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Comic Book Gem Monsters: UNCORRUPTED :)

Sorry it’s been a minute but I have been drawing a lot lately, I’ve got over 80+ gems drawn out I believe so I might go back to regularly posting! Anyways a little about these lesbians! In my HC these were all Crystal Gems (to make my life easier lol). Pearl for scale on the left!!

1. Sphalerite - fusion of a Citrine, a Nephrite, and a Bixbite. Very tall.

2. Idocrase - fusion of 4 unkown gems, not great at fighting but a pro at hugging.

3. Iridescent Goethite - very large bashful gem with a huge heart. Made to roll out material projectiles for cannons (cannonballs). Would rather roll in the grass.

4. Variscite - quick gem with strong caretaking tendencies. Used to be something like a gem nurse in Homeworld.

5. Jeremejevite - loves digging, in Homeworld she created holes to anchor down large structures to the ground. Now helps humans in construction.

6. Amazonite - originally an organic life biologist, now helps run the local animal shelter. She can also communicate with animals. Very fond of raccoons.

7. Andesine - used to be a scribe for court proceedings, now works as a writer.

8. Realgar - originally used for retrieval missions, now she works as a lifeguard!

9. Bowenite - made to be a historian and philosopher, now works as a gem history teacher.

10. Heulandite - small gem who can make it snow within a radius around her. Originally used to keep artifacts cool in warm colonies.

11. Viridine - incredibly feisty small gem with dashing abilities, her temper has since cooled and now works at the local library!

PNGs posted below!

I hope you enjoy them!

Every city has two faces. One will show you what you want to see. All smiles and shine, diamonds and electrope, luxury and pleasure, where the rich and powerful live in their palaces in the sky and a thousand greedy businessmen cater to their every whim. The other will show you the truth behind the lies. The hungry bellies, the dirty and dilapidated apartments, the bullies and the beggars, the tired eyes looking for something better, the backs broken to hold up the façade.

And somewhere in between, there's me.

Few find their way to my door. There are no directions, no signs. If you're lucky, and desperate, you might hear about me from the friend of a friend of a friend. If you make it to my office, it's because trouble is stalking you and there's no one left to turn to.

I call myself a Private Detective. But you can just call me Realgar.

Don't worry, the law won't find you down here and I don't care what you've done. I don't even care if you can pay. What I need is information, the kind you can't get from the terminals, and I'll do anything to get it. What kind of information? Well, let's just say I'll know it when I hear it.

Make no mistake, I'm no altruist. I help those clinging to the bottom rungs of the ladder because they can help me. I've been at the top, showered in riches and glory, and I know what it's like when those with the real power decide you've gotten in the way. I know what it's like to be broken beneath their heels and to claw your way through sweat and tears and blood toward survival.

That doesn't make me your friend. I don't trust anyone and I don't do favors. So no, I'm not interested in your revolution or your revenge. But if you can scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. One thing you can count on. I'll never give up.

You see, there's something I have to do.

Here's the official introduction to Realgar, Nero's Cyberpunk Noir AU persona!

Paris green/emerald green:

back in the late 1800s and the early 1900s, there was a major surge in the popularity of a colour called ‘Paris green’. The pigment, which was used in paints and dyes, was made from toxic substances called Arsenic and Mercury. The paint was popular with artists like Claude Monet and Van Gogh, who used it frequently in their paintings (you can see it being used heavily in Monet’s ‘Japanese footbridge’ which contains his famous water lilies.) People who had the colour within a close vicinity of them for an extended period of time — whether it was in wallpaper or clothing — would get incredibly sick and eventually die. Some reports state that the chemical would tint their skin a greenish colour.

Mummy Brown:

Yep, you read that right, ‘mummy brown’. This ghastly paint was made by crushing up and grinding down mummies that were decades of years old, and then mixing them up into an oil paint. What made the paint as special was the texture of the mixture. Due to the nature of the mummies being ground into a powder, small shards of mummies were left behind, making the powder slightly gritty. This is actually what made the paint rather popular among artists. The grittiness of the paint provided a textured finish to the painted surface, making it like no other paints.

Royal Purple:

It was quite hard to attain the colour purple back then as it wasn’t largely available. Due to the rare nature of the product, the colour was only used for royals! It was typically used as dyes for garments, which the deep richness of the purple signified that the person donning the garments was a member of the higher class, usually those who were royalty. But, how was the paint made? It was made from snail mucus! People would harvest the mucus of hundreds of sea snails and then mixed into a dye. The whole process to collect the mucus was laborious and tedious, the harvesters had to boil hundreds of the snails, and even then, they’d only produce enough to make a small patch of dye.

Realgar:

This paint is, yet again, made with Arsenic! The formula for the toxic mixture was made by crushing up arsenic sulphide, then adding it to an oil paint base. Despite containing similar chemicals to Paris green, this paint is a rich orange colour, as opposed to the greenish hue of Paris green. The chemical has a sinister history; firstly being that it was commonly used as an explosive, and secondly being that the chemical is that powerful, it can remove hair from your skin (and to this day, there are tutorials on how to use realgar to remove bodily hair).

Manganese Blue:

In 1907, a chemist melted different sorts of chemicals with magnesium at a high temperature and created what that called ‘Manganese Blue’! Unlike the other examples of usage that I’ve mentioned in this thread, this colour was commonly used on construction sites. It was used to dye cement a sea-like blue, and then used to line swimming pools to create the effect of blue water. There a three reasons why this saturated blue wqs discontinued. Firstly, it eventually costed too much to make. Sending miners down into the pits to collect each and every substance used in the process of producing the colour, proved to be far too expensive and would overwork miners. Secondly, a small percentage of if the substance could be a carcinogenic. Although no fatalities or injury has been recorded, the mixture of chemicals and substances may have a significant impact on health. Thirdly, as the years progressed, deeper and much richer blues were made more frequently, evidently pushing the manganese blue into retirement.