#yea i took quite a bit of creative liberty here...quite a lot-

[veilleur-de-nuit]

technoblade...but make him howl from howl's moving castle?

MMMMMMMM- i'm really struggling trying to draw another thing, and i've held onto this one for a while-

*blergh*

y e much creative liberty was taken here, sorry not sorry :]

i tried to make a chill technoblade, y'know chillin' in the field without all the ~blood, murder an' anarchy~

.....and i accidentally made an odd mash-up between technoblade and howl from howl's moving castle ｜−・;）

nahhhhhhh it's fine (holy shit i spent so long on the grass and flowers y'all don't understand-)

techno-corset-poggg ┗(｀・ω・´)┛

as always, reblogs are greatly appreciated~

[a-goddess-called-infinity]

Chapter 2: Legend

Synopsis: Steven learns some gym mythology, and then the Crystal Gems catch wind of the fight in Wakanda. 

DISCLAIMER: I have not seen the entire SU series unlike the MCU and may not be familiar with every nuance. As such, I apologize for mistakes or if characters appear OOC. This is an AU, however, so I took certain creative liberties. I do appreciate it if you take the time to comment to help me make this fic better. The period in which this happens in the SU timeline is ambiguous and for simplicity, I’m focusing on the main four plus Peridot and Lapis.

Words: 1,416 

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Earlier that day, in Beach City~

“Too bad your test isn’t on gem history, I could really help you study for that,” Steven sighed as he slouched back on the couch. His best friend Connie had come over to hang out on the condition that she study a bit for her history test while there. 

“I dunno Steven, you tend to not listen to Pearl’s history lessons,” Connie retorted playfully. Steven shrugged, “I don’t do it on purpose. I just get… Distracted,” he replied.

Connie giggled, “Yeah, it’s hard not to with the way she rambles.”

There was a moment of silence as Connie continued to look through her notes. Steven was quickly getting bored, but he didn’t let it show. He decides to try to revive the conversation.

“Some of the Gems are pretty old. They could probably tell a lot about history.”

“Mhm,” Connie replied half-heartedly.

“You think they’re old enough to confirm stuff like mythology?” Steven pondered out loud. Connie looked up from her notes and thought, “That’d be really cool! I’d ask all about greek myth,” She hummed. 

“I’d ask about Vikings!” Steven declared.

“Oh, oh, even better,” Steven added on with great conviction, “the Big Bang.”

“You mean, how the universe was made?”

“Yeah!... Well, they probably aren’t that old,” Steven laughed. Amythest was made here on Earth. The others were presumably made on Homeworld.

“Don’t the gems have their own mythology?” Connie asked. Steven shrugged, “I think so. They have shrines and temples and cool magic stuff, but I’ve never asked,” he admitted. Upon saying this he realizes he could simply ask them. It’d hopefully turn into storytime.

As if on cue, they turn to the sound of the temple door opening and see Pearl and Garnet walking out. Steven commits to his idea and hops off the couch, bounding towards them with a twinkle in his eye. 

"Oh, hello Steven—"

"Guys, how was the universe made?" He blurts out the first question on his mind, interrupting Pearl. 

"Oh Steven," Pearl says, waving her hand in that way she does when there are trivial questions, "There's simply no scientific way to trace back the origin of the universe. To do so would be to trace back the origin of matter itself! We—"

Steven shook his head insistently as she started to ramble, "No, no, like, how do you believe the universe was made?"

"Eheh, what?" Pearl said incredulously. Now, she was a history guru and there were plenty of legends depicting the universe's birth, but that's all it was; legend. Fable. Fairytale. Not facts, equations, or science. Even though she wasn't as skeptical as, say, Peridot, it wasn't even plausible with their gem "magic", or so she believed. 

"The legend of Infinity," Garnet says simply as she adjusts her glasses. Steven gasps dramatically, that was quite possibly one of the coolest titles he's heard. 

"I-It’s just a silly fairy tale," Pearl dismisses slightly flustered, "it's quite far fetched, the prospects of Goddesses and all that—"

"Whoa, no way!" Connie piped up as she abandoned her homework and joined Steven's side, "Tell us!"

"Garnet," Pearl quietly groaned.

"Tell us, tell us, tell us," the two teens chanted. 

"Ok, I'll tell you," Garnet says with a small smile. Steven and Connie gasp and take a seat on the floor. Connie has her knees up and her elbows resting on them as her hands support her head. Steven is laid back with his hands on the ground and his legs splayed out in front of him. They eagerly wait as Garnet prepares her tale. She clears her throat.

"Before the universe, before the concept of time itself, there was nothing yet everything all at once. The threads and energies of the void wove and collided into an entity. She was a Goddess called Infinity,” she went on. Steven and Connie were completely entranced by her story. Even Pearl enjoyed it, though she didn’t let it show right away. 

“Over a span that was simultaneously billions of years and milliseconds, She decided to create the universe, and in doing to She split herself into six parts.” Garnet lifted her hands, snapping her fingers with each word for emphasis.

Snap! “Space.”

Snap! “Time.”

Snap! “Power.”

Snap! “Reality.”

Snap! “Mind.”

Snap! “Soul.”

“Whoa…” The teens cooed in awe.

“Each part became a gem that launched across the newly birthed universe, granting it the ingredients necessary for life. It’s said that Homeworld was created at the exact spot She split, making all of gem-kind direct descendants of Her.”

As Garnet finished, the wheels in Connie’s head were churning, “Wait, do her gems still exist? Somewhere in the universe?” She gasps after asking her question, “Do they each have their own forms?”

“To the latter question, yes, theoretically they do,” Pearl butt in, “But for as long as gems and other lifeforms have existed, they’ve never been found. If they exist,” she added. 

“That means they can fuse right? And reform Infinity?” Steven blurted out, ignoring Pearl’s skepticism. He was gushing over the fact that God was a giant woman. Oh, what he’d give to meet her! “It’s said if Infinity would ever reform, she’d look over her child, the universe, and judge her,” Garnet said solemnly.

“The universe is a woman too?!”

“Steven no,” Pearl interjected again, “Her point is that with the state the universe is in, she’d probably, well—”

“Boom,” Garnet finished, mimicking a very under exaggerated explosion. Steven’s and Connie’s faces fell.

“Well, I think she’d be the nicest person to exist,” Steven said dreamily, trying to conjure an image of her in his imagination. “She… has galaxies in her hair! Long, fluffy hair, and… Six arms with each gem! Where ever she walks, life springs up…”

Connie joined in, “... And her voice is so heavenly people who hear it can’t comprehend it and die from its magnificence!”

“Yea— wait,” Steven said, having to double-take what she said.

“She has eyes all over her body, and is on fire!” Connie was thinking of something closer to arch angles. Steven laughed nervously.

Before Pearl could ramble about how ridiculous and mildly insulting their renditions of the gem goddess were, Peridot yells frantically from across the room, "Guys, come look at this!” The four of them head over. Amytest emerges from another part of the house to see what was going on as well.

Peridot is sat in front of the TV while scrolling madly on her tablet while Lapis Lazuli is entranced on the TV. It was the news.

“I was reading some crazy articles and flipped to the news and it’s real!” Peridot explained, not looking up from her tablet. Everyone watched the TV intensely.

“According to officials, a massive alien fleet has entered our atmosphere. Reports say that the fleet is similar to the one that attacked New York a few years ago. The fleet seems to be landing somewhere in Africa, although the report is unofficial.”

As the news anchor talked, there were diagrams of the various ships entering Earth’s atmosphere with time stamps. When he mentioned New York, images of the alien army that attacked were shown and compared to the very limited pictures of the current described situation. 

“We can help this time!” Steven declared. During the aforementioned Battle of New York, Steven and the Crystal Gems were busy dealing with a different threat. Other events such as Sokovia and Germany were largely unknown by them and the world until after the fact. 

“This is hardly a gem issue,” Pearl argued. It was a weak excuse, but the gems had an unspoken agreement to keep their heads down. Obviously, they were well known in Beach City, but the “city” itself was small and inconspicuous. Anything that happened there was written off as just “the quirks of the town”. Plus there was the Sokvia Accords, and whether or not they would somehow have to comply with them if they were to make themselves known to the world and their governments was a mystery they didn’t want to solve. After all, there were extraterrestrials with impressive powers.

“Guys, an army of aliens is attacking us for probably the fifth time. Aren’t we Earth’s protectors?” Connie counters.

“Yeah, let’s go kick some alien butt! They don’t stand a chance against us!” Amythest agreed.

Glances were exchanged before Garnet nodded, “The closest warp is… The caverns,” she declared. There was no arguing with Garnet and her future-vision. 

With that, everyone headed to the warp. 

[captainshazamerica]

Yeah it's the same anon 💜 dude my apologies for the amount of crap I've spewed in your ask box but in my defense no one I know gives a shit about batfam or gotham rogues or Alfred (I've gushed here about alfreds fabulousness too opps) anndd I partly blame you for me falling back into the titans trap cuz s1 was meh I forgot I even watched s2 😅 then I seen some titans stuff on your blog and boom my brain latched onto it and now here I am experiencing maternal fear for my son jason 😢you are 1000% right this jason is PERFECTION as robin like actual perfection I dunno why but I thought this robin was like 16? So I was thinkin how tf is 16/17 yo supposed to be redhood!? It work in comics/cartoon but live action 16 y/o redhood seems meh I kinda want the lazarus pit just I freakin want TALIA but I don't think that's gonna happen I dunno

Tbh (this may be biased) but I think the Gotham tv show is literally the best dc comics adaptation of anything ever! it is superior to all thier shows movies animations and the arrowverse at least in my books lol

Tumblr is my only form of 'social media' and I don't keep up with updates or anything about shows cuz I like to pretend the fiction is real and I don't want reality wrecking that for me like hahahaa so I had no clue about timmy or babs but I'm so happy

DUDE YES this is literally the only time I can see bruce ever killing the joker on screen aww please I want it so bad I mean they probably won't but they should cuz this is the only capacity in which batman can kill the joker live action like if down the line somewhere on another show/movie bruce killed joker he prob wouldn't be dead dead or they'd bring him back some way so the kill wouldn't even matter but old bruce killing the joker because he's finally had enough he's old now, jasons death finished him and he's not gonna be batman anymore it's a nice end for batman and the joker, it's the only way we'll ever get this end cuz like you said they'll never have the balls to permanently kill joker any other way in live action everything is aligning perfectly for this to happen so dang dc just freakin let it happen c'mon

Yo whose your first fav rogue? Is it riddler? I feel like mines riddler haven't really thought much about whose my fav gotham rogue but I'd probably say riddler, I prefer the central city rogues but the Gotham rogues are just pure chaos and I'm living for that hahaa

I'd rather superheros/vigilantes/villians in live action not have relationship drama just put them in a relationship or dont like I came for the action and weird super shit not the ordinary relationship drama thankfully titans seem to be doing okay in this aspect I do quite like dickkory a lot but I mean in the supergirl show ughhh I was like I came here for the flying and the dope laser eyes I don't give a shit about her getting a boyfriend like seriously whyyy

My brain decides to jump about obsessing over characters like one week Kory is my wife next week detective grayson is my husband and I AM NIGHTWING then my brain is like no Barbara kean is wifey just basically fictionally I'm married to everyone 😅

Yikes this was so long sorry girl

Omg, pls don't apologize! I get so dang excited whenever i get an ask, yours always make my day, you don't even know! Like same about no one i know caring about dc/batfam! And talking to someone about it is so much better than yelling into the wind here on a text post that no one reads xD Don't stop sending your asks whenever you wanna dump your feels/talk about dc/batfam omg.

And Im so proud I got you into this Titans spiral xD My work here is done hahahaha. But yes, I feel like his looking so young for red hood over shadows how great his jason robin performance was! Love seeing him get that recognition! But yeah, the age is def off, like I cant remember how old they said he was in the show, maybe 16? but too young for red hood in live action form. Like its hard cause in reality 16 year olds and 19 year old boys typically don't look too different, for the most part, while comics you can get get away with it more. Huh, yeah, it doesn't seem like Talia is gonna happen, maybe just maybe a cameo or something? Cause we also weren't expecting joker but here we are(tho it almost looks like he wont be a big plot point/even see him much, it almost looks like it is just showing how brutal gotham is? But like its just the trailer and doesnt always give the full picture so who knows!)

Omg YES about Gotham! I 1000% agree! Im also biased cause its what got me into batman, again like exactly a year ago! It got me into the world like no other media of dc had before!(well, Shazam did, i guess tech thats the start of my interest in dc/first time i read the comics, but gotham is what really got me into this spiral). I hate how much hate it gets, like yeah its not perfect and they took creative liberties obviously, but i 100% agree that its the best adoption of DC yet! 100%! Its so nice to see the characters and rogues fleshed out more. I feel like it successfully did what Nolan tried to do in terms of making it dark and realistic, but in a way that was more accurate and true to the comics! I wish it wasn’t canceled so early and thus the last season had to be so rushed :(

thats smart, i typically dont look for spoilers and stuff anymore but I just got so hyper focused that I had to look at least what the stars were putting out on social media, but yeah, i use to get so caught up in all that that it took the fun out of seeing it live.

Oh my gosh, that would seriously be the PERFECT end to batman and joker story in this universe omg. Amen about all that! And like it would hopefully show Jason how much he cares? So maybe Bruce would kill him after red hood emerges? It will be interesting to see hat causes Jason to be so dang pissed in this version.

ahaha yes riddler is my fav! (my header gave it away didn’t it xD) I love most Riddlers but ESPECIALLY gotham riddler, Ed is like one of my fav character of all time. Oooh, I don’t know central city rogues all that well(well, way more than Metropolis rogues, I know so little about superman world), like I know some from the first 3 and a half seasons of the flash (I watched a couple years ago but got busy with school and couldn’t keep up and just never caught up/didnt have motivation to finish(plus i forgot so much id have to rewatch everything again), but I saw they finally just introduced Bart Allen, so I have have to randomly jump back in for a bit cause Bart is one of my favsss), and the ones in the cartoons and stuff

Ha! true, i dont mind it when its for character development or if I happen to be super into the ship(like Nygmakins in Gotham omg, I know they are super unpopular but they are like one of my OTPs omg), I feel like it has to be balanced right/not too much focus on the drama of the relationship over everything else. Like a minor subplot is good but don’t make it the focus of the show. And yeah , supergirl never appealed to me cause of that reason! i like drama and not JUST action (I like psychological drama, as long as there is comfort to follow xD) but yea i get what u mean by too much relationship focus . I think, for the most part, Gotham did that pretty well.

omg i love the disaster bi vibes you are giving off xD But omg I feel the jumping around thing so much ahaha. Like right now the 4 robins are constantly on rotation on who I’m obsessing over at the moment tbh xD

Omg mine responses are just as long, don’t apologize!!!! <333333333333333