Psilomelane

## Appearance

Psilomelane is a very small gem, standing only a few inches taller than the average Ruby or Era-2 Peridot; her total height being 4'11". She resembles a human child because of her slim and child-like features, and her slight baby face. Psilo has light grey skin and dark grey hair that is cut into a short bob that is held back with a white head band. She wears a light black dress and with a white collared undershirt and matching white dress shoes. A rather odd feature of Psilo's is the fact that she always wears white bandages that cover her eyes; in fact, nobody but Ocean Jasper has ever seen her eyes before.

## Personality

Psilomelane is a sadistic, apathetic and unfeeling gem, to say the very least. She cares about absolutely nobody and will show no emotion towards anyone no matter the situation; there are absolutely no exceptions to this. Psilomelane sees the world as her playground, and does whatever she wants when she wants, which most of the time is something illegal and taboo. Psilo seems to enjoy the pain of others and loves to cause misfortune and sorrow where ever she goes. She has absolutely no hobbies, and instead spends her time either standing still in a certain location, or brutally murdering people.

Yes, that's right, Psilomelane is a serial killer. Her and her partner-in-crime, Ocean Jasper, are perhaps one of the most infamous killers in all of Homeworld's history due to their methos of killing and the sheer number of victims. Ocean Jasper usually kidnaps or incapacitates the gems, and Psilo uses her syringe to literally drain the life force and power from the gems until they are completely shattered.

## Abilities

Psilomelane possesses standard gem abilities, such as fusion, regeneration, and agelessness.

### Skills

* **Extreme Stealth:** Due to the millennia that Psilomelane has been killing people, she has gained the ability to move around quickly and quietly, even in the light of day. She is capable of moving around open spaces without being detected via various techniques, which usually consists of climbing up to higher places where she can get a bird's eye view of everything.

### Unique Abilities

* **Fear Inducement:** Psilomelane can evoke and increase fear and horror in others causing the target’s brain to release fear-inducing chemicals.The victim’s perception may be altered, causing them to see their environment as ominous and the user as dark and foreboding, or even seen as a monster.

## Gemology

* Psilomelane is probably a mixture of a number of minerals, although is composed mostly of the mineral Romanechite. Though its mineral name is losing its significance, it is still in use around the world as the name is applied to hydrated barium bearing manganese specimens.
* Psilomelane is  an important ore of manganese. Manganese is a valuable metal and is an essential ingredient in steel as well as other alloys.
* With the stripes of gray pyrolusite and the alternating layers of it makes Psilomelane an attractive polished stone.
* Submetallic black  and the bands of metallic gray make this stone an ideal piece to wear.
* It produces the tufts similar to that bunch of hair-like aggregates formed by pyrolusite
* The luster of both the minerals Psilomelane and pyrolusite is sufficient to distinguish them.