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First up are the Moonstone sisters! This art is from 2017.

All my Gem OCs had been from an au where a seperate rebellion/coup apart from the Crystal Gems happened. Most of my OCs were Gems who had defected. Because of this remember a lot of their personalities, but a lot of their home world purposes were underexplored.

The Moonstones were such few who I have no memory for their purpose. The thing I do remember was that they were designed the only gems where cross fusion was allowed on homeworld. Moonstone and Sunstones being made to act as a pair of combat partners who when fused created something balanced.

Now my Moonstones are homeworld spies. With the power to turn invisible they make excellent scouts for anything that homeworld may wish to investigate! My Moonstone is rather friendly and mischievous, whilst Rainbow Moonstone is more reserved and careful.

Next are the Sunstones! You can see these two got similarly redesigned at the Moonstones, even if I'm not sure they are a pair anymore, they are functionally similar and in a similar caste placement! So I like them to match.

Sunstones now in my fanon have light powers, in opposition to the Moonstone's invisibility powers. Their purpose is distracting in nature, instigative, using their powers to blind and distract. They live a more dangerous life, in the limelight compared to their Moonstone counterparts. They are sent on missions which require more strategy, alongside their Moonstone partners, so that they may affectively clear the way and keep heat off the other as they look into things. If you see a Sunstone nearby, be wary of what you don't see.

Sunstone had a similar personality to Moonstone, being louder, more confident, and while appreciative of mischief, far more prone to genuinity. Star Sunstone on the other hand was an extremely nervous fellow, who decidedly did NOT have the best personality for his life.

These two I remember more plot for. I'll safe Sunstone since it has to do with one of the others posted here, but Star Sunstone was portrayed as having a rather abusive relationship with a Cotton Candy Agate. I have no recollection on what their affiliation was, if they were under the command of the Agate, in a way similar to the Quartzes who Holly Blue Agate in canon had authority over that she abused. But this lead to Star Sunstone's gem getting chipped/scratched and there being fallout with that.

Next is White Howlite! Howlites in my au were meant to be a sort of messenger Gem, someone to handle more physical communications or deliveries. White Howlite had, predictably, been a part of White Diamonds court.

I have since changed Howlites to instead of being messengers, being stewards, folks kept around by more important gems to manage their things. Their homes, ships, territories, etc.

I had very little about my Howlite despite them being one of the OCs I remember as part of the lineup more prominently. I think they had a very begrudging caretaker personality, leftover need to manage things from their homeworld life.

Finally, Painite! An extremely rare gem whose abilities I changed on rewrite. Initially they were literally just a torture machine, a living weapon created solely to punish other gems at their diamonds whim. Isolated from other gems, kept like a prized pet to their diamond. I have now changed that at least a little bit.

Painite in the updated version is still rather isolated, though less obviously so. Painites may be of the rarest gems on homeworld, second only to the diamonds. They are extremely high nobility, but do not possess the freedoms of other higher ranks given their rarity and dangerousness. They have a power to puppet other gems, a painful process, to control people. They are usually brought out as a last resort for oppressing dissenters and walking the gallows bound to an "honourable" execution. They are poorly socialized, expected to hold little to no empathy for their fellow gems, and even when the option arises folks aren't often interested in being friendly with something so dangerous.

Originally Painite and Sunstone shared a dynamic, and Sunstone was the one to get through to Painite, offer friendship they'd never known, and lead them to join the rebellion. I still like the idea but have no idea how to implement it.