Considering how much shorter Garnet's Sapphire is to Pearl, I just have this hilarious mental image that kind of looks like a toddler with a greyhound on a leash XD EDIT: Either that or literally the tiniest most smol fierce Pearl ever XD
yessssss and the Gem who's been bitten is just like "GET THEM OFF ME DAMMIT" and flailing and their owners are just going "be careful! you might hurt them!!"
Okay now I have a rising urge to OC the tiniest assassin Pearl ever. (She's blind because a Sapphire would appreciate the humour in having a totally blind servant when she can see everything)
Pfft that reminds me of how 'CAVE CANEM' (beware of the dog) was worked into mosaics in old roman villas not because they had HUGE SCARY SECURITY WOOFS but basically tiny pipecleaner puppers that you might accidentally kill if you stepped on XD
"How dare you, she's fragile!!!! you could crack her!" "you have to be kidding." do eeet omg i love it
"kidding? you think I'm kidding? this is a very serious matter!! now hold still before you crack her!"
... *stares at long file outlining my theories on each item's convoluted path through Paradox Space* ... *sigh* 100% of the things I didn't like about Homestuck's ending were the pretzels that didn't close up so. *sigh* I guess you're probably right. ... *crosses fingers anyway*
Can I just dump my hissy alarm!cave pearl in with the bitey pearls? She is not good at actual fights she just starts wailing and hissing and snapping if anyone gets too close to her who isn't her owner. shriek shriek hiss hiss cry cry BITE! Her owner is probably a Zirconia who is immensely amused just leaving her perfect little creature in the midst of a gaggle of Pearls and then waiting nearby for when Cave Pearl realizes her owner is gone and the loud complainy noises and fang snapping at the other Pearls starts.
I DID THE THING YOU ARE ALL FILTHY ENABLERS :D Spoiler: Seer and the blind This Sapphire has a relatively boring job, double checking plans and scout reports for new planets to harvest. She's a little paranoid, though, which is why her tiny dainty Seed pearl - gotten cheap for her eyeless flaw - is proficient at gem-to-gem combat. She sometimes risks her in the ring, but she honestly loves her? It's a little fucked up, but Seed doesn't mind too much. It's better than having an abusive mistress, after all. Neither of them will ever do anything about it unless they're tossed into a situation where Sapph's Sight isn't reliable any more. (Sapphires often have to put their Pearls in the ring anonymously, for obvious reasons. No-one wants to pit a valued slave against one prophesied to win.)
And that is what every gem she has ever poofed thought right up until they were bubbled by the proper authorities. ("What, no? You think my Pearl did that? She's not even big as your forearm, Miss Quartz. She's blind. That nasty rude Beryl must have just fallen against the table! Not my fault if Gems these days don't watch where they're going!")
I feel you there. :/ On the up side, if SU was to do anything convoluted, they already have the whole thing planned out so we could be pretty confident that it wouldn't just be left to dangle.
Spoiler: Episode: Bubbled I appreciate the speed at which social networking allows people to go "hey, the thing."
