Crown Jewel

## Overview

Ever since coming into contact with and kickstarting a rebellion against Cybernet, Amy Rose has taken up the mantle of Crown Jewel. Crown Jewel has become a symbol of hope amongst the survivors of Mobius, acting as a figure of strength that stands against Cybernet’s onslaught and is outright revered by her people. In contrast, she is a figure of great danger and fear for the foot soldiers of Cybernet, who view her as a terrifying force of nature. Crown Jewel is careful to play up these images of herself, using both of them as a mask to hide her true nature. Outwardly, she is calm, confident, cunning, and fearsome; respected by all who look to her for help. Inwardly, however, Crown Jewel is deeply disturbed and conflicted about her battle with Cybernet and is troubled by what she has to do to win.

## History

Before the apocalypse, before the world was reshaped, before the rise of Cybernet, Amy Rose had been happy. At the time, she was engaged to Sonic the Hedgehog and Shadow the Hedgehog, and she'd published a bestselling cookbook. Things seemed to be looking up for her- and then Sonic the Hedgehog disappeared. When he reappeared, he was working miracles and preaching the benefits of a mysterious entity called Cybernet, which starts working its way into the lives and hearts of the world using Sonic's support and all the technology and services it made available, even getting a lot of people to join them that way. Amy Rose didn't see anything wrong with this- until she saw how Sonic was, one by one, assimilating his friends and family. Further, she was given video information about Eggman's death and, thanks to being the first one to see the video, gained control of all Eggman's available resources. Using this, she took a hidden warship and got a few friends to fix it up just in case, naming it the Diamond.

She confronted him one day at the end of a date, demanding information on what exactly it was that Cybernet wanted, and Sonic answered that they wanted the world. An argument ensued, and when Amy realized that Sonic had every intention of helping them go through with it under the impression that doing so was right, she had to make a choice between Sonic and the world. She chose the world and attacked him, and after the ensuing fight, she and Team Rose went into hiding, forming a group of people who also felt that Cybernet was more trouble than it was worth. Sonic, codenamed Evangelus, used their existence and behavior, along with Amy's attack on him, to turn the world against her and the survivors, telling the world that they were deluded and risked hurting themselves and others- and then he offered people who hadn't already done so a chance to join up, and driven by worry for either themselves or their loved ones who had followed Amy, most of the world did.

The survivors with Amy formed their own faction that, knowing Evangelus would be after them, made an alliance with a small city near Meropis and formed a kingdom: Ailton. As Amy's combat skill and magical abilities made her as close to a match for Evangelus as anyone but Metal Sonic was ever going to get, she was named their queen and protector. She spent a long while going on patrols to find people or objects (or creating teams to do the same thing and cover more ground) to keep away from Cybernet, and to further this goal, she allows Metal Sonic into Ailton, nicknaming him Scrapper, and has him constantly undergoing upgrade procedures to make him as strong as possible. The Diamond was used as a safe haven for survivors found during such patrols. Eventually, however, it became too difficult to keep fighting off Cybernet's forces (read: Evangelus and his friends) by herself, so she sought out the Phantom Ruby. During her absence, she lost communications with Ailton's base, and a concerned Cream went to find her. Amy came back eventually. Cream, however, did not. Amy went to find Cream and attacked Evangelus's current base, where she learned that Cream had been reforged into Rei by Cybernet. Heartbroken at the loss of her sister figure, Amy had a breakdown and the power of the Phantom Ruby flared, fusing with her soul and turning blue from her heartbreak. The base was destroyed and Cybernet abandoned it before placing Amy on their list of major threats under the moniker "Crown Jewel."

As Crown Jewel, Amy became a force to be reckoned with, and recognizing her newfound power, she put a precaution in place: using an ancient magic ritual, she created a reverse counterpart of the Phantom Ruby she named Silence's Jasper that had the power to separate anything from the fabric of reality for as long as the user wanted. Then she entrusted it to Big the Cat, her closest confidante, who used it to shield Ailton's location from the hive. Upon the resurfacing of Surge and Kit, she sent Scrapper to go retrieve them while she did a survivor check. She came across Evangelus during that check, and in the ensuing fight, she pulled him to Null Space where she was virtually omnipotent. There, she absolutely dominated him, and he had to retreat to the real world, where he revealed that he'd just been slowing her down so he could transform the Chaos Emeralds with the Master Emeralds. Now armed with the Super Emeralds, Evangelus went Hyper. The ensuing battle raged for hours, causing rifts in the universe until they could no longer fight, at which point both parties retreated.

That night, Crown Jewel and Evangelus, looking like simply Amy Rose and Sonic the Hedgehog, woke up in the same dream, and unable to actually do anything to each other, they decided to sit and talk for the first time in almost three years. During this heart to heart, Sonic revealed that prior to being assimilated, he could turn back time after death, but first he’d have to watch the consequences of his death, which meant he got the "pleasure" of seeing his friends and loved ones (including her) die, get enslaved, or have other terrible things happen to them over and over and over again. Cybernet’s offer had meant he’d never have to see that again, that they’d never have to die again, so he had taken it. Amy, heartbroken, told him that while she understood, she couldn’t stop fighting him; there were too many people depending on her. Sonic accepted that she wouldn’t stop fighting, but refused to stop coming for her. At an impasse, the two spent the rest of the dream in silence, and when she woke up, Crown Jewel started using the many Metal Amies she had access to again, which sent Ailton into a state of unease.

After learning through the shared dreams, which repeated every night, that Cybernet planned to use Surge and Kit's inbuilt homing technology, Crown Jewel decided she was done running and she had to go for a permanent solution to their presence for her people's sake. She ordered the Paradox Prism found and brought to her, and while Scrapper was able to do this, it resulted in his capture. After Crown Jewel had the Prism, she revealed her plan: she was going to create a duplicate universe where Cybernet never existed, then send as many of the survivors there as possible- but this would mean she had to stay behind. The citizens of Ailton were unhappy to hear this, to say the least, but she told them there was no other way, and she asked if any of the residents are willing to fight and stay behind. As people did, Crown Jewel had one more shared dream with Evangelus where they discussed what would happen the following day.

During the final battle, Crown Jewel was doing the ritual to create the universe when Evangelus got through all the defenses Ailton put up. So she decided to reason with him. And with Psyche X. She told them that the ritual wouldn't even let her go with the survivors, and the people out there fighting wouldn't go either. The ones that did go wouldn’t be Cybernet’s concern anymore. They wouldn’t belong to this universe, and therefore the hive (by its own laws, which only make them have to worry about the one they were from) wouldn't have any obligation to them. The survivors would get a new life, Cybernet would get the resistance, and Evangelus would get *her*. Everyone would. Further, interfering with the ritual as far along as it was now would end it early. The universe by this point was finished enough that the survivors could survive and rebuild (and have access to fairly modern technology), but not enough to let them feel fully at peace or be truly happy with their remade families and friends. And Cybernet, by their own admission, wanted everyone to be safe and happy. So it was either a win-win or a win-lose, but either way, the survivors were gone, and if they ended up in a bad situation, it would be Cybernet’s fault, and their own laws meant they couldn't take any action that would put innocent people in their universe in a bad situation- which meant they couldn't interfere. Psyche X, after a moment, admitted that Crown Jewel had basically checkmated them, so Evangelus waited long enough for the ritual to finish. Once she had done so, he put her to sleep.

Following the end of the fight, Evangelus took Crown Jewel back home, where she was assimilated and renamed Adira. Evangelus and Ambrose began taking care of her once she woke up from the assimilation, promising her a perfect life.

## Abilities and Weaknesses

### Abilities

* Crown Jewel has all the powers of the Phantom Ruby at her disposal; her illusions can grant her multiple abilities, but she usually just grants herself flight, energy manipulation, occasional size-shifting, and invisibility. She also uses it to make Null Spaces, either for peace of mind or to make fights less difficult for herself. If she lets loose, she can hold her own against- and bypass the invulnerability granted by- super states (which is a canonical ability the Ruby has).
* She keeps her immense strength and physical abilities from games.
* She knows significantly more magic, and with it she does stuff like turn invisible, heal others, and create new universes.

### Weaknesses

* The Ruby reacts to Crownie’s mental state, which is very damaged. As a result, she has to fight it to keep it from lashing out at the world. This means she has to hold back a great deal of her power.
* Psychological warfare is very effective on her, especially in the matter of Cream.
* Crownie risks losing control of the Ruby if she unleashes its full power, resulting in her entering a berserker state where she lacks the ability to tell friend from foe.
* Crownie’s life is tied to the Ruby and it’s therefore going to be very difficult to kill her, but you can render her effectively dormant by removing the Ruby from her head, which will trap her mind inside. She can interact with the outside world in such a state, but it’s very, very difficult.
* Due to her knowing a very complicated ritual, a counterpart to the Ruby has been made that can do the exact opposite of what it can. Big currently has it, so he’s essentially walking Kryptonite for her, always there to bring her back down when she starts getting worked up.

## Personality

On the battlefield, Crown Jewel is a fearsome enemy to Cybernet and anything that would threaten Ailton. If it kept her subjects safe, she would lay waste to nations and planets without a second thought. However, her heart is still conflicted over her loved ones, and she goes back and forth between lashing out (both consciously and subconsciously) and holding back due to her issues. She's working on this.

Off it, Crown Jewel is a kind, caring leader to her subjects, who trust her wholeheartedly. She tries to present the image of a strong, gentle queen to them and is always willing to listen to their problems, fears, or interests when Big cannot. When she can't do so for any reason, she withdraws and tends to prefer solitude so no one loses hope by seeing her at her worst. Big is her rock emotionally, especially with the loss of Cream.

## Trivia

* Her right hand man is Big the Cat.
* The home of her group of survivors is called Ailton, and her airship, powered by herself, is called the Diamond.
* She and Evangelus have a very personal and complicated dynamic, and she would probably be uncomfortable in the presence of exes that resemble Sonic for this reason.
* She sometimes sends Metal Amy duplicates to act in her stead.
* Crown Jewel sometimes uses the Ruby to make herself look like other exes or replace herself with a silhouette when she's around evil exes because she doesn't want them to be able to track/recognize her.
* Thanks to a final act of spite by Eggman, she controls all the assets and resources he once owned.
* Her approach to conflict: Never fight if you can shout, never shout if you can threaten, never threaten if you can talk, and never talk if you can run.
* Crown Jewel blames herself for Cream’s capture by the hive and spends many nights in tears because of it.
* Big had to have a replacement for her body made after she pulled the Ruby out of her head to avoid it falling into Cybernet’s hands. The only people who know are Big himself, Crown Jewel, and the ones who worked on it.
* Crownie doesn’t go into elevators anymore.
* Her entire design was made to contrast with Evangelus's design. In-universe.
* Crownie still likes strawberry shortcake.

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