Spinel

**Spinel** is a gem who made her first appearance in "Steven Universe: The Movie", in which she attempted to destroy Earth because she wanted to get revenge being abandoned. However she was ultimately stopped from doing so. She currently lives with aunts on Homeworld.

## Biography

### Emerging and Meeting her Diamond

Spinel was created,emerged, and was a gift to a lonely Pink Diamond, who has lost her original Pearl to White Diamond following a horrific incident.   Upon meeting Pink, Spinel was enthusiastic to see her new best friend, even going as far as to instantly hug Pink and tell her that she was so excited to meet her.

Pink was pretty surprised but happy to see that she had a new addition to her court.  Happily amused by her, Pink took Spinel back to her part of the palace.

### Meeting Everygem Else

The following day, Pink would take Spinel to the Pink Diamond Living District where she would meet all of the gems in Pink’s court at the time.  Spinel would introduce herself to everygem and do some things like shaking their hands, being funny, or even hugging them.  The general reactions from the other gems in the Pink Diamond Following would be mixed with one half saying they enjoyed her happiness and enthusiasm, whiles others said she was “too goofy”, “out of line”, and found Spinel’s hugging to be unwanted physical contact.

Spinel would have no idea why everygem else found her so annoying and she would just continue to be the same goofy gem.

### Enjoying her Days with Pink

Spinel was Pink Diamonds closest confidant alongside Pink’s new Pearl, always spending time with her when she was bored.   When Pink felt stressed, Spinel would always try her hardest to make Pink laugh and cheer her up.

Spinel was also enjoyed by many gems in Pink’s court as her ability to make everygem laugh was found to be amusing by many.  Whenever work was done for the day in the Pink Diamond Following, Pink would invite several gems from her court to play in her garden with her and Spinel.  Spinel always enjoyed playing with the other gems who came to the garden.

Later in time, Pink was informed by Blue Diamond that some work Pink was planning on developing was finally ready for development, Pink Diamond told her court about this in a meeting she held.  Spinel was really excited to hear the news that some work was finally ready to be developed and would have asked Pink if she could come to the new job. Pink however didn't want her to come along because she had to handle the work all by herself alongside her Pearl, and Spinel didn't know how to do any of the things that Pink Diamond could do.   Despite being a little saddened by this, Pink would let Spinel play with the Pebbles in her room.

### Less and Less Time with Pink

As Pink and her Pearl began to do their work, Spinel would find herself mostly lonely as Pink would be doing a lot of work as a Diamond on most days.   It was also during this time that Pink would eventually start to find Spinel annoying as her jokes and happiness no longer seemed funny to her and would often ask her to stop hugging her or messing around, leaving Spinel confused as to why.

Spinel would find herself mostly spending her time with the Pebbles and sometimes would be able to have fun with Pink, but it would only last a short time before Pink would have to get back to work.  As time continued to go by, Pink would become less and less interested in her games and would begin to have Spinel do things that she didn't want to do like stand in one spot for long periods of time.

Spinel didn't enjoy having to stand still for a long time as she didn't have anything to do.  Eventually one day, Spinel decided not to stand in one spot, and chose to play around, which unfortunately culminated in a major accident that ended up damaging an area on Homeworld.

### Being Moved to The Garden

After the incident, Pink, who was not pleased with Spinel ignoring her order to stand in one spot and additionally Pink got into trouble with her sisters for the damage that had been done, culminating in numerous gems to be called back to Homeworld to repair the damage from Earth during the colonization process.

To prevent further incidents, Pink had no choice but to move Spinel to The Garden.  Pink would move Spinel to the garden where was allowed to be herself there and told that Pink would visit her everyday after work was done for the day.

### “The Waiting Game”

One day, Pink was informed she would receive her own colony on Earth, and after being informed of that, she told Spinel that they were going to play a new game where Spinel had to stand perfectly still.   Spinel was eager to play that game and stood motionless for 6,002 years while waiting for Pink's return, even though standing still wasn’t her thing, she did it very well.

### 6,002 Years Later…

After waiting for said amount of years, Spinel finally had gotten news on what became of her Diamond. She learns that Pink Diamond technically no longer exists and had given up her physical form to give birth to her half-human son Steven. After learning this and also realizing the fact that her Diamond abandoned her, she changed her appearance and swore vengeance on Steven and Pink's "other friends".

Later, on the day of Steven's final homeworld broadcast before he returned to Earth, Spinel arrived in Beach City on a massive customized injector, which began filling the planet with poison. Spinel began to fight against Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl stretching ability and chaotic method of movement allowing her to easily defeat them with her Gem Rejuvenator. Furious, Steven managed to grab hold of her weapon and poofed Spinel with it as well.

### Rejuvenated

Sometime later, Spinel reformed and acted oddly friendly and playful towards Steven, calling him her best friend.

She would follow Steven everywhere he went and "helped” him get his friends' memories back. While doing so, she also tried to play with him but never got the chance to, due to him being too focused on helping his friends. After helping Amethyst, Steven and the other remaining Crystal Gems learned that the only one who could stop Spinel's injector was Spinel herself, but in order to do that they needed her to remember who she is and since Pearl was the only one who seems to know her, the group decided to help her next.

### Clashing with Steven, Regret, and Forgiveness

Spinel would later attend the Sadie Killer and The Suspects concert held at the abounded warehouse with the other Crystal Gems.  However during the concert, Spinel saw that Steven cares more for the others than her. Upset, she fled the concert and went to to Pink Diamond's Garden, where she told Steven the story of her past as well as her abandonment through a song, causing her to return to her former self. Steven, feeling bad for Spinel, befriended her and brought her back to the Gems and Connie, who, after initially being wary, agreed to let Spinel help Steven in deactivating the injector.

Upon deactivating it Spinel was again hurt by Steven's reaction. She then claimed that he only needed her for the injector, and did not want to be her friend and that he would just get rid of her, the source of his problems. Thinking he would betray her as his mother did, she pushed Steven, making him drop the rejuvenator. Freaking out in anger and betrayal, paranoid that Steven would set her back to default mode, she promptly resorted to her old behavior and attacked Steven, taking Garnet as a hostage to goad him into fighting back. This, however, caused Garnet to regain her memories as well. After being beaten by the Crystal Gems, Spinel then retreated to the top of the injector and was soon followed by Steven, who once more tried to reason with her. This further infuriated her, causing them to fight, until it became apparent she has lost her motivation to destroy him and regretted her actions up until that point.

Steven, who was now fully reunited with his powers, comforted her and claimed she can start fresh with new people to be her friends. The injector then exploded due to the battle, and Steven saved Spinel by entrapping her in his bubble alongside him. Steven then attempted to comfort her again, as Spinel decides she had created too much damage and must leave. The Diamonds then arrived, ready to confront Steven about where they will live and Steven introduced Spinel to them, thus giving her the new friends he promised. Spinel then said goodbye to Steven and left Earth alongside the Diamonds, happy to be loved again, now by her aunts.

### New Chapter in Life at Homeworld

After returning to Homeworld, Spinel’s aunts began to teach her how to love again.  After sometime passed, Spinel began to return to her former goofy self, entertaining gems and even moving into Pink Diamond’s old room, where she was reunited with the Pebbles.

Additionally during this time, she resumed her jester duties, entertaining all the gems one Homeworld and making them all laugh.

A few months passed and Spinel found herself on a tour of the old ballroom, where would later see Steven and as soon as Spinel saw him she greeted him with a large smooch, much to his frustration and they talked about how they've each been. When Steven revealed his newfound problems to her, such as growing in size, she took him to Yellow Diamond to fix his physical form. Yellow Diamond was now able to permanently change physical forms with her electricity powers, and demonstrated this on Spinel, making her arms big and her feet little, but she would later revert back to her normal form.   Later she took Steven to see Blue enthusiastically, where she suggests to try Blue’s “happy clouds”, where she would also happily play on the clouds and hug her Aunt Blue.  Later, when she took Steven to see White, who she would control briefly due to White’s new powers that work in reverse, allowing common-folk Gems to project themselves and control White rather than her controlling them.  Spinel did some dancing before White regained control.  White then told Spinel to leave them alone for a second, and she obliged and left with a tiny peek inside before the doors closed.   However after Steven had a unintentional outburst, he ran away and Spinel followed him and asked him where he was going. He asked her how she dealt with her feelings (regarding Pink) and she replied that she doesn't have those feelings anymore since she met him. Then she began belt out the first verse of the song he sang to her in an off-key tune.  She later accompanied her aunts when they chased after Steven, visibly concerned about his well-being.

### Witnessing Corrupted Steven

Spinel accompanied her aunts when they went to Earth, with the latter wanting to return his missing flip-flop. She would be surprised to see Steven as a large monster when they arrived.   She then cried and felt guilty at the fact that she was one of the causes of Steven's transformation, as she had tried to leave Steven alone with amnesiac friends on a barren world and then attempted to kill him. After Connie told everyone to stop feeling sorry for themselves and instead support Steven in his moment of need, so Spinel along with everyone else comforted him.  She would later look at Steven as he turned back to normal, with tears in her eyes.

## Appearance

### Original Form

Spinel was originally short and rounded. She had pink skin, black cartoonish eyes with three visible eyelashes on each, and her bright cerise hair was styled into a pair of heart-shaped buns. Her top was white with rounded pink sleeves, pink gloves, and a pair of big magenta shoes. Her gemstone used to be right side up, resembling a heart.

### Current Form

Spinel has a pink complexion, magenta eyes, a small pointy nose, and cerise hair that is styled into a pair of spiky pigtails. She also has three black lines underneath both of her eyes, an inversion of the eyelashes from her original form and reminiscent of running mascara. Her clothing consists of a plum-colored top, puffy pointed hot pink sleeves, puffy rose shorts, hot pink wrist-length gloves, white stockings, and a pair of rose knee-high pointy boots. Her gemstone is upside down in this current state.

## Personality

In her original state, Spinel had a goofy, fun-loving personality. Acting somewhat naive and oblivious to others, she was to be Pink Diamond's best friend to the point of being clingy and ingenuine to her feelings.

In her current state, with stark contrast, upon being abandoned and later learning that Pink Diamond is gone with Steven taking her place and making new friends, Spinel is bitter and full of resentment towards everything connected with Pink Diamond. Due to her abandonment, Spinel is unhinged, prone to spontaneous laughter, and extreme outbursts when reminded even indirectly that Pink Diamond forgot her. This can be seen when her face contorts with fury after Steven asked Pearl who she was. Despite her anger and irrationality, Spinel is somewhat trusting, as she was willing to go along with Steven to stop her injector. That is until she sees the rejuvenator and believes he wanted to reset her. Fearful of being betrayed for a second time, Spinel immediately relapses into insanity and decides that she hates Steven, before launching a preemptive attack on him. Spinel was fueled by her vendetta and willing to eliminate anyone who gets in her way. This can be seen when she resets Pearl, Garnet, and Amethyst immediately after they just met, as she feels that they got between her and Pink. She may have had every intention of erasing Pink's *"brand new friends"* in a misplaced rage. She displays deeper emotions, like when she shows remorse after Steven saves her, and tearfully asks herself why she wants to hurt him and others. Spinel is also mature enough to understand she will have difficulty creating friendships after what Pink Diamond put her through, but she is willing to start over with the other Diamonds.

Though silly and goofy as her original state, she is shown to be extremely intelligent and cunning in her altered state, originally defeating the Crystal Gems easily, as well as understanding how her injector works by using it to slowly kill Steven's organic form after using her rejuvenator to reset his gem, showing a great tactical knowledge.

After returning to Homeworld with the Diamonds, Spinel returns to her goofy, fun-loving personality. She is still visibly embarrassed by her past mistakes, however. She is also less clingy, as she allowed White Diamond and Steven to speak privately.

## Relationships

### Pink Diamond

Spinel was Pink Diamond's playmate and "best friend". Created solely to entertain Pink, Spinel considered herself to be Pink's best friend, and for a time, the two were inseparable. However, they gradually grew apart as Pink yearned to have a colony of her own. Oblivious to this, Spinel continued to attempt to entertain Pink, her attitude now seeming more immature in comparison. She also became clingy; upon Pink's allocation of Earth as her colony by the Diamonds, Spinel was intent on joining Pink on this new endeavor. Very reluctant to allow Spinel to join her, Pink created a "new game" to get rid of her from her side, in which Spinel should wait for her return in the same spot, and never move. Spinel obliged and waited over 6,000 years for Pink's return. When Spinel finally realized that Pink had abandoned her after watching Steven's announcement on the Diamond Communicator, hurt and sorrow consumed Spinel, resulting in her taking on her current form and hunting down Steven to take revenge on Pink. While she sung to Steven, Spinel expressed her belief that Pink did not care about her. In spite of her newfound hatred towards Pink, Spinel fondly reminisces over the fun times the two of them had together, and happily tells the Diamonds they remind her so much of Pink.

### Steven Universe

Spinel sought out revenge on Steven due to him being the descendant of Pink Diamond, as stated by his broadcast, and she was jealous of the fact that he, or "Pink", now had new friends that were not herself. Hurt by Pink's abandonment, she vowed to destroy Steven's new friends and the planet that Pink had loved so much. Steven accidentally poofs her, perceiving her as a threat once she has poofed Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl. However, upon her regeneration, the two became mutual acquaintances, with Spinel resuming her 'Best Friend' status with Steven, as she did with Pink. The two are inseparable, with the relationship heavily skewed; coming mostly from Spinel. Upon a small disagreement where Spinel sees Steven caring more for his friends than her, she fled to Pink Diamond's Garden, where she tells Steven the story of her past. Moved, and desperate to redeem the Gem, Steven brought Spinel back to the Gems and Connie, who, after initially being wary, agreed to let Steven help Spinel to deactivate the injector. Upon deactivating it, Spinel was once again hurt by Steven's reaction; she claims he only needed her for the injector, and did not want to be her friend. Reverting to her old behavior, Spinel attacked Steven and briefly held Garnet hostage, before retreating to the top of the injector. Steven ascended the injector to talk to Spinel, and they fought until it becomes apparent she had lost her motivation to destroy him and regretted her actions up until that point. Steven, now fully reunited with his powers, comforts her and claims she can start fresh with new people to be her friends. The injector promptly explodes due to the battle, and Steven saved Spinel by entrapping her in his bubble alongside him. Steven then attempted to comfort her again, as Spinel decided she has created too much damage and must leave. The Diamonds then arrived, ready to confront Steven about where they will live, and Steven introduced Spinel to them, thus giving her the new friends he promised.

### White, Yellow, and Blue Diamond

The other Diamonds were acquainted with her thousands of years ago, as Spinel remarked that they saw her before; it isn't known how much or in which way they previously interacted, however. The only known past instance of Spinel encountering the other Diamonds is when Pink was being told about her receiving her colony by Blue and Yellow, with White being absent. All three were unaware that Pink left Spinel abandoned within her garden, nor did remember her at all in the first place. Upon their first encounter with Spinel in millennia, the once oblivious Diamonds remembered Spinel immediately, Yellow even calling her "Pink's little playmate"; She is shown to be amused by Spinel's jokes and antics. As for Blue Diamond, she called Spinel one of "Pink's lost treasures" and shows sympathy after learning of her abandonment by Pink, but takes a liking to Spinel primarily due to her resemblance to the latter. White proposed the idea of taking Spinel to Homeworld with them and letting her stay in the Diamond Palace, to which Spinel agreed, expressing gratitude for being able to try her hand at making friends again as they are her aunts.

### Pearl

While they didn't know each other very well nor interacted very much, Pearl and Spinel were on a little friendship. However years later, Spinel held a fair amount of resentment towards Pearl since Pink Diamond took Pearl with her to earth but left Spinel behind. However as of today, she and Pearl are forming a peaceful friendship with each other.

### Grape Cog Jade

Spinel initially met Grape when she was introduced to everyone at the Pink Diamond Living District. Grape loved Spinel's sense of humor and her joyful personality. She would meet Spinel again in Era 3, where they sometimes sing some songs together.

## Abilities

Spinel posses standard gem abilities with bubbling, shapeshifting, fusion, regeneration, agelessness, and superhuman stench/durability.

### Unique Abilities

* **Elasticity**: Similarly to old-fashioned cartoons, Spinel is extremely elastic and malleable, able to stretch her limbs and torso to great lengths and inflate body parts to strengthen her attacks. She uses this to increase the range of her attacks, able to reach enemies from a distance. She can also coil her extended limbs to form a spring with an inflated fist at the end. This also gives her the ability to become as flat as the ground and slither across it, in an almost semi-liquid like state. She's even able to coil one of her fingers into making a type of horn that activates and deactivates her injector. There appears to be no limit as to how far she can stretch.
	+ **Rubber Physiology**: Spinel also possesses physiology similar to rubber or putty. This allows her to jump great distances and bounce off surfaces.
* **Twister Dash**: She has the ability to quickly dash in the style of a twister due to her elasticity properties.
* **Flight:** Spinning her legs like helicopter blades, she can slow her fall even when carrying a heavy object.
* **Figure-Eight**: Ahe is shown to be able to run incredibly quickly, making her legs look like a figure eight.
* **Spin Dash**: She's able to dash similarly to Quartzes.

### Skillset

* **Scythe Proficiency**: The non-summoned weapon Spinel wields is a Gem Rejuvenator that has the appearance of a scythe. Spinel was adept enough at wielding it that she was easily able to defeat three of the Crystal Gems with one strike. In conjunction with the weapon, Spinel's ability to stretch works greatly in her favor as it allows her to greatly increase the range of the scythe, allowing her to swipe at many different angles and increase the power behind it when she stretches far enough allowing the recoil to strengthen the attack made by the weapon.

### Additional (Former) Tools

* **Gem Injector**: She obtained this via access to Pink Diamond's armory and used it to poison the Earth until she accidentally destroyed it.
* **Gem Rejuvenator**: She obtained this via access to Pink Diamond's armory and used it against the Crystal Gems until it was destroyed by Steven.

## Gemstone

Spinel's gemstone is located on her chest. It originally was right-side up, before it was later upside-down where it is today.

## Trivia

* Spinel's existence and backstory were tied to an event in Rebecca Sugar's childhood in which, she left a cherished stuffed rabbit in her garden and when she discovered it half a year later it had changed independently.
* Spinel was designed to look like an *"out-of-date cartoon that never evolved"*: her design, gloves, first form's pupils and stretching abilities were based on old-fashioned cartoon characters of the early 1900s-era rubber hose animation style, having limbs bending and stretching freely with no articulation; and her movements were deliberate references to Grim Natwick, Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney's productions, which were cartoons of this style that are popular to this day.
* Spinel is the only known Gem besides her Diamond to have rotated her gemstone's position.
* Along with Carnelian, Holly Blue Agate, Emerald, Bixbite, Larimar, and Snowflake Obsidian, Spinel is the sole individual of her Gem type seen in full detail.
* Spinel was one of the few Gems aside from Lapis Lazuli, Peridot, Squaridot, Hessonite, Demantoid, and Pyrope to fully — if not immediately — recognize Steven as his own being, as opposed to an extension of Rose Quartz and/or Pink Diamond, understanding he was neither from the onset. Furthermore, many other Crystal and Homeworld Gems had difficulty making the distinction — at least initially.