even the rejects rejected me

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Even more OC art! I’m pretty proud with the amount I’ve been doing recently, it feels like I’m already taking leaps with my new years resolution of more OC related posts. I spent a few hours on this and feel satisfied, the colours were a pain (especially the eyes) as I’m not used to using dark colours but it was good practice! Anywho, onto the gem!

This is my lovely Plum Pearl, adopted from Turquoise, and whoo boy has her life been filled with hate. Used as a doll to mess around with and to just have fun with before being thrown to the next owner to hide their traces, Plum has seen a lot of things. Previously a Pearl of whom clinged to her remaining pride and fought as much as she could, dreaming of ing a rebellion and escaping from her horrid and disgusting owners, she only ever wanted to leave her sad past behind.

However after the shattering of her (at the time current) owner, she found the blame pointed to her. She was seen as dangerous and her previous owners claimed that her defiant attitude was the link, and thus she was blamed and said to be dangerous. Seen as a criminal, she ran away as far as she could - beaten, bruised and frankly ashamed of the whole experience.

She came upon a peaceful rebellion, “Safehaven”, and seeked refuge from the mobs that searched for her. All she wanted was to leave it behind and start her new life like all the other rebelled Pearls had done before her. However they threw her out, denied her. She was a murderer to them and they didn’t want that type of person in their home.

How funny. A place that was LITERALLY called Safehaven refused to let her in. A place made for rejects and defective gems. A place made to protect the broken and not shame them.

Let’s just say this started a change in her.

”You want me to be the bad guy?”

”Okay. I’ll be the bad guy.”