Yellow Zirconia

* Current
* Era 1

Yellow Zirconia is a Homeworld Gem that exists within the Mars AU. She is a leader of the Cubic Zirconia spy ring.

## Appearance

Yellow Zirconia is fairly tall, roughly the same height as the fusion Garnet, with pale yellow skin and green eyes with triangular pupils. Her hair is gold in color and styled in a pixie cut. She has a square chin, a pointed nose, and thin lips. Her Gemstone is on her left shoulder.

Yellow Zirconia wears an orange top and pants with red sleeves, a gold vest with a knee-length train, a red belt, and dark orange long gloves and knee-length boots.

## Personality

Yellow Zirconia is a friendly, emotional Gem; while she tries to maintain a calm and collected front among the Lesser Zirconias, in private she is unafraid to express herself. She is conflicted with her new role as a leader of a spy ring, feeling that spying on the Gems of the empire is wrong.

## Abilities

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

### Unique Abilities

* **Enhanced Shapeshifting:** As a Cubic Zirconia, Yellow Zirconia is capable of shapeshifting that is more adept than that of the average Gem; she doesn't typically use this ability.
* **Form Manipulation:** Yellow Zirconia can directly control the physical forms of other Gems, without mind control. This includes not only puppeteering them, but also forcing them to shapeshift. Her manipulation is typically temporary, but it can cause severe, lasting damage if taken too far—especially in the case of Era 2 Gems.

## Relationships

### Blue Zirconia

Yellow Zirconia seldom interacts with Blue Zirconia due to them both being busy all the time. However, when they do interact, it is usually in the form of heated arguments.

### Pink Zirconia

Yellow and Pink Zirconia were very close prior to the latter's disappearance. In private, she mourns for her, presuming her to have been shattered during the war.

### White Zirconia

Yellow Zirconia is one of only a few Gems that know of White Zirconia's true nature, and their relationship is not unlike that between Yellow and Blue Diamond. However, she has vowed to keep it a secret, especially from the Lesser Zirconias they command.

### Yellow Diamond

Yellow Zirconia and her Diamond were never close, due to their conflicting demeanors. Since the formation of the Zirconia spy ring, the two Gems only interact when Yellow Zirconia is giving her Diamond updates.

## 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 yellow color, cerium, copper, iron, nickel, praseodymium, and titanium 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 yellow gemstone, yellow cubic zirconia can be assumed to be associated with confidence and self-expression.

## Gallery

Yellow Zirconia's old designYellow Zirconia's old Gemstone design