Peridot

"Peridot" is a Gem who debuted in "Warp Tour". She is a recurring antagonist.

Appearance
Peridot has light-green skin and neon-green eyes. Her fingers are not directly attached to her body, but instead levitate around where her palm would be. Peridot's hair is yellowish green, and styled into a tetrahedron shape. A light-green visor covers half of her face. She wears a sleeveless, green, V-neck bodysuit, large boots, and armguards. Her bodysuit is mostly medium green, with a dark-green diamond outline around the cut out of her neck area; meeting together to a pale yellow diamond symbol at the front, below the diamond symbol, with a dark-green portion between her chest and leggings. Peridot's sleeves/armguards and boots are light-green, and with dark-green portions, with yellow, diamond-shaped knees and elbow pads. Her gem is located on her forehead, and is shaped like an inverted triangle with rounded edges.

Personality
Thus far, Peridot has been shown to be cold and ruthless. She appears to be a scout or technician, and takes her work seriously, crushing one of her Robonoids when it was damaged in "Warp Tour". In "Marble Madness", she shows herself to be slightly arrogant, and she does not have a high opinion of humans. She attempts to crush Steven with a giant hand after briefly interrogating him. She is also somewhat similar to Pearl, in that they're both very intelligent and become easily flustered when their plans fail.

Despite her cold nature, Peridot is easily flustered. She also seems to be rather childish when things do not go her way. When Peridot realized that the Crystal Gems were the ones that have been destroying her equipment, she quickly lost her temper and asked "Why do you keep destroying my things?!". She also complains to herself when Jasper disregards their mission directives and instead chooses to return to the Homeworld.

Peridot also seems to be very naive when it comes to Earth, especially when the information is not important to the mission, such as assuming that Steven's Crying Breakfast Friends! sticker was a sign to show that the Galaxy Warp had been compromised. She also believed that, while interrogating Steven, there were a species called "Stevens", just because he addressed himself by his name.

In "Keeping it Together," her personality seems much more crazed than in previous appearances. For example, when flying away with her helicopter fingers, she smiles down and laughs, and her facial expressions are exaggerated throughout the episode. This is possibly due to her being in isolation in the Kindergarden since her escape in "Jailbreak," which could have been months. It could also be an effect of the Gem fusion experiments. However, she spoke to Steven far more calmly, most likely recognizing him as a minimal threat compared to the other Crystal Gems.

Abilities
Peridot possesses standard Gem abilities, including weapon summoning, fusion, bubbling, shape-shifting, regeneration, agelessness, and superhuman strength/durability. Peridot is shown to have a high intellect, manipulating Gem technology with ease. Her hand to hand combat abilities, however, are questionable, as she was defeated by Amethyst, but may have been outnumbered. She is shown to have variety of evasion tactics and is able to survive a great fall in "Keeping it Together".

Unique Abilities

 * Interface Creation: Peridot can project a holographic touchscreen from her fingers, in which she can control and connect to different forms of Gem technology and possibly human technology.
 * Wall Scaling: Peridot can freely run up vertical walls.
 * Helicopter Fingers: Peridot can whirl her fingers to fly.
 * Pocket Dimension: Peridot can store and summon objects from her Gem as seen in "Warp Tour", an ability she shares with Pearl.
 * Electrokinesis: Peridot can generate electrical currents through her fingers.

Additional Tools

 * Gem Destabilizer: Like Jasper, Peridot wields a Gem Destabilizer, an extremely potent, non-lethal tool used to subdue enemy Gems.Peridot running up wall.gif
 * Robonoids: Peridot can create different types of spherical robots, known as Robonoids. There are three types of known Robonoids: Flask, Plug, and Hand. They can perform multiple functions, such as healing a Warp Pad and activating the Gem Kindergarten.
 * EMP device: In "Warp Tour", Peridot placed a device on the Galaxy Warp Pad before she left Earth. About three seconds after being placed, the device explodes, disabling all of her Robonoids. The device seems to be highly advanced, as Pearl's machine (which appears to be made from human technology) was unable to disable even a single Robonoid.

Crystal Gems
At first, the Crystal Gems didn't know who Peridot was. But they all (except Steven) seemed to be afraid of her (as shown when they hid from her in "Warp Tour" and "Marble Madness"), though it might have been out of the fact that none of them knew what she was capable of. Likewise, Peridot wasn't aware that any Gems remained on Earth, much less the Crystal Gems, as she was quite shocked to find them still alive. In "The Message", Lapis Lazuli told the Crystal Gems that a Gem with advanced technology (whom Pearl assumes to be Peridot) would be bringing an army to Earth and that they should surrender, as it would be much easier. In "Joy Ride," Garnet does seem to have a bitter resentment after the events of "Jail Break," as she and the other Crystal Gems relentlessly attacked and beat her Escape Pod when they thought she was inside. In "Keeping it Together", she seemed to fear them, running from them in shock, and only fought back when tied up.

Steven
Peridot has a ruthless attitude toward Steven, viewing him as less than a threat and more like a human. When Peridot first saw Steven in "Marble Madness" she thought there was an infestation of "Stevens" in the Kindergarten. Peridot then asked him if "Stevens" were the dominant species replacing humans before attempting to crush him with a giant fist. In "The Return," she continued to demonstrate little regard for Steven, who was believed to only be a human, until it was revealed that he was actually Rose Quartz (or so she and Jasper believed). In "Jail Break," Peridot attempted to use her Gem Destabilizer to subdue Steven, and was surprised by his apparent immunity to the effects of the device. In "Keeping it Together", she talks to Steven calmly with only a hint of fear (Likely due to his connections with the Crystal Gems). However, she runs away shortly when the rest of the Crystal Gems find her. Overall Peridot sees Steven more as a pest than an actual threat.

Jasper
Though the extent of their relationship is unknown, Jasper seems to be Peridot's superior, as Peridot calls on her for back-up. She was irritated with Jasper, when the latter dismissed her complaints and treated her issues as trivial. It is very clear that Jasper thinks less of her.

Appearances

 * "Warp Tour" (debut)
 * "Marble Madness" (on a screen)
 * "The Message" (mentioned)
 * "Political Power" (mentioned)
 * "The Return"
 * "Jail Break"
 * "Full Disclosure" (flashback)
 * "Joy Ride" (mentioned)
 * "Keeping it Together"

Quotes
See Peridot/Quotes.

Trivia

 * Peridot is the only other Gem besides Lapis Lazuli who's able to fly without shapeshifting.
 * Peridot is the only known Gem that has body parts which aren't physically-attached; in this case, her fingers.
 * Peridot is the second non-Crystal Gem to be discovered, the first being Lapis Lazuli.
 * Peridot and Pearl both have their gems on their foreheads.
 * However, Pearl's gem is located higher on her forehead.
 * Similar to Lapis Lazuli and Jasper, Peridot has a diamond on her uniform.
 * This trend appears to occur on Homeworld Gems.
 * A diamond also appears on Pearl's space uniform, but this is likely due to being unworn since the rebellion.
 * Based off of the loud pounding of her footsteps, it can be assumed that she has an unusually large mass, possibly due to her bio-technological getup.
 * Peridot appears to have an almost limitless supply and variety of Flask Robonoids, as she was able to deploy numerous amounts and at any size.
 * Her final words before her screen faded out in "Marble Madness" were "I'm reporting this!", implying that she has a supervisor.
 * In "The Message", Lapis Lazuli confirmed Peridot's threat when she warned the Crystal Gems that Peridot was leading a number of other Gems to Earth.
 * In "Jail Break," Peridot was forced to flee the exploding prison ship in an Escape Pod, which was later revealed in "Joy Ride" to have crash-landed only a few miles outside of Beach City.
 * Peridot took Steven's sticker from the Galaxy Warp and saved an image of it. She assumes this to be the logo of the Crystal Gems.
 * Peridot's gem doesn't have a facet, similar to Lapis Lazuli and Pearl.
 * According to Matt Burnett, Peridot might earn redemption in the future.
 * She hates being stuck on Earth and calls it "miserable planet".

Gemology
Gemstone Information


 * Peridot is the gem-quality olivine mineral. The mineral, olivine, is a silicate, and its crystal structure is made up of single isolated tetrahedron crystals. This tetrahedron shape has the same shape as Peridot's hair.
 * Peridot is the birthstone of August, along with Sardonyx. It is also assigned to the planet Saturn.
 * Peridot's color can vary from yellow-green and olive to brownish green.
 * The name peridot may be derived from the Arabic word faridat, meaning "gem".