Abandoned Spinel

Abandoned Spinel is a result after she was abandoned by Pink Diamond. She appears in *Steven Universe: The Movie.*

## Background

In her past, She used to be Pink Diamond's best friend of the Homeworld Gems. But then, Spinel was abandoned by Pink Diamond in order to turn Earth into a colony for Homeworld Gems. After realizing Pink was not going to come back to her and after hearing about Steven Universe, she decided a plan to destroy Earth, all organic life, and everything Steven loved. She was, however, redeemed and went to live on Homeworld with the diamonds.

In an alternate ending, she succeeds and was able to destroy the earth, but felt unsatisfied and started hunting all organic life on other planets.

## Appearance

Spinel's appearance is seemingly based on old-fashioned cartoons, such as the rubber hose style of animation. She has three black lines underneath both of her eyes, reminiscent of running mascara. Her clothing consists of a dark magenta top, pointy dark hot pink sleeves, dark magenta shorts, dark hot pink wrist-length gloves, white stockings, and a pair of magenta knee-high boots that are pointy at the top.

When Spinel became evil, she has a dark pink complexion, magenta eyes, a small pointy nose, and magenta hair that is styled into a pair of pigtails that are messy, and her eyelashes are hidden underneath her bangs. Her heart-shaped gemstone is also turned upside-down. Overall, her appearance is very similar to that of an old-fashioned cartoon and even inspired by Jenny Wakeman/XJ9 from *My Life as a Teenage Robot* and Dee Dee from *Dexter's Laboratory*.

## Personality

Spinel was heartbroken and brought to tears, after finding out that she'd been abandoned by Pink Diamond, and was utterly devastated by this information. After this, she became much more paranoid and on-guard. When she was accidentally Rejuvenated by Steven, she was much more clingy and was aggressive whenever Steven tried to leave her.

She took out her anger towards Steven, The Crystal Gems, and the entire earth in the process. She took sadistic joy in knowing that Earth would be destroyed and stated that after knowing Steven, she wanted to kill him even more.

## Abilities

* **Elasticity**: Seemingly looking like an old-fashioned cartoon, Spinel's attack patterns and movements are akin to it as well. She 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.
	+ 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.
* **Levitation**: When Steven sang "Change", she is seen to be able to levitate in the air for a while.
* **Twister Dash**: She has the ability, when dashing at Steven, to dash in the style of a twister due to her elasticity and physiology similar to rubber or putty.
* **Limb Separation**: Spinel is shown to have the ability to separate her limbs. When she does this, she still has control of them and can even make them float.

### Skillset

* **Scythe Proficiency**: The non-summoned weapon that Spinel wields is the Gem Rejuvenator which 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 favor 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.

### Tools

* **Rejuvenator**: She obtained this via access to Pink Diamond's armory and used it against the Crystal Gems until it got destroyed by Steven.

## Trivia

* The Art on the Info Box is made by Tyto Alba on *Twitter*.
* In gemology, spinels represent positivity, wealth, and happiness.
	+ For this, her gem is in the shape of a heart. The most common spinels are shaped like a water droplet. In order to be heart-shaped, both spinels are joined together side by side.
* Spinel is the only Gem, aside from Pink Diamond, who had her gemstone rotated.
* It is unknown why Pink abandoned Spinel after instigating the rebellion. Either Pink completely forgot about Spinel as she focused on the rebellion or left Spinel behind as an act of mercy from the horrors of the Gem War.
* Currently, Spinel isn't tied to the Yellow Steven AU at all, even though they're both based on the same property.
* Despite not appearing in the main series, Spinel is seemingly one of the most popular *Steven Universe* characters amongst fans.
	+ Tragically, it is noted that throughout the entirety of the main show's timeline, she was still waiting for Pink Diamond in the garden offscreen.