#oc: LaLi

[ehnrat]

Pleaaase tell me about your favorite GemOc/Sona. I haven't used mine in eons, but I miss the incredible designs and stories people used to put into theirs.

the way i exploded into a million hearts and sparkles and confetti

OKAY SO I GOT LIKE A LOT OF GEM OCS HERE SO I MIGHT RAMBLE

BUT THE MAIN ONES I LOVE AND HAVE THE MOST LORE FOR ARE: LaLi (Lapis Lazuli, she/her), Pearl (he/him), and Bear (Pink Beryl, they/he) !

Together, they are the Flower Gems—sworn protectors of preserving the Earth's beauty, flora, and fauna.

Putting this under a read more bc i typed a lot <:3c

Starting with my dear LaLi, she was the first gem oc (used to be gemsona) i made back in 2014 !! Here's her most up-to-date visual vs her first one owo

Lapis Lazuli's are my fav gemstones (thanks hamtaro) and i made her before SU Lapis was announced/revealed. LaLi is a friendly gem who loves sparring, human culture, photography, playing the piano, and meeting new beings. She can manipulate both water and sand, but she mainly prefers fighting with her Khopesh sword weapon. She taught herself how to fight by watching some soldier gems during her terraforming days.

She grew a bond with Pearl when she was assigned to aid his superior, Petalite, and wanted to get to know him more. During the time of the rebellion, Petalite abandoned Pearl when their ship was attacked, causing LaLi to whisk Pearl away to Earth away from the danger. There, she and Pearl began to grow closer and find themselves in their new world. They even had their first fusion (Prehnite) on Earth !

She started out pretty silent and observant, but she soon blossomed into an outgoing type who wants to fight for her friends (and fight in general, she loves to fight). She's still very much observant tho, making sure their world is free from dangers and her buddies are doing okay, becoming the de facto leader of the Flower Gems.

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Next up, we have my second gem oc (also used to be gemsona) Pearl ! I created Pearl before there were any lore or information that there were other Pearls as well as Pearl being my birthstone and another favorite gemstone of mine :3

I haven't made a new visual for him, but here's his sort of up-to-date visual vs his first one

At first, Pearl's lore was that he was a Homeworld Gem that had a past with LaLi and came down to Earth to retrieve her. He was sort of an antagonist to her. Now, as explained above, he was saved by LaLi and lived life with her on Earth to protect it's life. He was a self-proclaimed Fire Flower Knight.

Pearl is a somewhat snooty and arrogant gem who likes to keep up appearances and make sure everything is in proper check if LaLi is off doing her own thing. He can manipulate fire/heat and has a Glaive weapon. He's pretty hard to read and doesn't like to hang out with other as much as LaLi does, but he does like spending time with her, playing the violin, and sparring. Once you get to know him, he's pretty soft and kind and deathly afraid of rabbits. He's usually in charge of doing retcons and keeping maps and charts of places they've been.

Overall, Pearl is a pretty loyal gem who grew to be his own being and not allow to be controlled or shaped to fit anyone that didn't allow him to just be himself.

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Lastly of the trio, we have Bear ! They also lack an updated ref, but here's their most up-to-date visual vs their first one !

Bear's lore is that they were once a scholar gem on Homeworld, tasked with other Beryls to keep track of Gem History and Culture. His rank was pretty high and respected and he played his part and didn't care much for other gems nor the rebellion. However, in some of his notes on Earth where he jotted down it's beauty, the other beryls interpreted as Bear becoming rogue and planned to have him interrogated. Around the same time, he encountered another former high ranking gem, now turned "defect" by the name of Dentritic Agate (Dendé). Long story short, Dendé attacked Bear for being to nosey in his business and the two sort of have a history of not liking each other. They did end up crossing paths on Earth later on.

Bear ended up on Earth escaping his interrogation where they knew they were going to either get shattered or bubbled forever. Because of this, they were labeled a "traitor" and had a bounty on their head. He ended up getting wrapped up in the Gem War and poofed on the battle field, however, his gem managed to get buried underground for years. Eventually, he managed to reform by tapping into his latent earth manipulation, resurfacing to a new world.

With no one to turn to, Bear isolated themselves from other beings, trusting no one, but found comfort and solace with the Earth and animals around him. They ended up taking up forms of animals he befriended, especially a family of bears he was "adopted" into. He soon encountered humans, but kept his distance. However, these humans were destroying the forest he resided in, so he took on multiple forms of animals to drive them away, soon becoming an urban legend of a Shapeshifting Forest Protector.

i know i do want to work on his backstory more, but essentially he did end up getting close to a human after saving them and the human pestering them to be friends. Bear watched was there in the human's life watching them grow and have a family until one day their village was attacked and burned to the ground. The human ultimately got caught in cross fire and subsequently died in Bear's presence. Wanting to protect the place this human cared so much about, Bear shapeshifted into a multitudes of beasts and laid waste to the pillagers, but indirectly destroyed what little the village had left.

The remnant of people, including the human's family that survived, connected that Bear was that one myth of the forest, took it as a bad omen, and tried to have him killed. He ended up fleeing and never wanted to get close to humans again. Years later, he was founded by LaLi who was so ecstatic to see another gem and wanted him to join her small gem group of two. At first, Bear was annoyed, but LaLi's continuous pestering reminded him of his late human.

Begrudgingly, he joined her and found home with LaLi and Pearl. He was left alone to his own devices and mainly either stayed in his room or tended the gardens around their base. He tolerated the two and even saw them as family, SOMEWHAT, but he doesn't show it. He does care about them in his own, indirect way, and eventually made it his goal to become stronger to keep those he holds dear safe.

Oh also, they can manipulate Earth and their weapons are Dual Tonfas nwn they love playing their flute and tending flowers

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AND THAT'S THE FLOWER GEMS !!! I tried to only get down their main points but man do i have a lot to say that i left out LMAOOO I used to run an ask blog for them years ago, but it's dead <:3c I still keep it around for memory sake <3

Man.... i got so many doodles and AUs and lore for these gems AND the others i haven't mentioned ARGHARGHARGH OTL

[ameetoe]

i finally have a name for this oc: lali!! short for citlali 💫

and i gave her a friend! who doesn’t have a name yet lol

[crabbypalsart]

Here are some doodles I been cultivating these past few days of my OCs, and Home's friendly neighbors :•) Just wanted to play around with the idea of how they would all interact with each other X•D

[this-side-of-paradisee]

i got boerd~ head fun with this bonus under cut

[foxboyroadkill]

OC POST FINALLY

Do it, tag yourself. Also yes i do mean yugoslav dinar; miroslav is a historical oc

ILL MAKE A PART 2 PROBABLY

[laliwilde]

the pirates :)

[cepheusgalaxy]

Tell me what y'all would & wouldn't want in a narcissisric character

[cepheusart]

OK so i got a liiiiiiittle complicated with what I had planned so

[ID: Loose drawing of a boy with short black hair and full lips, smilling and looking to the side. /end ID.]

This is (supposed to be) Lali. His favorite color is pink, he is kind of a magic prodigium, he has NPD AND i didnt work too hard on his design before and now it's coming to bite me in the ass. He's a pretty boy.

[lea-heartscxiv]

''You will always be the most precious person to me, even though I will be nothing more to you than your best friend. ''

Signed your best friend! 🥕🏴‍☠️

Chris always reminds me of a guy from the 70's or 80's, but in a modern version. And Lali, she'll be the queen of pirates… she's already known as 'The Pink Queen'.

[wildestdreamcatcher]

This Is Me Trying: A Tali Rowen and Lennon Curtis story

TW: Tali's abusive parents, breakdowns, sobbing, insecurities, really angsty, (Lemme know if I missed anything

Tali never knew why her parents didn't love her. They never gave her support, love, care, or sometimes even shelter. No matter what she did, it could never be good enough. They always had to point out every flaw she had.

"I should be used to this." Tali thought. This happened every night: both of her parents screaming at her about how disgusting, ugly, and useless they thought she was, before leaving her alone to go on another trip without her. But no matter how often this happened, she'd never get used to this. She'd never get used to feelings of shame and worthlessness she felt every time she was alone with her parents.

She tried to keep her composure when she called Lennon, after the monsters she called her parents left. She couldn't stop sobbing, she felt sick to her stomach, her whole body throbbed from how hard her parents beat her. Tali didn't know who else to turn to and her boyfriend seemed like the best option.

When Lennon came, he felt like he couldn't get to Tali fast enough. Her tortured sobs echoed every wall of the large, empty house and almost every inch of her was covered in bruises. He swore that every piece of his heart shattered when sobbed out:

"Why am I never good enough for them, Lennon?! Am I always either too fat or too skinny, too dumb or too smart, too disgusting or too pretty, too quiet or too loud!! Nothing I ever do is ever fucking good enough for them!!" He could hear every bit of pain in her voice and it broke him inside.

"You're more than enough, Tali. You're the most intelligent, kindest, loveliest, coolest, funniest person I've ever met. And someday you're going to be the most loved and successful person in the world, while they're fucking alone and miserable and regretting every choice they've ever made!"

"I-I-I want to believe that, Lennon. I really do, but look at me. I look so weak right now: sobbing in the corner of the kitchen and covered in bruises. I think I'll be lucky if I make it to 20 seeing how they treat me." She let out a painful laugh as she tried to make herself feel better.

Lennon didn't know what to say. He just held her as she cried out all of her feelings. They stayed in a comfortable silence as he held her close to his chest. Tali almost felt comforted by his heartbeat, she felt like she wasn't as alone as she thought.

Maybe there was someone who loved her and cared about her. Maybe there was someone who thought she really was good enough.

A/N: Yes, the title was based on the Taylor Swift song.

@lyn-winston @80stacos @fromrussiawithlove-maddie @sadlonelyyogurt

[joiedecombat]

✨Shall we dance?✨3/?? | Ardbert + lali hop!

Gshade: Neneko x EC Vivid

[ehnrat]

that houseki no kuni post reminded me about this luster oc i had and the HnK au i did with my gems back then <3 (2017)

[crabbypalsart]

Dorky Devil Squad line-up with Laly! Actually been fiddling around with their designs recently, and felt like putting this here :•)

EDIT EDIT EDIT: The lineup has been updated with Bacon and Bits' re-designed outfits. Laly also got a couple of tweaks herself as well! Hope this doesn't break my post or anything X•D I'm not too good at organizing this type of stuff.

EDIT: Bonus Emi without his sunglasses, alone this time. Because Bacon and Bits' no hat/no helmet designs are in a post I reblogged. Emi L.

[laliwilde]

Captain Earthquake - Episode 8 : Falling into Sylvio’s House 🕳️

[cepheusgalaxy]

Zaire picrew dump!

Image descriptions: Two picrews of a white guy with long white hair and black eyes. In the first one he stares at the viewer with a determined expression and his hair is more wavy, and in the second, he wears a black shirt under a green and yellow jacket and his hair is very straight. His expression is also more neutral on the second one, and in both picrews his bangs are slightly different. /end ID.

These two turned out pretty differently, but they both are a bit right, I think. The first one is the most accurate to what I have in mind, but now I'm considering to give him a beauty mark below his left eye.

Image descriptions: Two picrews of Zaire, the boy with white hair and black eyes, this time with both picrews having his hair a little more blond. In the first one his hair makes graceful waves and he wears a lavender turtleneck, and in the second his hair is a bit messier and he wears a black turtleneck with a heart cut on his chest. In the second picrew there is also a speech bubble with a heart pointing to him, despiste his expression being serious. His bangs are asymetrical and more similar this time. /end ID.

I love his hair, but you can see I'm not rrally sure to what his bangs look like lol

Image description: A more anime style picrew of Zaire, with completely different bangs and straight hair. He wears a turtleneck crop top eith 3/4 sleeves and his expression in serious. The background in this one is bright purple. /end ID.

Now, this last one. This and the first are what I think are the most accurate of them all.

Zaire's assigned color (I do this to some ocs—Lucy's, for example, is sky blue, and Kaiki's ia canary yellow) is pale lavender, so in these picrees for the background I went with purple + gray since the exact color wasn't there LMAO

Zaire is one if my oldest ocs, but I don't really have a design for him yet, so I figured using and abusing picrews would be my way to go!

A consistent thing in almost all of these that I decided halfway through are these sidebangs, you can see. I'm keeping them.

Links: picrew 1, picrew 2, picrew 3, picrew 4, picrew 5

Bonuses under the cut—tw for blood

During and after his homecountry was invaded

Image descriptions: Two picrews of Zaire. In the first one, he wears a black shirt covered in blood and watches in horror something on front of him. The background is a strong red and his right eye is bloodshot. In the second picrew, he wears a black turtleneck under a dark jacket and is crying. There is a band-aid on his nose and little arrows pointing to him. /end ID.

Poor guy :( *makes him go through worse*

Bonus links: picrew 6 and picrew 7

[cepheusart]

Isn't he bweautiful

[ID: A Clip Studio Paint canvas zoomed in the simply drawn face of a black boy. He has a very simple frown drawn on him. /end ID.]