Amethyst

**Amethyst** is a member of the Crystal Gems. She appears in the canonical Steven Universe show.

## Appearance

Amethyst is short and stout with untamed hair and a round face. She has plump lips and a small nose. Her outfit features an off-white tank that is jagged at the bottom, black leggings with mauve stars, and mauve boots.

## Personality

Amethyst is fun and care-free. Loud and full of laughter, she is easily amused and very impulsive. Amethyst is often used as comic-relief. She is bad-mannered, rude, and rather untidy, giving her a somewhat uncivilized demeanor, but she still means well.

Amethyst tends to indulge Steven more than the other Gems and partakes in human activities with him, generally being carefree to a fault, though at times she has shown major concern for Steven's well-being. Although she doesn't have to, Amethyst enjoys eating and sleeping, and is frequently seen doing so.

Amethyst loves a good fight, something that manifests itself in her wrestling persona, the "Purple Puma", where she willingly plays a heel wrestler purely for the fun of it and to relieve stress. She loves watching fights, too, and often loudly vocalizes and cheers when she sees conflict in progress, egging the competitors on, including the feuds between Pearl and Greg and between Pearl and Peridot.

Because of her origins in Kindergarten and its dark legacy, Amethyst harbors a tremendous amount of self-hatred, which is also fueled by her perception that she is inadequate when compared to Garnet or Pearl, and leaves her feeling out of place among the Crystal Gems. She thought that when Steven learned of her past, he would think less of her. She worries about Steven's and Garnet's approval in "Reformed", and Amethyst demonstrates that she has difficulty thinking for herself, regenerating multiple times in the episode with new forms that were all rushed or based on what she thinks Garnet and Steven will approve of.

## Relationships

### Steven

The two spend a great deal of time together, so much that Amethyst is more of an older sister to Steven. She's more open to discussing her feelings with him and they can both relate to being the "worst Crystal Gems".

### Garnet

Though Amethyst dislikes being told what to do, she respects Garnet's leadership abilities and judgement.

### Pearl

They have somewhat of a strained relationship, largely due to their contrasting personalities. They value each other as friends and teammates. Amethyst has great respect for Pearl's display of skills in "Back to the Barn".

### Rose Quartz

Amethyst had described her as the person who was always there for me and looked past her "imperfections". This might reason how well she and Steven get along.

### Sardonyx

Amethyst shows jealously towards Sardonyx because she had wanted attention from Garnet and to be stronger. In recent episodes, its seems she has gotten over this dislike.

### Stevonnie

The two seem to be able to get along, though Amethyst was surprised at how Stevonnie was able to take on Jasper on their own in "Crack the Whip", thinking less of herself.

### Peridot

Though she treated her as a threat at first along with the rest of the Crystal Gems, she quickly warmed up to her. The two's friendship are rather close.

### Jasper

Amethyst sees Jasper as what she could've been. Jasper only sees her as a mistake, creating a desire for Amethyst to prove herself. Steven helps her overcome these feelings and accept herself, allowing them to form Smoky Quartz. She does feel sympathy for her when Jasper broke down and became corrupted.

### Lapis Lazuli

The two don't seem to have much of a relationship, calling the other not someone she thinks of when she thinks of fun.

## Abilities

Amethyst possesses standard Gem abilities, which include bubbling, shapeshifting, fusion, regeneration, agelessness, and superhuman strength/durability.

### Fusions

* When fused with Pearl, they form Opal.
* When fused with Ruby, they form Kammererite.
* When fused with Sapphire, they form Tanzanite.
* When fused with Steven, they form Smoky Quartz.
* When fused with Peridot, they form Euclase.
* When fused with Jasper, they form Mookaite.
* When fused with Lapis Lazuli, they form Iolite.
* When fused with Bismuth, they form Labradorite.
* When fused with Holly Blue Agate, they form Chalcedony.
* When fused with Ruby and Sapphire, they form Sugilite.
* When fused with Pearl, Ruby and Sapphire, they form Alexandrite.

### Skillset

* **Whip Proficiency:** Amethyst is very skilled with her whip, and mixes very well with her immense strength. She uses her whip to lash at opponents and cause damage that is strong enough to easily split a dumpster in half. Her lashes are sometimes so precise that they cut through objects in a clean line. Occasionally, she uses her whip to grab onto objects or lift them and throw them at the enemy. Her fighting style can sometimes be considered reckless and foolhardy; in "Monster Buddies", she used her whip to pull the Centipeetle Mother towards her, knocking her and the other Crystal Gems down. Amethyst can throw her whip to entangle or bind her target from afar. As of "Bismuth", Amethyst's whip has been upgraded to a morning star. It is also implied by Bismuth that her whip is unique among Quartzes.

* + **Whiplash:** Amethyst can send waves of purple energy along her whip or whips to create an immense explosion.
	+ **Slicing:** Amethyst's whip is able to slice through solid metal. EX: In "Too Far", her whip cleanly sliced through the Injector.
* **Shape-shifting:** While all Gems are capable of shapeshifting, Amethyst is particularly skilled at it, specializing in transformations. Her proficiency is high enough where she was able to transform herself into a fully-functional helicopter to transport the other Crystal Gems in "Message Received".
* **Wrestling:** Amethyst is a skilled wrestler, easily defeating all her human challengers in the Beach City Underground Wrestling league. She also does this by shapeshifting.

### Unique Abilities

* **Enhanced Digestion:** Amethyst can eat glass, plastic, paper, etc. and can digest it without getting sick or disgusted. However, she can still get food poisoning, but won't die from it.
* **Hair-Blade:** Amethyst can use her hair to slash at an enemy with such potency it severs the claw of the Crab Gem Monster.
* **Spin Dash:** Amethyst can rapidly roll into a ball-like shape to attack enemies, but it is smaller than Jasper's.
	+ **Homing Attack:** Amethyst can home in on nearby enemies while spin dashing.
	+ **Whiplash Spin Dash:** Amethyst is able to summon both of her whips, ignite them with purple fiery energy, and then spin dash on top of them, giving her spin dash a purple aura. When she makes contact with something, it causes a big purple explosion.

## Trivia

* Her "Spin Dash" attack, which she shares with Jasper, may be a reference to the popular fictional character, Sonic the Hedgehog, whose main form of attack is the Spin Dash, which is rolling into a ball and dashing into enemies. She also shares several personality traits with Sonic, such as being a free spirit and having a relaxed demeanor.
	+ The sharing of the attack with Jasper, may come from the fact that they are both quartzes made on Earth.
* It is possible that she has long hair due to Greg's influence on her, as in "Story for Steven", Amethyst takes an interest in Greg's hair and climbs through it.
	+ However, she has had long hair in the past, as evidenced by the painting in her room from "So Many Birthdays".

Amethyst knows how to play the drums, as revealed in "Steven and the Stevens".

* Amethyst can't shape-shift when she is under a lot of pressure, as revealed in "Secret Team".
* It is shown that when Amethyst blushes, she blushes dark purple.
* Amethyst can speak Spanish.
* Most of Amethyst's fusions are not fully stable.
	+ Opal unfuses if any disagreement occurs between Pearl and Amethyst.
		- However, as of "Log Date 7 15 2", Opal seems to be much more stable than the past, being able to fuse with ease.
	+ Sugilite's personality combines the worst of her and Garnet's personalities, being very dangerous and reckless.
	+ Alexandrite is the most unstable, due to the several conflicts between all of her fusees.
* All of her fusions have extra limbs, her tousled hair, the star-shaped cutouts on her legs (with the exception of Opal), and her voluminous lips.
* According to Rebecca Sugar, Amethyst's dancing/fighting style is based on dance hall and club dancing.
* Amethyst is at least 5,500 years old, as that was when Earth's Kindergarten was shut down.
	+ She did not take part in the battle in the Gem Battlefield, though she would've been a thousand years old by then.
	+ Amethyst lived some time in Kindergarten after emerging, spending her time playing with different rocks she had adopted as her "friends". In "Too Far", Peridot says that Amethyst must have emerged when the Kindergarten no longer functioned, suggesting that she was most likely alone for the remainder of her time there.
	+ In "Story for Steven" and "We Need to Talk", Amethyst acts in many ways like an animal or a feral child. She mostly walks on all fours, is very invasive and inquisitive, rips through a bag of "Pop-Pop" like a dog would, and even goes to fetch a stick when Garnet throws it.
* Amethyst and Jasper have similarities in body and combat style. These similarities include:
	+ Jasper and Amethyst both have wild and unkempt hair.
	+ Both share voluminous lips.
	+ Jasper can also rapidly roll into a ball-like shape to attack enemies. While Amethyst was shown to have this ability as well, it seems that Jasper's version is more powerful.
	+ This could be a hint to actual mineralogy, as Jasper is a non-crystalline quartz, while Amethyst is a crystalline quartz.
	+ According to Peridot in "Too Far", Amethyst should be around Jasper's height but she was made defective.
* Of the four Crystal Gems, Amethyst usually ends up getting hurt and having to retreat to her gemstone to regenerate the most.
* Amethyst's reason for protecting Earth is because it is her birthplace and the only home she has been able to have.
	+ Her lines from the extended opening theme are, *"I will fight for the world I was made in! The Earth is everything I've ever known!"*

Amethyst does not care what food she eats or where she eats it from, as in "Reformed", where she is wanting to add engine oil to her meal.
Amethyst is loosely based on Rebecca Sugar's friend, Valerie Ang, from college.

* Amethyst shape-shifts herself a digestive system in order to eat.
	+ Amethyst enjoys the feeling of digestion.
	+ She also enjoys urinating in the ocean.
* In "Too Far", Peridot reveals that Amethyst, as a quartz, lacks typical features of her gem-type and is half the height she should be due to her developing for too long.
* Amethyst is about 500 years younger than all the other Gems developed in the Kindergarten, as estimated by Peridot in "Too Far".

## Gemology

Gemstone Information
* Amethyst is the birthstone for those who are born in February or for the zodiacal sign of Pisces and Aquarius.
* Amethyst is the national gemstone of Uruguay
* The amethyst is assigned to the planet Neptune.
* Amethyst belongs to the macrocrystalline branch of quartz and owes its violet/purple color to iron and aluminum impurities.
* Like other varieties of macrocrystalline quartz, amethyst has transparent to translucent clarity and a vitreous luster.
* Amethyst stones are often associated with the Greek/Roman god Dionysus/Bacchus, god of wine, intoxication, madness, and agriculture.
	+ This could be the reason behind her impulsive and self-indulgent nature.
* Since amethyst was considered an antidote against drunkenness, many wine goblets were carved from amethyst stone. Still to this day, violet-purple amethyst is a symbol of sobriety.
* Amethyst owes its color to iron and aluminum impurities. The colors range from purple and violet to pale red-violet.
	+ Without such coloring agents, amethyst would simply be transparent, ordinary colorless quartz.
	+ So-called green amethyst is produced by heat treatment, but since amethyst is defined by its purple color, green amethyst is not considered to be a true amethyst.