BlushMallet - Steven Universe OC Adventurine (Patreon)

 What we have here is a colored image done by the wonderful and incomparable @blushmallet.   Given how they are very good at drawing Stephen Universe characters, in  particular Peridot and Lapis, I decided to have them do a fan character  I’ve had for a while; Aventurine. 

If you’ve been following my art blog here, you’ll probably remember that I had something similarly done by Zet13.
 

For  the longest time I’ve always wondered what Aventurine would look like  in the Steven Universe style and I saw a lovely opportunity.  In my  commission to BlushMallet I mentioned that I wanted a pose that was  guarding. Which does fit her personality that I crafted for her  that she’s loyal, reliable and obedient.  And what came back was  surprising.  Aventurine’s gaze was intimidating and I liked what was  done and I couldn’t wait to color it.  But when it came to the  background, I initially wanted to paint a Kindergarten but….it didn’t go  as well as I hoped so, I essentially did a small cheat and used the  background from the previous Aventurine picture and put it in, with a  few extra modifications here and there.
 

It may seem like cheating  but at the same time one could make the argument that doing this also  makes a connection and a nod to the previous piece. 
 

All in all, I think it came out well and I thank @blushmallet for the marvelous work they did. 

Name:  Aventurine

Weapon:  Sword (Kampilan)
Personality:  The Protector

Merits:  Industrious, loyal, compassionate, caring, patient, reliable and obedient.

Gray traits:  Flirty and pacifist

Flaws: Over-zealous, worry-wart, tactless, self-deprecating, overly-sensitive, and stubborn.

History:  Aventurine  was once an Overseer of Kindergarten.  Her job was to essentially keep  watch over the operations of the Kindergartens to make sure they go  smoothly in the creation of new gems and to protect it from outside  forces.  In her first few dozen assignments, the Kindergartens were on  uninhabited worlds but then came the assignment on Terseron: a world  that had primitive peoples living on it.  Aventurine knew what  Kindergartens did to a planet.  Often she tried to justify what the Gems  were doing was for the greater good especially since the Kindergartens  she oversaw were on uninhabited worlds.  But when she was ordered to  start the Kindergarten on Terseron, she followed her orders and watched  the planet die as a result.
 

After this assignment was  completed and the planet was no longer needed, Aventurine was assigned  to another world.  All the while the guilt of what she had seen started  to eat away at her.  So much so that she decided to do something that  she once again tried to justify the ends:  she would destroy the  Kindergarten.
 

When a new one was established on a new world,  Aventurine set explosives and destroyed the facility and vanished into  space.  Alone and with no home, Aventurine wandered the cosmos until  now.
 

© Steven Universe - Rebecca Sugar - Cartoon Network 

(note):  All character(s) depicted here are 18 years of age or older.

(sarcasm): Thank you, Patreon, for not allowing me to post any actual artwork here.