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Love love love the steven universe au the designs are so beautiful and the assigned hierarchy and roles are sooo well thought of !! Would really love to hear more about amber and andelusite first meeting and their obv eventual future fusion ^^ (also moissanite that are too soft to shatter garnet is uughhh loveee that part (a filthy rinkasa shipper))

THANK U ANONN 🥺🥺🫶

i honestly havent gotten much further than what i already managed to cram into the one post orz

all i know is they definitely start out on "opposing" sides: benitoite and andelusite try to keep other gems away from their planet and away from the organics and moissanite is Certain the garnet shes looking for is there...

im trying to get amber involved w the other bees primarily, and only after that with andelusite... its looking more and more like a very long hide and seek/wild goose chase on the planet until they actually properly interact but oh well _(:3/

can u believe i havent even Started to seriously think abt the fusions yet..... its rough out here . would Love to hear any suggestions tho 👀

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ultimately though the entire reason i started thinking abt the au in the first place is predictably . madakoha

its tough out here

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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

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yeah so it turns out we get to keep him. yeah enjoy kohaku-chan

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dreamt of a scene like this...

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🩷🌸🍡🐝🧩💜

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i miss j..........

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takin the stray u caught to rinne han to see whatre we gonna do with him

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ok this was fun until i realized im gonna need a bg . then i kinda gave up

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had a dream where grimmjow had a streak of black in his hair thats supposed to reveal his (human?) hair was black and he dyed it blue....

all i could think abt was Omg my headcanon was right

(^ old sketches from like ~5yrs ago. ive BEEN on this train for so long)

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i resumed posting on twitter As Usual as well bc no one apparently Actually Left but anyways my few days of leisure end today so heres one more kohak in case i forget how to draw by the time i pick up the pen again

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the designs for those new merch thingies got me a Bit obsessed .

mercenary hired to get rid of some thieves that have been a thorn in someones side.... but one of them turns out to be a trained assassin.... etc etc.....

will maybe color the last one eventually and also expand on that train of thought but in the meantime ✨✨✨

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isha the combo breaker 🙌

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kinda liked that tablet doodle so i spent a bit more time on it