Csarite

[Csarite]

Name: Csarite

Appeared Gender: Female

Appeared Age: 20s

Gemstone: A cut piece of Csarite sporting the three colors of green, orange, and red.

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Gemstone Location: Left Forearm

Faction: None

Corrupted: Yes

Monster Form: A large devil's flower mantis, as tall as a house when upright and arms raised.

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Appearance: Below is what her default form looks like, though she's often taking the appearance of someone or something else or altering her appearance in some other described way.

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My attempt at drawing something other than a stick figure. x)

Personality: Csarite is relatively new to the world and thus is naturally curious, generously moving her eyes about to take in as much information as possible. Despite her eagerness to observe she prefers to not be seen herself. Instead she chooses to hide her form, letting her interact with the world without much fear. This lack of fear is also attributed to her lack of danger sense, having limited knowledge to discern what should be approached and what should be avoided. Csarite is rather impressionable to the extent due to her lack of knowledge and will be rather easy to trick in her early contacts with gems.

When she does feel comfortable, she is happy to play or socialize with whatever friend she has made. Csarite also loves spending time asking questions, being eager to learn more about the world she has found herself in. Her voice is meek and careful when she speaks, not wanting to appear as loud or obnoxious. She is naturally kindhearted and tries to avoid conflict when she can. If conflict does arise, at least between others, she does her best to step in and de-escalate it. Csarite has it easy to trust people if they appear to be honest and will always aim to be truthful unless it could hurt someone.

She does not value herself as much as he values those she holds close, rather taking the hit for someone than letting the other person get hurt. Her regeneration ability makes her feel invincible and she is not afraid to use it for good, even if it means spending a few days as a rock again.

Likes/Dislikes:
+ Socializing, exploring
+ Honesty and friendliness, forgiveness and selflessness
+ Flowers, nature
+ Smiling
- Painful sensations, whether to her or others.
- Brashness, inconsiderate
- Desolate or colorless places
- Showing her own form, at least to those she does not know

Fears: Succumbing to her corruption, losing those she holds dear.

Weapon: She can summon an umbrella resembling a large flower. Its petals are a mix of green, orange, and red. When unfolded the canopy can absorb droplets of liquids which can then be shot out as a projectile when the umbrella is collapsed. When unfolded it can work as a weaker shield, when collapsed it can work as a poor man's parrying tool.

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Ability 1: Colorshift: Csarite is capable of temporarily changing the color of something or someone, including herself. When used casually, the color is dependant on her gem palette and emotions. With focus, she is capable of bruteforcing any color (or even a mixture of colors) to happen. The larger the target and the more complicated the color(s), the more difficult it will be for her to pull off. Once she has changed the color of something, the color will slowly fade over time, returning back to its original state. She has a natural affinity to coloring things the same shade as her gem palette which makes it a less straining action.

Ability 2: Adept Shapeshifting: Through extensive use of shapeshifting, Csarite has taught herself to be really good at it. She can easily shift her appearance to resemble something or someone and hold that shape for as long she wishes, making her "default" form almost unnecessary. That does not mean she can shapeshift into a skyscraper however, her shapeshifting size is limited to reasonable margins. Combined with her colorshifting ability, it can make her very hard to find should she choose to hide. Alternatively it could be a very useful tool for infiltration, taking on the form and color of other gems to trick others.

Fusions: None yet!

History: Some are just late bloomers. Csarite was one of them. Not wanting to leave the comfort of the ground, her gem slept a bit longer than everyone else and was forgotten about in the Beta Kindergarten. Emerging on her own she was clueless. Most knew their purpose as soon as they exited their holes, she did not. Whatever staying in the ground that long did to her, it had made her lose any predescribed instructions implanted into her. Yet she was alive, and Csarite took full advantage of this. She began wandering around, testing out the lightform she had been blessed with. She saw that there were a lot of holes in the red walls, just like the one she had came out of. Though at the time she didn't think much about it, had she taken just a wrong turn she would've met up with other gems. Her mind was busy with other things. Going from being an inanimate rock to a concious super-being was exciting. Her first contact was with a boulder. Dumbfounded by its round nature, she pounced towards it. Upon contact it would turn from gray to a plethora of colors, making her jump back out of shock. As the colors faded, she felt brave and approached again. A more gentle touch this time. From her fingertip, a lushious green spread onto the gray surface. Her first smile, it felt great. This only intensified the color, causing a wave of yellows to spread periodically through the green rock.

When she eventually discovered other living beings such as animals, they did not appreciate her closeness quite as much. Trying to turn the cute critters into different shades of pink was a great past-time, the only problem being that they were too afraid of her big size, not allowing her to approach them. It was the first time she learnt to shapeshift, trying to make herself just as small as the little squirrel she saw on a treebranch. Amazed by her silly powers, she abused them heavily. Being small and agile she could easily terrorize the local wildlife. Many laughs were had, so much so that the human tribes would make legends about her presence. A terrifying shapeshifting animal or insect showing bright colors. Her laughs echoing during the nights.

She herself had never seen a human. She was too caught up with the vibrant nature and wildlife, that when a spear caught her in the side it came as a surprise. Poof! The humans rejoiced, thinking the demon was vanquished. Her gem fell between the blades of grass, returning to the ground where it had once came. It had taught her a lesson: Fear. To avoid the humans, and that she did. Whenever humans would be present, she would make sure to hide. Disguise worked wonders, and it helped her train her powers. After years of hiding from them, she became curious, especially of the children who seemed much nicer. Csarite figured out that by resembling a human, they would recognize her as one of their own. They taught her to speak, and she spent generations playing with the children of the tribe. She was no longer seen as a monster, instead the legends spoke of a playful and friendly sprite that lived in the forests.

Playtime doesn't last forever. It was inevitable that she would eventually be confronted by her own kind, a kind she did not know to exist. At first she thought they were just other humans, and so she approached the colorful party. Immediately she was met with confrontation. These weird humans asked for some sort of identity. Csarite did not know these were fellow gems, and she could've never imagined it. One of the crew stepped forward and gave a forceful blow to unsuspecting Csarite, forcing her out of her shapeshifted form. They laughed at her and mocked her for her different form. She didn't look like other Csarites, she was overcooked. Another forceful blow ended up in her poofing, and she was carried to a strange place she had never seen the likes of. Tall crystalline walls, sharp and angular architecture. It was abnormal and didn't resemble the usual terrain she had known. Getting locked up in a tiny room, being subjected to experiments. She was so stressed, nothing felt right. Csarite couldn't stay in here, she had to get back.

Csarite had felt weird, almost sick. Something was very wrong. She didn't sleep often, but when she woke up one morning she was no longer in the facility. Instead she found herself in the middle of the human village. Csarite had a terrible headache and felt exhausted. When she looked around it was like a monster had ravaged through the village, leaving it deserted. Csarite felt sadness for the first time. She had lost so many friends. Sure, humans would dissapear as they aged, but there would always be new ones. Now they were all gone. How had it all happened? She couldn't recall much about what had happened, the time spent in the facility was a foggy memory at best. Unbeknownst to her she had been corrupted. Csarite would spend the rest of her time further exploring the Earth, now making sure to avoid gemkind for good. At least for the time being.

Character Arcs:
- Become comfortable with her appearance and overcooked state
- Come to terms with her corruption, find a way to control or get rid of it.
- Learn about gemkind, her origin, her purpose

[njrk97]

To answer your Discord question, the fires are not near me, so i am fine.


Now there doesn't seem to be much of anything wrong with the application, but i did what to present some stuff in regards to your history. Now is there anything wrong with your current history, not at all, but it presents a bit of a opportunity, over time i have wanted to somewhat update the elements of corruption on the site to bring it a bit more in line with the show. I have in some other posts had hints towards it already, and your history might be another chance to do that. Granted i should update the actual Information about Corruption.

So Regardless my suggestion, just some slight embellishments of details that could slot between your last and second last paragraph, instead of you waking up and feeling weird one day perhaps have the idea that at one stage you wandered off from the village and met some others like you, some other gems maybe they said some stuff you don't understand, overcooked, unregistered ID ect, You don't recall much but darkness after that (Clearly you were poofed and bubbled), you don't remember much of what happened after that, there was Pink walls, Closed in cells, and some other gems maybe, when you awoke though you were outside, scratch marks around you (Once again, implication the first time you corrupted that you broke out of the facility), with only disjointed flashes of your time there you ended up going back to your village, perhaps it had been a year or two since you vanished. Then after a amount of time later you felt Weird and (Cue the rest of your finale paragraph.)


Since currently my expansion for corruption is playing with the idea that there were faculties around Earth where gems were corrupted, Test and Experiments ticked off by the Diamonds originally to see how gems react to combinations of their powers. When i update the Corruption ill go into more detail but long and short, Corrupted gems emerged from these faculties, whether it was a unintentional side effect, or the intended outcome of the tests i have still not decided, but regardless, something happened in these facilities, something that caused these...corruptions, the number of test subjects in these facilities around the world is unclear, The Crews within these faculties also seem to be MIA, whether they perhaps succumbed to the same experiment that corrupted the gems, or were later destroyed by the monster that escaped is equally unclear. No one seems to know what happened in them and no one outside of these facilities seemed to know they existed. So that was the idea, that even victims like Csarite have no real idea of what happened to them in these places.

One other small details, timeframes, considering you speaking about becoming a bit of a legend, and tribes i assume these events happened quite far in the past. Gem expansion has been happening for quite some times afterall on Earth. The main point though is even if you emerged late your kindergarten was likely active, it may be worth mentioned that you emerged at the Beta Kindergarden, and that the Valley/Corner you emerged in was already full of holes and had been mostly abandoned since all other gems in that section had emerged, its just then that through bad luck, or good luck with how you look at it, you picked a direction and walked into the desert expanses beyond, away from the kindergarden, and away from the other gems, if fate had been different and you chose the other way to walk you would have made your way into the more active valley and met up with other gems instead.

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One other point aswell, this is not something you really need to add, but during a past event thread, i actually mentioned Csarite gemstones and what their caste was on Homeworld/Gem society, now you have no reason to follow this if you don't want, and its not super relevant since your not really part of Homeworld, but i thought i may mention it as a idea for what your gem was made for, even if its never relevant since they never started doing it.

Thread in question steven-universe-rp.proboards.com/thread/2670/event-homeworld-ball-master-thread?page=1&scrollTo=33123 First post


"Small scale ships flew overhead, being directed and guided by Elite Nephrites as they landed in areas designated for ship drop off. Csarite gems stood around these landing spots acting as marshallers. Shining their gem flashlights up at the ships and directing them, their own colour changing gemstone allowing them to indicate Stopping and Starting easily by simply changing the colour of the platform underneath them, a change that would then shift their gemstones hue, and by extension their gem flashlight to a Lighter Green for go, a Darker Red for stop or a mixed Red Green for caution."


So yeah the idea is that Csarites are Air Marshals using their colours to guide and direct ships into land, by extension some also act as Air Traffic Controllers...or more so Space Traffic Controllers and communicate and organize and guide ships and airspace, to help them avoid mid air collisions.

[Csarite]

Thanks for the feedback! When I said Kindergarten I wasn't so much speaking of the main Kindergarten we know and love, but rather used the term thinking that it could be any Kindergarten on Earth. I've changed it to Beta though, just for clarity's sake. I like the corruption part and I've adjusted the history to fit in! Getting PTSD from those experiments will be a fun addition to the RP. With regards to timeline and tribesfolk, keep in mind both the Americas and unreachable parts of Africa were living like tribes up to around 500 years ago (if we assume the age of discovery played out roughly the same in the SU universe as it did in ours). This could place Csarite's emerging at around 2-3k years ago or earlier. So unless the Kindergartens have been active that recently, there were probably not many gems there, but I changed it nonetheless. c:

As for your reference to Csarites, it seems like the powers are already rather similar minus the flashlight part. I could have that be a "realized" power in the future when she finds out more about herself, or if a dire situation would call for it, thus advancing her abilities naturally. Maybe even allow the stream of light to function like a ranged version of her power, letting her change colors from a distance. But that can be determined in the future!

[njrk97]

Ahh yes but the thing is this Site is a Au from the show itself, one of the major canon changes was something little enough, Rose Quartz took longer to rebel, 6000 years longer, the rebellion for Earth only started in 2013 AD, as explained here

steven-universe-rp.proboards.com/thread/1236/full-plot-overview-divergences-homeworld

So yes the Kindergardens have been active Far more recently, it is only through a lack of outside help, and perhaps Pink still being somewhat new to Leading, that the construction on Earth has been slow, slow enough that gem construction matched up to the show.


The Gem Flashlight element does not actually have to be a extension of your power, as also mentioned here steven-universe-rp.proboards.com/thread/3/gem-species

Gems have a set of Racial abilities already built in, these abilities are standard among all gems and do not take up any slots, one of these abilities, is the Gem flashlight/ Gem Glow, adtionally you have other powers aswell, bubble creation, shapeshifting, basically most powers we have seen multiple gems do in the show, and Since Rutile,Pearl and Eyeball all did the gem flashlight thing its considered a racial power.

[Csarite]

I know it's an AU! Just not 100% sure about every single detail, such as when the kindergartens have been active

And alright, I'll keep that flashlight thing in mind. Anything else I should change?

[njrk97]

Ahh sorry, my bad, i should have mentioned in my second response you were accepted, those other elements were just clarifications.