Demantoid

**Demantoid** is a Homeworld Gem who is one of the main antagonists and a boss in "Unleash the Light". She is an Era 2 Garnet who by Era 3 was one of the last holders of one of the remaining Light Prisms.

## Biography

### Emegerging and Early Work

Demantoid emegred and was made because of the Gem Boom of Era 2 by Yellow Diamond as many gems were lost in The Rebellion and more and more gems needed to be made. She was given limb enhancers and a Prism after emerging while becoming closely acquainted with Hessonite as assigned by Yellow Diamond. Her main duty was being a supervisor, while also operating her prism. It was also thought these duties, she met Pyrope and became aquatinted with her.

### Assistance with Pyrope

After becoming aquatinted with Pyrope, Demantoid began assisting Pyrope with duties for both Blue and Yellow Diamond. It was during this time as well that Pyrope would revive her own prism. Pyrope would constantly brag to Demantoid that she had a prism and the prism was better than hers. However, Demantoid didn't care about it as she would just shake her head and go back to what she was doing.

### Era 3 Rouge

By the time Era 3 came thanks to Steven, Demantoid and Pyrope cut off their colonies' communications with Homeworld, made their Gems build in solitude, banned them from speaking about Era 3 and replaced them with constructs from her and Pyrope's Prisms, while she locked some of her colony gems away.

She first appeared on a monitor when Steven and his friends approached the Palace before Pyrope sent them off. Pearl later hacked into her transmissions and overheard her planning on heading to Crystal System Colony 215. When the Crystal Gems confronted her on another unfinished colony she expressed her knowledge of Era 3 stating the Gem Empire and the Great Diamond Authority had become "obsolete"; she took notice of Hessonite's former Prism George in their possession and stated she upgraded her own. When the Gems tried to contain her Prism for a while with the Prism Containment Chest she had her Prism knock it away before the Bismuths originally working on her colonies confronted her as well. She then used her Prism to poof Bismuth and fled the colony.

When the Crystal Gems were heading through the Palace she appeared on another monitor alongside Pyrope when Hessonite met the Crystal Gems again; she was cut off by Pyrope before being able to inform her of Hessonite's disguise to her irritation. After the Gems faced Pyrope, she showed up, pointed out her fellow Homeworld Gem's arrogance and questioned Pyrope's ignorance of Hessonite's identity when she revealed herself. Demantoid then snatched George away with her limb enhancers to combine with the other Prisms and silenced Steven when he tried reaching out to George before Hessonite did it herself. When the Prisms separated, she became angry and refused to follow Pyrope's orders anymore; she ultimately had her Prism taken by Bismuth which also took away her limb enhancers, making her even more frustrated and causing her to argue with Pyrope, saying she did all the work. Not too long afterwards, she and Pyrope lunged at one another, resulting in them poofing themselves.

### Slowly Changing and Present Day

She later reformed in 2019, and began to live with Hessonite, Pyrope and George. After being told by Hessonite to move on, she begrudgingly did so, and moved on by 2021. Much like Pyrope, she is currently is seen a few times in public and occasionally comes to Earth, most notably when she, Pyrope, George and Hessonite would stay on Earth during December 2022.

Later in January 2024, Demantoid moved to Little Homeworld on Earth alongside Hessonite, George, and Pyrope because of Hessonite wanting to be closer with the other Crystal Gems. As of today, Demantoid is slowly trying to adapt to Earth.

## Appearance

Demantoid's build is similar to that of Hessonite but smaller. She has dull yellow-green and a dull cool green hairstyle resembling an afro. She has a unibrow and a yellow eyepatch-like visor on her right eye as well as dull cool green eyes. She wears a black and green uniform with shoulder pads. Due to her small size she utilized limb enhancers that were programmed with her Prism bigger than those of other Homeworld Gems functioning as a mech of sorts.

## Personality

Demantoid acted in a robotic, pragmatic and businesslike manner, rarely showing emotions, speaking in a calm yet analytical tone and being exasperated by the proclamations of others. When angry her expressions drastically changed and she could be very fierce. She firmly believed older Gems ruined everything and newer Gems like her had to fix it. She got angry when her limb enhancers were taken with her Prism and angrier at Pyrope.

## Relationships

### Hessonite

Hessonite was one of the first gems Demantoid met. Demantoid most of the time was obedient to Hessonite's orders as Hessonite was higher than her in ranks.

### Pyrope

Pyrope was closely acquainted with Pyrope. While they were not really friends, they worked with each other to try and seize rulership, which ultimately culminated in the two arguing about how their failure was each other's fault ending with them attacking and poofing each other. However as of 2023, Demantoid and Pyrope having made amends with each other.

## Abilities

Demantoid posses standard Gem abilities with bubbling, shapeshifting, fusion, regeneration, agelessness, and superhuman strength/durability.

### Skillset

* Light Prism: Demantoid owned a Prism of Light which she used to fight the Crystal Gems. Unlike the other two Prisms, Demantoid managed to upgrade hers, thus being able to create her own version of limb enhancers. However, it was eventually taken away from her.

### Additional Tools

* Limb Enhancers: Demantoid had a pair of limb enhancers that were constructed from her Prism, although they were bigger than the ones which Peridot originally had. However, they were immediately deconstructed when Demantoid lost her Prism.
* Tractor Beam: Demantoid was able to produce a tractor beam from her left hand to move objects/people, however the color of her tractor beam is unknown.
* Blaster: Demantoid could use either of her limb enhancers arms to blast her opponents like Peridot.
* Helicopter Fingers: Demantoid was originally able to expand the fingers of either limb enhancer hand and spin them rapidly enough to fly, the only difference being she uses both hands whilst Peridot used one.

## Gemstone

Demantoid's gemstone is located above her hairline appearing embedded in her frontal lobe area. It is green and somewhat rectangular with facets around the edge.

## Trivia

* Grumpyface Studios when designing Demantoid they were asked to reference military strategists like Napoleon Bonaparte, with Bonaparte quite possibly being the main inspiration of Demantoid, despite Demantoid being female and Bonaparte was male.