[redhorizon]

Ooooo res with emerald!!

[bakuraas.]

username;Golden-Boy
name; Agate
gender; Male

prompt;
Agate was always a bit of a strange child, and while others may be interested in gems due to their emotional attachment of something poetic, but Agate has always loved gems due to something a bit more... cruel. Nobody ever seemed to like Agate, calling him weird and gross- nobody really saw it as bullying due to how he seemed to brush it off.

He had a secret he kept from the teachers. He would take out gross looking rocks and weirdly shaped gemstones from a local store and make kids feel uncomfortable with them. Mostly this involved tossing rocks at kids, and making some of the more brave kids touch gemstones that looked a bit gross, and telling them that he had cursed them.

As he grew up, he saw it less as revenge, and more as just something fun to do to make other kalons squirm. When he grew up, he turned to harvesting his own gemstones. The prettier ones were shattered so that they looked gross or dangerous, and the "uglier" gemstones were polished and made to shine like magic.

His house is now filled with the broken and unnerving looking gems, and he still likes to creep people out by claiming they're cursed. He has no magical abilities at all, but it sure is fun to pretend that he is. In addition, the way he presents his gemstones has made adventurous individuals visit his store to purchase some of the gems that would usually be worth next to nothing.

His personal favorite has always been the Slaughter Mountain Arizona Fire Agate. It was his gem of choice to disgust the other kalons in his school, due to it's sludge-like and bubbly exterior. His "pet" is just this gem with googly eyes, named Slaughter.

gem img;

[zakuro.]

99% res?

[SilentMelody]

username; silentmelody
name; sterling
gender; agender

their favorite gem is taaffeite.

taaffeite is extremely rare, and it was discovered by accident. sterling is a geoligist who hopes to find a trace of this gem in sri lanka, tanzinia, or china. they currently are attempting to track down the gemstones in china and have stayed there for about five months now. sterling sets off early every morning to various places in china and chips away at rocks. although this is a very time-consuming job, they enjoy each second of it and hope to find a bit of taaffeite.

[liightning]

username; liightning
name; Aella (meaning 'storm wind')
gender; female
prompt; [300/300]


the screech of tires brings Aella back to her past.
her heart rate increases. she finds breathing increasingly difficult. darkness presses on the edges of her vision. tears sting her eyes.
her paw instinctively flies to the gem suspended around her neck on a thin silver chain.
smooth, cool, gentle.
her paws jerk to bring the gem before her eyes. her gaze takes in every bit of the tiny stone. there is so much chaos within the stone, and yet within that chaos there is pattern. purpose. peace.
the stone seems to whisper in her mother's voice, I love you, my little storm wind
her mind clears and she can breathe again.

-----

Aella's mother was a jeweler.
every day she would bring home little gifts for Aella - tiny gemstones, little bracelets, and of course, wondrous stories of the gems she'd worked with.
it was after the car crash that Aella lost everything.

-----

"are you okay?" her friend asks, grabbing her paw.
"I'm fine," Aella gasps, letting the stone drop. it bumps against her chest, a constant reminder of all that she'd lost and all that she still has.
her paws stay clasped around the stone. it seems to hum with a warm energy, one that calms her nerves.
"agate. an ornamental stone consisting of a hard variety of chalcedony, typically banded in appearance," she recites slowly and thoughtfully. it's in her mind like the little diamonds her mother used to embed in bracelets. "consisting primarily of cryptocrystalline silica, chiefly chalcedony, alternating with microgranular quartz. characterized by variety of color and fineness of grain."
her passion is not to turn gems into accessories - her passion is to study them.
she wants to be a geologist or gemologist, to study these dazzling jewels that the earth has created.

gem img; agate

[doge fruit]

user; doge fruit
name; Jaspen Allen {derived from "jasper"}
gender; male











prompt;

"why do I like gems so much?"
"An old guy, named Mr Roy, in my childhood neighborhood gave me that pretty rock. It's called a Contraluz Opal that looks like it has a little nebula in it! I'm still not all that sure why the old man ever gave me this beautiful little rock but I've kept it since I was 9! Apparently it's a very precioys varitey of its kind and quite valuable! I always thought of it as my lucky rock for some reason, or at least, something I could look at if I ever felt in a bad place.

The beautiful flecks of color and the way it kinda looks like a NASA picture floods me with happiness! I also always thought that outer space, galaxies, and nebulas are such pretty things to look at. Just the thought that such wonderful and magnificent things like the "Pillars of Creation" and the "Milky Way" exist and just are out there, you know? I wanted to be an astronaut to see the planets and stars myself but I doubted I had any sort of capability.

Since I couldn't view outer space, I kept the rock close to my heart since it reminds me of my childhood dream and the fact it looks like a little captured nebula. Mr Roy gave me more pretty gemstones since he claimed he couldn't continue to collect due to his old age. Right before he left, he gave me all his collected rocks! It was a sad day but I promised him some months in advance that I would continue it and cherish all of the gems. Ever since that time when I was 10, I've just kept collection up and alive for Mr Roy, hope he's proud of me!

[slythecho]

username; echo into void

name; blaise

gender; dude

prompt; blaise always had a temper. he was constantly getting in fights, and constantly yelling at his parents. one day after yelling at his father for what seemed like the thousandth time that week, his father cracked. he swung at blaise, just barely missing him. blaise was so shocked that all he could do was stand there wide-eyed. his father then grabbed his fur and and threw him out the front door. blaise looked up from the dusty ground just as the door was slammed in his face. blaise was terrified. he got up slowly and started walking down the road. as he was walking, he kicked rocks and stones that were scattered around until one of the stones caught his eye. it was red and brown. he picked it up and held it in his hand for a minute while closely studying it. after that minute, he felt more calm than he ever had before. he felt more protected than he ever had before. he held it in his hand for the rest of the day. now he doesn’t go anywhere without it.

gem img; (jasper)

[heartstrung]

mark

[【Ｗｉｌｄｆｉｒｅ】]

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[deleting all my old posts]

[BlizzardTheWizard]

username; xXClockXx
name; Ruth
gender; Female
prompt; WIP
gem img; Rubellite