#su au corrupted pd

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Hold friend gently

[scrabbleknight]

SU fandom: Wouldn't it be cool if PD took Spinel with her and she became one of the Crystal Gems?!

Me, AU writer: She gets corrupted.

SU fandom: ... Wha—

Me, a heartless bastard: She's the first to get corrupted, trying to save Rose and then Rose had to watch her turn into a monster :)

[shyrosequartz]

This was going to be a SU rewrite that explored the concept of “what if the diamonds were less extreme in their actions” and then as I was writing it became a weird AU but now it’s barely even that. I think it’s just mine now. I’m posting it anyways bc I like my concepts but I think I will just make it my own thing. I will tweak it of course but it’s mine now.

- Homeworld is a ‘utopian’ society. Elite gems seek perfection through art, dance, music, philosophy! But, of course, not all gems have this privilege. Builders build. Servants serve, etc... -Pearls are still servants, but they are NOT owned, nor are they forced to act against their better judgement by any master. If Homeworld was a restaurant, they’d be the waiters, essentially. -The Diamonds do not colonize. Gem production does not require the destruction of any planet or any organic life. Instead, gems are sent out to gather resources from other worlds such as water or mineral-rich dirt and bring them back to homeworld. Gems are then produced by [REDACTED, not saying because I’m using the idea in my fan comic and want to keep details secret!]. Gems are made much slower thru this process, and as such the planet has time to renew any resources taken from it. -However, the Diamonds and gems as a whole see organic life less as their own beings and more as strange, incomprehensible, sensitive, erratic things without much thought of their own. - Gems who are unable to follow the rules of Homeworld society are not shattered; rather, they get banished. These gems end up banished to Earth...while the mineral life there is rich, the Diamonds see it and the life within it as too much of a hassle to deal with.  -Pink is the “public face” of the Diamonds. When balls are hosted, when parties are planned, when dances are danced, it is all Pink Diamond who plans, and Pink Diamond who attends. Pink HATES it. She can’t bear the stress of it. - Pink Diamond takes a break from her duties as Royal Party Thrower when she learns of Earth, and the banished gems...she wants to know them. She disguises herself as a Quartz, and joins them... -Among these gems are Bismuth, Pearl, and other gems outcasted for being “wrong”. Pink Diamond finds that she has a lot in common with them, much more than she does the other diamonds. Rose and Pearl form a close relationship with one another, and Rose inspires all of them to live out their lives happily on Earth. - As she spends time with them, she comes to find...she has no desire to be among the diamonds any longer. But she doesn’t fake her shattering, and she doesn’t start a war. Pink Diamond simply...vanishes. The diamonds are confused and distraught. Where could she have gone? - To reform to be Rose all the time, PD poofs herself with a sword Bismuth gifted to her, Juliet style. - Homeworld gems are sent to scour the universe for her. Many come to Earth; it is automatically assumed that those exiles had something to do with it. Pink had such an affinity for Earth, after all. There are some battles, but the Crystal Gems (a name Bismuth picked out, btw!) always managed to beat them back. - After some many years, Homeworld gems stop showing up on Earth. Rose eventually decides to have a child. Steven! -Steven’s life is a lot less action-packed, as there are no corrupted gems to fight. instead, much of his life is focused on exploration! There’s plenty of gem artifacts and ect. left behind by Homeworld’s visits to the planet. A lot more focus on Gem Lore too....[partly because I’m VERY interested in learning what made White]. Connie gets to go on adventures with him pretty frequently after she is introduced because I love her and she deserves to. - At some point, when Steven is 14...a homeworld gem (Peridot?) comes to Earth for the first time in ages. Steven ends up learning about Pink Diamond and her disappearance from her. Steven ends up befriending her. She wants to find at least part of the truth, to give her Diamond some closure. - Steven later learns (possibly from Jasper) that Homeworld has been convinced Pink was somehow shattered. After all, why hasn’t she returned? the whole planet is in mourning. -After learning more about Pink Diamond, and who she was, Steven starts to have dreams of her. Of her life on Homeworld. of her unhappiness... - Eventually, he dreams of Pink Diamond, and her choice to reform as Rose. When he wakes up, he becomes desperate - he NEEDS to go to Homeworld. he NEEDS to tell the truth, the real story of what happened to her.  - He ends up there someway or the other of course. Maybe Blue came to visit the planet in mourning, to think of a punishment for the planet she vanished on, tho she knows Pink would never approve of such a thing. -Blue and Yellow are very open with one another, but White is still completely inside her own head, refusing to speak to or acknowledge anyone. - Steven manages to talk to all 3 diamonds. At first, they don’t believe him. But he manages to get through to them, idk how exactly but he does! And when they learn how unhappy they made Pink, and how MANY of Homeworld’s gems are unhappy, keeping up a pretense of perfection when really they faltered, they decided they wanted to learn what it was about Earth that seemed to set gems free. They come to understand and respect organic life. - Spinel! Spinel was NOT abandoned in the garden, but that doesn’t stop her from being PISSED that her so-called best friend left her without so much as saying a word. -Similarly, PD and Pink Pearl were close friends, but the diamonds didn’t wanna see them socializing, leading to Pink becoming more sheltered and the two drifting apart from one another. Pink Pearl is upset she never got a chance to say goodbye. Basically: Homeworld functions under a false pretense of a Utopia -> gems are exiled for challenging this -> PD befriends exiled gems and eventually runs away to Earth by simply vanishing and poofing herself to reform -> Homeworld gems are sent to find her to no avail. Eventually, they stop coming -> Many years later, Rose Quartz decides to have Steven. -> Homeworld gems start coming to Earth again. Steven learns about Homeworld. -> Steven learns about Pink Diamond. -> Steven goes to homeworld and manages to reconnect with the fellow diamonds -> The diamonds decide they want to understand Pink, they want to understand why she ran away and understand organic life. They want to know what Earth is like. They come to life there. -> Spinel and Pink Pearl are friends. Not really related to all that but they’re Friends.

[celestialimagination]

So, this is happening

Thanks to a few members in this community, I’ve caught wind of this situation in which many people are denouncing this one SU comic that seems to demonstrate abuse between Steven and Connie. Keep in mind, I saw the comic before I’ve heard of the whole scenario here. At first, I felt conflicted. I’m usually not one to get into these kinds of things and I thought the comic was there to explore some kind of headcanon idea. However, that thought soon worn out upon closer inspection. What’s the most obvious is that this is completely out of character for Steven, even in the realm of AUs and headcanons. Yes, we’ve seen Steven experience outbursts in SUF, but ever since “Volleyball”, he tries to be careful of how and when he uses these new powers. He recognizes these could permanently damage others, especially gems. Not to mention, he’s never one to purposely inflict damage onto others, aside from self-defense. Heck, he constantly tries to help others, so it would seem unreasonable for him to just hurt someone, especially Connie, Greg, or the Gems. Not to mention, doing such things would make him seem like his mother even more, which wouldn’t go well with him. Through numerous times, there’s a big difference between Steven and PD: while PD is rather selfish and even abusive at times, even as RQ, Steven is selfless, empathetic, and wants to heal anyone in need. Seeing him hurt Connie would just feel wrong and simply unnatural.

I’ve also seen people associate the comic with the Corrupted Steven Theory. I can kinda see why, as the CST contains a few dark ideas, but let’s be real: many of the theories and AUs I’ve found on Tumblr also have a lot of dark themes. I don’t want to associate the comic with all of them, I just think the comic should be its own thing, regardless if it seems alright or wrong. I’m looking at the comic’s post on Twitter and I never found a mention or tag of the CST, so I’m not letting a single post ruin my experience for an entire theory that a lot of great people in this community already seem to contribute to and enjoy.

I just wanted to get off my chest, especially when something like this is already booming within the span of a day or two. Like I said, I rarely get involved with stuff like this, but I felt like I should say something about it.

[evohealed]

(( workin on my su au ... stuff is under the cut, along with concepts & ideas I have for it and what I’m generally going for. I’d love some feedback! ))

SO to start off with a general summary of the su au ... Rex is a half gem half human boy who has no memory of where he came from. His gem got very corrupted temporarily, even though humans aren’t SUPPOSED to get corrupted -- though really, he was more gem than human, so that’s why he DID get corrupted -- and it was very painful.  

His corruption came from stress and losing his mind as all canon corruptions do ( it's when a gem's mind breaks ) and he went full beast mode. This was when he was 10 years old, btw.  But when the diamonds came to earth and healed everything he came back to normal.... MMMMOSTLY. 

Now, he’s clueless as to what gem he has or where he’s came from, who he is, where his family is... he just knows that he’s got the ability to make a SHIT TON of weaponry. Which I think would match up to how when he gets really stressed in canon he can't hold himself together, or his form w how it basically tries to form into that MASSIVE kaiju beast as a defense mechanism 

And getting too many nanites in him  makes him look like he's fighting said corruption and needs to keep it together. I was thinking maybe the corruption maybe left like traces of more gem colored skin on him?? if that makes sense? like how jasper, when she was healed from corruption, she still had those circular spots on her iirc. 

Also, Rex is a half gem half human mix because lbr, there’s no way that PD was the ONLY one who had a kid. 

All this being said, I was thinking, since he has spot remnants of his corruptions and such ... maybe, when he’s back to mostly normal, he’s got those little tiny corruption horns and corrupted colored hands & legs. His gemstone, an orange sodalite, it’s right in the middle of his chest but he doesn’t know why it’s there. He wears gloves and long clothing all the time because he’s got what he THINKS are weird birthmarks but are really just corruption spots all over his skin ( and his hands are basically completely blue and orange ) and he wears goggles to cover his little horns. 

And so, here’s some doodles so far. Really, it’s just head doodles but, what do you guys think of the concept / fusion head design so far?

[gems-of-jungle-moon]

Can post-corruption Pink still walk on all fours?

Yes

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Beginnings: Page 8

Read from the beginning!!

Ambience: Silent Construct - James Primate

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I think I’m going to just label these pages as 1, 2, 3 and so on and simply link to the directory (linked above). Editing previous pages is becoming tedious, and on reblogged posts they won’t show. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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What kind of sounds does Corrupted Pink make?

A combination of weddell seal sounds and Snow Stalker sounds from Subnautica: Below Zero. (Fandom is being really dumb about files lately so that's the best I can do. The one I had in mind was the "standing up howl") Plus since she's a mimic and can imitate any voice, I think she would be able to imitate other sounds like a lyre bird.

She has quite a range.

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Shapeshifting~

Hm, why is Pip so surprised? :3c

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I was gonna color these but I’ll save that for later c: I just really wanted to share them

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Sleepy gals

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Lost child found.

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Lost child in aisle 2.

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Baby's first road(?) trip?

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Crossover with @thewoollyviking’s Rose Redemption AU, except pre-Rose. and aspr

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::::Beginnings Pt 2

You pass butter.

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