Mica
Mica is a Gem who first appeared in Destroy the Corruption, alongside her longtime friend Pearl (FP).
Appearance
Mica is rather small, having roughly the same height as CG Peridot. She also has a similar bodily build as that of Larimar, only difference is the shape of the heads, with Mica's being more of a square. Mica has a frog-like mouth, purple eyes, dusty-purple skin, and dusky-yellow hair with grey tips in a combover style. She wears a labcoat over a grey shirt and dark-grey trousers, with grey shoes.
Personality
She was originally quite shy and anxious, and rather quiet as a result. Yet despite this, she was a hard-working, efficient individual who managed to achieve significant results with her experiments. It wasn't until 'Fun' Pearl was given to her did she start coming out of her shell, and become more socially confident due to the Pearl's actions. She also wound up developing a bit of an ego anyways, due to her high intelligence.
When Era 3 rolled round, she continued to hang out with Pearl, who had to now deal with the former's ego getting in the way. That was, until the "Poopy Pearl" incident happened, which caused Mica to put their ego aside in favour of ensuring that her best friend was able to not only recover from said incident, but also be protected should it happen again, doing what it took to help Pearl train herself in using her newly-discovered breath ability.
Skills and Abilities
Mica, for a low-ranking Gem (mohs rating of 2.5/10), still got pretty lucky with her set of skills and abilities, winding up with:
- Enhanced Intelligence: Mica was smarter than the average Mica Gem, which was saying something since Micas were literally made to be smartasses.
- Experimenting Intuition: She was one of Homeworld's scientists during Era 2, after all. She focused on the experiments, because she found that's what she's best at in the science department.
- Hybrid Weapon Creation/Proficiency: Mica already knew how to create things through her experiments, so she took to making a few hybrid weapons that she turned out to be highly proficient with.
- Powerful Bite: She found that she could bite through things most others could not, even going as far as to shatter a sword with just one bite.
- Researching Intuition: To help with the experiments, she also became quite capable at researching stuff, and as soon as she was told what experiment she had to perform, she immediately knew what to do research on so it would have the best chances of success.
- Shapeshifting: Even though pretty much all of Gemkind has this, it warrants a mention anyways because she's on par with the CG Amethyst in terms of utilising shapeshifting.
Relationships
'Fun' Pearl
Mica was in the middle of experimenting with the Destabilisers to improve their efficiency when she was summoned by a Diamond to receive her Pearl. This one proved to be joyful and energetic, yet didn't get in the way of the experiments, so Mica tolerated the Pearl's behaviour. Eventually the relationship became more than a worker/employer one, and the two became good friends with each other, thanks to the Pearl's efforts to help with the experiments.
This friendship continued into Era 3, where the two continued to be together despite the fact that they no longer have to do their jobs (Servant/PA for Pearl; Scientist/Researcher for Mica). They even went to go look around Earth, where they decided to look around the planet separately to begin with - a decision Mica would later regret, since it allowed for the "Poopy Pearl" incident to happen, and ever since then, Mica has never left Pearl's side. She even put her ego aside and helped Pearl all she could, just like how Pearl helped Mica all she could in Era 2.
Trivia
- Smily had utilised some art creation techniques he previously hadn't used before to draw Mica.
- Mica was a species of Gem that had only been mentioned once, by Yellow Diamond in the canon episode "Change Your Mind".