#shattered diamonds

[knightmareaceblue]

Gooood Morning/Afternoon/Evening Mod Blue, Hope you have been doing well and I have a huge question on Gem threat and Gem!CopperRight/Shattered Diamond Timeline 1/ Valiant Heroes Anon

Ah, thank you for the greeting. I'm doing alright, suppose I could do with more sleep, but couldn't we all, really. So, concerning your questions...

If you're only thinking logically, perhaps it's true that having humans do any fighting makes little to no sense. However, it completely ignores the emotional and interpersonal sides of the conflict. Reginald, as a formal Pearl, may make recommendations, but she will not stop her humans from being a part of the Shattered Diamond's fighting force if they wish. Similarly, she won't force gems to fight if they don't want to. The Shattered Diamonds aren't rigidly structured like the Toppats are, and many of the members hate authority. Reginald included. She'll provide recommendations and analysis, but she won't tell anyone they can't do a job because of what they are. Not after everything she's been through with Fire Agate.

2. Um, there's only one way I could consider a Right Hand Man Reborn situation happening in the Gem Threat universe and...

it's not pretty.

How could Rose Quartz!Right end up this way? My first thought was Henry because that’s how it happens in the game, but I don’t think Sapphire!Henry would be powerful enough to cause this type of damage. And unlike the games, S!Henry’s only motivations are preventing the bad futures she sees (which would likely not involve fighting R!Right to this degree.) and protecting her polycule (again, such a fight seems unlikely.) So I turned to my next idea.

Human resistance to gems.

Honestly, that’s a little more interesting.

[ryssbelle]

Take it away penny!

[phosphorus-noodles]

Do it for him. (Do it for her.)

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My new favorite gemcyt headcanon is that Joel offered to teach Jimmy sword fighting because he wanted the practice for when he infiltrated homeworld to see his diamond again it'd be nice if Jimmy could defend Scott in a battle ^^

(based on this post by @playername-player-of-games + au and Jimmy design by @chrisrin + Joel design by @zellie-x)

[pastelpinkillustrator]

Blue was the first to arrive on Earth when the Diamonds heard what had happened...

"This Rose Quartz can't hurt you." "...Show everyone you are unfazed by this little uprising. Your Gems will fall into line, and these Crystal Gems will be no more." 😔

[shadebloopnik]

This is gonna sound SOOO off or smthn but

Was the Perfect Family Harmony planned to be a weapon against the Bergens?

Long post ahead bc brain is rotting

Ok so as we know, the Perfect Family Harmony is smthn that's so powerful that its capable of shattering diamonds. Not just that but its one of the only thing capable of doing so(according to Floyd it was the only thing but giving the benefit of the doubt)

So we know its strong, and we saw it blasting off Velvet and Veneer off their platforms when they performed it, and they weren't even the targets, they were blasted away by just the shockwave that came with using it.

"Its that powerful."

Ok, so its definitely powerful enough to be used as a weapon right? Yeah it was relatively safe enough to use in front of a crowd, else they wouldn't have tried to do it during a concert, but that could just be when those harmonizing aren't targeting anything.

If it could shatter diamonds, how easily could it break cages? What would it do if it was used to target a Bergen? A whole Kingdom of Bergens?

Lets also go back to that concert, to that time John was obsessed with them getting it right. They were in the Troll tree, in Bergentown, a place where any of them could die during Trollstice. The Bergens were a huge threat, something that trolls, at their size, couldn't fight back against normally so they had to run instead right?

But what if they COULD fight back? What if they had a weapon so powerful that it might finally be able to free them? To defeat the monsters that tortured their kind for centuries?

What if John Dory found a way to help make sure nothing would threaten his brothers' safety ever again?

Like, it'd make John Dory's obsession make SOOO MUCH MORE SENSE

Like yea he clearly has OCD and anxiety and some bossiness and that definitely added to it all, but imagine if it was more than that?

Look at him during that performance. He was in deep. He had a wild look in his eyes, a sort of deranged obsession to have everything be perfect no matter what. It wasn't healthy, it was scary, maybe even downright terrifying for his brothers who had to be subjected to it.

But you know what else he looked like?

Terrified

Man was scared out of his mind. His anxiety and stress levels were through the roof. He probably was one wrong tune away from hyperventilating.

What if it was bc it was so much more than the fans? What if he put the salvation of the entire troll-kind on his shoulders?

One wrong step meant they were nothing.

One wrong step meant disappointing the fans.

One wrong step meant letting down the kingdom.

One wrong step meant another troll getting eaten.

Thats why when they failed, John blew up. He took all of that self-hatred of failing to use that weapon to defeat the bergens and poured it all onto his brothers.

"I know we can reach the Perfect Family Harmony."

"What if we don't want to."

John Dory, blind to how and WHY his brothers didn't want to follow his lead, felt betrayed.

To him, all he's ever done was to ensure their safety, everything was for the greater good. He'd done everything he could, his goals slowly twisting him into a crazed obsession. To hear his brothers say they didn't want to help anymore might've struck a cord too much. If you'd noticed he actually looked really sad and hurt when they started bringing up how much they hated being in the band, but it slowly twisted to anger instead. Kind of in a like, "I tried doing everything for these shts and THIS is how they repay me???" way. He was so stressed and stuck in his own head with his failures that he just couldn't see what his brothers were trying to say.

So in a fit of impulsive rage, he left. To him it probably was like that rlly childish way of saying "Yea im leaving, good luck dealing with the Bergens while im goneee." You know? Like how kids runaway from home when they get angry or upset over every little thing but come back when they realize how stupid that was?

"Im not allowed to change."

And he DID come back. Who knows how long, but he did. Imagine how he must've felt seeing their empty pod in an empty tree, with the knowledge that he could've done something about it. The Perfect Family Harmony could've saved them. They could've used it to break the cage, to fight the Bergens. Hell, it could've been powerful enough to wipe out all the Bergens if they do so wished.

"Im the oldest, I have to be the leader."

He and his brothers were the only ones who'd ever gotten close to getting it right.

"Why do you think I moved into the middle of nowhere? So I didn't have to be in charge of anyone."

The village was counting on them. Counting on him. He let them down. He failed.

"Freeing the village Four little brothers is a lot of responsibility."

They could've gotten it. If only John did it right. If only John did it differently.

If only John Dory was Perfect

[guthrie-odonto]

If I had a nickel for every time a main, titular character became a kaiju because mental Chernobyl event (the “rampage” didn’t even have any casualties), I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice

Not complaining. Kaiju are cool and also with kaiju symbolizing everything from atomic hubris to cultural turmoil to climate change, it’s about time the genre started tackling psychological issues in its allegory

[asachuu-et-cetera]

Today I offer: rocks.

I tried to keep close to the original HNK artstyle, but I ultimately resorted to my own shading methods, and what came out of it is…this. Can’t decide if I like it or not, but I’m not going to judge a piece that has been marinating in my drafts for more than a single day.

All the spiral-type decorations were actually unintentional, I’ll say that much…I was heavily struggling with Yellow Diamond’s face, and while I was trying to draw that, I just doodled something on it out of laziness and liquified it, but it somehow accidentally ended up making the theme for the rest of this drawing. It looks quite nice though, I might reuse it a few times for other stuff.

[chrisrin]

GEMSTUCK DOODLES!

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

very interesting how everyone and their mothers bash steven universe for redeeming villains who tried to commit mass genocide, killed and harmed thousands of innocent civilians, physically and psychologically abused their family member; but they sympathize with and coddle catra, who did much of the same things.

(while i like steven universe and i do think that people hate on it a lot more than it deserves, i can admit that the show had its fair share of problematic elements. i'm not going to defend it to hell and back like some people do with spop)

[slink-a-dink]

Season of Shattering Poems

These were taken from the official discord

Memory 1 - Jellyfish

The light that swirled here was not warm

These were no drifting currents

Songs lost to the void

Bewildered in final moments of stillness

Memory 2 - Crabs and Dark Plants

Entranced by strange brilliance

And swept into its snare

A familiar glow that hid

Nothingness in its wake

Memory 3 - Mantas

Soft wings flowing to bright beacons

Drawn from the path, trusting until too late

Bound in a merciless harness

Soft wings despairing against stone

Memory 4 - Dark Dragons

Ascending towards darkness

A distorted reflection

The hunter relentless to sate

Insatiable hunger

Memory 5 - Whales

The distant call beyond reach

Echoes swallowed in a scouring silence

Empty light scattering the fragments

Of a spirit sundered in the break

Memory 6 - Elders

Bare at the precipice

Unseen fractures crumble in the chasm

The stars under fathomless weight

Reaching to light and to dark

Carrying memory of all that was held

In the final moment of shattering

[3amclothesmonster]

Incomplete.

[novantinuum]

when the blind reactors you watch are starting to get into the Nitty Gritty of plot and you are going to have to be Very Careful in your meta ramble comments from now on so as to not accidentally sway their thinking or Give Anything Away

[lucyjung]

A time when they were happy with each other.

[birdinabowl]

Steven in SUF is so hit or miss for me. I genuinely do like his entire struggle of trying to figure out who he is outside of helping people. I love his struggle to connect with other humans, how alienated he feels from them compared to the gems. The first half of SUF was something i actually enjoyed because of this.

[leafuxxtea]

god the announcement of hnk (houseki no kuni/land of the lustrous) has got me in shambles,,, i haven't read the chapters after the 10 000 years hiatus so i gotta catch up (actually I'll probably re-read the whole thing)

‼️rambling incoming‼️

imo, hnk is one of the best series for deep psychological analysis,,, it had such a deep impact on me when i first read it (like 3 years ago) and still remains in my top best/favorites series 🥹🥹 i could ramble abt it for so long,,, the process of one losing bit by bit the parts of themselves and replacing it with something else (both physically and metaphorically) in an endless need to help others, but also as an own selfish wish to become better than who they used to be. Then looking back, and realizing things were so much simpler back then, and mourning that past self. (The fact that all of this revolves around their self-hatred and the belief that they're worthless is just. It's so heartbreaking to me. They've become so desperate for affirmation and yet still keeps getting hurt, by others and by themself too.)

i have too many feelings about the manga 😭😭 im losing myself to the brainrot, help-

[calypsolemon]

it just hit me that like. As of future, the only official way for a gem to "die" is to completely override any of the information in the gem, ie what rose did to make steven. Even shattering at this point is repairable, though not perfectly. on god they really are aliens