In the aftermath of fighting in Japan and the assault on V.I.L.E. Island, the Crystal Gems and their newfound friends are divided across the world, some in Siberia, some returning to Beach City, and some remaining on the island. Adora pushes Peri to bring them all together, allowing her to connect with old friends in Etheria, Bow and Glimmer, and create new ones, causing emotional tension and conflict…

I extensively used the map (https://i.imgur.com/EJC02X0.jpg) for locations in this story. I again used “Peri” as an abbreviation of Peridot in this narrative. There is a lot more dialogue in this than I usually do, so I’m experimenting around with it in this narrative. I tried it out a bit in my previous story, “Lapis and Peridot’s Talk Show, Carmen’s Desperate Move, and A Return to Japan,” but am going even further here. This is reposted from Archives of Our Own.

The page on Paper Star on the Carmen Sandiego wiki, the pages on Bow and Adora on the She-Ra wiki, the Timeline and Pearl pages on the Steven Universe Wiki, the wikipedia page titled “List of Candies,” a fan art of Paper Star (https://www.twipu.com/Hafude3/tweet/1117432767371812866), and a description of candy people from a certain show, for reference. Also, Kathy Steinemanns “100+ Ways to Say “Blush”: A Word List for Writers” was helpful in removing my previous mentions of the word “blush” and making them more descriptive so you could know the motivations of the character, along with other instances where I would have used the same word. In determining the final color of the fusion, I used the hex color for Adora’s dark blonde hair (#C8A961), finding the name and Pearl’s peach hair (#FCCCB1), with the descriptions from their respective pages, with both further than what is sometimes defined as “blonde” (#FAF0BE) or “peach” (#FFE5B4). The wikihow page of “How to Get the Hex Code of a Color on Your Computer Screen” was helpful, as all I had to was download the images of Pearl and Adora and open them in GIMP and ta-da, there was the hex color code! It was so simple! I then inputted this information into W3School’s HTML color mixer, where you get a very soft orange (#e2ba89), doing the same with skin color with Pearl’s ivory skin (fffff4 and Adora’s pinkish skin (#FCC89C), you get another version of very soft orange (#fee4c8).