Draconium Facet 6B6 Mint 9XX "D.D"

* Homeworld
* Sollum
* Mindscape (psychic duel)

### Class

L. Magus (Dragon Fang/Spellstriker/Blade of Legend/L. Kensai/Sublime Warmage) 15//Spellweaver (Mindweaver) 15

Ardent 5/Soulknife (Brutality Blade) 5/Dark Tempest 10//Spellweaver (Martial Sphereweaver) 10/Amplifier 10 (as defector)

## Physical description

### Eye color

Fierce, flaming reddish orange

D.D, full designation **Draconium Facet 6B6 Mint 9XX**, is a Homeworld gem who first appeared in Lucid. She is a Draconium with a chipped, bent gem, which leads her form to be missing both legs (one from the knee down, the other entirely gone) and a hand. Due to her injuries, she relies on extensive cybernetics, of which she has assembled a functioning suit out of literal trash and debris, and because her form is so "imperfect", she is not allowed to attend formal events on Homeworld or maintain a public presence. For this reason, her only superiors are the Diamonds; she tends to answer directly to Yellow Diamond, but in order to avoid clogging up Yellow's schedule with calls, she is frequently given long missions.

## Personality

Full of bitter resent for the caste system of Homeworld, Draconium is as close to a rebel in nature as one gets without actually rebelling. She carries out the diamonds' orders because she has nothing else to do. However, her defining trait, and the reason why the diamonds keep her around at all, is because she is *incredibly hardworking.* She believes that the world would fall apart if people were to just become lazy and do nothing. She strives to put a dent in the historical logs, and be a name whispered among Gemkind, just like the Legendary Draconium before her. Her unusual abilities and methods lend her ire from others of her station, and she has no friends or place to call home.

## History

In the year 2013, she is precisely 5900 years old. Created by a joint effort of Pink and Blue Diamond, she was one of four Draconiums to be produced during the time of the war. She used to see a lot of kinship with the other Draconiums, for they were so unique. Draconiums are not unheard of in Homeworld however; a brief but major uprising 50,000 years ago was started by a Draconium and an Eridium, two gems who would later go on to form the Otherworlder faction living in the Quasi-Elemental Plane of Minerals, and who would then become Choko's mother. Both due to the uprising and the rarity of the material are why Draconiums are so scarce.

Cracked at the hands of Rose Quartz herself, Draconium found herself as an outcast, ostracized for having to rely on technological implants and being unable to fit in with a crowd. At the time, she was in a moderately serious romantic relationship with one of the other three Draconiums from her time, but even she too rejected 9XX, in quite a harsh way. 9XX, in response, shattered her in rage; in fact, it was the first time she had used her Awakened form. This incident lead her to be essentially civilly dead to Homeworld. Though in bad standing with the Diamonds, she answered to them directly, as they thought it would be too wasteful, even for them, to dispose of another useful asset. This continued, right up until "Pink's shattering", where her ownership transferred to Yellow instead.

In Lucid, she joins the invasion forces, but arrives roughly two days early. This gives her time to reach the rebels' base of operations. She assists in the initial ground assault by establishing turrets, but is tricked and subsequently incapacitated by Rachel Heartway, a Department-7 agent. While on the car ride back to the department, D.D reforms and blows up the car with one of her spells. She injures Rachel almost to the point of death, but retreats in a carjacking to return to Beach City.

When she learns of Ammolite's betrayal, she is immediately intrigued. She decides to put off her work to go find Ammolite, but Xenekite and the Xenekites want to hound her around to finish the drill for the cluster project. At the Prime Kindergarten, as they find an injector to dismantle for the drill bit, she grants a Peridot the title of mission commander, and uses a combination of invisibility and hallucinations to fool a watching Xenekite, slipping away to the rebel hideout to interrogate them directly.

## Abilities

Draconium is a gem. She has standard gem abilities for someone of her kind, such as shapeshifting, bubble creation, the ability to turn her gem into a flashlight, and the ability to fuse with others. Her weapon of choice, the *black blade*, is not a gem weapon like that of LD's draconic staff of power, or like Pearl's spear, Amethyst's whip or Garnet's gauntlets, but is instead an actual physical object that she stores in her gem. When her form destabilizes, like other Draconiums, it appears as a bright, hot plasma-like substance, although it is only a little warmer than someone's body temperature with a severe fever. Most projections of her that are separate from her body, such as the cone of light made by her gem, and her bubbles, are not purple but instead a brilliantly rich orange color; another common Draconium trait. She is stronger than the average man, but not by much. In fact, she is just ever so slightly weaker than Suji. She is swift, intelligent, knowledgeable and can exert her personality on others quite well, although she suffers in terms of fortitude and wisdom; she tends to just headstrong things rather than applying more than the bare minimum amount of common sense.

As a Draconium, she can enter an awakened form. This causes her form to take an orange hue, and her gem to release huge amounts of energy. She channels rage into her awakened form, and can only assume it when she is angry.

Like other Draconiums, her innate power is to shape her gem energy into hardlight constructs known as *configurations*. She can shape configurations from the *vizier* list. Her most powerful configuration is the *akashic construct*, which grants her an empowered physical form with functioning, mechanical limbs and armor. Additionally, she is adept in a mixture of psychic power (not psionic power, but the same occult energy that empowers Suji and Tsubaki to perform their Mesmerist and Medium abilities respectively) and arcane spellcasting with a heavy dragon theme; she can even create a breath of draconic plasma. She can channel her arcane spells through her black blade and fight seamlessly with the two of them, while her psychic spells are more centered around her ability to shape gem energy; she can shatter her configurations, converting the gem energy she uses to power them into psychic energy to cast her spells. In fact, this is the only way she can cast said spells. In a way, the energy sources are one in the same, as her gem is her mind, so her gem energy is more or less just mental energy, although because she is a construct, her mind is formed from arcane power, and so on and so forth.

She is adept at dueling in people's minds, and tricking them with powerful illusions and enchantments, even if her absolute power is rather limited. However, she is very good at evocation spells, particularly those with a fiery nature.

Normally, her destiny is to bond with Choko over the fact that they are both Draconiums. This has yet to happen in Lucid, but if it does, she will join Sollum, and subsequently be taught how to harness the power of psionics. In that case, her abilities change slightly: she becomes capable of manifesting psionic powers, and can form a mind blade out of her anger from which she channels these powers, ditching the sword for said blade. She also begins channeling the power of psionic mantles, studying the balance that is fate at large versus personal freedom, as well as the universal constant of conflict, and raw, potential energy. She uses a unique form of "spellcasting" known as spherecasting, which is a highly freeform kind of ability. Her spherecasting opens up an at-will energy blast attack which can be modulated either as a blast salvo or a burst explosion similar to *fireball*, though it is pure magical force, as well as several unique ways to warp space, creating wormholes, regions of looped, self-contained space, or bending space away from herself to avoid attacks. It's likely that, in Lucid specifically at least, some of these abilities are in part fueled by trauma from having to deal with Xenekite and the Xenekites, as she can teleport people away with a strike, and most notably, completely negate extradimensional movement around her if she concentrates on it. One of her weird powers is her ability to get so mad that she can cut open holes in space and time with a ferocious swing of her mind blade, allowing large scale travel to distant locations, even other planets and other dimensions, through portals. This isn't a warp sphere power, but it is likely deriving from the same power source. It also tires her incredibly, so she only uses it either if she thinks she won't fight for the rest of the day, or as a last resort to drag someone into a hostile other world or dimension.

## Trivia

* Neon seems to think D.D stands for Damaged Draconium. It's entirely possible.