shattering.

Then the alarm hit, The Weapon was about to be launched. A cold panic had seized the Kindergarten as hundreds of Gems began flooding to escape ships. Eise did everything in her power to help the newborns onto the ship, filing them as quickly as she could until The Weapon was fired. It was too late for Eise herself to join in the ship, being to big to fit through the now closing door. Her last act before she began to run was scooping up a smaller newborn and tosser her into the closing door, the Gem just making it through.

Eise ran, looking for anything to hide in. Unfortunately this section of the kindergarten was filled with unborn Gems, no holes to hide in. Instead she did the only thing she could, inducing a landslide and hoping for the best. The rocks covered her right before The Weapon hit, an exceptionally large boulder landing square on her back causing her to Poof.

Other:
Bow to the Queen

[Spinna]

Here is the character sheet for Spinel which Kronshi said was good the last time I ran it by him.

Name: Spinel
Gem: A White Spinel
Appearance:

Spinel's appearance

Gem Placement: Her left elbow

Gem Item: A throwing knife

Powers:

-Invisibility: Technically, Spinel is always invisible, but her body normally emits a ghostly white glow. With enough focus, she can suppress her body's glow and become transparent. She can do this for up to 30 minutes while completely still, or 10 minutes while moving. The drawback of this ability is that she is significantly worse than others at hiding in the dark without something covering her.

-Silent steps: Because of her light body, Spinel's footsteps are almost entirely inaudible to most human or gem ears.

-Combat reflexes: Spinel isn't a natural born fighter, but she is built for agility and has become adept at using this to her advantage.

-Analyst (2): Being an information and reconnaissance gem by nature, Spinel is second to none at learning and retaining information. At this point in her existence, Spinel is a walking database of information, both on gems and many species that gems have been in contact with.

Backstory: Spinel was created many thousands of years ago, and is among the few remaining Era One White Spinels. While every White Spinel is expected to be able to suppress their emotions to a degree, in order to serve in their intended capacity as recon gems, Spinel was a very unique case, displaying no ability to feel emotion at all. Initially this was seen as a serious defect, as it severely impaired her ability to make decisions. Early in her life, her lack of any natural survival instinct and inability to make even basic decisions on her own nearly led to her being labeled as defective and scrapped. This was never done, however, after Spinel demonstrated her ability to flawlessly recall and carry out the orders of her superiors. Despite everything else, it seemed that she did at least have one natural instinct, that being to follow orders.

As Spinel gained more experience, she became well known as a consultant of sorts, and her presence was often requested along with that of a Sapphire when preparing for an important mission: the Sapphire for her ability to predict the future, and Spinel to weigh that information against her extensive knowledge of the past and present. Because of her stealth abilities, she was used as a spy in many missions against the Crystal Gems during the war.

Despite the respect her skills eventually gained her, Spinel never had many friends among gems and didn't usually associate with them. Spinel has always seen herself more as a piece of technology than a true individual, and has never taken issue with being treated as such. In addition, even those who were familiar with her often found her presence unsettling due to her behavior. Between missions, Spinel has been known to merely stand silently in one place for days unless told to do otherwise, and never engages in conversation that doesn't relate to a mission.

Either by his personal request, or because the Diamond Authority decided she would be a good fit, Spinel has been assigned to Bloodstone for his current mission to Earth.

Other:

[Kronshi]

Hey guys, things have been exceedingly hectic this holiday season due to a group of assholes that overstayed their welcome and got my little brother sick and in the hospital overnight. I also have my anniversary soon so.... Yeah. I'll go over everything once things have calmed down further.

[Scyntell]

Here's the CS for Wulfenite a Newborn gem

Name
Wulfenite

Gem
Wulfenite

Wulfenite

Appearance

Check out Wilfenite's sweet digs

Gem Placement
Throat

Gem Item
Sharp pieces of claw-like crystal that form around Wulfenite's fingers.

Powers

Passive
Enhanced Senses; Wulfenite's senses are enhanced much further than the average gem's senses.

Active
Hunter of the Night; Wulfenite forcibly increases the power of one of their senses by a marginal amount at the cost of the effectiveness of the other four senses temporarily.

Other

[pyroman]

I'll be getting my character sheet up in a few. Can I put it straight into the approved section, or does it need to be approved again?

[BrassOtter]

Carmen Brass

Name:
Carmen Brass

Gender:
Male

Age:
20

Appearance

Details:
Carmen stand's at a towering 6'4, which is only made more imposing by his lean, chiseled musculature. His skin is sickly pale, his hair is pure white, and his eyes are an unnatural shade of red, due to Carmen's albinism. He doesn't let this stop him from going out in the sun, though, and can be found wearing his hoodie, along with his rucksack full of tricks and inventions.

Biography:
Born to a neurosurgeon mother and PhD physicist father, Carmen was destined for great things. Things might have been grander still, had he not been born albino and ostracized by other children his age. From a very young age, Carmen found that children this day and age weren't accepting of people that didn't fit their definitions of normal, especially when the odd one out looked like a gem. That was often times the thing Carmen heard most. 'It's the gem kid, stay back or he'll suck all the life from you.' 'Ew, its the gem. Why didn't you leave with the others?'. Without much of a social life to worry about, Carmen threw himself into other activities instead; He had to get smart if he wanted to prove these assholes wrong, and he had to get tough to fend off the regular bouts of bullying he suffered.

So he did so. He studied hard and played even harder, going out of his way to find ways to push his young body to become stronger. It was during one such day that Carmen found himself trying to climb up the side of a building, and once it started raining on him, falling from it. The boy was saved, however, by a creature that stunned him into silence with its appearance. Tall and gaunt, the Selenite that saved him had mistaken him for one of her own kind due to their strikingly similar appearances; Pale skin, white hair, pink eyes. The only major difference was his lack of large wings, and the stoic mask over her face. The Selenite began to scold him for disobeying mission parameters, taking unnecessary risk, and for being somewhere so open without his mask, even if it was off Homeworld.

It wasn't until the child started crying that the Selenite realized something was amiss, and as she shielded the crying boy from the rain with with a wing and reached out a comforting hand, she realized this was not one of her unit, but a human. Once Carmen had calmed down from the fright of his near-death experience, the gem made sure he was okay, asked him what he was doing, what he was, why he looked so similar to one of her own kind. Carmen explained his disease, how other saw him, how he almost wished Selenite hadn't saved him, just so he could finally be at peace and not be constantly stared at, pointed at, whispered behind his back about.

The Selenite wove him a tale, then. The story of her kind, her unit. They were imperfect, defects. They were supposed to be gypsum, graceful warriors and commanders, but had come out Selenite, too weak and soft for combat. They were of a low caste in society, used as expendable scouts to be sent into dangerous places without regard for weather or not they came out alive. To others, they were merely tools, things to be used and destroyed if they didn't perform as they were instructed, simply because they'd come out differently. They were one in the same despite being different species altogether.

"The key," Selenite had said, looking the little human in the eye, "Is to prove them wrong. The reason I'm here is because I survived. I proved I was more than just a weak gem. My team and I have gone to some of the most dangerous places in the universe, and we prevailed. We were told we were lesser. We were told we would die on our first mission, if not our second. Yet here we are, dozens later, on the most important mission of our lives. We worked hard and proved them wrong, despite our appearance, despite our 'defects'."

These words have stayed with Carmen constantly, providing him with the will to move through even his darkest days. The Selenite, happy to have improved someone else's view on the world, passed on her mask to him. She told Carmen that if he continued to improve himself, to prove others wrong, that she'd return for him one day, and see how much he'd grown, how much he'd proven the doubters wrong. He just had to survive and thrive until she did so, and hold on to her mask so she could find him again.

Come middle-school, no one talked to Carmen. There were whispers behind his back, dirty looks shot from across the classroom, but everyone that had tried to push him around quickly found he pushed back, a whole hell of a lot harder, in the face. Happy he'd created a safety bubble around himself, Carmen simply continued to work on sharpening his mind and strengthening his body, just to make sure he could stay far enough ahead of the pack they wouldn't be able to snap at him.

It was around this time that he met Reggie. The one person that had commented on his gem appearance with wonder instead of fear or hate. The one student that matched his fascination with technology and machinery. His relationship to the biggest weapons manufacturer in the world probably helped with that, but it only helped to polarize him from other students, due to the origins of those weapons.

Carmen found out in highschool that being tough wasn't always enough, not when people that weren't as tough traveled in packs. He also found out that being tough isn't nearly as effective if you aren't also quick. So, Carmen got quick, did his best to stick to his AP and honors classes, and started working on robotics fair projects with Reggie. But, if he was putting his mind to practical use, why not his body?

And so Carmen became the 'mail man' for Crystalisis. There was never a package too sensitive or delivery too illegal, so long as he could fit it in his bag. He experienced many a nasty fall, numerous broken bones, and enough fractures to put the grand canyon to shame, but he didn't let that stop him. He was always back on the rooftops the second he was able to run and jump effectively. But he did eventually grow tired of his parents repeated scoldings and threats of locking down his workshop. If he was going to do this, he was going to do it right. So, with some help from Reggie and Reggie's Father's workshop, he developed his wrist-mounted grappling hook, and invention that won both himself and Reggie their senior science fair. To celebrate both this accomplishment and Carmen's 18th birthday, as well as his obtaining a driver's license, they managed to ship him over a rickshaw.

Not one to be satisfied with a pea-sized engine, Carmen used his savings to purchase an engine from a sports bike and placed that in it instead. But, since it was already in the chop shop, why not trick it out further? Undercarriage lights, the nicest stereo system he could afford to fit in its small interior, smokescreen, rear-mounted flamethrower, caltrop compartment... He may have went a little overboard, but by the time he was done, Carmen had quiet the machine. And, with all that power in the engine and his history of minor lawbreaking, Carmen took it racing.

Now on the cusp of his 21st birthday, Carmen has full run of his family's home in Crystalisis. His mother and father moved to France shortly after he graduated highschool, with his mother working at the Hadron Collider and his father teaching at medical schools across Europe. Carmen stayed in Crystalisis to pursue his PhD in engineering, to continue to develop his rooftop-running skills, and to contnue to build a name for himself in the underground racing circuit.

Special Skills

• Carmen's getting a degree in engineering with a minor in robotics, and as such, he's quiet the handy guy to have around. His garage has been converting into a workshop for all of his inventions and machines, many of which he uses to help him navigate the city for his side job, and others for his own amusement.
• Carmen was very active, even from a young age. His parents were always terrified that he'd climb somewhere and fall, but thankfully for them all, he never did... To their knowledge. This affinity of climbing and running along high places has followed him through life, and now he's quiet the parkour runner, using the skills he's gained from his years to deliver packages, both benign and too 'sensitive' for lawful eyes.

Equipment

• A fully-functioning, arm-mounted grappling gun.. His is a bit more compact, the reeling mechanism is much more powerful, and he uses a stronger, carbon fiber cable. He's also forgone a CO2 canister in favor of magnetic repulsion, allowing it to shoot just as far, if not farther. The mechanism on the end is a claw, clamping tight around either the cable or whatever surface presses the pressure-sensitive switch in the middle, allowing Carmen greater mobility and options in what he can grapple onto, and the claw can be clamped shut and open manually by pressing a button on the side of the glove the grappling hook sits on.
• Hollow-Handle survival knife. Contains everything you see in the image. The smaller utility knife he wears as a necklace, and never goes anywhere without it.
• His ((Hastily drawn)) mask, given to him by a 'friend' he refuses to talk about. He rarely wears it during the day, but its nice to have something to hide his face when he's already doing shady things at night. He'll use it when welding too, as it seems impervious to most heat damage, and it effectively asks as a pair of welding goggles in the presence of bright light, while allowing him to see normally otherwise. The 'eyes' are only visible when worn, and mimic the color of the wearer's own eyes.
• Carmen's quiet the speed demon on the road, with his tricked-out Tuk-Tuk. He's put a lot of time and money into his, the thing able to reach speeds of most high-end racing motorcycles.
• A Gauss Gun, hand-made and machined at the workshop at Crystalisis University. Carmen's Gauss Gun is modular and much stronger than the device shown in the video, with only a small increase in size to compensate. The upper 1/3rd of the rifle can be removed and turned into a non-lethal (but still quiet painful) semi-automatic pistol version, with the handle and trigger folding up or down as needed. The back 2/3rds convert it into a rifle with a stock, give it lethal functionality, and allow for both semi-automatic and fully automatic firing modes, with rails and grooves for extra attachments as Carmen develops them. A second handle and trigger are located on the stock piece to allow for easier firing, and allow the front to act as a fore-grip. It will most commonly be in pistol form, to be used as a deterrent when running shadier packages around the city, but he almost always has the stock piece with him, just in case.

Other:
Carmen's got quiet the sweet tooth. Favors can often be bought for a bag of gummy worms or a chocolate orange.

His themesong, One In a Million

[HaltingBlooper]

@pyroman
Re-approved.

[HaltingBlooper]

@KronshiWow. Like, disease sick or...?

[EnterTheHero]

Vert

Name: Vert
Gem: Verdelite

Hider

Appearance: Short at 5' tall. Has very pale green skin, long, shaggy, green-and-yellow-green streaked hair, and very dark, deep green eyes. Wears a dark green cloak with what looks like yellow-green lightning bolts along the bottom edge. Wears a black tunic and leggings under the cloak.
Gem Placement: Underside of left wrist
Gem Item: Dual kamas
Powers:

• Electrical Sense- Vert can sense electrical impulses, such as the current through an electrical wire, or even the electricity of living things, though the latter is much harder to detect, and can get drowned out by stronger impulses.
• Electric Slide- Vert can transform her body into a living electrical surge, greatly increasing her speed and offensive abilities. Incredibly powerful, but also more than a little unstable.
• Bolt-ergeist- Vert can use her Electric Slide to leap into any electrical machinery and control it from the inside. Difficult to use without destroying whatever she leaps into, but well worth it when she can get a handle on her abilities.
• Joy Buzzer- Vert can discharge electricity into whatever- or whomever- she's touching. Can be used to damage an enemy, charge electrical equipment (or destroy it utterly), and whatever else one can do with lightning from one's hands.

Backstory: An experimental Gem, designed to overcome the usual weakness of Verdelite Gems, namely their low intelligence. While most of her kind were treated little better than guided missiles or attack dogs, Vert was designed to be more subtle, able to infiltrate, use complex tactics, and think strategically. The good news is that they succeeded. The bad news is that they succeeded.

For one reason or another, Vert turned on the Kindergarten workers who facilitated her creation, destroying much of the facility and even shattering several workers. Distraught, she went into a catatonic state, where she remained until she was found by the Gems of the Rebellion. Armed with her wits, her powers, and her hatred toward Homeworld and all it stood for, Vert joined the Rebels' cause, eager to repay whatever cruelties had been inflicted on her.
Other: Vert has a tendency to float a few inches off the ground most of the time, even if she's not in her Electric Slide form. She's not capable of full-blown flight unless in her electricity form, though.

[Archmage MC]

@Kronshi

Yeesh. hope hes ok.

So how do we want our gem's to know each other and stuff? Mostly for rebellion gems since I'm sure they all need to know each other for awhile.

[pyroman]

Name:Sodalite
Gem:Sodalite
Appearance:
Gem Placement:Near the top of her head
Gem Item: Bo Staff
Powers: Omnilingualism, the ability to learn and use any language almost instantly. Knowledge assimilation, Sodalite never forgets anything, and can read an entire book in a matter of minutes while still retaining each and every word and its placement. Predictive brain, Faux future vision, Sodalite's realm of knowledge allows her to think of different possibilities of the current situation, but not to the effect of a Sapphire. Visor Generation. A later model during the war, Sodalite can generate a simple heads-up-display, allowing for easy access and management of information.
Backstory: Sodalite is a former Linguistics officer, Negotiations officer, and a brief tactitian for the homeworld. Once the war began to start, she questioned her leaders, and eventually left to assist Earth and use her knowledge to help drive Homeworld away.
Other:

[Raijinslayer]

W.I.P.

CS

Name:Reginald Alexander Dorvain
Age: 21
Appearance:


Bio TBW, as I have to talk to Loony a bit to see if we're still going with #1 brOTP of Eve and Reggie.

Reggie is the super-genius son of the current technology mogul, Marcus Dorvain. He was born with a almost super-human talent for understanding, redefining, and conceptualizing technologies, one that grew more and more prominent as he grew. In the early stages of his life, there were little, if any problems. While his father was rather distant and played little into his son's life, Reggie's elder brother Percival(or Percy, as he liked to be called) filled in the role well enough. An army man, he was somebody who Reggie absolutely idolized in his youth, and such made it all the more heart-wrenching when he heard about how his brother died while on duty in the middle east from an I.E.D explosion.
Struck with grief, 8-year old Reggie went to his father for comfort, only to be rebutted with a cold look and dismissive turn. Ever since that day, Reggie has tried desperately to get his father's attention and praise with his inventions, trying day after day to gain something from the old man. However, all he got was empty words and money thrown his way, never any of the love of affection that he so deeply craved. To this day, Reggie has never heard his father even him address him as 'Son', not once, and while he likes to act like his father's attitude doesn't bother him, it was the original driving force for his inventing and will always be a thorn in his side.
Speaking of inventing, Reggie is great at it, great at reverse engineering gem-tech as well. He has a knack for figuring out how the systems work, especially after he used a dusty old gem fragment he found to produce his Gem Interface matrix, a glove that he always wears which allows him to trick the system's into think ing he's a gem by using the energy signature of the shard. Early renditions of the device were finicky, however, and even nowadays, it's a bit of a crap-shoot as to whether or not the thing will even work at all. This device, which won his father national prestige and fame because you can't say that a 16 year-old was able to make such a thing, is something that he keeps the plans to locked away tight in his head, no matter how much people ask him for. Reason? Gem Tech is some scary shit, and he doesn't trust any of the corporate head honcho's all over the world to gain access to it. That being said, he still helps his dad with integrating these systems into American Military. He does this because A)if he's cooperative, he doesn't have to worry about getting kidnapped by our government and other governments, and B) daddy issues. He really does this all to please his dad in some way or another, though in recent years, he's kind of grown detached from this desire, beginning to see how pointless it all really is, as well as how much he's kinda suffered as a human being because of his obsession.

Which brings us to Reggie's school life, which was terrible whenever he went almost all the time. You see, being as smart as Reggie was, he was often ahead of everyone else in the class, and goofed off a lot because of boredom. This caused teachers to think he was begin difficult and to instantly dislike him. It also led to him either getting bullied a lot by other kids who felt inferior or felt that he was using his daddy's money to get by in life, or to get used by others. Throughout his school career, he was often either the butt of some cruel joke or prank, or being led around by some cheerleaders or muscle heads who said they wanted to be 'friends' but just stuck him with their homework and were waiting for him to inherit his father's fortune.
School sucked and, by entering middle school, he was about ready to just drop-out and go work in his lab forever. . . that is, until he met his friend Carmen, a fellow inventor of things, as well as a fellow outcast because of him being an albino, among other things. It started off with Reggie making what was likely some offensive comment about how Carmen looked like a Gem, and spiraled into life-long friendship. Carmen, being more social-grounded then Reggie could ever hope to be, helped him come out of his shell and gradually ge tmore comfortable talking with people, though he never quite lost his quirks. In return, Reggie gave Carmen lot's of advice, resources for building cool shit, and connections to cool intern ships, as well as first dibs on trying out some of his cooler stuff. Said stuff also comes with the propensity for exploding and or back-firing a bit or causing strange, usually temporary side-effects, however, so it was something best left denied when whatever gizmo he worked up seemed a bit fishy.
Any way, with both of them now in college, Reggie more so he can hang out with Carmen then anything else, they compete in all manner of cool projects together. One of the latest was using old gem-tech Reggie had found in a nearby kindergarten to make an improved hover-board of sorts. It's still in the testing phase, but results have been promising and the need to wear safety gear diminishing. Unfortunately, Reggie still needs a few things to make the hover-board really work right, and that going to require more forays into the Kindergarten. Eh, what's the worst that could possible happen, these places have been dead for centuries, if not millennia. The chance of anything bad happening on this trip were just overwhelming miniscule . . so why did he still have a bad feeling in his chest.
Other:

Gear:

Gear

Gem Interface Matrix: Let's him use Gem stuff around 45-50% of the time

Hover-board prototype: Good for short distance travel or when you need to make a jump, but still a bit finicky at the best of times, so relying on it to run from a monster, not a good idea.

Gem-boosted Taser gun: Take Taser gun, plug in Gem Power crystal, watch as watermelons get blown to bits, wonder why you haven't destroyed it yet, remember that popping watermelons is fun.

Can of Pepper-Spray: Because the Taser is out of the question for any non-fruit/vegetable he comes across.

Cutting Edge gaming laptop: Top of the line with graphics so fine

Handy-haversack: Not a real handy-haver sack, you've yet to invent that. However, it does auto-organize things for you, so that's cool. Full of books, various tools for scavenging gem tech, and a book on gem identification, so he can see if he can identify any loose shards he finds.

Seraphinite

Newborn CS

Name(s): Seraphinite, Sera, Seraph, Phini
Gem:
Appearance:

Picture #1(The one I like)

Picture #2

Gem Placement: Upper Back
Gem Item: Ethereal wings of sorts, covered in a number of 'eyes'. In Sensory mode, they're Sera's prime method of gathering visual sensory information, or 'sight'. She is effectively blind until she can summon her wings, of which there are three levels of power for. These are indicated by the number of wings a Seraphinite possesses.

2 wings: 360 degree vision, parascopic vision(she can zoom in like a camera), and higher levels of mental processing power to deal with the constant influx of information from so many angles.

4 wings:TBD

6 wings:TBD

When switched to Combat Protocol, the wings lose their sensory capabilities in exchange for use as offensive and defensive systems, as well as giving sight back to Sera's regular eyes, so as not to leave her at a significant disadvantage. The energy that makes up the wings shifts into a solid, durable metallic substance that is capable of fusing with a willing Gem Body, strengthening it's defensive and offensive capabilities.
The substance's natural state is liquid, and thus, is able to change form fluidly and swiftly, and if it ever leaves Sera's control, returns to it's liquid state. The substance is also programmable, just like a Gem's energy body, and thus can be given simple commands such as 'Attack', 'Defend', or 'Return'. More complex instructions can be given at higher levels, but not by any greatly varying degrees.

Level 1(2 Wings, though often referred to as 'Wingless'): At this level, enough substance is created to form Sera's armor, which not only provides a good amount of defensive capabilities, especially against environmental hazards and energy-based attacks thanks to the refractive shielding and filtration systems, but it also can shift the Gem body in such a way that the arms and legs can be turned into simple, close-range weapons, such as blades, and back again. These give Sera a great deal of flexibility in combat when it comes to engagements, as well as possibly surprising the enemy.

Note: The wings can also be used in a purely offensive fashion, changing into large, simple blades that can be swung around telekinetically, but given the weak constitution of the base Seraphim form, this is not a likely course of action to expect from a fully-functioning Seraphinite Enforcer.

Level 2(4 Wings):

Level 3(6 Wings):

Note that since Sera's weapon is essentially her power, she won't have access to anything but 2 wings at the start. Any added powers she grows into will come from her wings
Powers: Seraphinites lack a concrete definition of powers, so to speak, but instead have more highly functional weapons than most gems to make up for this deficit. Also unlike most gems, all Seraphinites have the same weapon, their wings, but the aesthetics of these wings and higher level abilities are variable between each and every individual unit.
Other: Seraphinites are the enforcers and Top-class guardians of the Diamond authority, built with one design objective in mind: Seek and Destroy. To facilitate this philosophy, their form is split between to systems.

The Sensory system abilities tend to focus less on combat and more on information gathering, higher sensory awareness, and scouting. As the base system that Seraphinites take, it also has all of the personality systems in place, enabling them to make good secondary leaders with excellent judgement calls, reading the flow of the battle with utmost accuracy and giving their advice to the commandant in charge.

Alternatively, there comes the point where they must seek out the conflicts that they find, and this is where the Combat system;s take over. Sensory information is minimized to the workable minimum, personality is limited to the absolute minimum, memory is stored away till Sensory is reactivated, and the target(s) are identified When Combat Protocol is activated, the Seraphinite will activate it's energy conversion matrix to form the Specialized material of Seraphinium, infuse it into the fragile base form to bring it up to code for a warrior gem, and engage the foe until either they are subdued. This gem will feel no pain, will feel no fear, will have no sense of true self-presevation, only harm avoidance to keep it fighting longer. They will keep in fighting and fighting and fighting until they are shattered/poofed. They no longer are a Gem, but a highly-tuned battle machine that will only stand down when commanded by their given commander, which leads into another component of the Seraphinites.

When a Seraphinite is deployed, they have two designations that they are compelled to make: A Designated Superior and a designated Person/place of interest. The Superior has complete control over the Serpahinite unit while they are under Combat Protocol, with the only way to override their command being the authority of a Diamond. Even when not in Combat Protocol, the words of the Superior holds a certain amount of weight in the Seraphinite's mind, and it takes a lot of will power to resist the urge to obey.

The P.o.I is something that the Seraphinite must protect at all cost, including it's own life. Often, when said P.o.I is placed in danger, that is when Combat Protocol is initiated, after sufficient data has been obtained. The desire to protect the P.o.I. is the only other thing that can interfere with the order of the Superior, if the two happen to be at odds with each other. If such a thing does occur, then the unit is often given to lean towards their main directive in these cases, which is to protect their objective. However, this isn't a sure thing, as it happens about half of the time, while the other half results in the system following the orders of the Superior.

[Kronshi]

@HaltingBlooper It's a throat infection but my brother has poor lungs so he had to go to the hospital for breathing treatments.

[Scyntell]

@HaltingBlooper It's a throat infection but my brother has poor lungs so he had to go to the hospital for breathing treatments.

@Kronshi

Yikes that's all kinds of no bueno. Hope it clears out of his system soon.