Rhodonite

### Friend(s)

Lefty and Righty Rutile, Padparadscha, Fluorite, Steven Universe, Lars Barriga, Garnet, Connie Maheswaren, Sadie Miller, Dante Barriga, Martha Barriga, Lapis Lazuli, Golden Rutile, and Leggy Ruby

## Media

### Voice Actor

Enuka Okuma

**Rhodonite** is the unaligned fusion of Belly Ruby and Shelly Pearl who made her debut in "Off Colors". Her components once belonged to Morganite but were replaced after it was discovered that they enjoyed fusing. She would then travel through space on board the Sun Incinerator with the rest of the Off Colors, before landing in Beach City in July 2018. After graduation from Little Homeschool, she and the rest of the Off Colors have returned to space. Although since 2022, she and the Off Colors come to Earth once a month for a while, or stay on Earth for Holiday Season.

## Biography

### Fused for the First Time and Multiple Rejuvenations

Before being fused for the firs time, Shelly Pearl and Belly Ruby worked as the personal Pearl and Ruby guard, respectively, for the artist, Morganite, who had became an icon on Homeworld for designing the Diamond's palanquins, and painting the Diamond Murals. However one day, Shelly and Belly realized they had feelings for one another and fused into Rhodonite for the first time.

However Morganite, would later see Rhodonite.  Morganite would demand Shelly and Belly to be rejuvenated.   However Rhodonite would formed again.  Morganite then had Shelly and Belly rejuvenated a second time.   However, no matter how many times they were rejuvenated, each time Shelly and Belly fell in love and fused into Rhodonite After discovering Rhodonite on the 18th rejuvenation, Morganite had finally had enough and was agitated at the situation.

Morganite then got a replacement Pearl and Ruby to replace Shelly and Belly, who were then sentenced to be shattered.   However, upon learning what was going to happen to them, Shelly and Belly fused into Rhodonite and fled.

Rhodonite would then be chased by several other Pink Diamond Authority gems.  Somehow, Rhodonite was able to outrun the gems that chased her, which ultimately ended when Rhodonite ran to a bridge and jumped off the bridge plummeting down into the underground Kindergarten.  The gems who were chasing her chose not to go after her much further, believing the Shatter Robonoids would take care of the fusion.

### Discovered and New Allies

After landing on the ground in the underground kindergarten underneath Homeworld, Rhodonite was scared and confused.  However  after looking around nervously for a few moments, she heard a voice.   After looking around a while she found two conjoined Rutiles, much to her shock.  The Rutiles reassured Rhodonite they would not hurt her, while also introducing themselves as Lefty and Righty.

Lefty and Righty then lead Rhodonite deeper into the underground Kindergarten.  Rhodonite spoke to Lefty and Righty telling them about what had happened earlier to her.  After walking some more, Rhodonite asked Lefty and Righty if they could unfuse, Lefty and Righty told her that they were conjoined twins and could not unfuse.

Rhodonite then  asked why the Rutiles were here.  Lefty and Righty both admitted to her, that they and some other Off Colors were hiding from the Authority and that they all had defects.  Rhodonite then realized she was now an off color, too.

When the three made to a certain area in the Underground Kindergarten, Righty yelled for Fluorite.   Then moments later, a giant fusion appeared.  Rhodonite gasped in shock and was intimidated by Fluorite’s huge appearance.    However, Fluorite told Rhodonite not to be afraid and then introduced herself.   Fluorite would then ask Rhodonite, who she was, to which Rhodonite would then tell Fluorite about what had transpired earlier.

Fluorite understood and told Rhodonite that she, like her, is an unaligned fusion who was made up of six gems who was banished from Gem society because she was a cross-Gem fusion.    Rhodonite upon learning someone was like her, decided to stay with Fluorite, Lefty and Righty Rutile under Gem Homeworld.   Together it would be the four of them, living there for eons.

### A New Friend

Three thousand years later, Rhodonite was one day exploring the old Kindergarten, until a voice called out for her. A little startled, Rhodonite moved closer to where the voice was and nervously asked who was there. That was when a Corderite, who was holding a Padparadscha. Rhodonite, shocked by the sudden appearance of the two gems, took a few steps back and began to nervously freak out. The Corderite told Rhodonite to stop freaking out and introduced herself and Padparadscha. Rhodonite calmed down after a few minutes. She then apologized to the two. Rhodonite, who had been a bit confused as to why a Sapphire was with a Corderite, asked what a orange Sapphire and a Corderite were doing in a Kindergarten.

Corderite explained that she saved Padparadscha from being shattered after Padparadscha was considered defective and cast aside due to her visions being of events that already occurred and also explained that she was a Crystal Gem who had escaped The Rebellion and was in hiding. Corderite then instructed Rhodonite that she must take care of Padparadscha before she departed. Rhodonite, unsure why or how, agreed to take care of Padparadscha and that was when Padparadscha became a new friend to only Rhodonite, but the others, when they met her.

### First interaction with Humans

Another three thousand years passed, and Rhodonite was still living the underground Kindergarten, when one day Lefty and Righty brought a pair of humans to secret area of the underground Kindergarten, much to Rhodonite's shock and initial wariness of them. She would later known them as Steven and Lars. She would then explain to them her backstory. Later, she would hide from the shattering robonoids and would witnesses Lars' death, later resurrection, and his later transformation. She would, later aid in the Kindergarten's isolation, while also being shocked when learning Earth still existed. She then was interested in traveling to Earth with Steven and Lars. However she ended up staying in the underground Kindergarten.

### Escape from Homeworld and New Life as a Space Pirate

Rhodonite would accompany Lars the other Off Colors in their escape the Homeworld Kindergarten and went on the run. The group would assist in stealing an Emerald's personal shuttle before they crashed it on Upsilon 9, traveled to various planets, impersonating Imperial officers during a cosmic jubilee and later snuck past sixty-seven elite Citrine guards to steal the Sun Incinerator from a docking bay on Klavius 7. During this, Lars, taking the title of Captain Lars Barigga, appointed Rhodonite to be head of strategic operations. While Emerald contacted them through the ship, Rhodonite informed Lars that everything is clear up ahead. Later after, they escaped Emerald taking off in hyper-speed, she met Steven's friend Connie, who as with Steven who came to visit them. However, she quickly detected a battleship coming their way, Emerald's Imperial warfare, and attempted to get Captain Lars' input; however, he was distracted, and due to her nervousness, she was unable to make a decision, until Lars intervened and commanded her to lower the ship's shields, which she did, reluctantly. This was successful, as Emerald was too attached to the Sun Incinerator to attack it, and moved her line of attack onto its Nova Thrusters, to incapacitate the ship. This left the Off Colors the single solution of using the Star Skipper, Lars' personal shuttle, for an attack, which Rhodonite advised against. Nonetheless, Stevonnie ended up commanding the shuttle, fueling another one of Rhodonite's panics. She would later help Stevonnie after she was lost on a Jungle Moon for a few days. However the Sun Incinerator would not be able to travel at hyperspeed after the nova thrusters were damaged by the battle from earlier.

Later, Steven would visit again, this time accompanied by his friend, Garnet. Rhodonite was initially embarrassed when she initially believed that Garnet was "making fun" of her and the other Off Colors. She would listen Garnet's story on the upbringing of Rose Quartz. However she was upset with the unhappy ending because now she and the others knew Rose was a good Gem and lament her defeat. However after being motived by Garnet and Steven, Rhodonite, Lars, and the off Colors would set a course to one of Yellow Diamond's asteroid mines to scavenge for parts so they can fix the ship and finally return to Earth.

However during their journey to the Sun Incinerator would begin to run out of fuel. She would talk to Lars about the trouble, while the latter was venting about how he missed baking and felt that he was failing as a captain. However things got bad as Emerald was able to track them. Lars would then have the Sun Incinerator retreat into a dangerous Nebula. After flying into the Nebula, Rhodonite would be put into a mysterious trance, in which she found herself alongside separated Lefty Righty Rutile back on Homeowlrd an being hunted by shatter robonoids. However during the trance she was able to get Lefty and Righty reunited, before they noticed a path to the ship's control room, to which they followed and woke up from their trances.

Eventually the made to a planet, where they landed on a. tropical island. Sometime after landing Rhodonite drew Earth into the sand with a stick before asking Lars what Earth is like. To which Lars explained what Earth was like to her and the Off Colors, all the while, showing them what Earth cultures was like. But after drawing a lion and tiger in the sand and making nosies while showing what there like, Rhodonite fainted. After Lars left frustrated, Rhodonite vented about how she made Lars upset, expelling how he missed Earth and even talked out lions, additionally saying she didn't even know what a Lion was. However she and the rest of the Off Colors were able to make a sand castle. Later she danced when Lars played some music.

Later, the Off Colors would make it to Yellow Diamond's asteroid mines and they would successfully repair the Sun Incinerator.

### Coming to Earth, Opening Spacetries, Little Homeschool, and Back to Space

Sometime later, Lars and the Off Colors arrived on Earth, with her initially being excited but shewas immediately scared by the Diamonds being in front of her, prompting Steven to calm her down. When the Off Colors met Lars' friend Sadie, Rhodonite told Padparadscha to "give 'em (Lars and Sadie) a moment."

The following year, Rhodonite would assist Lars with the other Off Colors in opening his own pastry business, Spacetires, where she would make pastries after being taught how to do so by Lars and his mother, Martha. Rhodonite and the other Off Colors would bond with Lars' parents and even Sadie. She would later attend a Sadie Killer and the Suspects concert the following year. Later she and the other Off Colors would attend Little Homeschool and would graduate in the first class. She would later join the other Off Colors and Lars to back into Space, where they would stop several Era 3 Rogue operations, including a light construct operation.

### Present Day

Beginning in 2022, Rhodonite would accompany Lars and the rest of the Off Colors come mostly to Earth to visit and stay for a bit, while also staying to Earth from November to Early January for the holiday season. Additionally in 2022, Rhodonite and her friend would meet Padparadscha's new girlfriend, Leggy Ruby. Later on, Leggy would join the Off Colors in 2023. Rhodonite currently lives a swell, happy life as of today.

## Appearance

Rhodonite has a slim, yet curvy and slightly muscular build with raspberry pink skin and a long pointed nose that is slightly turned upward. She has wide, black, afro-style hair with dark lavender highlights. As a fusion, Rhodonite has four arms, a pair of which are thick, like a Ruby's, and a pair on her waist that are thin, like a Pearl's. She also possesses four eyes with the top pair being wide and expressive and having dark pupils like a Ruby, and the bottom pair being more closed and reserved and having light-colored pupils like a Pearl.

She wears a black and mauve jumpsuit with a diamond-shaped cutout at the navel, revealing her Ruby gem, and mauve leggings, with one leg that covers her entire right leg and the other only covering part of her left thigh. She has a black ballet flat on her right foot and a mauve boot on her left. She also wears a sheer pale pink shawl over the Pearl gem on her chest and has deep burgundy gloves from the elbow-down on her lower set of arms.

## Personality

Rhodonite is very kind and can be level headed at times. However she can stress out a lot and can be easily frightened. She is also extremely paranoid due to the eons spent hiding inside the underground Kindergarten on Homeworld. Additionally, her panic and anxiety can get in the way of her job as head of strategic operation in the Off Colors, as she'll more often than not discard options for being too risky, but this has a silver lining, with her keeping a defensive look over the team and her friends.

## Relationships

### Lefty and Righty Rutile

Rhodonite first met Lefty and Righty Rutile when she fled into the underground Kindergarten after evading Morganite and several other Pink Diamond Authority gems. Initially being shocked upon seeing they were conjoined, she befriended them and they have been close friends ever since.

### Fluorite

Fluorite and Rhodonite met sometime after Rhodonite fled into the underground Kindergarten. Despite initially being intimated by Fluorite's huge appearance, Rhodonite was able to befriend her. She sees a motherly figure in Fluorite, respectful of her actions and is very accepting (although occasionally impatient) of aspects like her slow speech.

### Padparadscha

After Padparadscha was saved and dropped off in the Kindergarten by a vigilante Corderite, Rhodonite met Padparadscha and took her with her to meet Fluorite alosngode Lefty and Righty, after Corderite told Rhodonite to take care of Padparadscha. Spending many years with Padparadscha, due to her absent-minded nature, Rhodonite acts like a parental figure and has a parental relationship with her. Rhodonite at time is slightly annoyed by Padparadscha's late predictions.

### Lars Barriga

Rhodonite met Lars and Steven when the came into the Kindergarten. At first didn't trust Lars, but after he saved her from the Shattering Robonoids, she began to like him. She was also very curious about him after Steven revived him. When Lars offered to send her to Earth, she acted awkwardly and went for it only to be stopped by Fluorite, Lefty and Righty, who looked at her with slight disappointment. During the Off Colors’ adventures through Homeworld, Rhodonite had come to respect Lars for the risks he takes for the Off Colors, notably slipping past security to steal ships and aiding their escape from Homeworld. Like the other Off Colors, Rhodonite regard Lars as her captain and faithfully carries out his orders.

### Steven Universe

Rhodonite was wary of Steven at first, but later befriended him.

### Connie Mahewaren

When Steven visited the Off Colors with Connie, Rhodonite showed no anxiety towards meeting her, and befriended her.

### Garnet

When they first met, Rhodonite was embarrassed when she initially believed that Garnet was "making fun" of her and the other Off Colors. After listening to Garnet's story on the upbringing of Rose Quartz, Rhodonite's and Garnet's relationship improved. They are good friends.

### Sadie Miller

She heard stories of Sadie from Lars. Later when she got to meet her and was excited to meet her. She additionally became a fan of Sadie Killer and The Suspects.

### Martha and Dante Barigga

While on Earth, Rhodonite met Lars' parents Martha and Dante. Despite being confused at meeting them, she did become friends with them with Martha showing pictures of Lars' childhood to her and the Off-Colors, much to Lars' chagrin. Dante mostly spoke to her about how to do things on Earth like how to eat pastries.

### Golden Rutile

Rhodonite met Golden Rutile in 2021 at Little Homeworld, while Lefty and Righty Rutile were intruding Golden to the other Off Colors, with Golden shaking one of her hands on both arms. She is very friendly to Golden.

### Lapis Lazuli

Rhodonite and the Off Colors met Lapis when they were in her art class at Little Homeworld. Lapis was able to become good friend with them, with Rhodonite liking her and thinking they could be good friends. They did so as time went on. As of today, Rhodonite enjoys spending time with Lapis, when she, Lars, and the Off Colors come to Earth monthly.

### Leggy Ruby

Rhodonite met Leggy during a Christmas Party in 2022. Upon meeting Leggy she asked Padparadscha if Leggy was her girlfriend, to which Padparadscha said yes. Later on, when Leggy joined the Off Colors in 2023, they became good friends. Additionally when they do some work at Spacetries, Leggy helps Rhodonite make batter.

## Abilities

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

## Gemstones

Rhodonite's Pearl is located on her chest. It resembles a cabochon, a gemstone that has been polished, but not faceted, while her Ruby is where her navel would be. It has a square facet. It is a decahedron, specifically a truncated tetragonal dipyramid.

## Trivia

* The gemstone Rhodonite is believed to help express confidence and lovingness, which is exactly what Rhodonite is like.
* Rhodonite was inspired by The Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland.