#i can't think of what his moniker a la “aventurine of stratagems” would be either

[mikansei]

i'm still thinkin abt @havanillas' roleswap ratio... i want his stoneheart gem to be lapis lazuli:

matches his color scheme (and is gorgeous 💙)

represents truth and enlightenment but is spangled with pyrite (fool's gold), which is thematically delightful to me

cn lapis lazuli 青金石 qīngjīnshí (blue gold stone) echoes cn aventurine 砂金石 shājīnshí (sand gold stone), which is linguistically delightful to me

obviously if penacony happens in this au he couldn't twin his stone with jade's, and sapphires are translucent while lapis isn't... maybe instead of breaking his cornerstone the plot friction there is he'd have to alter it to be translucent & remove the pyrite veins? but if sapphire were in jade's role i can't see him agreeing to be personally involved in tampering with a cornerstone

(if he were amethyst instead he could twin a lot easier with sugilite, but i don't like amethyst as much lol)

maybe he could be lazurite, the blue component of lapis lazuli without the pyrite. i could see him wanting to excise the "fool's gold" from the stone representing truth

and as much as i want him to have a cool boss form mirroring aven's, i have a feeling his cornerstone ability would be less visual & more like jade's - instead of reading people's desires, his lets him be a human lie detector