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PLAYER↴ Name: Contact: Other Characters: CHARACTER↴ Character Name: Jasper Age: ~5500 years Species: Gem Canon: Steven Universe Canon Point: After Earthlings Character Info: http://steven-universe.wikia.com/wiki/Jasper Personality: On Homeworld, gems are made for specific functions and never given the opportunity to divert from their Diamonds’ plans for them. Jasper was created for one purpose — she was a soldier, and it was her job to win the war for her Diamond or die trying. Unfortunately for Jasper, neither of these things happened. Despite being the perfect Quartz, she wasn’t able to prevent Pink Diamond’s destruction, and she survived the end of the war with a lingering bitterness in her gem. Other gem soldiers, like the Ruby Steven dubs ‘Eyeball’, clearly respect and admire her a great deal — Eyeball calls her ‘the Kindergarten Quartz That Could’ and recounts starry-eyed that it’s rumoured she came out of the rock with her helmet on and crushed thousands of rebels single-handedly — but Jasper doesn’t seem particularly proud of herself. And why would she? It’s hard to imagine her being pleased to be called the ‘Quartz That Could’ when in her view, what she ‘Could’ do was pretty much nothing worthwhile.e When she first appears in the show, she’s been assigned a tedious escort mission that’s ostensibly far below her skillset, and judging by the way she says it “Looks like another waste of my time” when she steps off the ship, it’s not the first one she’s been given lately. She’s clearly capable of more than acting as bodyguard to a single technician, and she knows it. But Jasper’s staunch loyalty to Homeworld’s values means she firmly believes that everyone gets what they deserve in life. She failed her Diamond; she might not like it, but this is what she’s earned. Similarly, her corruption seems, to her, like a fair punishment for the fact that even when given a second chance to defeat Rose Quartz, she was incapable of doing it. In her view, life has winners and losers, and those who succeed are succeeding because they’re doing what they’re made for and they’re doing it well; failures get what’s coming to them, and despite everything early on in her life that suggested otherwise, Jasper knows by now that she is a failure. It’s unsurprising, then, that she rejects Steven’s offer to help her with the healing abilities he’s inherited from his mother. Accepting help from an enemy would be a terrible blow to Jasper’s pride, and she’s convinced that Rose Quartz (to her, Steven is the same person; she’s unable to comprehend that he has her gem and her powers otherwise), rather than inspiring gems to seize control of their own destinies, takes advantage of them at their lowest points to put them in her debt. She would rather die. Ultimately Jasper is a very angry and lonely person struggling to justify her lot in life through a lot of thoroughly nasty aggression. She has never had anybody to tell her she’s worthwhile without strength and power and success, so she measures herself by these things exclusively; she’s supposed to be the best, so if she’s not the best, she’s nothing. She’s a classic bully, taking out her anger on those she considers below her to remind herself that she is at least better than them; power makes her feel good, and so she craves it, whether she’s pushing around smaller gems like the defective quartz Amethyst, or begging Lapis Lazuli to fuse with her again so she can feel the rush of being Malachite — at any cost. Lapis admits to having taken her own anger out on Jasper while they were fused, but Jasper doesn’t care; she’s willing to endure anything to feel strong again, and she doesn’t care what Lapis wants. When she’s not in the midst of having a breakdown about her failures, Jasper likes rules and structure and things being The Way They’re Supposed To Be; she likes knowing what she has to do and being given orders. Despite being generally fairly practical and uninclined to get into fights that aren’t ‘worth’ her time, she likes to make an impression — she arrives on Earth wearing a flashy cloak and winged eyeliner, the latter of which is seen again only when she thinks she’s going to be facing Rose Quartz. Most of all, though, she likes feeling strong… but it seems, when she’s knocked out of her fusion with the corrupted gem monster and laments that no one she fuses with wants to stay with her, that she’s beginning to realise she’s missing something deeper. From what we’ve seen of other Homeworld soldiers (the Ruby squad, or Centipeetle’s crew, or the ‘Famethyst’) it’s typical for them to operate in groups, and to derive some kind of cameraderie from being one of many. Jasper has never had this. She was supposed to have been better than every other Quartz produced on Earth, so none of the others were ever on her level — especially not her sisters produced in the Beta Kindergarten, who were all failures from the moment they stepped out of their holes. Jasper learned early on that her worth was predicated on being better than them; any cameraderie she had there couldnt have lasted long. Soldiers from other Kindergartens would, judging by the way Eyeball talks about it, have initially thought poorly of her due to where she came from, forcing her to prove herself around them. And it seems likely, from the way she sees Rose Quartz as a manipulator who tricked people to her side by taking advantage of their weakness, that she saw soldiers she fought alongside defect to that of their mutual enemy, further diminishing her willingness to put her trust in other gems. What Jasper really needs is for someone to care about her and for her to be able to accept it — but between what an asshole she is to other people and what an asshole she is to herself, that’s not looking all that likely. Abilities: - Shapeshifting. Most gems can shapeshift to a degree, whether to imitate the exact shape of an object or person or just to elongate an arm or something, but it’s an effort for them to hold a shapeshifted form, and anything Jasper changes into will retain both her gem itself and the the colours of her base form. - If her physical form is destroyed, she can regenerate a new one as long as her gem remains intact. (If the gem is cracked her ability to hold her form and use her gem powers are affected; if it’s shattered she is functionally dead.) - Jasper can summon a helmet from her gem at will. It’s shiny and orange and has a big column on the front that she uses to headbutt stuff. - Lack of need for food or sleep. Gems can eat and sleep if they want to, but Jasper pretty definitely does not want to. - Superhuman strength and endurance - Sonic the Hedgehog style spin dash attack, I guess , - 5,000+ years of combat experience - The ability to combine her physical form with that of other gems to create a fusion gem with both gems’ strength but a personality and appearance of their own CARNIVAL↴ Soul Colour: Red Ideal Jobs: Roustabout, Mercenary, maybe Animal Keeper Relevant Experience: shes got very big arms. one time she spent months dragging several dozen large, uncooperative animals into cages Reason for Joining: Escaping the Prince! SAMPLES↴ This oughtta cover it!