Ying Yang Characters - Tumblr Posts
The reason why I drawed them as Yin and Yang, despite not being seen together (yet) on the show is quite simple.
Blue is a diamond, the most powerful kind of gems. She's on the top of Homeworld's authority and the perfect representation of the color that gives Blue her name.
Jasper is a quartz. A gem warrior who serves Yellow Diamond (Blue's...sister?). She loves fighting, being fused with Lapis and wants to destroy Rose Quartz.
They are too different but also too similar just like Yin and Yang. I'll start explaining their similarity. I know it's hard to believe that those two gems have something in common. It's possible that they had never seen each other. But they are connected by their common feelings about Pink Diamond and her shattering. It's like the song "Both of you" says:
"You might not believe it but you have a lot in common, you really do. You both love me..."
They both have been suffering for almost 6000 years due to Rose Quartz, who shattered their beloved Pink Diamond. After all this years they both are still living in the past, even thought it seems that the other gems have forgot what happened. They try to keep Pink's memory alive inside them in their own way. Blue is taking care of Pink's belongings while Jasper is searching for her murderer in order to take revenge.
In addition to all the evident differences they have as a result of being 2 different types of gems, they show two radically distinct ways of express your feelings, in this case the sadness of loosing someone, opposite between them like Yin and Yang.
Blue is still crying over PD's death. She goes once and again to the places that had belonged once to Pink, sinks in regrets and has gotten that deep in her sorrow that she doesn't know how to get out of it even with Yellow Diamond's help.
On the other side we have Jasper, our proud, brave and full-of-rage Jasper. She masked her sadness and her mental breakdown with rage and apparently indifference, but when it came to the end she exploded which caused her corruption.
They are both wonderful characters with elaborate backstories. I just hope that we will see them again.
This is the first draw I ever posted on Internet, as a member of a SU amino,and I wanted it to be my first post here. I’m kinda proud of it, since the design met my expectations back then. Nowadays, every time I look at that, I remember how many evenings and nights I spent colouring it digitally (I was starting and I didn’t got a great app so...)
I hope it’s not too long for my first post ^^