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quiet drawing of an au I’ve been idly thinking about. Basically Garnet and Spinel swap places. Ruby and Sapphire become abandoned by Pink Diamond and Spinel becomes part of a perma fusion on Earth. There are some other swaps obviously but just for fun lol. Probably not gonna do anything else for this au lol.
quiet au concept; Lonely Connie au
Connie Pearl Maheswaran was born to single mother Priyanka Maheswaran. Her other parent, a sentient gem alien by the name of Pearl, was the last known uncorrupted of her kind upon the planet Earth after her species’ fail colonization of Earth. She gave her physical form so Connie may live.
Connie was born blind and, as a result, the protective Priyanka keeps Connie homeschooled. Better her in the home instead of outside where others could judge her for her gem or harm her due to her blindness.
Connie grows up a bit melancholy, wishing for more from life than the four walls of her childhood home.
One day, however, her mother brings home a mirror that reminded her of Connie from the antique store....
I’d like to introduce the Wilted Rose AU! These are the main players in this au (plus a few more gems I haven’t gotten designs down for yet). More info under the cut!
Padparascha came out perfect. That is the main difference. Padparadscha came out perfect and was immediately brought before the three diamonds (Pink was elsewhere) to show her wisdom. After all, no Sapphire had been born perfect before.
There, she gave a vision that shook the diamonds to their core: Pink Diamond will rebel and bring about the end of gem culture as we know it. White Diamond immediately told Pink she would "test her patience". She was to wait, alone, until the Diamonds came and retrieved her.
After this, Pink Diamond was nothing more than a fairy tale to most gems. The only evidence she existed was a memorial garden in the very corner of a Blue Diamond galaxy.
Thousands of years later, Pink is found again by a Peridot conducting warp tests, and suddenly Pink has a group of friends willing to help her get back into society. And maybe even back at her fellow Diamonds.....
A few tid bits what changes there are to gems:
Padparascha is perfect, obviously.
Pink Pearl was released from White Diamond’s grasp and reset. She was given to Padparascha for warning the Diamonds of the rebellion. Padparascha kept her mostly the way she was. For her Diamond’s eventual return.
Peridot is still short as, due to the lack of a fourth diamond, there is still a lack of resources.
Crystal Gem Pearl is reset and given to Blue Diamond as a way to remember the littlest Diamond.
Sapphire comes out off color due to the persistent “ice” (it’s actually an unformed sapphire gem she formed around) stuck in her eye. But she can easily mask as non defective for “missions”, such as sneaking defects off the chopping block and getting them somewhere safe.
Amethyst is one of the few gems who hangs out around Sapphire, having still stayed in the ground too long. They fuse occasionally. There is no Garnet.
Spinel was in the ground when Pink was sent away. She was sent to manage the memorial garden as soon as she emerged. No friends for this Spinel....
Lapis Lazuli lost a lot of rank after her former best friend and love interest Aquamarine told the Dimaonds about a rule the Lazuli had broken. Lapis was stationed at the memorial garden, to forever be stuck watering plants instead of being free to terraform.
Lapis and Volley
Note: this is an au where pink does loose volleyball to white. But white gives volley back after pink gets earth. Unable to deal with her guilt and grief, pink shatters herself at the end of the rebellion instead of faking it.
Pink Diamond’s Pearl wept loudly into her hands as she hovered over the shattered stone in front of her. How could she? How could Rose- her diamond- lie to her?
Pearl had been in on it from the start. Ever since Pink started this whole rebellion with her, she’d known every detail of this plot to free the Earth and her fellow gems. So they’d not suffer under the terrible diamonds ever again. Like she did under White.
This was their final idea. Fake Pink Diamond’s shattering by the hands of Rose Quartz. Pearl herself would play the part of Rose. To keep up the idea that Rose and Pink were separate entities. And they’d fake it with the blade the missing Bismuth had made. It could not shatter, but they could make it look like it had. And Pearl was sworn to secrecy about all this with an order.
They had a signal for Pearl to do the deed, but… it never came. Pink seemed to have prepared a different speech than their plan. Nerves, maybe?
That was quickly ruled out. Suddenly, Pink Diamond was pledging her support for the crystal gems. Saying how colonizing couldn’t stop so long as she was there. And- she pulled out a different weapon than their plan. And turned it on her own gem.
Chaos came after this. A huge battle between grieving gems and the crystal gems ensued. But Pearl was deaf to it all as she stared at the shards. Questions swimming in her head. In the confusion of the battle, a soldier saw her and couldn’t tell if this Pearl was friend or foe. She was still in her homeworld uniform, but she could have just not been poofed yet.
Pearl barely registered the sword being driven through her.
–
When Pearl reformed, the battlefield was quiet. She found herself inside the palanquin of Pink diamond, with the emergency defense walls engaged. When had they triggered? Pearl numbly disengaged them, fumbling her way out of the palanquin.
She looked around the dark, night field. Weapons laid everywhere, but no soldiers seemed to wield them. Where was homeworld? Where were the crystal gems? Pearl looked, but found nothing but shards.
At least, until she heard a rustling in a bush. Pearl summoned her whip and readied herself. “Garnet?” she tried, taking a step back. She hoped that it was the fusion. Garnet always knew what to do, and with everything going on-
Pearl was suddenly attacked by a beast she could barely describe. It was pure fire and lava, burning Pearl any time she tried to wrestle it away. It roared and growled, seemingly confused and agitated as it pinned Pearl to the battlefield floor. Pearl quickly made her ribbon into a lance, and pierced the soft underbelly of the beast.
She expected blood, as with all organic creatures of earth, but the thing….. poofed? Pearl blinked in confusion as a gem clanked to the ground. What in the stars-?
She bent down and inspected the gem. A ruby- probably a foot soldier fighting for Pink. But there were no flaws in the gem. No cracks. So why was its form so…. Monstrous? Pearl needed answers. She bubbled the gem, warped it away to their base, and stepped through the bushes.
Through the bushes, another creature sat. But this one was different. A large bird-like creature with four legs, made of pure ice. It had a singular eye on its head, tears streaming from it. It screeched sadly and trotted to Pearl. Pearl readied herself to summon her weapon again…. But the creature simply nuzzled against her. Fluffing its wings out and showing its Sapphire gemstone on its right wing.
Pearl’s inner gears turned. Only one Sapphire had been on Earth. And she was half of Garnet. And the Ruby who’d attacked her….
Pearl collapsed and hugged the bird tight, sobbing. “What happened to you, Garnet?"
–
It’d been almost an Earth month since Pink shattered herself. Since then, Pearl had gathered information from local humans on what she’d missed. Homeworld retreated and launched a final attack. This attack was a bright light, which seemed to corrupt every gem left on Earth. Nothing seemed to fix it, even Rose’s fountain did nothing.
She was the only one left, since she had been shoved into the palanquin and it’d engaged emergency mode for the fight around it. She was lucky but…… everyone she knew and loved was gone. She was alone. And was it worth it….? The Earth was safe but…..
Pearl had been moving in a numb blur. Doing things she knew Rose would want done after Homeworld’s retreat. What they’d planned to do. Next on her list was the galaxy warp. Homeworld could return to finish what they’d started any day now. So, she would destroy every warp with a connection off planet. They wouldn’t come back. They wouldn’t make Rose’s sacrifice be in vain.
When she was done, she turned to warp back to the base she had made for herself. But…. A mirror laying on the ground caught her eye. Was this something homeworld left behind….? How could she have missed it before?
She sat on her own legs and carefully picked up the mirror. She fingered the cracked front before turning it over. A cracked Lapis Lazuli lay in the gem slot.
”Hello….?“ Pearl cautiously greated. This could just be a gem born unsentiant. But the thought of a gem trapped in there, like she was trapped under White Diamond…. "Are you alive? Is there a way you can communicate with me?”
The mirror was silent a moment before glitching Pearl’s words back to her. “-Can communicate. -Alive."
Pearl startled a moment before taking a deep breath. "If I let you out, do you think you can form? Or will you need to be healed first?”
The mirror paused before questioning, “You- let- me- out?"
Pearl smiled, "Of course. No gem deserves to be trapped. I know first hand-” She fingered her cracked eye a moment, “That being trapped is terrible. Now, heal? Or let out first?”
“Let- me- out! Let- me- out!"
Pearl nodded before wrenching the gem out of the mirror. The mirror part shattered, and the Lapis Lazuli began to glow.
Pearl caught her as she stumbled over. The Lapis smiled weakly, showing her mirrored eyes to Pearl. "Thank you…. I thought maybe you were coming to question me more-”
“No- ah hah-” Pearl awkwardly looked away, shoving her questions towards the gem down, “There's…. No gem left to question you.”
The Lazuli squinted, “What-” she glitched from her crack “-do you mean?"
"Oof, let’s get this crack healed first. Then…. Then I’ll show you.” Pearl motioned to the warp, “C'mon. Unless you think you can fly."
"Probably not.” The Lapis shook her head and leaned on Pearl for support as they walked to the warp and warped away. “Where are you taking me? The soldier bays?”
“Ah-” She shook her head, “No. Somewhere-…. You might not like.” They arrived at Rose’s fountain with that sentence.
“What is that?” Lapis squinted at the fountain, “And is that…. Rose Quartz?!” Lapis pulled away from Pearl the best she could and held up her fists, “Are you a crystal gem?! You won’t sway me to your side!"
”Ah-!“ Pearl held up her hands in surrender. "Yes, but I won’t try to sway you. I’ll even let you fly back to Homeworld. I just ask that you don’t tell them you came from Earth. Say you were off planet for the final attack or-”
“Final attack?” Lapis faltered a moment, “The war's…. Over?” She gulped and looked to the fountain, spotting bubbles where Pearl had left them. “And…. Who won?”
“Technically?” Pearl sighed, “The crystal gems did. But…. It doesn’t feel like a victory.” She hugged herself a moment before shaking her head. “Come on. I’ll fill you in once you’re healed. Being cracked is so painful-”
“Why do you care?” Lapis bit back, growling, “You’re a crystal gem. And I’m from homeworld. Shouldn’t you want me shattered?”
Pearl sighed, motioning to her eye crack, “I care because I know what it’s like to be hurt and confused. I care because you’re the first actual gem I’ve seen in a month. And I care because…. Rose would do the same thing."
Lapis hesitated before she nodded, relaxing, "Lead the way then."
–
"So homeworld just-” Lapis splashed the water, before motioning to all the bubbles, “Hurt all these gems? Just cause Pink Diamond decided to shatter herself?”
“Mhm.” Pearl nodded, “I was only safe because I was within my gem at the time, and my gem was thrown into Pink Diamond’s palanquin. It has an emergency mode that can withstand those kinds of things."
”Shale-“ Lapis cursed and ran a hand through her hair, "That’s messed up. Even homeworld gems?”
“Yes,” Pearl nodded, “Anyone who didn’t get off planet in time. I assume the only reason you were safe is because your gem was stuck in an object.”
Lapis chuckled half heartedly, “I’d have to thank the gem that forced me into my gemstone then. Being in that mirror…. It was awful. All those questions from gems I saw as allies-”
Pearl nodded, “They are always quick to turn if they think you’ve messed up.”
Lapis paused a moment before looking tentatively at Pearl. “A crystal gem wouldn't betray you like that though?”
Pearl laughed, waving her off, “Never.”
Art for my bro👊💪🔥🌸. She likes Life is strange.
Another Deviantart request!!!
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...Oh Lapis.
Lapis makes a prank.
✨❤ The Ballet theme of a Lapis/Pearl fusion ❤✨
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Lapis OC. 😂 She is the gemsona of an OC of mine. The origin of this OC is a brown eared pheasant, so as you can see, this Lapis has lots of elements from eared pheasants ( being aggressive sometimes, the serious/probably fierce look, the hairstyle and the clothes with patterns).
Lapis is often very serious, but she is actually playful and is interested in Earth Creatures (pheasants for example). She is also good at shape-shifting. Lapis's good friend, Larimar, is an optimistic and cheerful gem (there's a crack on her gem, because she was hurt by a Homeworld soldier. ) They hide from Homeworld Gems and Crystal Gems. 😂
Sweet little Larimar OC. 😂
I wrote a brief summary of Lapis's story (It's a short biography in fact. ) (It's more detailed than the content above). Usually I don't like to write biographies for OCs, but it was for a design project stuff in a QQ group. (It is basically an AU project stuff. I joined the group in order to browse other cool artists' designs. )
I didn't bother translate and post Lapis's story here. I have already posted that to Lofter anyway.
And here are some canon characters.
(I attempted to drew SU fanart in 2019 for the first time: the three Steven above, and Lapis. ) Then I drew these little Steven in March, 2020.
Rexy Leung's 43rd original post.
Posted on May 28th, 2020.
Jasper is A Fusion!?
We're missing something important.So far we've seen with gem fusions that even if they're unstable and have extra limbs the number of limbs still measures evenly out to each gem involved.Ex:Garnet has three eyes because Ruby has two eyes and Sapphire has 1 eye, Rainbow Quartz had 4 eyes -a set for each gem involved,Heck! even Sugilite only had 5 eyes and 4 arms. BUT what about malachite? She's "all torso" as someone said in another post,as in she has no legs but instead she has 6 arms! three sets of arms for three gems correct?This must mean either Jasper, or Lapis is a fusion for their to be an extra set of arms involved with malachite.However, from 'The Mirror Gem' we know Lapis is only one gem so could it be that Jasper was a fusion from the start?Either that or it's just crewniverse being random with character design and the extra set of arms means nothing.Just my thoughts. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ What do you think of this theory?
Angry Lapis 🌊
I'm trying out the options for drawing water and how it came out here I like it
Some of my favorite gems are Lapis and Peridot✨
I’m somehow not watching anything like that, I’m revisiting the Steven Universe, a good series
