Paolo

**Paolo Inocencio Galindez** is a Crystal Gem, and the son of a Red Diamond. Created by WD778 and adopted by shirodearest\_art.

## Abilities

Being a human/Gem hybrid, Paolo is capable of using Gem magic, though it is unknown if he possesses all the abilities of a pure Gem, such as retreating to their gemstone when taking fatal damage

* **Creation of Life:** Paolo inherited from his mother the power to create life, which consists in taking a handful of sand, breathing on it, squeezing it tightly and opening his hand to finally obtain gemstones

## Curiosities

* His birthday is March 2
* Paolo is gay
* In addition to the power to create life, Paolo also inherited his mother's court, which is very numerous
* He is of Mexican descent
* He is a fan of the Five Nights at Freddy's games
* Paolo has known his boyfriend Aleksei since he was 12 years old
* When they met, Paolo was in the first year of high school, and Aleksei was in the fourth year (he was 15 years old), they saw each other a lot at recess, since the boys in their classes used to play a lot of soccer together
* Once while they were playing soccer, Paolo slipped in the mud and hit his head quite hard, being Aleksei who carried him in his arms to the infirmary, then offered to accompany him home, which Paolo gladly accepted
* After the experience of the infirmary, Paolo and Aleksei became very close, at recess Paolo would sit on his lap while Aleksei hugged him tenderly from behind, and on some occasions he even gave him little kisses on the cheek
* Marco, his father, works as a fisherman
* Interestingly, Paolo's father has lived in the United States since 1979, when he left home to take care of his grandmother, Marcela Cardenas (Paolo's great-grandmother), who had lived in USA since 1948.
* Marco, and Red Diamond (Paolo's mother) met in 1984, and married in 1995, being Marco's grandmother, Marcela, the only one who attended their wedding
* Marco gave him Inocencio as his middle name, in memory of his grandfather Inocencio Galindez, who died in 1973

## Gemology

* Diamond is the official modern birthstone for April, and it is also used as an official sixty-year anniversary gemstone.
* Diamonds are the stone of truth and victory.
* It is associated with lightning and fearlessness, and for its properties of protection.
* The diamond, in its rarity and beauty, is a symbol of purity and innocence, love, and fidelity, and embraces the strength of character, ethics, and faithfulness to oneself and others.
* Diamond is the transparent, gemstone-quality crystalline form of carbon and it is indeed one of the hardest known natural substances on Earth.
* Diamonds' hardness is the result of adamant chemical bonds between the carbon atoms.
* There is no other gemstone in the same family as diamond, although there are a variety of very similar gemstones.
* Diamond is pure carbon and is chemically the same as graphite.
* Although traditional colorless or "white diamonds" are by far the most famous colored diamonds, yellow and brown diamonds are the most commonly occurring diamonds.
* Other diamond colors include pink, red, orange, yellow, green, gray, and black.
* Specific colors will trade under specific names.
* Brown and yellow diamonds are often referred to as "champagne" or "cognac" diamonds.
* If a diamond's impurities consist of boron and low level of nitrogen, the diamond will be a blue or gray color (Type IIb). Other blue diamonds are unrelated to boron; nickel or high concentrations of hydrogen are the likely causes of blue color in some diamonds.
* The diamond is a p-type semiconductor.
* Diamond deposits are found worldwide, the most notable being Africa, Australia, and India.
* Approximately half of the world's diamonds come from Central and Southern Africa.
* Canada has recently become a primary commercial source for fine white diamonds.
* One of the most famous diamonds, the Hope Diamond, is a blue diamond and is one of the largest diamonds ever to be cut and faceted. It is known notoriously for supposedly being cursed, depicted to bring forth misfortune to whoever attempts to wear it.
* A notorious New Age scamming site, The Council of Love, utilizes the blue diamond as a symbol of the Virgin Mary, which may have inspired Blue Diamond's aesthetic similarities to the figure.