Phenakite

Phenakite is a gem owned by Xinko, or JeffthePotato#2360 on discord.

## Appearance

Phenakite is a tall and sturdy quartz gem. She stands at 7'10" feet tall, with a defined and muscular build. Her skin is a creamy white, while her fingernails are black. Her eyes take on a golden accent, above her eyes she has thin, pointed eyebrows with a sharp arch. Her hair is short and an ashen gray, styled with the middle standing up and flowing down to the right. Phenakite's face has a young and strong appearance, with defined and sharp features.

Her gem is placed over the back of her left elbow, with a transparent appearance and creamy coloration. Her outfit consists of a blue and gold sailor hat that has a tassel attached to the top and an anchor sewed on the front. On top she wears a sleeveless black vest with a large, engraved anchor on the back, the edges of the anchor are illuminated by a bright silver color. On the front of the vest there are two crystal gem stars, which each occupy opposite sides. Beneath the vest she dons a black and white horizontally striped shirt. As pants she dons a pair of black jeans, buckled with a silver piece, in which an anchor entwined with vines is engraved.

To finish it off she wears a pair of white dress shoes, in which they're capped with a golden plate at the end, with several baroque style engravings in a silver color. As an accessory she has a gold colored handkerchief tied around her neck, which she occasionally pulls up to cover her face. Her teeth are golden, something that is easily noticeable due to the smile she consistent carries on her face. This also reveals the clear gap between her front teeth.

## Personality

Phenakite is an odd gem, mostly just lazying around on Earth with no clear purpose. She seems very curious to the life and areas surrounding Beach City and Little Homeworld, leaving her in a state of perpetual amazement as she explores more of this new world. She loves sailing and makes a lot of stupid jokes, including an overuse of puns. Because she only recently became un-corrupted, she is still adjusting to life on Earth as well as she can. In the period she has been on Earth she has developed a bad taste for sea shanties and ships.

Phenakite despite her alleged laziness can prove herself to be an active member of the Little Homeworld community, bringing herself to work hard for her fellow gems to build and create. She likes to claim she's not lazy, she just doesn't like most types of work.

After her un-corruption she has become a more laidback individual, allowing herself to explore and figure things out in her own time. This has in turn lead to her continuing her work in cartography, exploration, and taking up a fancy for sailing.

Phenakite has a clear sense of self-confidence, something that makes her sure in her work and skills. This often lends itself to her work, however it can lead to her making brash choices and decision that weren't fully thought out, with varying consequences.

## Backstory

Phenakite was originally intended as an explorer/adventurer type of gem, using her piloting abilities and cartography to map out planets and turning them into kindergartens, then moving onto the next one. This gave her a deepseated love for exploration, often being able to go on a whole tirade of her favorite planets and galaxies. However, during the war she was drafted into being a pilot and planning for the air-battles against the rebels. Everything went well before she went for an extremely brash attack, leading to her capture.

During her time as a captive, she was slowly becoming convinced of the crystal gems rhetoric and reason and slowly developed an affinity for Earth, leading her to continue the fight on their side. When Homeworld retreated, she was caught in the great white blast and thus corrupted into a horrible sea creature, dwelling in the ocean for millenia before being captured and bubbled by the crystal gems.

Shortly thereafter she was finally un-corrupted by the crystal gems, yet again deciding to stay on Earth to continue her duties to protect and explore it.

## Abilities

Phenakite has standard gem abilities, such as the ability to reform after injury, summon a weapon, shapeshift and fuse. Along with this she has some unique abilities to aid her.

### Unique abilities

* **Matter manipulation:** An extremely powerful ability that belongs to Phenakite is her matter manipulation. There's several ways for her to use this ability, including but not limited to using it to edit the properties of a material, remove a property from it (for example, removing friction from a floor), or programming it to follow extremely specific functions. (I.e making a tree-branch hit someone who runs next to it.) The ability extends around Phenakite, in a 5 meter radius, however she can control how far this radius extends, from a few millimeters to the max of 5 meters. The caveat is that she has to be in contact with an object directly to affect it, and then stay within the radius to hold that effect.

* **Dirk:** Phenakite's weapon is a dirk, a long and double edged thrusting dagger that she can quickly pull from her gem to surprise or disorient opponents.

### Skills

* **Boxing:** During her time in the war, Phenakite developed an affinity for hand to hand combat. Coupled with her matter manipulation, this makes her a formidable opponent. Commonly she intertwines her boxing and dirk usage, mixing the two up in the middle of combat.

* **Piloting & sailing:** Due to her time as a gem focused on establishing kindergartens on diverse planets, Phenakite has extensive knowledge of how to control both aviation and sailing.

* **Cartography & sketching:** Phenakite has an ability to excellently map out areas that she finds, often sketching out areas and people which interest her as well. While Earth is fully explored and mapped, she's made it a personal quest to make her own map of it.

## Trivia

* Carries a pouch of pocket sand.

* Phenakite is wanted for tax evasion.