Spinel

* Current
* Time-Bomb
* Stealth

### Likes

Food and eating, lasagna, running, games, sleeping, play-fighting, playing, adventures, races, jokes, laughing, making new friends, singing.

### Dislikes

Abandonment, hunger, boredom, annoyance, being woken up, her friends in danger or threatened, being underestimated, betrayal, liars.

### Goal

To know her boundaries and be wary of holding the team back
To have fun with Junior, Steven and the gems and share her experience with the Diamonds.

## Media

### Debut

Escapees (Starlink)

―The Good Egg | ”

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**Spinel** is a member of the **Speedstars** and is the fastest in the group. She first meets Bowser. Jr when he, Steven and Garnet saved her in the volcanic mineral land, the Crystallised Kindergarten, from Dr. Atari, and his military of bio-mutants, of which they call "monsters". She adopts the role and responsibility as the agile and nimble one of the team, complimented by her spontaneous expertise.

## **Background**

### **Distinctive features**

Spinel has a lavender pink complexion with dark jam-coloured red, messy hair, she has three strikes on both of her eyes which reminiscent of running mascara from tears, with black eyebags beneath her eyes. Her eyes are ruby red, but vary depending on her emotions, they can become small and pupil-less if confused or scared, or large and dilated when angry or unhinged, and normal size means she's calm. Spinel frequently wears a tyrian purple-maroon hoodie with an razzmatazz red coloured inverted heart placed where her gems is located. The remainder of her clothing consists of puffy medium violet-red coloured shorts, hot pink wrist-length gloves, white stockings, and a pair of knee-high pointy boots of the same colour as her shorts.

#### **Upgraded (Time-Bomb)**

In her upgraded mission form, Spinel wears a free speech blue coloured hooded puffer jacket, usually unzipped, with midnight express black and lavender blue stripes, many of the stripes being cut off with downward arrows representing the shape of her gem. Her hood and collar has lavender blue fluff which covers most of her neck and face. She has skiing goggles, which she typically keeps above her face. Beneath her jacket, she wears a sleeveless valhalla violet shirt, with gloves of the same colour. Her gloves are padded in the form of a paw, with rings around her wrists and spikes on the top of the gloves. Her gloves also manufactured to assert and retract her claws from the finger slots, the claws are sharp enough to pierce skin. Spinel also wears midnight express black, baggy shorts, with white streaks down either sides. Her jester boots and leggings remain the same shape, despite being a different colour, with rings around her ankles.

#### **Stealth**

Spinel wears a stealth suit mainly composed in dark colours for camouflage. She wears the same sleeveless valhalla violet shirt instead with a high collar. Her parka jacket remains unzipped and maintains a midnight express blue colour, with luminescent free speech blue streaks along her arms and collar. On either sides of her jacket are brands, representing the brands printed on formula one racing suits. Replacing her shorts, she wears long, baggy pants which gets thinner down to her ankles, matching the same colour as her jacket. Her gloves are puffier and bigger to hold the weight of her longer and sharper claws, which are sharp enough to pierce walls and bone.

Spinel has the symbol of a spotted hyena which is represented on her mask to aid her stealth. The mask has angular eyes with crossed irises which are indicative of the movement of her eyes. The eyes of the masked in enhanced to match that of a typical hyena, having sharp vision in the dark. The vision of the mask is enhanced with a night vision filter in order to move around strategically in the dark. The mask has a permanent smile, however, the eyebrows and eyes can be moved depending on face expression. The ears are also moveable based on emotion.

#### Voice

She speaks with a slight New York accent, typically resembling an old-fashioned cartoon character. Her voice is quite high-pitched and her vocabulary is often old slang, with words such as "gee" and "swell". Her vocal range can vary depending on her mood, being higher when happy, and more raspy when angry or sad.

### **Personality and traits**

―To Peridot and Ruby, The Good Egg | ”

Spinel is very goofy, playful, spontaneous and rambunctious, with a personality respective of comedic relief. However, her personality varies continually. She can be extremely laid-back, carefree and easy-going, and spends time lounging, snacking, scratching his back, and other minimal activities labelled as lazy pastimes. Or, she can be exuberant and boisterous, and thirsty for adventure. Her street-smarts is inherited from her exuberance. Spinel has a wide appetite; and has desires and passion for unending food. She can even behave unhinged and ferine, and sometimes explosive mannerisms. Her wide field of expertise gives her the advantage of playful ambushes and pranks she likes to pull on her friends. Her actions may even lead to uncontrollable laughter and her eyes spiralling, and could also make her clumsy.

She can also be brutal when angered, typically shown against an opponent. Spinel also would lounge around with the posture of a quadruped, in which her body language indicates her emotions; hunching her back over shows she is relaxed or uninterested, or sitting upright shows her strength or motivation. Despite her usual juvenile behaviour, Spinel is extremely intelligent and cunning. She is extremely alert and uses her quick thinking and intelligence to sense incoming targets. Spinel is also very trusting and mature; she is noticeably less clingy, and understands human emotions to a profound degree and takes matters such as love, trust, and being true to yourself quite seriously, she also can show understanding towards others and provide comfort.

## **Powers and abilities**

She presumably has standard Gem abilities.

### Unique Abilities

* **Elasticity**: Similarly to old-fashioned cartoons, Spinel is extremely elastic and malleable, able to stretch her limbs and torso to great lengths and inflate body parts to strengthen her attacks. She uses this to increase the range of her attacks, able to reach enemies from a distance. She can also coil her extended limbs to form a spring with an inflated fist at the end. She even displayed the ability to become as flat as the ground and slither across it, in an almost semi-liquid like state. She's even able to coil one of her fingers into making a type of horn that activates and deactivates her injector. There appears to be no limit as to how far she can stretch.
	+ **Rubber Physiology**: Spinel also possesses physiology similar to rubber or putty. This allows her to jump great distances and bounce off surfaces; this is exploited when Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl stretch and then shoot her body like a slingshot.
* **Agility**: Spinel has the ability to run and react frantically, especially while on all fours. She can jump to great heights and sense things that could be approaching quietly.
* **Twister Dash**: She has the ability to quickly dash in the style of a twister due to her elasticity properties.
* **Flight:** Spinning her legs like helicopter blades, she can slow her fall even when carrying a heavy object. This is seen in "Homeworld Bound" when she saves Steven from falling.
* **Figure-Eight**: In "Homeworld Bound", she is shown to be able to run incredibly quickly, making her legs look like a figure eight, similar to the "Super Peel Out" from *Sonic The Hedgehog CD*.
* **Spin Dash**: In "Homeworld Bound", she's able to dash similarly to Amethyst and Jasper.

### Skillset

* **Scythe Proficiency**: The non-summoned weapon Spinel wields is a Gem Rejuvenator that has the appearance of a scythe. Spinel was adept enough at wielding it that she was easily able to defeat three of the Crystal Gems with one strike. In conjunction with the weapon, Spinel's ability to stretch works greatly in her favour as it allows her to greatly increase the range of the scythe, allowing her to swipe at many different angles and increase the power behind it when she stretches far enough allowing the recoil to strengthen the attack made by the weapon.

### Additional Tools

* **Soul Smasher**: She obtained this via a blacksmith's place once used by Bismuths in the Crystallised Kindergarten. It serves as a hammer tool used to help defeat Bowser and his enemies.

## **Statistics**

* Collision Archive
* Collision Analysis

Spinel's stats, according to the Collision Archive

Spinel's stats, according to the Ultra Analysis Book

## **Trivia**

* Spinel's inspiration by Tigger was not only for his overly energetic, reckless and rambunctious personality, but for her being the "only one". Spinel is presumably the only gem of her kind ever created, and so is Tigger, making them both unique and the only one.
	+ As stated by Rebecca Sugar, Spinel's powers are mainly inspired by Luffy from One Piece. Luffy is also known for eating large amounts of food, and this trait was also given to Spinel, but mostly inspired by Amethyst.
* Spinel and Steven see and treat each other as siblings, and show a stronger bond during the series.
* Spinel's favourite food is lasagna.
* Spinel is the oldest gem in the Worlds Colliders.

## **References**

 **Unfused Members:** Ruby • Sapphire • Peridot • Lapis Lazuli • **Spinel**
**Fused Members:** Garnet • Sunstone • Smokey Quartz • Rainbow Quartz 2.0 • Opal • Sardonyx • Sugilite
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