Envy

***Envy*** is an unspecified Gem that escaped from Homeworld alongside the Crystal Gems. Although he is not officially a true member of the Crystal Gems, he remained with them due to being restrained by his collar.

## Appearance

Envy is a fairly taller Gem, about the same height as Pearl, as such standing well over other members of the Crystal Gems excluding Garnet. He has a fair complexion to his skin mirroring to Human skin, with dark pink eyes. His hair is shaggy and grew down to the base of his back, the style similar to a Quartz Gem with bands of hair often covering his ears. In his mouth is a set of sharpened teeth. His main outfit consists of a black crop top, skort, elbow length fingerless gloves, stocking-like footwear that exposes the heels and toes, along with a matching headband with a triangular symbol on it. On his neck is a Gem Collar, having the Diamond Authority diamonds lining the front of it (blue, white, and yellow).

## Personality

Envy, by his nature as he would often put it, is fairly untrusting, devious, uncaring, and sly. Envy considers himself a master trickster, and impressionist thanks to his abilities. In "Homeworld Escape", he is shown clever enough to even trick Sapphire (a Gem able to see the future) into helping him escape his cell in the Human Zoo only for him to ditch her almost immediately afterwards. Envy finds major enjoyment in causing pain, both physically and emotionally, and simply seeing how much his words can affect others or even just watching others fight eachother is enjoyable for him. Sometimes though he can get so caught up in the enjoyment that he is hardly about to control himself, often becoming impulsive and irrational during these states.

Possibly contributing to his pleasure in seeing others suffer, he is surprisingly sensitive when it comes to personal critique, as even minor critiques against his appearance or his abilities were enough to set him off. This is shown numerous times in the comic, including threatening a pair of Homeworld Hares to tear their tongues out after one of them called him a defect, and just as willing to fight Ben after he compared his teeth to that of a sloth.

## History

### Volume 01. Arrival

Envy is first seen as merely a silhouette within one of the deeper chambers of the Human Zoo, put there as a criminal against the Diamond Authority. While there, he starts belittling the Homeworld Hare guards coming to check on Sapphire, telling them that they should be the lucky ones to not be destroyed yet, and that they'll all be dead before they would know it. One of the guards calls him a "disgusting defect", which quickly sets him off and makes him shock the gem field keeping him inside, though it's later shown he just did this to scare them away to show how weak they really were. Once the guards do leave, he starts chatting with Sapphire, wanting to know what she did to end up in the same prison as he is, as it takes a very major crime to end up there with him. He also asks about what she plans to do to get out, and he manages to convince her to tell him by saying how they all were on borrowed time and making a bargain saying that if they get him out, he'll help them with the same. He also adds that the Diamonds won't keep her friends alive forever. With that said, once Steven Universe shows up and lets Sapphire out, Envy is also freed from his prison. Immediately after getting out, he starts attacking the guards, poofing Holly Blue Agate and injuring Campion on the way out. Afterwards however, he ditches the two, and rubs in the fact that a sapphire shoulda known he would be lying to them and mocks her for her stupidity before racing off to try and escape.

He shows up later in the volume in "The Crystal Gems", him more subdued than before, staying with the Crystal Gems this time and now wearing a gem collar on his neck. As they're searching for Steven, he ends up zapping an overly-panicking Pearl, justifying it saying that the others weren't doing any better, and proceeds to mock them a little bit (specifically calling Amethyst "pipsqueak"). He doesn't do all that much when the team find Kimba, but once they start to fight him, he gleefully joins in the fray and starts going for the white lion cub, him being the only one to make a direct hit and causing Kimba to bleed. He calls dibs on "hiding the dead body", but he is grabbed by Garnet to make him stop. He thrashes and gets riled up so much that it sets off his gem collar, electrocuting him to the point of making him collapse onto the ground.

Next time he's seen he just stayed silently with the Gems. The only other time he speaks is in "The Council Meeting" as Ben checks on him, saying that he should just pass him as he doesn't care if they join or not. However, he is judged anyway, and this angers him into wanting to attack Ben, only for Garnet to stop him again.

## Abilities

* **Electrokinisis** - Envy is able to release a special kind of electricity from his body in the form of lightning bolts, capable of stunning and even killing other beings if he so wanted to. Even a small shock from him is enough to knock another person off their feet. He has control over this ability, but when he becomes angered or excited, his powers become less stable and static electricity shoots out from his body.
* **Heightened Resilience** - Unlike most other normal Gems, Envy is shown to be able to resist gem-based technology. In "Homeworld Escape", he places his hands onto the gem field in his cell without his form glitching out, but is shown not strong enough to break through said barrier.
* **Sharpened Fingers** - Possibly a minor yet common shapeshifting trick, Envy can turn his fingers into pointed blades, strong enough to slice into flesh with relative ease.