♦ PINK DIAMOND ♦

// I’m doing the 25 Essential Face Expressions challenge.  Here we have: Happiness.

// I sincerely love and appreciate it when other Pink Diamond enthusiasts/roleplayers get the courage to contact me. We get to check each others’ work which is honestly one of my favourite things to do with muns who play duplicates of my muse. :) 

As Pink Diamond moved to face him, the Earth literally shook, and Steven wobbled slightly, struggling to find purchase in the sand. He managed to not fall onto his backside, and glanced up at Pink Diamond again. She looked so… sad. He felt a sympathetic pang in his chest — he couldn’t imagine how it felt to be in her position, sure it was… incredibly weird for him, but.. everything for her had just changed in an instant. 

“Don’t be sad.”

His voice was gentle, reassuring, and he felt his chest swell when she admitted she did like him — he always knew Lion loved him, even if she didn’t always show it. She leaned forward, as though trying to touch their foreheads, as she’d done so often as a lion, and Steven reached out, resting his significantly smaller hands against her cheeks, choosing to drop his forehead against hers instead, to reassure her. 

“I know it’s kind of scary, but you’ll be okay! I’m not going anywhere, I promise. It might even be fun! You can still give me rides, i’ll just sit on your shoulder now! Heh..” 

She huffed, a sincere smile stretching across the enormous canvas of her face that could’ve easily swallowed Steven in one bite. Feeling the delicate bop of his head barely pressing against her forehead was enough to ignite a bright flush across the former lioness’s pink cheeks. That’s right. Steven loved her, and she loved him too. He accepted her as she was, for who she used to be and whoever she was now, and will be. At least now she could protect him just as well as the other gems, if not better! She was bigger, STRONGER!