old tumblr postsSeptember 18, 2016

Hi! I was wondering I could ask some questions about your life as Pearl. Aside from Steven, were there ever any male gems? Is there a reason that gems took on female forms almost exclusively? I’m just really curious about how gender works in the Gem world.

In the universe that I came from as a Gem, on my Gem Homeworld, gender was a foreign concept that only applied to organic lifeforms.…

old tumblr postsAugust 20, 2016

Can you describe how Gems’ physical bodies compared to those of actual humans? For instance, could Gems with human skin tones/hairstyles pass themselves off as humans, or were the Gems visibly alien by contrast despite being humanoid? This is something I’ve always wondered! Thanks in advance.

Only speaking from my experience, in my universe: Most Gems were visibly alien to humans, to a fairly significant degree. Even the most human looking…