Smoked Topaz

In her past, she was a bit of an ass who didn’t care about others, and caused chaos wherever she went. Nowadays, she’s mellowed out, and has become kind. She can become quite overprotective, and as a result it can get in the way of her main goal. She can understand where a gem is coming from and build new friendships, but can get short-tempered sometimes. Sometimes she can fall into slumps and needs someone to pick her back up. She is still learning on how to let go of the past, and wants to move on. Yet sometimes, it can consume her thinking and get her into a rut. For her, it's about trying her best, because it's all she knows she can do at this point. 

“Smoked Topaz is a artificial gem experiment, that of course, went wrong. She was originally was an experiment to create a new gem that would be a bio-weapon for Yellow Diamond.” This is the story that was used to hide the original purpose and story behind closed doors. Over several hundred thousand years ago, after the war between the metals and gems, there was a heavily drastic decline of diamonds. These two red diamonds were twins, Wine and Vermilion. Desperate to find a way to create more diamonds, an experiment was proposed to sever the gems of both diamonds in half. This was to see if more diamonds could be produced from the removed halves. Both Wine and Vermilion were against being used as test monkeys, but were forced to go through it anyway. Otherwise they would be stuck with Yellow and Blue as partners. You can understand why they chose the lab experiment instead. The two red diamonds were poofed and severed, and a new diamond was created, but a very unstable diamond was made. One sliced half from each gem was used to make the new gem on the body, creating the ears. The other severed halves were used in the gem’s destabilizers, acting as a power source for each destabilizer. From these two red diamonds, Smoked Topaz, or really, Red Diamond was born. Having no idea on what was going on, and no concept of the outside world, she escaped the lab, trying to understand what was going on. Trapped in a science building and scared out of her mind, with no concept of the outside world, she lost it. She left the science building in shambles, and shattered all of the gems that were there.

 Soon, gem warriors were sent out to defeat her, but were poofed and shattered as well. Eventually, there were almost no gems left to fight her, except for Yellow Diamond. Smoked Topaz was defeated, and Yellow Diamond (being the wonderful gem she is), saw the potential from what was made of the two diamonds and set her as the war master for the Yellow Diamond regime. To have more control over Smoked Topaz, Yellow Diamond lied to her about her being a Red Diamond, and told her that she was nothing but a Smoked Topaz. 

After Yellow Diamond set Smoked Topaz as her war leader, from the original red diamonds on the ears woke up, somehow keeping their conciseness and keeping Smoked Topaz stable. Staying silent for most of Smoked Topaz’s existence, they watched her very closely, and started to grow fond of her, seeing her as a little sister. Only recently they have decided to talk to anyone else other than each other for the first time, finally deciding to slowly let information about their past and who Smoked Topaz really is. After being put through several wars, she became well known for her shatter record (500,000 broken;estimation) and was given the name of “Red Rabbit” as a result. During her time on homeworld, she was cold, calculating, and found amusements in her opponent’s suffering. Over time though, she slowly lost her old, disturbing personality by realizing there were another gems who she could actually trust. 

The only real friends she had were Indicolite and Moldavite. However, when the last war came, she finally became bored of her lifestyle and left with her only friends for Earth. (This caused Yellow Diamond to brand her as a criminal as a result.) Despite her past, she regrets shattering so many gems, and to make up for it in her spare time she looks for gem shards to make a gem. Then she takes it to Moldavite to repair. She has found and fixed around 30 gems so far. When the gem awakens, she tries to befriend them and apologize for what she’s done. This often is very hard to do, and sometimes the gem is never able to get over what Smoke has done to them. 

The world that Smoked Topaz lives in has been merged with the odd world that Red lives in, creating a double opposite of everything. Smoke usually avoids his double though, otherwise it's just weird. She stays in his version of the Hidden Village, and he stays in his.