White Beryl (Radiant)

[White Beryl]

Name: White Beryl (Facet-1Z8H Cut-8XV)

Nickname: Radiant

Appeared Gender: Male

Appeared Age: 20

Gemstone: White Beryl

Gemstone Location: Forehead

Faction: Homeworld (White Diamond)

Corrupted: No

Appearance: 

Radiant is a thin gem, being about 185 cm in height. The sharp strands of his silver hair go down and cover up the majority of his gemstone. His eyes are as silver as his hair. The dark lines under them give him a slight appearence of not having slept for multiple days. Through all this white and silver, his skin pops out because of its stronger tone.
Radiant always keeps himself as well dressed as he can. He wears a pure, white suit fitted perfectly to his body which has a long coat-tail that reaches up to his knees on his backside. A black jabot pops out of the front. The shirt's, as well as the suit's, collar is wide and goes upward. The notch lapels of the suit are as sharp as Radiant's hair, going lower than those of normal suits, up to Radiant's stomach area. They are embellished with black lines near the edges, as black as his gloves and shoes. The steel buttons on their lower parts, connected together with small chains which are themselves connected to a White Diamond symbol, fit the suit tightly around Radiant's abdomen region, giving him a slight hourglass figure and making him appear to be wearing a corset. His pants are as white and tight as his suit. He also wears a pair of glasses.

Personality:

Because of the events of his past, Radiant is completely emotionless, in every sense of the word and does not even remember what it was like to have emotions. However this does not hinder him from simulating them. To him, this allows him to have pure logical thought, untethered from emotion. Emotions to him are unnecessary at best, and at worst corrupt the purpose and role assigned to something, be it gem or otherwise. Everything to Radiant is a cog in a gigantic machinery, the greatest machinery of all being the Gem Empire, and to rebel against one’s role in this machinery would mean to forfeit one’s right to existence. So even his devotion to Homeworld is much more cold and “heartless” than that of other gems who regard the Empire with pride and even love. However, to avoid complications, he simply keeps this a secret from his co-gems. 

His lack of emotion also means a lack of remorse for even the worst things that he does, even to other gems belonging to Homeworld. As long as they fulfill their purpose, no tears need to be shed, and if they die a rebel, there is even more reason not to. 

Surprisingly enough, there are parts of his old self which still linger in him, namely his love for playing games, his obsession with humans and his thirst for knowledge and science, taking him as far as to use himself as a test subject for some of his experiences. He even still values friendship, and will be ready to protect those close to him from harm. But not only does he try to suppress these lingering parts of his old self, but he himself does not know if they are actually substantial feelings of his old self, or just instincts that simply carried over.



Likes/Dislikes: + Homeworld
                      + Science and knowledge
                      + Humans
                      + Playing games
                      - Childish individuals
                      - Rebels of any kind
                      - Disorder
                      - Ignorance

Fears: 

• Fusing (he is both fascinated and fearful of it, especially when it comes to Fusions between two gems of different kinds)
• Being shattered before realizing all his goals
• Losing his emotionless state of "clarity"

Weapon: A giant crystal shard surrounded by smaller shards floating around it. It itself floats in very close proximity to Radiant.

Ability 1: Nimbus of Nothingness: Radiant manifests a ring made up up of 7 small, clear crystal shards which seem to have a small amount of a strange, black substance in them. He can let the ring hover and rotate over him, around him or around one of his body parts. He may fire the shards at a living being within a 36 meter range. If one hits the target, then the creature suffers relatively small damage, however, the black substance is injected into the creature, causing sensations of nausea and "heaviness", as if gravity is pulling them down. These sensations may be stopped by pulling out the shards, but it causes a high amount of pain.

Ability 2: Omnia Vanitas: Radiant conjures a white and clear crystal shield in an octagonal shape filled with a gaseous form of the same black substance in front of him which always follows his current view. He cannot activate his first ability or attack while this shield active. Should any individual strike it, the gas breaks out of the shield in the form of a 36 meter long laser, damaging and knocking back the agressor, as well as causing the same feelings of nausea and "heaviness". If Radiant is hit by an ambush attack, the shield crumbles away without any effect. Alternatively, Radiant can just dispel it. 

Fusions: None

History: Once being a Golden Beryl, Radiant was (and still is) a scientist, although his former personality was more enthusiastic and passionate about his work. Specialising in biological life forms, he hoped to find some cure for the recently found corruption by somehow learning more about organic life and why the corruption only affected gems and not other species. Slowly but surely, he grew more frustrated, plunging himself deeper and deeper into stress, anxiety and fear over failing to deliver any results. One day, he was on the brink of complete exhaustion, when finally, he used himself as the ultimate test subject, injecting himself with the corruption and simultaneously with his not yet fully tested and developed cure. The reaction from this caused the entire laboratory to explode, and from that devestation, a new white beryl arose from the deselation, having the fruit of his labour being a jet black elixir which could serve other, maybe even more powerful purposes. But the reaction did more than just cause an explosion. Now Radiant was, inexplicably, freed from the shackles of feeling and emotion. Still looking for a true cure for the corruption and trying to calm his more general search for science and knowledge which could aid homeworld, he ventured, as a one-gem expedition team, to Earth in order to find the answers to his questions, and maybe even more.

Character Arcs: 

• Exploring the Earth and progressing his scientific studies
• Finding himself disciples among homeworld and crystal gems alike
  
• He will find someone who he can really trust as a friend, even if he would be reluctant to admit this
• Perhaps, in having to deal with other gems during his adventures, he will be forced to confront his emotionless persona

                     
                      

[njrk97]

What is the range of the Nimbus shards,how far can they be thrown? (I always just think of the Cloud when I hear Nimbus, but that's just my own bias since the term can be applied as a aura).

What is the control of the crystal sheild,can it be moved once conjured or is it static regardless of how you move (just because otherwise a constant counter attack on a sheild may be strong if their is literally no way to avoid being hit when using a physical attack).


On detail regarding history, the corruption on the site was a infection that only started occurring on Earth during the recent cut off,it is neither a disease or affliction that ever occurred on any other planet before this point, so if you have any sorta of research in corruption it would of had to of been a very recent (2016) endeavour. Which given your borderline obsession with it,may not be too unreasonable that these events did conspire within a year of the discovery of corruption.

[White Beryl]

I have edited the shield so it faces only where Radiant is facing, so it is possiple to hurt him with, let´s say, an ambush attack from behind and the range of the shards is now 36 meters. On the Nimbus thing, Nimbus is another latin/english word for halo, which just refernces the fact that he can let the ring hover above his head, either as a ring or an "aura", like in the picture.

[njrk97]

May be worth mentioning in your story that the research and interest in corruption was more of a recent project.


As for your shield,up to you overall but would having it be that the shield is static, only ever facing the direction you were face at the time of conjuration be too bad,may force you to dance and move around the shield to counter attack from other directions.Up to you,you can keep it as is,but i thought i would mention it as a option if you wanted.

[White Beryl]

I have instead made it so that he can have 3 shields active at the same time, however, if he conjures up a fourth, the other ones shoot and crumble away, so it can be used as a static counter-attack or a normal attack.
So, is he accepted?

[njrk97]

Three shields though may be a little strong as they fairly easily can cover all directions, along with the fact that they auto counter attack with them in the first place,it was why i was suggesting the Static/Stationary shield as something you have to dance around,or keeping it in the other state ( a singular shield that follows your view).


for the sake of speed ill mark it as accepted once the above changes are made. Like i said 3 Sheilds sorta has the issue i was trying to alleviate with the stationary shield (being that unlike any other shield on the site,yours can shoot and does not have a cooldown between creations thus why it needed some other downside to compensate for that)

[White Beryl]

Alright, it should be done now.

[njrk97]

as mentioned,accepted.