Lapis Lazuli

Lapis Lazuli, better known as Bob, is a character from the American animated television series Steven Universe. In the Daniel Fuenmayor Ledesma version, he is an almost characteristic person and a rare combination with Fred Jones from Scooby-Doo (version by Samster5677) and Sam Puckett from iCarly/Sam & Cat due to his personality. She is best known member of Danko Ledesma crew.
==History==
===Pre-2020s===
During her alignment with the Gem Homeworld, she was caught in the crossfire of The Rebellion and got poofed by Bismuth. Homeworld mistook her for one of the Crystal Gems and imprisoned her within a magical mirror with the intention of interrogating her about her supposed comrade's whereabouts. 
After being abandoned by the Homeworld Gems fleeing the Corrupting Light, Lapis would remain in the mirror for thousands of years until she eventually convinced Steven to free her. Once Lapis returned to Homeworld, she was forced back to Earth by Peridot and Jasper, the latter of whom she fused with into Malachite in order to protect Steven. 
Following Malachite's defeat in "Super Watermelon Island", Lapis realized she had no choice but to live on Earth after betraying Jasper, subsequently making her an enemy of Homeworld. Lapis decided to live at The Barn with Peridot. At one point, Lapis admits to Steven she enjoyed being Malachite, as it allowed her to take her anger out on someone. However, when Jasper returns soon afterwards, Lapis refuses her offer to become Malachite once again and chooses Steven and healing herself over giving into anger.
Lapis formed a strong bond with Peridot during their time living together, until the threat of another war between Earth and Homeworld scared Lapis into fleeing to the Moon, taking the barn with her, but leaving Peridot behind. Steven later found her at the Moon Base and attempted to convince Lapis to return, but she refused out of fear. Lapis returned in "Reunited" and assisted the Crystal Gems in the fight against Blue Diamond, becoming a member of the team in the process.
===Present===
When everything is solved, he cleans up the debris and has fun with everyone. She appears in "Bluebird", where she makes sculptures and in "Why So Blue?", where she encounters two lapis lazulis which continue to terraform worlds, and she tries to stop them along with Steven. She shows them the beauty of life without destroying things, but they don't like it, even after Lapis sang "Shining Through". They mock her by comparing her to pearls, and continue terraforming. Lapis loses her patience and goes to attack them, and they continue the fight. They are about to cut her with a saw until Lapis gets fed up with her and creates a giant water clone of her, and decides to destroy them. But then Steven looks at her sadly and she reconsiders, and apologizes to the lapis lazulis, but tells them no more terraforming. They accept her order but only because of her "great show of strength", to which Lapis tells them that that was not strength, since true strength comes from patience. She leaves sad and reveals that she is upset because they remind her a lot of her old self, but is interrupted by Lapis Buena who decides to try to change her and go to school.
==Appearance==
===2020 version===
Lapis wore a backless blue halter crop top with an upward-facing navy triangle, which ties into a blue sash ribbon on the back of her shoulders. She also wore a flowing cobalt blue skirt, which is calf-length with a downward-facing navy triangle around the waist, and was barefoot.
In 2021, Lapis wears a backless, halter crop tank top that is blue on top and navy on the bottom resembling half a star. She also wears puffy dark-blue pants, which represent the second half of the star tied up by a bronze-gold ribbon, and matching sandals. It can be noted that Lapis' hair and skin colors are slightly different shades. Her hair is longer and messier in the back and fringe, while the bangs on the sides of her face are a little shorter. Her summoned wings have a darker shade of blue now, but it isn't confirmed if it is intentional or a mistake.
===2024 version===
Now Lapis has a ponytail in her hair, a black leather jacket, jeans, and black heels. 
==Personality==
In 2020 version, she has a somewhat neutral attitude, but in doing this, she shows that she has a benevolent side. Despite this, she showed some cowardice in expecting mercy from the Homeworld Gems, although she later fused with Jasper. It has also been seen that she is selfless, such as in the episode "Barn Mates" where she is not interested in Peridot's feelings or gifts (although she later worries about her), this is also seen again in "Hit the Diamond" where she is not She shows a lot of interest in playing and seems a little bored.
In 2024 version, his personality is more cheerful and positive, having more fun, finally being free leaving behind their past traumas. Lapis is portrayed as a tomboyish, sarcastic, mild aggressive gem. It is possible that her behavior is a way to prevent people from getting close and hurting her. 
==Abilities==
===Natural abilities===
* Enhanced Durability: Lapis appears to be rather durable, surviving the crash of Peridot's spaceship without needing to retreat into her gemstone to heal.
* Enhanced Strength: Lapis has slightly superhuman strength, enabling her to lift fragments of Peridot's warship while injured and to crush her recorder without effort. Lapis is also stronger than two of the other Lapis gems seen in the show despite not being a gem made for combat.
=== Unique abilities ===
* Hydrokinesis: Lapis Lazuli has immense power over water and liquid material. She also can control liquids that are only partially composed of water, such as orange juice. She used the Earth's entire ocean to her advantage, even weighing opponents down. Lapis can form water into various constructs that she can control, including hands to smite enemies or use as a platform, chains to entangle or trap enemies with, divide the sea to make a path, and form a section of the Atlantic Ocean into a space elevator. Her power is enough to stun Blue Diamond for a short period and restrain Steven while he was transformed into a giant gem monster. 
**Water Generation: In addition to manipulating existing liquid, Lapis can generate a certain amount of water from her gem. It is unknown whether the water is somehow stored within her gemstone, or if she simply condensed the water molecules in the air into a liquid form.
**Water Form Manipulation: Lapis can change the state of matter of water, causing it to turn into ice. This is first shown when she creates an ice wall when fused as Malachite to protect herself from the arrows fired by Alexandrite in the episode "Super Watermelon Island". She can also manipulate the density of the ice formed, as the water weapons created by the clones were strong enough to contend with the actual weapons of the Crystal Gems.
** Thermal Manipulation: In the episode "Ocean Gem", the water clones of the Crystal Gems she created had their weapons made out of condensed hot/boiling water (steam starts to form), meaning that she can change the temperature of water to do some more damage.
** Hydromimicry: Lapis can use her control over water to create flawless, powerful Water Clones of her enemies, akin to Pearl's Holo-Pearls, which possess the same fighting styles as the originals (water Garnet's strength, water Amethyst's constant shapeshifting, etc.) They also can regenerate when damaged and even split to create new clones, making them effectively invincible against most attacks. The only thing that has been shown damaging them was a sound wave from Steven's shield.
** Water Bubbles: Lapis can form water bubbles that can contain objects. These bubbles are similar to standard [em Bubbles but instead, hold liquid. She uses them in the episode to contain the rubies in the episode "Earthlings".
** Water-Walking: In "Ocean Gem", it is shown that Lapis can walk and run on the surface of the water using her Hydrokinesis, she also managed to let Steven walk in the water for a while.
* Water Wings: Lapis can summon and remove water wings-like constructs, which can propel her at high velocities as an evasive maneuver or as a method of transportation. Her wings have allowed her to fly between planets and reach Homeworld from Earth in less than a year. Unlike her other abilities, Lapis cannot summon her wings with a cracked gem.
** Water Fists: In "Change Your Mind", Lapis was shown altering the shape of her water wings (i.e. into fists).
* Memory Projection: Lapis can project any of her memories onto a mirror-like surface, an ability she was still able to use while trapped in the mirror. While she uses this ability, her eyes lose their pupils and become silvery and reflective, similar to how they looked when her gemstone was cracked.
* Pathokinesis Resistance: Due to the variety of traumatic and stressful experiences she has been through, Lapis is shown to be left virtually unaffected by Blue Diamond's incapacitating emotional waves, claiming "I've felt worse." Also, she is mentally strong enough to overtake and subdue Jasper for a long time when they were fused.
==Gallery==
===Vyond versions===
Lapis Lazuli (Season 1-2) (001).png|Lapis Lazuli first appearance
Lapis Lazuli (Season 3-4) (001).png|2020 version (from season 3-4)
Lapis Lazuli (Vyond).png|2021 version (season 4 only)
===Others===
File:Lapis Lazuli Showing (PNG).png|Neutral Lapis Lazuli
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File:Angried Lapis Lazuli PNG.png|Do not piss Lapis Lazuli off
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