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Steven Universe AU where all Gems identify as male; they/them or chosen pronouns. I just wanted to make an AU where the Gems were male. The humans will be left as their original show genders, meaning Greg and Rose are both male and a male couple. Hope you don't mind that I'm making Greg Pansexual.
Thea has always believed that most things can be helped with a little patience, a cup of tea, and something green growing on the windowsill.
She's never needed much more than that. Her home is quiet, her garden is stubborn, and her younger brother, Greg, has always been perfectly capable of making his own questionable decisions.
Then Greg brings home Rose Quartz.
Rose is beautiful, peculiar, and carrying more sorrow than someone with a smile like his ought to have. Before long, Thea finds herself making room for an extraordinary Gem, an unexpected family, and a little boy who will change their universe forever.
But families aren't built in a single moment. They're built in sleepless nights, difficult conversations, forgotten cups of tea, and the quiet decision to stay when leaving would be easier. As Steven grows, so do the challenges of raising him-and the old wounds that threaten to shape the family he deserves.
Thea has spent so long tending to everyone else's needs that she's forgotten her own heart might need tending, too.
And when the unexpected begins reaching far beyond her little garden, bringing three Diamonds into her life in ways she could never have imagined, she'll discover that love doesn't always arrive gently, that healing takes more than time, and that even the most unlikely things can take root.
Sometimes, the family you grow up in is nothing like the one you expected.
Sometimes, that's the most wonderful thing of all.
With help from Canva and camera settings, I made the image cartoonish. The picture is from an anonymous photographer.