#Gemswap!Steven

[su-momswaup]

In the gemswap that only exists in my notes, Peridot basically crash-landed on earth an unclear period of time after the war, fulfilling the Amethyst-type role of the Crystal Gem who came in after the war, and didn't experience it but still keeps her unique element as a Gem who experienced some post-Pink "shattering" Diamond Authority, and she probably came into the CG later in the timeline than Amethyst did.

Enough time so that the differentiation of eras had time to really form. Cue the Peridot redemption arc, but with Rose instead of Steven.

[This is me sharing in an attempt to help/soothe regarding the position of Peridot in this type of AU, as well as the resource shortages of era 2 leading to shorty gems like her and Demantoid.]

[That one post about her makes it feel like you're trying to squeeze her real close to the end of the war to justify her being one of Steven's moms and I'm just trying to say you don't have to to make it work. It's 3000 years between the end of the war and start of the show, lots of time to work with]

you know that’s actually quite creative, I’m glad for receiving criticism. I think I should work more on her integration now that you’ve mentioned it, I’ve noticed I’ve put probably the most thought into lapis’s backstory (for the main cg team at least, oh boy did I spoil pearl, garnet and amethyst with backstory lore) and neglected the other a bit, though I maybe wont carbon copy your idea cus well, it’s your unique idea and I don’t wanna steal it, thank you though!

[askfwm]

it is I the FWM, I have been looking through the Steven Universe multiverse and I actually want to show you guys the different worlds I found. I'll show you what the Steven from these differnet timelines looks like and tell you what each world is.

(PS: I'll label each world by earths, just like Marvel and DC, like earth-1, earth-2, etc like that)

Earth-1 (the main timeline) this is the canon earth, the one we know from the show Steven Universe, you can guess what this earth is, because you have seen it on tv

Earth-1 is discovered by Rebecca Sugar

Earth-2 (Steven Lazuli) before you say anything else. no this is not an earth where Lapis is Steven's mother, this is a timeline where Lapis Lazuil managed to break herself free from the mirror and kidnapped Steven when he was about 1 year old, years goes on and Lapis takes care of Steven like if he was her own son. this timeline has a lot of interesting things escpecially with the characters, Garnet doesn't exist, Pearl's a secret agent of a human organization and let's not forget about Wildcard. yeah this earth is great!

Earth-2 is discovered by Zipper mom

here’s the fanfiction

Earth-5 (Gemswap) now if you think Steven having hearing aids on earth-4 is weird then this earth is him having glasses too! of course the reason is that he's smart now, as this earth has some personalities swaps, Steven has Peridot's smartness while Peridot got Steven's happiness, also Pearl swaps with Amerthyst, Jasper swaps with Lapis and Garnet is the same.

Earth-5 is discovered by  mushroom-cookie-bears

Earth-7 (Infected Gems) this earth is fudged up! zombies everywhere and the only survivors are Steven, Connie, Sadie and Peridot and have to survive wave of the undead horde from the pink controller. I don't want to be in this universe if you are killable...

Earth-7 is discovered by InfectedGemAU

Earth-9 (Nora Universe) rule number 63

Earth-9 is discovered by Noraverse

Earth-10 (Mirror Boy) this earth has someone named the Mirror Boy (or as we known him as Steven) who has wings. basicly if Steven had Steven's life, which means Steven had a good reason to stab Bismuth...

the discovery of this AU is unknown

Earth-11 (Connieshift) connieShift is a universe where Steven is full human and Connie is Half-gem... that's it, basically the timeline is the same but some things are different because Connie is smarter.

Earth-11 is discovered by  mechandra

Earth-14 (Steven Diamond) on this timeline, Steven's mother is Yellow Diamond, which means this Steven is evil... so if you wonder what evil Steven would be like, earth-14 is your answer

Earth-14 is discovered by baixinha-su

Earth-15 (Quartz) this is a timeline where Rose was shattered during the final battle of the gem war, the crystal gems were victorious, but Rose was in two pieces, one to the gems and another to homeworld, homeworld use the gem to create a hybrid and Quartz was born. Quartz is loyal to yellow diamond and vow himself to destroy the Crystal Gems and take back the planet earth.

Earth-15 was discovered by  Evil-Ekat

here’s the Fanfiction

Earth-25 (Fresh) three ways to tell you what this universe is: 1) a universe where everyone acts like Dippy Fresh 2) the SU version of Underfresh 3) a universe where 90s raves are highly popular that everyone wore bright clothing, dance to raves and behave like rappers

Earth-25 is discovered by me

there are other earths but some of them the Stevens are basically the same as Earth-1 but there will be more to come, just need to dig deep within the multiverse.

side note: some of these are made by other people and not me.

[la-ro-ki]

colored some storyboards and made them @connieswap bc i adore this AU

the first was done the way i normally color and the second was more like the traditional SU style

[butterscotch-brigade]

i havent drawn my dumb gemswap au in a while so heres a screenshot redraw

[hyuburt]

Updated gemswap designs

[techskylander]

We're all mulling over how "Other Friends" would change if it was a Pearl song, but what about "It's Over, Isn't It" as Spinel's song? How does that change?

Ooh, I like the way you think!

I think the whole aesthetic of Mr. Greg would be shaken up a little to adapt to Spinel. Instead of visiting the parts of Empire City that are classy and upscale, they’d be travelling to parts more like Las Vegas, noisy and showy. (Maybe they’d stay in a hotel like Circus Circus-I could definitely see the roller coasters and shows being part of the trip)

 And instead of an elegant dance on the balcony, we’d see Spinel moping about in an arcade/carnival area, maybe halfheartedly trying to win a few games.

Similarly, I think that It’s Over, Isn’t It would be changed from the ballet/piano style to something more like Drift Away, or maybe even some elements of Other Friends. Buuut I don’t have the skills to try to totally rework that song so I’m just gonna write lyrics with the same rhythm as the original, lol.

It was cool

She made friends

But I knew she’d be back to me in the end

It was neat

Someone new

But she never would replace me until you.

It was fun

When you came

And we fought like it was my new favorite game

Over her

Who she’d choose

After all these years, I never thought I’d lose.

Game over, isn’t it? Isn’t it? Isn’t it over?

It’s over, isn’t it? Isn’t it? Isn’t it over?

You won, and she left us, but at least you’re her best friend

It’s over, isn’t it? Playtime’s at an end.

Games and gardens, entertainment

Family strife, then, rearrangement

War and violence, times were testy

Still she had me, her sweetest besty

Now she’s all gone, for some dumb stupid boy

Left me behind, like a dusty old toy

She left me a child, to find someone new

But what happens when he outgrows me too?

Game over, isn’t it? Isn’t it? Isn’t it over?

It’s over, isn’t it? Isn’t it? Isn’t it over?

You won, and she left us, and I wasn’t her dearest friend  It’s over, isn’t it? Playtime’s at an end.It’s over, isn’t it? Playtime’s at an end.

[gemaesthetics]

Gemswap- Pink Diamond & Jasper

Requested by Anon // Request a Swap

[jaggidart]

This...turned out weird.

Uh...Gemswap I guess? What Garnet would look like with my Carnelian’s gem/colour scheme and vice versa. Its...um...yeah.

[orchidhues]

I tried reimagining lapis and peridot for a gemswap au! Still don’t know how it would work exactly but I hope you like the designs-

[ebonysword0]

Here's a sketch of Connie with water wings.

[kettlequills]

gemswap au

Until half past five on a sunny, slow Thursday, Doug Maheshwaren’s life was perfectly ordinary, predictable, and mundane. It was a day in late summer, when the sun was sinking in the skies over the serene blue sea ruffled with whitecaps, and the afternoons were long and lazy, like lugubrious and well-oiled pieces of eternity stretched out until one hour felt like three.

Doug had just clocked out and was shrugging on his jacket when what looked like a small blue child drifted up the door and knocked.

“Hey,” he said, tiredly. “You’re not allowed back here. Where’s your mum, huh?”

The child’s gloved hands clasped demurely over her chest, right over a white star printed there, collarbone to collarbone. She was dressed like a doll, pristine in carefully coordinating shades of pressed blue and starch white. She must’ve been to the face painter’s sturdy stall down on the beach, because her face was entirely the colour of faded jeans. To match, her hair was some pale blue, like a misty sky.

“Hello,” she said in the startlingly adult voice of a mature woman, “I am not a human child.”

With a start, Doug glanced her over, reassessed her proportions, and immediately apologised, scratching the back of his neck in embarrassment. “Sorry about that ma’am-“

“I am over five thousand years old. I watched your race leave the dirt and build your civilisations from the bones of your elders.” She didn’t even twitch she spoke.

Doug stared at her incredulously. Did it look like he was in the mood for a joke? He was too tired for this. There was always some wit who thought it would be funny to mess with the guard on duty. Doug had thought himself free of that today, but apparently he’d counted too soon. The hair that covered her eyes stared back, unconcerned.

“Look,” he said finally, “I don’t know why you’re here, but I think you ought to leave.”

He scrounged for his car keys in his jeans pocket and started walking away. He was off shift, and strange small blue women couldn’t keep him from the comfort of a cup of coffee and his sofa back at the small flat he rented. It wasn’t the most polite thing he could have done, but he’d pulled double shift and hadn’t slept last night, up until midnight or quarter past one, the TV flickering silently in the background, a warm cup in his hands, too tired to sleep.

“I am here to tell you something.” Unperturbed, she ghosted along next to him, her dress staying strangely still, as if she didn’t walk at all. Only the strands of her hair fluttered slightly as the wind brushed it.

“You don’t even know who I am,” said Doug, sharper than he intended. He didn’t like weirdoes. He didn’t like weirdoes that followed him even more.

“No. But I know what you’re going to do.” She didn’t look up at him as she spoke, and maybe it was his training as a guard, but it rang like a threat. He stopped, no longer sure he wanted to lead her to his car, and crossed his arms.

“You are going to go home,” she said. Her utter poise and soft spoken voice made the whole thing seem like a holy reading of ancient scripture, unearthed just now from crumbling dirt, the kiss of time brushed away by the careful application of archaeology. “You will eat last night’s leftovers, curry. You will watch the television until you fall asleep on the settee with your plate on your lap. Tomorrow morning you will go into work.”

Doug opened his mouth interact, but inexorably, like the creep of a glacier carving its passage through solid rock, she continued, and eventually he simply sunk down and sat on the kerb, his face ashen.

“You will work all day and do the same thing when you get home. You will do this all week, all month.” Impossibly, her voice modulated, lost some of its distance and became soft. “You will take one sick day in three years, and it will be at your mother’s funeral. Breast cancer.”

Doug’s head jerked up, but she was still staring ahead, untouched by his distress. He stared at her, the sunlight gilding her skin deep and blue, like the untouched waters of a still pool. Her dress did not touch the floor. She didn’t touch the floor. A cold feeling ran down Doug’s spine at the clear inch of space between the hem of her dress and the pavement.

Is this some sort of hoax – some joke? He felt suddenly sick.

“You will learn the boats here by heart,” she told him quietly, “and in six years time you will notice when there is a new boat in the dock. You will be shot through the thigh by a smuggler and will spend many weeks in hospital. You are forced to resign from your job. The payout for the injury will not be enough to support the flat that you have been living in. You will move to a smaller one, nearby the train station, and you will wake up every night when the trains come past your window and make the walls rattle. You will take up a job in the local supermarket. It makes your injury ache and you hate it there, but it pays your bills.

You will work there, uninterrupted, and die alone of a heart attack due to your heightened cholesterol and bad diet when you are fifty three, a month from your birthday, leaving your last surviving family, your sister, to pay for your funeral. You will be cremated, and your ashes will be scattered next your mother’s grave plot in Winslough Cemetery.”

In the ringing silence that followed, Doug’s heartbeat thudded dully in his ear, sick with a sense of hopeless urgency, and a despair consumed him at the bleak future she had outlined. He could see it. He had had curry last night, cooking it the way he made it took hours, but he’d had the time.

“How – how do you-“

“My name is Sapphire,” she said. She looked at him, and spread her hands out, like offering some sort of comfort. He inhaled. On her right palm was a deep, clear stone, flawless, and he knew without a doubt that it was a sapphire. “I see the most certain future.”

“The most certain?”

“Nothing is certain, not completely. Even the most certain futures can be changed with a single choice.” She lifted her hands and parted her fringe, revealing one single brilliant blue eye which stared at him steadily, with the gravity of age and tiredness so familiar to his own that he felt himself involuntarily moved. She dropped the fringe, and he felt his tongue in his mouth again, remembered how to speak.

“What are you?” Doug whispered, horrified, awed, some combination that was them both.

“My name is Sapphire,” she repeated. “I started a war to protect your planet from my own kind, and I’m hoping you can show me why.”

“Me?”

“You.”

“You don’t even know me!”

“I’d like to.” She floated up, and Doug gulped to see he was right, she was unconnected to the Earth completely, without even feet. “Beach City, the temple.”

She paused, and then Sapphire bestowed him with a soft, faint smile. “Lapis likes knock knock jokes.”

“Wait- where are you going?” Doug shouted, jumping to his feet. She was drifting further away, and some sense of the intangible prompted him to run after her, but it was as if she moved on a rug pulled away from the rest of world, smoothly she slid away.

Doug Maheshwaren stood in the silence Sapphire left behind, knowing nothing but that the foundations of his world had been thoroughly shaken.

“Beach City.”

[elfdyke]

Hm consider lapidot role reversal - Peridot trapped in a mirror and finding Steven, someone who is able to connect with her as a being and Lapis, sent to explore earth with jasper and having to deal with the cluster

ooO thts interesting. im assuming its not a gemswap so it would be cool seeing lapis as like.. a homeworld loyal terraformer. maybe instead of getting poofed she made it back and the reason why she would be picked for the mission with jasper is bc shes seen as someone who knows the land well? idk! i like the thoughts tho owo

[katastrii-blog]

Gemswap pearl doodle that I'm prob not gonna finish

[hyuburt]

Gemswap garnet, or “rhodolite”

[connieswap]

M!A connie has a blue diamond gem for the next 4 asks.

“Aww thanks.”

My goodness! what a mess you all have made of the poor dear. Quartz has 5 more asks. Blue diamond  has 4 and full gem has 1 more left. 

Art © MjStudioArts

Steven Universe © Rebecca Sugar

[gemaesthetics]

Gemswap- Pink Diamond & Aquamarine

Requested by Anon // Request a Swap