Alexandrite

Template:Alexandrite "Alexandrite" is the fusion of Pearl, Amethyst and Garnet (and by extension, Ruby and Sapphire). She made her debut in "Fusion Cuisine".

Appearance

Alexandrite is a massive fusion. She has red-violet skin and six arms. Her eyes are covered by a dark visor. Instead of a third eye, like Garnet, she has an alexandrite gem, representing the location of Pearl's gem, with three dark, oval-shaped lenses surrounding it. Alexandrite's primary face also functions as a mask, covering a second monstrous-looking mouth beneath it.

Alexandrite's turquoise star-shaped hair is an amalgamation of all the Crystal Gems' hairstyles. The length and wildness of her hair resembles Amethyst's hair, the top of her hair is styled to a point to resemble Pearl's hair, and the fullness of her hair resembles Garnet's.

Alexandrite's attire is a combination of the Crystal Gems' clothing: The greenish-gray leggings with a four-pointed star cut-out in each legging resembles Amethyst's clothing, the shoes and black shoulder sleeves resembles Garnet's clothing, and the tunic resembles Pearl's clothing. The gloves on each pair of arms are also the skin tone of each Gem. Curiously, when the Gems started to fight, it can be seen that Garnet can control the upper arms, Amethyst the middle ones, and Pearl the lower ones.

History

"Fusion Cuisine"

“	Steven, are you kidding me?! What is this thing that you have brought to dinner?! It—It's my family. It's all the Gems fused together into a six-armed... giant woman.	”
—Connie/Steven

Connie's parents wish to meet Steven's parents for dinner. This causes a problem since while Steven has a dad, he has three "moms" and he doesn't wish to leave any of them out.

Steven comes up with the idea of fusing them all into one Fusion Gem that can represent his nuclear mom, and after some initial hesitation they agree to go through with it and eventually end up attending the dinner as Steven's "mom" and Greg's "wife". The dinner goes awkwardly and badly and eventually the conflicting wishes of the Gems, as well as the stress of the awkward social situation, causes the fusion to fail.

Alexandrite then shows up for a final time when the Gems fuse off-screen in order to track down runaway Steven and Connie. She is last seen chasing down and picking up the bus the two were riding out of Beach City.

Personality

Alexandrite starts off cold, intense and sloppy. As the fusion slowly starts to fail, the Crystal Gems' individual personalities become more prominent, showing Pearl's fear of food, Amethyst's hunger and argumentative personality, and Garnet's social awkwardness, leadership and control of situations.

When Steven and Connie run away, Pearl, Garnet, and Amethyst formed Alexandrite is united by stern, protective anger, chasing down and picking up the bus, and demanding that Steven and Connie get out of the bus. Alexandrite lifted the bus and was furious with Steven and Connie.

Abilities

Alexandrite possesses standard Gem abilities, including weapon-summoning, shape-shifting, bubbling, regeneration, fusion, agelessness and superhuman resilience/durability.

Being a fusion, she is significantly powerful. Alexandrite can travel at extreme speeds. She has enough strength to lift weighted objects, like a bus, with ease.

Trivia

Alexandrite's un-fusion reveals Ruby and Sapphire.

Alexandrite's Attack the Light fusion dance.

• She is the most complex fusion seen thus far; involving the fusion of a total of four Gems (including Ruby/Sapphire).

  

  Alexandrite's second/lower mouth.

• Ben Levin stated that, in theory, Alexandrite is taller than Sugilite, due to being composed of four Gems.
• Alexandrite has the most limbs out of any known fusion.
• The first most visible face on Alexandrite resembles Opal, while her second mouth underneath resembles Sugilite, and her shades resemble those worn by Sardonyx.
  • The lower/second mouth seems to be mostly controlled by Amethyst, as her voice seems to come from it exclusively.
• The "face mask" concept resembles the Crystal Temple, as the Crystal Temple is shown having 2 faces (the first being the mask on it's forehead).
• When Alexandrite unfused, a still frame of animation shows silhouettes of Ruby and Sapphire where Garnet would have been.
  • The same frame also seems to show the two quickly grabbing each other, likely to re-fuse quickly and keep their existence secret until Steven's birthday.
• Alexandrite is seen in Attack the Light, as a special attack dealing around 7 heavy-damage strikes to all opponents on the field. She is the hardest attack to use in the game, as she requires nine Star Points and for Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl to all be at full harmony.
  • A glimpse of her fusion dance is shown during this process.
• Alexandrite will likely have a different outfit the next time she is formed, due to Garnet's regeneration in "Jail Break" and Amethyst's regeneration in "Reformed".
• It is unknown whether or not Alexandrite has future vision.
• The gems are very hesitant when Steven suggests fusing at first, possibly indicating that they don't like fusing into Alexandrite, or there was a past incident involving Alexandrite. Although this could imply that the gems had never formed Alexandrite before so they were afraid of the outcome, they probably didn't feel the need to because rose was around
• Alexandrite is the only fusion to have their full fusion dance unknown.
• Alexandrite was the first fusion not to laugh. The second being Rainbow Quartz. This is, of course, excluding the Cluster.
  • Although Rainbow Quartz was shown smiling.
• Alexandrite, Rainbow Quartz, Sardonyx, and The Cluster are the only fusions to only appear in one episode.

Gemology

Gemstone Information

• Alexandrite is a rare color-changing, chromium-bearing variety of chrysoberyl.
• Alexandrite, along with pearl and moonstone, is the birthstone for June.
  • It is also a gem for the 55^th wedding anniversary.
• Alexandrite is a stone associated with discipline and self-control, which explains Alexandrite's stoic personality.
• The color change phenomenon seen in alexandrite is referred to as the 'alexandrite effect'. The change in color can be observed under certain lighting conditions, typically under daylight and incandescent lighting.
  • The alexandrite gemstone is green when in the presence of light composed mainly of greens and blues (e.g. natural light) and red in the presence of light composed mostly of reds and yellows (e.g. incandescent light), and purple when shown under both sources of light.

Gemstone(s)

Image	Description
	Pearl's gemstone on Alexandrite, appearing to be completely smooth.
	Amethyst's gemstone on Alexandrite, featuring a hexagonal facet. It is a tetradecahedron.
	Ruby's gemstone on Alexandrite, featuring a square facet. It is a decahedron.
	Sapphire's gemstone on Alexandrite, featuring a triangular facet. It is an octahedron.

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