Pyrope

**Pyrope** is a Homeworld Gem who of the main antagonists and a boss in "Unleash the Light". She is an Era 1 Garnet and a former holder of one of the remaining Light Prisms. She also was the former owner of the Palace of Light and the former ruler of Blue Colony 4. She currently lives on Homeworld alongside Hessonite, Demantoid, and George.

## Biography

### Emerging and Early Work

Pyrope was one of the first gems to emerge during the early days of Era 1. She was to serve Pink Diamond's court and was educated by info-pads on how to do her job. After being educated, Pyrope began her duties. A majority of her early work, was mostly being the higher-up of the Pink Diamond Following. However due to Pink's behavior, some of Pyrope's work was not done properly, which frustrated her since she wanted everything to be perfect.

### Rise to Aristocratic Prominence

A thousand years passed and Pyrope spent that time perfecting her work, which led to heavy praise from many high ranked gems in other Diamond Followings. The praise began her rise to aristocratic prominence. Within decades, Pyrope had successfully risen to aristocratic prominence.

### Crystal Gems and The Rebellion

However a few year after she rose to province, rumors spread that a rebellion calling themselves "Crystal Gems" were forming on a planet the Diamonds were colonizing, and were threatening The Great Diamond Authority, as explained by Pink Diamond. Pyrope had no word on the situation, stating that, "I am an aristocratic gem, I do not focus on pesky rouges."

Pyrope would stay true to her word as when the Gem War began on Earth, Pyrope would have no say on it as the focused on her work on Homeworld.

### Era 2: Transition to Blue Diamond, Later Work and Becoming a Prism-Bearer

During the Gem War, Rose Quartz killed Pink Diamond, culminating in The Diamonds using The Light to annihilate the Crystal Gems. With the death of Pink Diamond, all of her court and everything she owned was taken over by her older sisters with Blue Diamond taking 90% of the Court, which included Pyrope. Additionally, Pyrope herself inherited the Palace of Light and became the owner of the palace, including starting to live in it.

For the next thousands of years, Pyrope continued her work as her aristocratic-self. Furthermore she became the ruler of Blue Colony 4. During this time, Pyrope met and was aquatinted with Demantoid, who began assisting Pyrope with duties for both Blue and Yellow Diamond. It was during this time as well that Pyrope was made a prism-bearer after beginning her duties as a Blue Colony Ruler. Pyrope would constantly brag to Demantoid that she had a prism and was better than hers. However, Demantoid didn't care for it.

### Era 3: End of her Aristocrat Days

At the start of Era 3 under the peaceful ruler of Steven Universe, son of Pink Diamond, Pyrope alongside Demantoid put into action a plan of seizing rulership after being liberated from the Great Diamond Authority. They ignored Steven's orders to liberate colonies and relinquish weapons, instead establishing a base at Pyrope's old Palace while simultaneously cutting off all other colonies from Homeworld, banning their Gems from speaking of Era 3 and replacing them with constructs from their Prisms, while those gems were locked up.

However when Steven and the Crystal Gems came to request an audience she immediately panicked and sent them away without warning on a monitor. She appeared on a monitor, again, to interrupt a disguised Hessonite's meeting with the Crystal Gems to her dismay; Hessonite allowed her to drone on before she was sidetracked by messages on another Homeworld channel. She appeared on another monitor to taunt the Crystal Gems and interrupt Hessonite again; when Demantoid came into the conversation she cut her off just before she could be informed of Hessonite's identity.

She was surprised at seeing the Gems in her room proudly boasting about her status to the annoyance of everyone else and expressing irritation at their persistence before engaging them. When Demantoid arrived she was scolded for her pride before Hessonite entered and was shocked after unmasking her. She expressed her outrage at Hessonite's actions and looked on eagerly as Hessonite's Prism, George, was forced by Demantoid to combine with the other Prisms. After being defeated, Pyrope ordered Demantoid to get the Prisms to attack again but was pushed off by her fellow Garnet. When Bismuth took away their Prisms and Demantoid's Limb Enhancers the two argued about how their failure was each other's fault ending with them attacking and poofing each other.

### Post-Aristocratic Days and Present Day

Pyrope later reformed in 2019, and began to live with Hessonite, Demantoid and George. During this time, she made numerous attempts to move on after being told to do so by Hessonite. She was said to have gotten over it by December 2022. She currently is seen a few times in public and occasionally comes to Earth, most notably when she, Demantoid, George and Hessonite would stay on Earth during December 2022.

Later in January 2024, Pyrope, alongside Hessonite, George, and Demantoid would move to Earth as a part of Hessonite wanting to be closer to the Crystal Gems. As of today, Pyrope lives at Little Homeworld, however she mainly prefers to not have anything to do with the new ways.

## Appearance

Pyrope has a tall and lanky figure, standing about a head higher than Garnet with pink skin and a crimson hairstyle resembling an afro. She also has thin, pastel pink eyebrows. She wears a crimson dress with pastel pink shoulder pads and poofy sleeves. Her dress opens in the lower half showing pastel pink boots with rose accents and dark fuchsia pantaloons. Her rectangular-faceted gem is located in her midsection.

## Personality

Pyrope acts in a cheerful yet snobbish manner and had a very high opinion of herself, which made sense considering her former status in Homeworld's Empire. She can be easily distracted to the point of immediately abandoning a task when something else gets her attention and could also be oblivious to information that was clear to others. She firmly believed all Gems needed a ruler and were lost without one. However, despite her cheery disposition, she can still lose her temper, which was put on full display when the Crystal Gems directly confronted and defeated her and Demantoid before they were poofed by each other.

## Relationships

### Hessonite

She was closely acquainted with Hessonite. However the two did not interact with each other much due to Hessonite's higher ranking and important duties. As of 2023, Hessonite likes to tease Pyrope, resulting in her having a reaction towards Hessonite.

### Demantoid

Demantoid was also was closely acquainted with Pyrope. While they were not really friends, they worked with each other to try and seize rulership, which ultimately culminated in the two arguing about how their failure was each other's fault ending with them attacking and poofing each other. However as of 2023, Pyrope and Demantoid have made amends with each other.

## Abilities

Pyrope posses standard Gem abilities with bubbling, shapeshifting, fusion, regeneration, agelessness, and superhuman strength/durability.

### Skillset

* **Light Prism**: Pyrope owned a Prism of Light which she used to fight the Crystal Gems.  However, it was eventually taken away from her.
	+ **Holographic Projection**: Pyrope can project holographic images from the help of her Prism, although she mainly uses this to throw off her enemies in a fight.

* **Handheld Fan Proficiency**: Pyrope is able to summon a fan as her weapon. She could use her fan to attack by throwing it like a boomerang and easily poofing other Gems if they were hit with it enough times.
	+ **Wind Boost**: She could also boost wind waves against opponents and this energy could be concentrated into a larger red whirlwind that crossed all opponents at the same time.

#### Unique Abilities

* **Levitation**: Pyrope can briefly float in the air with her dress.

## Gemstone

Pyrope's gemstone is located in her midsection. It is reddish-pink and rectangular in shape and has facets around the edge.

## Trivia

* Her design and fan was inspired by and references the feminine style from the French Baroque era prior to the French Revolution. These features also highlighted Pyrope's position in the hierarchy. Her choice of the baroque-designed Blue Colony 4 also supported this. Grumpyface Studios also said Pyrope's design was based off of Marie Antoinette and the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland.
* She is the only known non-fusion Garnet to not have a unibrow.
* Pyrope having a fan as her weapon was Rebecca Sugar's idea.
* Originally her “duplicate/illusions” battle ability was going to initiate from her taking out and admiring herself in a mirror , but Grumpyface Studios had to simplify the animation for time purposes.