Spinach Jade

**Spinach Jade** is an antagonist in A Course in Advanced Rebellion, a sturdy fighter with her own desires for the Earth and its resources.

## Appearance

Spinach Jade is a short, stocky Gem with a large bust and a heavily muscled hourglass figure. She has dark green skin with eldritch black tattoos and beauty marks, lighter green lips, and short green hair. Her hands and feet are considerably large for her height and frame, all the better to pummel enemies into submission.

Her head is heart-shaped with a strong jawline and apple cheeks. She has no visible nose, but a fleshy pad under her eye will "sniff" when she's sensing differences in the environment such as new smells or atmospheric pressure changes.

Her gemstone acts as a single eyeball, rotating in its socket so that the "pupil" on the stone orients to her focus. However, all of her gemstone is capable of sight, in a wide field of vision, which makes sneak attacks difficult, especially in areas with mirrored surfaces that would allow her to watch her back.

Her usual clothes are military leotards with large epaulets or shoulder guards, hip guards, and big, heavy boots. Unless necessary to keep a low profile or while piloting her ship, she regards her weapon as an accessory and will carry it wherever she goes.

## Personality

Spinach Jade walks the fine line between rebel terrorist and dutiful to the Homeworld, with her superiors keeping an eye on her for her selfish tendencies, but these have been much of the secret to her success.
A maverick and a born survivalist, Spinach rejected her innate space-battle programming to take the fight to the planet, showing remarkable, if clumsy, adaptation to both environmental hazards and rebel tactics. She tends to utilize brute strength and dirty fighting to bring battles quickly to an end and survive for another battle another time.

Spinach Jade shows considerable pride and joy in her ship, the Amphibole Amplifier, an outdated ship that seems to consist more of repairs than the original, along with an additional modern warp drive to beam down to planets and leave her craft safely cloaked while in a planet's orbit. Unless she's abducting hostages or enslaved creatures to use as living weapons, she'd rather keep her ship free from any other being, even Homeworld Gems, as she prides her craft above anyone else, possibly even herself.

Spinach Jade is one of the few Homeworld Gems who sees any new potential in the planet Earth, though only because she was late to its Diamond-mandated quarantine. Because of this, similarly Earth-driven Homeworlders such as Fluorescent Diamond III may seek aid from Spinach in their conquest, though it's just as likely that she'd turn them down; a bribe involving upgrading her weapons collection or personal army could win her favor.

## Abilities

Spinach Jade possesses standard Gem abilities, including super strength and durability, shapeshifting, agelessness, regeneration, fusion, and bubbling.

### Skillset

* **Axe-bludgeon:** A large axe with a rugged mass of pseudo-physical rock at the other end, as if broken off from a mountaintop. Though it projects a mass far heavier than Spinach Jade, she is the only one who can lift it with ease, and swing it with skill and finesse. The axe end can carve through solid rock at a 7.5 Mohs hardness scale, while the bludgeon end can smash nearly any material with negligible damage to itself.
	+ **Axe-communicator:** If the bludgeon end is planted in the ground, the weapon can act as a makeshift transmitter in emergency situations, the axe-end rotating like a satellite dish to broadcast and pick up signals to facilitate communication. It can only transmit in audio and psychic frequencies, however, and can be intercepted easily for using predictable signatures on Spinach's own gemological frequency.
* **Eldritch Sign of Blue Diamond V:** Passed from Arch-Carbon Lonsdaleite to Blue Diamond V to her court members, this Eldritch Sign confers incredible knowledge of astro-navigation and quantum mechanics, making Spinach Jade a formidable force in her field of space exploration and battle. Apart from trivial information about the dual nature of atomic particles, however, this does not aid her in hand-to-hand combat or other on-world endeavors.

## Gemology

* Spinach Jade is a form of Nephrite Jade, known for its deep coloration. Spinach's cut was meant to be "opposite" of canon Nephrite, in that it's light inside and dark outside. However, most specimens of nephrite have consistent coloring throughout unless acid-treated.