#bismuth rambles

and in the image! his fingers are really fucking long! but when we see him on stage, his arms are normal length and his hands seem to be in fixed poses.

I might be going insane but it seems like the maximum range of motion he can get is curling his fingers, and that might be why his default pose has his arms folded behind his back- out of sight, out of mind, you won't notice that he can't move his fingers like anybody else would.

All of them stand with their arms either folded in front of them or at their side (ticket taker has one arm behind him and the other tipping his hat) and when his hand is open, its always the same pose, just rotated. it looks incredibly stiff, like he's missing joints. I don't know if those are his real arms. When he grabs pierrot's hand, his thumb is still up like in the default pose seen, but the fingers curled, and the entire arm is stiff and more rigid than you would expect a limb facing resistance to be. I think that he is limited to just being able to curl and uncurl his fingers, and again in that resting pose, just curled fingers, and his arms look, limp? ish?

I will note in the first comic about pierrot's hair we see jester use his hands quite a bit, and in all the comics after that, we get that same curl uncurl motion range. I think that his ability to use his hands was retroactively removed. I mean. Look what he'd be doing if he had the option.

We know he's a theater kid, there's no way he's limiting himself to 2 hand positions by choice. I rest my case on that matter, at least. As for where his arms actually are, I'd say concealed in the baggy part of his pants. they all have slutty soup can waists so it's hard to say for sure, but I bet his arms could fit. And we know he can bend over, because, at least from looking at the top image his elbows seem level to his waist.

There is also the one finger held up sprite, so it might not be all 4 fingers curl at once, but they can only curl and do no complex motions. (There are some complex motions in the shadowed AMA sprites but I wonder if those were made before that change because it does seem consistent past that point)

ACtually! looking at the AMA sprites. who the fuck holds their arm like that. do that right now. its weird. the most natural way is to hold your hand under the arm, at the elbow, which we see doctor do in a similar pose. In fact, it seems like he's trying to do the same pose, but can't.

In the hand open version of the sprite, it still looks stiff, and there's a crease around the wrist (like fabric catching on a joint. perhaps.) and the second picture has both arms... where is his other hand? what is it doing ..

neko if I'm right you have to tell me/j

(I have also been made aware of the possibility that jester was feeding himself to pierrot, and perhaps his arms were what was lost, so they're not hidden at all, just gone. Who knows! But if that picture is from columbinas death, after the potential self feeding occurred, then likely not.)

That would depend on what you would consider as alien, honestly, but for the most part we’re pretty human-like. It’s a good build to have- sweet, simple, does the job.

The typical build of Gems differs between classes, but the best way to describe the system is short to tall, then back down to short again. You got your little Rubies, then all the way up to the big Quartzes (and Bismuths like your’s truly), then back down into Sapphire territory. You can start to see the change right after Jaspers and Amethyst- Agates are a decent example of this. 

The higher up you are, the more short you are, simply because the Diamonds don’t want them to get any ideas. Lemme tell you, if a Sapphire had decided to lead a rebellion instead of a regular ol’ Rose Quartz, there would’ve been way more soldiers on our side. It’s in our mindset to see them as safer, more likely to pull through, etc etc. Rubies and other small, lower class Gems are that much easier to make, so why waste time and resources to find a way to strengthen them?

Speaking of the Diamonds- woo boy. You want a good example of alien-like, there you go. From their proportions to their odd hair, there’s nothing really human about them once you go past their basic shape. Then again, a lot of typical Gem hairstyles seem odd to you guys. And that’s fine- we’re sentient rocks for a reason.

If we’re talking about the bodies themselves, not just the ‘look’ of them, then all Gems are pretty alien. We don’t have our own temperatures. We don’t. We take on the temperatures of the world around us. If it’s hot, we’re hot to the touch. If it’s cold, we’re cold to the touch. Our skin texture varies, but for the most part we don’t got that smooth-ish rough thing you meatballs got. The closest I could give you would be a Pearl- super smooth, almost glass, no roughness. Our teeth are a lot bigger and stronger, and they can get sharp if we’re scared or angry.

this is under a readmore so I don't jumpscare people with closeups of a scorpion. But in short: It has very very long arms with long 'fingers'. If we're still going off of arachnid jester, then like. this is ya boy. this is the arachnid.