Ruby is an off color Gem, and an original character created by KJD. She's currently fused with Pink Pearl as Rhodonite.
Appearance
Ruby has bright red skin, dark maroon square hair, and two eyes of unknown color. She has a thick build with a flat chest, thick waist, and small hips. Her gemstone is embedded in her navel.
Not much is known about her outfit other than that is is dark maroon with a diamond cutout around her gem, and that she has dark maroon boots.
Personality
Nothing is known about Ruby's personality yet.
History
Ruby once belonged to a Morganite, but was replaced after it was discovered that she liked to fuse with Pink Pearl.
She currently resides in an abandoned Kindergarten facility on the Gem Homeworld amongst other defective or abnormal Gems known as the Off Colors, fused as Rhodonite.
Abilities
Ruby presumably possesses standard Gem abilities, bubbling, shapeshifting, fusion, regeneration, agelessness, and superhuman strength/durability.
Fusions
- When fused with Pink Pearl, they form Rhodonite.
- When fused with Pink Pearl, Albite, and Orthoclase, they form Lepidolite.
Trivia
- She's KJD's interpretation of how Rhodonite's unknown component Ruby might look like.
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.
Gemstone
| Image | Description |
|---|---|
| Ruby's gemstone is located on her navel, featuring a squared facet. It is a decahedron, specifically a truncated tetragonal dipyramid. |
