Blue Zirconia

* Current
* Era 1

Blue Zirconia is a Homeworld Gem that lives in the Crucible. She is a leader of the Cubic Zirconia spy ring.

## Appearance

Blue Zirconia is tall for a Gem, about the same height as the fusion Garnet. She has a slender build with light blue skin, long pale blue hair, full lips, and blue eyes. Like all Cubic Zirconias, she has triangular pupils. Her Gemstone is on her right shoulder.

## Personality

Blue Zirconia is the most serious of the Greater Zirconias, maintaining a professional attitude even among her peers. She expects the Lesser Zirconias to follow her standard, and has been known to send Zirconias to re-education over such offenses as not standing at attention quickly enough. Considering her reaction minor annoyances like a Lesser Zirconia not being prompt enough for her, it is no surprise that she is terrifying when angry, to the point that even her fellow Greater Zirconias dread the thought of interacting with her and prefer to give her a wide berth.

## History

Blue Zirconia was made by and for Blue Diamond, for a purpose similar to that of other Greater Zirconias. She loyally served her Diamond for eons, impressing the Diamonds—even White herself—with her perceived perfection. However, as the empire expanded, it became increasingly difficult for the Cubic Zirconias, including Blue Zirconia, to maintain their same quality of work as before.

Rather than create more Cubic Zirconias, White Diamond decided that a new Gem type needed to be created; hence, the Moissanites were made. These new Gems proved to be more loyal and more "flawless" than their predecessors, so much so that the Diamond Authority considered scrapping the Cubic Zirconias entirely. While never told directly, Blue, White, and Yellow Zirconia all deduced this fairly quickly. The three started talking in secret, where they would discuss their options if they were declared obsolete.

Fortunately, this declaration never happened; while they were considering abandoning Homeworld, Pink Zirconia was taking matters in her own hands to prevent herself from being completely replaced. Working in tandem with Yellow and Blue Diamond, the Zirconia learned to use her shapeshifting to hide among the Crystal Gems. This venture, while ultimately resulting in Pink Zirconia's disappearance, was so successful that the Diamond Authority decided to mass-produce Cubic Zirconias and turn them into spies, with the original "Greater" Zirconias becoming their leaders.

At the same time the spy ring was being organized, Pink Diamond was supposedly shattered, sending Blue Diamond into a deep depression. She quickly came to rely on none other than Blue Zirconia for assistance in performing her duties. Despite already being busy with the spy ring, the Greater Zirconia did this without complaint, and continues to balance her work with the Lesser Zirconias and her work with Blue Diamond to this day.

## Abilities

Blue Zirconia, as an Era 1 Gem, has standard Gem abilities.

### Unique Abilities

* **Enhanced Shapeshifting:** As a Cubic Zirconia, Blue Zirconia is capable of shapeshifting that is more adept than that of the average Gem; she doesn't typically use this ability.
* **Aidoskinesis:** Like her Diamond, Blue Zirconia can manipulate the feelings of others; however, it is much more limited. She can induce humility in Gems, "draining" their confidence and making them more willing to obey authorities, even if they have spurned loyalties before. However, since she is altering feelings and not thoughts, she cannot directly force obedience, and, like with Blue Diamond's pathokinesis, the effects are only temporary.

## Relationships

### Blue Diamond

Blue Zirconia is entirely loyal to her Diamond. After Pink Diamond's supposed shattering, Blue Diamond began to struggle to perform her duties, and asked her Zirconia to assist her—a task she performed without complaint, despite this leaving her constantly busy.

### Pink Zirconia

Blue Zirconia didn't think highly of Pink Zirconia, but regardless mourns for her after her disappearance.

### White Zirconia

Blue Zirconia is one of the few Gems that knows of White Zirconia's true nature, but instead feigns a fear of her to help maintain the fellow Zirconia's façade. The two Gems have a slightly strained relationship, as White Zirconia has "bailed out" some of the Lesser Zirconias that Blue Zirconia sent to be re-educated, considering the reasons to be inappropriate.

### Yellow Zirconia

In Pink Zirconia's absence, Blue Zirconia and Yellow Zirconia have the most strained relationship between the Cubic Zirconias. The two seldom interact, but when they're in private, they have a tendency to get into heated arguments, often ending in Blue Zirconia using her aidoskinesis on Yellow Zirconia in anger.

### "Zero"

Blue Zirconia has a deep admiration for this particular Lesser Zirconia, and practically puts her on a pedestal as an example of what a Lesser Zirconia should be, much to the frustrations of the other Cubic Zirconias (Lesser and Greater alike).

## Trivia

* Blue Zirconia would be very upset in the event of Era 3. While the loss of the Homeworld structure would obviously bother her, the main source of her frustration would be Steven himself. She would consider him to be an off-color, barely even a Gem, that the Diamonds chose to listen to seemingly at random. Ultimately, the Zirconia would become reclusive and ill-tempered, not unlike Blue Diamond after the "shattering" of Pink.

## Gemstone

 Gemology

Gemstone Information

* Cubic zirconia (not to be confused with zircon) is a crystalline variant of zirconium oxide (ZrO2). It has a hardness of 8 to 8.5 on the Mohs hardness scale.
* Because zirconium oxide rarely forms crystals naturally, almost if not all cubic zirconia gemstones are synthetic. To get varying colors, different metals are added as coloring agents.
	+ To get a blue or violet color, cobalt, manganese, and neodymium are used.
* Cubic zirconia is almost exclusively used as a diamond simulant, or an inexpensive alternative to actual diamond. In fact, cubic zirconia is so inexpensive that its setting can be worth more than the stone itself.
* Despite being effectively synthetic, cubic zirconia, like many gemstones, is said to have metaphysical properties.
* Cubic zirconia is associated with mental clarity and enlightenment, and with the third eye and solar plexus chakras.
* Much like with diamonds, different colors of cubic zirconia are reported to have varying metaphysical properties.
	+ As a blue gemstone, it can be assumed that blue cubic zirconia is associated with communication and clarity.

## Gallery

Blue Zirconia's old designBlue Zirconia's old Gemstone design