Corundum

## Physical Informations

Corundum is a secondary character from the Ministry Succession Tournament verse. A humanoid robotic being created by Illyricus, she doesn't fulfills an specific function inside the Cube, instead being made to assist any of her sisters in their task if deemed necessary. She's part of the Seven (Fake) Heavenly Maids.

## Appearance

She has the appearance of a young, blonde woman with hair reaching her neck and eyes between gray and blue, in her 20s. She has a curvy, voluptuous body hidden in (revealing) nun robes that also display her shapely legs, that is where she hides her guns.

She carries a yellow gemstone in the inside of her body, that is basically her soul.

## Personality

Despite dressing like a nun and normally having a deadpan, uninteresting expression, Corundum is easily the meanest and nastiest of her sisters. Very sarcastic, always throwing jabs at people and enjoying annoying them, foul mouthed at times, with a sadistic streak to boot. The people she seems to like can be counted with two hands, and sometimes not even her sisters are safe from her snarky comments. The reason she has nun robes is because her master serves an unknown god, so she went along the whole religious stuff. Her behavior is however very un-nun-like, as, apart from her obnoxious personality, she's also eating sweets most of the time, carrying them on the pockets from her robe.

She’s loyal to Illyricus, but doesn’t fear expressing her opinions, being blunt and quickly voicing her disagreement. Illyricus precisely keeps her to know about possible flaws in his plans, as he believes a dissident opinion may be useful to prepare countermeasures if the strategy fails, though her criticism tends to be more destructive than constructive.

She has her own catchphrase: "*Cannot be helped*".

## History

The fourth of the Maids, carrying the **yellow** gem. Born shortly after Garnet in the Ministry. As Garnet couldn’t keep up with all the work she had to do, Illyricus created Corundum to assist her in her tasks. However, this proved to be rather unhelpful, as Corundum’s uncooperative personality only made her older sister more frustrated.

Seeing this problem, Illyricus told Obsidian to discipline her, and she acted accordingly. With this, Corundum was put to a Spartan regime for about a month. The experience made her more collaborative, but her personality remained the same, to the chagrin of everyone.

## Abilities

**Strength:** Above average. Stronger than a normal human, but pales compared to other supernatural beings.

**Speed & Agility:** Above average. A bit faster and more agile than the average mortal/god.

**Durability:** Above average. Can withstand strong hits due to having a metallic body, but very strong attacks will damage her.

**Stamina:** Unlimited. Due to being a mechanical being, she doesn’t feel fatigue of any kind and can fight non stop until she’s destroyed.

**Automaton Physiology**: Due to being a mechanical being, she not only possesses a sturdier body than those of flesh beings, but can stay in water indefinitely without drowning and, due a lack of lungs, nerves and other fleshy parts, is immune to most poisons and gas (though she’s still vulnerable to corrosive substances like acid). Likewise, she’s unable to feel pain.

**Regeneration**: Being fabricated with a self-regenerative material from some world Illyricus visited, she can recover from certain wounds and regenerate her body. However, if she receives more damage than what she can heal, she’ll be destroyed.

**Marksmanship Expert and Guns Generation**: Her signature weapon is a pair of guns she always carries. She can dual wield them with no problem and shoot ammunition from impossible angles and long distances. If she loses the guns or if they are destroyed, she can generate another pair from her body.

**Dimensional Traps**: A spatial manipulation ability given to her by Illyricus. With this, Corundum can conjure small, rectangular pocket dimensions that leave her victims trapped for about 5 minutes. She uses her guns to shoot them at the target.

## Equipment

**Dimensional Guns**: A pair of golden  revolvers and Corundum’s signature weapon. It’s generated from her body and made from the same material as her, making it a tough and resistant weapon. Due to being light and easy to carry, Corundum can move with them with no real problem, and it’s bullets are strong enough to harm supernatural beings like gods. They can also be used to shoot the trap dimensions their wielder can generate. In case of being lost or destroyed, Corundum can generate another pair from her body without any problem. Their ammo is also created from Corundum’s body, so she can generate more if she runs out of it.

**Knife**: A small knife Corundum carries in case she has to fight in close quarter combat. The knife isn’t created from her body, so she cannot generate them like with her guns.

## Techniques

“**Volund”**: A technique from the past performed by the valkyries. With this, both the valkyrie and the human connect their souls and by resonating with a similar emotion, turning the valkyrie into the preferred weapon of the human. Due to Corundum's automaton physiology, she cannot perform this technique perfectly, but can use a similar version with Illyricus. While doing this, she’ll adopt the shape of a pair of guns, and will give the weapon her special ability. Because the technique is imperfect, she will only add her unique power to the weapon she turns into, so the dimensional techniques will not work.