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oathkeeper-of-tarth:

Welcome back.

jasker:

YEAH!! i cant wait to see these two again aaah!!!! 💛💙

4threset:

Pearls

This print set will available for purchase at Comic Fiesta 2018!

Special thanks to anon who commissioned this set!

oathkeeper-of-tarth:

Here’s a bit of writing muscle-stretching I did the other day, super fast hour-ish warmup/block-breaking kind of deal, because it’s been forever and I’m miserable. Vaguely going off the recent promo. ~950 words of Pearls, because what else?

Pink?” Yellow squeaks out as soon as the throne room doors have closed behind Gemkind’s most lustrous and illustrious, and Pearl is jolted out of her hand-wringing over their youngest member, so very far out of his depth.

She also manages not to outwardly scowl at the name. For now. “Hello, Yellow.”

“I told you,” Blue pipes up in that tiny voice that still somehow never fails to carry when she wants it to. “I told you it was her. I saw her. With the Sapphire at the Zoo…”

“Unbelievable!” Yellow’s tone seems far too grating to be something one would miss, and yet Pearl finds she is more than glad to hear it. “How are you even alive? And what in the stars are you wearing?”

“I wear whatever I want, thank you very much,” Pearl replies just as haughtily. But then she allows her voice to soften. “I’m… really glad to see you two. I’m glad you’re…” safe, she wants to say, but that’s hardly ever true for any pearl. Here feels just as wrong, if for different reasons entirely - she’s often imagined having the two of them by her side, on Earth. Certainly not on doorway decorating duty, and definitely nowhere near diamonds when tensions were running so high, and when… White Diamond might possibly get involved.

The very thought makes her shudder from head to toe, but Yellow is already there, prattling on.

“Well, it’s good to have you back, however strange the situation might be at the moment. We always were best as a set.” Yellow nods sagely. “I assume your return means your Diamond won’t be having you do any more bizarre things.”

“He’s not… she… I wasn’t ordered to do anything!” Pearl is quick to snap back, as it is a sore point that’s been prodded far too much recently, and an argument she’s had with so many over the centuries - including herself. Especially herself. But then she remembers hands pressed over her mouth, gentle as flower petals but immovable as stone, and, well - if she can’t be honest with her current company and hope they understand that particular situation, who ever will? “That’s… that’s not quite true. There was… one thing.”

One thing with all the weight of the world, pressing down - now gone.

“But you know what? I decided that I didn’t like it, and that it was wrong. Certainly, considering the problems it was causing us, there had been a miscalculation and oversight on… Pink Diamond’s part.” Pearl’s voice drops to an even lower, even more conspiratorial whisper - even though they are perfectly alone and disregarded as only pearls get to be, and her audience is already captivated by her talk of a diamond’s fallibility. “So I disobeyed a direct order.”

Blue’s reaction is a gasp she moves to muffle immediately. Yellow allows herself the full drama of a shocked hand raised to her gem and an incredulous “You didn’t!”

“Oh yes I did!” Pearl shoots back, giddiness rising.

It was fear filling her at first, when she at long last managed to let Steven know the secret - a terror of it finally, finally coming to light, the magnitude of what it would mean for him, for all of them, as well as a much more dense, personal, selfish fear of how their perception of her would change. Then the most potent relief she’d ever known, warring with endless regret and frustration with herself because she hadn’t managed to tell them all sooner. Because she’d failed when it had been so important, when it could have saved them so much pain (but she fights that down and stashes it away again and again - the could haves and should haves and desperate whys are for some other Pearls to deal with). And all of it finally brewing into a veritable cocktail of emotions flying every which way, with Sapphire and Ruby- and Bismuth- and Garnet- and the Diamonds of all Gems-!

But now? There is no other name she can put to the feeling bubbling insistently up inside her other than pride.

She did it, after all. She figured it out, and she did it! The terrifying renegade pearl, the quickest thinker of the notorious Rebellion, a whirlwind with both a sharp blade and a sharp mind, and armed with a willingness to use them - finding a loophole and throwing off the yoke thought to be baked into her very nacre, a fundamental limitation of her gem type that made so many so very complacent and so very careless in their dealings with pearls. And if she could share it, if she could encourage it in others…

She’s imagined running away often enough in her life. Clever warp skipping. Bluffing all the way to the Crystal System. Stealing away on a ship bound for the Earth’s wilderness, or just stealing one outright.

This, she imagines, feels almost as good.

“Tell us how.”

She’s never heard Blue be this demanding. There is a new dimension to the looks she and Yellow both have fixed on her, and a new weight. So she rushes to oblige.

“Well… it was a rather interesting workaround, if I do say so myself. And quite… situational. But the finer points will take some explaining. Luckily,” Pearl allows some of that age-old disgust at being reduced to idle hallway ornamentation to seep through, “we seem to find ourselves with plenty of time on our hands.”



The Diamonds, upon their return, find the pearls nowhere near where they left them to wait, and certainly not at hand to open any doors. Instead, the three are seated comfortably in a decorative nook, huddled together over a phone, engaged in an increasingly lively discussion about the inner workings, potential, and many uses of the not-quite-holopad.

redrrrre:

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Pearls as stereotypical Youtubers (in order): the beauty vlogger, the epic gamer, the storytimer, and the callout Youtuber.


The best friend stole my mommy is in reference to the pearl swap theory

enlightened-introvert:

enlightened-introvert:

Finally, people are appreciating my perfect nicknames for the Pearls. Bloop and Yelp shall prevail.

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@captainjzh Wipe or Whipe (you gotta pronounce the h in the second one for maximum effect)

Pink Pearl (our Pearl) is Pip, but as alpha Pearl, she has the rights to just “Pearl”.

vikivavavoom:

It’s fun to stay at the: Y! P! ..B……..W???

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enlightened-introvert:

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Bloop.

Bloop, sweetie.

Why are you hiding that behind your back?

Please tell me you were doodling on the job.

boringartist:

At first i was just gonna do a small edit on yellow pearl

but of course, i had to put in extra effort like some kind of fan 

giffing-su:

Blue and Yellow Pearl in the new Diamond Days trailer