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Rhodonite, afraid their little band will be found, hides in a hole to reminisce and rediscover herself.
Alternately, 2/3 gratuitous Rhodonite backstory and 1/3 gratuitous Rhodonite smut.
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Secret, self-contained, solitary as an oyster by a_big_apple
Fandoms: Steven Universe (Cartoon)
21 Apr 2020
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“I see,” Pearl says, sliding the clipboard back across the desk. “When did they arrive?”
“Wednesday. They seemed so sweet when they came by, all holding hands like we might try to split ‘em up. They were real happy when I told them they could share. It’ll be nice to have other pearls around, huh?” Pearl hums noncommittally, and Spodumene reaches across the desk to pat her arm. “Aw, don’t be like that. You’re still our Renegade.”
Pearl plasters on a smile. “Thanks."
Or: Pearl comes to terms with her own identity, and also falls in love.
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- Part 7 of and it's bright
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“A nest?”
“Yep! They gave me some specs, but I wanted your input. It is a pearl thing, right? I’ve never built one.”
Pearl reaches out to brush her fingers across the sketch. It’s oblong, curved to a gentle point at one end and a rippling flared edge at the other, and based on the measurements it’s more than large enough for three pearls to curl up in the center where Bismuth has scribbled pillows? blankets? in her blocky hand.
It’s an oyster. Not quite like the sterile ones pearls are made in at the Reef, that Pearl herself was made in, but it’s close enough to make her go cold and warm at once.
“Hey,” Bismuth murmurs, laying a hand lightly on the small of her back. “You okay?”
“Fine,” she replies, not taking her eyes from the drawing. She traces the ruffly edge with a finger. “Maybe a water mattress. For the middle. Steven begged us for one when he was small, but I was worried it would burst and flood the house.”
“Yeah?”
“I doubt they’ll know what it is. But suggest it. Could you make something the right shape? Lapis could fill it from the ocean.”
“Easy peasy.” Pearl finally blinks and pulls her gaze away; when she looks up, Bismuth is watching her closely. “I could make you one for your room, if you want.”
Pearl can feel herself flush. “No, no. I never—I mean, I don’t really—no.” Bismuth continues to watch her, raising an eyebrow. “Really. It’s...it is a ‘pearl thing,’ as you put it, but not really my thing. I wasn’t close to the others, on Homeworld, and after I left…” She tries to encompass /I was the only one/ and /I didn’t want to be a pearl/ and /Rose/ all in one vague shrug, because Bismuth was there and doesn’t need to hear Pearl ramble about it.
“So it’s a thing pearls do together. Nesting.”
“When they’re able. Yellow and Blue had a nest in the palace somewhere. I’m sure other pearls in service close to each other had nests too. Pearls—most pearls—crave physical contact. It’s meant to keep them attached to their owners.”
Bismuth makes a noise, half thoughtful, half distressed, and her thumb strokes soothingly up and down Pearl’s spine. Pearl is suddenly, humiliatingly aware of her arm still curled around Bismuth’s bicep, of the way she’s leaning into Bismuth’s palm on her back and the warm, solid heat of her side.
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It’s beautiful, and it pulls at Pearl so hard that she feels a tiny flash of panic. Her hand tightens around Bismuth’s arm, and then she forces it loose again.
“You’ve done a lovely job,” is what she says, and she means it. She feels Bismuth puff up a little beside her.
“Yeah? I hope they like it. Hop on in, if you want, tell me how it feels.”
“All right.” Carefully Pearl sits on the scalloped edge of the shell, testing her weight against it, and Bismuth chuckles.
“It’ll hold you, doll. You could dance on that edge, it won’t tip.”
With a little mischief creeping onto her face, Pearl sets her feet on the edge and stands, making a show of testing her footing. A moment, a breath—then a light sissonne to quick chaînés to a pirouette, finishing with an arabesque and a wink. Bismuth belly laughs; the nest doesn’t so much as wobble. There’s nothing left to do but bow, and then step down onto the temptingly soft bedding. As Pearl folds herself down among the pillows, she pulls in a breath—there’s a faint smell of the sea, even without the water mattress—and lets it out on a slow sigh. The expanse of it around her feels huge as she curls up in the center, large enough for at least four or five pearls, but the edges of the shell curve so gently inward and the pillows hem her in, and the canopy above shadows her like an umbrella. It feels...safe.
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She is...somewhere. She is floating. She is, has consciousness, suddenly and without fanfare. With consciousness, with self, comes an understanding of others somewhere around her, somewhere outside of her. The vibration of voices, of movement, of briny water against her outermost layer. Then, with the distinction of self from other, comes form. Sensation, sound. Voices.
“I can’t believe it worked,” a voice breathes above her, like a sigh. “So organic.”
[.] “Each one can be specially tailored. I programmed its form myself.”
“Did you?” the third voice says, surprised. “It’s so colorful.”
The first voice gets closer, crooning, and the water all around vibrates with it. “I am all the colors of the light, but no creature can shine quite as perfectly bright. Not even this one, my own special creation.”
[.] “What will you call it?” the third voice asks. The first voice hums, and then the water moves again, more, much more. Something is here with her, something large, something powerful; for the first time she understands size; for the first time, she understands fear. The Something touches her, strokes slowly along the length of her arm.
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Peridot invents a device that can show how many times a gem has been rejuvenated. This leads to a shocking discovery about Rhodonite.
(Based on a scrapped Steven Universe Future episode about Rhodonite's past)
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Peridot invents a device that can show how many times a gem has been rejuvenated. This leads to a shocking discovery about Rhodonite.
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My version of how Rhodonite fused for the first time and the first time she got caught.
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An AU where Steven was born earlier than in the original series. See how things would have transpired if he was a grown man who suddenly started developing his powers.
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Sometimes Steven gets roped in to playing a few matches with the Homeworld quartzes. It's all good fun, even if the volleys get a little intense and he can't serve consistently to save his life.
Then Jasper gets involved.
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Steven suddenly wakes up in a body that is not his own, in an alternate universe where no gem rebellion happened, where Pink Diamond did what she was supposed to and conquered Earth. He has no idea what’s happening, but he had better learn fast... because if he’s in this body, then who’s in his?
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- Part 1 of Disjection
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Chapter 12
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Finished reading
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How to Fail Upward (in Enemy Territory) by loveluckylost
Fandoms: Steven Universe (Cartoon)
02 Apr 2019
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Just like that, the kid was gone. Lars stood up, contemplating his surroundings now that his only link to Earth had left.
How will he and his new friends make it to Earth? What fires will they have to walk through to do it?
Takes place between the Season 5 episodes, ‘Lars’ Head’ and ‘Lars of the Stars’.
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It wasn't quite me, and it wasn't quite you by readergirl101
Fandoms: Steven Universe (Cartoon)
28 Nov 2018
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“We should name it,” Pearl said, looking up. Ruby blinked.
“What?”
“The… the fusion. You said you don’t feel like Ruby. And I don’t feel like Pearl. So it must be something else,” Pearl explained. "We should name it."Series
- Part 2 of Replaced
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“M-Morganite is going to shatter us…”
“No. No, she won’t. Not if she never finds out and we never ever do that again.”Series
- Part 1 of Replaced
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Pearl doesn't realize what she's been missing until Steven helps her find it.
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Rhodonite didn't always exist. Just like Garnet, her parts had to meet and get to know each other. This is the story of Morganite's Pearl and Ruby, who became our Rhodonite.
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How to Roll (with a Divergent Reality) by loveluckylost
Fandoms: Steven Universe (Cartoon)
13 Sep 2019
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He was too late. It had all gone so wrong.
This fiction focuses on a reality where the Off Colors’ journey to Earth came instead to a sudden, miserable end - A reality wherein Steven and Connie were unable to meet up with Lars aboard the Sun Incinerator.
The debris from this sad situation gives rise to a whole new mess - an unlikely alliance, the beginnings of a new rebellion, and a hunt for the missing gems.
Heavily canon divergent post-'Kevin Party'.
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Lars of the Stars!
Set after he leaves in Steven Universe: Future.
Structured around the idea of a TV show, like if Lars got his own spinoff.
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A look inside Blue Pearl's thoughts during The Trial.
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Based on the scrapped backstory for Rhodonite, where their gems fuse and their romance is sweet.
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