Garnet

## Physical Informations

Garnet is a secondary character from the Ministry Succession Tournament verse. A humanoid robotic being created by Illyricus, she acts as mechanic of dimensions and architect of buildings and cities inside Ministry. She's part of the Seven (Fake) Heavenly Maids.

## Personality

She’s lazy by nature and would like to slack off all the time. Unfortunately for her, her role in the Ministry forces her to do a lot of work and tasks, so she’s working most of the time. This frustrates her to no end, so she’s normally in a sour and irritable mood. Despite that, she keeps doing her duty out of loyalty to her master.

She dislikes destructive people cause they tend to destroy all the dimensions she takes care of and makes her work even more. Among them, she dislikes Shen Solomon in particular because he’s constantly obliterating anything he walks into in his training, which forces her to constantly repair everything he destroys.

## History

The third of the Maids, carrying the red gem. She was the first of them to be created in the Ministry after it was founded. At first Illyricus didn’t know what to do with her, as she spent most of the time lazing around and wasn’t as helpful as Obsidian and Howlite. In order to fix her lazy attitude, Illyricus decided to put her in charge of the repairs of the damage done to the dimensions inside the Cube. This made Garnet more hardworking and useful, but also turned her more miserable.

Her skills in her job eventually made her ascend to not only repairing the dimensions, but also planning what new buildings or reforms employ on it, which ironically made her even busier.

## Abilities

**Strength:** Way above average. On par with a decently strong god.

**Speed & Agility:** High. Way faster and more agile than the average mortal/god.

**Durability:** Above average. Can withstand strong hits due to having a metallic body, but very strong attacks will damage her.

**Stamina:** Unlimited. Due to being a mechanical being, she doesn’t feel fatigue of any kind and can fight non stop until she’s destroyed.

**Automaton Physiology:** Due to being a mechanical being, she not only possesses a sturdier body than those of flesh beings, but can stay in water indefinitely without drowning and, due a lack of lungs, nerves and other fleshy parts, is immune to most poisons and gas (though she’s still vulnerable to corrosive substances like acid). Likewise, she’s unable to feel pain.

**Regeneration:** Being fabricated with a self-regenerative material from some world Illyricus visited, she can recover from certain wounds and regenerate her body. However, if she receives more damage than what she can heal, she’ll be destroyed.

**Sword Proficiency and Generation:** Her signature weapon is a sword she always carries. She’s very skilled with it, being able to cut things easily with her and move her so quickly she can cause the illusion that she has more than one sword. If she loses the sword or if it is destroyed, she can generate another one from her body.

**Hǫgg-Fœri (“Within striking distance”):** Garnet’s own ability, given by the true name Illyricus gave her. This power gives her a slight control over gravity, more specifically the principles of attraction and repulsion, allowing her to violently attract enemies to strike them or repulse them to avoid being hit. In a way, it’s the opposite of Obsidian’s “Skati”, as it attracts the opponents to her, instead of directing her attacks  towards them.

**Dimensional Slicing:** A spatial manipulation ability given to her by Illyricus. With this, she can create spatial blades of energy able to cut through everything. She can either use her hands or through bladed weapon.

## Equipment:

**Dimensional Sword:** A white, thin sword whose hilt is ornamented like a carnival mask, as well as Garnet’s signature weapon. It’s generated from her body and made from the same material as her, making it a tough and resistant weapon. Garnet can strike swift attacks with it, and she also uses the blade as a catalyst to generate her dimensional slicing attacks in a more focused way. In case of being lost or destroyed, Garnet can generate another from her body without any problem.

## Techniques

**"Volund”**: A technique from the past performed by the Valkyries. With this, both the Valkyrie and the human connect their souls and by resonating with a similar emotion, turning the Valkyrie into the preferred weapon of the human. Due to Nephrite's automaton physiology, she cannot perform this technique perfectly, but can use a similar version with Illyricus. While doing this, she’ll adopt the shape of a pair of mechanical shoes, and will give the weapon her special ability. Because the technique is imperfect, she will only add her unique power to the weapon she turns into, so the dimensional techniques will not work.

**Orochi 8:** Charging her sword with spatial energy, Garnet strikes the enemy with her weapon, forming eight different attacks from many directions, so insanely fast the enemy isn’t able to react. The technique is named after the ancient eight-headed monster Yamata-no-Orochi, slayed by the god Susanoo.