I was playing a little bit from a Steven Universe roleplaying game, roleplayed as Centipeetle/Nephrite but got bored easily and hungry too. What I did was I slept on the bed and went AFK to get my evening brunch.
About two minutes later when I got back to my monitor (and with my food on the platter), my monitor presented me this...
Daww look at all of these cute Quartz sisters together reunited :)
Wait a sec...that Ame on the right. I think she’s called 8XJ, but lets call her J for short.
DAT CURL
DAT BEAUTIFUL LONELY ROSE CURL
DID THE SHOW JUST REPRESENT MY HAIR? A SINGLE ROSE CURL?
(In rare occasions I have two on each side)
ALL FOLKS WITH A SINGLE ROSE CURL UNITE WITH ME AND CELEBRATE THIS WONDERFUL EVENT WE JUST WITNESSED!
This is Pearl, she’s an era 2 gem who belongs to Amethyst, the subject of my next post. There’ll be lore under the Read More sign!
Context warning for cannon-typical depersonalisation, kidnapping, systematic murder system and other dystopian themes. Fun Homeworld things.
| Basic Information
Okay, so Pearl. Pearl is an era 2 gem, made after the gem war for a Spessartite Garnet as a reward for some great thing she did, probably conquering a planet with feisty organics on it or something, it’s not super important.
I’d say that Pearl doesn’t really know anything about the Crystal Gems at all. I don’t think she even knows that there was a war in the first place- Homeworld keeps what happened under tight wraps, and if you are a new gem you won’t really know about it unless an older gem tells you. And, of course, Pearls have no business knowing about such things in the first place.
| Background Information
You may or may not have noticed that Pearl’s gem has a few big nasty cracks in it! Oh no! Not entirely healthy for a gem to be having. So, the tea:
When Pearl was being incubated (since Pearls are organic- they are made in the Shell instead of in the ground. This is going into hc territory, but I don’t think Pearls made for gems who are not super high class present as flowery and nice as Diamond Pearls do- I think they’re a little more… mass produced? Like a string of Pearls is created, they’re taken out of the Shell by some gem (Peridots?) then nursed until ready to sell. Does that make sense?), the Peridot transporting her and a couple other Pearl gems to the nursery dropped them. See: top left corner of the image.
Most of the string shattered, but Pearl was fortunate, her gem fell on top of her now dead sisters. She still got a couple of cracks, though. Since Pearl was still so new- I mean she hadn’t even formed yet- once in the nursery the Peridot filled her cracks with some glue stuff so she wouldn’t fall apart.
However, now she’s been cracked and parts of her gem have been sloppily replaced by glue stuff. Not exactly ideal. She’s got some behavioral problems (which for Pearls is like- crying one singular time or showing anything remotely akin to uncomfortable) and some memory problems, which is pretty important for Pearls to have to like… do their job. As a result, she’s clumsy, forgetful, and often loses things in her gem if asked to store them.
She’s still Pearl-y though, very polite, obedient, loyal, good at dancing and singing, friendly albeit a bit talkative, so the Peridots thought it was probably okay. When Pearl was given to the high-class Spessartite Garnet she was made for, the Garnet had her for like a WEEK before crankily giving her back and demanding a new one.
The Peridots really didn’t know what to do with her. They COULD shatter her, but Pearls made for high-class gems are made with better quality materials, and it would be such a waste of a relatively okay Pearl. They could probably sell her to a lower class gem for a low price, but god knows what those low class barracks gems would do to her, and again, she’s made with good quality materials. They were so torn over it they actually consulted Yellow Diamond.
Yellow said ‘why are you even talking about this to me. Shatter her, send her to a harvesting plant. I don’t care’. So, in the harvesting plant she went.
| Meeting Amethyst
So she’s is in there, sitting on the conveyor and waiting for her demise. She’s feeling fine, it’s a shame that she had to go so fast, but she’s okay. Well, that’s until she feels something sharp jab into her back, so she releases her form and goes into her gem.
When Pearl reforms, she’s in an unfamiliar place, she’s sitting on a desk with a sheet over it and where the actual hell is she??? Hello??? She slips down and crawls under the desk where it’s darker, freaking out a bit because she’s just been kidnapped. She is so freaked out, actually, that she didn’t even notice the Amethyst quietly watching her in the corner of the workroom.
| Present-ish
Since the day she was kidnapped from the harvesting facility by Amethyst, Pearl’s been hanging around her. What other choice does she have, really? Pearls are objects on Homeworld, she can’t go out and live on her own or anything, so she’s kind of stuck with her.
Amethyst isn’t too bad to her personally, in fact Amethyst is quite nice to her, but Amethyst does some shady business. Amethyst is a police officer who also dabbles in the Homeworld equivalent of the black market. Amethyst has a weird infatuation with Pearls, and since again Pearls are objects on Homeworld, Amethyst likes to buy or borrow Pearls to experiment on? Which Pearl just has to deal with, no complaints, because she’s just a Pearl! No matter how awful it makes her feel on the inside to have to help with that.
As her and Amethyst’s story goes on, Pearl grows more comfortable in herself and works on her ability to have her own opinions and thoughts. It doesn’t end with her leaving Amethyst- again, there’s nowhere for her to go until era 3- but it does end in a more healthy relationship between the two.
This is Amethyst, she’s an era 2 gem a part of the Homeworld police system and also has interesting hobbies. There’ll be lore under the Read More sign!
Context warning for cannon-typical depersonalisation, kidnapping, systematic murder system and other dystopian themes. Fun Homeworld things.
| Basic Information
Hello Amethyst, we all say in unison. Amethyst is an era 2 gem, made after the gem war sometime. She was made on a planet that was actually pretty shit, not very good resources for gem making. All they could really produce was a few clutches of rubies and a clutch or two of amethysts. Hence why Amethyst is a little discoloured! She was one of the better ones.
As for the Crystal Gems, Amethyst doesn’t really know of them. I think as a rule Homeworld keeps the whole rebellion thing pretty close to their chests, they don’t go telling gems about it in hopes of preventing anyone from getting ideas. So if you were a younger gem, you’d need an older gem to tell you about it. Amethyst had probably heard of rumours about the rebellion, I’m sure she’s got superiors who were in the war, but she’s under the belief that Rose Quartz either didn’t exist or was just a defective quartz soldier that was blown out of proportion.
| Background Information
Amethyst works in a type of police system on Homeworld, which exists basically just to dispatch protests, catch and detain gems who are causing trouble and sometimes for solving crimes.
Since she burst from the ground, Amethyst never really agreed with the way the Diamonds ran Homeworld- what, with the whole weird ranking system, the war anxiety prolonged and lingered much after any war took place, as well as the pompous and increasingly exclusive upper class?
Eventually, she decided to just cause as much trouble as possible.
So she joined the police system, which she is so fortunate to be able to have access to as an Amethyst. In the police system, she helps criminals escape, she tampers with evidence, but in a really lowkey way so the other Amethysts don’t catch her. She’s gotten very good at it. It gives her a rush that fighting never gave her- she’s defective in that way, she realises, but she’s having too much fun to care.
A Sapphire and a Carnelian noticed what Amethyst was doing, and introduced her to the Homeworld equivalent of the black market. She started to pick up their craft, deciding to focus more on Pearl stuff- the way they were made and how they acted intrigued her. As much as they are marketed as a mindless tool, Pearls really seemed to act like real gems at times. And, y’know, if it looks like a gem, acts like a gem, it’s PROBABLY a gem. But you can’t really know for sure until you conduct research, so that’s what Amethyst did.
| Meeting Pearl
So anyway, with all these new black market jobs on top of the police work, Amethyst found herself needing some help. She didn’t have enough money to buy a Pearl, and she wasn’t notable enough to earn one, so obviously she would just have to steal one. It’s not like she’s not used to committing crimes anyway.
Naturally, she goes to a gem harvesting plant, which is a place where they… harvest… defective gems. Pearl (pictured, top right) caught her eye- it was unusual to see a Pearl so brightly coloured- so she jabbed her with a very sharp stick so she would poof, and ran off with her gem.
She waited until the Pearl reformed, and watched as she freaked out and hid under Amethyst’s work bench. To really be a good asset to Amethyst, the Pearl needed to trust her, so she set to work on that first before introducing her to her new job.
| Present-ish
After getting Pearl, life gets a lot easier for Amethyst. Pearl helps with cleaning, hiding evidence, giving her ideas, helping with her experiments, all of it.
Speaking of experiments, Amethyst’s storyline is definitely about discovery. As she experiments on and probes and dismantles these other Pearls, she gets very good at understanding them and eventually starts to take on commissions from other Pearls owners. Doing this, she really starts to discover how gem-like Pearls really are. How they ARE gems, actually, and the fact she’s been experimenting on them and changing them without their permission and has been bossing one around is really really screwed up!
Amethyst doesn’t stop taking ‘commissions’ from Pearl owners, but decides to take on more of a doctor-like role, fixing them up and whatnot. Once Era 3 roles around, she also moves onto other gems, changing up their appearances if they want or patching up their masses. Change this illegal operation into a more legal one, maybe.
Waist shots of some ocs I made a while ago- I might actually take down the first post of them and redo it because it’s kinda trash to be completely honest with you
