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Gem Kids AU is a Steven Universe fan webcomic in which, as the title suggests, most of the show's main Gems are kids. More specifically, it takes place in a world where Gems can age, as opposed to emerging from the ground fully formed.

The story of the comic starts when young versions of Pink Diamond, Pearl, and Garnet, tired of the adult Gems always telling them what to do, decide to run away to the abandoned colony Earth to create their own society. Soon after, though, Yellow Diamond arrives and takes Pink back, leaving Pearl and Garnet stranded. They find another child Gem, an Amethyst that emerged after the other Gems left, and start searching for a way to exist on Earth...


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  • Adaptation Species Change: Steven is fully human rather than a human/Gem hybrid, as his mother was human in this AU.
  • Age Lift: In addition to the various Gems, Steven and Connie are now adults, with their parents being correspondingly aged up. Other human characters, including Lars, Sadie, and Ronaldo, have had their ages altered as well.
  • Anticlimax: Due to the changes in age and species in this AU, many adventures of Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl end quicker and less interesting. For example: Lion never joins them at the temple, time travel hourglass is not collected and Rose's armory is not opened.
  • Artifact Title: Starting with number 20, each comic shares a title with one of the show's episodes that informs its subject and theme. Often, the original title doesn't make sense in he new context; for example, the "Cheeseburger Backpack" arc doesn't have the titular item, while many of the titles that have "Steven" in them don't actually feature him anymore.
  • Decomposite Character:
    • The Rose Quartz of canon is split into three separate characters: Rose Universe, Greg's wife and Steven's mother who's dead before the series begins, Rose Quartz the courageous rebel leader, and Pink Diamond, who disguises herself as a Rose Quartz to flee from her Diamond duties and joins Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl in a new set of Crystal Gems.
    • Pearl and Garnet are split into the kid characters the comic follows and a Pearl, Ruby and Sapphire that were part of the rebellion with the rebel leader Rose Quartz.
  • Parents as People: Connie is concerned about Gem kids and their problems and is dissapointed in herself for being unable to help them solve them. Steven supports her in that moment of doubt.
  • Parting-Words Regret: Yellow Diamond definitely suffers from this as the last things she said to Pink Diamond were not pleasant.
  • Raised by Wolves: More like "raised by humans" for Amethyst, who in this AU had plenty of human contact and serve as an interpreter for Garnet and Pearl.
  • Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Connie's parents are dissapointed and shocked that their daughter and son in law took 3 orphaned kids from the streets with out notifying authorities nor having any legal documents. For all she now, they could get arrested for kidnapping.
  • Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Pink Diamond is way too cheerful about faking death while talking to Yellow Diamond and thinking her sisters will think nothing of it after the deed was done.

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