#a few ideas i got from various oomfies on twitter... i went around consulting Everyone bc i dont remember the lore that well

[turtleramen]

okay . well. lets see

(explaining myself under the cut)

amber (kohaku): for ambers, i had an image of an organic gem like a pearl, so theyre meant to have a similar role - a personalized gem meant to belong to someone, except their role is more of a bodyguard rather than a simple servant/assistant. bc their nature is to risk their lives to physically protect their gem, the loyalty tends to be higher towards the gem they belong to rather than to a diamond. not very liked or valued in gem society bc of this, besides the moissanites. our amber was made relatively recently. shes very loyal to her moissanite, but is also very dissatisfied with not having her own freedom.

andelusite (madara): a jack-of-all-trades type of gem, meant to be able to accomplish anything thats needed for a new expedition all on her own, to lower the cost of losing a big number of gems from sending them into the unknown. hiararchy-wise has an agate-type of position, if needed shes supposed to take charge of lower gems like rubies, quartzes... meant to be benitoites right hand in said expeditions. decided to follow benitoite in her decision to lie to the diamonds and stay back to help a planet with organic life forms. considers herself "benitoite's", out of her own free will rather than as a hierarchal thing.

moissanite (tsukasa): a gem that has a very high status, almost near that of a diamond. shes a bit bratty and hot headed, which is why she hates interacting with the diamonds and other gems that revere them. loves her amber a lot bc shes been waiting to get "her own" for a long time. tends to treat amber as someone that should be protected, rather than letting her protect her, as is her duty. prone to tantrums and running off to abandoned planets upon disagreeing with the other moissanites on gem stuff.

benitoite (kanata): one of a few explorer gems - meant to lead new expeditions. the first time she runs into organic life, she becomes captivated and has a hard time following the diamonds orders which would lead to the destruction of these planets. ultimately decided to stage an accident where her ship was destroyed, and escape the diamonds watchful eye to help nurture life on a faraway organic planet.

garnet (rinne): a tactician meant to lead quartz armies, but has a hard time having to stand above them and command them. prefers to hang out with the quartzes in her free time, and avoids missions where theres likely to be casualties. usually slacks off because she doesnt agree with the purpose/image the diamonds have in mind for gems, and is constantly searching for new thrills and meetings with new life forms. gets into trouble with the diamonds a lot.

blue quartz (niki): born "defective", needs limb enhancers but on only one side of her body. she was a part of a scout party sent in to survey dangerous territory, and came out "half corrupted", while the other quartzes were shattered. since it was not the diamonds who did it but an unknown power, shes not "corrupted" in the usual way -- shes mostly coherent, loses herself from time to time but its possible to bring her back. when she returned from the scout, she was first accepted back bc the "corruption" was subtle/new enough to not be detected, but as time goes by it becomes more and more apparent.

kyanite (?): actually an off-color indicolite, pretending to be a kyanite (kaname). the kyanite shes pretending to be got badly cracked, and indicolite is filling her shoes until she finds a way to heal her, so that she has a place to return to without being replaced with a different kyanite. in general kyanites are meant to serve a similar role to peridots - theyre meant to be "brains" of an operation, not the muscle. the kyanite shes covering for was in fact doing a pretty shitty job, so at first incidolite was "using her" - helping her do her job properly, while in turn being hidden from persecution. as time went on she got attached to the clearly inexperienced yet endearing kyanite, so once she was cracked indicolite decided to risk everything for her

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all in all the setting for this is the aquatic organic planet benitoite decided to make her new home. chiakis there in some sort of humanoid yet aquatic form. im not sure abt Mermaids so i probably wont go with that but like Something like that...

moissanite and her amber find themselves there bc she got the idea into her head to track down the problematic garnet that went missing, and shatter her as she was supposed to be. ultimately though as amber guesses, moissanite is too soft to actually go through with a mission like that, despite being the one to volunteer while trying to prove herself.

the garnet in question ran off thanks to a wild card blue quartz that was also supposed to be shattered, but due to her unusual powers they managed to get away before anyone even knew what happened. i also have an idea of hiiro as a ruby but once again its me doing whatever i want bc the design i have in mind is nothing like canon _(:'3/

kyanite joins the party later a la peridot from the original series...

thats kind of the Gist of everything but im not entirely sure how to tie it all up. ofc i am thinking abt the fusions as well but i got nothing yet

jesus thats a lot of text . heres the initial mdkh designs (that i scrapped in favor of a more simplistic style) as a congrats for getting to here