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Winter Rose (Worm/Steven Universe) (Alt Power+Crossover)

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CapnOblivious42 said:
Honestly at first I thought Coil. Kidnapping small female capes is kinda his shtick.
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Unless they interfere with his version of precog though I'd have expected the kidnapping to have either succeeded or never happened.

Now, trying it to see what happens and then dropping the timeline, that's a thing I'd expect Coil to have tried. Or having a sniper shoot at Taylor in a dropped timeline to test her durability, or all sorts of other things.

Although if it was Coil and something about the Gems does screws up his precog, he's probably having a panic attack in his underground base right about now.
 
Despite them saying they are merchants, they are either mercenaries on coils payroll, or some of his inside men on the merchants. Skidmark may be stupid, but he is also the easiest guy to frame, high as a kite and can't remember if he actually gave the order or not.
 
It's interesting how unthinkingly protective Taylor is. I don't recall her being so in cannon, different circumstances aside. Or is it her past lives' influence?
Another curiosity is the hands-off approach to a first contract exhibited by the authorities. Do they believe the other Gems to be mere products of Taylor's power? Even if they are waiting to see, the potential risks are massive - you can only make a first impression once. No civilian officials formally contacting them, no protective detail - give that they are, essentially and functionally, alien ambassadors on Earth.
 
Fellow Sufferer said:
It's interesting how unthinkingly protective Taylor is. I don't recall her being so in cannon, different circumstances aside. Or is it her past lives' influence?
Another curiosity is the hands-off approach to a first contract exhibited by the authorities. Do they believe the other Gems to be mere products of Taylor's power? Even if they are waiting to see, the potential risks are massive - you can only make a first impression once. No civilian officials formally contacting them, no protective detail - give that they are, essentially and functionally, alien ambassadors on Earth.
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At the moment we only have Taylor's perspective on events plus a few small snippets dedicated to fairly small asides. The greater workings of the world and the reactions of the powers that be are simply not things that she or the reader is privy to.

To generalize though: The PRT doesn't know what to make of this. They have no reason to believe Peridot's story but they have no reason to disbelieve it either, the potential fallout of preparing for the worst case scenario might be worse than if they did nothing at all, and there are other forces at work (Cauldron, others) who at the moment are suggesting that the best action is "Do nothing unless circumstances change."

Taylor's behavior is not the same as it was in canon for a few reasons. Some of which at least are quite mundane. I wouldn't say that canon Taylor wasn't instinctively protective however; very often her instinctive reaction to protect others got her into serious hot water after all. But what she wasn't was instinctively empathetic. Consider that implication as you like.
 
RoyalNoises said:
Also, inserting color text is always annoying because it doesn't want to turn off. Worth it though. Peridot screams in green.
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Something I found that works well for me is highlighting text and then clicking on the color button and changing the color which then turns the entire part highlighted said color. I don't know if my description is all that great but let me know if that works for you.
 
wowow2264 said:
Something I found that works well for me is highlighting text and then clicking on the color button and changing the color which then turns the entire part highlighted said color. I don't know if my description is all that great but let me know if that works for you.
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The issue isn't getting it to happen it's getting it to stop.
 
RoyalNoises said:
That accomplished, it was time for me to go home. That done with, it was time for me to start heading home
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Looks like you kinda repeated yourself, there.

the DragonBard said:
And Lapis isn't the most powerful of the Gems.
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Excepting Taylor/Pink Diamond, she's probably the most powerful of the Crystal Gems, and is likely going to be the last of them to show up.

So, Garnet's probably next...interesting that the transport method that poofed them into their gems to work treated Garnet as a single more powerful gem, when you'd think it would've treated her as her two smaller, weaker, constituent gems...they'd probably have shown between Peridot and Pearl.

Probably for the best they came together, though...I'm not sure the Hebert Household would have survived Ruby being separated from Sapphire for a week.
 
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I mean Lapis Lazuli and Sapphire may not be combat gems, but Lapis was a Terra former, she could quite literally change the landscape. And Sapphires changed the sway of wars.
 
Cypher Three said:
Looks like you kinda repeated yourself, there.



Excepting Taylor/Pink Diamond, she's probably the most powerful of the Crystal Gems, and is likely going to be the last of them to show up.

So, Garnet's probably next...interesting that the transport method that poofed them into their gems to work treated Garnet as a single more powerful gem, when you'd think it would've treated her as her two smaller, weaker, constituent gems...they'd probably have shown between Peridot and Pearl.

Probably for the best they came together, though...I'm not sure the Hebert Household would have survived Ruby being separated from Sapphire for a week.
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Unless Sapphire arrives before Ruby.
 
knightowl said:
Unless Sapphire arrives before Ruby.
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Hmm...I'm inclined to think Sapphire is the more 'powerful' gem of the two.

Ruby would be physically stronger and tougher, but considering she's meant to operate in groups of fellow Rubies and fuse to handle larger threats, I doubt she's significantly stronger and tougher. She's no Quartz, after all.

Sapphire on the other hand seems to have the more powerful elemental abilities of the two, on top of also having a degree of super-speed, the ability to levitate, and her precognitive powers.
 
Cypher Three said:
Hmm...I'm inclined to think Sapphire is the more 'powerful' gem of the two.

Ruby would be physically stronger and tougher, but considering she's meant to operate in groups of fellow Rubies and fuse to handle larger threats, I doubt she's significantly stronger and tougher. She's no Quartz, after all.

Sapphire on the other hand seems to have the more powerful elemental abilities of the two, on top of also having a degree of super-speed, the ability to levitate, and her precognitive powers.
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True , but they entered the Dimensional as Garnet that probably changes who would show up first depending on the position of the Gems in her Hands.
 
the DragonBard said:
To give you an idea; one of the Gems, Lapis Lazuli, is a hydrokinetic powerful enough to maybe give Leviathan a run for his money (not inviting any vs debates, just saying she's shown a lot of power over water) as well as create wings of water that allow her interstellar flight.

And Lapis isn't the most powerful of the Gems.
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My point exactly.
 
I think at this point we have to accept that Ruby and Saphire are going to arrive together or close too it. Pearl arrived before them and she's arguably more powerful than either individually given that she's custom made for a particular Diamond as personal assistant.

Pearl has a lot of powers of her own including an extradimentional storage space she can overlay her memories on as basically a holodeck recreation. The only other example of that we see is built into the Temple building itself.
She also has solid programable holograms she can set to other tasks. Which between the them suggests a significant power potential.
There's also her ability to manipulate sand and presumably other small particals (including water if the cloud figures aren't just a metaphor) with high enough finesse to make animate figures and dance them into a representation of fusion on the fly.

It could also be argued that her ability to learn 'out of type' abilities like engineering so well as to match a specialist like Peridot is part of her power as a Pearl to be able to take up any task needed of her by her Diamond. The same could be said for her various weapon skills though time and effort might be just as good a reason..

Another arguable one is her ability to link up directly with Gem ships and perhaps other technology but that could be the technology itself though I don't think we see any other Gems interface directly with such things (do we?).
 
Madfish said:
Pearl arrived before them and she's arguably more powerful than either individually given that she's custom made for a particular Diamond as personal assistant.
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More than that, she was custom-made to serve Pink Diamond, most likely by White Diamond herself. That's...a heck of a pedigree. I honestly wouldn't have been surprised if she'd shown up after Amethyst.
 
Cypher Three said:
More than that, she was custom-made to serve Pink Diamond, most likely by White Diamond herself. That's...a heck of a pedigree. I honestly wouldn't have been surprised if she'd shown up after Amethyst.
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That might not be quite accurate given
the colouration of White Diamand's Pearl post Change of Mind and comments given about having her Pearl back previously. Notice that compared to Yellow and Blue Diamond's Pearl colour schemes and then compare the colours of the Pearl that was under White's domination when she's released from the mind control.
Where as Crystal Gem Pearl is primarily White with pink tinged hair and some blue and yellow which would make sense if she was originally transfered to Pink Diamond to help reign in some of her impulsiveness but was effectively corrupted by Pink instead.

As an aside thought we know know from White that a gem can under extreme emotional stress exibit different colours. So I wonder if the same might be true of Pearl? After Pink's influence changing her hair, the militantness of Rebellion adding some yellow, upset at the damage, harm and failure to convince Pink to to the party line adding the blue. Even if they aren't primary any more they're become fundamental parts of her being over the millenia.
Pearl is the most colour varied of all the gems we see compared to other gems all sharing a palete of tints and shades of one colour making her the most unique in that regard. Perhaps Rainbow Quartz (and more so of 2.0) is ultimately and expresion of that growth?
 
Madfish said:
That might not be quite accurate given
the colouration of White Diamand's Pearl post Change of Mind and comments given about having her Pearl back previously. Notice that compared to Yellow and Blue Diamond's Pearl colour schemes and then compare the colours of the Pearl that was under White's domination when she's released from the mind control.
Where as Crystal Gem Pearl is primarily White with pink tinged hair and some blue and yellow which would make sense if she was originally transfered to Pink Diamond to help reign in some of her impulsiveness but was effectively corrupted by Pink instead.

As an aside thought we know know from White that a gem can under extreme emotional stress exibit different colours. So I wonder if the same might be true of Pearl? After Pink's influence changing her hair, the militantness of Rebellion adding some yellow, upset at the damage, harm and failure to convince Pink to to the party line adding the blue. Even if they aren't primary any more they're become fundamental parts of her being over the millenia.
Pearl is the most colour varied of all the gems we see compared to other gems all sharing a palete of tints and shades of one colour making her the most unique in that regard. Perhaps Rainbow Quartz (and more so of 2.0) is ultimately and expresion of that growth?
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I'm pretty sure that Pearl has color elements from all of the Diamonds because she's White Diamond's Pearl... and was created for her before she had even split Yellow and Blue from herself. Meaning Pearl is the second oldest Gem in the entire show.
 
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