History Characters / LandOfTheLustrousTheLustrous

* AmbiguousGender: Since they are just gem beings with NoBiologicalSex, they have no confirmed gender. Given a lampshade in Chapter 72, where Barbata addresses Phos as a "crystal lady...or not, I don't know". Additionally, [[spoiler: Cairngorm is given the title of "Moon Princess" after they marry Aechmea]].

ExpositoryPronoun: The English version keeps their dialogue genderless, using "they" and "them" as personal pronouns. In the original Japanese, however:

* AmbiguousGender: Since they are just gem beings with NoBiologicalSex, they have no confirmed gender. The English version keeps their dialogue genderless, using "they" and "them" as personal pronouns. In the original Japanese, however:

** Given a lampshade in Chapter 72, where Barbata addresses Phos as a "crystal lady...or not, I don't know". Additionally, [[spoiler: Cairngorm is given the title of "Moon Princess" after they marry Aechmea]].
* BackFromTheDead: Able to be revived from shattered pieces if enough parts are put back together.
** CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:Downplayed; it turns out that, even if it's impossible to put pieces back together, a Gem's inclusions can be used to revive them as a Lunarian, as what happens in Chapter 95.]]
* BizarreAlienBiology: Ambulatory gem formations that arose from fossilized human bones living in a symbiosis with microscopic life known as "inclusions". Every inclusion can hold memories, so their entire bodies are essentially their brains, with any damage affecting memory. The inclusions themselves seem to be photosynthetic like plants, but ''only'' require sunlight and can survive in both freezing temperatures and a vacuum. Without enough light, they quickly go dormant, meaning most gems will sleep at night and during winter.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Since they're gem people, their bodies are all made of the same material, so usually the color of their eyes matches the color of their hair. [[spoiler:Post-moon migration, Cairngorm is the only exception, given their eyes were replaced with eyes of their gem type while the hair is still scraps of Ghost's hair.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:After a meteor struck the Earth, life was forced to flee back into the seas, though the ones that couldn't get there in time died, with some sinking into the sea. Their bodies decomposed and were turned into "inanimate objects", but over [[TimeAbyss the ages]], some of these remains were crystallized and became sentient, thus birthing the Lustrous, who would return to land.]]
* DeepSleep: They all hibernate during winter, since the sunlight becomes so faint. The exceptions are Sensei, who is always sleepy regardless of the weather, and whoever is the Winter Guardian. The Winter Guardian endures the effort of staying awake in low sunlight in order to keep Sensei company in protecting the other sleeping gems.

* AndIMustScream: Not only were they disintegrated alive, they were left [[spoiler:shattered in pieces left in dark boxes for 220 years after returning from the moon.]] Sensei slowly [[spoiler: sought out and put the pieces back together during this time. When Phos is put back together enough to speak, they want nothing more than to die.]] It gets even worse when [[spoiler:Phos is manipulated into taking Sensei's eye, causing them to endure horrible tormented flashbacks. Kongou states Phos's torment will last for ''10 000'' years. In fact, by the time we meet Phos again.]]

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Turns out Phos' inclusions do have an ability, where the gem's ego is retained no matter how small the fragment of Phos' original form is left. This makes Phos pretty much completely immortal as long as they have something to attach a part to.

* AndIMustScream: Not only were they disintegrated alive, they were left [[spoiler:shattered in pieces left in dark boxes for 220 years after returning from the moon.]] Sensei slowly [[spoiler: sought out and put the pieces back together during this time. When Phos is put back together enough to speak, they want nothing more than to die.]] It gets even worse when [[spoiler:Phos is manipulated into taking Sensei's eye, causing them to endure horrible tormented flashbacks. Kongou states Phos's torment will last for ''10 000'' years. In fact, by the time we meet Phos again, ]]

* PosthumousCharacter: For all intents and purposes, they are this.

* KilledOffForReal: Any gem who gets taken to the moon is treated as this. Later confirmed to undoubtedly be the case, as [[spoiler:the {{Lunarians}} grind any captured gems into powder and scatter them across the moon's surface. The powder also gets eaten by the captured Admirabilis, lessening chances of revival.]] However, as per Phos's deal, [[spoiler:the Lunarians have agreed to try to synthesize what remains of the gem powder back into full gems]], making this fate come into question again for gems that are harder than 4.
** [[spoiler:Averted. Aechmea was lying about several details, and shattered gems' inclusions were ultimately recovered, making it possible to revive them as Lunarians.]] [[spoiler:By the end of Chapter 95, every Gem including Sensei have become Lunarians, effectively extinguishing the species and leaving Phos as the LastOfHisKind.]]

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: As the series goes on, Phos gets progressively more unstable. Everytime they attempt to fix something, it always blows up in their face. [[spoiler:Their attempts to stop the lunarians from attacking the rest of the lustrous only end up pushing both sides away from them, resulting in the earth gems shattering them and forgetting about them for 220 years. This all culminates into Phos deciding to destroy all of the gems in order to get Kongo-sensei to pray.]]

* HeroesPreferRedheads: It's not made clear if the feelings are romantic in nature, but Phos seems to have a thing going on for Cinnabar after Cinnabar saved them. [[spoiler:Padparadscha, a gem Phos later partners with for a mission, also has bright red hair.]]

* MakeMeWannaShout: When Sensei screams at a Gem, their body shatters. This is usually done as a means of punishment when the gems disobey their orders.

* CaringGardner: Cinnabar was always fond of flowers, but because of their mercury never got the chance to truly tend to them. [[spoiler:They later become a very successful florist after the Lustrous convert into Lunarians, elated that they can finally touch flowers without them dying.]]

* AllForNothing: Their [[spoiler:journey to the moon is shaping up to be one. Not only was it traumatic for them, it lost them all the gems' approval, got other gems stranded on the moon, and even Phos's goal of reviving the dusted gems seems to have been cancelled following the time skip, as they couldn't bring themselves to let the Admirabilis die.]] To make matters worse, Aechmea was [[spoiler:not being completely honest about the effects of Sensei's prayer, and Phos can potentially bring about the death of all human-based life, including all the Gems.]]

* ThreeAmigos: With Bort and Yellow Diamond.

* ThreeAmigos: With Dia and Yellow Diamond.

* ThreeAmigos: With Bort and Diamond.

* TheLostLenore: For Ghost Quartz and their inner Gem, Cairngorm. Ghost blames themselves for Lapis's capture, and as a result [[spoiler:their inclusions force Cairngorm to protect Phos so they will not be taken.]]

* PrayerPose: [[spoiler:After converting into a Lunarian, Sensei essentially spends his remaining 10,000 years conatantly praying--if not for Phos, then for humanity's influence to finally go away and for happiness to be achieved. His interview occurs during one of these prayers.]]

* SenpaiKohai: Has this with Zircon in later chapters.

* SenpaiKohai: With Zircon, and the rest, being the eldest sibling.

* SenpaiKohai: With Yellow Diamond and later Bort.

* SenpaiKohai: With Phos, until Antarc's capture.

* SenpaiKohai: The new Morganite and Goshe stick to Phos like glue after Phos wakes up again, and refer to Phos as "sempai".

* SenpaiKohai: The original Goshe played a quiet but nice senpai to Phos. The new Morganite and Goshe stick to Phos like glue after Phos wakes up again, and refer to Phos as "sempai".

* SenpaiKohai: Is one of the oldest gems, along with their partner Sphene, Yellow Diamond, Padparadscha and Alexandrite, and as such treats all their juniors like a sempai would.

* SenpaiKohai: One of the oldest gems, like Peridot, and treats the youngest gems like an younger siblings.

* MemeticHandGesture: Their most iconic pose is them raising their index finger to their lips. They did it a couple of times across the Winter arc, even [[spoiler:before they're shattered and brought to the moon]].

* PeekABangs: [[spoiler:The mercury that fused with Phos comes to cover their head like hair, and a majority of it covers the right side of their face.]]

* PeekABangs: One of their eyes is constantly covered by their hair strand and bangs, at all times.

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KanaeItou (Japanese), Teresa Zimmerman (English)

** Regardless of what first-person pronoun they use, some gems' speech patterns are decidedly more masculine or feminine than others, likely because of their personalities. For example, Jade uses more masculine speech, while Dia tends towards feminine language. Rutile, a doctor, sticks to [[{{Keigo}} formal]], gender-neutral language.

* {{Keigo}}: They have a very professional way of speaking, being a doctor.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: As the series goes on, Phos gets progressively more unstable. Everytime they attempt to fix something, it always blows up in their face. [[spoiler:Their attempts to stop the lunarians from attacking the rest of the lustrous only end up pushing both sides away from them, resulting in the earth gems shattering them and forgetting about them for 220 years. This all culminates into Phos deciding to destroy all of the gems in order to get Kongo-sensei to prey.]]