just gotta ignite the light and let it shine

[whattaprick]

Who: Everyone who's stupid enough to show up for this, because legal drinking ages are for people from a different century/planet.
When: Afternoon/Evening, Day 30
Where: Lakeshore
What: Local Carnival workers get wasted and set off fireworks by the lake.
Warnings: Carnival shenanigans, ie. booze, drugs, and people getting set on fire probably. Put any tag-specific warnings in your headers!

So, Wismuth happened.

Lambert's pretty willing to bet a good chunk of the Carnival is pretty happy to act like Wismuth didn't happen, but he also doesn't really care about what sorrows people are drowning or not tonight: he knows he needed this drink, and after he'd slept off the immediate exhaustion that came with running around Wismuth for nearly two weeks with the power of Creation more or less constantly burning through him, he's ready to something, anything to feel like himself again.

Fast-forward to the lakeshore. There's a huge bonfire going, a box of assorted fireworks that's been 'liberated' from wherever the hell engineering keeps their supplies, and probably a crate of wine that's going to disappear sooner rather than later. Anything else, someone's going to have to bring themselves.

[ ooc: This is a mingle log! Bring your own entertainment, food, questionable substances etc. ]

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[starseedling]

Steven has gone between feeling like he is his mom's reincarnation and feeling like he's a totally different person - it's not a concept he's entirely settled on, to be sure. That shows in his voice when he talks about it.

"Yeah," he agrees, regardless, because that's the best explanation he has at the moment. "I'm made from parts of both of them... my dad just didn't have to disappear to do it, I guess." Good old fashioned procreation.

"I have actual skin and stuff, too. That's from my dad's side."

[hippocarnival]

Yuya is definitely still visualizing it as normal procreation, having no other reference, so what it would take for Greg to disappear instead is... well, that's too strange of a thought.

"R-right." Anyway. "So... could any human and gem do that? Or is it only because of who your mom is?" He's only curious, and his expression doesn't show any deeper scrutiny.

[starseedling]

"I think anybody could do it," he says, which is always a weird thought. Sometimes he wonders how Gems could have been on earth for thousands of years without it ever happening, but who knows. Maybe it did and the baby just... hm. "As long as... they could shapeshift the right stuff."

Steven only has a vague notion of what the right 'stuff' is, but presumably biology is involved, which Gems don't normally have.

"But it'd be kind of weird, right?" he asks a moment later. "Wanting to do it so much that you'd just stop existing..."

He can't imagine any of his other Gem friends wanting to do that. Why would they? Why did she?

[hippocarnival]

"Like... organs?" He pauses, considering that. His knowledge of gems definitely isn't enough to question it further.

Steven brings up a good point, though. Did she know it was going to happen, if it really is that special? His expression twists as he tries to understand it. "It's pretty normal for someone to want a kid really badly, but..."

His gaze drifts to Steven's gem briefly. "That's a lot. I don't know." He shrugs. "She never told anyone why?"

[starseedling]

"Kind of," he says. He thinks back to all he's been told about it. It's deceptively simple. "I think she really just... thought that it would be nice. To have a baby... to be a human."

"She loved humans, and was really excited that I would be one. Half of one, anyway." He's felt used by it in the past, but he doesn't right now. He's come full circle by now, back to how he felt when he first heard her explanation.

[hippocarnival]

Yuya folds his arms over his knees. It's not a conversation he ever had with his parents, nor is it one he can have now. As such, for a moment he's not really sure how to respond.

"I guess... whatever it was, if she was willing to give everything up for you then you were really special to her. She'd probably be proud of you..."

After all, Steven is fighting for the sake of his world. Being a hero isn't an easy job, is it?

[starseedling]

Steven sighs, his shoulders drooping even as he nods his head, just a little. He knows. If everything he wants to believe about her is true... she probably would be. She seemed proud of everyone, in her way.

"Yeah," he agrees quietly. "Probably."

At least he actually means it, now.