Cinnabar

**Cinnabar** is a Crystal Gem and an original character created by WD778.

## Personality

Cinnabar always shows a very sensitive and shy personality, which according to Scorodite, makes him very tender and lovable.

But, when he assumes his role as teacher, director, and dean, his personality becomes grumpy (only with the teachers he hires) and, but he keeps his affectionate side with his students (except with those who do not pay attention, those who they are disrespectful to him, and the bullies)

## Abilities

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

## Curiosities

* Cinnabar is a gem version of Sherwin of In a Heartbeat
* The war generated in stress and posttraumatic depression on Cinnabar, since he has many nightmares about it and thinks that the warlike activity of Homeworld against the Earth hasn't stopped.
* Cinnabar loves to eat French fries and donuts, because being a gem, he can't gain weight or have cholesterol
* He and Scorodite currently reside in Little Homeworld
* Cinnabar speaks with a British accent
* He and his husband have lived in the US since 1740, but they settled in Beach City in 1900
* In 1930, Cinnabar was forced to abandon his job as a soy producer (a job he had since 1800) due to the global economic crisis that had occurred at the time
* He was going to get married with Scorodite in 1939, but the outbreak of World War II ruined everything, since Scorodite had been recruited to go to Europe to fight against the Nazis
* In 1945, Cinnabar wanted to go to Germany to help Scorodite in the battles against the Nazis, but his plan was frustrated when he heard that the war had already ended.
* Cinnabar was arrested by the Argentine dictatorship known as the "National Reorganization Process" in 1979, while enjoying a vacation with Scorodite in Mar del Plata.
* After being arrested, for not respecting the state of siege imposed by the dictatorship, Cinnabar was taken to the clandestine detention center known as "La Escuelita de Famaillá", where he was beaten and tortured 24/7. Currently, he claims that he let the The military would torture him more, in order to try to save the pregnant women who were imprisoned with him
* Cinnabar and Scorodite are married since March 2019
* In February 2020, he and Scorodite adopted a son named Xavier
* He started studying pedagogy in 1989, and graduated with honors from that career in 1993.
* He has been a teacher since 2018, elementary and high school principal since March 2019, and college dean since September 2019

## Gemology

* Cinnabar and cinnabarite , likely deriving from the Ancient Greek: κιννάβαρι (kinnabari), which refer to the common bright scarlet to brick-red form of mercury(II) sulfide, formula HgS.
	+ It's the most common source ore for refining elemental mercury, and is the historic source for the brilliant red or scarlet pigment termed vermilion and associated red mercury pigments.
* Cinnabar generally occurs as a vein-filling mineral associated with recent volcanic activity and alkaline hot springs.
* The mineral resembles quartz in symmetry and in its exhibiting birefringence; cinnabar has a mean refractive index of ~3.2, a hardness between 2 and 2.5, and a specific gravity of ~8.1.
* The color and properties derive from a structure that is a rhombohedral crystalline lattice belonging to the hexagonal crystal system, crystals that sometimes exhibit twinning.
* Cinnabar is generally found in a massive, granular or earthy form and is bright scarlet to brick-red in color, though it occasionally occurs in crystals with a non-metallic adamantine luster.

## Gallery

A Cinnabar's Gem point made by Citrus-Gem