Thanks for your ongoing support, you guys!

We got to 2000 followers, so as promised I’m doing a little behind-the-scenes extravaganza!

I wanted to take a few questions that have been at the forefront of this blog. These are questions that are outside the scope of Steven’s in-story knowledge.

Because there were so many, I decided to combine them all into a larger post and hit them outta the park one by one.

So, without further ado, let’s get started.

Is Steven still Greg’s son?

Where’s Greg?

Why isn’t Steven with his biological mom and dad?

Where is White Diamond?

The thing is - none of these questions can be answered by Steven because (as you know at this point in the story) Steven was abandoned immediately after birth and was in and out of foster homes for his entire life. He has no idea where or who Greg or White Diamond are.

Your adventure is to discover the answer to these questions together with Steven. :) And yes, Steven will discover more and more about himself and his parents as the story develops.

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Why can’t Pearl just ________ to tell Steven her name?

Why can’t Steven just list every letter of the alphabet, and Pearl can spell it out for him?

Why can’t she just use the words he said yesterday and–

Without giving away any spoilers, I’m gonna say this - the headcannon that I have for this AU unfortunately make these suggestions useless. I know that must be frustrating, because you guys had some great ideas. However, Pearl isn’t memorizing new things when she hears Steven speak - she can only echo back what he said to her in that moment (fully or partially).

As for the spelling thing…

For the sake of keeping it real, I will give you this one hint about the nature of White Pearl’s current relationship with Steven:

Even if Steven doesn’t know this, Pearl is still just as bound to his will as she was to White Diamond in the episode ‘Legs From Here to Homeworld’. And Steven cannot will her to do something that is outside of his scope of knowledge.

She can react to things, but she cannot initiate something on her own.

WHITE DIAMOND!!!!!

Okay, I’m gonna disappoint a few people here. Also, this is mild spoilers, but I figured it would be better to say this now:

I’m NOT going make White Diamond a sympathetic character.

Also, this AU is NOT ‘pink and white switch places but everything else is the same’. This is a different story.

Without giving away too much, this is probably the most accurate question to ask about Greg right now:

The answer is: *****CENSORED BECAUSE SPOILERS*****

As for Greg and White Diamond’s relationship…… it will eventually be revealed. But I’m afraid it’s VERY different to what a lot of you have assumed it to be.



Yes, the Crystal Gems exist. Yes, Steven will meet them eventually.

Yes, Connie exists. Yes, Steven will meet her eventually.

For everything else… you’re gonna have to be patient and wait instead of jumping to conclusions.

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NOW, about the brain thing…

WHERE is Steven’s BRAIN?!

WHY did the doctors do NOTHING about this?!

Okay, so to make things clear, yes, Steven’s whole… gem…. is basically taking up 90% of his cranial cavity.

Here’s a fun fact that I discovered when looking things up for this AU: Real Diamonds will NOT show up on xray.

Dr. Maheswaran is a logical human woman who has no reason to suspect that a 5 year old child who is otherwise healthy and hitting all his developmental milestones, would have a GIANT ASS GEM in his head. Because… there’s nothing there to be seen.

What we see is the outline of the gem that is creating grooves in his literal bone, causing his skullcap to appear slightly diamond-shaped. But then again… we know what to look for. To her, it just looks like a kid with a REALLY weird head-shape who probably has SOME kind of bone growth disorder, but is otherwise not negatively impacted by this.

TL;DR: She can’t see the diamond on x-ray, so she thinks the diamond-like outlines we see are just some abnormal growth patterns on his skull, and since he’s well– alive, he must have a rather healthy brain in there somewhere.

If they ordered an MRI, that would be a different story - but they did not, because MRIs are expensive and Steven isn’t really showing any signs of being endangered by his really weird head-shape.

Steven’s gem takes care of brain functions as well as gem functions.

As we’ve seen in the canon SU, damage to gems causes damage to light-body projections (Amethyst) as well as speech impediment (Amethyst) and trouble using normal utilities (Lapis). It’s basically already a brain.





Q: Are you gonna add color sometime? Kinda Wizard of Oz style?

Although that would be a really cool idea, the answer is probably no. I don’t mind doing color illustrations one in a while, but I have a full time job and color takes much longer than black and white.

Also, I’d rather just keep this going on minimal effort than exhaust myself halfway through and give up.

Q: What’s the end goal in this AU?

That’s a good one… uhh… for Steven to be happy I guess?