I realize that people make human AU Pearl young and stuff b/c it’s more relatable but please consider with me that human Pearl would be the weird ex-military neighbor who wakes up at 5 am every morning and calls the cops if the recycling truck leaves the bin in front of her mailbox and keeps to herself a lot and breaks out a leaf blower half the size of her body to sweep 6 maple seedpods of her front sidewalk. She’s got Rose’s flag hanging on one of those brackets on the porch. Every week or so her son comes over for dinner and promises the neighbor kids that his mom’s super nice if you get to know her she just likes everything just so and meanwhile she’s leaning out the screen door like “steven move the bin out of the way of the mailbox” “okay” “that’s a federal offense you know” “i know you tell me every time i’m here”
There’s 6 cars up on blocks in the backyard and every spring she trims the lilac hedges with a sword
This post has over a thousand notes now and when I look through the tags half of them are just ‘oh my god’ and I think that says it all
Lars has acquired the same powers as Lion, yes? We are somewhat sure of this. The hair-portal thing is a given, but Lion can do some other cool portal-related shit like this:
which appears to be a relatively short-range warp system that increases exponentially when layered; this is what got our losers to the gem base on the moon even though Steven can’t breathe in space.
While this can’t be used to get Lars back to Earth, it sure as shit might be able to get him around the surface of Homeworld without too many people noticing him. What I’m getting at is that he might be able to get ahold of a ship.
Except he can’t pilot one, and if anyone sees him getting into one of those suckers, he’s done for. He also can’t exactly scout out a docking station to tell when a relatively small craft is docked and emptied out enough to be hijacked.
So he needs a gem to come with him to pilot that sucker, and to keep an eye on the docks. The other off-colors can only do so much; they’re awfully conspicuous. Some, like Fluorite, are also friggin’ huge and the odds of Lars fitting them all into one portal is… not great.
So he needs a small, innocuous pilot who is completely at home navigating modern Homeworld.
