Hazel's life revolved around gems.
Well, her lives, that is.
When she lived with her mother, Marie, their bonding time revolved around her getting them to pay the bills. Not that they didn't have other bonding time, but this was the most of it.
Gemstones even ended her first life, in the form of Alcyoneus. But she doesn't really like to talk about that.
And when she got to Camp Jupiter, she did her best to hide her roots and cover up her past. But the unicorn incident started it up again.
They would say things like, she uses gypsy magic, what a graceus, good thing she's in the Fifth Cohort, stay away from her.
Gemstones liked to screw up her life, big time.
She felt like her powers didn't matter as much as the others.
But after Percy and Annabeth fell into Tartarus, something sparked inside her. She was going to do her best to get Percy and Annabeth out of Tartarus, and nothing would stop her.
Not even the cursed gemstones would get in her way.