Pearl

**Pearl** is a member of the Crystal Gems, one of the older members as she herself survived through the Gem War thousands of years ago, alongside Rose Quartz as one of her first allies.

## Appearance

Pearl is a tall gem with an ivory complexion to her. Her height makes her taller than most members on her team, with a few exceptions such as Garnet. Her hair is smooth, short, and is pointed to the back of her head whereas it circles around both her face and her gemstone. Said gemstone is located at the top of her forehead. Other details on her include a pointed nose, light blue eyes, an oval-shaped head, and slender limbs with a thin frame.

Pearl's outfit is more stylized than others in the crystal gems, consisting of numerous colors: her light blue suit is covered by a short-sleeve orange top, with a dull yellow-green star at the center of it, connecting to a V-neck. She has a similarly yellow-green belt on, with itself connects to a flail behind her that is split in a V shape. This is often compared by the animals in the Bajelous to that of a swallow tail. She wears pink knee-long shorts with peach-colored shoes.

## Personality

Thanks to her thousands of years of experience, she has extensive knowledge about Gem culture, in similar sense to Peridot. The main difference though is that Pearl is more familiar with "Era 1" Homeworld, as opposed to "Era 2". Pearl is often shown being more emotionally expressive than the other Gems of her group: although she can usually be calm, caring, and focused when she needs to be, she often succumbs to fears or emotional pressure faster than most especially when it plays off of her anxieties or threatens those she cares for. This is often shown throughout the earlier volumes as she's learning of the situation on Earth since she was last there, finding it overwhelming more than most. This is later better handled, and she doesn't do it as often, yet she does still fall under these emotions now and then.

Although she does hold a value to Earth and its life, she has shown a number of times in thinking that animals can't do as much as Gems can, going as far as to consider the Bajelous Gem War as lie when she first hears it from Fox, as she's ever only been involved in the Rebellion and doesn't remember animals being involved in it.

## History

Although most of her past isn't fully known, she does reveal that she was involved in (and survived through) the previous gem war known simply as the Rebellion, that occurred over 5,000 years ago. Even after surviving the initial war, she has remained loyal to the crystal gems ever since.

### Volume 01. Arrival

Although not directly mentioned, she was one of the Crystal Gems put under arrest and locked away in the Human Zoo until their recent escape. Although successful, she ended up poofed upon entering Earth, as the Red Eye they used crash-lands nearby the Bajelous Jungle.

After reforming, she and the others are quick to start searching the nearby Jungle for Steven. As they were, she inquires on if Garnet knows where Steven is. She is especially worried about the situation, including wherever Steven had gone, and as she recounts everything that happened to them in attempt to relax, all that does is make her panic even more, telling Garnet that everything will be okay as if Garnet was worrying, not her. She does stop briefly though when Envy zaps her, briefly knocking her out and weakening her. She does get up soon afterwards and is quickly on guard when Kimba is called out, leaving her questioning why the white lion isn't scared of them. Unfortunately, she immediately freaks out again the moment Kimba speaks, pointing her spear at him and demanding to know how he's able to talk as she thought only Humans were able to talk at the time. Her untrust is revealed to be her suspecting Kimba as a Gem hunter (a gem in disguise specifically) sent down by Homeworld to get them back - a suspicion only more enforced once Garnet starts accusing Kimba as one. Not wanting Kimba to tell Homeworld about them, she is the first to start attacking him. She continues to do so until they finally figure out he's not a Gem, though she does speak in defense of them claiming that this is entirely new to them.

Once everything calms down, she and the others eventually find Steven, her quick to go to Steven in tears and telling him how much she was scared for him and how different the world has become. She is shown later on that night in a much more distraught state thanks to Beach City being gone, and the "Human's Folly" story being told to them. She does try to calm Steven down, claiming that he still has them to look to for help.

At the springtime gathering following this, she arrives to it with the other gems to try and join the Bajelous Tribe. Although overall she handles the situation quietly, she does end up speaking out when Fox starts describing the Bajelous "Gem War", straight up accusing Fox of lying as she is only aware of the war SHE was in thousands of years ago. They both argue on about this until they both were silenced by Akela. From there she remains silent throughout the ordeal.

## Abilities

Pearl possesses standard known Gem abilities, which includes shapeshifting, regeneration, and agelessness.

* **Spear Proficiency**: As her main gem weapon consists of a spear, and possibly due to being through a war as well, Pearl is shown to be highly skilled in her spear-wielding. Often her fighting with this weapon is accompanied with grace and poise similar to a ballet.