notes on Moonstone!Nereth before I forget:
- was a legal adviser to Blue Diamond, reported directly to her
- spent her days studying old cases and the more dense legal theories written by the Zircons; would write long essays in response
- dissents were her favorite to write, though she never held any bad feelings towards whomever she was disagreeing with and did not think her dissents were taken that seriously anyway
- is happy to remain in one place for a long time as long as she has plenty to read and can at least contact someone when she is ready to emerge
- loved her Diamond and considered herself lucky for every second spent with her; though she would never approach Blue or seek her out unless she had something important to share
- though very intelligent and creative in her thoughts, able to think outside the box, she tended to side with Blue on literally anything. Even if Blue changed her mind without explanation
- when the Crystal Gems rebelled, she spent the equivalent of Earth months sobbing in her archives, heartbroken about what she considered to be a betrayal on their part
- only went to Earth at the command of Blue to investigate the situation and come back with notes
- was bubbled by one of the Crystal Gems by accident (still not 100% this is what happened, still working out the details)
- is a powerful touch-telepath, able to read almost directly whatever thoughts/feelings are forefront in the other person’s mind; is able to sense thoughts without touching if the person is within 8 feet or so and is not blocked by interfering energy
- cannot sense thoughts beyond what is forefront in the mind, however. only herself and Blue know this, otherwise others could easily take advantage and just forcefully think a certain thought to confuse her if she tries to read them
- has been used to extract information from gems at Blue’s request, usually resulting in those gems getting punished; Moonstone feels bad for this but justifies to herself that it was for Blue’s sake
- her veil helps keep her protected from psychic energy; if she is able to sense another’s thoughts, she will. it comes in whether or not she wants it and while able to push the thoughts out, it can take a lot of energy. Though small and almost sheer, the veil projects a shield around her; she can sense the existence of energy around her with it and can identify its type and strength, but can’t know exactly what it is without taking the veil off; can’t read thoughts with the veil even if touching the subject
- would never wear it around Blue even though she would feel extremely sad and low around her and would cry when she did; over the millennia she has in a way become addicted to Blue’s misery because it was familiar and she felt a strange comfort in “sharing” this pain with her. the sadness made her feel connected to her. Blue would not expect Moonstone to try to cheer her up, but to respect her feelings and just be present with her.
- while sadness/depressive feelings are almost comforting to her, anger and aggression is very unpleasant and scary for her. She would almost always wear her veil around aggressive and/or extroverted gems
- is fairly lawful good; tends to respect laws that are in place and not question them, assuming that whoever made them was correct to do so
- however she sympathizes with those who are victimized
- has only heard about fusing from the Diamonds -- she is curious about it but associates it with the Crystal Gems and therefore is nervous/suspicious about it
- her gem is corrupted (still haven’t figured out how/why, probably happened when she was bubbled and she has been in stasis all this time) still working out in what ways this affects her but one consequence to this is that it’s much harder to push out the thoughts of others she doesn’t want without her veil. reading thoughts is harder because there is an extra layer of the equivalent of static mixed in with the thoughts; will take her some time to learn how to read through that. the corruption makes her more sensitive than usual to other forms of energy, like electromagnetic, which is painful/harmful at first until she retrains herself to absorb it safely. could possibly even use that same energy once its absorbed; if she were a more aggressive type she’d think to use it as a weapon
