Pitchblende

Pitchblende is one of the active Gems residing on the Radioactive Island. They are the lead scientist and archeologist.

Appearance
Pitchblende has the standard Radioactive Gem uniform with no variations except for goggles that they occasionally wear either on top of their head or on their face. Their features are dull metallic grey. Their base hair is a bob cut with a small strand sticking up at the top of their head with their bangs going to the right. They do wear "hair extensions" that are often created from incomplete Gems (that failed to come to life) or remnants of Gems. These are styled in a variety of ways and come in different colours.

Personality
Pitchblende is a very eccentric Gem who enjoys learning, discovering, and talking. Their impulse control is often low and they do what they want at the moment, especially if they have an idea of something that they have to figure out. They're incredibly smart nonetheless, and are often the inventor of weaponry and some other devices that the Radioactive Gems use.

They have some issues with their appearance however, believing that their colour is too dull and boring compared to the other Gems (with even Thorianite having red highlights according to Pitchblende), so they often take pieces of missing Gems or non-formed Gems to create hairstyles, as extensions. Their favourite colour is blue.

Character Profiles

 * History maniac. Very smart. Very talkative.

Thorianite
Thorianite was their former partner and they had a very close bond. Both had similar personality and brains so the two could often collaborate. Thorianite was the elder one so Pitchblende still looks up to them, which can be seen in how they style their hair. They haven't dealt with Thorianite's abduction well though, although they are convinced that Thorianite made it to the Moon to speak with the Sky Guardians.

Gem Info
Pitchblende is the old name for uraninite. Pitchblende means "dark deception", with pitch meaning "dark" and -blende often denoting minerals that deceive untrained eyes to be more "valuable" minerals and was originally the name for a few minerals but ultimately stuck to uraninite. In pitchblende's case, its dull metallic look made it seem like other metals such as iron or lead (mainly lead), but yielded no metal when attempting to extract it because uranium's melting point is much higher than most metals. However, uraninite was the ore used to discover the element uranium in 1789 by M. Klaproth which lead to the discovery of radiation and other rare unstable elements.
 * Mineral: Oxide
 * Chemistry: (UO2)(With usual inclusions of Ra, Pb, Th, He, Tc, Pm, Fr, Ac)
 * Colour: steel grey

Trivia

 * Pitchblende uses mainly gender neutral identifications ("they/them"), but occasionally male ones ("he/him")