I'm kinda torn between using the gem I've already got, or making a pearl because AHH COULD BE SO INTERESTING AND ALSO EXCUSE FOR FRILLS.
lmao i'm kinda into the pearl thing, but my regular gemsona is a moss agate (very canon compliant such wow) i also have a design for a peridot but it'd be interesting to see how an all-pearl-group would be, since ironically pearls seem to have had a bit more individuality bc made to the specfications of their owners. Just getting them to be functionally balanced as far as skillsets go could be hard. but maybe one of the higher caste gems wanted a pearl that could drive them around etc.
Something along the lines of (totally random ideas here) "a driver, a secretary, and a glorified hat stand accidentally an escape"
I am frustrated that the Gemsona maker cannot perfectly match the Pearlsona design idea in my head. I might just have to draw her. Character ideas include: basically nonverbal (can communicate via projections/holograms?) weapon is using her gem like a flash bomb. Job on homeworld: one of those fancy lamps/night lights
I'm gonna move this all over to a new thread in the (GMT) morning but I have a Cirtrine - maybe 'flawed' Pearls gemnap a Quartz because someone has to know how to spaceship? EDIT: Also my regular gemsona is Hematite who works as more or less architecture - they would love to join in but idk how yet
she is based off of a lavender colored freshwater pearl. She is probably a court accessoire to someone powerful and the biggest "Job" she had was probably helping her owner get ready so she's good at looking cute and orgaizing people's stuff and giving people things they need right when they realize they'll need them. She has access to her owner's weapon stash for that purpose so probably stole stuff for her companions.
omg I had the sudden realization that if Steven is chronologically 14, then the cool kids must only be a couple years older than him? I originally thought they were in their early 20's but the more episode we have of them it's more likely they are in their later teens. Still, if Steven was born when they were toddlers or something, they essentially grew up with him, except he never hit puberty or matured the way they did? Wjich must be kinda weird. And they still treat him like he's way younger than them?
Spoiler: New Ep Spoilers I like that what Peridot sees as 'perfectly efficient use of resources' is... sucking the planet dry until it only barely supports gems. It actually ties in really well with how she doesn't have any real concept of self-care or free time...? It makes me feel really bad for her, even though her behavior was seriously out of line.
I always assumed that the cool kids, as well as Lars, Ronaldo, and Sadie, were all around college-aged--late teens, early twenties. Sour Cream is probably at least twenty, since Vidalia was probably just a one-night stand for Marty and Story For Steven seems to have been set around twenty years in the past, and Barb implies in Sadie's Song that Sadie is at least out of high school ("Never even went to the prom, and look at you now!"). Jenny is described as an "intimidating teenage girl" by Ronaldo in Rising Tides/Crashing Skies, but that could still place her as being 18-19. The one I wonder about is Peedee. Granted, we haven't seen a lot of him, but he's pretty clearly not much older than Steven--I'd say maybe 15 or 16 at the very most--and he seems to work full-time...
I am flipping out about the new episode so I paused the video 7 minutes in because AAAAAAH SO MUCH NEW META ABOUT GEMS my reactions so far Spoiler I literally cringed when Garnet when to pat Peridot and she jumped like that Peridot nerding out about the Diamonds and the old gem tech is great I NEED TO KNOW WHAT WAS IN THAT ROOM EDIT FOR MORE REACTIONS: Spoiler That ending scared the crap outta me, because I get why the gems were mad but I understand what Peridot is saying too and why. From her perspective there is no reason to care about the earth or the life on it. Several weeks is not nearly enough time to change that. So getting super upset that she doesn't get it and then starts saying stuff that isn't technically wrong but really inappropriate is... idk :/ I think she's gonna betray the gems obviously, but I don't think her redemption arc is over. She's gonna continue to grow and change over time on her own schedule, into her own person, and not on Steven's schedule into a person the gems want her to be. I mean, maybe she will turn into a crystal gem and end up seeing the beauty of life and all that, or maybe she won't. But she should get control over that and not get pushed by the diamond authority or the crystal gems to be one or the other.
Spoiler PERIDOT STOP BEING SO ADORABLE THAT IS PROBABLY VIOLATING SEVERAL GALACTIC TREATIES ON THE MOOOON (oh just ask Luna for help, she'll get you teleported there in no time) Lion is still a kitty. no more naps? UNACCEPTABLE Diamond Authority confirmed for actual thing I'm not sure if you should be encouraging Peridot, Steven. Teaching her to break Diamond taboos is good but it seems to be giving her the megalomaniac laughs. ...oh dear oh dear. I mean thank you for confirming so many theories, Peridot, the whole "gems wanted to do bad things, we stopped them, details aren't good for you Steven" was getting a bit old But oh dear you are making them mad. ...oh Peridot BABY NO. ;.;
WOW WOW WOW YOU GUYS Spoiler so much new lore so much new info i'm so giddy my little green gem wife sang a song and then she goes again failing to understand oh PERIDOT >:( that is kind of a terrifying thing to want to do to a planet wtf??? that cannot possibly be the 'most efficient' use of a planet's resources wouldn't it fall apart? why is there a huge hole in russia i must know.
Spoiler: it could have been GREAT Lion-warping to the moon without knowing whether they'd arrive in an area with air Steven can breathe was very foolish. Why was there air in a Diamond moon-base if Gems don't need air, anyway? That thing that Garnet said "isn't what we came for" is going to turn out to be hugely important, isn't it. I still think/hope Peridot will learn some regard for non-Gem life. It's just going to take more than a few weeks working with some weird renegade Gems for that to happen. Maybe this'll happen and Peridot will realize she likes being treated like an individual. (Not sure how they'd show that, though, since we never really leave Steven's POV. Not only is there a huge hole in Russia, Africa and Australia appear to be missing bits too, and South America is way big. Peridot what did you steal what are you doing
Spoiler there was a red dot in the center of the massive hole so it has to be gem related. Maybe it's a huge kindergarten, or a gem nuke went off there or something. also maybe it's the most efficient use because gem tech requires a massive amount of resources (hence why they must conquer other planets to begin with) there is probably some kind of stabilizing structure in the core, like that gem death trap that was a bunch of triangles orbiting around the center until it was destroyed and THEN it fell apart
