#inclusion hnk

[momentary-moss]

The Inclusions inside me

[cubesugarss]

for hnk au x x x x

[ratwithhands]

Fun fact I used to consume a lot of Land of the Lustrous stuff.

Anyways this is one of my many Land of the Lustrous OCs, Vivianite. Mohs hardness of 1.5, dark green/blue in colour, and very old. Due to the nature of his weak composition, Vivianite can't actually do much of anything, and has had to live under very specific conditions.

Vivianite wears a tight full body uniform to hold any chipped pieces in place, and is kept in a box stuffed with loose cloth to ensure minimal damage. If he comes into contact with light, he begins to oxidize and darken, so he's kept in a windowless room with curtains over the entrance.

That's all to say he's isolated and bored. He spends much of his time inactive, but he'll jump at the opportunity for conversation if there's someone around. Certain gems visit him to chat, get guidance, or give him the recent news. A task given to some gems is to clear his room of dust, and maybe bring him some books if he's up for it.

Vivian sees himself as an older sibling/friend to many of the other gems, and as such he's very keen on providing a listening ear and giving advice where possible to those who need it. He's essentially emotional support in a can.

Other notes/details:

not all gems know Vivian exists! He's hidden away so most gems wouldn't see him unless they were actively looking for him. A lot of the older ones know about him, but the younger ones don't

Rutile is endlessly tired of having to glue him back together so often due to his softness, which is part of why he has a tighter uniform to keep all his broken pieces in place

Vivian struggles with walking, he tends to be slow and stumbly

the tanks in Vivian's room are for jellyfish. Gems who are sent to clean his room have to switch out the jellyfish too. They're there to provide a faint light source so he doesn't go completely inactive

Vivian, despite living in a box in the dark, has a lot of technical knowledge about things as a result of millennia of going through the library collection. He' a living encyclopedia and can usually offer some answers if a gem has questions on a particular subject

his internal structure is basically a lot of shards stuck together like fibers, so he does minor repairs on himself by affixing strands of his hair into empty spots. He's had his fingers repaired and replaced this way often

In the few instances where Vivian has gone outside, he has an abnormally high amount of energy as a result of his inclusions being able to work at full capacity in the light

If I remember anything else I'll add it, anyways have a good day!

[neolxzr]

sorry im on the hnk brain now but i just love and adore so much the care that was put into turning the properties of different gems into like personality traits and physical characteristics for every character its so so so neat

[scrollingfan]

Something you can't lose

[houseki-no-suffering]

Hey! I found a post of yours (specifically a phos analysis) from a looong while ago. Just curious to hear what your thoughts on the last chapters and the conclusion of the story are!

I recently finished the manga after putting it off for 4 years, and it was an incredible but such a bittersweet read. Maybe it's just me being a sucker for happy endings, but man, it really did not get happier </3

And you probably already know this, but did you know that Ichikawa released the last chapter the same day a comet flew by that looked exactly like the comet from the last chapter? Really cool stuff but I am emotionally destroyed haha

I suppose it was the only kind of happy ending HnK could have, and I don't think I mind it as much as other things that have happened in the last few chapters. It reads more HnK than anything that has happened in the past 1-2 years of serialization.

I appreciate the bittersweet notes (always have) and Ichikawa's words that this is how she wanted the story to end, it doesn't happen to every mangaka. Also, the comet bit is such a nice touch.

As for Phos (I suppose this is the post you meant?), I do believe that they got a happy ending.

If you think about it, instead of becoming a lunarian and being prayed away like the others, Phos' journey gave them the power and knowledge to rise above them. Thanks to their flaws (being brittle, having special inclusions, maybe being the most human of all the gems) they became human, the most flawed of creatures, and basically reverted to the purity of a child, a god, sin-less (even if this is a Buddhist story, so idk if I can actually speak of sin) and therefore free of everything that made humanity always dissatisfied, dangerous and unhappy. The others renounced existence, Phos found a way to reach paradise.

Humanity doesn't come out of this looking like a nice bunch of people to hang out with, and neither do the lunarians (gems included at this point). And yet, there's so much compassion in everything Phos does: a kind child, up until the very end.

I always speculated (and was not alone in this) that Phos' job would become to pray the lunarians/everyone away, find Cinnabar the job to kill them, become a Bodhisattva... in this, I believe, the story remained true to itself. What I believe no one saw coming was how shallow(?) it all seemed in the end.

Everyone came back, making Phos' sacrifices and suffering basically meaningless, everyone started getting along and solving centuries-old problems in seconds. Then, Ichikawa introduced so many new changes abruptly... It felt rushed, lazy and overly simple, when most of us loved HnK for its complexity and depth.

Maybe it was because Ichikawa wanted (or needed to) end the series with ch 108. Usually, when mangaka put a limit to the chapters they want to write, it really damages the story and I wasn't a fan of this even in this situation.

Aside from these issues, I appreciate how Ichikawa seemed to care about the character of Phos.

Maybe this all happened so that Phos could be happy, maybe this was the only possible way for Phos to be happy? It would be a little bit like in Devilman, where the world basically ends only so that Satan can understand love. Idk, little old Phos didn't seem that desperate a case, they just wanted truth, yes, this did cause some... issues, but other than that they're a sweetheart.

This is the leitmotif of the series, after all: Phos is a kind, selfless gem who cultivates a deep sense of self-hatred.

They internalize a pressure and a need to feel useful (coming from gem society) and turn them into a necessity for change (unlike in gem society). Initially, they want to find a job. Then, they want to help Cinnabar find a job, then they want to help Ventricosus, then then want to become a fighter, then they want to help sensei, then the gems, then the lunarians...

Contrary to most of the other gems, Phos loves and loves openly and unconditionally. They start off as a self-less creature who believes that their life isn't worth anything. Therefore, they put it on the line time and time again and, eventually, lose it time and time again as they change form.

It's their journey towards truth and happiness: they change and lose pieces of themselves, forget things, renounce gem-ness in favor of humanity and then humanity for god-hood.

Phos changes until they find the form that makes them happy. Their purest, happiest form. They change so much that they come back to square one almost: they become pure Phosphophyllite, with no inclusions at all. Still fragile, still small, but selfless and cheerful. Carefree.

In a sense, HnK ends with Phos becoming Phos.

[lunarah-artistry]

I want to share my HnK OCs (I have about 20), so we'll start with (White) Opal!

「White Opal」 HnK OC

AKA: 「Opal」

Mohs: 5.5

Partner: Moonstone

Siblings: Black Opal, Fire Opal, Boulder Opal

Job: Patrol/Fighter

Opal is missing some parts of their body that was replaced by using Black Opal's hair. There are no inclusions in these parts but they are a decent placeholder for the limbs that White Opal lost.

**The base I made references the character concept design sheets made by Studio Orange

[walpu]

Aventurine seeing you try and desperately rebuild your partner with the fake gem remains and part of him feels sad for you because you've been trying for months on end with little to no results. But he's also a little jealous? He can see how hurt you are but somewhere in his selfish heart he hopes they don't come back.

Aventurine getting broken so many times and losing so many inclusions that he starts forgetting the little things you do for him like he's going insane cuz he can't remember what you did together 2 days ago but he can still remember the warm and fuzzy feeling and it scares him. What if he forgets you name next? He couldn't live with that.

What if you make a promise together on a specific day and he forgets? You're so heartbroken and basically avoid him the whole day since you think he doesn't want to hang out with you and Aventurine is just left confused and hurt too because why are you suddenly avoiding him?? What did he do????

when you shatter together and are rebuilt, some of his inclusions get in you and some of yours in him (idk if that's possible but shhh we dream big). He starts to see himself through your eyes, how much you love him and all the things you never told him. You see yourself through his eyes, all his insecurities and emotions that he's bottled up.

ALSO what if reader was like a corundum or moissanite which both have a moh hardness of around 9 ish? So significantly stronger than Aventurine. Reader always throwing themselves in danger to keep him safe....

OK one last thing I PROMiSE

Aventurine still has a pretty high hardness, so the fact that he keeps getting shattered just means he's way too reckless when it comes to his own life. Just the mental imagery of you carefully putting him back together piece by piece, telling him to be more careful...man.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS HNK AU MY BELOVED

reader 🤝 Cinna

broken promises

I imagine reader being very strong but the power comes with a great cost. They have two modes just like Alexandrite but unlike Alex they can control their state.

Their inclusions collect energy from the sunlight and they can use this energy to buff themselves up significantly but at the cost of their hardness and emotional stability (the more energy they use, the more transparent fragile their body becomes). If they use all saved up energy, they'll end up in the comatose state for like 150 years in order to recover completely.

So I like to think they're older than Aventurine physically but not much older mentally since they were in coma when he appeared.

Also. Them using like 90% of the energy in their body during the night raid :) Aven being scared for them but also shocked and heartbroken because they use this power against him :) like oh wow they actually do hate me that much haha :) reader did this to keep up with padpa and be able to fight Aven one on one since even if they're heartbroken they want this moment with him if not as partners then at least as enemies

[garblegarden]

Since I'm back in my crystal growing phase I wanted to draw my HnK oc who's the same kind of mineral that I'm growing! I highly encourage everyone to buy a bunch of MAP/ADP fertilizer and dissolve it and grow pretty crystals out of it because it's pretty. You can dye them all sorts of colors and grow them in all sorts of shapes if you control the pH of the growing solution... grow them on objects, grow clusters, single crystals, make really big ones too... that's what I'm doing! I'm planning on taking existing crystals that I've grown and putting them back into solution, and then once they're done put them back into a new one, over and over until it gets really big. It's a lot of fun!

Biphosphammite is the name for monoammonium phosphate when it forms naturally, usually from bat poop or other weird nitrogenous decaying stuff.

My imaginings of them are they were born from the entrails of decaying snails and slugs, (since bats don't exist in HnK, and dead snails are rich in nutrients) and kidnapped so they could be dissolved and recrystallized en masse to farm natural inclusions on the moon, to hopefully create synthetic gems that actually were able to move and act on their own. It didn't work out, but they were allowed to live freely on the moon afterwards anyways.

[doodoodinklefart]

okAYYYY so ive been planning this au for literally forever and i couldnt get white diamond satoru and black sapphire suguru out of my head... ive seen a couple other hnk x jjk aus floating around but i wanted to take a crack at it!! i'll just explain these three + the setting for now cuz theres a bunch of other shit brewing in my head LOLOL honestly hnk and jjk are pretty different themes-wise i feel so i couldnt rlly help changing a lot abt the world LMAO

in this au its not just a couple gems in the school, there's a bit more of a society and structure outside of it. there are still the three major "clans" though maybe more like major cliffs?? lol?? that the gems are formed in that produce a much higher frequency of strong, high quality gems. i imagine that before the idea of working together (modern jujutsu society) had come about, gems fought to have control of these spots to assure that they would have those to protect them from lunarians (aka curses we're playing a bit fast and loose here). while there were many attempts to merge the clans, the fighting was more a waste of time if anything, so they stayed separate. jujutsu high in this au would probably just be the school, a set of gems that are trained to always be ready to dispatch lunarians and protect tengen (who is the prayer machine here), who has basically been dormant.

and THATS where we get to white diamond. i wanna say while diamonds are p common irl, its rare here for there to be a fully formed diamond lustrous that actually has inclusions. while there have been extremely strong lustrous born from the gojo cliff, white diamond is the first diamond in several centuries, filling a vacancy after others had been taken away to the moon. not only that, he's got special eyes too!! im thinking he can see sunspots from far away, or maybe can tell artificial gems from real ones, like being able to see their inclusions or something. probably both!! either way he has to wear special blackout glasses during the day. his eyes are really reflective so he can work at night too, but that often leaves him restless.

white diamond—in his mind at least—is untouchable, and really it may as well be true. due to the combat training that he's gone through and his hardness of 10, he has never sustained so much as a scratch. he had a tendency to break all of his sparring partners back home, and thus he feels he's hit a brick wall with his training, and that the only things that will come close to putting up a challenge are likely lunarians. he doesn't really care much for weaker gems at this point, and is eager to finally fight lunarians for once. eventually, he is sent off to the school to begin what he would call "actually worthwhile" training.

black sapphire, on the other hand, was born practically from nowhere, in a unremarkable place with little more than himself and a few other older gems that were around to help shape him. with a hardness of 9, he was the strongest among them and—after his first dangerous encounter with lunarians—he realized he had an obligation to protect the rest of them. his strength often leaves him feelings alienated, as he normally ends up working alone for fear of other being taken away. i wanna figure out how to incorporate his ct better but for now ill just keep thinking about it. for now, it was probably his strength that got his scouted and sent to the school.

boulder opal, or just opal, is in training as a doctor at the school, and shows extreme promise. her lax attitude reveals none of her medical prowess, especially when it comes to gems with missing pieces. she has a particularly good eye for finding missing shards, or finding pieces that she can replace missing shards with. there's nothing she can do if their inclusions reject the replacement, however. maybe she has a way of resonating with the other's inclusions to speed healing up on bigger points of damage?? idk ill figure it out

ANYWAYYY this is getting super long so i'll end this shortly BUT!!! basically, white diamond, with black sapphire (who he calls saph), and opal are all training under yaga sensei (idk what kind of gem he would be yet LOL). diamond, at first, sees opal and saph as weak, but quickly realizes they have their own feats. saph in particular is the first lustrous that has ever made sparring fun, because while he's less durable his combat skills make up for it tenfold. maybe black sapphire is the first to ever leave a break on white diamond who knows... opal is probably always having to put the two back together. theyve never lost to a lunarian before, and have certainly never come close to being taken to the moon. these two are the strongest together, and each finally feel like they have a place to belong.

alsooo..... they do get a mission to escort a "star plasma vessel" of sorts. tengen slowly erodes over the years and needs a compatible lustrous to replace their missing pieces. boleite (riko) happens to be that gem, and diamond and saph need to escort her.... lmaoaoao now i have to design riko, toji and kuroi...

[chocolatechipkraken]

Honestly I think Obsidian is kinda underutilized by both the canon and fandom. They're so unique, with their power to liquify at will to make swords (without even losing mass somehow!), but they barely get any focus. Can all Obsidians do that or just that specific one? If they can produce excess obsidian to make swords without losing mass, would that mean that if Obsidian lost an arm, they could theoretically make a new arm? (I suppose it depends on if the goo Obsidian makes can house any inclusions)

Also, doesn't this mean that any group of hnk fan ocs that have the same black swords from the show but don't have any of the canon cast might have an Obsidian running around somewhere? (Otherwise I believe they'd be making weapons from excess gem bits from the Cord Shore.) I think it would be cool if more fan artists put more thought into their own Obsidian OCs, and looked into the varieties it can come in, like Mahogany Obsidian, Sheen Obsidian, or Rainbow Obsidian!

[red-space-enjoyer]

LotL/HnK headcanon:

-Please someone who knows about gems and precious materials tell me if that's complete bullshit or not

As Padparadscha showed, gems can have defects.

My headcanon is that there are other various defects such as having too much or too little material for example- causing abnormalities such as horns and spikes, growths resembling limbs and such, wich cannot be removed without consequences as they hold inclusions / thinness leading to brittleness and incomplete or missing parts

Or even having foreign materials at birth - of course some materials whoud be able to hold inclusions and not cause problems, but some cloud have materials who don't match them and still be a part of their bodies, so they'll hold inclusions but still be recognised as foreign parts

[false-savior]

man im thinking of drawing some random hnk concepts

synthetic/lab-grown gems successfully existing like the gems washed up from the shore except they were purposed for battle or to be able to have any inclusion from other gems

gems "evolving" to fit certain environments (gems gaining webbed fingers/fins to stay under the sea easier, adapting to the dark by having an increased sense of hearing and not needing sunlight to feed on)

hybrids between species even though it would be impossible for the lunarians and gems (as seen with cairngorm and aechmea ugh)

[admiramethyst]

✨houseki no kuni ask meme✨

I thought it would be fun to see one of these floating around! Anyone who reblogs this will get an ask from me in their inbox 💛

(If you want to use this with your OCs, say so in your reblog and show people where to find your OCs!)

💎What type of Gem are you? Why did you pick that particular gem?

🍼When were you formed? Does your story take place in the HNK universe? (Note: I personally use "BP (Before Phos)" and "AP (After Phos)" for HNK Universe OCs. Check out my timeline here!)

🧵What uniform do you wear? Do you wear gloves and/or socks or leggings? Any other accessories or deviations from the standard seasonal uniforms?

⚔️What weapon(s) do you use? Do you have any notable techniques when fighting?

📋What is your job? Do you go out on patrols? Does your hardness have anything to do with your job?

🛏️Do you live at the School? If so, what does your room look like? If not, why not? Where do you live?

❄️Do you hibernate through the Winter? If so, what does your hibernation outfit look like? If not, how do you cope with the Winter?

💔How much of yourself have you lost? Is your hair, as it is, the length you were formed with? Are there any notable memories you've lost?

🦾Do you have any replacement limbs/inclusions/etc.? How did you acquire them?

🪦Were you shattered and taken by the Lunarians? If so, how did it happen? If not, what was your closest call?

👯Do you have a partner? If so, what is your relationship with them like? If not, have you had one previously? Is there a reason why you are partner-less?

🌙How do you feel about the Lunarians? Would you/Did you go to the Moon with Phos?

🎉What would or did you do once you got to the Moon after Ch. 94?

🐙How do you feel about the Admirabilis? Have you ever interacted with one before?

🙏If you went through 10,000 years of suffering- would you pray?

If you'd like to just fill this out with information, totally do that too!

[novas-ed-sellub]

Here an other HnK OC : Pink Fuchsite (aka Fu) !

They're the mate of my other OC Chalcopyrite but they are way more weaker (2,5 mohs scale) and happier. They admire Chalcopyrite too much that's why they follow it everytime even on patrols (but not in the fight, because the weakness you know).

They have grenat inclusion on hair (because they are inspired by the crystal that I have and it's pretty).

In fact, Chalcopyrite never use the sulfur cloud (the yellow thing on the drawing) when Pink Fuchsite are near by because it's can damage it. Most of the time Fu leave the fight for calling sensei.

[penebui]

I'm invested in your revered ghost and true cairn aus and I'd like to hear more about them.

WOAH WHAT A JUMPSCARE!! Well, since we only have one month till hnk ends you get some fun info!!! </3

Reversed Ghost AU

Cairn's head is visible in the sunlight when everything else about Ghost is see through

Ghost goes to the moon with Phos and Aechmea tries to coax Cairn through Ghost with the promise of freeing Cairn's head from the confines of Ghost, and Cairn's inclusions respond to that (despite Cairn not actually being 'there')

Ghost is a lot more... creepy and ghost-like, they often repeat certain phrases and sentiments that Cairn once said themself

That being said their voice is dual-toned, with their main voice deeper and if you listen closely, theres an echo to them that sounds a lot like Cairn's voice

In this AU, Ghost is transmasc

Ghost is still self-sacrificial, but is very protective of their arm that still has Cairn's arm

True Cairn AU

She loses her arm and is still insecure about it, but is more vocal about the problems it causes

Cairn still travels to the moon with Phos, on their on volition now

She still gets into moon fashion

Very dismissive of whatever the fuck Aechmea has going on, but she tags along with his shenanigans because she's bored and curious

She never officially gets with Phos, they moreso have a vague situationship

During the 10k years she wears a pendant with a drawing of Phos that Ghost drew for her (she never truly got over Phos)

She does in fact marry Aechmea but she also performs Lunarian's first Divorce:tm:

She still becomes besties with Shinsha and Antarc, and reminisces about Phos with them