i really like gem OC actually... Usually I’m so suck in design I just prefer to admire from the side, but not today. so here is my piece on the @ice-fyre star gem contest
Star Phoenix Lapis Lazuli, dang what a fancy name. she might be a bit MarySue-ish, but who's gonna stop me huh
story under the cut. sorry for bad English
I know, this is probably way too much info to the design contest, but for some reason I put a thoughts into it and not going to throw it away. and I don’t know how to talk short and succinctly. sorry
I heard quite a lot that Phoenix Lapis isn’t really Lapis, but also didn’t find what it really is. but I took it as a starting point.
all Phoenixes were created artificially as an experiment to create new gems with new abilities (mainly sponsored by Yellow Diamond). all of them were grown in the lab and are currently being monitored at a research center in space. there was a lot of unsuccessful experiments before (some of them are still stored separately from the "successful" samples), but in the end scientists managed to create several full-fledged gems. All Phoenixes can use pyromancy of varying strength, but one of them is several steps ahead. Star Phoenix has a truly unique deviation (obviously, a star), which has made her several times stronger than others or even expectations. her pyromancy is so strong that she can control... stars. This is her main work atm: by the Homeworld order, she helps to tear and harvest the stars, producing a huge amount of energy for the empire.
But such a huge power has its price. Star Phoenix suffers from serious mental problems caused by her defects. the thing is, all Phoenixes actually are cluster fusions, just very high quality ones. Their owners (Phoenixes are the lab’s property) also don’t reveal more information than they think is necessary. so Phoenixes aren’t even aware of it, since their two halves are perfectly melted into one full-fledged person. They are stable. This is true for all samples recognized as "successful", except for Star Phoenix. Like some unsuccessful samples, her half isn’t aligned well enough. This explains extreme duality of her appearance and personality. None of her half has self-awareness, but she also doesn't feel like a complete person. Not being aware of her true nature, she just doesn't understand what or who she is. Her personality is fragmented and she suffers from severe depersonalization attack. It also makes her very easy to poof, but it’s the lesser of problems.
most of the time Star Phoenix is an awkward, calm and even submissive person. she obeys orders and looks harmless, as if you can do anything with her. she is benevolent and a little naive. but if you trigger her somehow, her personality will quickly change. so much that it even affects her palette, the blues reduse almost to gray, and the red becomes dominant and very saturated. In this state, she’s completely uncontrollable, has no restrictions or a sense of self-preservation, and is extremely aggressive to everything that causes her pain and discomfort. usually triggers are overloading emotions, harm and depersonalization attack (during it she basically unintentionally hurts herself mentally).
Considering that she is an incredibly strong and dangerous gem, this makes her a ticking bomb. But since the empire highly values her unique abilities, Homeworld just has to deal with her shit, and therefore Star Phoenix is under total control. For some time after the emergence, she was kept together with others under normal conditions, but when she first lost control (her friend/roommate was taken away after she was found to be defective; they didn’t even spend that much time together, but it was enough), Star Phoenix almost made a local apocalypse, but was poofed. Since then, she has been kept under special supervision.
The collar and handcuffs on her are physical. the collar is heavy and weighs on her gem, and also through it Phoenix can at any moment get a hard electric shock, which completely paralyzes her. If it gets too far, she can even get poofed. Handcuffs also can be magnetically latched at any time. She is under surveillance all the time at the harvest work or in the center, so if something goes wrong, the guards will always be able to neutralize her. Also, the position of the research center in space allows to, if needed, place her in a vacuum or at least doesn’t give access to the free atmosphere, which also neutralizes some of her abilities.
currently she's really sick of being treated as an extraordinary object. She'd rather be anyone else, since mental proplems bothers her very much and she has nowhere to get help. her “special” status also isolated her from other Phoenixes and destroyed the friendship she might have. but despite the gradually increasing stress, she can’t do anything about her situation. but maybe one day she will break free. who knows
little facts:
Headcanon, that common Lapis' are cold, but the Phoenix is always very warm to touch
She’s afraid of electricity and lightning. wonder why
She has six wings (personal trait), and can kick your ass with six fire arms
also she leaves a long fire trace like a comet if she flies very fast
Her other side isn’t exactly dark. Rather, overloading emotions take control over her. partly this is why she loses almost all empathy, and only the closest people could get through to her. This is a different angle of perception, as if Star Phoenix sees the world through a supersaturated prism. It doesn't even have to be bad emotions. But her life is quite stressful, so everyone (including herself) is sure that a monster lives inside her.
Some of the unsuccessful “early” phoenixes are still stored separately at the research station. Waiting for the perfect moment to become a reference to "alien: resurrection" scene, huh
she would really be fascinated by human culture, or just any other, different from hers. she is quite curious
she actually has time, free from work, because the equipment for collecting and storing stellar energy is quite specific and limited. She spends this time at the research station, still under total supervision
VR Korku Oyunu Star Phoenix Sanal gerçeklikte korku oyunlarını sevenler bu oyunu inceleyebilir.VR Korku oyunu Star Phoenix sizlere tüyler ürpertici bir deneyim sağlıyor. Uzun bir yolculuk sırasında bir gezegene gelmektesin.Ve uzun bir kış uykusundan uyandıktan sonra kendini bir uzay gemisinde bulursun. Dışarıdaki dünya yok olmuş insanlık yok olma yolunda ilerlemekte.Senin görevin ise yaşanabilir…
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