Gems 'n Stuff

Momswap AU and other things

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(MOMSWAP) Gen 1 Peridot was a rising star among kindergarteners. She was promoted to Prime Kindergartener of the Earth colony, heading the Alpha Kindergarten. Her boss, Yellow Diamond, wanted to make her Grand Kindergartener, the highest position in her field. Then the rebellion began. She resisted attempts by the Diamonds to speed up production, but she remained loyal. Amber Topaz, the rebel leader, captured her and showed her what experiments were happening in the other kindergartens. Peridot defected soon after.

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Our MomSwap Peridot, who is a Gen 1 gem, and former kindergartener extraordinaire. She has had many careers over the thousands of years since the gem war, living and working with humans. Though her number one job now is being a mom to Steven.

Shown here is her summer and winter outfits.

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Super Crackpot Theories

Gem’s bodies function in much the same way that Star Trek holograms do, being light that can interact with its surroundings, either from force fields (Star Trek) or some kind of false mass (Gems). The Doctor from Voyager (in later seasons) is even more like a Gem, being a corporeal hologram with a mobile emitter. So herein lies point 1: Gems could be some sort of AI, their gems being their emitter/CPU.

But how could an AI such as this come to exist? At this point, the answer is probably so ancient, it does not even matter. I posit that they were the artificial client/servant AI of an even more ancient race, and when that race died off, the Gems eventually forgot their origins. That could explain why they have a caste-like system, those were their original purposes.

Corruption, then, simply becomes the result of file errors within the AI. It maintains the ability to emit a massed hologram, but the underlying structure and personality has become screwed up. The big geode that Greg taped up? That could have been a data virus bomb, which added corrupt data to every gem on earth that wasn’t shielded. If Steven or the other gems can create some sort of anti-virus, they could uncorrupt gems.

Steven is going to find a way to uncorrupt Centipeedle (my bets are on it being Jade), and Lapis. “But wait a minute, Lapis isn’t corrupt!” NOT YET! You see, every gem-related character has been the opposite of their outside appearance. Garnet seems cold and independent, but she is the most loving to Steven, and is literally a co-dependence. Pearl seems wise and eloquent, but has shown to blurt things out and has made dumb decisions. Amethyst is confidant, but inside has self-esteem issues. Lapis was shown to be kind (to Steven) and scared, but WHOOO BOY does she have rage issues. The stress of holding together Malachite will mess her up, and Jasper too. I see Jasper realizing her follies, she’s a Quartz, taken down by subordinate due to her own plans, and healed by her enemy. Lapis may get corrupted from the stress (her corrupt form is a cthulhu-like entity), but Steven will save her.

Also Lapis is a superweapon commissioned by Blue Diamond. She’d going to want her weapon back.

This has been crackpot theories with Mr. ofCheese

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Mad scientist, zombie sewn-mouth kitty cat, and Lapis as Kiki.

A little late to the halloween party. 

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“You know, Peridot, you’re a lot like a mint chocolate chip cookie.”

“Excuse me?”

“Yeah, like, you’re cool and green like the mint. A little bitter like the chocolate. You’re kind of tough on the outside but super mushy on the inside.”

“I don’t eat cookies, Steven.”

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When life smacks you hard in the face.

Sir ofCheese and I have been silent for .. quite some time. So a little update is in order.

We are still here and drawing, I promise. We lost internet for a really long time and we finally got it up and running again a week ago or so and started to catch up with SU and all our other crap. But.. I hadn’t really felt like posting anything. A sudden death in my family really took me down.

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Homeworld Ruby.

Something quick Mr. ofCheese wanted me to color, so forgive terrible fist-on-hip. No one wants a visit with Advisor Sapphire.

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Part of Peridot’s room. 

Bonus points if you can correctly name all the crap back there.

Wanted to show her without her hoodie and do a slight design tweak. She still has her hoodie and oddly colored scarf. I think I’ll let her keep the welder’s goggles.

She’s going to fix the shit out of something.

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STEVEN IS BEST MAGICAL GIRL <3

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The broom incident.

I’ve seen art here and there of Gems and other characters riding on brooms. and I thought to myself “Man. I bet they’d actually be terrible at it.” More shitty mouse drawn gifs!

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“Peridot’s Escape” from Friend Ship. We got to break out all of the Gems’ instruments and orchestrate them together for this moment!

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Tell us what you want more of

Sir ofCheese and I have been drawing whatever comes to mind lately and I’ve been doing badly drawn gifs. But what kinds of things would you guys like to see from us and the AU?

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I really enjoy doing these shitty mouse-drawn gifs that I’ve been making. I haven’t actually animated anything since high school and that was

*cough*

a really long time ago.

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PeriRAVE

Tech obsessed momswap AU Peridot would hang out with Sour Cream a lot. Like it’s her job or something.  

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Speculation

Bit of a rambler here.

So why are the Homeworld gems coming back to Earth? Restart the Kindergarten(s)? Possibly. I’d imagine that the Homeworld has a vast array of planets across the galaxy, and for all we know, outside of it (you don’t need big generational ships when your race is immortal). All of these planets could be hosting kindergartens. So why come to Earth?

Thanks to active geological activity, Earth has a lot of minerals. A LOT. Naturally, this would make for a lot of Gem formation potential. I’m sure they have other planets like Earth, but my guess is that they’ve depleted the best ones and Earth is next. But why would they need so many Gems? With their level of technology, they’d decimate any race that stands in their way. A huge army is probably not needed when you can kill ecosystems just through reproduction.

My theory is that there is a bigger bad. A threat that the Gems desperately need a huge army for. Note that there is a non-Gem, non-organic presence in the show right now: the bismuth crystal inside Lion. Bismuth is a metal that can form crystals. Maybe there are sentient metals, and Rose Quartz encountered a scout of theirs, bubbled it, and hid it inside Lion. After all, she wanted to try to uncorrupt the Gems in the Bubble Room, if a non Gem was in there, it would just raise questions, and if it got unbubbled because of those questions, then it could get away and be like “I AM REPORTING THIS”.

Now these sentient metals, who could they be led by, and how much of a threat do they pose? I would assume either the strongest or most valuable metals would be leaders. Titanium or tungsten for the former, Gold, platinum for the latter. And instead of killing planets, like the Gems (though mining a planet of all of the metals would be a comparable method), they kill stars. Stellar fusion makes metals up to iron, heavier metals are made by supernovae. 

Also, the metals could alloy. Gold + silver = Electrum, Copper + tin = Bronze, or my favorite: Tungsten + Titanium = Tungstanium.

For an added dose of horror: Gems cannot regenerate if the are set in something. What do we, as humans, set gemstones in most of the time? METAL. Victorious Metal warriors could set Gems into their own bodies as trophies of war.

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New episodes return next week 9/10 at 5:30pm e/p

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Yaaaaay

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I need to get Sir ofCheese on here to do more theories and crap about the AU. So people know why things are the way they are. For instance, the question of “Why does Jasper look so weird? That’s not my big buff cheeto puff!”

I know right? I just don’t want to ruin anything.