tl;cr meme

[whattaprick]

tl;dr relationship meme
♥ post your characters!
♥ respond to other people's characters with your characters!
♥ they tell you what their character thinks of your character, ic or ooc! tl;dr is enouraged but first impressions or even just impressions from hearsay are a-okay!
♥ react if you want! wallow in da feels
♥ other people do the same thing -- maybe you can use these for a CR chart later? go nuts

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[whattaprick]

hey '''sis'''

[periphrasing]

Oooohh boy. LAMBERT, LAMBERT…

I’ve said this a million goddamn times before now, but IC and OOC, but it always bears repeating: Gems don’t have families. It’s not a thing, at all. Sometimes, depending on the caste and the function and circumstances, gems from the same cut will kind of form little posses on their own, but Peridot was never part of anything like that. It would be a long time, until the day she was forced to choose exile on Earth over going back to her own planet, before she would be forced to acknowledge the powers of friendship and teamwork. And yeah, the Crystal Gems are her family! You can’t discount that.

But. Portland was the first time Peridot really got to experience what family was from a human perspective, and even if it turned out to all be fake in the end, a lot of that has stuck with her in a pretty profound way. Does it really matter if Lambert faking having a horrible stomach illness in a library bathroom in order to protect his werebeast sister never actually happened? They both vaguely remember it, don’t they? And even if a lot of the finer details of their lives in Portland are starting to fade from memory the longer time marches on, there are some things that Peridot knows definitely happened, even if the motivations of each player and the history between them all was fabricated. It was all based off of their real selves, and that has to count for something, right?

By that logic, even though the real Lambert is much more of a prickly jerk than his Portland self was, Peridot feels like she has some kind of insight on him that most other people don’t, whether that’s actually accurate or not. And they definitely went through some shit together there at the end. It would take an extremely significant betrayal of her trust (yes, even more significant than using Axii on her to make her stand down from a fight) to make Peridot turn on Lambert, at this point. Even if she’s kind of embarrassed by a lot of the aspects of the whole ~human family~ situation (just because of how alien it is to her in retrospect), it was an experience that they both shared and came out of being like “well THAT was weird”, and that counts for a lot in it’s own right.

ON THAT NOTE, Lambert is one of the first humans that Peridot has ever felt any particularly strong affection for, which is low-key troubling in a lot of ways because she’s never had to deal with caring so much about someone who’s mortal. Like, she’s kind of hyper aware that even if Lambert actually possessed a lick of a sense of self-preservation and wasn’t constantly putting himself in danger, he would still die eventually anyway, and that’s kind of weird to come to terms with. There’s a reason that gems are often aloof with humans, and it’s because their temporary nature is painful to accept.

Not that she’s constantly worrying about his finite lifespan. No, no… what she’s actually worried about, on a slightly less tragic and much more hilarious note, is how squishy and fragile humans can be. BE NICER TO YOUR BODY? YOU ONLY HAVE ONE OF THOSE-- OK she’s pretty sure Garnet told her that humans aren’t supposed to be able to survive falls like that-- Lambert why are you like this. It’s a good thing Witchers are mutant freaks and sturdier than most folk.

tl;dr She won’t call you “brother” anymore, because that would be weird, but you’re definitely getting called “friend”.