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So. I watched Steven Universe at some point. It was cool, and I liked it, and I'm now keeping up with the episodes as well, hah. Gems are too cool. |D

Then one day it somehow hit me that wait, wasn't cobalt a mineral? And Siini's handle is cobaltCross, after his shade of blue??? And then I was suddenly very tempted to check if I was correct, and it seemed like I was, at least sort of. So I was itching to design him as a gem. Yep.

And when I had gotten that far, why not design the rest of the main cast as gems as well?? And so I did. And showed them to wellidkartist , who's a big fan and pretty much immediately went and found gems for the rest of them :D
I ended up keeping her suggestion of (White) Beryl and Black Opal, while I somehow ended up looking up rocks that I figured would fit Vemri, Karyn and Tayda better. I ended up googling for rocks. (what had my life come to lmao)
Pargasite and Dravite were both pretty obscure too, and honestly I felt proud of managing to find uncommon rocks that matched their main colors. \ouo/

Enough rambling about how proud I am of finding rocks. xD

These are the Hexagems. That's also the shape they have in common on their outfits (well, hexagon), much like how the crystal gems have stars and homeworld gems have diamonds. You probably know why, and if you don't, it's because it also happens to be the shape that the SBULB logo has. Yep.

In this AU, they basically were not happy with how homeworld had changed for the worse in their opinion, so they decided to go rogue and escape from it in a ship, in order to find a planet somewhere that the gem empire had not set their foot on yet. Somewhere without warp pads. Where they could live in peace.

It wasn't that easy, though. Of course they had to try to get past a vast meteor belt, which they kinda failed at: they got hit by a meteor, of course. Or at least their ship did. So yep. Stranded on meteors. Meteortrapped. Because Pargasite (that's Vemri) was a doof and forgot his maps at home, and couldn't help them with mapping their trip through the cosmos. And Dravite (Karyn) wasn't as great at piloting as she claimed to be. Like sure, she may have taken some piloting lessons earlier probably, but you know her level of self confidence is disproportionate to her actual skill.

So they end up spending time on the meteor and waiting for Black Opal (Dazzo) to fix the ship (he's also not amazing, but at least he tries (and also has more knowledge of the technology than the rest of the crew does)).

There might be monsters living on and inside of some of the meteors. I'm just gonna make a Star Wars reference here because I can: think of that one giant space worm that lived in a meteor and almost swallowed the Millennium falcon. Yeah. That sort of monster. As well as smaller monsters that may be more capable of actually moving around. So that's a thing that happens and that they gotta avoid or try to kill. Maybe fuse in the process of doing so. Yep.

AND obviously, Homeworld did notice that they were gone, so of course they sent somebody after them. I haven't designed those gems yet, but I've got some in mind.

oops wall of text
ahahaha
i might draw more of these
we'll seeeee

i'm trash

also thank you crimson for the story idea hehe

Description
So. I watched Steven Universe at some point. It was cool, and I liked it, and I'm now keeping up with the episodes as well, hah. Gems are too cool. |D

Then one day it somehow hit me that wait, wasn't cobalt a mineral? And Siini's handle is cobaltCross, after his shade of blue??? And then I was suddenly very tempted to check if I was correct, and it seemed like I was, at least sort of. So I was itching to design him as a gem. Yep.

And when I had gotten that far, why not design the rest of the main cast as gems as well?? And so I did. And showed them to wellidkartist , who's a big fan and pretty much immediately went and found gems for the rest of them :D
I ended up keeping her suggestion of (White) Beryl and Black Opal, while I somehow ended up looking up rocks that I figured would fit Vemri, Karyn and Tayda better. I ended up googling for rocks. (what had my life come to lmao)
Pargasite and Dravite were both pretty obscure too, and honestly I felt proud of managing to find uncommon rocks that matched their main colors. \ouo/

Enough rambling about how proud I am of finding rocks. xD

These are the Hexagems. That's also the shape they have in common on their outfits (well, hexagon), much like how the crystal gems have stars and homeworld gems have diamonds. You probably know why, and if you don't, it's because it also happens to be the shape that the SBULB logo has. Yep.

In this AU, they basically were not happy with how homeworld had changed for the worse in their opinion, so they decided to go rogue and escape from it in a ship, in order to find a planet somewhere that the gem empire had not set their foot on yet. Somewhere without warp pads. Where they could live in peace.

It wasn't that easy, though. Of course they had to try to get past a vast meteor belt, which they kinda failed at: they got hit by a meteor, of course. Or at least their ship did. So yep. Stranded on meteors. Meteortrapped. Because Pargasite (that's Vemri) was a doof and forgot his maps at home, and couldn't help them with mapping their trip through the cosmos. And Dravite (Karyn) wasn't as great at piloting as she claimed to be. Like sure, she may have taken some piloting lessons earlier probably, but you know her level of self confidence is disproportionate to her actual skill.

So they end up spending time on the meteor and waiting for Black Opal (Dazzo) to fix the ship (he's also not amazing, but at least he tries (and also has more knowledge of the technology than the rest of the crew does)).

There might be monsters living on and inside of some of the meteors. I'm just gonna make a Star Wars reference here because I can: think of that one giant space worm that lived in a meteor and almost swallowed the Millennium falcon. Yeah. That sort of monster. As well as smaller monsters that may be more capable of actually moving around. So that's a thing that happens and that they gotta avoid or try to kill. Maybe fuse in the process of doing so. Yep.

AND obviously, Homeworld did notice that they were gone, so of course they sent somebody after them. I haven't designed those gems yet, but I've got some in mind.

oops wall of text
ahahaha
i might draw more of these
we'll seeeee

i'm trash

also thank you crimson for the story idea hehe