just clowning

The comic is set roughly around when the AU's phos equivalent heads to the moon and they have a falling out with the gems still on earth (I haven't read the manga in ages so my memory is blurry)

I imagine Sebek and Silver are pretty beat up, probably dealing with accumulative damage too, so much so that when they're found there's not a lot of their bodies left.

As to the names being called, Sebek is referred to as Spring! His mother and grandfather are both sapphires, so they're differentiated by colour. Olive is Baur, Lime is his mother, and I decided to carry on with the plant theme with Spring.

Silver and Sebek's bodies are mushed together as they salvage what's left of them, and they're left with a gem that's mostly moonstone, about 2/3. So the dominant personality is Silver, and his hair's been cut to use that to rebuild his body. (I was debating giving him a ribbon in his hair since Sebek used to wear one, but jury's still out on that)

The drawing of Silver with his hand to his cheek and naked is him just woken up and realising what his body is made of. He's not having the best time once the realisation fully kicks in. Your partner was destroyed before you could reach them and then you could only blankly watch as the lunarians harvested them and then when you wake up again you wake up alone and the very last parts of your partner were merged with your body in the hopes of keeping at least one of you alive and realising you subsumed the last of them and they're no longer in this world.

(edit: after rewatching hnk, i realised phos actually loses their memories about getting their legs broken and that whole scene. it'd probably be super angsty too if silver forgot the fight with the lunarians where sebek got taken to the moon. waking up wondering why your partner isn't at your side... not even remembering their very last moments... yeah have fun telling silver about that part riddle)

So he's not doing too well. His left arm is sapphire (I got my left and right mixed up and I even checked and I still got it mixed up so ignore it's his right in the drawings) and his legs are a mixture of sapphire, moonstone and apatite.

When he woke up it was pure sapphire in his arms and legs and their doctor (riddle would be fun in this role) says something like oh we used the strongest parts of Sebek to replace your body because it makes sense if you're remaking a body from scraps you might as well use the best scraps (not to mention Sebek is sapphire, the apatite was only added to make up the damage) and Silver doesn't like that at all.

They couldn't save Sebek, so they used his body to remake his. Silver hates that, and demands that they replace his legs and thread the sapphire with apatite. Sebek didn't choose to die, so they shouldn't pick and choose with his body either. If his body is being replaced with Sebek's, he wants Sebek, not the parts of him they deem useful.

Sebek's a bicolour sapphire, and the yellow of his natural bicolour sapphireness is in his hair, the rest of his body is green, so that's why there's no yellow anywhere in Silver's modified body other than the apatite. The lunarians took Sebek's head, and took the bicolour part of his body with them.

He accepted his arm remaining pure sapphire though. The apatite is a weak link, but since in his legs there's a pattern of moonstone and then the sapphire apatite matrix the shock absorption works well enough that he doesn't need to worry about his legs shattering all the time. His arm though - they didn't have enough moonstone to copy the interleaving pattern of his legs, and to thread apatite through his arm will mean there are too many easy places for shattering, especially considering the weakness of the moonstone-sapphire joint that doesn't even reach his shoulder, so Silver accepts that.

The left arm is sapphire because that's Sebek's dominant hand. In Silver's outfit, he wears a glove on his right hand and leaves his left and legs bare. When you look at Silver, it's easy to automatically go 'that's silver' since the head is his. So he wears the gloves since that's his usual from his old outfit, but leaves the left bare as an immediate reminder that he is also Sebek. The legs he leaves bare because despite it all he's quite thrilled to see Sebek's body interleaved with his. Bodies are collected by lunarians and the scraps they salvage are sheltered in a room, so Silver, despite his initial discomfort, is happy that Sebek's body is with him. Somewhere he can keep an eye on it and keep it safe and not lonely.

Silver tends to sleep curled up in the foetal position, holding his legs close to him. In the period of peace when the lunarians don't come for them and phos-equivalent is doing god knows what on the moon(I forget) he obviously isn't needed to be the fighter he always was, and not like he wants to be without Sebek at his side anymore. He often zones out and just stares at his legs and holds them and thinks about Sebek.

It's a fun way for me to incorporate Silver's sleepiness and Meet in a Dream! A third of Silver's body is Sebek's, so there's quite a lot of his inclusions. Silver, likewise, has lost a third of his body, so his personality is pretty fragmented and his memories are shot. It helps that of all people it's Sebek he's merged with since they share a lot of the same memories from constantly being by each other's side.

Due to the personality change and loss of memories and the obvious grief of losing Sebek, a lot of the gems don't really know how to interact with him anymore, and those that try to struggle to get through to him. Silver spends most of his time sleeping. When he's sleeping, he can focus on Sebek's inclusions in his body and feel out for him. It's as much of a healing process as it is unhealthy.

It helps him figure out the border between him and Sebek because he's trying to feel for Sebek, for his memories and emotions, and that also means Sebek's behaviours and memories bleed into him. He likes focusing for the traces of Sebek in his body, coaxing them to life, and fancying he can talk to them.

When Silver sleeps and tries to reach for Sebek, the inclusions that are Sebek usually entertain him for a while before trying to kick him out and try and wake him up. He doesn't mind Silver's visits, but he doesn't want Silver to neglect all the people who love them and actually go back to living.

As to habits and traits Silver would inherit from Sebek, I do wonder what. I can't see Silver ever shouting like Sebek does lol. Maybe he gets better at showing his emotions on his face. It's important to realise that for all the other gems, they haven't just lost Sebek. They've lost Silver too. It's still only 2/3 of Silver, even if it looks like Silver. Lilia trying to help Silver get back on his feet and do something other than sleep all day and one day Silver finally smiles again, except it's not his smile. It's Sebek's smile, and Lilia has to come to terms with the fact he'll never see Silver's smile again.

As for all of the gems who knew Sebek, Baur avoids Silver a lot. His grand student (no real families in hnk, so I imagine it's like an apprenticeship system) is gone and instead of leaving his body alone, they went and used it in someone's else's body. He knows of Silver's importance to Sebek and that Sebek is probably happy he could save Silver, but that doesn't mean Baur has to be happy about it. As for Sebek's mentor (mother), she just wants Silver to be well. She's always supported him as Sebek's dear friend and partner, and though his loss upsets her greatly, she wants to help the person he holds dear and she treasures too.

We time skip a couple hundred thousand years to when Phos-equivalent comes down from the moon. I imagine Silver's doing pretty well! He's spent so much time asleep and reaching for Sebek he can do it whilst he's awake and can vaguely feel him as he moves through the day. Silver tries every single hobby and job he can, but nothing sticks for him like fighting with Sebek did, but he enjoys the process of learning something new, and often you can see him reacting to a conversation you can't hear. It helps him a lot because he no longer feels like a thief for taking Sebek's body.

Eventually, when they do need to fight again, Silver is a dual wielder. The doodle of his pressing his palm to his mouth/fist to his mouth is a little movement I imagine him doing before he picks up arms again. A little way of asking Sebek for his strength. Where Silver views his legs as an interleaving between him and Sebek, he views his arm as an extension of Sebek since it's pure sapphire. I think he likes holding his own hand, and whenever he wants to focus on Sebek in his body when he's awake, he often uses his sapphire arm as a transducer. He very much favours his left arm. Sometimes he refers to himself with collective pronouns (our/we) and sometimes gems who missed Sebek will ask Silver how Sebek's doing.