[CHAR] Stuck on a Strange Blue Planet (or, We Aren't the Crystal Gems): A Steven Universe Roleplay

[pyroman]

snowflake

Gem: Snowflake Obsidian

Name if your gem goes by a different name: Snowflake

Appearance:
Snowflake is a beanpole, by gem standards and by Snowflake Obsidian standards. Easily rivaling the height of the Rebellion Perma-Fusion Garnet, Snowflake is on the thinner side of life. Her thin and lithe body allows her to move rather impressively, despite her height.

Powers: Temperature Manipulation[4/4]: For making areas as viable as possible, Snowflake Obsidians are able to control the temperature around them. This was especially useful when finding potential spots for new Kindergartens. On a technical level, this ability is friction manipulation at its bases state, only effecting the molecules in the air.
Snowflake is able to manipulate the temperature of the air around her at will. Not only being able to radiate her desired temperature, but she can change the temperature of her body, as well as change the temperature of "zones" around her. To a very small extent, this allows her to freeze things, generate ice, melt items, or even make things catch fire, but this requires a good deal of concentration.
Thermal Vision[2/4]: Due to having no eyes, Snowflake has been equipped with thermal vision. This allows her to see, regardless of light level. After having lived so long with this special ability, Snowflake is barely effected by drastic changes in light and heat, though she can be forgetful, and simply not use her thermal vision, making her blind when focused on other things.

Items: Flame/Snow Thrower - Snowflake's summon, it works with her temperature manipulation to launch either snow/ice or fire.

Backstory: Snowflake was a fighter in the rebellion. She abandoned her post as a planet-scouter and ecological specialist to fight against the gems who conquered words and took them apart for their own selfish needs. Snowflake was already matured by the time she was stationed at earth, having been quite jaded with the procedure. All previous planets had simple, hardly sentient life. Earth showed her that organic life was something worth preserving, and joined Bismuth in leaving Homeworld to fight with Rose Quartz.

After the diappearance of Bismuth on a solo-mission, Snowflake decided to stay at her outpost with the others, protecting the warp pads that she was responsible for.

Writing example:

Anything extra you'd like to add:After living so long, Snowflake has become quite the wordsmith. She knows how to talk to people, and tries not to use her powers of word crafting and manipulation for evil. She only wants to help people and shield them from truths they aren't ready to know yet.

Astro

Gem: Astrophyllite

Name if your gem goes by a different name: Astro

Appearance:

Powers: Electromagnetic field generation.[4/4] The fields she can create are tiny and seemingly useless, especially when considering that they can only be generated around her body, but Astrophyllite has found a great use for them. She uses them for mobility, and combat, often generating a field in the place where an enemy will strike and lock the tool of the enemy there so they can't move or use it. Warning: do not use around radios, they have a tendency to block certain waves.

Items: Throwing Axe, summon.

Backstory: Astrophyllite was born with a softer gem than most of her kind, which, when paired with the others, was always spoken about, resulting in her fearing that one day it will break because of something simple and insignificant. She always followed her orders to the letter, more of fear from her diamond than actual respect, but did so nonetheless. One day, she was moved from her team to another team, still a young gemling (as the other Astrophyllites likes calling her), and she asked no questions about the movement.

Writing example: Astrophyllite, or simply Astro, as she called herself in privacy, had only ever broken the rules at one point in her two-hundred year life. It had happened one hundred and fifty six years ago, and she had taken a recorder and an unused log tablet for her own personal use. It had never garnered attention, but to this day, she always feared that someone was going to walk into her chambers and find the stolen equipment.

"Log. Erm, let's see now..." She muttered to herself, the recorder active as she spoke into the microphone end. "Sol two hundred, exact. Two hundred years after my creation." It wasn't really of any importance to her. The others didn't seem to celebrate annually, especially with pesky things like relativity, and she was created on a planet that followed a different cycle than homeworld, so there was that too. "The planet of my creation is still intact, barely. All of the natives had long since evacuated by now."

A faint knocking could be heard from the recording, but the knock was much louder in person. "Five Three Zero Nine, we have ten minutes to report. I expect to see you at the briefing platform in five, gemling."
"O-of course!" Astro nodded, though the figure could obviously not see through walls. "I will be there momentarily."

Without another sound from the other Astrophyllite, Astro sighed and put the log away, leaving just the recorder out. "I know I've stated it before, but it seems like Astrophyllite Seven Two Seven Three, or Prima, as she likes being called, has set up a rank for our little group. Maybe it makes a little more sense since we don't often fuse with one another like Rubies or others do, so there is no collaborative mindset, but I just wish that she stopped treating me like the lowest link in the chain." A soft breath escaped her lips, her hand reaching to the button on the recorder.

"Log over."

Anything extra you'd like to add:

[Guardian Angel Haruki]

Gem: Pearl

Name if your gem goes by a different name: Moonstone. May go by Luna later.

Appearance: This is what Pearl looks like, disguised as a Moonstone. Her original appearance had lighter colored hair (blonde to platinum blonde) and blue eyes. Her gem is located on the naval. She has a thin, but slightly muscular build. She wears a black top that shows her naval and black pants with boots that allow for easy maneuverability.

Powers:
-Shapeshifting (2 points) -- Like the Crystal Gems' Amethyst, this pearl is able to shape shift into other humanoid beings (like gems and humans), but still have the coloration of her gem and the gem over her naval. While she can hold a form that is not her own for longer than Amethyst could without breaking a sweat, she can't hold it forever.
-Illusions (2 points) -- She can conjure illusions. At the very least, this power allows her to cover what shapeshifting cannot: Her own color scheme and the appearance of her gem. At the most, she can conjure illusions of multiples of herself or an ally, or conjure an illusion of one or two humanoid beings that are not her or her friends. Similar to shapeshifting, she can hold an illusion up for a while, but she can't keep it up forever.

Items:
--She can summon a bow that generates its own arrows from her gem.
--She has a buckler shield and a shortsword as equipment.

Backstory: Pearl was once a servant for a noble gem of the Blue Diamond court. At first, she was like every other gem, quietly obeying orders and doing as she was told. However, her life changed when she saw a Ruby and a Sapphire fuse together, somehow defying what the Sapphire had predicted. After witnessing that event, she started questioning her purpose, her life, her own capabilities, even after they made it back to homeworld. Whenever she could, she soul searched and soon found she had the ability to change shape and create illusions. She kept all of this hidden, and as her capabilities grew, so did her desire to become something more than just a mere tool. She had the desire to serve to the utmost of her abilities. Simply opening doors and holding coats for nobles wasn't going to cut it for her anymore. She could sense she could do more and be more than just that, so that is what she intended to do. When her shapeshifting and her illusions had improved enough, she was able to leave shards, and make them appear as though she had been shattered. It wasn't surprising that the noble didn't seem to care and just simply replaced her with a different Pearl. She then managed to convince others that she was a Moonstone, and nobody had suspected otherwise. She had done her research and knew what was expected of a Moonstone. After going through training/skill assessment, she was able to prove herself and finally got a mission to Earth. She is still determined and looking forward to doing her best. Moonstones are known for being excellent combatants for their adaptability and cunning. They also make very good protectors.

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Writing example:

"Dodge!"

Pearl thought to herself as she jumped out of the way of a giant fist that was aimed for her. She backflipped in mid-air, landing far from her opponent, before she charged once again. This time, instead of running straight ahead, she zigzagged, dodging the missile attacks that were aimed at her, and she managed to jump up the golem's arm. She ducked, bobbed, and weaved with the grace of a ballet dancer, soon reaching the head and destroying the faux gem that controlled the golem, with the short sword she was given. The golem fell, but the battle wasn't over yet. Pearl merely glanced to see that two more golems appeared behind her in the arena. One had fired a fist, but the fist only seemed to pass through her figure, as though she were nothing more than a mirage. Before the golems had even seemed to realize what happened, she had replaced her true self with an illusion, and had taken cover behind one of the obstacles, and fired two arrows at the faux gems.

The test seemed to go on forever, more golems replacing the ones that she had taken out. Just when she thought she had reached her limit and that she was going to fail, she heard the Agate's voice command, "Enough! The Assessment has been completed! Moonstone FA-56, report to the assignment chambers. Moonstone FA-57, report to the Assessment Center," Pearl braced herself mentally as she marched out of the small arena and into the waiting room with the other Moonstones who had completed the test. Of course the Diamonds would want the best of the best when it came to the Moonstones. That was why the test was here. Pearl was pretty sure that if the Diamonds knew that a Pearl was taking this test, they may not be too happy about it.

Soon enough, all of the Moonstones of her group had finished and they were all awaiting for their missions in line...assuming they passed and were good enough to have a mission to begin with. The Agate marched in front of them studying them as though she was reconsidering sending any of them on a mission. Soon she stopped in front of Pearl and Pearl took everything she had to make sure that she didn't show any sign of hesitation, only the stone cold face of a soldier ready for anything. The Agate stated, "You! FA-56. You will be attending the Chromite and her team to Earth, and making sure no harm comes to them. Do you understand?"

"Ma'am! Yes, Ma'am!" Pearl answered the Agate, keeping her joy hidden. She had done it! She had passed the test and she was now able to go on a mission and truly prove herself once again! Not to mention that she was the first to get the mission...that had to say something about how well she did, right? The Agate gave other Moonstones their missions, while the rest, those who were left alone were sent back into training. Once they were dismissed and told to report to their mission leaders, Pearl obeyed. But as she marched, she couldn't help but discreetly smile to herself. Imagine how the Diamonds and the others would react if they heard that a simple Pearl had passed the test! They probably would shatter out of disbelief! ...Ok, that was a bit of an over exaggeration. But still, Pearl was proud of herself and she was motivated to keep on proving to herself that she is capable. That she is strong and intelligent. That she can do anything that she put her mind to.

Hope was going strong within her heart. But she knew better than to get careless. She would only be able to go on the mission, if everyone thought that she was a Moonstone, and not a Pearl.

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Anything extra you'd like to add: As much as she would like to experience fusion someday, she is very wary of Fusing with other gems, because fusing might give away that she is not a Moonstone, but a Pearl. So chances of her fusing with another gem is very slim.

[Majoraa]

Pyrite

Gem:

Pyrite

Nickname:

Goldie

Appearance:

Powers:

Clone-shift II-

Unlike the other gems, rebel or not, pyrite can perfectly shapeshift into an exact clone of another gem, voice and all. Right now she has to figure out how to hold it in longer and hide her gem..

Pyrokinesis I-

Pyrite can manipulate fire to assist in combat, can right now only use this power to shield herself and be paired with her third power, Dragon's rage.

Dragon's Rage I-

A last resort sort of power, pyrite channels her rage and every strength left in her body to deal a devastating blow to the enemy, right now this ability can only leave an enemy heavly damaged. Can be paired with her Pyrokinesis power.

Items:

A Pirate Cutlass-Summoned
A Gautlet (Pressumed to come from a set of armor)-Equipment

Backstory:

Pyrite was an oddity coming out of kindergarden, being that she wasnt classified in the existing roles of the other homeworld gems. So a gem from each group tried to train her and see what role she has, but only two out of the many were sucessful. Pyrite was good at figuring out how gem tech works, but exceled in swordmanship. Trying to train herself more for afew more years, she got assigned to missions with other gems as extra muscle and/or to assess the misson for success or failure and report back.

Pyrite, trying to practice her powers, was one day told to meet up with a chromite and other assigned gems for their misson. To check on a project called 'The Cluster'.

Writing example:

Anything extra you'd like to add:

Goldie has abit of a careless ego sometimes.

[DracoLunaris]

Howlite

Gem: Howlite

Name if your gem goes by a different name: Owl, Core

Appearance: She wears black helmet with an opaque visor which she uses to protect here 2 large light sensitive vision. It effectively has 5 cameras in it, that all dulled to a light level suitable for her 2 owlish eyes. The visor has 5 marks indicating the location of the cameras and they are synced up with her own eyes state, resulting in 5 expressive elliptical shapes on the visor. The visor can also display images instead of the eye marks to allow others to see data she has or emote in more absurd ways ([ ! ],[ ? ],[0_0]).

A collection of straps over her chest and back secure a metallic backpack which can extend 4 claw tipped limbs. At the front the straps link to a ringlike device around her gem which is located at the center of her chest. She wears a pair of white gloves, turquoise shorts and blue wee booties. Her skin is gray-white in color, her upper arms and lower legs are covered in random dark markings/patterns. Her pale blue hair features a braid that comes out of the back of her helmet. She is about the same a height as a ruby or limb enhancer-less peridot.

mspaint art

Powers:
Techno-Empathy II: She can link her mind with a device and ether operate it, read/write data at incredible speed or get an innate understanding of the device and what might be wrong with it. This only works through making contact with the device itself with her skin. The gloves stop her from interfacing with anything she touches and she can selectively activate link herself to devices using her additional limbs. This is done by making a wired connection from their extremities to her back.
Engineering II: capable of building and repairing gem tech level equipment so long as materials are available. This can be adapted to using earth tech if that is all which is available.

Items:

Weapon: Monkey wrench

BackPack: a small metal device on her back that features 4 extendable manipulator arms which end in 3 fingered claws. These are used either for climbing, transport or helping with work. The ending claws can mold themselves into variety of purposes that can be added to as needed. Currently these include welding torches, drills, circular saws, torches and light laser weapons. The arms can be combined to create larger versions of the end components or extend the limbs range(or sometimes both). Her Techno-Empathy works through these limbs if she wants it to.

Helmet: the visor on her helmet features 5 cameras that can provide ontop of normal darkened vision: thermal and night vision, flash suppression and a binocular function. The visor can also be used to display images or act like a flashlight. The helmet also contains a small computer and a bunch of memory for storing recordings and managing the camera/display systems.

These additional devices are practically a part of her due to being in constant contact with her skin.

Backstory: Howlites are a gem type created to work specifically with the ever increasing amount of homeworld automation. Their ability to interface with any piece of technology allows them to more easily diagnose problems with that device and then their engineering skills let them fix those problems. They can often be found on ships, either as pilots neurally plugged in pilots or as maintenance crews. This particular one is about 350 years old and currently acts as both for the vessel that has been sent to earth. She has experience in a lot of other postings over those 350 years as Howlites generally move around quite a lot, being sent wherever damage has or might occur. She is rather excited to have been trusted with her first job where she is the senior (and in this case only) Howlite working on a task.

Writing example: probably non canon

We see a forearm against a black background, crawling upon this arm are several small 8 legged things that a human might mistake for ticks or spiders. They might be rather disturbed that the owner of the arm had not tried to swat the intruders off of itself. The spiders appear to be clustered around a festering wound of some kind on the forearm of the limb, as if tearing into the flesh of a hapless victim.

As the scene pans in closure the odd coloring of the arm becomes more apparent and the spiders are shown to be 3 small humanoids with 4 extra metallic limbs extending from their backs with which they cling to the side of the ship. Accompanying them are a number of actual spidery looking machines all carrying boxes filled with various suplise. The 3 Howlites are diligently working on an area where some form of space debris has punched through the side of the ship while it was traveling through interstellar space near the former colony of earth. The team had just finished cooling of the site with foam, one shouts to the other two.

“We cooled it down enough on my side. I’m gonna investigate the obstruction”

A Howlite (that Steven might have) called busty, chesty, doc, papa smurf Core put her foam sprayer back on the cargo spider and then descended into the hole using her mechanical limbs, her visor lighting up the inside of the hole as she approached the foreign object. It appeared to have once consisted of a large dish of white material with a smaller metal part behind it that sported a bunch of stickin out antenna. Using a combination of sawing, melting and non regulation wrench smacking she began to remove the obstruction till she reached what appeared to be a storage compartment which gave her pause. It contained a bunch of gold plated disk that have instructions on how to read data of of them. While she really should dispose of them like the rest (they weren’t gem tech and where thus unimportant) she couldn’t help but wonder what was on them.

The instructions were easy to follow but needed air to transmit their sonic data, so she spent some time reading them all onto her helmet's internal memory. The results were fascinating, 90 minutes of pleasingly ordered sounds, images and sounds of an uncolonised world, what appeared to be 55 versions of the word hello and a description of the purpose of the disks. She had just begun analysing that last segment when the others grew confused by the lack of debris extraction and called down what was the trouble.

“What is taking so long”

Core excitedly ascended to the surface again now with the disks and handed them to them to (someone steven might call) Brains who was the eldest and incharge of the other two.

“So I was digging around and I found...”

She stopped as she saw Brains chucking the disks off into space after the rest of the obstructions material. The third Howlite, Cheek, was similarly uninterested in the odd devices and was rolling her eyes at core. Quite an impressive performance, as the marks indicating the location of her optics did a 360 spin while being rolled to indicate just how idiotic Cheek though Core was for doing this.

“Why did you” “I know you're new but you can't stop working just because you see something shiny, get back to it newborn” “But” “now!” “Yes. Of course. On it.”

The rest of the repairs went as standard, the obstruction was removed, wiring was resoldered/replaced and the hull sealed shut with new materials retrieved from the cargo spiders. It was as routine as ever but made slightly more interesting for Core by the soft rhythmic sounds she had read from the disks.

[MechonRaptor]

Ivory

Gem: Ivory

Name if your gem goes by a different name: Ivy

Appearance:

-I also have other outfits ready for when she ultimately poofs!

Powers:

Psammokinesis

Psammokinesis: Psammokinesis, as shown in the picture, is the ability to control sand and is a crucial part of Ivory’s being. Further explained below.
- Alone, she can generate enough sand from her gemstone to create a weapon of her choice, though this is more often than not a single crescent sword. Or, if she chooses, the sand is used to create tools that she can use to fix various Homeworld tech, being more effective in this manner than with regular tools that Homeworld has created.

- Often, she can also use the sand as a means of transportation, enveloping her feet with the sand and simply directing it around instead of having to walk. Though, she doesn't really remember this.

-When in the presence of sandy areas, such as a beach or desert, things can get hectic. She has a decent control over sand, similar to Lapis, but not as strong as Lapis as she cannot drastically shift around the sand such as Lapis did with her water, along with creating clones and being relatively unstressed. More often than not, she’ll instead create temporary cover from attacks with the sand in these locations, or simply use them as a faster means of transportation by carrying her around. Or, she would simply create sand weapons or tools that are more intricate for herself to use. All of these creations, however, are just temporary solutions, as they will eventually collapse back down and resettle.

Items: More often than not, Ivory will attempt to create a surprisingly sturdy sword made of sand, however, she can change the weapon or tool so long as it isn’t extremely complex or long, as she requires more sand the more she wishes to add. So, she can create things like compact gauntlets, or substitute her sword for daggers, maybe a hammer or screwdriver, but since she isn’t used to such a concept nor has she tried, it’s out of the question.

Backstory: Ivory’s are created as one of homeworld’s pathfinders, meant to scout potential gem-worthy planets and see if the planet is a suitable gem colony location, along with being navigators in space and simple engineers. This makes them adept at exploring worlds and explaining various aspects that a planet can have, and more importantly, how or if it can be important to homeworld. This particular Ivory was chosen to help assist the group by finding a suitable location to land safely to check on the cluster, and if trouble were to occur to fix it. And while she has little to no real combat experience, she is more than eager to try and prove herself like Ivory’s before her.

Writing example:

Today was the day… Oh boy, today was the day. A sole Ivory gem had begun the long walk, or at least she felt it that way, from her current station towards the ship that would be departing for Earth soon. And, she was going to be on it! It was like a dream come true for her. Exploring new worlds was what an Ivory was made for, and while this one, or at least in the reports she read, wasn't particularly new, it was in terms of recent knowledge and she would get to see it firsthand. It was going to be an adventure, at least if the gems in charge would let her have one that is. In fact, she wasn't really sure who would be involved in this mission to check on the cluster, and all she knew was that they'd be useful in locating it, herself included. And, while that was somewhat scary, it was that tense feeling, that fear of failure, that made this entire situation memorable for her.

Lost in thoughts, Ivory had not been paying attention when she ran into one of the doors on her station, causing her to jolt backward from surprise, only to facepalm moments afterward at her own lack of awareness. "Shake it off Ivy... You got this, you'll be fine." She told herself, taking a couple moments to regain her composure as she opened the door, revealing an elevator esque design that would take her to the docking bay. As the door closed behind her, Ivy stared off into the beautiful abyss that was gem space, taking notes on the station design that she had seen a thousand times in her head. She definitely wanted to compare whatever Earth had with what Homeworld had, that was for sure.

And, in these moments, it let her look at her notes one last time of Earth. There wasn't much, really. This station had a lot of new gems on it, and those that had existed in Era 1 never really talked about Earth, or dared to for that matter. And those that did didn't have much to say except that it was an awful place, with awful things and awful actions... The only thing they ever agreed on, she learned, was that one of the Diamonds, one that existed before she existed, was shattered there on her own colony. Ivory was certain that, if maybe they had sent an Ivory to investigate the planet and solve issues, this wouldn't have happened. But, she supposed that was why she was being sent now, right? To keep the spirits up and stay positive, to remind them that the diamonds are counting on them, and to get some firsthand experience out on a foreign planet. Who knows, Ivory thought, maybe she'd get to explore an extremely new planet if she did well here! Ah, the thought just made her happy with anticipation to get praise. And if things went south, she was basically made to fix problems anyway so they'd be fine.

It didn't take her long to be snapped back into reality when the door opened in front of her, making a loud ding sound as it did so. Taking several deep breaths before exiting the elevator, she strode off to her destination, looking up at the gem who had been guarding the ship... It was most likely an amethyst or something, she didn't really know. Creating a diamond with her arms, as per custom, the seriousness faded from her face as she gave a confident smile at them instead.

"Ivory, reporting for duty. This... this is the right ship, isn't it?"

Anything extra you'd like to add: The diamond she was made to serve was White Diamond.

[Archmage MC]

Marry

Gem: Moldsvite

Name if your gem goes by a different name: Marry

Appearance:

Picture

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

Powers:
Space-Time Manipulation [Rank 4]: Marry can manipulate various parts of space-time, although only on a small scale.

Powers

Portals:

• Marry is able to create portals along her sight lines, joining two points of space. There can only be 2 portals open at a time.
• Portals literally link two points in space, and preserve any forces of objects that go through them.
• Portals are unaffected by things going through them and an unlimited amount of things can go through a portal pair.
• A portal without a twin does nothing but look like a flat screen of light.
• Portals can be created by firing extremely fast moving balls of light, placed on the front side of the Tower shield, or by touching an object.
• Objects that are formed by touching an object can have a portal placed on the other side of the object, even if that is not in Marry's sight lines.
• Portals formed from the balls of light can be opened in mid air or are automatically opened if they hit a solid non liquid surface. These balls can go through other portals with no issue.
• Portals on a surface will move with that surface. If a portal on a surface has its surface destroyed, the portal closes.
• Portals on surfaces remain open as long as Marry wants them to be, and Marry can close them at will even if she can't see them.
• Portals opened in the air will close after a short period of time, Marry can close these ones prematurely as well.
• Portals opened on or in a liquid count as if they were opened in the air.
• Portal edges are clearly defined, and take on the solidity of what they're placed on. Caution must be taken with a set of portals in the air, as they have no solid edge to catch you.
• Living objects will be forcibly ejected if a portal closes on them or a portal location changes, often at high speeds. Non living objects will be cut in half.

Teleportation: Marry can teleport herself a short distance along her sight lines regardless of portal locations or availability.

Levitation: Marry is unaffected by moderate gravity and can float freely in the air. She isn't very fast though.

Items: Tower Shield, Staff (Other weapon)

Backstory: Moldsvite, or Marry as she prefers to be called (Mostly because Moldy sounds icky) is a gem formed from a super dense meteorite. Due to her extremely high levels of intelligence, Marry was given a role as a scientist. A new type of gem, Marry was sent on an expedition team with a few other newborn gems to see how useful this new gem type could be to the Diamonds.

Writing example: Earth was a really interesting place. Wheverever you looked, there was evoltuion and change happening! Always more to learn, and humans learned quickly and adapted quickly. Even so, much like Homeworld, there was an air of dread around some of the bigger city centers for some reason. This thought didn't last too long, as Marry found a nice warehouse. "Oooh, new things!" She said, excited that this one was much bigger than the last one she visited. One thing about being on Earth, lots of abandoned places to search, humans weren't very optimal about space.

Digging through the various boxes in the warehouse, Marry found a few things that interested her. Sure most of them were either old electronics or plush dolls, but then anything could be used for some kind of experiment! Shame there weren't any books or anything. The library only had so many things for her to use and the internet, while nice, was sometimes wrong or didn't have any info about stuff she'd be interested in.

While there was lots of neat things to experiment with, she was there to get materials for the rest of the group. Placing what she could in a large crate, she opened a portal on a nearby wall to come pick it up later. Though considering how big and metal the crate was, Chromite would probably have to pick it up for her. Pleased with her haul, she glided out of the warehouse skylight and made her way to where her friends were waiting.

Maybe after repurposing this human tech, the misfit group of gems could find something like a gem temple or structure.

Anything extra you'd like to add: Just be careful, she might get a little Aperture Science sometimes.

[Spinna]

Gem: Chromite

Name if your gem goes by a different name: N/A

Appearance: Chromite stands at around 5'10, with a build and physical appearance similar to Tanith from Fire Emblem, but with gray skin and hair. Chromite is generally covered head-to-toe in armor similar to a knight's. Her gem is located on her right shoulder blade.

Powers:

Strength: I. Chromite isn't excessively strong, but she is a combat gem and can get the job done.

Defense: II. Chromite is primarily a defensive gem. Her armor and gem item can absorb significant amounts of damage, and she knows how to use both.

Combat Training: I. Chromite has received standard training as a gem soldier.

Items: A large, Spartan-style shield, her gem item. A long, thin lance. Her armor.

Backstory: Chromite's existence has mostly been a boring affair up to this point. Like all Chromites she was created to be a frontline defender but has rarely seen true combat, and has mostly only worked security jobs on various planets conquered by Homeworld. She was chosen, of course, to serve in a defensive capacity to her group.

Writing example: A not necessarily canon story about Chromite:

"Chromite reporting." The young gem stood at attention, straight as an arrow before her superior. After a few decades of training and two centuries working security jobs, Chromite had been stationed on the Earth to help fight the growing rebellion. Her nervousness was so palpable you'd practically get lightheaded just standing next to her.

The older chromite didn't rest on ceremony, she didn't even bother with so much as an "at ease." Hardened as she was, she'd suffered more than a few headaches since the war began, and she wasn't interested in wasting time or words. She looked her new soldier in the eye, her gaze like a corpse's: unreadable. "You won't be with us long. Fall in with the rest of them, chromite." If she weren't a gem, Chromite would be sweating. "YES, MA'AM!" she belts.

Chromite falls in with her squad. In spite of being the same type of gem, she doesn't blend in particularly well. She stands among other chromites in the ancient forest where they were instructed to meet up. The group includes several chromites of various colors and gem placements, those being bicep, eye, hand, and stomach, in addition to the commander's who had hers on her head.

The chromites head towards their "base," a small area where the trees and plantlife are especially thick, thereby providing cover and preventing their words from traveling very far. As they make their way there, a brown mass becomes visible not too far in the distance. The older chromites immediately raise their shields as a bear moves towards them. Chromite, caught off guard by this non-gem opponent, imitates the rest of her group only a second too late. The bear is on top of her just before she can bring her shield up. Even with her strength, Chromite has immense difficulty against the overwhelming force of the bear. She manages to keep it's mouth away from her face, but is repeatedly grazed by its claws. The squad leader puts her hand up as the other chromites lower their shields and prepare to help, allowing this to continue for a full minute. Finally, she draws the shortsword from the sheath at her hip and takes care of the animal, rolling its body off of Chromite as she does.

Chromite bolts up as soon as she overcomes the shock of the event. "I'm sor-" "Stop." The leader kneels down before Chromite has a chance to stand up, giving her yet another glare of death. "Listen up. Don't apologize- and no, this isn't a stupid 'Don't apologize, do better" lecture because right now you'd only fail at that too. What I want you to do is understand that being hard on you is the best thing I can do for you at this point. So I don't want your apology. A 'thank you' is what I just worked hard to earn." "T-thank y-" "Thank you's are cheap! You were so wound up that if that had been a group of Crystal Gems instead of some mindless Earth creature, you'd be dead, and all the time we spent reaching you would have been a complete waste! I trust that's over now."

Chromite had no idea how she was supposed to respond. She thought for a moment and realized that, as traumatic as that situation had been, she was quite lucid now, like the worst was already over. Gone was the constantly nagging fear that she'd do something wrong, or that she wasn't good enough, she'd already come face-to-face with the knowledge that she wasn't. "Yes, ma'am." she said calmly. "I'm glad we understand each other, see that it doesn't happen again." The older chromite stood up and joined the rest of the group. The chromite whose gem was located on her stomach gave Chromite her hand and dusted her off as she got up.

"Hey, I don't think the Paladin wants you doing that." the bicep chromite called. "It's fine." the leader responded. "Let her have someone to get her emotions on, spares us from having to deal with it. If she hasn't grown out of it by now, she never will."

Anything extra you'd like to add: N/A, at least for now.

[rocketrobie2]

CS

Gem: Chryosparse

Name if your gem goes by a different name: Sparse

Powers:
(II)Strength: Sparse is a lot stronger than they look, being on par with the likes of Jaspers and Amethysts.

(I)Endurance: While not very excessive, Sparse’s endurance is slightly better than most gems.

(I)Spin Attack: Much like most Quartzs, Chryosparse can curl her body up into a ball and ram into enemies at great speeds. NOTE: As of the beginning of the RP Sparse won’t have this power but will later develop it as she goes on.

Items:

G.A.D.

The Gem Analysis Device allows the gem wearing it to analyze any gem within half a kilometer via conscious thought (it won’t just scan anyone willy nilly). The device is mounted on the side of a gem’s head and displays a holographic readout of what their looking at. The colour of the the holographic display changes to that of it’s wearer.

, Gladiatorial Scissor

Backstory: Sparse was an unwanted, but not unwelcome, creation in her experimental Kindergarten of X-21-12-08. Scientist there were attempting to create stronger soldiers for their army via the Quartz line of gems. This experimentation resulted in numerous failures often times simply creating ‘dud’ gems or already known gems such as Jaspers or Rose Quartzs. Sparse was one of these mundane mistakes. Chryosparse weren’t regularly made due to their history of ‘not getting much bang for your buck’ so to speak. They require more resources than most Jaspers but are about on par with them in terms of combat capabilities (not to mention their diminished height), making them a waste to create. After being created Sparse was assigned to various odd jobs around the Homeworld colonies until their first major assignment fifty years later. Sparse was to be accompanying a group of gems to check on the Cluster, a Homeworld super weapon, as a bit of extra muscle should they need it.

Writing example: A brief sample of your character doing a thing, to give an insight on both your style as well as how your characters acts and reacts. 3-5 paragraphs preferable. Can be as a drabble or an RP.

Anything extra you'd like to add:

[Universal5710]

Gem: Paraiba Tourmaline

Name if your gem goes by a different name: PT or Peetee

Apperance

Powers:
Telepathy II. Paraiba Tourmaline is able to form connections with other sentient beings allowing them to communicate with each other without the need for any specialized equipment or vocal conversation. Any being in a connection with Tourmaline will either be fully aware of the link or feel a looming presence hanging over them for the duration. A link can only be established to those she can visibly see and any unaware connections will be broken once line of sight is lost. Also, anyone aware of the connection or aware of the looming presence can resist and end the connection if they wish. She can connect up to 6 other beings with anything further requiring her to enter a meditative state.

Telekinesis II. More of an offshoot of the telepathic abilities that come with all Paraiba Tourmalines, she is able to use her own will to manipulate objects in the immediate vicinity of herself. She can only levitate solid objects excluding herself and any break in concentration will cause what she is holding to plummet to the ground. The force can carrying a decent amount of weight but a person can break free if they resist hard enough. The more objects being controlled, the more strain is placed on the user letting them manipulate 5 objects at a time without exhausting themselves.

Items: Ball and chain, gem item.

Backstory:
Paraiba Tourmalines are created to serve as scribes and communications officers maintaining a massive archive of key information that has been gathered by homeworld over a countless number of years. Paraiba Tourmalines are often the most up to date when it comes to home world's most recent activities, thus some higher ranking gems have found value on granting them telepathic abilities in cases where typical communication methods were less than optimal. The age, experience, and circumstances determine how much each Paraiba Tourmaline is allowed to access, with the young often being viewed as inexperienced and unreliable within this group of gems. Since PT is a young gemling, there is quite a great deal she needs to achieve in order to earn the recognition of her fellow Paraiba Tourmalines and her superiors. Though not meant for hands on experiences, her first assignment is to aid a group of gems investigating something known as “The Cluster” and retrieving as much information as possible to be returned to homeworld. There may be very little data regarding this strange place known as ‘Earth’, but PT will do her best to make sure this mission is successful.

Writing Example

“What?...wait...this can't possibly be right…” The gemling muttered as she continued to furiously search through the archive for anything relating to a project referred to as “The Cluster”. Thousands of research projects, military reports, and transmissions flew across her screen, but not a single one related to the focus of her next mission. The best she could retrieve was documents describing the natives of the planet as well as some of their strange customs and rituals. They proved interesting enough for a brief reading, but this was the worst time for her to be distracted by such useless information.

“How can I be of any help if I can't provide any useful information to my team? They probably just dumped me on here cause I’m still so young...” An expression of disappointment and irritation came onto the green gems face as she tried in vain to probe deeper into the archive. She was always meet with the same response as before: a variety of messages reminding her that the level of access was far too low granting her only a few hundred years into the past at best.

The gem looked on the verge of either giving up or throwing her console into the nearest wall until she ripped her hands from the machine crossing them in her lap and hanging her head low looking straight into the ground. One of her many superiors came walking through the hall with one of the more recently promoted Paraiba Tourmalines a few paces behind her. She assumed her superior was returning her fellow Tourmaline to the archive as it was common once their constant stream of information was no longer necessary, but PT would never dare ask this in person.

Judging from the look of disgust upon her superiors face, PT assumed the topic of their private conversation shifted to herself as they both stared for a few seconds without muttering a single word to acknowledge her presence before walking on. She would have felt terrible from all the tension in the air had it not been for her fellow Tourmaline making a slight waving motion towards her while trying to remain in character in front of their boss. The two had been initiates for quite some time together, and PT couldn't help but feel happy her friend had finally been accepted into the core group within the archive.

The young gem spent the few moments she was disconnected from her console wondering why gems in the hierarchy often had such disdain for each other. The Paraiba Tourmalines used this ranking system as a means to determine the overall experience a gem yet others used it to determine general worth. She had encountered some of the elder tourmaline casually talking to superiors about myths from the past while others wouldn't dare whisper in the same scenario. Once the two had passed by her station, PT remembered she had a objective to achieve and resumed her futile search on this strange planet known as “Earth”.

Anything extra you'd like to add:

[The1Rolling1Boy]

Larimar

Gem:

Larimar

"I'm a Larimar, What type of gem are you new friend?"

Name if your gem goes by a different name:
Bubbles
"Hi! Everyone calls me Bubbles! I don't know why.... me oh well I guess"

Appearance:

Larimar

"I am not the best looking gem. But I am proud of my appearance"

Powers:
Bubble Manipulation(Active): User can create, shape and manipulate bubbles.
Thought Bubble Constructs(Passive): User can use their own thought bubbles in a real, tangible situation. They could be used like balloons for transportation, generating platforms, comfort and various other uses.
Enhanced Speed(Unknown): User has the ability to ran faster then the average speed of their species and if strong enough can temporary slow time due to how fast they are movie but this would have side effects on the user, for example, distorting their appearance slightly or paralysing certain actions

Items:
An Axe, like the one in the picture. And an eyesight enhancer has well to help see smaller details in objects.
"What this silly thing? It's nothing that great"

Backstory:
Larimars are formed to be like messengers or scouts, many pretty hard to come by since they have such a picky genetic makeup so they are most of the time given to noble warlords like gems for them to send them out to planets to find and receive information on topics like vegetation, other life forms, and geography. This Larimar has only done very few scouting jobs and is under the care of a Blue Quartz who is a defective Quartz soldier.

He doesn't know much his Blue Quartz but she is very pretty and pretty mean to him a lot but does show him kindness sometimes whenever he does all of his jobs currently for that day, and when she first got home she was a new noble gem and he got the sit on her lap as she talked to him and answered questions about everything. At the time she wore a really pretty flowing icy blue dress that has a diagonal cut going from the mid thigh to the ground. He would actually try to talk to her normally about normal things like how his eyesight teacher would bug out sometimes when he is near the peridots while they are working.

Writing example:
Larimar calmly walks around the halls of the ship trying to get to the pilot's quarters to speak with them about an update that has appeared in the DNA result from a lab test on a rock fragment though he does and up slipping a few times due to the little amount of traction that he as under his feet. "PERMISSION TO SPEAK SIR!" he yells really loudly has he bursts through the door breathing heavily.

He slowly raises his head and salutes his higher ranking gems. "I have news on the umm latest samples from the Lapis Lazuli dispatch who came back from their latest terraforming exhibition pretty beat up by same of the preexisting lifeforms that you already know of and they have brought back data stating that are capabilities to form at least a minimum of kindergartens sadly with unpredictable outcomes on the gems that would be formed. Most likely if we do go down that route there will be a good number of defective gems." He then closes his eyes preparing to be yelled which he did this time for stepping out of time and barging into a conference meeting with nobles from a diamond.

Larimar sighs as he stands out in the hall after he got yelled at before slowly walking to his courtiers to get some rest and to wait for his next "mission" or whatever. At this point, he could care less about people randomly calling him Bubbles he could turn his thoughts into platforms. Has he was walking one of the thoughts actually turned into a platform and he walks into it face first. Larimar sighs and climbs over it before continuing down the halls on the ship, the floor tiles lighting up when he steps on it. "I guess the Peridots finally got the new floor tiles to work... they are kinda cool I guess," he says to myself before sighing and pushing the button to go into his room wich was about the size of a closet and filled with random plant life and a little creek flowing through it and he had a hammock hanging from the ceiling that he installed him self-using random stuff he finds while scouting planets.

Anything extra you'd like to add:
-Though it's not traditional he does like to zone out of the physical realm into a realm of mystery and has the ability to do whatever and think of whatever freely and somehow when he comes to he feels refreshed

Hydro

Enhydro Agate

Other Name

Hydro

Appearance

^^Before Corruption, but replace the stars with diamonds^^

After corruption, their eyes became a solid navy blue colour which fades into a lighter shade has you go towards where the iris would be. Their Gem placement is on the upper back part of their neck in an eye shape format vertically.

Powers

-Water Absorption: The user can absorb water in all its forms from the atmosphere, bodies of water or living creatures, while removing it from the source, into their body and use it in various ways, gaining some form of advantage, either by enhancing themselves, gaining the drained power, using it as power source etc., either temporarily or permanently.
-Hydroboration: The user can teleport via water, merging into a body of water of any size and appearing anywhere else from the same element.
-Summoning: The user can transport person, creature, or object of choice by means of Teleportation, Dimensional Travel, Portal Creation or some other way. This may also result from a previous summoning contract, which creates a connection between the summon and summoner, but for Hydro he must he his brush like a wand to summon things.

Items

- A large paint brush with black and dark brown pointed bristles and a thick wooden handle the tapers down into the rounded end.

Backstory

Disclaimer: This will be told in first person story mode.

Everything was black. Practically nothing, but then there was something, there was me, bursting out of this ocean floor only the sit there for a bit until someone else came along with this bright light and pulled me out from the hole from where I formed from. I was emotionless, I was nothing but a newly formed Enhydro Agate. Once they pulled be to the surface from the ocean I was formed in I looked up at the sky in curiosity since it was in a reddish purple hue and the large white star was right above my head. The gem who was in a yellowish tone and who was the one that carried me to the surface seemed to be angry yet they were gentle while they had carried me. I didn't say anything to this gem, of course, I just sat on the platform that they placed me on gas they discussed something with another gem, their voices were hushed as if trying to hide something. One of their voices were static and broken up while the other's were more pronounced and had a harsh tone to it.

I, on the other hand, stayed quiet staring down at my feet has a large mass slinked through the water before seeming to burst out of the water and spiral in the air, it scales shining in the starlight and it's tail whipped around. It looked at me for a split second before colliding with the water surface causing a large splash. The platform then grew a large bubble around it shielding it from the splash before the bubble hardened at the platform I was sitting on apparently began moving.

I turned around to look at the pilot curiously still not saying a word to the other gem. I looked them up and down noticing a zig-zag shape on their back. They seemed to have styled their hair in twin buns that were slightly triangular shaped like two rounded cones on their head.

I watched them stir the ship unable to see my surroundings through the small clear area that was in front of the piloting gem. I slowly got up and moved towards the gem has something had hit the bottom of the platform ship and grabbed onto it, it's sharp breath poked holes into the ship causing water to rush in. I was on the ground again this time on my hands and knees

The ship rumbled before a large beeping and wheezing sound came from the ship only to find the yellow zig-zag gemstone on the ground and a large whole in the haul of the shield around the platform with a large pointing rock inside.

I stayed where I was just staring at it emotionlessly and confused. I gathered the strength to crawl over to the zig zag gemstone find out that it had cracks at all corners almost completely through it. I lead against the control panel wall holding onto the cracked broken zig zag gemstone not knowing who they were or if they were any importance to me what so ever. So, I just sat there holding onto it listening to everything going on around me emotionlessly.

"Emotionless," The one word they could muster out of their throat into their mouth and slip past their lips and into the cold dry air has the temperature around them slowly dropped, and large sharp ice crystal formed from the ceiling. I sat there watching it happen while holding onto that zig-zag gemstone not letting it go has I slowly closed my eyes blacking out completely has they went into hibernation for 200 years.

When I came to there were small fish inside the ship and lots of aquatic flora growing everywhere and the small fish just swam around and through it happily. I slowly got up disturbing another lifeform to wake up from its slumber who seemed to be a much smaller version of the first lifeform I saw on this planet. I slowly swam to the surface of the water out of the platform ship with the zig-zag gem now tucked away in a pocket for safe keeping. I looked around for a bit before deciding to try and climb up onto the large rock formation that the platform ship crashed into, once at the top, I looked out over the large immense mass of water which seemed to be what this planet was primarily made up of.

I watched as the white star sank into the ocean sending flashes of green and blue into the sky before it slowly became nighttime and the oceans lit up in brilliant bioluminescent colours which seemed to ripple through the whole ocean. The sky now was a deep dark shade of red of red with thousands and millions of pin picks which were other stars and planets. While I stared up at the night sky a saw another planet come into view, I could visibly see the swirls of gases move across its surface and see small flashes of light that I can only assume were small explosions caused by colliding material in those swirls of gases and what not.

Writing Example

Enhydro Agate closes their eyes as they take their hands off of the ship controls preparing their self for a crash landing into the planet's ocean. They brace them self for impact by taking a deep breath in and crossed their forearms over their eyes. The small round blue-ish ship crashed into the water causing a huge splash before bobbing with the water a bit and sinking to the bottom of the ocean with our gem still inside poofed away from their physical existence.

EnHydro Agate slowly reforms on a rocky beach his appearance now different from before. He growls before softly sighing as they look around the planet then look back at the ship they stole thinking if they should stay or not. They lean against the ship and slides down it before closing their eyes feeling the warmth of the yellow star beat down on them while trying to think straight after all that had just happened. They groan softly before getting up and walking over to a nearby abandoned building that was built into the structure of a cave like formation. They look around a bit before slowly creaking open the door and pokes his head in and looks around the inside a bit before walking back out.

Enhydro Agate sits down on one of the rocks and stares out in the ocean watching the waves hit to rocks causing the salty water to spray onto them. They lay back on the rock feel the warm sunshine hit their skin. They lay there for a while before getting up and walking back over to the old house and looks up at it from ground level. "Well if I'm gonna stay. I guess I should fix this place up a bit," He says has he forms his paintbrush and begins to summon pieces and objects to help him fix the house.

It took him 5 years to hook up the wiring and place everything in the correct place to the point that he had his own base completely compatible with gem tech and the human tech, which they ended up getting from the neighbouring town. Though through this period of time they slowly became more and more corrupted due to the lack of positive interaction with other gems and the foul memories that were imprinted on them at the beginning of their creation.

Other

-Semi-corrupted, this means that a part of them is gone but they still have control over their self and can act freely and accordingly to their own wants and needs but if they are to interact with gems and cause negative memories and feeling to back they can loose control of themselves before going full corrupted
-If you were to look this gem up in the database you would find only find one of them. If you were to try to go into their file you would find nothing but a keypad asking for a code so you could see what was left of his information.
-he works with the humans in the nearby city helping them with simple things like fixing their electricity after a bad storm and helping to plan and build new buildings

[Loony]

Since Calomel's become their toast

How many patients have they lost-

How many thousands do they kill,

Or poison with their

Calomel?

Other names

[REDACTED BY THE DIAMOND AUTHORITIES]

Appearance

Abilities

[REDACTED BY THE DIAMOND AUTHORITIES]

Items

- Twin pistols with a distinctive steam-punk feel, her summoned weapons.
- Stiletto daggers, created by [REDACTED BY THE DIAMOND AUTHORITIES] back when [REDACTED BY THE DIAMOND AUTHORITIES] was still part of [REDACTED BY THE DIAMOND AUTHORITIES]
- [REDACTED BY THE DIAMOND AUTHORITIES]

History

[REDACTED BY THE DIAMOND AUTHORITIES]

INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS AND UNSTABLE GEM.

DO NOT ENGAGE.

HIGH PAYMENT FOR CAPTURE UNSHATTERED.

Writing Example

The days blended together.

There was so little in her room - white walls, white ceiling, white bars, white gloves, white shackles, white shards, white white white white, picking and prodding and muttering among each other beyond her walls, as if she couldn't hear anything. None of it made much sense - something about successful samples and defective gems. Some voices she recognized as old friends. Or were they old foes? Was there a difference at this point?

She shook her head, not allowing her thoughts to wander. They weren't watching her. Take a breath. Focus. Aim.
She was wasting precious moments free from supervision. Who knew how long until she got a chance like this again?

A spark of hope was re-lit - tentatively, she moved the hands she couldn't see, enough to test her binds, but not enough to make too much noise.

Still tight as ever.

She silently cursed the diamonds, frown deepening and heels digging into the floor. Nothing in the room would help her, even if she could reach them. She was ready to scream of frustration, the only thing holding her back was that there really was a way out, instead only having it come out as a silent hiss.

And then it hit her like a brick.

Choked, delirious giggled bubbled within her as she pressed her sweaty palms closer to the cuffs, wincing as it dug into her skin, desperation giving her the strength she thought she lost all too long ago.

Maybe, just maybe, the very thing that got her in this mess, could get her out of it.

Additional info

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Rose Rock

Name

He's cycled through many in his long years. His most common was simply 'Rose Rock'. A few early peers knew him simply as Rose. One particular gem called him 'Rocky', much to his displeasure. In the battle, during these times, he favoured the name Barite, likely to distance himself from the loss of two other Roses he knew, a fallen ally and a traitorous leader. Long retired from his past days of battle, he now works as a scientist and engineer for Homeworld - a technical officer. It is this title, 'Officer', that he prefers nowadays, though you might hear a few souls refer to him otherwise. He is quick to hush them.

Appearance of The Sad Scientist (ft. his angry little gremlin aide)

Rose Rock towers at about a good 6'6 feet, tall and sturdy, but with a certain elegance to him. He almost always seems tired, and indeed, he is. Buried under the cuff of his left sleeve is a watch-like device he developed himself, built around his gem.

Powers

Chronoprohiberis(III) - The ability to stop time. In his case, he can move freely during this time, and so can anyone who makes direct physical contact with him. The main limitation is that he cannot freeze time whenever he wants - though he can freeze it as long as he wishes, it takes twice the amount of time that would've been used up until he can utilize it again. Every 10 steps adds a minute to recharge time. (Eg; if he stops time for 5 minutes, once unfrozen, it'll take 10 minutes for him to be able to re-use it. If he stops time for 2 minutes, but takes 30 steps, it'll still take 10 minutes for him to be able to re-use it.)

Somnipathy(III) - The ability to alter dreamscapes and enter those of others. He is able to dream lucidly and enter the dreams of others, as well as manipulate those dreams. He cannot physically harm anyone outside of their waking self like some of the more advanced users, nor is he able to access this while not asleep himself.

Abacomancy(I) - The ability to utilize clairvoyance, divination, and retrocognition, through the use of sand or other particles as a medium. The main drawback here is that it is something that is deliberate and must be prepared, rather than something he can easily call upon. The other is that he is unable to utilize divination.

Flash Precognition(I) - The ability to see things shortly (within minutes or seconds) of them happening. This is not a voluntary ability, and there's no controlling when or if it is triggered. It seems to have dulled from back in his battling days, likely because that was when it was of most use to him.

Items

Poleaxe - Rust red poleaxe. Summoned.

Wrist Watcher - Technological device that serves many functions. The three most prominent of which being, 1) a time-telling device, once that accounts for the oddities of time across space and the time that would have been relapsed when utilizing his chronoprohiberis, 2) a device that monitors various people, products, things and machines, and 3) slight protection to his gem. Self-developed.

Backstory

Good luck getting it out of him. There are three things that are common knowledge:

-He's been around since pretty much forever, and is well trusted among homeworld's superiors. So much so that his apprentice, Blue Zircon, who was once a traitor to Homeworld, was given a rare second chance when Rose Rock vouched for her, and promised to pay for any consequences.

-He hadn't always been a scientist, and spent a good deal of time in front lines, including against Earth's rebellion. Apparently he refused to take up a higher position in battle than a foot soldier.

-He has, however, spent most of his life within labs, and focuses on gem alterations, repurposing, and advancement, whether that be via physical engineering or technological devices. He is one of the scientists responsible for the creation of limb enhancers.

Writing example

TBA (need to write w/ Nous)

The roles of Sand Roses (Calcite rosettes, desert roses, rose rocks, etc):

Sand Roses are seen and spoken highly of among Homeworld's ranks. This is due to the unusual circumstances of formation as well as their rarity, especially in the cases of non-selenite/gypsum based specimens. Though their kind form from undeveloped gem shards and can thus be considered 'recycled' or 'by-products', even if rare, they are valued nonetheless. Part of that value is in their uniqueness.

Though Sand Roses don't change or grow like humans do, their formations are very much one of an individual, with different variations in compounds, unlike most gems. Meaning that they tend to vary in power and skill. Each new Sand Rose offers new possibility and discovery. And so you'll see Sand Roses in varying fields, even in places like Homeworld.

There is one field that is rare for them, however - the battlefield.

Their formations, especially younger formations, aren't exactly what you'd call the most durable. Not only are they prone to injury (cracks, chips, etc.), but they are also incredibly vulnerable to fluids, water being the worst offender. This fragility, along with their rarity and value, makes them a very rare sight on the battle field. Our Officer was one of those exceptions, as was his long-dead mentor. And it was only with a lack of of Quartz soldiers that they ended up on front lines for prolonged periods of time. Earth was supposed to help put a limit to exposing gems deemed 'hard to replace' in battle. Even if Rose Rock wanted to remain a soldier after the war, he probably wouldn't be allowed by the diamonds, being that, well, traitors or not, they got quuuiiiiite the number of Quartzes now, and a good bit of Rubies as well.

Crazy Lace Agate

Other names

Crazy Lace is the most common, though you may also hear the occasional Crazy, Lacey, or Laces.

Appearance

WIP

Abilities

Ribbon manipulation (IV) - Can summon, create, manipulate, control, and reshape ribbons for various uses. There is virtually no limit to this, much like Lapis's control over water. It should be noted, however, that this is limited to cloth based ribbons (so no metal, plastic, etc.)

Happiness Inducement (I) - Passive power that is always active. Being around Crazy Lace just tends to boost one's mood, regardless of their own opinion of her. It's not very strong, mind, but it can definitely sway a violent foe, or cheer up a friend feeling blue.

Laughter Affinity (I) - Passive power that is always active. Brings new meaning to the phrase, 'laughter's the best medicine'. Crazy Lace gains strength from laughter, so long as she is the one who induces the laughter.

Items

Ribbons. She summons ribbons from her gem, an unlimited amount of them, and of various qualities.

History

Like Snowflake, Crazy Lace was a fighter in the rebellion. A defective Quartz, quite the runt, though runty Crazy Laces aren't nearly as looked down upon as most Quartzes. This is due to their place in Homeworld's society.

Our Crazy Lace, however, was born during the rebellion, and never knew of Homeworld's unusual lack of dismissiveness towards runy Crazy Lace Agates. And due to isolation from homeworld, her powers grew more in what is normally their passive ability, ribbon creation (which grew into manipulation), rather than their emotional manipulation (for propaganda, which starts off as happiness inducement) and laughter affinity (for battle). Ribbons are typically just a medium, rather than their focus. She was born among the chaos of war, and as such, never grew into her role, or knew she needed one, under the care of Biggs Jasper, Bismuth, and Snowflake. She still is, at heart, an entertainer, though moreso a comedian and preformer who genuinely strives to spread laughter and cheer. With Snowflake, she stands guard by the warp pad she was made responsible for.

Writing Example

The role of Crazy Lace Agates

Like all Agates, Crazy Lace Agates terrify, but unlike most Agates, they, as entertainers and artists, do so subtly. Without people realizing it. Propagandists. Gems don't become terrified of Crazy Laces. They become terrified of others. They spread and implant fear rather than create it, through emotional manipulation. And as commanders, they use this fear, fuel their soldiers with promise of triumph and festivities to come, and celebrate the defeat of their self-created terror.

However, they can also be nothing short if terrifying in her own merry way if needed be.

Lodolite - WIP