Sulfur(updated)

[Sulfur]

Name: Sulfur



Appeared Gender: Male



Appeared Age:  21



Gemstone: Sulfur Gem



Gemstone Location: Left Shoulder (can move to face)



Corrupted:(No)





Appearance: Height: 5'10"




Personality:

Sulfur has due to hardships in his past, become a very distant gem. He has trouble expressing and feeling common emotions and is generally cold to those he meets. He acts harsh to gems and despises any affection due to his own insecurities. Small things such as affectionate touches can irritate him. He can have strange mood swings and go from cheerful to depressed or even into a blood thirsty rage. He has difficulty opening up to anyone.



Likes/Dislikes:

Likes:

-Quiet places

-Big cities

-Human culture(But not humans) 

Dislikes:

-Ducks

-Friendly gems or humans

-Homeworld Gems

-Overly emotional gems


Fears:  Corruption,  Ducks, Hugs



Weapon: A sword that resembles his logo: a cross between a diamond and a star. This logo represents a the broken gem logo. It's ironic because he hates both sides. It is three feet long. (one meter)



Ability 1: Levitation: He can float at max seven feet off the ground. While this very strong and assists heavily with any mobility he can be knocked out of the air easily. Also, if hit hard he is flung father than an average gem his weight.



Ability 2: Sword Rain. He can summon many duplicates of his weapon around him. These he can control with his mind. This might seem overpowered, but first off it’s limited by his reflexes and mental capacity a lot making him noticeably weaker than garnet. Meta game wise he gets better at mental control increments. This wouldn't give him any extra advantage over a gem a higher power level than him. He can summon about ten, five for blocking and five for attacking. 
Furthermore, Sulfur can't resummon them once he's summoned them, he can move them through the air, but this means they can get stuck. While the swords can move through the air, they aren't too fast and Sulfur does have to use strategy, such as sneaking them behind people. They can be easily blocked and deflected by other weapons. In addition, Sulfur normally only summons about six to fight with, but when he is touching or has recently touched(an hour max) lava he can summon thirteen. His swords can even be sliced in half by a gem who is fast enough (able to slice his swords in half of a second). Also, in order to remain safe he keeps about half of his current swords near him, which he can block with. They are still swords and don't block him from every direction. The range that he can control these swords is about thirty feet.


Fusions: Aquamarine

History: Sulfur was part of a series of failed prototypes, originally meant to be mining gems. Sulfur however, engineered by a rogue Emerald gem assumed a green hue rather than a yellow one, and a power using swords rather than drills like the correctly made ones. This made Sulfur an off color, but fortunately the failed batch of prototypes was destroyed, displacing that evidence. Sulfur alone survive due to his wit, which gained him a low position in Blue Diamond's court. This did not last, as Sapphires' ability to see the future made any skill at planning obsolete. It was then that the same rogue Emerald that had created Sulfur found him again. She had secretly created Sulfur to get back at a Chalcedony gem that had been fawning over her for a long while.



Emerald then was able to win Sulfur's affection as the two of them fled to earth and she won the confused off-color to her side. However, when Chalcedony returned to earth, Emerald's plan was complete, as she faked her death at the hands of Chalcedony, provoking Sulfur to shatter Chalcedony in rage, only to be left with an aimlessness. Feeling content with reliving the shattering of his rival, Sulfur roamed about, shattering any crystal gem or homeworld gem he could. He found crystal gems to be soft and overly idealistic, and he found the homeworld gems to be a threat, as any data on him would have him shattered as a failure. Corruptions however, he especially loathed, as he feared becoming a mindless monster more than being broken.



Sulfur was at one point captured by crystal gems, imprisoned in a glass orb, and left for several years. Upon returning to roam the world again, the off color decided to form a group of his own. The Broken Gems were a group of gems who were unalligned to either faction, or hated both like Sulfur did. Dark Spinel, Blue Quartz, and Howlite were the three gems who first founded the gang with Sulfur. Howlite enjoyed hunting the corruptions like Sulfur, and the two quickly bonded. However, Howlite, unlike Sulfur, had a gentle heart, and when he met one of the crystal gems, he started to change. Sulfur in his madness quickly felt betrayed and became an enemy to Howlite.



The loss of his friendship however, prompted Sulfur to new thoughts. The shattering of other gems remained something he could do without remorse, but it no longer gave him joy, as it reminded him of Howlite. For a few years Sulfur made an attempt to blend in with human life. At the end of it, he only realized how aimless his goals were. He had to find out what his part in the war was.

Character Arcs.

-Finding a side in the war
-Possible Death/Corruption
-Opening up to another gem
-Getting over his loss

[njrk97]

So some basic stuff, Length of his sword?

May be worth describing his unglitched form.

Sword Rain seems kinda strong especially when you start running up posts (rank 5 = 25 Rank 7 = 49). It may be better to just have a set amount across all levels.

[Sulfur]

I have added the length of his sword(s)! I can see how that would be important. He can summon thirteen swords, he would be quite powerful with this in the show, but meta game wise his concentration would be limited, nerfing him.

[njrk97]

The way you explained it is rather weird,the comparison to Garnet doesn't really gel too much and doesn't really provide that much of a comparison.Since we don't really know how strong Garnet his strength wise, and she has nothing to do with swords. Same with the mental increments stuff,like mechanically what does that even mean in a fight.

It would likely be better to try and scale down the ability in more easily defined methods, IE: Limit the reach of the swords, so they can only move maybe 5 or 10 feet away before he loses control of them, they would still retain momentum meaning he could shoot them at people,its just once they exit his sphere of influence then physics just take effect.

Could even have some sort of dynamic where you can't re-summon them once they have left your influence, forcing you to move over to them to re-collect them, or to then fight with the dwindling supply (This also applies some tactics to launching the swords away from you, Do you 'sacrifice' swords under the potential you may be able to hit someone outside your range. Leaving yourself vulnerable if they close in, or do you keep your swords close,potentially allowing them to harass your from outside where the swords can reach.)



Thirteen still feels a little high for what its worth.(Considering they are not tiny daggers), I feel like 6 to 8 would still give you the same effect but may force you to strategies a bit more,instead of just being able to send a near undodge-able hail of swords towards any opponent.

[Sulfur]

Well Sulfur can't resummon them once he's summoned them, he can move them through the air, but this means they can get stuck. While the swords can move through the air, they aren't too fast and Sulfur does have to use strategy, such as sneaking them behind people. They can be easily blocked and deflected by other weapons. In addition, Sulfur normally only summons about six to fight with, but if he's angry or going up against a powerful opponent he summons thirteen, this is considerably rarer and is taxing to his energy. His swords can even be sliced in half as they fly at a gem who is powerful enough. Also, in order to remain safe he keeps about half of his current swords near him, which he can block with. They are still swords and don't block him from every direction. This is now in the bio!

[njrk97]

Only being able to use a lower amount of swords when he is not angry or against a weaker opponent is not really a limitation,more of just a character quirk.

Define a gem who is "powerful enough" to cleave through your swords.

Even if he keeps half near him, that's still six swords he can launch around as he wishes. That was why i was suggestion 8,4 to guard with, 4 to attack with. Forces you to strategise abit since that would leave you with bigger openings, making it a little fairer when fighting other gems (Compared to 6 swords around you all the time).

The major issue though is that you have no range cut off. In its current state you can launch your swords 300 Feet away and still be able to control them perfectly. Fundamentally making it so that a Gem could never outrun your swords and that you could attack a gem from any distance.

[Sulfur]

Alright I brushed those up! Range cut off and etcetera are updated!

[njrk97]

maybe thirty feet for the range, and you are attached to the idea of having thirteen swords in some way aren't you?

I will say you are sticking with it,a few of the newer members would of already dropped their app at this point, but I must put my foot down about this, Thirteen is too many, no matter what way you spin it (Unless you had some mechanical limitation for when you do it IE: if you summon more than 8 your range lowers down to 20 feet), Ill meet you with a compromise of 10 at most,nice even number to split the blades and it doesn't require that you were near magma recently.

[Sulfur]

Aww it's okay, I just really like the number thirteen. I guess ten is good, and alright, thirty feet is reasonable. Maybe if he fused with someone the fusion would have thirteen swords? Thanks for your patience!

[njrk97]

I apologise about the Delay i am rather busy through this week. So you need to add the tweaks to your swords to your app itself by editing your original post.

May be good to also add some paragraphing to your app,your history is a wall of text currently with no gaps.

[Sulfur]

Don't worry about any delays! I don't know what you're going through. Also, original post? I don't know what you mean... I`ll do that once I learn how. I added some paragraphing!

[njrk97]

So what's the Time Frame of your history,because the Crystal Gem factions only started existing about a year ago.So then how long was he in the cave for?

Also Gem mutants don't exist yet,remembering in the show they were made from the shards of Gems that died in the war,the war hasn't occurred yet,which means no shards of fallen soldiers and no reason fro Homeworld to make the cluster yet.

steven-universe-rp.proboards.com/thread/1236/full-plot-overview-divergences-homeworld?page=1&scrollTo=9441 If you haven't read that already it basically explains what differs from the show and how.

[Sulfur]

Heh, that was a typo I meant corrupted gem. I Added those times and I noticed that my history didn't match up with my bio information. I fixed that too. (If the history doesn't specify, Sulfur isn't immensely powerful, he's only crafty. that's how he can shatter so many gems)

[njrk97]

I mean as a extra bit of info,the corruption also only started after the cutoff about two yeas ago give or take, so in terms of timeline


• (Unavailable) Gems arrived on Earth, now it’s near impossible to pin down exactly when they came to Earth. Pearl mentions they were around when hunter gather societies still existed. This by itself is inconsistent though as hunter gather cultures have existed since 70,000 years ago and still exist somewhat today. Peridot’s line about dominant life forms seems to also imply that gems may have been present since when dinosaurs existed, which is between 230 and 65 million years ago. So basically gems have been around since before recorded human history it seems.

• (Unavailable) Over the course of several thousand or million years they begin setting up some gem structures, along with the warps. Only a small amount of resources are given to the planet though making construction a very slow process

• (4000 BC) Construction was going at a still slow pace. Blue Diamond and Pink Diamond decided to visit this new planet. An incident caused a Ruby and Sapphire in Blue Diamond’s court to fuse. Although she initially planned to have them be broken. Pink Diamond stepped in and requested the gems be kept alive and moved under her control, claiming that may open up some new medical possibilities for damaged gems.

• (2013 AD/2013): The Homeworld warps are mysteriously destroyed and the communication hub is sabotaged. Leaving all gems on Earth stranded. Along with this the ‘corruption’ begins infecting gems and turning them into monsters.

• (2015 AD/2015) The Communication hubs crackles to life with a one way transmission. Rose Quartz sending out a desperate message to the gems on Earth, she explains about how she couldn’t stand by and watch another planet be destroyed and that she was responsible for the damaged warps and communication hub. Trapped on Homeworld to try and keep the warps down, she begs all those on Earth to fight and protect the planet, decreeing that all those who fight for Earth will no longer be shackled by their caste, but instead will be united under one name, the ‘Crystal Gems’ and marked with a star of the sky above. With that the message ends and Rose’s fate is left a mystery.

Its that, so you would of started many thousand years ago,been trapped for a very long time and probably only emerged around 2013, since you cite going after corrupted gems which only started existing during and after 2013, two years later you encountered the spattering of Crystal gems and you likely only reformed half a year ago or something similar, since its 2016 now, the Crystal gems started forming in 2015, so you would need to join them,pondered betraying them, get defeated and then reform. So having all that set a year ago would be sorta rushing since it would almost be at the same time as the Crystal Gems forming. So you may want to specify that you getting cracked/betraying them only happened around half a year ago or something.

[Sulfur]

Alright! Half a year is good!