#Spinel and Nora

[blueau-niverse]

And we're back! Starting on my birthday for some extra luck on not having to take another hiatus for a couple of years lol

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Transcript:

Panel 1: Jasper looks off to the side to consider. Panel 2: Jasper nods with a slight smile, arms open. Panel 3: Spinel reacting to Jasper being cute with 3 exclamation marks above her head, and the panel also taking the shape of an exclamation mark. Panel 4: Spinel squats down in a cartoony fashion, a rumble sound effect around her. Panel 5: Spinel Shoots up into the sky like a rocket, Jasper is left confused in the bottom corner. Panel 6: Spinel lingers in the sky momentarily, her hair forming a heart behind her. Panel 7: Spinel shoots down like a rocket, the smoke cloud in a heart shape Panel 8-11: shots closing in on Jasper from above as she realizes Spinel is coming back down, and she holds up her hands to catch her. Panel 12: Jasper catches Spinel as they are engulfed in light. Panel 13: They have formed Carnelian again and she's smiling as she returns.

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MY FAVORITE SHIPS!

This was a LONG time coming! And I want to thank @expensiveeggplant & @coffinbrotherr for putting up with my procrastination while boiling down the who and why of this list!

Adventure Time: Finnceline

My first real ship, the first fanfiction I ever read, and I spent hours watching Finnceline AMV's way back when YouTube didn't have commercials. Finn and Marcy's personalities and experiences play so well off of each other that I'm thoroughly convinced the writers were terrified of their potential. They would be an amazing butt-kicking couple, but that wouldn't leave Finn with as many flaws to develop as a young man coming of age. And it's such a shame because you know they'd always have each other's backs and best interests at heart. And with a fully grown adult Finn I'd bet money they'd have at least turned out as cuddle buddies... who occasionally engage in some very aggressive cuddling.😏

Flame Princess and Huntress Wizard were great and had their cool moments with Finn, but something tells me Marceline would give up her immortal life in a heartbeat to protect Finn. Having seen each other's pasts and memories and going out of their way to help each other with deep-rooted life issues, Finnceline just has more depth to work with than the other ships.

Gravity Falls: Dipper x Pacifica x Mabel

The first episode I ever saw was the one where Pacifica and Mabel play mini-golf. I wasn't fully paying attention and assumed Dipper and Mabel were just best friends dealing with a bully. The car ride home together was cute and solidified my first ever threeway ship. THEN I found out they were siblings...

Then I found out fanfiction didn't care! In fact, here's a [link] to the BEST fanfic I've ever read for this ship, enjoy!

Star Vs. The Forces of Evil: MonStarco

The MonStar AU is where things are relatively the same except for one thing: Star is half or part monster. It makes good sense that Star, being an interdimensional magical princess from an interdimensional magical kingdom would be a little more... interdimensional. It gives some fresh blood to Starco fics, which can be a bit too vanilla most of the time, especially when you get to parts where Star's otherworldly anatomy and quirks cause all sorts of problems and shenanigans!

Sort of like her muberty phase but she's stuck looking that way, and if you remember the show said there's a chance every Mewman actually COULD end up stuck in butterfly form! Super interesting! It reminds me a lot of the episode of Teen Titans(original) where Starfire was going through alien puberty, and how fun of an episode it was to watch. The fact that there's tons of Monster Star AU and Mewberty art out there helps a ton as well!

Steven Universe: Lapiven & Stevinel

Lapiven: These two are the perfect example of "cute sunshine boy X hot goth gf". Plain and simple, Steven's optimism is exactly what Lapis needed to begin working through what happened to her. And no one appreciates a cinnamon roll the way a scarred person does. Also, tell me they don't look like a couple everytime they're onscreen together? I mean really watch them! Blushing, giggling, constant eye contact, twinkling eyes, immediately responsive to each others change in mood, plenty physical contact, elation whenever Steven calls or visits.

You can call it platonic for the Shtewball, but Lapis adores Steven in every sense of the word! She warned him and negotiated his safety when she realized Homeworld would get involved. She held Jasper prisoner in her own head just to protect him. She faced her trauma and returned to confront the Diamonds, ready to put hands and feet on an enemy she knew she couldn't beat. And entirely because, to her, Steven's safety was more important than her own life! Weigh out those exact same scenarios, their exact same interactions with each other with just about any other two characters in animation and tell me it doesn't make sense? I swear most of their episodes together are just them going on dates!

Stevinel: Now this is special to me. On the opposite side of the scale Steven and Spinel share the same feelings of abandonment and inadequacy from and by Pink. Of course they aren't the only ones, but Spinel didn't raise Steven as a parent or sibling. There was no one better suited to empathize with Steven's issues, and his downward spiral into becoming a monster who hurts people.

What Spinel went through in the movie is too on the nose for what Steven goes through in Future, and I'm flabbergasted that the writers chose to have her be of little to no help when Steven needed to be shown that he didn't have to hold himself together on his own!

But back on topic. The other Gems love Steven, but Spinel is wired to love him just like Pearl, on top of whatever blooms between them naturally. So when those wires were damaged from Pink's abandonment, it's quite poetic that Steven is the one to mend them. From there It's as easy-peasy pink-heart-squeasy to assume the seeds of affection could sprout from such fertile ground. It also helps that Rebecca Sugar blatantly suggests Steven and Spinel's relationship isn't concretely platonic, at least for Spinel. Even going so far as to give us fan service!

Possibility is all that is needed for shippers and fanfictioneers to run wild with wishful thinking. I also might have a revenge boner for heartbroken characters who find happiness despite the tomfuckery done to them. "Pink abandoned me in her garden? Guess I'll have Steven frolicking in mine.

RWBY: Nora's Arc

Although I may grow enamored with other RWBY ships, I always come back to this one. It's just tons of fun! Responsible & Awkward meets Extroverted Hurricane, legally banned from IHOP and the Sloth exhibit at the zoo! Premium family man real estate meets poster girl for found family and there's no one better than Jaune-1-of-8-kids-Arc to get the job done!

I'm also of the mind that Nora's bombastic personality is meant to draw people to her, because she's absolutely terrified of being alone and left behind again. And with family gatherings at the Arc residence, isolation is all but nonexistent.

Wakfu: Yumalia

Dreams do come true! LET'S GOOO! Not much to say; they were set to be together from first sight and it was a rollercoaster from there. A lot like Aang and Katara, Yugo got his feisty princess and Amalia got her dashing hero. It's classic, it's timeless, and you love to see it done well!

The Dragon Prince: Rayllum

Obvious cuteness is obviously cute. It's nearly unheard of for the strange but exotic alien girl to be the one intrigued and smitten with the human boy. An action adventure fantasy but the non-human girl is the awkward one hiding her feelings? Sign me up! It's a breath of fresh air!

Sonic The Hedgehog: SilverWolf

The newest addition! Some fresh meat to sink my teeth into as I rekindle my love for the Sonic franchise! I haven't followed anything Sonic since the fever dream that was Sonic 06, but happened to see a few panels of Silver talking to what appeared to be a new character, Whisper the Wolf! Shy, soft spoken, but not from timidity, rather a desire to not scare others away because of her frightening features.

Pairing her with the very approachable and reassuring Silver makes for good chemistry in my opinion. I also adore Whisper's color scheme and the combination of silver, gold, and neon lights they have in a lot of comic panels together. They'd make a cute pair that's easy to reduce to a blushing mess with any little bit of teasing, and I'm here for it!

AND THERE YOU HAVE IT!

I have loads more ships but these are the ones that I felt were most worth sharing.

[fireopal-tash]

🍓❤️Nora and Spinel!⭐🏖️

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[squibbledawg]

mfw the steven universe brainworm is crawling back inside my fucking mind rent free and i made a genderbent spinel design and i did shitty ass screenshot redraw/scribble overs because i have no fucking self control PS cannon voices future spinel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CoYqLp7ii4 past spinel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=examM3osC-g&t=317s

[agentalysswolf]

OKAY---"KIN" LIST (im defining kin as a fictional character i feel i embody in some major way and makes me feel seen by others. Also through which I can see myself as I have a difficult time with that as I have bpd among other things.

DEEP BREATH ...Okay. This might seem "cringe" or stupid but idc. It's a big deal for me to come out and release this list even to strangers.

IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER:

Fox Mulder✨--The X Files

(Purest and parts of me I most strive to lean into. Also transboy. my crazy puppy dreamer energy to someone's skeptic down to earth anchor. ready to kill god and anyone who'd dare to hurt the ones i love and cant live without)

Tony Stark✨--You know who I am

(Aware of sins and ready to constantly improve and be better. Heroes are self made!! (built) He loathes himself AND loves himself. The cluster b is strong with this one. as well as cptsd and ocd. Specifically Sun armor. Blazing sunshine energy BOTTOMING AND SUB SPACE IS A NEED TO HEAL. DADDY ISSUES)

Will Graham✨ --Hannibal

(Hyper sensitive "empath" who struggles with mental illness and harmful urges. morally grey. morally good. morally bad. confused/hurt/gentle.)

Quentin Compson (male) --The Sound and The Fury✨

(first book character through whom i felt SEEN. he has MASSIVE ocd issues and the writing style for his chapters resonates with my soul. i was watching tokyo ghoul at the same time and "White Silence" the song makes me think of Quentin in a coffin covered in white flowers with white hair and I break down)

Naruto Uzumaki✨--Naruto/Naruto Shippuden

(hero's hero. he grew up with me and we are most alike in sunshine blazing personalities. Feel VERY DEEPLY and have deep trauma. anyone can change for the better--BELIEVE IT! Childish and loud. hyper with FEELINGS that sometimes get out of control and make us go ninetails mode. (intermittent explosive disorder) Which always end up hurting those around us even though we get that way in emotional responses to freak situations. "THERE ARE NO SHORTCUTS TO BECOMING HOKAGE"

Lestat de Lioncourt✨--The Vampire Lestat (book)/ AMC's show Interview With The Vampire

(The villain in me. The wretched creature. The lover. Absolute chaos. cluster B diva. The trauma. Needing to feel SEEN and fucking everything up over and over. Obsession. Self harm. Suicidal and homicidal ideation.)

Nora (with Weiss' trauma) (team JNPR) --RWBY

(Bright eyed. Motormouth. Random and hyper AF but like actually. Living your entire life with/for someone and needing to figure out who you are without them. Hitting things with a massive hammer. A hero. Lightning blaze heart. Will do anything for those she loves. just add in the song "The Path To Isolation" )

Spinell--Steven Universe Movie

(oh god. the villain origin story. worst fears being imagined. the annoying love bombing and wanting NEEDING others approval and constant attention. bpd. the scythe. the HEALING.)

Asuka --Evangelion/Rebuild

((MOMMY ISSUES TO THE EXTREME) bpd again. need to be seen by others in order to exist. without praise or what you crave from others you are nothing. you only exist through the eyes of others. self harm/ suicide attempt (bathtub scene) mind rape scene. trauma driving your entire life and still...still wanting happiness for people and yourself. not knowing how to express love. coming off as annoying and loud and weird and narcissistic and then laying there alone in bed crying about how much you hate yourself. and yet STILL being able to grow at the end and save the world)

[growing-gems]

Spinel I can see fattening Nora and Steven up.

"They share their ma's preference for sweets, what can I say? And I sure can't say no to 'em."

Some ppl eat when theyre bored, and Spinel hates seeing people bored..

[s-and-s-skull-magic-105]

A Nora x Spinel drawing I made

(Note: I attempted to draw Nora's hair similar to Rose Quartz' hair)

[mythicaldemigoddess-of-deltarune]

Blitzwing, Three Gems & Crossover Madness Of Fun (2023)

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[Note: it’s best to click on the drawing to make it bigger, so it can be viewed a bit more better..]

Credit for Cuphead goes to Studio-MDHR

Credit for Bendy Series goes to Joey Drew Studios Inc.

Credit for Yandere Simulator goes to YandereDev

Credit for Undertale &  Deltarune goes to Toby Fox

Credit for Hazbin Hotel & Helluva Boss goes to Vivienne "Vivziepop" Medrano  

Credit for Tenchi Muyo Series goes to Masaki Kajishima

Credit for Mass Effect Series goes to BioWare

Credit for Fallout Series goes to Bethesda Softworks

Credit for Ben 10: Omniverse goes to Man Of Action

Credit for Transformers goes to Hasbro & Takara

Credit for Transformers Animated goes to Sam Register & Matt Youngberg

Credit for Vandread goes to Takeshi Mori & Gonzo

Credit for Dragon Quest V goes to Square Enix

Credit for Lego Ninjago goes to The Lego Group

Credit for Ninjago TV Series goes to Michael Hegner

Credit for The Owl House goes to Dana Terrace

Credit for FNAF Series goes to Scott Cawthon

Credit for FNAF Security Breach goes to Steel Wool Studios

Credit for Steven Universe Series goes to Rebecca Sugar

Credit for Gravity Falls goes to Alex Hirsch

Credit for Star Vs The Forces Of Evil goes to Daron Nefcy

Credit for Invader Zim goes to Jhonen Vasquez

Credit for The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy goes to Maxwell Atoms

Credit for Codename: Kids Next Door goes to Tom Warburton

Credit for Villainous goes to Alan Ituriel

Credit for Wander Over Yonder goes to Craig McCracken

Credit for Teen Titans Go! goes to DC & Cartoon Network

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at first this was going to be a crossover with Blitzwing, Spinel, Pink-Pearl and Padaparacha...

but then I decided to add more to it, and added some other cartoon and video game characters into it.

also when playing Fallout 4, I really like to use the baseball bat to fight with, so that is why Nora from the Fallout 4 game, is holding a bat and seems to be keeping a eye out for danger...and yeah even if it isn’t canon, in this drawing, Husk has a little crush on Nora...

also Husk has a Cabbit on his head, well the hat he is wearing, and the Cabbit is Ryo-Ohki...

the little robot that is floating above Sundrop & Moondrop’s heads, is Pyoro from Vandread.

in The Cuphead Show, Cuphead & Mugman are twin brothers...

so if those two twins in the show, would that mean they are twin brothers in the canon of the game world of Cuphead...?

Raven from Teen Titans Go, is holding a sign with her magic...

that shows that Teen Titans Go should stop at Season 8...

I hope I can watch Villainous in it’s place someday, I mean even if it is just wishful thinking and hope it does happen one day...

Sallie May x Collin is in this Crossover drawing as well, if they ever got married in a Fanon Timeline, that would make Moxxie and Collin....brother-in-laws.

Lancer is wearing a crown and is holding on to Husk’s wing, it be cute if he ended up calling Husk “Cat-Dad”, like him adopting Husk as his third father figure.

of course when I was first working on this drawing, I had to at some point go to sleep, but then once I did wake back up I went back to working on this drawing.

the geth in this drawing is Legion, and Tali is a much better character once she accepts the geth, and maybe when she finally realizes that the quarians aren’t victims, since they started the mess first, and they were the ones who just assume that the geth would attack first, even if some quarians did try to help the geth and got k*lled for it....

but some of the quarians who fully blame the geth for being driven from their home world, are just being a bunch of shisno.

I wonder what a crossover ship between Caboose from Red Vs Blue and Legion from Mass Effect would be like...?

maybe it be more platonic, and Caboose would view Legion as his best friend, and if Tali ever talked bad about Legion, it could have Caboose tell her off by saying “now Miss Tali, I will have to ask you to stop being a Mean Lady to my best friend Legion....you are being very hurtful, nobody likes a shisno.”

I know there are some fans who 100% love Tali, I just don’t agree with her view on how the geth are the ones who are the “bad guys” when it was some of the quarians who started it in the first place.

I still think the Ralsei that appears in Chapter 2, and might of switched places with the real one when King was about to hurt Kris but was stop by Susie.

both Ralsei are different heights, the original has smaller horns and smaller feet than the one that is in the party in Chapter 2.

it’s my theory and fan headcanon that the Ralsei that went with Kris to the Card Kingdom, is not only trapped in the Card Kingdom but was replaced by the Other-Ralsei, who locked both the Door that takes Kris and their party out of Castle Town to Card Kingdom, and even locked it’s light world counterpart that is in the unused classroom, making sure Susie and Kris wont end up back in the Card Kingdom and find out the Ralsei they befriended is still trapped there.

don’t know if that theory will turn out to be true and fully canon, but if it turns out it isn’t, it can always be used in the fanon.

oh and the Other-Ralsei is using the Green Soul to keep the True-Ralsei trap in a green energy box.

now I’m going to go eat some pizza and watch some Transformers Animated, before I go back to checking out some more fan art on here. 

[dream-moky]

「▒⃟✿•˙┆ Spinel Bunny 🐰」

Hace mucho que no la dibujaba 🐴💗✨

En efecto, en el fandom de SU también tenía un chingo de AUs que no desarrollaba xd

Esta Spinel después de irse con las diamantes encontró una "cosa" y por algunos eventos término en otra dimensión, con Nora (la versión fem de Steven)

Y tiene traje de conejito pq a Nora le gustan los conejitos 🥰✨

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A partir de ahora usare tumblr solo para el fandom de Steven Universe, ya que de vez en cuando quiero dibujar a Spinel. En twitter seguiré subiendo únicamente Countryhumans.

[nickmartinofficial]

I created a total of 15 projects that take place within the Steven Universe canon timeline. I made each and every one of them as a means to hopefully tie up all the loose ends, and give you the ending you wish you all had.

The Creator - Set 20,000 years before the events of Steven Universe. It's about the Creator of the Diamonds and their true purpose before the planet gets destroyed.

Diamond Days of Our Lives - Set 20,000 years before the events of Steven Universe. It's about the Diamonds' dynamics they’ve developed with one another, and the empire's construction.

The War - Set 6,000 years before the events of Steven Universe. It's about the full story of the Gem War from Pink Diamond's perspective.

Lion - Set in the 19th century. It's about Lion's origin and how he got resurrected by Pink Diamond/Rose Quartz.

Rhodonite - Set in between Steven Universe: The Movie and Steven Universe Future. It's about Rhodonite’s origin and her relationship with Morganite.

Lars and The Off-Colors vs. Emerald - Set after Lars' Head. It's about Lars' adventures in Space with the Off-Colors and their journey to get home to Earth.

Super Watermelon Island - Set after Prickly Pair. It showcases Cactus Steven’s journey to Super Watermelon Island and a transformation he undergoes along the way.

Meet the Demayos - Set a couple of decades before the events of Steven Universe. It's about Greg’s relationship with his family and his quest to reconcile with them after "I Am My Monster."

Tales from Little Homeworld - A miniseries showcasing the Crystal gems and Jasper. Garnet becomes a mom, Pearl resolves her dispute with Greg, Amethyst visits the Rose Quartzes, Lapis comes to terms with her trauma, Peridot overcomes Pumpkin's death, Bismuth relives the era of her murderous ways, and Jasper finds something better to do with her life.

Concrete - The scrapped character the show once had befriends Topaz and trains her to become a crystal gem. Meanwhile, Bluebird Azurite forges an alliance to destroy Little Homeworld.

The Townies - This will be a miniseries showcasing the Townies and their journey in discovering their place in the world.

Steven Universe: New Beginings: This will follow Steven’s mental recovery before The Future, and his relationship with Connie afterwards.

Steven Universe: The Movie, 2: The biggest and darkest installment set 15 years after New Beginnings. Steven must make a hard decision when a sociopath seeks the extinction of all gems.

Your New Best Friend, Spinel!: Set after SU, The Movie, 2, Spinel must save the Diamonds from Pink Pearl and an uprising she forged along the way.

Nora Universe and The New Crystal Gems - Steven’s daughter must come to terms with her powerlessness when Connie and a vengeful candidate run a hotly-tested election.

[hinacu-arts]

not the best with names but if youre looking for suggestions but for your punnet square au (a very cool idea btw) here's some if you want. emerucury: ash, slate, fidda (so, it may not be the best practice but rwby does so why not but google says this word means sliver in arabic) or something related to a gem/mineral (according to some quick research these can come in different colors) like spinel, jasper, or cole (coming from colemanite).

for blacksun something like begonia, petunia, or poppy flower related (im more so thinking of the yellow variants of these flowers). theres also jet. i tried to think of a name maybe more related to sun but i couldn't think of anything thing, maybe luna i think thatd be cute.

for winter/marrow child maybe ruddy? for rosegarden olive, i just think its really cute. for something more masculine something like copper or auburn (okay i know theres a team auburn already but i think its fine). for nora/oscar...maybe aidan, kai (both relating to fire), faro, helen, or ellen (those are related to light)

i didnt think of any allusions or anything like that.

I LOVE THESE NAMES

Back when i made this "au" 2 years ago i had one list of color related names and i ran out thats why not everyone is named (and why i hate half the names lol) SO THANK YOU for giving me a plethora of new names

Im liking Ash for emercury

Luna is ADORABLE for a blacksun child. I made the result a boy but i might go change that now... i dont know yet they seem like a couple that only has boys to me

Ruddy YES!!!! I wanted a R name for him but all i could think of was Rusty and i didnt want that name

I was actually thinking about Olive for rosegarden!

Ohhhh i like Aidan or Kai for the Nora/Oscar baby

[blueau-niverse]

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[woowoos-island]

All My Islanders!

Amanda (that’s me!)

Amelia-Rose/Amy (Sonic the Hedgehog)

AngelDust/Angel (Hazbin Hotel)

Antoine/Toine (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Augustus/Gus (The Owl House)

Black Hat (Villainous)

Blake (Murder Drones; OC)

Blaze (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Blitzø (Helluva Boss)

Bomb-Omb (Mario)

Bunnie (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Caleb (The Owl House)

Carmella (Wreck-It Ralph; OC)

Cherri Bomb/Cherri (Hazbin Hotel)

Cosmo (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Damian (The Owl House; OC)

Darius (The Owl House)

Demencia (Villianous)

Dr. Flug/Flug (Villainous)

Eda/Owl Lady (The Owl House)

Edric (The Owl House)

Emira (The Owl House)

Evelyn/Evie (The Owl House; sort of OC?)

Fiddleford/Fidds (Gravity Falls)

Gideon (Gravity Falls)

Hailey (Hailey’s On It)

Harley (Epithet Erased; OC)

Hiro (Big Hero 6)

Hunter (The Owl House)

Indus (Epithet Erased)

Iris (Murder Drones; OC)

Isabélla/Honey Lemon (Big Hero 6)

J/JC (Murder Drones)

Jasper (Steven Universe)

Jess/GoGo (Big Hero 6)

Jill (Gravity Falls; OC)

Karmi (Big Hero 6)

Lapis (Steven Universe)

Liam (Epithet Erased; OC)

Lilith (The Owl House)

Lizzy (Murder Drones)

Luz (The Owl House)

Mabel (Gravity Falls)

Maine (Murder Drones; OC)

Maira (Gravity Falls; OC)

Manic (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Dipper (Gravity Falls)

Mera (Epithet Erased)

Miles/Tails (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Millie (Helluva Boss)

Molly/Bear Trap (Epithet Erased)

Molly (The Ghost and Molly McGee)

Momakase (Big Hero 6: The Series)

Moxxie (Helluva Boss)

Nora (Steven Universe; OC)

Ollie (The Ghost and Molly McGee)

Pacifica (Gravity Falls)

Percy (Epithet Erased)

Peridot/Peri (Steven Universe)

Phillip/Belos (The Owl House)

Poudretteite/P (Steven Universe; OC)

Raine/Rainestorm (The Owl House)

Ramsey (Epithet Erased)

Reagan (Inside Job)

Ron/Staedtler (Inside Job)

 Ruby (Steven Universe)

Sally (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Sapphire (Steven Universe)

Scott (Hailey’s On It)

Scourge (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Setsuko (Big Hero 6; OC)

Sonic (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Spinel (Steven Universe)

Stanford/Ford (Gravity Falls)

Stolas (Helluva Boss)

Shadow (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Sylvie (Epithet Erased)

Tadashi (Big Hero 6)

Tessa (YOUNG Tessa; Murder Drones)

Thad (Murder Drones)

Uzi/ZiZi (Murder Drones)

Vanel (Wreck-It Ralph; OC)

Vanella (Wreck-It Ralph; OC)

Wendy (Gravity Falls)

Willow (The Owl House)

Zack (The Owl House; OC)

[uselesstaroth]

I guess this is happening. This is what reading a really good fancomic does to you

Steven Universe au. It's called Darkworld.

The gist is "What if the Crystal Gems weren't the first rebellion?"

Long ago, perhaps even before Pink Diamond's birth, there was a rebellion. Like the one that came after, it was scrubbed clean from Homeworld's history.

This was a bit harder, given that this rebellion, with the combination of rigging the warp network and a very powerful gem at their disposal, stole half the planet away, in a mitosis-like procedure. The immediate resource crisis that came from it was the hardest to hide.

It was an interstellar fight, allegiances bouncing back and forth, until both sides couldn't take the losses from fighting anymore, and it stopped.

To this day, the gems of Darkworld hop their stolen planet from system to system, hiding away from the Diamonds' light.

This is my oldest au. Ever. Never seen the light of day until now.

It started as a "far in the future" au, but now it's this.

I got a lot of things to say about it, it's very detailed. I could talk about

Nova, the fusion leader of this rebellion

Black Diamond, the controversial figure that replaced Nova (they're mother and daughter)

The first naturally born gem in eons, Kyanite, also known as Nora (on purpose)

The planet wide restoration efforts to undo the damage caused by the Diamond Authority, that allowed Nora to be born

The story of a Spinel that is no longer used for fun, instead relegated solely to interrogating rebels, nicknamed The Spider

Black Diamond's ship and living quarters, which is a giant sword to go with the Diamond Mech

Nora's caretakers, a Peridot and Rhodonite.

Not sure if I'll write a fic going through it bit by bit, but maybe. It's what I've finally been doing with other stuff.

[tiffanys-aus-and-headcanons]

I've been thinking about ROSEQUARTZ and RAZORQUEST again, and there's one particular note about them that I want to touch on - the character of Rose. The title character of ROSEQUARTZ "haunts the narrative", so to say. The story initially tricks you into associating your mother with your pacifist options; doing violence is going against what she explicitly wanted, the Crystal Gems commend you for acting like Rose when you find diplomatic solutions to your problems, and Homeworld gems likewise lament Rose's persuasive abilities. Rose represents the wholesome route and Bismuth, when she's eventually introduced, represents the cynical one.

But of course things turn out to be more complicated than that, as you get more hints about the backstory and dig into them deeper, across the game's routes. Rose's ideals were essentially a facade invented by a pathological liar and manipulator who was all things to all people. She luxuriated in the privileges available to her as Pink Diamond, and continued to exploit Pearl's subservient nature despite a pretense of freeing her. She may have actually cared about the Earth on some level (or it may have just been a random whim), but she did terrible things to everyone around her ("starting a fake war that kills countless real people" level terrible things) over, essentially, repressed family trauma, and it's hard to say that anyone knew the real her. She imprisoned Bismuth for thousands of years not because Bismuth was violent but because she had gotten too close to noticing the contradictions in her story.

The harder you look at her creation of Steven (the player character's canonical name per the game files), the less it looks like an act of love and the more it looks like a few thousand years of depression followed by an elaborate suicide. It's not exactly a reliable source of information, but at the end of the genocide route, a distorted vision of Rose (or at least her gem, or Nora, or Pink Steven, depending on which fanwank analysis you're reading) tells you as much; moreover, it tells you that she wouldn't care that you decided to simply wipe out Earth and Homeworld alike. The whole world was only a piece of disposable entertainment for her; she'd tried hard to find more in it of interest but gave up a long time ago.

And who can forget Spinel's words, buried in an obscure corner of the true pacifist route's ending:

Maybe... The truth is... Rose wasn't really the greatest person. While, [Steven]... You're the type of friend I wish I always had.

Generous readings of Rose's character suggest that the events of the true pacifist route were her plan all along, and that she deliberately created a successor to herself to act as a messianic figure and succeed where she failed in peacefully ending Homeworld's colonial empire. A popular and reasonably well-supported fan theory, NarraNora, suggests that all of the narration in the game is actually coming from the fragment of Rose Quartz remaining in Steven's gem, and that we can therefore analyze her character through the lens of Toby Fox's whimsical incidental writing. However, though these are sophisticated reads, they are certainly minority views in the fandom. As complicated as Rose's legacy is in-story, the game makes it very easy for fans to walk away from it hating her. The fandom stewed in this for years, building up a demonized image of Rose Quartz, after the release of ROSEQUARTZ.

(insert fanmade fight with Rose Quartz set to Megalo Strike Back here)

Then, out of nowhere, the first chapter of RAZORQUEST drops on Halloween in 2018. The character creator's got spooky vibes, it suggests you name your female character Rose, people are on edge, like, holy shit, what are we in for, what does this mean, is this a new game or what. And then the game just drops you into your apartment and you can quickly start piecing together from environmental details and context cues that you're in a setting that operates on very different rules, but is nonetheless an AU of ROSEQUARTZ - most notably, a human version of Rose is now your late grandmother, a demon-summoning witch who everyone already views with the same contempt that the fandom had developed for ROSEQUARTZ's Rose.

(Other "AU moments" later on include human versions of other assorted gems as background members of the Thorburn, Behaim, and Duchamp families, versions of Lars and Sadie operating a Tim Hortons in Jacob's Bell, and a version of Kevin as a cult leader the player character has a vague traumatic backstory with.)

Rose Diane Thorburn Senior is, for basically all intents and purposes, the same character as Rose Quartz, just with her posthumous character arc playing backwards. With RQ, we see her best side first, and then we pull back nightmarish layer after nightmarish layer and feel betrayed. With RDTS, we come in feeling betrayed already. Everyone already knows she's a toxic drama black hole who constructed an artificial conflict to set her family at each other's throats. She's sitting on an old mansion in a state of disrepair that's bringing down the value of the whole town, and she's doing her best to make sure it never gets sold, apparently out of sheer stubbornness and spite - a clear analogue for RQ's attachment to the Earth as seen from Homeworld's perspective. We aren't afraid that we'll be unable to fill RDTS's shoes; we're afraid that she's already fucked everything up for everyone.

It's only over time that we learn more about her and hints start to trickle in as to why she did what she did. We get a much closer look at her abusive childhood and how it affected her than we ever did for RQ; that was all left more implicit for her. We learn about the depths of the Thorburn family's magical debt (built up over numerous generations), and about the dangers posed to the world if the collectors were to come knocking. We find that it would be a fairly straightforward good for the Thorburn family to self-destruct in an organized and protracted fashion, and RDTS's actions come to make sense in this light.

It just really sucks that her plan for doing so involved doing... All That Shit to her grandson, the player character. You're fucked up bad. You've been magically carved into two incomplete people, one of them made in Rose's own image, so you could better serve as a guided missile to obliterate her family's legacy in her absence. That this plan will inevitably destroy you is really besides the point.

She is still the same character.

i do have to admit you have made me actively mad that i don't get to live in the universe where i get to read toby fox's pact that shit would be tight as hell

At the start of ROSEQUARTZ, you're asked to provide a name for the protagonist as a boy and a name for the protagonist as a girl. This ultimately amounts to a red herring; late in the game, you find out that Rose and Greg had both names in mind before they knew the protagonist's sex.

RAZORQUEST starts with a similar character creation screen, but, to put it mildly, the boy-name-and-girl-name setup is not a red herring this time.

[growing-gems]

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multi-muse kink blog based around Steven Universe characters! All muses 18+

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Kinks

feel free to ask about anything not on the list. Open to try anything

yes - large/huge assets, general expansion (breast/ass/dick/balls/belly p much anything), muscle, chubby, size difference, smothering, lactation, sweat, clothes entrapment, futa.

okay - vore/feedism, fat (in context of kink)

no - scat/piss, gas, feet, incest, pedophilia

Muses

feel free to suggest any we forgot/neglect (all in no particular order)

Gems - Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl, Ruby, Sapphire, Peridot, Lapis, Jasper, Bismuth, Spinel, Rhodonite, Padparadscha, Rutiles, Aquamarine, Blue Diamond, Yellow Diamond, White Diamond, Pink Diamond, Rose Quartz, Sardonyx, Sugalite, Sunstone, Smokey Quartz, Rainbow 1 & 2, Malachite, Holly Blue Agate, Snowflake Obsidian, Little Larimar,

Gem [extras] - Lapis Duo (Curls & Freckles), Rose Trio (Hippie, Shy, & Superfan), Ruby Squad (Doc, Navy, Leggy, Army, & Eyeball), Bluebird Azurite, Spodumene, Bixbite, Watermelon Tourmaline, Cherry Quartz, Zebra Jasper, Lace Amethyst, Blue Lace Agate, Crazy Lace Agate, Angel Aura Quartz, Biggs Jasper, Ocean Jasper

Humans - Steven Universe, Nora Universe, Connie Maheswaren, Priyanka Maheswaren, Vidalia, J-10

all muses have an exaggerated body shape based on mun's headcanons, but can always work off of anything! Just make sure to specify if need be. And we welcome asks for descriptions!