Emerald

**Emerald** is a Homeworld Gem who made her debut in "Lars of the Stars". She owned the Sun Incinerator, which was taken from her by Caption Lars Barriga and the Off Colors. With her ship in the hands of the Off Colors and her role being removed upon Era 3, she is still has not adapted to Era 3. Additionally she teamed up with Bluebird Azurite and they are currently plotting to end Era 3 and go back to the original way Gemkind was.

## Biography

### Emerging, Meeting Her Diamond and Early Life

Emerald emerged five days before the Era 1 Ball under The Yellow Diamond Authority/Following.  Upon emergence, she encountered various other gems that were emerging, and eventually came across Yellow Diamond’s Pearl.    Yellow Pearl would introduce herself and told Emerald she knew who she was, before taking her up to Homeworld to Yellow Diamond’s Palace to meet Yellow Diamond.

Upon meeting Yellow Diamond, Emerald introduced herself, only to be cut off by Yellow, telling her, much like her Pearl said earlier, that she already knew who she was despite having emerged only a few minutes ago. Following this, Yellow would appoint her to be a ship commander and space captain.  Emerald would learn her piloting skills from a few light constructs, and after only two days, Emerald was officially ready to be a Space Captain and Ship Commander.

Another two days passed, and Emerald, alongside all the other gems that had emerged in the prior few days would attend the Era 1 Ball, where they would be introduced to the other Diamonds and Gems, and learn of what they would be doing for the rest of their lives.

The following day, Emerald would officially begin her duties as a Ship Commander, commanding ships to be sent to certain planets the Diamonds chose for colonization since they had chosen to have more gems to be made for their courts. Emerald’s command of ships proved to be successful during the early days of colonization of several planets as a lot colonization process would be done within months.  Following her initial success, Emerald began to grow prideful, and her behavior towards the other Gem members she would often have on the ship with her grew rather arrogant.   Additionally, she would view her closest assistants and workers in Serpentine, who had become Emerald’s right hand gem during the process of colonization, and Jadeite, who joined as a gem to work under Emerald’s Command.

Emerald and eveygem affiliated with her would continue to assist in colonizing planets.

### Earth Colonization and The Rebellion

4,000 years later, a new planet named Earth was selected by the Diamonds for Colonization.    Despite commanding Ships to the planet, Emerald did not visit Earth due to her lack of knowledge regarding the planet, and was more concentrated on commanding ships.    However Serpentine had visited the planet and told Emerald a lot about it.  But Emerald didn’t care for it, and told Serpentine to get back to work and not talk about the planet.    However Serpentine was a bit frustrated that her higher-up didn’t want to hear anything about Earth.

A few years into the Colonization, rumors began circulating that a rebellion was forming on Earth and causing a delay in the colonization process.   When informed on the situation, Emerald became agitated and stated that she did not want anything to do with it because she had valued the ships she loved so much and didn’t want to see them be destroyed.   However things got worse as her agitation and constant words on the Rebellion, had culminated in her behavior escalating into sheer anger with constant outbursts and shouting at the gems who worked for her.

This was enough for Serpentine, who one night after an argumentative conversation with Emerald over arrangements being made for her to command more ships to Earth, had left in the middle of the night.   When the war began and from there, Emerald continued her duty of sending ships to the planet, and would become increasingly paranoid, thinking the rebels were going to steal the ships, or damage them.

After a few weeks into the war, Yellow Diamond, who had heard enough complaints from the gems who worked with Emerald, made the decision to have Emerald and her gems command ships on another colonization, while another ship commander would command fleets of Ships during the war.  Emerald would clam down and go back to normal during this time and the the gems who worked for her would continue work as normal.

### Early Era 2

After the end of The Rebellion, Emerald continued work with commanding fleets of ships, when Era 2 began.   However during the Gem Boom of Era 2, new Peridots were made, and despite Emerald having an Era 1 Peridot, she was given another Peridot.  The Peridot’s name was Peridot Facet-2F5L Cut-5XG.

As the Peridot walked into Emerald’s Ship Hangar donned in her Limb Enhancers, Emerald was a bit agitated, but not in the way she was during the Rebellion.  The two would have their first encounter and Emerald would not even introduce herself to her.  After Peridot had a talk with Jadeite, and learned what was expected of her, the Peridot was left with Emerald.  Emerald would not give Peridot any introduction or anything else, but would just tell her that she had better work as fast and effectively as possible.  The Peridot would then ask for the reason she was assigned to a specific location, and was met with a response from Emerald, telling her not to question the orders she had given, and just obey them, or risk being shattered. Emerald wouldn’t not have very much talk with Peridot as she mostly worked as maintenance worker.   However Emerald would take a liking to Peridot’s work as she worked very well. Peridot was eventually called up to do some work on Earth after it was reported that a Lazuli had come to Homeworld from Earth.  Peridot would then depart with 79 Robonoids to do work on Earth until she was eventually reported missing. Emerald was bit saddened, saying that 5XG was one of her best Peridots. But however she eventually moved on with her life.

### Pirates and Chases

A few months later, a human named Captain Lars Barriga and a fleet of Off Colors stole her personal shuttle, only to crash it on Upsilon 9, frustrating her.  Lars and the Off Colors then impersonated imperial officers during a cosmic jubilee, and snuck past sixty-seven elite Citrine guards to steal the fastest ship she owned, the Sun Incinerator from the docking bay of Klavius 7.

While the Pirates were on the run, Emerald communicated with them through the ship’s screen, eventually angrily threatening them, but the pirates eventually took off at hyperspeed.    However Emerald and her crew were able to track them and immediately caught up with them, on her warship, the Destiny Destroyer.  She demanded Lars to surrender, which he rejected before lowering the shields on the ship.   Not wanting to destroy her beloved ship, Emerald avoided firing on the Sun Incinerator directly. Realizing Lars knew she won't destroy her prized ship, she decided to prevent his escape by disabling the Sun Incinerator's nova thrusters, only for Lars to release his Star Skipper to take out the Destiny Destroyer's main guns, ultimately forcing her to retreat.

However the now-damaged nova thrusters on the Sun Incinerator, which would eventually be set back online, Emerald would use this to scan and track them. She and her crew would arrive on the Destiny Destroyer, only for the Sun Incinerator to fly into a dangerous Nebula. After seeing this, Emerald would remark that her old ship was now as good as gone.

### Era 3 and Present Day

After the loss of the Sun Incinerator, Emerald and her crew went back to Klavius 7, with Emerald devastated and furious, and later she was informed by Yellow Diamond that was Era 3 sometime later and told her she was relived of her duty as ship commander. Exasperated, Emerald chose to take an absence on her own without her crew who she left on Klavius 7 and took another one of her other ships into space. Where there she was contacted by Jadeite, who was wondering where she was after being informed by her crew. Emerald explained that she was taking an absence, to which also said she couldn't be in two places at once. She would then pass jurisdiction onto Jadeite and asked if she could manage. Jadeite obliged and Emerald then told her that she will be contacting her shorty with exceptions of perfection from Jadeite and also told for her record, she would mark or speak of her absence. When asked what she was doing out there by Jadeite, Emerald responded by asking "was your injector faulty???" before cackling. She then told Jadeite to accept her oder and get off her screen. Jadeite obliged to do so. Afterwards, Emerald sang, lamenting about her frustration in which she decided to start on a life on the planet Mears, but eventually chose not to.

Eventually she came back to Klavius 7 to learn that her crew and Jadeite left her. Later, she went to where the Sun Incinerator sat in the docking bay before it was stolen, where there she began to commemorate the loss of the Sun Incinerator to herself as well as venting to herself about Era 3. However she was spotted by a fusion who intorudec herself as Bluebird Azurite. Bluebird explained like Emerald, she was mad about Era 3, so her components fused into her to attempt and ruin Steven Universe, which failed. She then explained her plan to end Era 3 and go back to the original way Gemkind was. Bluebird then asked Emerald if she was interested, to which Emerald replied, "Yes."

## Appearance

Emerald has a tall and slim figure, teal-green skin, large, spiky seaweed green hair, and prominently pointy fangs. Her gemstone is where her right eye would be. Emerald has large rectangular shoulder pads and pale furry ruff at the base of her neck. Beneath the ruff are two yellow diamond symbols one over the other, the bottom one being larger and being attached to two turquoise straps, with the rest of her jumpsuit being green and dark green. She has cyan, square-shaped cuffs, and manilla leg 'armor'-like high heeled boots. Adorning her forehead, there is a light moss green zigzag tiara-esque bar that covers her hairline and brows, making it resemble a unibrow.

## Personality

Emerald is mostly obsessive, arrogant, agitated, nefarious, and a little too in over her head. However when provoked, her agitation can turn to sheer anger. Emerald valued her Sun Incinerator too highly to destroy it even when doing so would have dealt with the Off Colors in a single stroke.

## Relationships

### Serpentine

Serpentine was taken in by Yellow Diamond to work as Emerald's righthand gem. Serpentine was of course viewed by Emerald as her righthand gem. However despite being considered a close friend, she was unfortunately subject to Emerald's outbursts and sheer anger. Eventually when Serpentine got into a argumentative conversion over arrangements being made for her to command more ships to Earth, which culminated in her leaving later in the night.

### Jadeite

Jadeite was one of several gems who were under Emerald's Command. One of her most notable interactions was when Emerald passed jurisdiction to her during an absence she was take, in which she also told Jadeite to not speak of her absence. However when Jadeite asked what she was doing out there, Emerald replied with asking if her injector was fully before cackling and telling her to respect her oder and get off her screen. However Jadeite eventually left her after Era 3 began.

### Bluebird Azurite

Emerald met Bluebird when Bluebird discovered her on Klavius 7, while she was commemorating the loss of the Sun Incinerator and venting to herself about Era 3. Bluebird then herself vented that she mad about Era 3. Realizing they were alike, they chose to team up and are currently plotting to end Era 3 and go back to the original way Gemkind was.

## Abilities

Emerald possesses standard Gem abilities, bubbling, shapeshifting, fusion, regeneration, agelessness, and superhuman strength/durability.

### Uniqe Abilites

* **Spaceship Piloting**: Emerald has several spaceships; she also knows their functions and how to command and track them.

## Gemstone

Emerald's gemstone is located where her right eye would otherwise be. It is dark-green, rectangular, and has facets around the edge.

## Trivia

* Emerald is the first non-hybrid Gem to not be voiced by a woman. She is voiced by Jerick Hoffer (better known by their drag persona Jinkx Monsoon), a non-binary drag performer. Additionally Monsoon made a video in 2015, where they personally asked Rebecca Sugarin the tune of "Giant Woman" to voice a character from the show which was uploaded to YouTube on June 16 of the name year. Monsoon would eventually be casted as Emerald in 2018.
* Along with Carnelian, Spinel, Larimar, Snowflake Obsidian, Lefty & Righty Rutile, Emerald is the sole individual of her Gem type seen in full detail.
* Emerald's gemstone resembles an emerald cut, a type of step cut with truncated corners. Appropriately, they are commonly associated with emerald gemstones.
* According to Rebecca Sugar, Emerald is a special character because of her status on Homeworld as she is a fancy and very high-class Gem (who commands a fleet of spaceships from her flagship), which, aside from the Diamonds, is a rarely seen type of foe for the Crystal Gems. Her high status is a reference to how emeralds in real life are very valuable.
* The choice of the gemstone "Emerald" may be a reference to Queen Emeraldas, a character from the universe of *Space Pirate Captain Harlock* and the series that heavily inspired her debut episode "Lars of the Stars".
* On December 10, 2020, Emerald appeared in Jinkx Monsoon's "Emerald's Life on Mars", a Steven Universe themed cover of Monsoon's "Life on Mars". Monsoon reprises their role as Emerald in live-action as a cosplay by them. The video is currently available to be viewed on Monsoon's YouTube channel.