Steven Universe FC - Aventurine

Here is the latest piece that I had commissioned of the wonderful Zet13.  He doesn’t open commissions that much so when he does, it’s often best just to jump in and get a spot because they fill up pretty damn quick.  For this particular lineart commission, I asked him to draw up a fan character that I designed with the help of clock-heart. 

With regards to Aventurine’s overall design, I was first inspired by a drawing that was done by susandrawsthings​ of what I could call a superhero type of jumpsuit.  After seeing the patterns, I toyed with it and simplified it into the pattern you see here.  Basically similar to what the Homeworld Gems have where their “Clothes” look more like skin tight outfits.  I often thought that if Aventurine where to come into contact with Steven and the Crystal Gems she would be encouraged to “wear human clothes” and she would try and find it so frivolous. 

When I designed Aventurine I wanted to go with the same theme that is done for the other gems in the series where their body is basically a reflection based on the colors of their gems.  Such as Amethyst is purplish, Pearl is white, Garnet is a russet sort of color, and so on.  For Aventurine because there are different shades of green and flecks of gold to her I decided to use that.  The varying shades of green for her skin, hair and body outfit, but the gold I reserved for the eyes. 

As for her Gem weapon, that was something that was encouraged to me by clock-heart who advised that if I was going to choose a sword I should pick something that isn’t seen very much in popular fiction.  Most use broadswords, sabers, katana, straight blades, etc.  So, I went with the obscure Kampilan, which is a sword featured in Philippine martial arts.  And just like Rose Quartz’ sword, I went with choosing varying shades of green for the blade, the guard, handle and so on.  

After that it was a task of rendering a background and I wanted to do something space related.  And once again it was thanks to clock-heart who showed me the best way to do this that I was able to create the space behind her. 

And now here’s the character sheet for her: 

Name:  Aventurine

Weapon:  Sword (Kampilan)

Personality:  The Protector

Merits:  Industrious, loyal, compassionate, caring, patient, reliable and obedient.  

Gray traits:  Flirty and pacifist

Flaws: Over-zealous, worry-wart, tactless, self-deprecating, overly-sensitive, and stubborn.

History:  Aventurine was once an Overseer of Kindergarten.  Her job was to essentially keep watch over the operations of the Kindergartens to make sure they go smoothly in the creation of new gems and to protect it from outside forces.  In her first few dozen assignments, the Kindergartens were on uninhabited worlds but then came the assignment on Terseron: a world that had primitive peoples living on it.  Aventurine knew what Kindergartens did to a planet.  Often she tried to justify what the Gems were doing was for the greater good especially since the Kindergartens she oversaw were on uninhabited worlds.  But when she was ordered to start the Kindergarten on Terseron, she followed her orders and watched the planet die as a result. 

After this assignment was completed and the planet was no longer needed, Aventurine was assigned to another world.  All the while the guilt of what she had seen started to eat away at her.  So much so that she decided to do something that she once again tried to justify the ends:  she would destroy the Kindergarten.  

When a new one was established on a new world, Aventurine set explosives and destroyed the facility and vanished into space.  Alone and with no home, Aventurine wandered the cosmos until now.  

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