Gem: Jet

Name if your gem goes by a different name: JJ or Jgem

Appearance:

Powers: Anything your gem can do that is beyond the ability of an average gem. This includes magical abilities such as Rose's healing tears and Lapis' aquakinesis, as well as innate abilities like Jasper's strength. You get four points to put into these abilities as you choose, and they are able to stack into a single skill. Lapis, for example, would probably have all four (or more) points in her ability to manipulate water under this system. Gems might not be able to improve with training like humans do, but you'll get more points as the game goes on and your gem learns to further unlock their potential.

Items: katars - summon

Backstory: What has your gem done up to this point? What is their job in this group? All of the gems present are supposed to be relatively young and this is one of their first missions, so try not to make them much older than around 500 years.

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.

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Gem: Pearl

Appearance:

Powers: Anything your gem can do that is beyond the ability of an average gem. This includes magical abilities such as Rose's healing tears and Lapis' aquakinesis, as well as innate abilities like Jasper's strength. You get four points to put into these abilities as you choose, and they are able to stack into a single skill. Lapis, for example, would probably have all four (or more) points in her ability to manipulate water under this system. Gems might not be able to improve with training like humans do, but you'll get more points as the game goes on and your gem learns to further unlock their potential.

Items: A weapon, tool, appendage, etc. that isn't a natural part of your gem. You get one summoned item (your gem item, eg; Rose's shield, Pearl's spear), and up to two non-summoned items, which can be created (eg; Rose's sword, Aquamarine's wand), or add-ons (Peridot's limb enhancers)

Backstory: What has your gem done up to this point? What is their job in this group? All of the gems present are supposed to be relatively young and this is one of their first missions, so try not to make them much older than around 500 years.

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:

“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”.

Gem: Bixbyite

Name if not gem: Bix (<- absolutely despised)

Appearance: Bixbyite is a mostly black monochrome gem, with scruffy hair and round glasses. She is incredibly small for a gem, yet very durable for her size. Her outfit is a rather simple grey color, with a button up shirt and pants. Other notable aspects in her design are the gloves and boots she wears. Her gem is on her left arm.

Powers: Quick healing abilities, mostly just for numbing pain, as she can’t heal actual injuries. Due to the small nature of her body, and the structure she has, she is very light on her feet, and is very alert. It’s hard to catch her off guard in general.

Backstory: [SLIGHTLY REDACTED] ... For the moment, at least. The basic information to know is that Bixbyite was a homeworld scientist, specifically skilled in studying and working with biology or ecosystems. She didn’t really pay much attention to her coworkers, and she has a hard time cooperating with others in general.
Items: Summoned – Unknown, Items on hand: Contact Device (Seems to link back to homeworld. Able to transfer data at any time.)

Writing Example:

The door slammed open, as the Bixbyite hastily walked in, clearly a bit irritated.

The gem could’ve sworn that she was supposed to be working on something else, but now she was given this new assignment. Mission, whatever you wanted to call it. This was getting a bit tiring, but honestly, she wasn’t allowed to disrespect the Diamonds, that would be absolutely preposterous in every way.

So, what was so interesting about this planet in particular? As she viewed the information noted, she was a bit surprised. There was a war? Interesting, though that space will need to be avoided. For the time being, at least. Who knows what was still there. At least until she gathered enough information to make a solid review on the ecosystem and particular weaknesses.

Well, that seems to be it. She closed the mission briefs, ready to get to work.

Earth, Hm? She did admit, she was interested in the planet itself. It seemed intriguing at the least, when it came to the inhabitants.

Though, she knew that it would eventually be taken over.

So, she didn’t really care too much.

Gem: Chryosprase

Name if your gem goes by a different name: Sparse

Appearance: A physical description or picture or your gem's body, their gem's placement, etc.

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:

Items: A weapon, tool, appendage, etc. that isn't a natural part of your gem. You get one summoned item (your gem item, eg; Rose's shield, Pearl's spear), and up to two non-summoned items, which can be created (eg; Rose's sword, Aquamarine's wand), or add-ons (Peridot's limb enhancers)

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. Chryosparses 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.

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It needed 2 more episodes, it got rushed at the end. Season end needed to be a 2 parter, and Jack/Ashi needed 1 more relationship building episode. Still good, but rushed.

I may have cried a lot over Ashi, but it was still awesome! We got to see more of Jack's friends! Am I the only one who remembers that the robots with the giant samurai robots died as well? And the Scotsman was hilarious and awesome during his brief moments under the spotlight.

The pacing felt very, very rushed. Thats my problem with it. Up until the spaceship it was fine. but the last 3 episodes felt like they needed 1-2 more episodes to make the pacing work correctly. Still though, that hero shot of Aku in episode 9... xD.