Entries tagged with steven universe: peridot

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[A very purple person appears on the screen, with a... string hanging from her mouth? She's apparently chewing on whatever the string's attached to, since her voice starts out in the telltale "talking while eating" tone anyone who's known her would find very, very familiar.]

'Sup fools!

[And now she gulps down whatever it was, and the string disappears with it. Its identity will remain forever a mystery.]

I guess I'm back in time for the yearly December nightmare thing? I can't even tell how long it's been, haha! But check it out, I've been doin' a bunch, and I'm a new 'n improved Amethyst!

[She poses to show off her new looks. Mainly it involves a new outfit, much different than the ones she's been seen in before, but to anyone not familiar with how this works for gems... it's really just a change of clothes.]

Oh! Since I got here I've been catching up! [She hops over a pile of junk (apparently in her new room) to dig something out, then returns to show off her own copy of Dipper and Mabel's Guide to Wonderland.] Glad I missed out on all this Queen drama. I've had enough Diamond drama to deal with for like... thirty lifetimes. Gem lifetimes. There were some other newspaper things going into a bunch of stuff too, but those looked mad boring.

But whatever! Who all's here now?

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[Video/Action] The Return

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[Steven finds himself quite literally dropped back into Wonderland.

Specifically, he falls into a patch of flowers in the garden. He quickly panics as he notices the flowers he's inadvertantly crushed.]

Whoops! I- I got this! [With that, he starts to... kiss each crushed flower individually. But with each kiss, there's a sparkling effect, and the flower is restored back to perfect condition.

After a few of those, he freezes up as it finally hits him.]

...Wonderland. I'm back in Wonderland!

[One can find him while he's fixing up those flowers in the garden, or while he's on his way back to the mansion in search of his friends.]

[Video]

[And eventually he'll make contact over the network. He beams at the video feed and speaks.]

Hello, Wonderland? This is Steven... Steven Universe! Remember me? Because I sure remember you! [A confused blink.] Am I supposed to remember you? ...Well, I do anyway! I guess I'm here again. It's... kinda been a few years for me back home, since the time that I was last here. Anyone know how long I've been gone in Wonderland time? What's been happening - solve any more mysteries? How... has everyone been doing, in general? I'm - okay, I wish I was back home, but it's still nice to be here!

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video; you chip away the old version of you

[It must have been a difficult week without everyone's favorite loud-mouthed gem around to be an egomaniac at you. Golly, how much have you suffered outside of her presence, but that's okay. She's here now!

And boasting a new look.]

Oh my stars! So. We had an event last week and it was great! I was the savior of Homeworld and practically the new leader of the Crystal Gems, but, of course, it ended, and I was back to my still amazing, but ultimately less heroic self.

[She pauses.] But before I could even be disappointed, I went back home! And it's all true. I am the Savior of Homeworld! For once, Wonderland actually got something right!

[This is an important announcement she just had to make, though underneath all of that, maybe there's something valuable- maybe Wonderland can predict the future!

Either way, she calms down.] Anyway, I'm sure I was missed terribly. Don't worry I'm back now, and better than ever! [ahem] ... What'd I miss?

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[video] they're starting to open up the sky

[It's roughly an hour after Entrapta's announcement that Peridot comes online with her own. By now the rain has started to fall heavily now, and people have had their chance to be angry. Hopefully, Entrapta's fielding some of that. Peridot offered, but... Well, she's glad she doesn't have to yell at everyone.

She's vacated the lab and returned to the barn/room she shares with Lapis. The window and door seem to have been barricaded, though whether that's for the weather or the possibility of an angry mob, we just don't know. In her hand, Peridot has Entrapta's tape recorder, while her own communicator is propped up a few feet away.]

As Entrapta has already informed you, we did contact the Core, and there were some... complications, but that doesn't change our results! Witness this.

[She hits play with a savage "nyeh!" sound and a horrific distorted, almost Zalgo-like sound comes out of it. It's difficult to catch everything because there's a constant loud droning of voices that blend together into nonsense, but occasionally responses can be heard. Under the din, Peridot's own voice is more clear with her questions.

"What is Wonderland's intended purpose and what controls it?"

"S-so what about the Residents? Where do they go when they're not needed? Can you set them free? Have any them actually been unmade? If you need everyone to be together, then what about them? Where do they fit in?"

"What about the Mirrors? Is it because we don't belong here, so you're trying to make something of ours that does belong? Are they part of us or are they part of you?"

By the last question, the voices have become a din that crackles the recording into static. For the most part, there's not much that can be heard from the Core itself except for a litany of voices and occasional words thrown together. TOGETHER, BALANCE, WELCOME HOME, ALWAYS, and WE'VE MISSED YOU seem clearer than others. It's honestly terrifying.]

As I have a perfect memory, I remember the Core's exact responses, though... it was just as hard to understand in person. Most of the answers were nonsense, but it seems to be incredibly focused on all of us being together. There's a moment early on where it starts singing. Here.

[She rewinds the tape until she reaches the beginning where the Core answers her first question, and while the sound is distorted and awful like a music box played underwater, when Peridot joins in to sing along, it becomes much more clear.] Through the years we all will be together, if the fates allow...

See? There's a lot of things like that. [She shifts the recorder in her hands.] This is preliminary data, and we may not ever be able to speak to the Core again, but there's one thing I feel absolutely certain of.

[Her voice, as arrogant and proud as it had been, suddenly goes very grave]

I think Wonderland wants us to stay here.

[ooc: the relevant parts of the log the recorder is playing can be found here, though be warned, it is VERY difficult to make out a lot of it from a recording device that was affected heavily by the distortions.]

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Text, event day 2, also a little action

[For the record, by this general point in time, Lapis actually would be willing to make video posts, but yeah, not right now. Maybe she should've done this sooner, too -- do people still need to be told what's going on? -- but it's already been a seriously long weekend.]

this one is mine
people are in the items
please let them out

[Straightforward!]

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Video

[The network will hear Wirt before they properly see him, as he fusses a bit with the camera angle alone in his room.]

Oh, boy. Guess I'm really doing this...

[He finally stops touching it and pauses, hoping that looks okay (and it does). He really hates making public messages, but takes a deep breath and tries his best.]

Um, hi. I'm...Wirt. Has, uh. ...H-Has anyone actually figured out like, what this event is? Or what we're supposed to be doing? The Dormouse made it sound like we were going to be looking for something, but then Wonderland like...gave me a TV?

[He moves a little bit so everyone can see the portable TV on table behind him. It's bright green, and it has a triangle embedded on the top of it in lieu of any kind of logo.]

It came with instructions, which is kind of suspicious in its own weird way since it came from Wonderland, but it also talks about like, voiding warranties? I-I mean maybe that doesn't really matter since I didn't pay anything, but...what does it mean it's not responsible for psychological damage? D-Did anyone else get anything like this? What am I supposed to...do, exactly?

[Another pause, and then he sighs at his own sad little explanation.]

Normally I'd just ask Dipper, but I can't find him or Mabel anywhere. ...Has anyone seen them, by the way? Like, anywhere?

[That might be the real reason this is turning into a post. He checked all their usual haunts and came up with nothing. All of their stuff is still in their room, but they're nowhere to be found, and he's not really sure how a TV is supposed to help him with that.]

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[video + text] science ladies part deux

[Peridot seems to be broadcasting from… a barn, which if anyone has actually seen her and Lapis’s room makes total sense. She has a whiteboard behind her that has a lot of squiggles and equations that make perfect sense to her.]

Claude, hold the camera steady. [Offscreen, there is a meow. Claude is doing no such thing. The only reason the camera isn’t moving is because the kitten has not decided it’s something to play with yet. Peridot is still satisfied that she’s being heeded and clears her throat.]

Greetings, fellow prisoners of Wonderland. Some of you may be aware that since my arrival I have been seeking to understand the machinations of this place we’re trapped in. Some of you mistakenly believe this is merely a planetoid or a world composed entirely by magic with no other explanation, and you just accept that, which is exactly what the clods in charge what you to think!

But with the latest upset as of two months ago, it’s clear that my theories were right all along. This place you call Wonderland is merely a simulation, and our current bodies are highly detailed computer simulated projections, while our physical bodies are in stasis. I’ve adjusted my theories to allow the inclusion of magic into the nature of this place, but the overall theory remains true. Accompanying this broadcast is an account of some of my findings. I hope you’ll enlighten yourselves, allow yourselves to expand your thinking, and also thank Entrapta for her own growing research into the Core. It’s about time this matter was handled by true geniuses.

[Yeah. Anyway. She pauses dramatically and waits for the camera to turn off, presumably on Claude’s own power, which is asking a lot of a lazy kitten. After a few seconds of her standing there and sweating, she sighs, marches over, and turns it off herself.]

( she blinded me with science )

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video | Do I dazzle you?

[ Good evening, Wonderland! Jessica's super perky and giggly. There's so much for her to be happy about! So now everyone gets to witness her trying to be a vlogger, because she is pointedly ignoring anything involving someone's dumb supernatural call out post. ]

There's so much romance floatin' around, I swear, and it's not even Valentine's Day. Not that I've ever known what it's like to be with someone 'round then, but whatever. [ She waves that off. ] People're gettin' married, it's sweater weather and time for cuddlin'... [ She sighs happily. ] It got me wantin' to read somethin' warm and happy for once.

[ She needed something to distract her from her burning desire for vengeance, okay? ]

But okay, so, I just started this series I've always being dyin' to read. Like, it didn't even occur to me that I could do it here! And now I can and it's so good.

[ Jessica's clutching the first book of said mystery series in her hands, the top of it just barely visible on screen. It's like she had to hug it a little to make her point. This shit's the best thing since sliced bread! ]

I know not everybody's from the same world, but somebody's bound to know about it, right? And I bet at least one person's read it, 'cause it's so popular. Like, it's a movie!

[ And so, the lion finally reveals to the lambs what book she means... ]

So, anybody read Twilight? I wanna talk with you all about it!

[ Yes. She is dead serious. ]

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do you ever feel like the version of you back home is a separate person by now?

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[video] and oh, she becomes a part of me...

[Iiiit's Peridot! ...It's a very official looking Peridot, too. Standing straight in front of her communicator with her shared room with Lapis (that looks a little bit like a barn) in the background.

She clears her throat, her expression calm, yet serious.]

I have a very important question for you all. One I hope I can get an adequate answer for.

[She presses her palms together and points her fingers towards the camera. The "booooi" fingers if you will.]

As I understand it, if someone leaves Wonderland for good, their things vanish. So what if their things are also your things?

[She seems to be doing her best to keep her cool. It's kind of working.] Th.. Thank you.

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[A small robin appears on the screen. He ruffles his feathers a little, showing his annoyance. Since he's in the library, he keeps his voice down.]

Does anyone else think they picked the wrong elective class?

[He has no idea why he chose math. He could have chosen phys ed. That would have been so much easier. Heck, music would have been easier, and he can barely play a note on a recorder.]

Also, is there anyone who wouldn't mind helping me with my math homework? It's due in a couple days...

Um...thanks.

[And he awkwardly signs off.]

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video } when they ask you what befell me say my story is not done

Hey everyone! Dipper, here.

[Dipper is sitting on a table in the library, books stacked around him as well as in the chair that some might argue he should be in. But where's the fun in that?]

I've been thinking a lot about the whole "fiction" thing. You know, how some people here are fictional to some other people? I mean, Alice, for one thing, and the whole Wonderland thing, but then there are the fairytale people and the superheroes and the DDMD people and I dunno, all kinds of people. Which is weird, right? But it gets weirder.

[He clambers off the table and turns the camera to reveal a cork board that holds three posters for some of his favorite shows: Tiger Fist, Ghost Harassers, and Duck-tective.]

This is all stuff from my world that, as far as I can tell, doesn't exist in any other world. That might not seem weird, but I've been comparing with Wirt. A lot of other worlds do share media.

[Under his posters, he pins three other posters: Six Million Dollar Man, Ghostbusters, and a piece of paper that just reads "A bunch of non-duck related Sherlock Holmes adaptions."]

But some things my world does share!

[He slaps an Alice in Wonderland poster in the middle across both rows of images.]

So what does it mean? I mean, I'm not an idiot. Pretty sure when you come from a place where the only media you share with other worlds is public domain, it means you're probably pretty fictional yourself. But no one's actually recognized me as fictional, so I guess I'm probably, you know. A really high quality, cult classic type thing. Way too cool for most people to have heard of.

[That's the only reason he's not famous, obviously. His book or movie or whatever couldn't possibly be bad.]

Anyway, I guess I wanted to see if we could identify any patterns here? [He tugs all the images down and starts pinning up pictures he's taken of various people in Wonderland. He pulls a ball of red yarn from his pocket. He's ready to go full mystery board here.] Have you ever been told you're fictional? Have you recognized anyone from fiction? Do you want to have a Ghost Harassers marathon with me?

...that was a joke. But also let me know if you do.

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eighth [text]

Hey. After last weekend, I've got some questions for people with powers.

If you've got them, were they effected at all when you got here? Did they get weaker or stronger or whatever? If your powers are really crazy strong, is there any kind of limit on them? Anything that stops you from like... I dunno, blowing up the whole mansion just because you feel like it? Is there a cap to what you can do? Natural or otherwise.

Whatever input you can give is fine, even if you can't really answer my questions.

And uh. Thanks. I guess.

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so with that out of the way, what are some good hobbies?

003 ( ★ ANON TEXT )

They say that keeping secrets is bad for our wellbeing.

[And Pearl knows a whole lot about just how bad keeping a secret can be for one's wellbeing, especially when said secret is forced into her and she is physically unable to speak the truth even thousands of years after the matter.]

[Yes, that hurts quite a bit.]

So I was thinking that we could all partake in an anonymous confessional! I'll go first, of course.

[She wonders if the truth would work over text, but oddly enough, she is too scared to try in front of so many people. Not scared that she could be free from the burden at last, but scared that it will be just as fruitless, and she'll have to face the reality of her apparently eternal mental captivity once more. Clinging to that little glimmer of possibility feels infinitely better than destroying it outright.]

[It wouldn't make sense to anyone but a few, anyways. Someday, somehow, the time will come. Hopefully. Maybe. Stars and heavens above, please. But for now, she had something a bit easier to stomach.]

Okay. Okay.
I like watching humans sleep sometimes.

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[ The latest event has done nothing to soothe Cullen's distaste for the transmission device. It has done everything to remind him how pointless any feud with the Mirrors would be, as long as Wonderland stands as their real enemy. At least he would vastly prefer that idea, even if he is not as sure of it as he would like.

His thoughts come prepared, and the forest stands as backdrop for his transmission. For what little that is worth to their privacy, given how many will receive this near their mirrors. ]

Many of us have provided means to prepare for the- [ -war is the word on the table, and now more than ever Cullen refuses to give it that weight. ] conflict we may have to face, but what has anyone done to prevent it?

[ A question, not an accusation. ]

We ought to ask ourselves if the other side is any keener on this fight than we are, if- they are beyond reasoning, or if it is simply a matter of cutting off the head, and replacing it with one more capable of sensible decisions.

[ He still has doubts, but the way his thoughts incline now is this: Only one person on the Mirror side needs to go to assure peace. ]

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[video] james buffett

[Sans is apparently dealing with the fallout of that whole event by doing what he does best--aggressively relaxing and pretending everything is fine. He's sitting on the beach, towel spread out beneath him and a beach umbrella propped up in the sand. There's an open bag of ketchup-flavored potato chips and some kind of nondescript can of soda with a straw in it. He's wearing a stupid, floppy beach hat and obnoxiously large sunglasses. He's got a fishing pole lying in the sand next to him, but right now he seems to be knitting.]

you know what the bright side of all this crap is? at the end of the day, they're just events. they suck, and then they're over, and then we have a couple weeks to just kinda...do nothing and wait for the next one. sorta proves that old saying, "this too shall pass," yeah? even if it's the worst thing that's ever happened, you're, uh...you're guaranteed that it'll end in just a couple days.

must be worse for the people whose worlds these events come from. yeah? they don't get that ending. they just sorta constantly deal with it. wonderland's almost like a...

[He spreads his hands vaguely at his whole beach scene he's crafted here.]

...a vacation. heh.

[He sets down his knitting for a moment to grab his soda. How does a skeleton drink from a straw when he has no lips? Don't worry about it.]

so, what...uh, what d'you think it means if someone dies and then comes back--early? like uh, a full day early?

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[The news brought on less of a freakout than may have been expected. I mean, not no freakout, but... Maybe it's because Lapis was already feeling a bit defeated, and already distrusted the carnival anyway. Maybe the declaration of war wasn't really a new development at all, just the nadir of a long, slow sinking feeling, something awful and inevitable clicking neatly into place. Maybe it had always been waiting there in the background. Maybe this can make her feelings on Mirrors less complicated, not more.

Because she had been thinking about trying to get better at dealing with them, but she had it all backwards, didn't she? She should be uncomfortable with the mirrors. She SHOULD hate them. Not because of her personal baggage, but because they're an enemy and they want to hurt everyone here. Maybe that would be easier.

Every particle of her being still screams that she needs to flee, but then that has already been the case since the day she got here, and escape is still quite impossible. When time passes and Lapis works her way back down towards numb, she just wants to know how screwed she is.]

so what can they do to us?

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[video] i wanna be praised from a new perspective

[Iiiit's Peridot. Standing in the garden and holding the camera of her communicator close to her face.]

I, Peridot, have an announcement to make. Ahem.

[She shifts the camera's focus to what appears to be some sort of weird Banksy-looking statue made out of junk. it is not very attractive.] This is one of my many 'morps. Lapis and I have been scattering them around Wonderland. They represent the trials and tribulations of our time here. If you're interested, I can explain the nuance of each piece, but that's not what this announcement is about.

[She turns the camera back to herself and scowls.] I feel like this should go without saying, but since certain clods don't understand true vision, let me give you a word of warning.

[she takes a deep breath.] DON'T TOUCH THEM. Or else.

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[video] a purrfect distraction

[Sans looks...worn out. Exhausted. It's been a long streak of days of not really leaving his room and just sort of staring at his ceiling. Chara is gone. Toriel is gone. It feels like the start of something.]

[So distractions are in order.]

you know what wonderland needs more of?

cat videos.

[And then, with only that as warning, he loads up some pre-recorded short videos featuring his black cat, 4. It's pretty much exactly like one of those compilation videos. Just five solid minutes of 4 chasing his tail, 4 trying to jump from Sans's bed to the dresser and missing, 4 going to sleep on top of the trash tornado in the corner, 4 attacking one of Sans's slippers and doing the kicky feet of death to it, 4 meowing angrily at a completely empty corner, and 4 systematically knocking several packets of ketchup and mustard off the edge of Sans's hotdog stand. All of it is appropriately set to music.]

[Congrats on your first ever cat video, Wonderland.]