Spinel

Yusuke Urameshi

Minako Aino

Sally Acorn

Danny Fenton/Phantom

Jenny Wakeman/XJ-9

Lelouch vi Britannia

The Chipettes

The Powerpuff Girls

Teen Titans

Star Saber

Raditz

Skeletor

Spinel is a character from Steven Universe and is a major supporting character in AniCity. She was created 6,000 years ago to comfort the lonely Pink Diamond only to join her when she took up the identity of Rose Quartz to fight against their homeworld's supremacy over Earth. Now, in the modern day, she spends her time palling in AniCity, playing with her non-Gem friends or beating the snot out of bad guys.

## Personality

Spinel is very goofy and fun-loving, often bursting out with jokes or random laughter, even when it doesn't seem very appropriate. She can also be really clumsy at times, leading to rather disastrous results. However, while this usually happens because she doesn't have a full grasp on the situation but will usually occur when she feels like one of her friends needs some cheering up. She can even have random bouts of brilliance, like how she usually points out the smaller details that the others might've missed.

However, she becomes very serious when in the heat of battle. She's seen a good number of battles in her 6000 years and knows how dangerous they can be, especially to non-Gems, and always shows dedication to the mission above all else. At the same time though, in light of major crises he always attempts to provide a lighter tone. But while her attitude might mildly annoy her friends from time to time, she's one of the main factors that keeps them all together when they form a team with comfort and comedy bits in their darkest moments. She's practically the perfect type of moral support, always providing verbal aid to lift people's spirits and cheering on her buddies to give them that extra little boost to help them overcome their foes.

## History

### Pre-Series

After the other Diamonds took away Pink's first Pearl, they created Spinel specifically to act as her "best friend", often playing games with her and entertaining her in a garden Blue had made just for the two of them to play in. When Pink was finally given her colony, Earth, she took Spinel right along with her, mostly to have something familiar around on her new world.

## Abilities & Equipment

* Super Strength
* Elasticity

Unlike most Gems, Spinel's body is extremely elastic and malleable, able to stretch her limbs & torso to great lengths and inflate body parts to strengthen her attacks. She uses this to increase the range of her attacks to reach enemies from a distance. One of her favorite uses for this is by coiling her extended limbs to form a spring with an inflated fist. She's even able 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. There appears to be no limit as to how far she can stretch.

* Rubber-like Physiology

Spinel possesses physiology similar to rubber or putty, which allows her to jump great distances and bounce off surfaces. She sometimes exploits this by one of her personal favorite techniques, where she has her friends stretch and then shoot her body like a slingshot.

* Twister Dash

Spinel has the ability to quickly dash in the style of a twister due to her elasticity properties.

* Flight

Spinning her legs like helicopter blades, Spinel can slow her fall even when carrying a heavy object.

* Figure-Eight Run

Spinel is able to run incredibly quickly, making her legs look like a figure eight.

## Relationships

### Pink/Rose

As she was created solely to entertain her, Spinel considered herself to be Pink's best friend.

## Notes

Spinel being in a main character is based off of the popular "Crystal Gem Spinel Alternate Universe" many fans seem to enjoy; in particular, the versions where Pink brings her to Earth with her and she fights alongside her in the Gem Rebellion. However, unlike those fan scenarios, since Rose dies in this universe and since this rules him out of existence, Spinel doesn't become another motherly/big sister figure for Steven. However, even this element is supplemented by her having that sort of dynamic with most of the main cast - the "high school" portion at least, being close friends with them when they were really young and giving them the old piece of advice to help them improve as they get older.

Spinel's role in the series is mainly to act as the stretchy comic relief ala Plastic Man with a hint of Assassination Classroom's Korosensei in her also teaching/mentoring her peers to help them improve (just without her threatening to destroy the Earth in a year). She's also made to be the resident "fun planner" of the city, being the one behind a lot of fun-based activities & special events around town similarly to characters like Pinkie Pie, which could be seen as another extension of her original purpose as well as an allusion to a "power" people in real life believe spinels have, where they're believed to dispel negative energies through purification in addition to increasing creativity and preserving youthfulness.

Spinny's 1900's-era animation influence in her design is taken to the extreme in her depiction in this series, with her often referencing/recreating a few classic gags from Looney Tunes and the like. This even includes one episode where she dances with a top hat & cane ala Michigan J. Frog.