The idea of an evil/moon Gem was just too good not to draw. With all the hermitcraft stuff, sculk lore and spooky vibes happening in Empires rn I wanted to try design a corrupted version of Gem! Perhaps she isn’t as warm and innocent as she seems?
For the design itself I took inspiration from the sculk, soul fire, phantoms and blue butterflies (with a little bit of puppet Zelda thrown in there for good meatier). I tried making the dress look like parts of a butterfly chrysalis as well as giving it the rib cage/insectoid shell vibes.
Overall I had a blast making this piece and it may be my favourite Empires piece I’ve done so far :D
hi! could i rq a gender n pronouns for empires s2 gem? :D
Dawngeminitic
Dawngeminitic: A gender relating to Geminitay from empires smp s2! Could stim off her aesthetic or her overall vibe! This gender may feel sunny, bright, royal, or may be connected to sunshine, realm hopping and/or celestial beings!
Just for the record, these are not my main designs for any of Gem’s characters. All of my designs change with the wind and at any given time will be based off of the positioning of the cosmos, Mother Nature, and the general vibe of the situation.
I am not of the day, nor of the night. I am neither sun nor moon. I am what is between, I am the fleeting moments, I am the void, the gap between dark and light.
The fact that Gem knows about her different worlds just made the implications of this crossover a whole lot weirder.
Like is she basically like Oli now, remembering every timeline she’s ever been? Or maybe it’s just her present timelines and somehow she can switch consciousness between the two. Could she potentially remember her time on other servers? If she remembers past Hermitcraft seasons than surely she remembers Empires S1?
I haven't watch season 2 of Empires (clearly), but I have seen Lizzie's short/tiktok when she was talking about the others on the server and Gem's said she was "addicted to daylight." Now I am holding the standard that any s2!Gem artwork I see she must have a tan. Constantly outside in the sun and she doesn't have a tan??
Gem and fWhip can transform into dragons. They actually used to have a healthy relationship with their curse but eventually they got into a fight and Gem got burned and scratched fWhip in retaliation. Unfortunately, Gem ran away to learn magic soon after that and they still haven't talked about it.
They try to manage their dragons in their own ways, neither in a healthy way. Gem kinda bottles up most of her emotions and fWhip just tries to avoid being upset so he just seems extremely excited most of the time.
Their curse can't really be broken but they can manage to control it again! They need to reconcile then start working on being more comfortable with their emotions again.
I haven't thought of many big moments for these two, TBH.
Scotty boi: Eye?? Idk, there was prob something traumatizing enough to make him not go on adventures anymore.
False (world): WHERE THE HECK AM I?! x1 mil probably
Fwhip: uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, maybe his body thingies?? Not body dysphoria kinda snuffs, just like-- WHY IS MY BODY CHANGING SO MUCH?!!?
Gem: Wait, she doesn't have any trauma?! C'mon *wacks with stick* you can do it! It'll be in the future, but if the sun dies 👀👀. Tbh, she's pretty chill.
Pirate Joe (mama bc that's his middle name now) Graceffa: loss of his crew. the whole *ahem* war + loss of his ship. Gladly he isn't a child so he won't have abandonment issues (most likey)
Katherine and Elizabeth are gonna be two different ppl: hMMMMMMMM i wONDER wHAT cOULD pOSSIBLY bE tHE aNGST?!
Lizzie: she used to be a kitten and now she's a *totally normal human*. tbh, she probably have abandonment issues with the amount of sheltered animals getting euthanized.
Sausage (i was going to say tastes great, but uhmmmm): orphan. Most people he knew probably died.
(skipping Pix as he isn't rlly a character)
Shelby :) : okay, if you haven't watched shubble's series, you should. It has *angst*
Biggishbeans: Insecurity (also the fact that timelapse! joel and c!joel are different people makes me happy)
Solidarity (for toys): Being toyed around. He's legit just buzz but with a woody costume and all of his friends aren't toys.
O i l (there isn't a wiki link yet? seems to be underconstuction): His friends died and now don't remember him lol. also nice to know he's in jail...