#Though I think I like just Maheswaran more because of the 'King of the Universe' thing

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It couldn't be too bad if I indulge myself to love her.

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It's a distant future diamond connverse AU boiiiiiis

We're calling this as an AU because I'm 1000% sure this ain't happening in canon.

So, this takes place pleeeenty of years into the future, and follows the theory that the pink Steven will reappear as an independent entity once Steven dies without passing down his gem. (Although, I'm not actually partial with this theory. I have a different theory regarding that and this is just the product of an imagination of a connverse trash that entertained the idea.)

(Warning though, I’m not great at explaining stories but I tried, ok.)

So, setting takes many years in the future.

A year after Steven Maheswaran's* death, his gem revived itself, taking the likeness of his 25 year old human form, but pink and stoic to near emotionless. (Basically like the first time we saw him.) After some reflection he concluded that Steven's story has ended with his death, and declared that he is a different person; A new person who desired other ambitions. He soon left Earth to find his place in space. Although he seemed to have lost most of his empathy along with his human half, he valued the life he had prior so he brought a few souvenirs on his departure; trinkets, weapons, Connie's ashes, etc.

Maybe call it fate, because not long after this event, an intergalactic war broke out and Homeworld needed him to step in as a leader.

(Yes there is war in this story, ladies. --War. War never changes.-- )

--Not sure who the enemy is here though. Maybe a different species of aliens that wanted to stake claim on their part of the galaxy? Or a different colony of gems, with their own Diamond matriarchs, and they're much more advanced because they never had the Pink Diamond drama which catalyzed a series of stagnation and degradation of gem efficiency? Yeah. Maybe we'll be going with the latter. ---

The war had kept going for so many years, many gems had been shattered, the Sun and it's Solar System was eventually destroyed, friends and allies sacrificed their lives, and the only diamond left (on our side at least) was the pink Steven; now called (the new) Pink Diamond. His empire was losing the fight and their fate looked bleak. Suggestions were thrown here and there until a plan was agreed: They need to lay low for a while to replenish their own army --a stronger one than what they currently had. And in order to make these level of gems, they must revert back to the traditional way of producing them. They haven't done this since Era three when they had discovered different ways to create Gems, but the old way instantly made more physically stronger soldiers and they badly needed the leverage.

However this is just step two of the plan. To make progress faster, they need at least one more diamond. So they made a new Diamond.

---I don't know how to make them sentient Diamonds, man. I'm just assuming it's not easy, and they need, like, a very special star or something like that. If this gets debunked, I'm just going to say this is an alternate way.---

With Pink managing over their ridiculously costly and admittingly very risky project, they found a special bright star and said, yepp this is the one. And drained it and hollowed it's planets, I guess.

Maybe there's some ulterior motive behind Pink enthusiastically approving this course of action out of all the suggestions presented on the table. His confidants were having a suspicious feeling upon learning that he insisted they mainly use Connie's cremated ashes to make the gem itself, (Aside from the realization of actually having used 'enthusiastically' to describe him.) moreso when it was revealed that in doing so will not create a new person other than what the ashes used to be.

--- As Connie was Steven's lover/wife, (You know what I'm implying here.) her biological construct had gradually changed, altering every part of her to the bones. Now, Gems have gemstones as their core being, yeah? (duh) Everything they physically and mentally are are in their gem. But as a human being, the only hard mineral Connie has in her body is her bones. So, like, her bones basically dual-stored the information her brain and DNA has because her bones partially acted like the equivalent of a gem. But nobody knew of this until recently. ----

According to him, he wanted to make sure he can get along with the new diamond, and based on his memories as Steven, he was sure a very familiar character like Connie Maheswaran would do just fine. ( Also, Connie has BAMF DNA. We need that passed down if we're fighting in an intergalactic war. Just sayin'. )

So, yeah, they made a new diamond by bringing Connie Maheswaran back from the dead.

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Although Connie, renamed 'Bluebell Diamond', retained the character traits she had in her past life, her memories seemed lost. It was an uncertainty how much 'info' she has intact, and there was a possibility that memories were left out. But Pink is relieved in the meantime. He's falling in love with her and he's afraid that if her memories were kept, she won't like how different he is now to the man she loved and married.

(spoiler alert: Of course she eventually gains her memories back! And a lot of things are overwhelming. I mean, one day you are a working wife of a domestic home, then the next you're instantly a queen of an empire that you had to get through to a losing war, among other things.)

More about their relationship happens, drama stuff I guess. You bet your kidneys it affects the whole in a way. How, i dunnoh yet! Why have I created this setting???? I did dig my own grave?

I can already feel the plotholes dancing on the tip of my nose that unfortunately I can't see. But crossing my fingers that I could get around it. But there might be a few alterations if I couldn't.

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ANyway. This was not what I had originally planned to post. It was suppose to be a 3-4 paneled comic that kind of made more sense as an intro to this AU. And I were to post it before the year end. But I effed up on my scheduling (turns out, it was a seriously horrendously stupid idea for me, a slow drawer, to attempt drawing full painted comic pages under four days during the rush of a holiday), and to make it worse I also effed up with the fourth page and I got stuck on it until now. Plus, I have pending commissions to focus on. I couldn't post the other pages without the last so I made this simpler one instead.