I’m gonna go on a tangent about my Continued War SU AU, with worldbuilding and all that. I’ve been thinking about this AU for a month now, and I haven’t given too much information about it, so:
This entire story centers around the rebellion, and about the question of what if Homeworld never stopped fighting back. That’s the jist of it, but the depths of what I have planned isn’t going to be just about the themes of “War is bad.”
Everyone knows that war is bad.
Rather, this AU is about the fact that war is damaging, and it affects everyone.
I keep mentioning little facts here and there about the world that Steven grows up in in this AU. I mentioned in the first post that Steven lives on farmland, and that he rides in horse drawn carriages on dirt roads. I made a joke in an ask about Steven obtaining a gun about how it was possible since guns were made in the 1300′s (100% joking - he isn’t gonna get an actual gun at any point). That wasn’t me saying that this world takes place in the past.
In fact, far from it! This story takes place in the present, around the same time that Season 1 would begin!
This story doesn’t take place in the past, it’s just that this world has been so technologically hindered that their science is...what we would consider to be 1800′s era tech. Trains are relatively new, and reserved for people with money. The first cars aren’t even a thing in most people’s minds. Roads are still dirt paved, and farming is mostly done by horses or by the farmer’s hand.
This is a world where continued gem interference, though not completely direct, Messed Shit Up on an international level. Humans mostly don’t even know about the war, but they know what Gems are. They know that some come from space, and that those who do can and will destroy their livelihoods, or worse.
Steven wouldn’t live near the ocean in this AU, due to that fact alone. Living alongside the ocean is a trap if you just so happen to catch the eyes of the wrong kind of Gems. Boats aren’t fast enough, and can’t carry a lot of people. You have one escape route - land - and that could easily be blocked if you aren’t fast enough. Living beside the ocean could be extremely dangerous...and that’s why Steven Universe lives in the middle of nowhere, inland.
Beach City does not exist. It would never even get the chance to.
Even the world most likely doesn’t look at all like what canon’s map look likes...
This is a story I really want to delve into deeply. Not only does it change the canon story and world completely, but Rose and her connections end up different as well. Steven has to go on a waaay longer journey before he ever reaches the end. Characters have to go through more intense development when faced with the devastations of fighting innumerable enemies and supposed allies...
Pearl, Garnet, Amethyst, Greg, BISMUTH, Lapis, Peridot, etc...
Each of them are similar to their canon counterparts, but are also so DIFFERENT in dramatic ways. I can’t wait to write out each of their parts for this story when I get around to them. This story is such a big passion project now, and I really want you all to read it someday!
