cerussitel: My gemsona. She is a cerussite, and she calls herself Ceru. She’s kind and she&rsq
cerussitel:My gemsona. She is a cerussite, and she calls herself Ceru. She’s kind and she’s laid back, but her sense of humour is dark and dry, and she’ll smile while her voice is quite deadpan despite herself. She is kind of a bastard sometimes, she’s sardonic and a smartass. She enjoys cigarettes and alcohol. She found a stiletto knife in a pawn shop and fell in love with it. She is not nearly as edgy as she would like to seem.Cerussites were made by the Diamonds to be scouts. They would fly alone in small ships to planets or other celestial bodies to inspect and run tests on the mineral qualities there. Those tests would determine whether said location had the correct mineral properties to host kindergartens. If the planet was qualified, the cerussites would relay a message to Homeworld so other gems would come out to install a warp and begin work (long after the cerussites moved on to another location). Because cerussites flew alone in their ships, they sometimes would not interact with another gem for thousands of years depending on the distance of their assignments. Every once in a while a cerussite would be summoned back to Homeworld for one reason or another, but it was rare.They have no summoned weapons to speak of; the Diamonds believed there was no need for them at the time they were created. The only cerussites made were in one or two early batches by the Diamonds, not in kindergartens.They initially were not meant to be expendable. Since they don’t report to their managers unless they find something, the Diamonds just assume they’re all fine and in working order even though most have been lost or shattered.Cerussites haven’t found many suitable planets statistically speaking, with the dozens of them flying around the expanse of space. Eventually the Diamonds found a more practical method of finding planets to terraform, but thought “Eh they’re out there already, let ‘em keep doing their searches, it will be useful again at some point.”Ceru spent just about all her life scouting and roaming in her ship alone, the only outside contact she had was on a screen inside her ship with her manager or maybe Yellow Diamond. She didn’t actually know anything about Pink Diamond’s shattering because the Diamonds didn’t think to tell any of the scouts. They were such an afterthought at that point and it wouldn’t concern them anyway. None of the cerussites were informed anything had changed whatsoever until Steven made his broadcast. Ceru was luckily in her ship at the time and saw it. Until then she was just carrying on with her work and thought everything was fine.She didn’t like being alone, she missed Homeworld because the first few years she spent there while the gems got everything together to send the cerussites out, they were allowed to do basically whatever she wanted and got accustomed to friendly company. While she had returned to Homeworld a couple of times, she was only there for a short amount of time and didn’t have the same freedoms as before she’d left the first time. She was afraid to flee and or return home against orders because she was terrified of being hunted down, found and shattered.By the time she is made aware of the current state of things at the beginning of Era 3, she’s lonely and touch starved and hates what she does because she wants to be able to come home to at least be around other gems. After Steven’s broadcast, it took Ceru a while to get to Little Homeworld. She got there after Steven left Beach City.No other cerussites returned (they were either shattered on new planets that had dangerous life since they were defenseless, or they didn’t see the broadcast, or they just didn’t want to).When she arrived on earth she was pretty overwhelmed, but still excited to finally be able to do what she wanted, and be around other gems.She didn’t enroll in the school, but she found a wood shed (leftover from an old cabin maybe) in the forest behind Little Homeworld; she lives there. It’s dilapidated and run down but she doesn’t mind, she just wants a small space to have peace and quiet when she needs it. She likes solitude, but she doesn’t want to be alone or lonely.She wanted to go to Earth because it was new, and not strict and depressing like Homeworld was the last time she was there.She stayed because it was beautiful and she made friends.—The mineral cerussite is lead carbonate/white lead & is also called lead spar. It’s very soft (3 on the mohs scale) and because it’s poisonous it shouldn’t be worn in jewelry and you shouldn’t really handle it. (But it’s beautiful, I have a few pieces in my collection)It’s very commonly twinned and the crystal formations are always interesting. You wouldn’t usually facet or cab a cerussite, you don’t want to get lead dust in your lungs.FUN FACT- lead paint was essentially made with cerussite.ETA: more lore, updated gem.updated! -- source link