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We Are the Crystal Gems

*Crawls back up and puts hand on desk, and proceeds to climb up* Came back today with god knows what done to my teeth and a G1, so that's cool. My right arm is doing a thing and I don't know what it is but it shouldn't be too much of a bother. Anyways, hi guys. Love the 9000 joke.

Oh, I also have scary neon and glitter gel pens now to go nuts with while doing Eve art. This should be fun. >:D

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Gilles Laurent

A grin spread across Gilles's face, seeing that his words had somewhat cheered up the little green gem.

"No problem, kidd-"

Screaming. The manchild's voice cut off immediately. Screaming?

"Don't follow me, I think they're mad!"

But how could he not follow him, especially after he was told not to? He looked around the forest floor and picked up a decently sized and broad stick, something that could pass for a makeshift bat if one could properly carve a handle into it. Picking it up and dropping his carrier (he couldn't have that slow him down), he dashed after Emerald, his grin wider than before, "Don't follow you? Think they're mad? No one's more mad than me, Emerald! I'm sorry, but I'm following you!"

While he continued to run, he breathed in the strange smell of smoke. Not cigar smoke, smoke that one would smell from burning coal and wood, and some weird medicinal smell he couldn't recognise but definitely didn't like.

"Besides," he continued, his voice casual to the point of being scary, "I think the forest might kind of sort of be on fire."

Welp, there goes your footage. Too late to go back now.

When he had caught up, he found quite the sight. Amber crashed through a building, Emerald apparently having formed a wall of rock and threatening one of the many gems he hadn't seen before, this one having a color scheme right out of character design hell, another gem he didn't know, this one purple and quite confused, and the last one he didn't recognise a gray one, something right out of a stereotypical fantasy RPG in Gilles's mind. Lastly, there was the human he didn't recognise, and Johnny and Chuck thrown into the equation. He had no idea what was going on, but figured asking wouldn't do him much good. So he, eyes wide with excitement, joined Emerald's side, his stick held firmly. He knew that he wouldn't stand a chance, but that didn't stop him. Besides, perhaps this gem was a newborn, which explained why no one seemed to recognise him, and would back away from all the confrontation.

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Evenkite

"Neither of you," she breathed, a puff of smoke escaping her mouth as she spoke in that dead, dead voice of hers, "Are helping."

Eve let out a sigh, the smoke from her mouth now joining that of the steadily rising smoke which dance at her fingertips. Too done with everything to even feel shock at the sudden reveal of another power. She expected things to most likely go badly upon her return, doubted that anyone would take her presence kindly, but she didn't expect it to end up like this. On her heels once more with her arms hanging limply by her sides, she spoke:


"We came here to make amends. We've only made things worse. Chromite, I apologize for Reggie's behavoir. Reggie, I apologize for Amber's behavior. Amber, I apologize for my behavior. I want to stay here and try to sort things out, I don't in any way want to leave, but like the mature and responsible gem I've failed to be this past month, I am going to isolate myself from this situation, because I acknowledge that it's beyond my capabilities and that I should stop before I make things any worse both for and between you three than need be. I hope you all can do the same until we've all come to the realisation that throwing our anger and frustration at one another will not do us any good. I'm going to find the temple, and I ask that neither of you follow me."

There was so much more she wanted to say, but she dared not speak of them. Enough had already been said and enough harm had come out of speaking. Without another word or even a glance backwards, she turned away, the wind blowing the fumes towards the forest, and she, their producer, following them, the sickening combination of witch hazel and burning coal beginning to fade away as she left.

As she began to walk, slowly but surely, away, she came to a stop.

Screaming.

Not your problem.

She continued on, kicked at a stone with her left heel as she passed by, as if tempting fate, even if just slightly, with her gemstone. Then she stopped again.

Crashing.

Still not your problem.

The smoke was beginning to die down now as her sense of emotions rose once more. None of them pleasant, but they were there. And all because of one voice she was hoping she wouldn't have to hear from in a long, long time.

...Emerald?

Can't deny that one.

Another huff, this one as smokeless as the air now surrounding her, and Eve continued her way back. Her slow and dragging pace was now replaced by her usual one, only much, much more frantic and quick, nearly tripping over once or twice as she ran much quicker than one with such short legs should be able to. She could hardly believe her eyes. Amber had been knocked into a building, a gem whom she had never met (another newborn?) seemed to be ready to attack Emerald and some human, the latter of which was wielding...A stick. If it weren't for her haste and worry she'd probably facepalm at the sight. What an idiot. No matter which way she looked at it, the situation was bad, and though she was sure the others would probably be fine handling it themselves, there was no way she could leave Amber like that. Besides, if she was wrong, she'd have abandoned them once again.

If someone died again, she wouldn't have been there to even try and stop it.

Now once again with the others, Eve joined Emerald and Gille's side in front of Amber, though unlike the two boys she held no weapon, tried in no way to harm him, her eyes unglowing and her unclenched hands by her sides. She suppressed the urge to fling him into the air and take her frustrations out on him, yelling and scorning him, threatening him for even having layed a finger on Amber, and then drop him once she was done. There was no way she was repeating that mistake unless absolutely necessary, no way she was going to faint here when Amber needed her. Besides, that would only further provoke him. And so with her voice calm and cool, with no hint of anger, aggression, or hostility, she spoke once more, her hands now in front of Emerald and Gilles, as if telling them to hold back:

"Newborn, you most likely will not understand what I am about to say or why I am telling you this, but you must stop this at once. There are humans here. A fight between you two -a fight which shouldn't be taking place nonetheless- could result in casualties, or worse. Please. I am only going to give you one chance. Stop and apologize now, before we both do something we regret. Before this becomes anymore violent.

...Before someone else ends up dying."

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*Slams paper down on table* Here is your order for an Eve post, sorry it took so long, I was dragging a friend to this site and then I had the internet die so I couldn't post it once it was done, I swear it'd have been up yesterday if it weren't for the internet, stayed up an hour later than usual trying to get it back for you all, but nonetheless, here it is, please excuse any mistakes... *Sinks back onto the floor and collapses into mush*

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@HaltingBlooper
I may or may not be dragging a friend into this who may or may not make a gem, and also, Kronshi already said he wants new people.

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@HaltingBlooper I think Kronshi wanted someone who doesn't already control a gem, plus, Tourmaline's already a fusion, between Emerald and Mars, I think.

Super biased of me to say but I'd get my brother to join here since he's having bad luck with finding SU RPs that are still going/open and wanted to join here near the very beginning and is still looking but he has a terrible habit of disappearing from the internet at random so I'm not sure I want to, I'd have to keep check on him to make sure he commits and all, and I'm already doing a bad job myself at keeping IC posts as of late, at least with Eve, so...Orz Someone will probably come up eventually.

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Anyways, gotta hit the hay before my mom kills me. G'night everyone~

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@21308 Not really? I mean, it will in some ways, especially in your earlier art, but eventually you grow out of it. I mean, look at my art now;

Might as well use this as an opertunity to introduce the overly sweet Homeworld Gem who's not afraid to get nasty when needed, Lazurine

doesn't really scream



or



does it? XD

It's good to do a large variety at first though but sticking with one thing won't ruin your style forever, but it's good to try a lot of variety first so that you don't cling to a certain sub-category like a security blanket and have a hart time transitioning, like I did when I went from years to chibi to suddenly cartoon. It'll make you more comfortable with certain things but definitely not dictate. And I'm honored that you like my art enough to want to start from there! No need to feel like a rip-off! And even then I'd be super flattered by anyone trying to be a rip-off for my art. XD You can definitely do that if you want, but it's good to have some variety, and probably base your art on a more...experienced and skillful artist who knows what they're doing, rather than my art? ^ ^"
Seriously though angkfdngkdfngkdfngkdf I can't even.

ALSO SUPER IMPORTANT TIPS:

-References are your friends. Use them.

-Draw as often as you can, even if you don't finish the drawing or if they're crappy doodles. Just. Do. It. It helps sooooo much. Every day at least try to get one doodle done.

-Tracing is great as a learning tool, but don't trace artwork and pass it off as your own, that's different. XD

- Draw in as many different styles as you can

-Don't be like younger me and withhold from drawing something because it's daunting, because five years in the future you're going to be like 'I want to draw hands in my new style. How the bloody hell do I draw hands?' and you'll end up with these super perfected everything but the things you've avoided and it'll show like hell it's horrible don't do it save yourself @___________@

-There's more but my brain has gone poop brain on me. ^ ^"

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@HaltingBlooper Will do! G'night Halting~

@21308 Intentionally or not, you'll begin to build your own unique style. Or if you're like me, a bunch of styles so you have art identity crises because what is my style. And it's all what you want to start with. Me, I started off with Earthbound-styled chibis and over-the-top animu because those were what I liked at the time, and though it took a long time to grow out of the Earthbound-esque-ness (pun not intended...probably, and animu died pretty quickly) even then you could see there's was something unique about it as well. It'll develop on it's own, I assure you, slowly but surely. It may end up totally different from what you started off with, and that's fine, and probably a good thing. You could do the square icons, it's a good of a start as any other. I'd suggest studying anatomy if you ever want to be serious about your art because if not you're going to be doomed to styles with unrealistic porportions like me and never understand what an actual human body looks like even in your mind. Seriously, I imagine almost everything in cartoon and chibi it's sorta scary. XD Luckily for me realistic art never appealed to me but there are definitely times where I regret not having studied anatomy. Seriously, do it and do it early, because the later you learn the worse it is. X______X

Now I have like 10 different chibi styles, 5 cartoon styles, 2 weird abstract styles, and now Eve art to add in. XD

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@21308 Affgndfgdfkkgdfkgdkf oh my gosh Spinna > W < I cannot even describe how it feels to hear that...I really do think that the special thing about art, regardless of the form (visual, musical, literary, etc) is that even if you try to imitate another's art no two people's are exactly alike, just like no two people; everyone's art has something to offer that another's can't. I can't wait to see what you make! In time I'm sure you'll be able to make truly amazing art, and hopefully one day I will as well. ' w '

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@HaltingBlooper It basically just acts as if Autism is this evil predator or something, this thing worse than cancer and aids or something, something that is shameful and dream crushing and something that should be eradicated rather than something that needs to be supported and that we're all above it or something and that's it's inferior in the name of familial love and it's gross it's so terribly gross.