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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 courtesy of my good friend Lofty! (Click at your own risk!)
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 they call or visit each other.
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 mitigate his downward spiral into becoming a monster.
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? Guess I'll be with Steven until the heat death of the universe!
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! 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
Disclaimer: I haven't watched the timeskip, and apparently it's kinda bad? I think I'll keep the rose-tinted glasses on thank you very much.
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 eyes.
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.
#finnceline#dipifica#pinecest#monstarco#monstar#starco#lapiven#stevinel#nora's arc#yumalia#rayllum#silverwolf#finn the human#marceline the vampire queen#dipper pines#mabel pines#pacific northwest#star butterfly#marco dias#lapis lazuli#steven universe#spinel#nora valkyrie#jaune arc#amalia sheran sharm#yugo the eliatrope#tdp rayla#tdp callum#silver the hedgehog#whisper the wolf
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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
As always if you want to see pages early, check out my patreon here: www.patreon.com/DyoComics -
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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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🍓❤️Nora and Spinel!⭐🏖️
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#fireopal-tash#steven universe#steven universe fanart#fanart#su fanart#digital fanart#su#spinel#su spinel#digital drawing#nora universe#spinel fanart#steven x spinel#stevinel#spiven#nora x spinel#art#arte#artwork#dibujo#doodle#illustration#cartoon network#pride month#summer vibes#strawberry#cute
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Pink Jasper made by me^^! (MintyMoe is my Reddit account)
#jasper#steven universe#lapis lazuli#peridot#garnet#pearl steven universe#amethyst#jasper steven universe#spinel#blue diamond#yellow#yellow diamond#white diamond#pink diamond#my art#digital art#blog post#my art <3#artists on tumblr#nora universe#fanart
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every animated fictional character that makes up my entire personality
#spinel#steven universe#jeff fischer#american dad#duncan total drama#total drama#discord#mlp friendship is magic#nora fries#captain cold#harley quinn animated series#ruffnut and tuffnut#how to train your dragon#httyd#dreamworks animation#peter b parker#into the spider verse#across the spiderverse#daffy duck#the looney tunes show#other barry#barry dylan#archer#blitzo#helluva boss#vizziepop
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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
#steven universe#steven unvierse au#nora universe#spinel#spinel steven universe#male spinel#genderbent spinel#genderswap spinel#steven universe genderswap#steven universe genderbent#this is a cry for help <3333#screenshot redraw#scene redraw
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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)
#personal#kinning#kin#actually bpd#actually ocd#actually cptsd#ptsd#trauma bonding#tony stark has a heart#lestat de lioncourt#asuka langley soryu#asuka shikinami#quentin compson#the sound and the fury#spinel#nora valkyrie#rwby#fox mulder#hannibal#will graham#x files#naruto
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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..
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A Nora x Spinel drawing I made
(Note: I attempted to draw Nora's hair similar to Rose Quartz' hair)
#stevinel#steven x spinel#spineven#spinel x steven#spiven#stevnel#stevenel#stevenxspinel#speven#spinelxsteven#Nora x Spinel#Spinel x Nora
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Extended Alternate Twiniverse!
Many years ago now I was a tiny au artist I had the idea "Hey, what if my AU but OTHER AUs?" It started with Bad Prediction Nora, since that was a pretty logical step! And obviously I had to do the White Diamond Nora using Earl instead of CGPearl, I mean, how could I not? Duh, right?
I always loved those designs, I don't know why. But they stuck with me. And some years later it happened again. I don't know why but I saw the Walk the Line comic and its sad old wet paper bag of a Steven and I just had to give him a Nora, too. And so Faerie of the Monster Line was created and the Alternate Twiniverse was officially born. It had gone from just a couple fun sketches to something recognisable. And the important thing to know about Walk the Line is... there's more lines. I was invested at this point... and with the backing of a very rabid fan named Nova I kept going.
So then came the idea... I already had Druid's Nora. I was halfway there. Next we needed Sven's Nora, named Noma Moss Universe. A daughter of not a Pearl, but a Spinel! And let me be frank, her design was fire. They all were. But none so much as the fifth entry into the Alternate Twiniverse...
Fate. A fusion of Faerie and Noma named Nova Universe after that megafan because I wouldn't have gotten there without him and it just made sense. I LOVE Fate's design. I can't tell you how much I love her design. She has some sort of control/cosmic entwinement with the mind butterflies in SU. Nugget and I both imagined her being able to move in a butterfly cloud like in Mindful Education where a bunch of the butterflies turn into one BIG butterfly. She can also use them like the canon Gem communicators.
So then there were five. Five Noras- well, three Noras, a Noma, and a Nova. And I adore them, I love them so much, they are so special to me. But something was missing...
A final piece...
So this piece is introducing the latest entry into the Extended Alternate Twiniverse: The Nora from Nova's own Astra AU. In this unfathomably far future she exists as an entity within a necklace that this Steven wears. Is she alive? Can she communicate? Is the spirit within it truly Nora or only a small piece of her? Only Astra knows.
I extend eternal gratitude to @nugatorysheep @thechekhov @jigokuhana & @wilted3sunflowers and @novantinuum for bringing their amazing worlds to our fandom and for inspiring me to grow Twiniverse every day.
Beneath the cut I'll include the reference sheets from the ones that have them. Astra's doesn't because... that's all there is of her, and Noma has 2 (ignore Star, Moss is the correct name). Enjoy!
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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
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Read the comic from the start _
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#steven universe#steven universe au#nora universe#blue diamond#blue nora#steven universe fanart#blue pearl#eyeball#Silver Pearl#spinel#jasper#greg universe#mom swap au
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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)
#tomodachi life#sonic the hedgehog#hazbin hotel#the owl house#murder drones#helluva boss#mario bros#wreck it ralph#gravity falls#big hero 6#epithet erased#steven universe#the ghost and molly mcgee#villainous#inside job#hailey’s on it
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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.
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Oh! Smth we've imagined but haven't really stated.
Continuity as far as like. Time and Space. lil things yknow. Don't matter.
Rose Quartz, Pink Diamond (if we find a niche or smth for her) Steven, and Nora can all coexist
Even past and present Spinel, of note ig
Same with fusions. Sardonyx, Sugalite, Sunstone, Ruby, and Sapphire can all chat and coexist with Garnet bc its fun and funny. Goes with other fusions and such!
more the merrier!
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Nora & Spinel! ⭐❤️
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