Ruby (Nose Gem)

## Ruby

**Ruby** is a Homeworld Gem and an original Gemsona by **BlueWhiteLight**. As of the 8th of March 2018, she became a Crystal Gem.

## Personality

Ruby is descirbed as super annoying and cheeky.

## History

Ruby was serving Homeworld and was sent to Earth with 4 other Rubies. She crash-landed on Earth, shattering two rubies and cracking hers and 2 others. She was healed by Turquoise when dropped into Rose's Fountain. She released that she cannot go to Homeworld because of her accident. The remaining 2 rubies forgave her but convinced her not to go back to Homeworld as Yellow Diamond might not be so forgiving.

## Abilities

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

### Unique Abilities

* **Pyrokinesis**: Ruby can create fire but only for a limited time then she has a cool-down period of 30 minutes.

## Relationships

### Nearly All Hidden Crystal Gems

She annoys them to a point where they tell her to stop or even threaten her.

### Turquoise

She doesn't annoy her as much as she does to other gems because she once threatened that she would feed her to Corrupted Sphene and would "never regret it".

### Sphene (Back Gem)

Even she was able to annoy her. She annoyed her to a point where she had almost shattered herself. Ever since then, she had been avoiding her.

## Trivia

* Her instrumental theme consists of a synth bass.
* All the gems who threatened her wouldn't actually do as what they said to her.
	+ Turquoise was actually going to feed her to Corrupted Sphene purposely.
* She was one of Ruby's crew members.
* She was created for a Discord Friend called "pyro" or "insanedemonlord"

## Gemology

* Ruby is a gemstone of emotion, associated with passion, strength and anger. This shows in Ruby's emotional temperaments and overall emotional/angry attitude as well as her strength.
* Ruby is the birthstone for those born in July and is also the zodiacal stone for Capricorns.
	+ Ruby is also used to celebrate the fifteenth and fortieth wedding anniversaries.
	+ The day assigned to ruby is Tuesday (hence the Rolling Stones song, "Ruby Tuesday").
	+ Ruby is assigned to the planets, Mars and Pluto.
	+ Ruby is the national gemstone for Burma and Thailand
* Since ruby is a member of the corundum group, it is closely related to sapphire and thus shares some properties, such as hardness, composition and double refraction, with sapphire.
* The vivid red color of ruby means that it is associated with desire, and it is thought by some to be a stone of love with an aphrodisiac effect.
* Ruby can be identified by its hardness of 9 on the Mohs scale, and vibrant colour.
	+ Natural ruby can be distinguished from synthetic ruby by its inclusions; natural ruby typically exhibits inclusions, whereas synthetic ruby tends to be eye clean.
* Ruby is a gemstone of emotion, associated with passion, strength and anger. This shows in Ruby's emotional temperaments and overall emotional/angry attitude as well as her strength.
* Ruby is the birthstone for those born in July and is also the zodiacal stone for Capricorns.
	+ Ruby is also used to celebrate the fifteenth and fortieth wedding anniversaries.
	+ The day assigned to ruby is Tuesday (hence the Rolling Stones song, "Ruby Tuesday").
	+ Ruby is assigned to the planets, Mars and Pluto.
	+ Ruby is the national gemstone for Burma and Thailand
* Since ruby is a member of the corundum group, it is closely related to sapphire and thus shares some properties, such as hardness, composition and double refraction, with sapphire.
* The vivid red color of ruby means that it is associated with desire, and it is thought by some to be a stone of love with an aphrodisiac effect.
* Ruby can be identified by its hardness of 9 on the Mohs scale, and vibrant colour.
	+ Natural ruby can be distinguished from synthetic ruby by its inclusions; natural ruby typically exhibits inclusions, whereas synthetic ruby tends to be eye clean.