#eswap

[ilexdiapason]

@wwwj1ncom did this beautiful commission art for me! the lovely ladies @pearlthebard, @gemofglimmergrove and @katherineofdawn <3

[jupesoupiter]

Happy Christmas @ilexdiapason !!! i was your gifter for fools sevrer secret santa (owahhh shockign you totally didn’t know that…) and ive draw you kthgempearl eswap :D hope you have a good hoskiday season and tfahnkyou for organzuing the secret santa!!

[khyann]

i'll send you scott of mezalea back though in case you had an idea for him!

no problem!

Scott of Mezalea

And Pix of Cogsmeade (gotta say, i love how he turned out <3)

[minceraftyuri]

Prettypretty please some esmp Katherine & esmp pearl.. they don't get talked about too much 💔💔 (your art is so pretty btw<3)

pearl working up some courage while kathrine is worried about her emo boyfriend acting weird

[charlieslimeciclereal]

outfit swap? yep. nothing else going on. pearl is just there so I can claim cozy too. no other reason.

@mcyt-yuri-week day 6: Outfit swap/cosy

reblogs are neat👍 (close up of dresses under cut)

i really like how the dresses turned out,, although there's some discontinuity in the proportions i couldn't figure out . i switched my main brush again in the middle of it bc i thought it would help but it instead just made it more confusing. 👍

[severevoiddragon]

Pearl the bard!

Yay more Pearl!! As requested by @ilexdiapason (not on an ask tho-)! I was gonna draw her like. Actually fretting the guitar but. No. It was too hard. So enjoy Pearl just kinda holding the guitar. Also I think I made her left handed looking at it half an hour later, bc that's the way I play guitar so it's natural to me- Oh well! Also tagging @pearlthebard bc it is fanart of that character-

[mosscloakenthusiast]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Empires SMP Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Katherine Elizabeth/Pearl | Pearlescentmoon, GeminiTay/Pearl | PearlescentMoon Characters: Pearl | PearlescentMoon, Scott Major | Smajor1995, Katherine Elizabeth (Video Blogging RPF), GeminiTay (Video Blogging RPF) Additional Tags: empires swap au, bard pearl | pearlescentmoon, scott of animalia, Mutual Pining, Relationship Advice, discussing very important things like crushes on women, And Honey Series: Part 2 of MCYT Yuri Week 2023 Summary:

“I just don’t think she likes me back” Pearl sighs, very dramatically, falling backwards onto her bed.

“Pearl. Pearl are we looking at the same person Pearl. What have you been doing all day? Harvesting honey and picking flowers not in a gay way?”

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MCYT Yuri Week day 7, in which Pearl asks her soulmate for relationship advice.

[liauditore]

i've been reading thru a lot of roleplay blogs recently :S

screenshots of the blogs moments themselves in context below. first one comes from @life-series-losers-blog cat scott is from @scott-of-animalia

[block-o-septy]

Rarepair Day

happy yuri week, have some eswap kathpearl showering together

@mcyt-yuri-week

[pearlthebard]

By the time they’re done clearing up the last of the disaster, the sun is almost up.

On the bright side, the beach looks almost back to normal. Scott’s always been a skilled builder; he tells Pearl that her terraforming abilities are second to none, too, and she has no choice but to believe him. Together they’ve managed to sweep the crater of their latest double-explosion back to being a mostly-intact cliff face and a slightly uneven sandy floor. If you hadn’t seen it before, you might be convinced that the Archipearlago had always looked this way.

They’ve talked, too. Scott is still a little unsteady on his feet from the sudden influx of a second, a third lifetime’s worth of memories, and so as he digs and shifts and replaces he keeps asking scattered questions. Pearl answers everything she can as patiently as she can. It’s not exactly comfortable, shuffling back through the worst six weeks of her life to explain what the thing about the snow was, or why she used to wake up every morning to a sharp shooting pain in her heart, and what exactly that has to do with the fiery-haired figure he’s never met before but who sits constant in both of their recollections like the souring aftertaste of a sweet drink... but it’s necessary.

(And besides, Pearl won’t back off from a little thing like reliving bad memories. She’s not so weak. She can stomach it, and so she does.)

So they’ve made the beach look good as new again, and they’ve covered the gaps in Scott’s still-raw memories, and as she kicks the last of the sand over a jutting spike of cobble she declares that enough to be getting on with.

Scott’s reluctant to leave, of course. This guilt that he’s become fixated on, the neverending well of remorse, has had him spontaneously apologising over and over again all night like he can’t stop himself from saying it whenever it pops back into his mind. Knowing everything he did and making sense of it must have made the compulsion even worse than before, because it feels like half the things he says are “sorry”. And he keeps looking back over at her, paws - hands - half-reaching like he wants something from her.

She figures it out before too long. These hugs aren’t exactly what she’d fantasised about at her lowest points in the old world, shivering and huddled up next to a half-starved wolfdog with a yellow collar, but they’re better than anything she could have hoped for back then. At least Scott actually wants her now.

He says he’s never going to abandon her like that again. That she deserves better, and that he’ll be here to give it to her. That (and he’s hesitant, here, but he says it anyway) he wants to be her best friend, properly this time.

Pearl would be a fool to not accept that offer.

(She’s probably a fool either way, but at least like this she’s a fool with someone’s arms around her.)

But he does need to sleep, and so does she, and so they part with bittersweet smiles in the end. Pearl doesn’t take her eyes off of Scott until he’s disappeared all the way round the side of the mountain.

Then she sits on the sand and she watches the rest of the sunrise.

The ocean is her only soundtrack. Its music is familiar, rhythmic and comforting - the same ebb and flow she heard each night before she left on her desperate attempt to shake off a man who only wanted closure. The same quiet shushing that lulled her to sleep more than once in the old world, cut off though they were from the wider expanse of the world. She’d like to play, for old times’ sake, to an audience of nothing but the fish and the kelp and the coral.

Her guitar’s in Gobland, though, and her bass and horn still tossed on the bed in that Chromian tavern room. She’ll need to fetch those sooner rather than later.

The dogs are in Gobland too, which is maybe a more urgent concern than that; Pearl doesn’t want to make Sausage do any more hard work than he has to looking after her pups. She’ll go get them first. As soon as she has a new house and a new bed - somewhere for them to settle.

Pearl stands up and goes to grab some of that extra cobblestone. Starter shack it is, then. Can’t be as ugly as Box.

The morning is bright and calm. The future feels clearer than ever.

Pearl is warm.

[apocalyptic-umbra]

The princess and their bard

Women? Women <3

Curse @septarianflame for dragging me into this fan base by my ankles (jk I’m so obsessed with this). I absolutely love the empires swap au and needed to draw some of my favorite ladies :)

The eswap blogs that these characters are from are @pearlthebard, @katherineofdawn, and @gemofglimmergrove

[ilexdiapason]

for day 6 of @mcyt-yuri-week valentines, an outfit swap based on @katherineofdawn and @gemofglimmergrove! the girlies <3

[peakdeer]

y'know what. i'm requesting your take on eswap flower husbands

I had a whole essay about how I thought this was about eswap s1 and how the idea of eswap flower husbands would be so so so funny before I went back and found out they’ve actually interacted. It’s still so so so funny but just in a different way now

Jimmy wasn’t sure what to think of the small cat—human, he meant—that often visited him. It wasn’t like Scott was a stranger, or even unwelcome—he was just… strange. He was strange in general—despite claiming to be a human, even Jimmy could see that he was obviously a cat, but that wasn’t what Jimmy meant. Scott was his friend—one of his only friends—and yet he didn’t seem to like him very much. Not that the feeling wasn’t mutual—Jimmy often found the cat difficult and annoying, always telling him to do this and do that and not paying him proper homage.

But he was one of Jimmy’s only friends, and he’d found he had a special fondness for the cat. He tried to meet Scott’s requests, even when he didn’t particularly want to, or when it involved being nice to people he’d rather not be nice to.

It was always a good day when the little guy came to visit, and it was nice to know someone outside of his… very not-dead empire. It was especially nice to know someone outside of his empire that didn’t hate him, and who he didn’t hate.

Sometimes, Jimmy wondered if Scott was the only other empire that he cared about.

Scott wasn’t the only other empire who cared about him—of course all the emperors admired their strong and powerful life god! Absolutely. Yes.

He lied to himself, sometimes. It made him feel better, and it didn’t cause any harm, so why not? At least he wasn’t trying to make other people feel better. That always ended badly.

Not with Scott, though. It didn’t exactly go well with Scott, but he liked to think he could make Scott feel at least a little bit better.

On lonely days, he wondered if he should visit Scott. Scott visited him when Scott felt lonely, so why couldn’t he visit Scott?

But, of course, he was too busy. He had to build up his kingdom, after all! …even if it seemed to fall apart the day after he repaired it. Even if everything always seemed to go wrong and he couldn’t keep plants alive and the crops he had managed to keep alive were unsafe to eat and the other empires were mad because he kept destroying things—

At least he had Norman to comfort him.

Jimmy wished Scott had visited him today. He would’ve loved to see the little cat. Maybe he could convince Scott to stay over sometime if he fixed one of the buildings…

Who was he kidding? He was never going to fix them. Jimmy the big, powerful god couldn’t do anything to fix the sad state of affairs in his empire, and he definitely couldn’t fix anyone else’s empire.

He felt bad for trying to help Gem. He’d really wanted it to work! He’d wanted to fix it for Gem; he’d wanted to make her happy; he’d wanted her to thank him and tell him he did a good job.

And, for a moment, he’d thought he had. He thought he’d fixed it.

Of course he hadn’t.

Well, it wasn’t like it mattered, anyway. It was just another person who hated him. That was nothing new.

It was so hard to deal with them. All these emperors that wanted him to be a certain way, do certain things, not do certain things… Scott wasn’t any better; he was the exact same. He was just more willing to forgive Jimmy. And Jimmy had at least had the fortune of not doing something big and stupid to make Scott hate him.

At least Scott was predictable. Scott didn’t change. He was always the same: quick to turn to violence, loud and brash, reckless, and willing to build up Jimmy’s ego if he needed it. That’s not what Scott would call it, though—he’d call it “building up his self-esteem” or something. That was Scott, such a silly guy.

Oh well. He was busy, anyway—he had to finish building up his empire right now. He’d see if he could find Scott later.

Or maybe he wouldn’t. It depended if he was in the mood to talk to Scott. Scott could often be annoying, and sometimes he just didn’t want to deal with him. If Scott said anything about the other empires, Jimmy would rather not talk to him. He wanted to be distracted, not reminded.

Scott found the local god totally exasperating. Sure, he was one of Scott’s good friends. Not like Shelby or Lizzie were, perhaps, but a good friend nonetheless.

That didn’t mean he wasn’t a total nightmare to deal with sometimes and made Scott want to tear out all of his beautiful fur.

He was just so difficult sometimes! He couldn’t seem to be nice to Sausage for the life of him, and he wasn’t much better with any of the other emperors! Plus, he’d heard about what happened with Gem, and he wanted to talk to Jimmy about it. It sounded like he’d killed most of Gem’s land—seriously! That was unacceptable! Couldn’t he go five days without a disaster?!

Urgh. It was giving Scott a headache. He almost wanted to just call it quits and never talk to Jimmy again.

He wouldn’t do that, though. Jimmy wasn’t all that bad, and he found him rather pleasant when he wasn’t doing stupid things and pissing off the other emperors.

Besides, he was pretty sure he was Jimmy’s only friend, and he’d feel really bad if he ditched Jimmy.

The god always made Scott feel bad for him—he couldn’t seem to keep his plants alive or his buildings orderly, and he was always tripping over his feet or breaking something. He was just so clumsy. No one else seemed to see what Scott saw in Jimmy, always seeing the destruction and superiority complex instead of the loneliness and sweetness Scott saw. Jimmy didn’t mean to be standoffish; that’s just how he talked.

Except when he was talking about his glory or majesty or what-have-you. That was probably one of Jimmy’s major flaws—due to being a god, he believed himself higher than they “puny mortals” and couldn’t seem to shake that mindset no matter how hard Scott tried to rid him of it. One day he’d manage it, though.

Now, don’t get Scott wrong, he believed Jimmy was a powerful god and he thought him rather grand. Just, he wasn’t that good, and just because he was a god didn’t mean he was better. Plus, you really don’t make friends that way.

Scott found himself often talking to Jimmy when he was lonely, or when he was confused about Pearl and wanted to talk about his feelings without judgement. Or, without very much judgement. At least Jimmy wouldn’t say anything if Scott asked him not to.

It wasn’t just that, though—he liked Jimmy, his funky little smiles and excited speech, the way he was happy to see Scott and would always stop what he was doing to say hello. Jimmy was the one friend he had who would always be there to talk when he wanted to, the one who never had any big important things to deal with. He could talk to Jimmy as long as he wanted, and then leave, and he wouldn’t be getting in the way of anything. Jimmy was easy to fit into his schedule along with the things he had to get done or people he needed to talk to.

It was good to have friends like that. It was good for him to have someone to balance out, someone to keep watch of and make sure he didn’t do anything too terrible. It was also an exercise in politeness—if Scott said anything too brash, Jimmy would get irritated and become impossible to deal with. If he worded it correctly, though, Jimmy usually listened. He just had to load his sentences up with a little flattery, a little friendliness, and Jimmy would nod and agree, no matter how reluctantly.

Usually. Other times Jimmy would just argue, or be loud, or just too stubborn to listen to Scott. It was annoying when he was like that. Scott would visit Jimmy more often if Jimmy wasn’t so frustrating at times.

Oh well. He’d stop by Jimmy’s to scold him later. He wasn’t in the mood to deal with the difficult, stuck-up god right now. What he really needed was some fish and someone to talk to—someone who wasn’t Jimmy, someone who he could talk to without anything being problematic or likely to end in an argument.

[slashmagpie]

Some EmpiresSwap art! (pssst followers go check out my new RP blog @pirateshelby)

[crimson-roots]

hello empiresswap folks!! ..may i request information on your brain guys perhaps? 👉👈

there's so much information and i don't know where to start, but i'd love to hear the most stupid explanations of their characters you can come up with, because i am. so intrigued.

[charlieslimeciclereal]

@mcyt-yuri-week day 5: rarepair

and eswap version for sillies :3

reblogs appreciated!!