Amethyst

**Amethyst** (specifically **Amethyst Facet-5 Cut-8XM**) is a member of the Crystal Gems. She is the last known Gem manufactured on Earth as a part of the Gem Homeworld's Kindergarten project, being one of the last surviving Gems on Earth. After being found by Rose Quartz and the other Crystal Gems, Amethyst helped her friends protect the Earth over the next four millennia, and often aids in the shenanigans of Steven Universe.

Years later, Amethyst lives a peaceful life with the Crystal Gems, no longer struggling with low self-esteem. Though she was struck by a Gem rejuvenator during Spinel's return and had her memory wiped, Amethyst was eventually restored by Steven, who helps her recall her fondness for him and her team through past experiences on Earth.

Amethyst, alongside her fellow Crystal Gems, currently teaches at Little Homeschool. Despite once struggling with figuring out who she was, as well as battling self-confidence issues surrounding her appearance, Amethyst has since found peace and now assists other Gems in finding themselves as well.

## Appearance

Amethyst has a somewhat stout build common to Quartz Gems and is shorter than most of the characters, formerly rivaling Steven's height, though only by a couple of inches. She is about half the height of a "standard" Quartz Gem soldier, such as Jasper, due to remaining in the ground for an extra 500 years, which also gives her a somewhat stocky appearance. Her skin is bright lilac, her eyes are dark indigo, and her thick, messy hair is pale lavender and goes down to her ankles, with a large bang that obscures her left eye. She also has plump lips, and a small, upturned nose. Her gemstone is located on her chest, and the bottom half of it was usually covered by her shirt.

### First Form

In her first form, Amethyst formed in the Prime Kindergarten. After being struck by the Gem rejuvenator in *Steven Universe: The Movie*, Amethyst's body reverts to its base form: she takes on an almost mannequin-like appearance, with clear joint-lines at her elbows, wrists, knees, and ankles, and her feet are bare and featureless. She wears a dark purple leotard, and like her 1980s form, she has short hair and appears shorter in height.

### 18th Century Regeneration

In "Buddy's Book" and in a painting shown in "So Many Birthdays", Amethyst appeared with the same height and hairstyle as her current self. She wore a dark mauve jacket with white buttons and shoulder epaulets, lighter mauve leggings, small black boots, and a mauve and black hat with a small white star in the middle.

### 1980s-90s Regeneration

In "Story for Steven", "We Need to Talk", and "Greg the Babysitter", which were flashbacks to the 1980s-1990s, Amethyst had short hair, and she appeared a little smaller compared to her current and previous appearance. She wore a mauve tank top with a frilly-like bottom, a black shawl, baggy black pants, and white boots.

### Debut

From "Gem Glow" to "Reformed", Amethyst wore a mauve, oversized, off-shoulder tank top (as confirmed in *Guide to the Crystal Gems*) with a black bra underneath. She also wore black leggings with star-shaped cutouts on the knees, with a tear above the left star, and small, pointed, white boots.

### Second Regeneration

From "Reformed" to "Crack the Whip", the colors of Amethyst's tank top and leggings are reversed: her tank top is now black with two small slots on each side towards the bottom, and her leggings are mauve with black stars on the knees. She fixes her right shoulder strap, keeping it on her shoulder rather than off (a feature Pearl was happy to see changed). Her boots are still white.

### Third Regeneration

From "Crack the Whip" to "Together Alone", Amethyst's clothes’ color palette remained the same but had been swapped once more: her tank top became off-white with a jagged hem, black leggings (similar to her debut) with dark mauve stars on them, and her ankle boots became the same dark mauve hue. Her hair was also notably more wild and untamed during this form.

### Current Regeneration

As of "Change Your Mind", Amethyst now wears a black tank top that it is torn open at the chest to reveal her gemstone, medium gray shorts with black stars on each leg and torn white fabric at the bottoms, and her boots become white again. It's worth noting that this is Amethyst's first known permanent form (aside from her very first form) to fully display her Gem, possibly because of her newfound self-esteem.

### Other

In the "We Are the Crystal Gems" short and "Three Gems and a Baby" which flashback to Steven being a baby and toddler, Amethyst still had the same leggings and boots she wore from "Gem Glow" to "Reformed", except she had an off-shoulder, long-sleeved mauve shirt that exposed both bra straps and there was no tear above the star on the left knee of her leggings.

## **Personality**

Amethyst is fun-loving, full of laughter, and generally carefree to a fault. Although it isn't necessary for her, she enjoys eating and sleeping and is frequently seen doing so. She tends to indulge Steven more than the other Gems and partakes in human activities with him, though she shows concern for his well-being in times of more severe danger. Amethyst loves a good fight, something that manifests itself in her wrestling persona, the "Purple Puma," where she willingly masquerades as a hated wrestler purely for the fun of it and to relieve stress from Pearl and Garnet's constant orders. She often loves watching fights and will loudly vocalize or cheer when she sees a conflict in progress, egging the competitors on, including the feuds between Pearl and Greg, between Pearl and Peridot, and Steven and Garnet eagerly while eating popcorn.

Loud and a lover of pranks, Amethyst is easily amused and very impulsive. She is bad-mannered, untidy, and a bit lazy; much to Pearl's detriment, but still means well. Her unwillingness to let others throw out the junk in her room marks her as somewhat of a hoarder. These tendencies surface in "Maximum Capacity", where she is unwilling to let Greg throw anything away in his storage unit. However, Amethyst is very observant and perceptive of other people's feelings: She tries to reassure Steven in "An Indirect Kiss" when he was worried about her as she fell apart, understood why Pearl kept fixing the Communication Hub in "Cry for Help", and that Garnet won't forgive Pearl unless the two directly talk it out in "Friend Ship".

Because of her origins in the Prime Kindergarten and its dark legacy, Amethyst harbors a tremendous amount of self-loathing, which is also fueled by her perception that she is inadequate when compared to Garnet or Pearl. This leaves her feeling out of place among the Crystal Gems, thinking that she doesn't belong with Gems of their caliber when she was created by the very thing they sought to destroy. She thought that when Steven learned of her past, he would think less of her. In "On the Run", Amethyst gets into a vicious fight with Pearl over the belief that she sees Amethyst as a parasite, though she calms down after Pearl comforts her. She shows her difficulty at thinking for herself and worries about Steven's and Garnet's approval in "Reformed", regenerating multiple times in the episode with new forms that were all rushed or based on what she thinks Garnet and Steven will approve of.

Amethyst has an admittedly low opinion of herself and a strong self-loathing that she usually keeps buried under her boisterousness. When her self-doubt takes effect, it makes her act cold, reckless, stubborn, and starts looking for a fight. In "Cry for Help", she sings "Tower of Mistakes" due to feeling inferior to Sardonyx and defends Pearl for deceiving Garnet to fuse with her due to both being weaker than her. In "Too Far" she was offended when Peridot states that she is a "defective" quartz, meaning she came out wrong.

This attitude gets worse in "Crack the Whip" and "Steven vs. Amethyst", where her sense of inferiority is focused as Jasper easily defeats and poofs before she sees that Steven surpasses her. This causes her to start fighting with him too, though it was only after a fight with Steven that she begins to feel better. In "Beta", she still shows an obsession with finding and beating Jasper which leads her to recklessly challenge her alone, all the while denying her friends' help and encouragement. "Earthlings" shows Amethyst come to terms with herself due to Steven's encouragement, comfort, and stating that they are the same, leading them to fuse into Smoky Quartz. After the battle, she seemingly returns to her usual self, exasperatingly saying that she didn't want to do anything for a month. In "Gem Heist", Amethyst is still shown to be afraid of encountering other Amethysts from Homeworld in Pink Diamond's Zoo. In "That Will Be All", however, it turns out that these Amethysts are from Earth and that they remember her as 8XM, befriending her and making pranks at her side. In "Tiger Philanthropist", she is now comfortable with her self-esteem and no longer needs wrestling as an output of dominance and power.

"What's Your Problem?" shows how much she has matured as she tells Steven she refuses to fall apart on him, with Steven even remarking how mature she has become much to her dismay.

*Steven Universe Future* shows she has come to understand herself and has found a purpose helping other gems find out their purpose by talking to them and understanding what they want to do, something she has shown to be extremely good at.

### Fusions

* When fused with Pearl, they form Opal.
* When fused with Ruby and Sapphire, they form Sugilite.
* When fused with Ruby, Sapphire, and Pearl, they form Alexandrite.
* When fused with Steven, they form the hybrid fusion Smoky Quartz.
* When fused with Ruby, Sapphire, Pearl, and Rose Quartz, they form Obsidian.
* When fused with Ruby, Sapphire, Pearl, and Steven, they form the hybrid fusion Obsidian
* When fused with Pearl, Carnelian and Citrine they form Dragon Breath Opal
* When fused with Citrine they form Ametrine
* When fused with Crystal Quartz they form Spirit Quartz.
* When fused with Carnelian they form Eisenkiesel