Yellow Tourmaline

Yellow Tourmaline is a Martian Loyalist that serves as a member of Blue Goldstone's council.

## Appearance

Yellow Tourmaline is a short, slim Gem, about half the height of Blue Goldstone. She has a heart-shaped head with pale orange hair, a short nose, gold eyes without pupils, and no lips. Her Gemstone is on her forehead.

Yellow Tourmaline wears a low-cut honey-colored shirt with yellow diamonds on her shoulders, and long sleeves combined with thumbless gloves. She also wears bronze pants, amber thigh-high boots, and a brown harness with a satchel. She is almost always seen wearing bronze goggles with thick orange lenses.

## Personality

Yellow Tourmaline is a spunky, energetic Gem, known for her perseverance and blunt honesty. While respected by most Gems within the Tower, she is also notorious for her lack of formality; while she almost never arrives to council meetings late, she is known to arrive through the vents, or while putting the finishing touches on her latest invention. She is fully aware that other Gems judge her harshly for her quirks; she just generally doesn't care. Yellow Tourmaline spends much of her free time tinkering and building new devices for herself or the Martian Loyalists, some of which have no practical use whatsoever.

## Abilities

As an Era 1 Gem, Yellow Tourmaline has standard Gem abilities.

### Natural Abilities

* **Photokinesis:** Yellow Tourmaline, like most Gems, can project a beam of light from her Gemstone; she uses this ability to allow for better visibility in dark areas, so she can work more effectively.

### Skillset

* **Slingshot Proficiency:** Yellow Tourmaline's Gem weapon is a slingshot that can fire pellets of light. She seldom uses it, and when she does, it is primarily as a distraction or as a joke.
* **Keen Intellect:** As a Tourmaline, Yellow Tourmaline displays a sharp mind.
	+ **Engineering:** A skill common among her Gem type, Yellow Tourmaline is a talented engineer, building gadgets from scrap and spare parts whenever she has free time.

### Tools

* **Goggles:** Yellow Tourmaline's goggles are not part of her physical form; rather, she designed them herself and has equipped them with a variety of features to help her work.
	+ **Magnification:** Yellow Tourmaline's goggles can be used to clearly view very small objects, or objects from a distance.
	+ **Hypnosis Cancellation:** Due to a strong distrust of Howlite, Yellow Tourmaline has designed her goggles to "cancel out" Howlite's hypnotic gaze, making her immune to visual hypnosis while she is wearing her goggles.

## Relationships

### Blue Goldstone

Yellow Tourmaline deeply admires Blue Goldstone as a leader and fellow Gem, and believes that the best way to help her is by speaking her mind.

### Chrome Tourmaline

Yellow Tourmaline has only met Chrome Tourmaline once, when the latter was with Pezzottaite attempting to join the Martian Loyalists. She was horrified by the fellow Tourmaline's use of Gem-powered machinery, and advised Blue Goldstone not to allow them in, which is advice she would take.

### Howlite

Yellow Tourmaline does not trust Howlite in the slightest, knowing fully well how manipulative she is. She has even designed her goggles to counteract Howlite's hypnotic gaze, in case the elite attempted to brainwash **her**, and has been trying to talk the rest of the council into wearing anti-hypnosis glasses as a precaution.

### Iris Agate

Yellow Tourmaline is fully aware that Iris Agate doesn't think highly of her, and has long given up trying to get on her good side. She knows that, no matter how much she despises Yellow Tourmaline, the Agate cannot do anything that would harm her so long as she abides by the rules of the Loyalists.

### Moonstone

Yellow Tourmaline respects Moonstone, and is comfortable enough around her to her about her latest plans for contraptions and what would be needed to make them a reality, even if Moonstone rarely understands the jargon.

## Trivia

* Yellow Tourmaline was created while fleshing out Blue Goldstone's council; it was decided that said council should have a blunt, upbeat engineer that would contrast the rest of the council members.
* Yellow Tourmaline habitually uses jargon to refer to tools and devices.
	+ Much like Peridot, she would call a screwdriver a "leverage optimizer" and a hammer a "rhythmatic pulverizer."

## Gemology

* Tourmaline is a crystalline boron silicate mineral, considered to be a semi-precious stone.
* Tourmaline comes in a variety of colors; black, green, and pink are the most common colors, though yellow tourmaline is also fairly common.
* Tourmaline has a hardness of 7 to 7.5 on the Mohs hardness scale, making it a good hardness for gemstones.
* Yellow tourmaline is sometimes sold as "canary tourmaline" due to its vivid yellow hue.
* Tourmaline is the traditional birthstone for October, and a zodiacal stone for Libra.
* Due to its sunny yellow color, yellow tourmaline is believed to be a stone of positivity.