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sentient78 · 2 years

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i wanna hear more about the alternate verdant au for wx!

TALKING ABOUT AUS

AHHHH I LOVE THAT AU BUT I HAVEN TALKED ABT IT IN MONTHS

the alternate verdant au takes place in my interpretation of a sort of two kingdoms/two sides/two factions type au, using the snowfallen and verdant skin sets. this au is a lot more heavily focused on worldbuilding then characters because i love that sort of thing but i will condense that worldbuilding into being very. VERY abridged (but it will still be hella long). feel free to inquire about it more, though!! i'd love to talk about it

essentially, there's two biomes separated by a large river. one side is a tundra, through closer to the river, it's more live a snowy forest. snow is common in winter, fall, and even a little bit of spring, though it all melts away to reveal short grasses in the summer. on the other side is a very lush deciduous forest. it is deciduous, though with the amount of vines and foliage, you wouldn't be silly for mistaking it as a tropical forest. it snows here in the winter, though most of it melts away by spring.

each of these biomes have a congregation of magic. it's said to be held within the ground of these biomes, but that's not exactly true? magic in this au is mostly genetic. though it is affected by environment-- the moment you are born (or hatched. or built. who knows.), the biome you are in determines what kind of magic you can use (believed to be determined by temperature, but some still hold on to the theory the ground holds magic) it's on a spectrum, from the "magically inclined" (people born with the ability to use magic easily) and "magically devoid" (unable to use magic at all). there's two types-- verdant and snowfallen.

it's a soft magic system, with the only real constraint is that your magic has to do with the environment you were born in. like verdant magic users can affect plants, maybe even other forms of nature to smaller degrees like rocks, wind, or water (maybe.). snowfallen users have influence over ice and snow (to a degree, water too). if you can imagine it and it has to do with those elements, you can influence it w magic. magically inclined people will have a much easier time imagining and influencing the world around them then magically devoid people. i could get into the social aspects and politics of inclined vs. devoid but that's not what this is about (for now)

anyways these two sides hate each other for a variety of reasons, mainly cultural, but thats way too much to get into. all you need to know is they do not like each other

theres a lot more i can talk about this world. how each society is structured, architecture, its politics, military, myths and religions, hell even more about magic?? the whole nine yards

but let's get to wx

wx was built by wagstaff in snowfallen a very long time ago, like hundreds if not thousands of years ago. he wanted to artificially make magic. wx was a vessel and a test subject, for he didn't want to risk trying to force it into himself without prior testing (not that he knew if it would be dangerous or not, just for the possibility it could be dangerous) and he also didn't think he could get away with finding a volunteer to do it. willing or not. (snowfallen society doesn't put much emphasis on inclined vs. devoid people, nor is wagstaff particularly trusting of anyone. so it would be hard to find a participant). he tried a lot of things-- getting people he trusted to cast magic on wx (didnt stick), bringing them to significant monoliths in the tundra (nothing), trying to venture out to find the embodiment of winter (fruitless), even digging around in the ground for a bit (no results). wx was powered on for a lot of this and got to experience this. was never really told why but they went along for the ride

he got tired. and his time was running out. he was... a bit attached to wx though, having spent so much time building them and trying things out with them, he couldn't scrap them. he also didn't want anyone taking his robot long after he was gone. so he crossed the river. at this point, wx was off, for easier travelling, but wagstaff took wx to the other side of the river. he travelled deep in verdant territory, staying undetected and travelling mostly by night. when he got to a sufficiently deep part of the forest he. left wx there. sitting by a big tree, and he disappeared.

now, over hundred of thousands of years, wx was left there, sitting, rusting, corroding. and nature often claims uncharted things, including a metal/ice mixture that just happens to be sitting there! wx's body undergoes a lot of change-- getting rust, getting dirt, eaten away by lichen into funny little shapes, roots and sprouts growing through their eyes, body, and wires....

and they power on.

they're given life anew by the roots that claimed their hollow shell. they don't remember anything. they don't know why they're there, sitting at that spot, what happened. they forgot who wagstaff was. they cant recall the months, maybe even years of trying to get magic to stay in them.

all they know is that their source code is WX-78, and that the cold is somehow bad.

basically wx was reanimated by verdant magic. the trees are magical in this au, that's less dubious then the tundra, but the extent of their magic is unknown, even by verdant citizens

and wx had no magic before, but they do now-- verdant magic. they can only really influence the roots on themselves, though sometimes, the roots influence them. it can get scary and confusing on who's really in control here

smth about wandering and finding a little verdant village and integrating into that idk.

that's verdant wx's backstory for this au :D

#ooc #asks #🌿 The Verdant ❄️#|| god i love this au i love it so much i smsmsmsmmsms #|| please. it has backseat in my mind but its front and center now thanku <3

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irregodless · 7 years

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okay readmore time

feel free to contact me to discuss theories or general plot

so this is gonna be hella segmented but just deal okay

my thoughts are never very organized so im just gonna talk about some disappointments and other stuff

why does homeworld have a court session for rose quartz i mean i get theyre bureaucrats suddenly but like. um? kinda feels silly. why would they give her a chance to defend herself? also have they advanced like humans? bc blue diamond sure af didnt give garnet a chance to plead a case when she fused ON ACCIDENT

that being said what happened to all the stuff about like moon goddesses and stuff. i wasnt really counting on the diamonds being like. actual goddess figures but i was kinda hoping for more than ceo bosses in pantsuits

where he hell is white diamond and why wasnt she present. was she out conquering new planets? the symbol represents her so she appears to still be around. so where is she? i honestly think its suspicious that shes not present. i figure given her color and gem placement she is a cold calculating unfeeling machine who is only concerned with purity, structure and justice. so like the anithesis of what steven fights for: feeling for each other, empathizing etc

kinda disappointed there were so few off-colors but maybe well find some more later

also kinda disappointed steven and lars didnt fuse but i mean maybe later. also there wasnt really a need to so far nor was it implied they would

why did everyone run away from rutile when they emerged? the fact they were not INSTANTLY captured and shattered for breaking the mold suggests that all the kindergartners ran too. now they might have been around MUCH LONGER AGO but to me that would mean imperfect gems were MORE COMMON to find. the gems dont seem to be too put off by strange appearances. im just saying its weird that they would all run from a defect gem. im not crying plot hole, im actually saying i think something ELSE happened to make them run away. not a mutated rutile.

i was kind of hoping to find a secret society of garnets of other rubies and sapphires who followed our garnets example lol. they couldve helped steven feel more at home or something

im kind of sad it wasnt set up more like a movie, but again it wasnt SUPPOSED to be. understand i can identify things i was expecting incorrectly and things im genuinely upset by. this was just my expectations being in the wrong place.

im also sad there isnt more of a prospect of there being like. a season of being stranded on homeworld. but now it feels like in the two years itll take for season 6 to show up till just be a bunch of “””filler””” where lars is just stranded on homeworld and not spoken about until a stevenbomb halfway through. id much rather learn about homeworld!!

we also got no new information about the war or homeworld, really!!!! :( not even a flashback

yellow diamond is guilty af. she didnt want to hold the trial and she was ESPECIALLY outraged by the “crazy theory” that she did it. also, im just sayin, eyeball ruby (the only known witness we know of atm) also couldnt tell that the jasper she had ALSO SEEN WITH HER ONE EYE AND LVOED SO MUCH was really amethyst. like she didnt even notice her chest gem OR her coloration. so i mean. the rose quartz that shattered pink COULD HAVE BEEN yellow or COULD HAVE BEEN a shapeshifted gem. esp since her sword isnt supposed to shatter. so someones murder mystery unravels by getting a core detail wrong. i still kind of like the theory of like. pink transferring her consciousness a la lars and steven to a rose and shattering herself so she wouldnt have to conquer and destroy. so our rose is actually pink diamond but in the body of a rose quartz (making steven still a rose quartz but not a pink diamond like his mom... ‘s personality. which is what matters over physical form. esp with gems. itd also make the rose is pink diamond theories hilarious true but also false lmao)

kind of disappointed in lions new origin story too! i think the pink pearl theories were interesting if not always positively RIDDLED with holes. (some people thought he was a gem monster but um we would have seen pearls gem on his tummy. and steven has pet his tummy MANY A TIME)

I KIND OF DONT LIKE THAT THE HAPPY ENDING WAS JUST STEVEN REUNITING WITH HIS FAMILY BUT LARS GETTIN FUCKED OFF LEFT ON HOMEWORLD LOL. i mean i know he told him to go and tell everone and stuff but its like. look everythings back to normal and theyre back together!! oh except lars who isnt alive and will live forever as an organic lich servant to steven but dont worry l m a o o o. i jsut didnt like that whole lars thing a lot in general... nor do i feel like turning pink instantly redeems him. not that i hated him. but i dont think turnign pink was the character development we needed.

WHERES TOPAZ IS SHE OKAY DID AQUAMARINE RAT HER OUT

DO ZIRCONS GET SHATTERED IF THEY LOSE A CASE

WOULD BLUE ZIRCON HAVE BEEN A PARIAH FOR DEFENDING ROSE QUARTZ DESPITE *HAVING TO*

YO BLUE DIAMOND EY WHAT UP LIKE LITERALLY WHATS GOING ON BLUE PLZ TELL ME IN THE DARK A LIL

plz tell me well get more homeworld adventures and lars will smuggle gems in his hair

are they going to send pumpkin to homeworld as rose or something and sacriice him lol (i actually just wanted to ask why he was relevant at all but then i imagined just like. replacing him with lars)

are the crystal gems gonna go to homeworld and start shit princess marco style teach those gems about rock and roll pearl!! liberate them form the oppressive THE MAN, AMETHYST

can i mention that while it was funny but also irrelevant to this special, i kinda didnt like the like. garnet just drawing herself “i like me” bit. like it was funny but also like. almost too off-focus and too self-absorbed for her character. i could imagine sardonyx doing that but not garnet. idk it was just a single silly gag but i didnt like it

are the zircons okay tho

but like seriously whats homeworld even like like whats going on. especially since they dont seem to have an actual culture (if gems dont know what jokes are i really cant imagine them having a purpsoe outside of militial. how does a civilization survive on being NOTHING but war machines?)

i kinda feel like were coming to the tip of excitement here i feel like theres very little more that can be done in the show. idk. like what happens next anyways

do i have any MORE questions or musings to ask/muse????? yes. but i cant think of any rn. so later.

EDIT: so i was thinking and i wanted to ammend the lars things. he DEF had character development and it was DEF even before he turned pink. i think i felt that the only thing being addressed or taken away was that he was pink now? and i kinda dont like character development thats done like completely suddenly as a heelturn and is heretofore ooc. lars however was written WELL. he developed REALLY WELL AND I LOVE IT. there was just something at the time that made it seem like it was all about him turning pink that almost made me forget he literally saved everyone? and i realize him being left out of the happy ending was of his own accord and sacrifice it just kinda rubbed me the wrong way. just a personal thing i guess.

#su spoilers #in which a show about alien rock warriors turns into phoenix wright in a showlong attempt to prove roses innocence

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