[CHAR] Steven Universe: Second Gem War

[Pietra]

Name
Pearl

Appearance


Gender
Female

Personality

Like the gem for which she is named, Pearl is a well balanced, well rounded perfectionist. As the placement of her gem is over her forehead, she has a tendency to overthink things. Intelligent, controlled and controlling, Pearl relies on her vast knowledge to make decisions, with a wide range of subjects varying from the history of gem kind to human engineering. Very organized, and meticulous, she can become flustered, and sometimes goes overboard (though she always means well). Despite, or because of, her obsession with neatness, Pearl is always graceful, from her elegant speech and prose to her fighting style, which closely resembles ballet.

Bio

Resources were depleting, and the gem world was being forced to outsource to other planets for more gemstones. Even as they established kindergartens on foreign planets, mining deep, there was still a plentiful supply of oysters on the gem homeworld, and with them, a seemingly infinite amount of pearls. Therefore, as so many could be churned out with ease, the Pearls became a servant class, serving as basically slaves, some lucky few becoming sentries for the higher-ups of society.

One Pearl was created from an oblong pearl- she was seen by the others as deformed, as defective. She was to be euthanized, until she was selected for sentry duty out of pity by Rose Quartz, to serve her personally. Upon coming into Rose's care, Pearl was granted her freedom. However, she chose to stay on in the service of Rose Quartz, taking care of her estate while she went off to other planets on missions.

Watching Rose as she did amazing things, going off to amazing places, Pearl began to wonder what it was like, out there, among the stars. Wishful thinking would get her nowhere fast, though, so she stood guard. Days passed. Months passed. Years went by, and Pearl simply stood guard, never knowing anything more than Rose Quartz's beautiful estate. However, it was not enough, and one day, she confronted Rose Quartz, and confessed to her the deep, intense longing she had- she yearned, more than anything, to travel through the stars with Rose. To explore space.

Amused, and impressed at Pearl's loyalty, Rose took the girl with her to Earth. Pearl was absolutely amazed by the wonders of the planet, presented to her by her hero. Rose saw the beauty in nature, and Pearl saw the beauty in mankind. Even as primitive creatures, they had a sense of free will, a sense of civilization, which was completely new to her, and fascinating. After one hundred years on Earth, though, both began to see the detrimental effects that the gems were having on the planet.

When the war began, Rose told Pearl to leave, to hide away, to protect herself. No matter how loyal she was, Rose said, Pearl still had a choice, and her safety should be her primary concern. Pearl insisted upon staying, and all throughout the war, she stayed at Rose's side, fighting with her through thick and thin. At the final battle in the strawberry fields, while everyone was being slaughtered, Rose desperately tried to convince Pearl to leave. Instead, she stayed- and in part, due to her efforts, the war was won. However, it was not won without casualties, both on the side of humans and of gems.

Guilt ridden, due to the damage they had caused in the war, Rose Quartz invited some of the gems- Pearl included- to stay with her on Earth, to protect humanity. For many centuries thereafter, the self-proclaimed Crystal Gems did just that.

Once Steven was born, Pearl harbored some resentment towards the child. However, as he grew older, she grew to love and care for him, becoming a bit overprotective. Once he grew into his powers, fully realizing himself, she began to see more of Rose in him than ever before. Now, she respects him, and loves him, and would do anything to help him.

When Steven began his friendship with the mayor of the town, Pearl befriended the man. They were a lot alike, in their personalities, in their perceptions of the world, et cetera. Buck Dewey took to Pearl quite easily; she was kind to him, albeit rather awkward. However, upon the realization that Dewey wanted more from her than just friendship, and knowing where romance could end, she ended their friendship before it could go any further.

Association
Crystal Gems

Gem
Pearl (oblong, therefore defective)

Weapon
A spear; also uses swords, occasionally dual-wielding


Gem Location
Forehead

Gem Unique Ability
Holograms - Pearl can summon holographic images from her gem. While they are usually intangible, some are able to interact with solid matter. Acting as independent machines, they can exist without her management, following a program, a set of rules and directions, laid out by Pearl during their creation.

Other
Pearl doesn't exactly understand human relationships, so emotional problems are often confusing to her.

[Kafka Komedy]

Name
Sard

Appearance:

Pixel Art, by Yours Truly

He has messy silver hair, and pale salmon skin. He wears a long striped shirt, and a black belt that has a nice, convenient hole for his Gem. His pants are a gunmetal grey, with a small yellow chain connecting them to his belt. His shoes are an exuberant red, with worn, white soles.

Good Art, by Pietra

If Sard has to reform.

Gender:
Male

Personality:
Sard is hot-headed and confrontational. His fighting spirit is second to none, even if he isn't super strong by himself. He fools around frequently, and doesn't focus on something unless he finds it important. He abuses power frequently, tapping into his adrenaline to pull pranks and the such. He isn't very book smart, not knowing what gem or human machines do most of the time. He's not particularly interested in learning either, most of the time. Though he does mess around frequently, he will always be honest and direct when telling you how he feels.

He loves Environmental Art, as well as Earth itself. He's also a big fan of soda, he feels it energizes him, and he loves the fizzy, carbonated taste. He doesn't eat any human food though. He frequently reads comic books and manga in his off times.

Bio:
Sard was born to fight. His unique ability's clearest use was combat, so once he grew old enough he went into the military. Once there, he stayed a low ranking because of his lack of understanding of military technology, and his insubordination. Eventually, he was assigned onto Earth, to help out with the "Kindergarten Project." He found Earth absolutely stunning looking, all the flora and plants were fantastic. Though he didn't particularly care for the animals, so he begrudgingly aligned himself with the Home World. Now that he's back, he has come to understand the humans are decent enough, and will now fight for the beautiful space rock known as earth.

Association:
Home World (Ex)
Crystal Gems (Current)

Gem
Sard

Weapon

Example

A large, 4-pointed Shuriken. Useful for stabbing, slashing, and throwing. He commonly wields two at once. How he uses that thing without hurting himself, I'll never know. He can shrink and enlarge them.

Gem Location
His waist, because he's always shooting from the hip.

Gem Unique Ability
Adrenaline - Sard is able to tap into his energy reserves to slow his perception of time, focus intensely, and give a small boost to his strength and speed. Unfortunately, this is draining, and if he does so to much, he will get tired and eventually revert to his gem form.

[Xartarin]

Name: Melanite

Appearance: Melanite is between Amethyst and Pearl's heights, and mostly black or dark gray in appearance. She has a short poof of curly hair, and frayed robes that make her look like a ghost.

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Gender: Female

Personality:
Melanite has a mischievous streak, often using her powers to play pranks, but she means this always in good fun, and is part of her habit of constantly misunderstanding what makes people happy. Melanite has a constant drive to bring cheer and fight evil, which drove her to fight against the Homeworld when Rose Quartz's rebellion began. However she has a hard time figuring out how to please different people specifically, so she often attempts to help people or express her joy through pranks or tricks. Melanite's insufferably light-hearted demeanour often makes it surprising for people to learn she loves gory horror and action movies.

Bio:
The Melanite species of gem were used to help operate simple machinery through possession, but as gem technology began to advance and harness magic to function, these powers began to grow obsolete. At the tail end of her usefulness to homeworld, Melanite took part in creating Kindergartens on Earth, destroying wildlife to create more gems. Melanite couldn't justify the actions of the gems when she saw the destruction firsthand, and she fled the homeworld gems and hid away, a task made easier with her powers. For a long time Melanite could only feel anguish and remorse for her own deeds, until word reached her that a rebellion had been started by Rose Quartz that sought to defend the Earth, and it gave her a cause to channel her remorse into.
During the war, Melanite's kind personality was consumed by her passion for fending off evil, and when her gem corrupted she became a selfish spirit that lashed out against all who hurt her. As a formless spirit surrounding a singular gem, Melanite was passed around by humans who mistook her for a valuable stone, bringing misfortune to humans who owned her, until she eventually became buried in the lighthouse in Beach City.

Association: Melanite was loyal to Rose Quartz at the start of the rebellion, and still is.

Gem: Melanite

Weapon: None

Gem Location: The back of her head.

Gem Unique Ability:
Melanite has the ability to possesses non-magical objects, which excludes living beings as well. Melanite phases into an object, and her gem relocates to a location inside the object she possesses, a location she chooses but can't change once she's in control. This object can be as large as a building, and if so she can use telekinesis to move anything non-magical that isn't too strongly secured. If she possesses a machine, then someone controlling the machine could possibly restrict her movements. She can move the thing she's possessing, but a building is attached to the ground too strongly by its foundation for her to move it. A car would be no problem, though. Damaging the object she's possessing hurts her, and destroying it completely forces her to retreat into her gem.
Melanite is physically weaker than most gems (but probably still stronger than humans) but she can levitate. Melanite cannot easily shapeshift into anything non-humanoid or shapeshift parts of her body selectively, but she can create projections like Pearl can, and often does so to share memories.

[Stern Algorithm]

Name
Amber

Appearance


Gender
Female

Personality
Amber is curious, bubbly and optimistic. She is a bit shy at times, and has difficulty making decisions due to inexperience and lack of confidence. Although she has a hard time articulating it, she has a strong desire for order and safety in her life. As a result, she tends to like Pearl.

Bio
Amber was created towards the end of the Crystal Wars in a kindergarten on Earth. While the Crystal Gems attacked the kindergarten where Amber was created to shut it down, the caretaker ramped up production in an effort to save herself. The caretaker took the newly made gems including Amber, who were too young and inexperienced to fight as an efficient army, and broke or flawed their gems, turning them into gem monsters, hoping to escape in the ensuing chaos. The plan backfired; Amber, in her monstrous rage slew the caretaker. Rose's army was forced to put down all the gem monsters, Amber being among them.

Amber stayed imprisoned in the Crystal Temple until adult Steven healed her. She has little to no recollection of her time as a monster, and has a very innocent and naive outlook in life, having been 'alive' for a long time but aware for almost none of that time.

Association
Crystal Gems

Gem
Amber (tear-shaped, polished, entrapped insect inside)

Weapon
Cleats

Gem Location
Left ankle

Gem Unique Ability
Electrostasis - Amber has the ability to build up and store an electric charge, and manipulate electrostatic repulsion. This usually means that she tends to run or run in place during battle to build up charge that she can release in a weak, short range lightning spark, or with her devestating finisher, Lightning Kick, and leap into the air followed by a charged, downward strike to the head. She can also statically cling to surfaces.

Other
Her favorite movie is Jurassic Park.

[LokiLeo789]

Name
Obsidian
"Obdi"

Appearance:

Credit goes to artist.
Gender:
Male

Personality:
Obsidian is sort of a walking oxymoron. He is a cheerful, lighthearted young man, always smiled, telling jokes, and making people laugh. But underneath his childish disposition, is a want, better yet, a need to protect his comrades and his friends. Although people may not believe he can do it, he still strives, or tries to protect those he loves. The problem is, Obsidian is a coward, he is afraid to get hurt, despite that fact that he wants to protect others. At times he may run from danger because of this, but he tries his best to overcome this, despite that fact that it is in his nature.

Bio:
Obsidian was born in the Kindergarten, as an anomalie so to speak. He was one of the 3 experimental Gems created to end the war. Not to much is known about the experiment, but the experiment was aborted and 2 of the Gems created were left lacking. Obsidian was the only experiment who came out remotely successful before the experiment was ended. There perfect Gem, strong, fast, tanky everything that was wanted on the battle field.

Obsidian was found by Rose in the ruins of the Kindergarten. She cared for his for a bit before sending him to the battle field. She was confident that he would be able to handle whatever was thrown at him, despite his cowardice.

Association:
Crystal Gems

Gem
Obsidian

Weapon
Full-Body Armor

This grants him strength, speed and protection. His arms and replaced by long and sharp blades. This is the manifestation of his personality, he is afraid to get hurt, hence the armor, and it's speed boost. His strength, and blades are for protecting his friends.

Gem Location
Neck/Throat

Gem Unique Ability
Obsidian has the ability to leave transparent clones of himself at specific point. They act as wards so to speak, he can see from them, and tell if an enemy is coming for behind. There is no set limit on how far he can be away from his clone, but it does affect it's second purpose. If Obsidian wishes to run away, he can teleport back to one of his clones positions, once he does this, all clone disappear and he cannot use this for some time.

Other
(Anything you want to mention to us.)

[clanjos]

Halite

Name
Halite, The Berserker

Appearance:
Halite is... big. Nearly as tall as some fusions, nearly as wide from muscle mass. His face is constantly twisted in rage due to the carefully placed imperfections in his gem affecting his ability to feel other emotions. His skin SHOULD be a ghostly white, but becomes reddish-pink due to the sheer amount of anger he feels at all times. He usually shows up wearing a simple jumpsuit.

Gender:
Male

Personality:
Halite is constantly seething with rage. Nobody knows if he has some traumatic event in his past, if he's been hit hard by the betrayal of Homeworld, or if he's just belligerent. While option three IS definitely true, there's a much simpler explanation: His gem was purposely flawed in order to make sure he was constantly angry in an attempt to make a more powerful soldier. He actually can't feel any other emotions without also experiencing anger. Because he's so angry, other Gems tend avoid him. They treat him like a machine or some kind of monster. And that makes him furious. It makes him miserable. It means his one joy in life is making the Gems as angry and miserable as he is.

In spite of this, he's found that the rage grants him a twisted clarity. He refuses to take part in the gem war now- seeing all that death, and watching all those humans using what little life they had defending their home has made him realize just how spectacular non-gem life can be... and just how terrible Gem society and psychology is as a whole. Where his former comrades and the earthbound gems see life as a thing that happens, he sees it differently- each and every thing, human, animal, or otherwise, is a miracle. Gems, on the other hand, are a race of psychotic warmongers who care nothing for the thoughts or dreams of others.

Bio:
Many of the earthbound gems preach the value of love and friendship for the strength of a warrior, but Halite's incredible service record was powered by hatred and vitriol. Designed to be emotionless to create a soldier whose mind was always clear, there was a major problem: Halite was sent straight into combat. His "natural" state is the rush of anger and hate from battle. As a low-class warrior, he was always treated like crap, and his superiors were surprised when he made sure to repay it in kind. He was just as unpleasant, belligerent, and hateful as you'd expect of someone viewed as a meatshield and possible weapon. This unpleasantness meant he ended up getting left behind and corrupted during the Gem War, spreading his gem's influence to a site that would be host to many bloody battles over the centuries.

Then Steven went and healed him. Steven didn't freak out, didn't immediately start barking orders. He wanted to get to know Halite and actually asked him if he wanted to help fight. Halite shrugged and said "Nah," deciding that the Gems' problems were no longer his problems. The rest is history.

Association:
Formerly Homeworld, now neutral.

Gem
Halite- the crystal form of Salt.

Weapon
Sledgehammer

Gem Location
Back of his mouth. Why put a vulnerable spot where enemies can get at it?

Gem Unique Ability
Gravity manipulation. Limited to an area within a few inches of his skin and any object he's holding, but it still has many uses.

[Xenonia]

Citrine (THANKS KING KAI)

Name:
Citrine

Appearance:


Gender:
Female

Personality:
Citrine is very shy, but also very eager to help in dangerous situations. She tries her hardest to keep all parties happy at all times, in an attempt to keep the peace. Citrine is, above all, a pacifist and a caretaker. This was... Problematic, during the first war, and Citrine was decommissioned early by a strong blow to her gem. Now that she is back, she intends to be far safer, acting more cautious than ever.

Bio:
Citrine was made in a kindergarten somewhere in the far reaches of space. She was meant as a healer and support gem, first and foremost, and combat gem second. At the beginning of the first gem war, Citrine was used to heal homeworld gems and keep them in fighting condition, but when things began to get serious, she was sent to the frontlines. Once there, Citrine saw... Horrors. Horrors she had never imagined, and it affected her deeply: Almost immediately, she defected to the Crystal Gems.

Once she had defected, Citrine kept healing, but she began receiving combat orders as well: Difficult missions, perilous fighting, it began routine for her. She became reckless at times, eager to show her new comrades her skills. Unfortunately, this ended in an early decommission: a crack in her gem put her out of the fight for good, and being bubbled away was the only thing that kept her in a still living state. Only recently, when released and healed by Steven, did Citrine begin to exercise caution in the field.

Association:
Rose Quartz/Crystal Gems

Gem:
Citrine

Weapon:
Mace

Gem Location:
Chest

Gem Unique Ability:
Citrine is capable of emitting soothing blasts energy, meant to calm both animal and gem alike, as well as a slightly weaker version of the healing powers exhibited by Rose Quartz.

Other:
NONE

[KiltmanBagz]

Name
Balas Ruby

Appearance:

Gender:
Female

Personality:
Some see her as a 'mother bear' type, and it is easy to see why. She enjoys being active and productive, it is rare to find Balas simply 'doing nothing' when she can be doing something useful or giving aid to another. She has a hands-on nature that make her seems to have a bit of an 'warrior of old' kind of persona. Often laughing and smiling, even in the heat of battle, and does not shy from combat. But when the going gets rough and the danger truly significant, Balas's energetic smile will fade away and she will demonstrate a very focused, deadly serious nature, revealing a much more no-nonsense side of her more similar to a battle commander. She does not tolerate serious threats to her allies lightly and will be the last willing to leave a fight to ensure other have a full chance to retreat.

Bio:
Balas Ruby is a very old 'foot soldier' gem, even by many gem standards. So much so that those of the same type as her are no longer called balas ruby but 'Rose Spinel'. Long and faithfully she had been a warrior of the home world, for countless millennia she lived on the Gem's front lines until the stood as a dominate and rarely challenged force in their part of the universe. From there she had been reassigned to security detail on Kindergarten projects. She didn't only think that working as a guard was a waste of her abilities but she didn't like the results of the Kindergarten program. She always had half a mind to do something about it but she was but a single warrior, not a leader or strategist, and didn't believe she was able to convince others to follower her lead. But lucky for her, someone else came along. Rose Quarts.

She gladly joined the crystal gems in defense of this planet, and fought fiercely on their behalf of the crystal gems until, and she can't quite remember how, she was corrupted and became a horrible worm monster, as adult steven explained to her after she had been restored. She was pleased to once more give her skills in service to the earth and the crystal gems.

Association:
Homeword EX
Crytal Gems Current

Gem
'Balas Ruby', more commonly known these days as 'Rose Spinel

Weapon
A bearded ax. Normally appearing as a massive, pinkish-red, two-handed bearded Axe. The pole nearly longer as she is. The full length of the blade of her ax head is foot and a half. She can shrink it down to a smaller, single handed bearded ax when speed is more important than power.

Gem Location
Shoulder

Gem Unique Ability
Sonic wave generation: Balas demonstrates the ability to produce powerful sonic waves. Allowing her to release powerful short range bursts of sonic energy from her hands or ax, or much more powerful, larger bursts from her mouth as a roar like blast.

Other
She really enjoys shiny things, especially red shiny things, and her personal space is often filled with various trinkets of the sort