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I usually ask for people to do my gemsonas for art trades, so I figured I'd need to make these eventuallyFirst up's Hubnerite, and I've been kinda unhappy with her look, so, minor redesign.
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Hubnerite is a bizarre and rare gem--what I could find out about it is that it seems to occur only in combination with quartz or other gem minerals (almost described as a gem encased in quartz in quite a few sources) and it glows when back-lit.
She is a dark, reddish brown skinned gem with four arms. One red set, one grey set. As a hard light construct like all gem bodies, she isn't necessarily made of mass and so her arms can occupy the same space at the same time. When they overlap--or are tucked into each other, they take the same color as the rest of her skin. These extra arms are not the product of shape-shifting. They are always present, just not always apparent. Usually she keeps her arms tucked together when she doesn't need the extra set of hands, sometimes they can get in the way and it can offer a tactical advantage catching opponents off guard.
Like her gem, she glows when back-lit, but not in a solid color. She glows with a sparkly pattern and a broken vertical pattern across almost her entire body.
Her weapon is a katar--a sort of dagger-like, powerful thrusting/punching and slashing weapon originating from India. Some variants of the weapon could open up into 3 separate blades--these variants were more ornamental and couldn't be opened once stabbed into a target and the springs to open the blades would absorb the shock when hitting the target, making it ineffective to slash and stab when wielded with the blades opened. As she's a gem, she fights according to these rules blade closed for damage, but can use her katar open to lock an opponent's weapon or pin stuff down.
Hubnerite is tall, thin and androgynous with a body between an acrobat and an MMA fighter. She has a mild case of schizophrenia and some PTSD. www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics…
She likes to take on an off-putting appearance due to some trust issues, but is otherwise a very emotionally supportive and empathetic gem. If you can actually talk to her.
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oh that was a pleasant read. do you ever intend on getting into any reasons behind her PTSD in one form or another?(be it writing or art). love the piece, the glowing is a nice visual detail that lends to the merged arms. im a big fan of the example on the side of her using it. she does not seem like the type of gem to mess with. i love it
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The reason I want to give for her PTSD is that she was created around the same time gems started colonizing Earth, just in time for the Crystal Gem rebellion. Whatever role she was originally created for, she definitely wasn't ever meant to be a soldier even if her abilities happened coincide well with combat, so she was completely emotionally vulnerable to the effects of the brutal front-line combat and special operations she survived. Now, I don't doubt that an Amethyst or a Ruby or a Jasper could get PTSD as well, its just along the lines of a gem like a Pearl or a Sapphire would probably be more susceptible to developing the disorder.
I'm not sure how much sense this makes but, Hubnerite and Angel Aura aren't meant to be Crystal Gems, more a part of a simultaneous, almost hidden rebellion revolving around squirreling "lesser" gems away to form secret underground ocean Rapture-style colonies inside Europa as a chance to escape the brutal, oppressive cast system/racism of Homeworld for gems that believed the Crystal Gem open-combat style, confrontational rebellion would fail horribly. They still contributed to the crystal rebellion--its the same cause, just with the added bonus of saving the world that inspired their ideals--these rebels just kept themselves a secret from both sides and used the fighting as an inconspicuous way for gems to disappear.
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ah i think i get it. it more than makes sense that gems not accustomed to battle would suffer severe effects from it mentally if forced into the role. more so given the home-worlds seemingly strict caste system(as you pointed out). being conditioned to be a servant from birth then suddenly tossed onto a chaotic battlefield even if initially willing is scarring. i have a pearl im working on who was there during the rebellion and suffers from survivors guilt when she watches her master be killed/shattered which is compounded by the judgment of the other gems. When it comes to battle oriented gems from what ive seen i think conditioning plays a big part in them not suffering from major issues.. the idea that 'im made for this' 'this is my role/purpose' is big and folks like Jasper on the show really seemed battle hungry, as if its the only pleasure in their lives. its sort of what i worked off of for Amber. she can/could have easily slip into that category.
first off i love the rapture reference. yeah just because you flee doesn't automatically make you a rebel, there are always a rainbow of grey areas in between. those who seek and join the crystal gems, those who only want to find personal peace, those who rebel on their own for their own reasons and everything in between. im in love with the idea of a underground society of gems and i like how you say they operate. it could go bad very fast with a single regretful or disingenuous gem. is Hubernite a leader in this settlement? she seems the 'reluctant leader' type
i never understood folks who want their OC's to join the main cast.. like id never want to ever have my gems join or meet the crystal gems. the goal of going to earth for my gems is simply to but them between them and their pursuers believing that a sizable force still exists on earth.
YES! way to go NASA! i hope i live long enough to see the results of this new exploration.
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You make a darn good point about Jasper, and I like your idea for your Pearl--sometimes society's reaction to a victim is more harmful to them than whatever tragedy befell them.
Totally agree with you on the OC's in main characters thing! It only really works after the original series has run its course and/or the remaining cast has some excuse to interact with large bodies of people (e.g. someone' OC becoming Nevile Longbottom's star pupil or one of the many Dumbldore's Army members, but not a part of the main trio) 'cuz otherwise you're stuck perpetually writing the main cast OOC or retconning you own stuff to fit, not to mention its a huge setback to playing with other people's OCs of the same universe--everything gets too inflexible.
I imagine that there would be multiple independent city-states inside Europa--each with their own government and everything, but interconnected trade and communication. Travel outside the moon would be almost completely prohibited due to everyone's intense fear of ever being found. Multiple small states is the only way I can see lasting stability and secrecy there--don't like one colony, try moving to another, each having its own culture and subcultures. For the few gems allowed to leave Europa and come back, I imagine they would be expected to destroy everything they've ever worked on and die for Europa before ever letting the colonies' existence slip and all gems from this group acted as inspiration for SU's Illuminati for their secrecy and manipulation to the Homeworld and Crystal Gems.
I never thought of Hubnerite as the leader or leader-figure, but thank you for the suggestion--her as a heavily influential figure makes tons of sense and fills a lot of holes I've been having with my story. My story's pretty much gonna be that Europa gems severed all ties before the war ended, and when they thought that Homeworld had finally left, they sent a trio to Earth to make a super secret warp pad back to Europa so that they could smuggle Earth fauna to better terraform the colonies for prosperity and hopeful political stability. Nephrite's gonna be a serious issue to these gems as he's meant to be a Homeworld Gem deserter, but never backed the Crystal Gems or knew of the Europa gems.
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im totally glad we share a similar view on main cast/OC interaction, usually im met with the total opposite.
ah so a certain level of manipulation is going on within homeworld to support the secrecy and growth of these colonies? if so that explains why any harshly conditioned or regretful gems havent caused havoc or brought attention down upon them 'yet'. id find it really interesting in how the colonies differ from each other depending on what gems make up its populace and leaders. Jupiter isnt that far from earth in the sense of them receiving radio signals (like a hour or something i think lol) so im sure that could also be a nice little contributing factor for the enclosed societies development.
interesting idea. could you maybe elaborate a bit more on how terraforming the moon would have such a big impact? gems dont need food, water, air and automatically adjust to any gravity/atmosphere they enter so i imagine the reasoning behind it would be interesting.
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Well, in SU, almost all gem tech seems to be powered by, well, other gems, some of these even deriving their function from from the specific gem used Lapis's mirror rather than mechanical underpinnings. The robonoids don't seem to be gem powered some kind of electric/battery life is implied, but they are acknowledged as more recent gem technology. I kinda suspect they may be formatted to work with gem tech specifically and their fluids which I bet have some manner of pre-programmed nanomachines have very limited repair function or are straight up useless on other structures. The Europa Gems would have some war prisoners to power some of their stuff, but still, I imagine using gems as power would be very uncomfortable to the Europa Gems as most of them would be lower or lower-middle class working gems like Peridots and such. And in real life scenarios, that kind of exploitation usually falls on the necks of the poor. If they create full ecosystems, they can harvest energy from living or dead organisms, recycle the waste and just use their war prisoners as sun lamps until they find an inconspicuous way to obtain solar energy. (The only gem structures on the surface of Europa are short-distance warp pads used to send space shuttles from inside their cities into orbit)
Also, missing persons en masse are easily excused by war, heavy-duty machinery and construction equipment suddenly disappearing is not. So the Europa Gems cannot rely on gem technology to build their cities after the war ended. So finding ways to handle manufacturing is a big issue because the other option is living in destitute squalor. You're right, they don't have any apparent physical needs, but still
Chitin is a sugar linked in a manner that produces long chains resembling those produced by the polymerization of plastic molecules. Biodegradable plastics are based on the structure of chitin and chitin and plastic share many of the same characteristics. 3D printing with beeswax is also a thing. Plants can be used to detoxify water. And barring all else, organic life produces thousands and thousands of different hyper-efficient catalysts for many, many purposes, some of which can reduce the reaction time of their substrates from a century to mere minutes! And, if the gems can't get a chemical with the specific effect they need from an existing organism, genetic manipulation is a fairly darn easy thing since everything on earth uses the exact same genetic code--DNA and RNA. Also, antibodies can be made to virtually any molecule--that alone is extraordinary useful. Our organic species on Earth have more than enough potential for manufacturing and research irl, just imagine how much more so to fictional gems with their advanced scientific, programming and engineering knowledge.
They stole enough equipment during the war to build their 3 initial cities, but one was destroyed in a later civil war and the gems found themselves struggling to find the resources to cope. They have been sending teams experimenting with Earth fauna and humans for millenia once homeworld retreated, but in the aftermath of an event like a civil war, time's come for them to turn their field research and small-scale works into full scale industrial use. For this purpose, after the Crystal Gem rebellion, human co-conspirators were actually far more important to them than collaboration with other gems. And yes, they do have good access to human electronic media--I've been debating a throwaway joke about how its illegal on Europa to send large-scale DOX attacks to California just for the heck of it or some Europa gems being responsible for the dancing taco computer viruses of the early 2000s.
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lol Gems doing random forms of internet 'terrorism' (as the media would spin it) for nothing but shits and giggles cracks me up. unless its in trade with these human collaborators for whatever resources/information they received. Given the years of semi isolation and limited ability to take homeworld technology im guessing that not only are they still behind gemworld in technology but have developed their own variations and pioneered their own advancements (which is nice giving you more freedom to create what you want without being tied down by in show limitations). i understand the need for organic resources and terraforming now. a civil war? so strife of that level has come to a head in Europa before? interesting, are there any lingering resentments from that in Europa's society? internal conflict is always a big factor in these settlement/colony scenarios. Im a bit curious as to Hubnerite's impact and role in that given her issues with the idea of her being a reluctant figure in that society.. id imagine she had to take part in the conflict and on top of her imposing presence she would be on the away missions which would only have her reputation be built more off word of mouth and gossip making for some uncomfortable situations. if any power struggle takes place or is boiling under the surface she would be considered a 'player' even if she couldnt care less simply due to her previous role and standing. im most likely over thinking this but whenever i am shown some sort of isolated colony synopsis i automatically think of how it can fall apart and/or the conflicts that arise when positions of power are established. there is always someone shooting for a seat of power.
thank you for your well thought out quality answers. 
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