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[During the Gem War]
Rose: You’re scamming her?
Bismuth: I was thinking more like flat-out stealing from her.
Rose: What? No way!
Bismuth: Why not? We already stole a Pearl.
Pearl: Hey, guys.
Rose: No, we didn’t. Pearl's her own gem, she can do whatever she wants.
Pearl: I wanna steal.
Under the cut you’ll find 49 100x100 icons of Pearl from Steven Universe (”Gemcation”). Styled plain as requested. Cropped and edited from screencaps taken by me. Anyone is welcome to use them, just don’t claim credit and like/reblog if you save!
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freetoexistasme:
Her free arm went around Pearl in a hug the moment she heard that question. It must have hurt to now that Rose not only was with a human, but also had actually fallen in love with him. She just wished that she had some way to make it all better for her dearest friend. There was no way to, though. The only thing Garnet could think of was talking to Rose. How would that even go down?
“You don’t know that she doesn’t love you, Pearl,” Garnet murmured. She had no way to know for sure if Rose had stopped loving her friend either, but she wanted to reassure her. Pearl deserved that much.
“I’m… sorry. I wish I knew how to help more.” The fusion of love was stumped for once. It had to happen sooner or later. She just hadn’t thought that it would.
When it came to love, Garnet usually had all the answers. Not this time, though, it seemed, and Pearl sighed. Garnet’s carefully worded statement was meant to be reassuring, but Pearl just found it disheartening in her current state of mind. Garnet couldn’t say it with absolute certainly. Of course she couldn’t; Garnet didn’t read minds. But...still. Pearl felt like she was floundering, having to navigate a world in which someone else had finally won the game she’d played so long. Her eyes filled with tears.
“It’s not your fault,” Pearl said after a long moment. “I just...I don’t understand. I don’t understand any of this.” She leaned into the hug, needing Garnet’s support desperately. “She’s been with humans before, but it was never like this.” And it annoyed her at the time, but she’d pretended to be fine with it, because Rose’s happiness was more important. Now...it just hurt.
freetoexistasme:
A small gasp escaped Garnet despite everything. The image of Rose nearly hitting Pearl was a hard one to stomach. Base instincts did exist, though. Garnet knew that even though she’d never seen it for herself in practice. Instinctively, she let her hand rest against Pearl’s shoulder in a comforting manner.
“I’m sure she wouldn’t have hurt you, Pearl,” Garnet said. She couldn’t deny the idea that Pearl had pushed too hard, but that was something they couldn’t undo. If Amethyst had heard, she wasn’t asking right then. And if Greg had? He simply wasn’t showing his face. Maybe that was for the best.
A small sigh followed, though. The future still was unclear, even to her. She thought that maybe it wasn’t all for naught.
“Oh, Pearl… I know all of this has been hard. I doubt that Rose is tryin’ to replace your girls. She loved them, too. But you know she’s hard to read sometimes. Not even I know what she’s thinking sometimes.”
Pearl reached up, putting her hand on top of Garnet’s. The touch was comforting, and it helped ground her. She was exhausted, at least emotionally. She had been even before the fight, honestly. “I know she loved them,” she said quietly, sighing. That, she’d never doubted. As for replacing them, well...how could it seem like she was trying to do anything else? Maybe Garnet was right, though. Maybe she was just wanting that experience again. Maybe it wasn’t them she was trying to replace. “She loved being a mother.” I did, too.
"It’s not as if I don’t understand wanting that opportunity again.” Pearl shook her head. “Stars...we tried so many times.” That stung, too, her failure to be able to give Rose what she so clearly needed in her life. “I just wish I knew why...how...” She struggled to voice the many questions in her head, but the one that kept haunting her was always the same. Her voice nearly broke as she murmured, “Why doesn’t she love me anymore?”
freetoexistasme:
“I heard what you fought about,” Garnet admitted as she came to sit beside Pearl. She hadn’t been in the room where it happened, but just outside it. That hadn’t been hard to do, after all. The thing she hadn’t quite understood was why ‘stop’ had been shouted, or why one of the two had apologized so quickly. Even so, she had a small guess. It wasn’t worth voicing aloud, though.
“You feel as though this child of Greg’s is replacing Flora, Rosebud, and Margalit. Don’t you,” she said. “And that ended badly when you mentioned it. I couldn’t see what happened when you told Rose to say their names, though.” No point in denying that. Garnet had been there when the girls had come into their lives. She’d suffered when they had been lost, too. So she understood Pearl’s pain of not even hearing her love even acknowledge their girls after it occurred.
“I also may not have been the only one that overheard you two,” she said. Whether Amethyst heard or not was a mystery, but she thought she’d gotten a glimpse of Greg as the argument reached its end. Greg wouldn’t understand the context, though. Neither would Amethyst.
Well, Garnet had heard a lot more than Pearl had thought. But she didn’t even have to explain herself; as usual, Garnet understood. She always had, when it came to the girls. Even so, Pearl winced a bit as Garnet nailed it. “...yes.” She sighed. “And...yes, it ended badly.” Pearl had known it would. She wanted to say she’d been pushing Rose, hoping she would open up and maybe finally acknowledge the loss they’d suffered instead of locking it away in the past. The truth was, though, she hadn’t been thinking at all, just operating on pure emotion.
As for what happened next...well, that still had Pearl a little shaken. Never in all their thousands of years together had Rose raised a hand to her. Pearl still believed, deeply, that Rose would never have actually hit her. The fact that she’d stopped herself, even while operating on base instinct, was proof enough. “She nearly hit me.” It stung to say it out loud, more than Pearl had expected. “She wouldn’t have, of course. And...I pushed her too far.”
Oh, and of course they would have had a bigger audience. Amethyst wouldn’t have understood what it was about, either; they had managed to do a passable job of putting their lives back together by the time they’d found her. Greg didn’t even occur to her as a possibility, honestly, but thinking of Amethyst being involved in this too was enough. “I’m surprised Amethyst hasn’t come in her herself with questions, if she heard.”
freetoexistasme:
Garnet saw the look, and it made her frown just a little. Pearl had been with Rose for so long. She’d seen countless suitors come and go, but Greg had stuck around. Now Rose was having his child. Things were going to be different, and Garnet couldn’t lie. She was glad that Pearl at least knew that she shouldn’t be selfish. Even so, she still didn’t like to see her friend look the way she did.
“You are right about that. Rose does deserve to be happy,” Garnet said. “…But you do, too.” There just was no easy way of going about this. She wanted both Rose and Pearl to be happy, but couldn’t make it happen at all.
“I wish there was something more I could do. All I really can do is listen. So talk to me, Pearl. Tell me everything.” She had heard the argument, but she wanted to also hear Pearl’s thoughts on it.
“What is there to say?” Pearl sighed, sitting down and tucking her legs up against her chest. There was plenty of room for Garnet to join her, if she wished. She looked out over the waterfalls in her room, replaying the scene in her mind. It might not have been healthy to fixate on it, but she couldn’t help it.
“Why can’t you just be happy about this?!” Rose wasn’t one to make demands on Pearl’s emotions, but they’d both gotten past the point of rationality. “This is what I want!”
“Yes, we’ve established that!” Pearl snapped. “It must be so easy for you. Getting what you want and moving on. You think you can replace everything we had so easily! Replace me, replace our girls, and play happy family with your little human friend.”
A dangerous look flickered across Rose’s face. “Don’t do this, Pearl.”
The warning would have been enough, most times, but Pearl was too upset to care. “You haven’t even said their names out loud since it happened. You won’t.”
“I can’t.” Briefly, Rose looked defeated, and Pearl took her opening.
“Just do it,” Pearl challenged. “Do it. Say their names.”
“Pearl--”
“SAY THEIR NAMES, ROSE!” She hadn’t realized just how badly she’d wanted to hear it until now.
“STOP!” Rose made a low, growling noise Pearl hadn’t heard from her since the war. It was very quartzlike, actually. She drew her arm back, advancing, and Pearl gasped, fearing Rose for the first time since they’d been together. Rose seemed to snap out of her rage at that, and shook her head, her eyes filling with tears. And then she fled with a gasped, desperate apology, leaving Pearl alone to her despair.
Pearl looked back at Garnet. “I guess I should ask how much you know.” Garnet might have wanted to hear it from her, but it would help knowing where to start.
freetoexistasme:
“You mean regardin’ the situation with Greg,” Garnet said. She had heard what went on. Pearl and Rose had fought about Rose having Greg’s child. It had been one of the more intense arguments, too, at least as far as Garnet could tell. She knew why Pearl was so heated, though, and couldn’t blame her for it. That didn’t mean that she liked seeing her friend so deflated.
“You don’t know that there’s nothin’ to be done. It’s true she’s made her choice, but…” Garnet didn’t really know what to say. She didn’t know what Rose having Greg’s child would entail. All she knew for sure was that there would be changes.
“The future is ever changin’, Pearl. Just because she’s made this choice doesn’t mean she doesn’t love you.”
Doesn’t it? Pearl didn’t ask the question aloud, but it was in her eyes. She was defeated, in more ways than one. She sighed, shaking her head sadly as she turned away, crossing her arms over her chest. “It doesn’t matter. She has what she wants.” And I’m left out in the cold. But I’m just a pearl. She’d thought it was different with them, but...maybe she’d been mistaken.
Their fight was replaying itself in her head. She should have been supportive, and oh...Rose had wanted her to be excited about it. But she hadn’t been, and this time she couldn’t fake it. It wasn’t as if she’d never questioned Rose before. Or fought with her. But there was always the promise of making up later. And they would probably, but it wouldn’t be the same. Not since Greg had come around. “I shouldn’t be so selfish. She deserves to be happy.”
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Pearl had stopped crying, for now. Dry your tears; it’s no use, anyway, she told herself. Her voice still shook, and Garnet had seen right through her. Hardly unexpected, but she’d had to try to maintain her facade.
It didn’t matter if Garnet had heard about the fight or not, though Pearl somehow suspected she had. Garnet had a way of knowing these things. It didn’t even matter whether she’d forseen it or overheard - sound carried from Pearl’s room pretty well, and they hadn’t been arguing quietly.
“Well, she’s made her choice.” Pearl tried to shrug it off; she wasn’t okay with this. Maybe in time, she could be, but she didn’t even have the energy to pretend right now. “There’s nothing I can do.”
I’ll properly catch up tomorrow after work to the handful of threads I have here - working a double, though, so won’t be back until late. I wanted to do more here, but had a ton of school stuff to catch up on! I’m not back on hiatus, though, and I’m off Monday and Tuesday, so I should be around more then!
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freetoexistasme:
There it was. Garnet could see the crack as clear as anything. Pearl didn’t even seem to be that focused on much around her. She waited for Pearl to get up, only to see her fall down again. So, the fusion shook her head.
“No you can’t,” Garnet said. She was firm on that much. There was no way she was going to let Pearl go to the Temple by herself. Instead, she was going to do what she had to and help her teammate. The fusion knelt down and carefully scooped the thin Gem into her arms.
“I can’t let you go anywhere by yourself if you can’t even stand.” Before Rose’s death, she might have been a little less blunt. However, she’d developed this sort of attitude in accordance with being a leader.
Pearl couldn’t even mount a reasonable protest as she was scooped into Garnet’s arms. Honestly, it was something of a relief. She still worried about being weak, but...Garnet’s arms were a safe refuge, and she was trembling under the effort of just trying to keep her form together as she collapsed against Garnet’s chest.
“Rose...she’ll fix it...” she murmured. Her memory wasn’t exactly what it should have been, given her injuries, and she was only barely lucid anymore.
She rested her head against Garnet’s shoulder, closing her eyes. Her vision was too blurry to make anything out anyway. She wasn’t fighting anymore, which was the surest sign of how bad she felt.
freetoexistasme:
“Pearl!”
Garnet had definitely noticed Pearl’s disappearance after she’d been struck by a stray tentacle. As the new leader, it was her job to make sure that her teammates were okay. However, she and Amethyst had needed to take out the corrupted Gem as quickly as possible. Eventually, though, they’d managed to take it out. The gem was bubbled, and Garnet went looking for her oldest friend.
When she found her, she saw Pearl ducking her head a bit. That was already a bad sign. It would be much harder to hide damage from someone that could see possibilities, too. She was hoping what she’d foreseen wasn’t the definite outcome. The damage Pearl could have taken was bad.
“Pearl, I…” She started to speak, but Pearl cut her off. She seemed to have preempted any concern the fusion had. That just made her frown, and even with the light tone Garnet could hear the garbled whisper. No sir; she wasn’t okay.
“Let me see your gem.”
She was hoping it wasn’t bad. But then, the new leader wasn’t a fool. She knew there was a chance that this could be very bad.
The location and severity of any crack to her gem tended to determine the side effects, and in this case, Pearl’s hearing was unaffected, but her processing abilities were fading as fast as her vision. She understood the request, but trying to follow it was another matter. She did turn her head, though, in the direction of the voice - Garnet? It sounded like Garnet, but she couldn’t trust her mind right then. The crack was obvious from that angle, and her eyes were unfocused.
Her body wouldn’t do anything she wanted, at least not in the right way. She tried to stand, to prove she was fine and could make it back to the Temple on her own, but her legs went out from under her as soon as she tried.
“Garnet...” She had to prove she wasn’t weak. Logically, she knew a cracked gem wasn’t her fault, but her logic wasn’t exactly functioning at peak capacity. “I can make it, just...give me a second...” At least she hoped that was what she was saying.
@freetoexistasme
“In a battle, Rose won’t always be there to save you.” It was true, and something Pearl had learned many times during the war. Even if the words had been flung at her by an angry Homeworld gem, even broken clocks were right twice a day. It had been something Pearl was willing to accept, though. She was just a pearl, if a clever one, and Rose was...everything.
And now Rose was gone. As much as Pearl had come to adore Steven, she was always acutely aware that Rose might never have had to leave them if she’d been enough for Rose. But she hadn’t been, and...well, the past couldn’t be changed.
This was the first time they’d had to fight one of the corrupted Gems since Rose was gone - well, the first major fight. A few others had come and gone, but they’d been small and easy to poof. This one...well, it must have been a quartz in its prior existence, or an even stronger Gem. Pearl had taken one of its tentacles directly to the face...which was painful, but a blow she’d been able to handle. Unfortunately, the impact of it and her hitting the cliffside at the same time had been what ultimately took her down. The monster had left her there, going back for Garnet and Amethyst, and Pearl had managed to crawl into a hole in the cliffside. Partly for safety, partly to hide. No need to get the others distracted worrying about her. Her fingers probed the small crack in her gem. She could get to Rose’s fountain, certainly, and fix it. Whether she could emotionally handle that trip...well, it remained to be seen.
Finally, the wordless screeching stopped and it was clear the battle was over. Pearl wanted to wait a moment before heading to the warp pad, trying to gather her strength. She heard Garnet’s voice and footsteps approaching and ducked her head. If she could play this off, she could sneak away and heal herself without a fuss. Her vision was fading fast, thanks to the crack, but she knew the way.
“I’m fine,” was what she meant to say, in a light tone meant to reassure. What came out was a garbled, painful whisper, making it clear just how not fine she was.
I’d thought I’d posted my hiatus announcement here...but apparently not. To quote Daria, “I’ve been busy procrastinating all day.”
To explain my inactivity, I was swamped between work and class stuff, and I honestly needed a bit of a tumblr break. I barely had time for RP anyhow, given that I had so much going on. Things have eased up a bit though now, thankfully, and I’m back.
I’m dropping my previous threads, though, to start fresh. I’ve been trying to get back here for at least a week, and looking at the old threads in my tracker was just too overwhelming. I might resurrect one or two select favorites, but overall, I’m either going to pick up where I left off with a plotline I enjoyed in a new thread or just start fresh. It’s no offense to anyone, of course, but I can’t justify taking a hobby that’s supposed to be stress relief for me and making it stressful.
Anyhow, that having been said, I should be resuming activity here in the next few days, though I probably won’t run as many threads at once as I did before. But we’ll see what happens. :) Thanks to everyone who’s stuck around!
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kissedbyaspacerose:
What… What had happened?
Greg couldn’t believe what he was seeing when they got to the fountain. It was covered in brambles and thorns. There were also vines everywhere. Greg’s brows knit together in concern. What were they going to do?
“We’ll have to break through the brambles as best we can,” Garnet sad. “Greg, wait here. It could get dangerous.” This was Rose’s fountain area, after all. These very well could have been plants that had been under Rose’s command. Greg wouldn’t know that, though. It was dangerous for him to proceed.
Greg just frowned.
“I don’t get how it could be dangerous, Garnet. They’re just plants… Right?”
“’Just plants,’ he says.” Amethyst snorted. “I guess Rose never mentioned her plant army.” She shrugged. “Never used them much except to guard stuff, but...the plants Rosie grew, a lot of them know how to fight. So...could get messy. Garnet’s right; you should stay back. And someone needs to watch Pearl anyway. We could have our hands full getting through this mess.”
As Amethyst and Garnet left to find a way through the bramble - preferably without making themselves a target of the vines - Pearl began to stir. She’d been coming around for a bit here and there, though less often as her condition progressed. Her entire body seemed to relax as she realized where they were.
She looked up at Greg, though, and she frowned. Though her vision was blurred, she could tell it was him. With all that had gone down between them, why was he still here? Speaking was an effort, and her first attempts were slurred and unintelligible. But she had to know, so she put her concentration into asking.
“Why...would...” She had to rest after those two simple words, but she pressed forward away. “Why...do you care? About me...” The last words were soft, nearly breathless, but she’d gotten them out.
kissedbyaspacerose:
“Sugilite…”
Garnet hadn’t thought that Sugilite had done that much damage to Pearl. She’d seemed fine before. Maybe she’d been hiding it because she hadn’t wanted to worry them? Who knew?
Greg, all the while, was watching them. He hoped that he could come along. Not that he’d be able to do much, but… this was a problem he was involved in. He wanted to do something. So he waited for Garnet to say something. She looked like she wanted to say something more about Sugilite, but the chance didn’t come. Maybe it was just a Gem matter.
“We’ll talk more about Sugilite a bit later, Amethyst,” Garnet assured her. “Greg. You can come with us. But if things get dangerous, then you need to leave the matter to us.”
Dangerous? Greg tilted his head. They were just going to a fountain. What could be dangerous?
“What’s…?” He shook his head. “You know what? Never mind. I don’t need to know. We just need to help Pearl.”
Amethyst honestly wasn’t sure how to take the comment that they’d talk about it later. Realistically, she knew she should probably take it at face value - that Garnet was concerned too, but they could discuss it after the crisis. Her heart was all over the place, though, and harder to convince. “Yeah, okay.”
Pearl barely stirred as she was lifted from the couch again for the journey to the fountain. The crack in her gem was dangerously deep now, and the most signs of life she showed was the occasional murmur of Rose’s name or a slight gasp of pain as she was jostled.
When they arrived at the fountain, it was...a mess. The fountain wasn’t even visible under layers upon layers of vines and bramble. Amethyst gasped. “Well, that’s just fucked!” she snapped. She’d been getting better about censoring herself since Steven had come along, but he wasn’t present, and she was stressed. She glanced toward Pearl, almost apologetically, but there was no response, and her frown deepened. “The one time I want you to yell at me...”
