Post by peryxite on Apr 8, 2018 21:56:14 GMT
Name:
Almandine
Appeared Gender:
Female
Appeared Age:
28
Gemstone:
One Ruby, one Onyx
Gemstone Location:
The Ruby crystal is located on the back of the left hand, the Onyx cabochon under her right ear. It is most of the time covered by her long, dark hair.
Faction: Although she often states that she would rather remain neutral, she somewhat sides with the Crystal Gems.
Corrupted: No.
Appearance: As a fusion between a Ruby and another gem, her body form resembles that of Garnet and Rhodonite. She is almost a head smaller than Garnet though and her colour scheme is more black and red with only a few grades in between. The closest to her hairstyle is that of Shego from the Kim Possible series and instead of Glasses she wears a device resembling a VISOR from Star Trek's Geordi LaForge.
Personality: Almandine has a somewhat distanced relationship to the physical world sometimes due to her mental powers. This makes her appear slow or cold at times. For example, she often just sits or stands around somewhere and enjoys the scenery and the flow of life's thoughts all around her. Or she tunes in to radio transmissions at random and sings along. Sometimes, this makes it very hard for her to focus. She misses having other Onyxes around or to at least have a possibility to find out more about herself, or a purpose. Out of boredom, she will seek adventures form time to time to sate her Ruby's desire for physical exercise and action.
She loves analyzing communication forms and has a high interest in humans. However, she tends to be very direct due to her Onyx's time-information efficiency protocols. She might over- oder underexplain situations, phrases, intentions or point out the obvious. She can be a very good listener. In discussions she will try to let everyone explain their point of view and to have it respected.
Likes/Dislikes:
Likes: Enjoying company while not having to talk too much
Music and the Arts
Gooey foods
Rules
Just sitting around and letting the information sink in
Fusing with other gems
Dislikes: Interference of any wavelength
Injustice/unfair treatment
She somewhat dislikes water
Fears: Almandine fears defusing because as an Onyx, in her own body, knowing that she'll probably never meet another Onyx ever again, she feels lonely. She also fears to be engulfed by water due to her time spent in the lake. Her Ruby part has fear of failure when facing other gems after her time away from everyone else.
Weapon: Almandine can activate up to four rings filled with electricity around her wrists and ankles. They shock everything she punches or kicks - as long as it's shockable!
Ability 1: Telepathy. She can establish a telepathic link to communicate with almost any living being, including gems, animals, funghi and sometimes plants. The sent message from her sounds like speech in the head of the receiving life form and the life form can easily form proper sentences in their head and send them back without much effort. Onyxes were made to establish long range communications with anyone and enable non-telepaths for telepathy with them as long as they wish. If Almandine knows where someone is, she can try to 'call' them over vast distances. The clearer the knowledge over the other, the better the communication. Theoretically, she could contact beings on other planets, given the right circumstances.
Telepathy is very useful in combat as you can effortlessly communicate during tense situations without having your foe noticing. After some training, she will be able to transmit images and videos even.
She can later share her vision with those who agree.
Ability 2:
Remote control: She establishes a connection to a target of choice and mentally takes over their body, but only if the target is willing. The other body will mimick Almandine's movements as long as the consent prevails. Almandine can however control some animals at will. If trained hard enough, Almandine will be able to temporarily switch bodies with gems, having them control hers and vice versa. This too usually only works with consent.
Fusions: Yes. She is most of the time fused.
History: Stuck on Earth, a Ruby had enough of the rest of the gems and everyone so she headed out to discover Earth by herself. She initially wanted to never talk to anyone ever again because the tension between the factions and the whole political system were too confusing and endangering. Also, she thought it was ridiculous that the factions couldn't come to an agreement, but Ruby wasn't much of a speaker or politician so she took off, not any longer feeling close to either side of the conflict. In a dark cave where she thought herself alone she found an Onyx crystal on the ground of a subterranean lake. When she released it from the bubble, Onyx formed. Ruby had never seen an Onyx before and because she couldn't tell her faction, she reluctantly spoke to her. Onyx eventually showed Ruby that very often, in conflicts, people may talk to each other a lot but they miss out on the listening and understanding part. Ruby reconsidered her life as a lone wolf and wanted to get better in the listening. Very soon, they got really close and fused to Almandine so that Onyx could help Ruby with the understanding part. Onyx herself on the other side never had much time to train her skills so it doesn't always go as flawless as intended..
Character Arcs:
1) Who am I? Onyx never had a chance to talk to anyone about her place in the system because her creators abandoned the experiment at some stage. Onyx knows of her telepathic abilities, but she never had the opportunity to use them. As Almandine, they are a bit rusty on that part. Almandine wants to know who made Onyx and why. Onyx was an experiment of the Diamonds to have planet-to-planet communication without resorting to any kind of technology. Yellow Diamond wanted to use this for military purposes and Blue Diamond helped with the technological components. However, the project was forgotten and discontinued under somewhat mysterious circumstances.
2) Do I fit in?
Almandine tries to establish friendships with other gems. Onyx wants to show Ruby that talking to each other can solve problems and that it's worth it. Onyx also learns that the thousands of years spent alone in the lake poofed had left her with some fear of water and loneliness.
3) Can I be useful?
She wants to be part of a team and find her place in a group with an objective. Onyx discovers that despite never having being tested in combat or war, she likes to adhere to certain rules and requires hierarchy to function normally. She finds that she is very loyal, once she makes a connection, but still wants to hear the points of view of her opponents.
4) Do I want to lead/take responsibility?
As Ruby, she ran away. As Onyx, she has inherited a good deal of sense of commitment and loyalty. How do these pair up? What place do I take in the hierarchy?
5) Hidden powers!
She will learn about her remote control ability, her vision sharing and her communication skills in general while exploring the world.
Almandine
Appeared Gender:
Female
Appeared Age:
28
Gemstone:
One Ruby, one Onyx
Gemstone Location:
The Ruby crystal is located on the back of the left hand, the Onyx cabochon under her right ear. It is most of the time covered by her long, dark hair.
Faction: Although she often states that she would rather remain neutral, she somewhat sides with the Crystal Gems.
Corrupted: No.
Appearance: As a fusion between a Ruby and another gem, her body form resembles that of Garnet and Rhodonite. She is almost a head smaller than Garnet though and her colour scheme is more black and red with only a few grades in between. The closest to her hairstyle is that of Shego from the Kim Possible series and instead of Glasses she wears a device resembling a VISOR from Star Trek's Geordi LaForge.
Personality: Almandine has a somewhat distanced relationship to the physical world sometimes due to her mental powers. This makes her appear slow or cold at times. For example, she often just sits or stands around somewhere and enjoys the scenery and the flow of life's thoughts all around her. Or she tunes in to radio transmissions at random and sings along. Sometimes, this makes it very hard for her to focus. She misses having other Onyxes around or to at least have a possibility to find out more about herself, or a purpose. Out of boredom, she will seek adventures form time to time to sate her Ruby's desire for physical exercise and action.
She loves analyzing communication forms and has a high interest in humans. However, she tends to be very direct due to her Onyx's time-information efficiency protocols. She might over- oder underexplain situations, phrases, intentions or point out the obvious. She can be a very good listener. In discussions she will try to let everyone explain their point of view and to have it respected.
Likes/Dislikes:
Likes: Enjoying company while not having to talk too much
Music and the Arts
Gooey foods
Rules
Just sitting around and letting the information sink in
Fusing with other gems
Dislikes: Interference of any wavelength
Injustice/unfair treatment
She somewhat dislikes water
Fears: Almandine fears defusing because as an Onyx, in her own body, knowing that she'll probably never meet another Onyx ever again, she feels lonely. She also fears to be engulfed by water due to her time spent in the lake. Her Ruby part has fear of failure when facing other gems after her time away from everyone else.
Weapon: Almandine can activate up to four rings filled with electricity around her wrists and ankles. They shock everything she punches or kicks - as long as it's shockable!
Ability 1: Telepathy. She can establish a telepathic link to communicate with almost any living being, including gems, animals, funghi and sometimes plants. The sent message from her sounds like speech in the head of the receiving life form and the life form can easily form proper sentences in their head and send them back without much effort. Onyxes were made to establish long range communications with anyone and enable non-telepaths for telepathy with them as long as they wish. If Almandine knows where someone is, she can try to 'call' them over vast distances. The clearer the knowledge over the other, the better the communication. Theoretically, she could contact beings on other planets, given the right circumstances.
Telepathy is very useful in combat as you can effortlessly communicate during tense situations without having your foe noticing. After some training, she will be able to transmit images and videos even.
She can later share her vision with those who agree.
Ability 2:
Remote control: She establishes a connection to a target of choice and mentally takes over their body, but only if the target is willing. The other body will mimick Almandine's movements as long as the consent prevails. Almandine can however control some animals at will. If trained hard enough, Almandine will be able to temporarily switch bodies with gems, having them control hers and vice versa. This too usually only works with consent.
Fusions: Yes. She is most of the time fused.
History: Stuck on Earth, a Ruby had enough of the rest of the gems and everyone so she headed out to discover Earth by herself. She initially wanted to never talk to anyone ever again because the tension between the factions and the whole political system were too confusing and endangering. Also, she thought it was ridiculous that the factions couldn't come to an agreement, but Ruby wasn't much of a speaker or politician so she took off, not any longer feeling close to either side of the conflict. In a dark cave where she thought herself alone she found an Onyx crystal on the ground of a subterranean lake. When she released it from the bubble, Onyx formed. Ruby had never seen an Onyx before and because she couldn't tell her faction, she reluctantly spoke to her. Onyx eventually showed Ruby that very often, in conflicts, people may talk to each other a lot but they miss out on the listening and understanding part. Ruby reconsidered her life as a lone wolf and wanted to get better in the listening. Very soon, they got really close and fused to Almandine so that Onyx could help Ruby with the understanding part. Onyx herself on the other side never had much time to train her skills so it doesn't always go as flawless as intended..
Character Arcs:
1) Who am I? Onyx never had a chance to talk to anyone about her place in the system because her creators abandoned the experiment at some stage. Onyx knows of her telepathic abilities, but she never had the opportunity to use them. As Almandine, they are a bit rusty on that part. Almandine wants to know who made Onyx and why. Onyx was an experiment of the Diamonds to have planet-to-planet communication without resorting to any kind of technology. Yellow Diamond wanted to use this for military purposes and Blue Diamond helped with the technological components. However, the project was forgotten and discontinued under somewhat mysterious circumstances.
2) Do I fit in?
Almandine tries to establish friendships with other gems. Onyx wants to show Ruby that talking to each other can solve problems and that it's worth it. Onyx also learns that the thousands of years spent alone in the lake poofed had left her with some fear of water and loneliness.
3) Can I be useful?
She wants to be part of a team and find her place in a group with an objective. Onyx discovers that despite never having being tested in combat or war, she likes to adhere to certain rules and requires hierarchy to function normally. She finds that she is very loyal, once she makes a connection, but still wants to hear the points of view of her opponents.
4) Do I want to lead/take responsibility?
As Ruby, she ran away. As Onyx, she has inherited a good deal of sense of commitment and loyalty. How do these pair up? What place do I take in the hierarchy?
5) Hidden powers!
She will learn about her remote control ability, her vision sharing and her communication skills in general while exploring the world.