#spinel

[reblogblogaviedition]

YESSS

Hmm can’t believe I hadn’t drawn them together before

[channydraws]

I had a need to draw them again -

[smilingperformer]

Character sheet of Spinel's new design.

[starscheme]

What could have been…

[quailfence]

[Image description: digital drawing of Spinel and Friede from Pokémon Horizons. Spinel has grabbed Friede by his lapels and is speaking angrily at him. Friede grins and sweats. The background is purple. End description.]

@pokemondescribed

ep 86 still has me in a chokehold i fear

[sixdollarsinmypocket]

how do i tag this

yeah i havent watch horizons...

[ena-the-eepy]

What if Spinel’s ring-looking hairclip was given to him by Friede😭😭😔

Valid headcanon or nah?!

[thats-not-okie-dokie]

IT'S SPINEL TIME!!

I recently rewatched the Steven Universe Movie, and was inspired to go back to my roots with this pink slinky. I used to draw almost nothing but her in grade 8. To say she changed my life would be an understatement

So I payed homage to her, now that I can actually draw decently!

[spinelwithabong]

Some doodles..

[scraftyisthebest]

You know, thinking about the future of Horizons. There's already a lot of talk about Spinel and how he has taken over the Explorers and Exceed, and has the Six Heroes in custody. He's our new main villain and he's a threat to both Amethio and Liko now because he's taken over Exceed and thereby threatens the good side of Gibeon's legacy and Amethio's place in it, and he's framed the RVT as outlaws and criminals, and they're Liko's found family, all the while he has the Six Heroes captive and is able to manipulate them with Laquium, thereby he also poses a threat to tarnishing Lucius's legacy as much as Gibeon's.

But I'd really like to see more of Chalce in the future. With what's been recently revealed, she's had the least amount of screen time and the least amount of time to show her personality and character, but her presence creates an interesting dynamic.

Particularly with Coral and Sidian. They're evidently decent people deep down, even though Coral has an attitude problem and Sidian is there to keep her in line. They both have expressed throughout the show that they don't like Spinel very much and take issues with his maniacal, downright vile behavior, drawing a line in the sand with his nefarious actions. Yet the main presence keeping them "obedient" to him and preventing them from fully opposing him is Chalce. Despite their disdain for Spinel, they trust Chalce and seem to be very close with her, and that is despite the fact that at least outwardly, she seems to be in cahoots with Spinel and working with him as a partner-in-crime. I have to wonder why they seem to be close with Chalce to the point of trusting her, so much so that they're willing to obey her orders even if they're from Spinel, who they dislike, simply because it's Chalce they're working with.

It sort of makes sense with what Hamber revealed to Zirc and Onia back at Amethio's mansion, that after he became Gibeon's butler and second-in-command, he trained up four of the Explorers admins in a certain order: Amethio, then Coral, then Sidian, then Chalce. Spinel was the exception, as he was not trained up by Hamber but rather was an Exceed scientist who sucked up to Gibeon and "won" over his approval. Spinel was always the odd one out from the very beginning.

It shows in a lot of the relationships between the admins. Amethio openly despises Spinel and the two have a bitter rivalry. Coral and Sidian seem to actually like Amethio, and they were willing to hear him out when Spinel tried to frame him, and they felt bad whenever Spinel excluded Amethio from missions. Meanwhile, as I said, they both openly dislike Spinel and take any chance to mock his failures or try to call him out on his downright vile and immoral actions. Chalce on the other hand stands out: she's working with Spinel and acting as his partner-in-crime, and doesn't show open distaste towards him like Amethio, Coral, and Sidian do. Yet the fact that she was one of the four trained by Hamber, and after the former three, shows in how close Coral and Sidian seem to be with her. Coral and Sidian are evidently caught in a dichotomy because of Chalce: they dislike Spinel and find him despicable, yet they don't fully oppose him because of Chalce, who on the other hand they trust. They probably formed a close relationship with her as fellow admins trained up by Hamber, and her in turn with them.

Spinel is on the inverse in that his unique circumstances as to how he became admin shows relative to them. Besides pretending to be Gibeon's yes-man then betraying him with the intent of overthrowing him and trying to stain his legacy (which so far, he is succeeding at), he openly treats his fellow admins as though they are beneath him. He intended to get rid of Amethio in hopes of claiming what he believes is his rightful place as Gibeon's heir, and his recent actions are him snapping after Gibeon reconciled with Amethio and entrusted his legacy to him, before passing on. Despite Coral and Sidian's disgust with him, Chalce kept them in line. He has kept Coral, Sidian, and Chalce around and have them serve him: Coral and Sidian openly express their reluctance, yet Chalce at least outwardly seems to be cooperating with him willingly. Spinel sees them as tools for his nefarious goals: he does not care about any of the three of them. He openly admits to Friede's face "I am simply using them", referring to all three of Coral, Sidian, and Chalce.

I wonder why Chalce is acting so loyal to Spinel. Is she actually loyal to him for a reason, or is she using him herself and trying to outplay him at his own game? The fact that Sidian and Coral trust her and are close to her suggests there's more to her than she outright expresses, and that they don't see her as downright despicable like they do with Spinel. It would make sense if she was trying to outplay him at his own game to take him down herself, considering she's very obviously an intellectual and quite smart, with a lot of talent and knowledge in research and technology. If that's what's happening, that would be interesting.

Among the four who Hamber raised up and trained, Amethio has already openly expressed his disdain for Spinel and the two are enemies. Coral and Sidian take issue with him too but Chalce is keeping them obedient to him, and outwardly she acts supportive of Spinel. Coral and Sidian will hopefully at some point be convinced to cut their losses and side with Amethio and Hamber since they like Amethio and do have some loyalty to Hamber, who trusts them even though they are "troublemakers", but then there's Chalce, who has Coral and Sidian's trust. What exactly is her ultimate aim and why is she so unique in this regard? Does she also oppose Spinel deep down, but pretends to be his cooperator in order to manipulate him and outplay him in a game of 3D chess?

That would be quite an interesting twist. Spinel sees Chalce, Coral, and Sidian as his submissive servants who will do his bidding and help him do his nefarious deeds, but if not only Coral and Sidian defect and help Amethio and Hamber depose him, but also Chalce is revealed to have been outplaying him the whole time and subtly beat him in 3D chess, ultimately helping to overthrow him in a sneaky, nefarious way, that would make Spinel have a complete and utter meltdown over realizing he never truly had control over her, much less Coral, Sidian, and Amethio to begin with and the rest of the Explorers had him beat. Considering his love for exerting control over everything, realizing Chalce had gained the upper hand on him in such a scenario would be a devastating blow to his ego. Of course, that's speculation, but also a possibility putting everything together.

Just a lot of thoughts about Chalce after all this.

[thrashthresh]

Watermelon Tourmaline (my vision on Spinel + Peridot fusion)

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it ok we gonna get u blankie company and silly tv show u be ok pat pat it ok

Ohnononononononono

[discount-supervillain]

Uh. Whoops.

[fakedoe]

my friend suggested this and i thought it might be interesting

[humanspinelbrainrot]

there are. amazing things goin on over at twitter rn

[ultraericthered]

While the situations aren't entirely comparable since Spinel's been with us since very early on and now Gibeon's most certainly not coming back, I think the matter is like trading Emperor Zarkon out for Prince Lotor in V:LD. Gibeon, like Zarkon, was an epic Big Bad, but he was also a bit impaired by how doped up and single-minded he was. As the Explorer's boss he was all directive and objective, no actual scheming and planning. Whereas Spinel, like Lotor, is far more dangerous because he has no such impairment, and is able to plot, calculate, contemplate, manipulate, and employ diabolically well thought-through strategies to get him closer to what he wants.

Personally, I'm rooting for Spinel to be the main villain since it seems that Gibeon doesn't really have a plan for the Laquium besides "let it consume everything" rather than using it in a more intelligent way, he's too hopped up on it to care. Moreover, Spinel has shown himself to be capable of pulling the wool over Gibeon's eyes, like how he played the situation with Amethio's "betrayal", and he's just been pressing the protagonists more heavily overall, between his intro arc where he was disseminating false info to slow them down and make it harder to find the amnesiac Liko, the plan to get Rayquaza in Ep44-45 seemed to be mostly his and how he initially trapped Friede, who was unable to get past him and was forced to escape + how he admitted to just using the other Explorers during the battle, and that attempted murder plot and how he intended for Coral and Sidian to stall Roy and Dot so the trail would go cold.

My main issue with Spinel as the main villain is he doesn't have a big potential "final boss" Pokemon like Gibeon does with Zygarde and has already lost to Friede. (Tho I think he took that L somewhat willingly, going by how gracefully he takes it and that he still has Magneton while Friede's Pokemon are shown to be pretty worn down from their fight. It's mostly that fighting Friede wasn't really what he came there to do. It's also possible that with the "Laquium sphere" plans Amethio found, he might not even need his Pokemon, similar to how Lysandre had the false Zygarde/Megalith thing in XYZ.)