Padparadscha

Category:Characters
Category:Secondary characters
Category:Off colors
Category:Defective
Category:Sapphires
Category:Gems
Category:Questers
Category:Homeworld gems
Padparadscha is an unaligned Gem. After escaping an abandoned Homeworld Kindergarten facility, she made her way to Earth on board the Sun Incinerator alongside Vincent Miller and other defective and abnormal Gems known as the Off Colors, eventually arriving alongside them in "Change Your Mind". While Sapphires are supposed to have visions into the future, Padparadscha's visions are of events that have occurred in the recent past. She made her debut in "Off Colors".
After the events of "Little Graduation", she and the rest of the Off Colors have returned to space.
== Personality ==
Padparadscha has a cheerful and kind personality. Despite being a Sapphire, her predictions are always late, leading her to announce events that have already transpired as if they have yet to happen. She seems to rely heavily on her predictions, causing her to have delayed reactions to things happening around her. This was shown to be detrimental to her safety when the Off Colors were under attack, with Vincent, Alice, Peridot, Squaridot and Rhodonite having to protect her, until Aquamarine and Zaza arrive. Despite actually witnessing the events she "predicts", her visions always seem to surprise her, making it possible her vision and sense of time as a whole are delayed.
== Physical Appearance ==
Padparadscha is a Gem with shorter height but a very similar appearance to Sapphire. She has a coral orange complexion, plump lips, and shoulder-length, pale peach hair, with bangs covering her eye and a cowlick on top of her head. Her attire consists of an off-white, peach, and reddish orange floor-length ruffled gown, with an red collar, orange shoulder pads, and elbow-length gloves, the gloves open around the back of her hand to reveal her gem. The dress is peach, and it has an reddish orange upper layer with an off-white trim and is tied back into a three-notched bow. Her dress is shaped like a peach and she has turquoise colored ball earrings, puffs spill from the bottom of her big gown, balls hang off the bottom. she also has a turquoise jewel on her chest. She has many pearl like jewels hanging off her shoulders, dress, and hair, giving her a shine. She has a mole on her right cheek as well, and a scar on left arm, it’s assumed this was inflicted by the gems who outcasted her. Her gemstone is located on the back of her right hand. 
== History ==
Padparadscha was considered defective and cast aside due to her visions being of events that have already occurred, rendering her visions useless. Eventually, she joined a group of other defective Gems, hiding with them in the tunnels of an abandoned Kindergarten to avoid being shattered and resided there for eons.
==== “Off Colors” ====
Padparadscha first appears from behind a pillar when Vinny, Alice, Peridot, and Squaridot enter the Kindergarten. She then predicts that the Rutile Twins will bring four strangers to their current location. Moissanite later explains that Padparadscha can only predict things that just happened. When the Shattering Robonoids appear again, she warns the others that they are about to be found, Aquamarine and Zaza burst through, while hitting the robonoids repeatedly. Unfortunately, more appear. When Vincent is scanned, but not detected, she predicts that Vincent is safe from the Robonoids, which only target gems. Padparadscha's delayed reaction causes herself to be scanned, but she gets saved from the blast by Vincent. When Vinny is just brought back to life, she predicts that something incredible is going to happen to him.
==== “Vincent’s head” ====
After Alice, Zaza, Peridot, Squaridot, Aquamarine, Rhodonite, and the Rutile Twins leave Vincent to block the entrance, Padparadscha predicts Vinny will change in hue. She then warns the others to block the entrance after they already did that. When Alice and Peridot come back from Earth through Vincent' head, she tries to tell the Off Colors that theyre back, although the others already have moved on from that topic. Padparadscha shouts the Off Colors can't leave without Vincent when the rest already decided they won't leave without him.
later in the chapter, Aquamarine tries to sneak the off colors, and Vincent, off homeworld by putting them into a Roaming eye, which Rhodonite knows how to drive. They're eventually caught by Emerald, after Aqua is poofed, the off colors attempt to fight emerald and her soldiers. Many gems come to emerald's aid. Moissanite fights off Emeralds guards as Vincent rushes into Emerald’s ship instead of the Roaming eye, the angry green Gem was about to poof the Rutile twins and Padparadscha jumps on emeralds back, and covered her eye in an attempt to help the Rutile’s. Unfortunately she’s beaten off, but they’re both saved by Rhodonite as she poofs emerald with a gem destabilizer. They all escape onto Emerald’s ship with Aquamarine’s gem.
==== “Vinny of the stars” ====
Padparadscha, along with the rest of the Off Colors, and Aquamarine are led by Vincent, they escape the Homeworld Kindergarten and go on the run. They steal an Emerald's personal shuttle before crashing it on the planet Upsilon 9, travel to various planets, "impersonate imperial officers during a cosmic jubilee," and later sneak past sixty-seven elite Citrine guards to steal Emerald's fastest ship (the Sun Incinerator) from a docking bay on the planet Klavius 7. While Emerald contacts them through the ship, Padparadscha (now a technical advisor under "Captain Vinny") makes an oblivious late prediction that Emerald will discover and contact them. After Emerald threatens them, Vincent has the Rutile Twins pilot the ship into taking off in hyper-speed. Away from Emerald, Padparadscha continues to make her late predictions throughout the episode and seems unfazed by the chaos going on around her.
However, she does make one prediction that wasn’t late, like when she shouts “We’re about to be attacked by Rubies sent by Emerald!” Before it happens, that’s the only known time her future vision actually works.
==== “Your Mothers and mine” ====
Padparadscha tells Vincent that the ship is going to lose power from attempting to run the Nova Thrusters on the ship right after it happens. She then reacts late to Garnet shapeshifted into Peridot emerging from Vincent’s hair. She appears to be more subdued with her predictions, and when Garnet starts complimenting each of the Off Colors, by the time Garnet reaches Padparadscha, she correctly deduces how the others have been feeling uncomfortable with how Garnet has been praising them. She reacts late again when Garnet mentions Rose and Kiwi Quartz after the other Off Colors recite stories that have been told about them. Garnet tells them how Rose and Kiwi Quartz started the Rebellion and led all the Quester Gems through the war, with Padparadscha giving a prediction that the story does not have a happy ending after Garnet tells the Off Colors that the Diamonds attacked the Earth with the Diamond's corruption power. After Garnet provides a speech to improve the morale of the Off Colors, Lars commands his crew to return to fixing the thrusters and engine. Again, Padparadscha makes a deduction that Vincent was not pressing a correct button on his panel, and they manage to get the systems online.
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== Abilities ==
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== Gallery ==
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== Trivia ==
* Like Sapphire, Padparadscha uses They/She pronouns
* Shes Pansexual, but has more interest in girls 
* She sees Rhodonite, Sapphire and Zaza as her family, despite not knowing what that is.
* She loves peaches so so much
* she felt very sad when outcasted by the other red sapphires, until she was found by Rhodonite and the Rutile twins, she was brought to the abandoned kindergarten where Moissanite gave her a hole to reside in
* Shes surprisingly shorter than Zaza, while Sapphire is slightly taller, being Sarah’s size.
* Shes the youngest sapphire, and off color.
* Padparadscha's design strongly resembles both Princess Peach and Princess Daisy from the Super Mario series. 
** Additionally, padparadscha sapphires are also sometimes known as "peach sapphires" in real life.
** According to Rebecca Sugar, Sapphire is more Zelda-esque, while Padparadscha is more Peach-esque 
* Along with Pebbles, Sapphire, Jasper, Aquamarine and the Rutile Twins, she appears to lack a nose, but can still smell.
* She has the jewel on her chest to tie back to early concept art by Rebecca.
* According to Garnet in "Your Mother and Mine", orange Sapphires are rare, possibly more so than other Sapphires.
* Padparadscha's instrumental motif is synth pad similar to Sapphire's.
* Padparadscha's name is derived from the Sanskrit words "padma ranga", which mean "color of the lotus flower".