Fusion Brainstorming Meme

[nailed_it]

It's been how long since we've had one of these? Too long!



For those who need a quick refresher on fusions, Steven Universe and the Classroom Gems have got you covered!
Just click the link to watch the video and learn all about the wonderful world of gem fusion!

So go! Talk about all the fun, awesome, horrible things your character can get up to as part of a fusion! Pick out or suggest gems! Figure out what they'd look, act, or even sound like! Shenanigans!!

Just copy the code below to get started!! Or don't and be a rebel, who cares let's talk FUSIONS!

<b>Character</b>: [NAME HERE]<br><b>GEM</b>: [GEM HERE]<br><b>IDEAS</b>: [Any power, weapon, and form suggestions go here!]<br><b>EXTRAS</b>: [Does your character have fusion jitters? Traits that would make fusions tricky? Do you just want to use this space to post silly images? JUST DO IT!!]

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[nailed_it]

Character: Yang Xiao Long
GEM: Fire Agate (Heart Cut, located under her clothes below her bosom)
IDEAS: Yang's motifs involve fire, fire, and more fire. Also light. And more fire.

Being serious, most of Yang's fusions tend to retain her lengthy hair in some way, although whether it stays as vibrantly blonde as her own usually depends on who she's fusing with. One thing I like to keep constant with Yang's fusions is that they are asymmetrical in some way, often in their attire but this could also extend to limbs or facial features in some way.

Yang has draconic imagery associated with her which can come through in her fusions either in the form of fire or dragon-like attributes. Most of her fusions tend to be "beautiful" albeit sometimes in an unconventional sense. Her gem weapons are her canon shot-gauntlets (Ember Celica) if you want to use them to inspire the fusion's gem weapon.

...Basically just toss ideas at me, I am super flexible.

You can see a listing of her previous fusions here.

EXTRAS: Yang is a very easy person to fuse with provided it's something she wants to do at the time (She will never accidentally fuse with someone, even when dancing. It is always by her choice in some way). She can sync with most people fairly quickly since she is naturally pretty go-with-the-flow. And because her mindset is generally based in the present she's a very good partner for people with memories they don't want dug around in. She's not going to go rooting around in other people's heads, even subconsciously, so unless something specifically prompts or triggers certain memories, the fusion shouldn't suffer any feedback issues. She's also a good fusion partner for characters concerned about "losing themselves" to a fusion, because Yang, above all, prefers herself as herself. Fusion is just a cheap tactic-...wait, no wrong quote. Fusion, to her, is a combat strategy and/or a way to goof off for a bit, but when everything is said and done, she's going to want her own body back thanks very much. So unless someone's will is stronger than hers, she'll eventually end the fusion.

And with that tl;dr out of the way. Have a picture of Chibi Yang because I love her:

[scarlet_devil]

so, remi and yang fusion?

[nailed_it]

Their fusion is totally a bat-dragon thing, isn't it? XDXD

[scarlet_devil]

or a bat-dragon woman. and yang might get a better idea of how remi feels about patchy, and the ex-vampire's memories, good or bad.

[nailed_it]

Yang actually makes a habit of not poking around in people's memories if she can help it, especially now that she's got a pretty good handle on how fusion works so Remi need not worry there!

Bat-dragon woman makes me think of the rebooted Maleficent. ...Which would be pretty awesome for a fusion ngl.

[scarlet_devil]

Or the fusion could go bad and they end up looking like a dragon with bat features and a fiery mane.

[nailed_it]

Heck, the fusion wouldn't even have to go bad! They could just be a more beastly fusion. Yang doesn't have enough of those! Pretty much the only other one she has is Tiger Eye with Blake which looks like her mom has a sort of Alexandrite thing going on with a dragon mask/mouth-y sort of deal.

Charizard fusion would be amazing.

[heptagram]

patchy and yang fuse

it's just yang but purple. if it was in an actual animated series it would have to be as poorly done as possible

[nailed_it]

ROFL omigawd. XDXD Just...purple palette color swap Yang, that's perfect.

[heptagram]

look i couldn't not okay

anyway i am not exactly sure what to do with a fusion between these two ALTHOUGH patchy often has a lot of crystalline associations because of one of her most powerful spells, Philosopher's Stone manifesting as a set of five colored crystals.

also, purple. i mean seriously there needs to be a lot of it. she probably even buys her clothes with heavy color-coordination here

[nailed_it]

That's funny that you bring up the Philosopher's Stone! I actually chose Fire Agate for Yang in part because of it's associations with alchemy and it being rumored to be a Philosopher's Stone. So emphasizing that in some way would be super cool!

And yes, purple. Purple everywhere. Yang likes purple anyway so XD

[heptagram]

oh my god. that is great. They make a really good team!

doesn't hurt that i may have wanted her to fall for yang before remi fell for patchy and yang being in love with someone else. whoops.

[nailed_it]

Ffff, aww it's okay Patchy. Yang leaves a lot of broken hearts behind her. ...Mostly by punching people in the chest but details XD

[heptagram]

this isn't the first time this has happened to her in a game

She'll be okay. I think. It probably won't come up anyway.

But. Um. If you have other ideas for their fusion...

[nailed_it]

Is levitation currently the only ability Patchy has? Like does she have a Gem Weapon (revealed or planned, doesn't matter) or other skills?

Just to get an idea of what else their fusion could do or how to combine their styles. :)

[scattered_rose]

/keywords

[nailed_it]

Come at me scrublord, I'm ripped.

[fixi]

Battle fusions~.

Walter also has the gold/fire(light)/dragon(demon/fish??) thing going thematically so a fusion here would just be REALLY GOLD and REALLY IMPULSIVE and REALLY PYROMANIAC I think.

[nailed_it]

All the battle fusions.

Rofl, idk why the first thing I pictured was a sea horse. Just, golden fish dragon. XDXD

But yeah, I think they would probably be a less human looking fusion?

[fixi]

Walter pretty much knows Yang as "that girl who almost broke my nose" and "that girl with the fists and the yellow" so he would probably conceptualize a battle fusion as something demonish.

Idea: armor/outer features that don't look particularly human, which could disappear/be removed when they know each other better and the fusion has a more developed personality?

Clawed gauntlet + bladed wing weapons.

[fixi]

WAIT NO BETTER IDEA

The fusion itself is actually mostly normal, but the weapon it can summon is HUGE (because they're both aggro as hell) and it's kind of like a draconic battlesuit thing. Kind of like how the snake part here makes up most of this dude's actual body despite not being...his actual body.

As long as it's a Battle Fusion they have no reason not to desummon it.

[nailed_it]

ROFL, I'm not even sure Yang's connected that the "jerk who soaked her with a hose" was Walter but she definitely would have seen what he could do at the tournament. I'm mildly amused at how they both eventually lost to Don.

Also geezes criminy that battlesuit. 8'D

I am super up for one of Yang's fusions having a ridiculously massive weapon summon for a change. Most of her fusions incorporate her gauntlets in some way so something completely different would be neat to work with.

I also liked the bladed wing weapons idea you had earlier. Mostly because it kinda reminded me of the timberjack dragon from HTTYD

[fixi]

Good god this is overdesigned but I gave it a shot.



What's supposed to be going on here:

- Four-armed fusion wearing the damn thing; the torso is kind of elongated, partially to accommodate the four arms, partially to make the whole thing look a little more...dragony. Because eastern dragons are longcats.

- The entire battlesuit is the weapon, but it has a few components. First is the helmetarmor thing on the head, which extends way out past the fusion's actual face, and is also very bulky to give the impression of the fusion having way broader and bulkier shoulders than it actually does.

- Four wolverine-style clawed gauntlets get the gauntlet + sword aspect in there.
- The wings are Walter's obligatory finwingthings. They might not actually be part of the suit, idk. There's four of them.
- Also it can...generate...fire, around itself, sort of and in bursts. I found a pretty convenient connection, in that Megaten's take on Huang Long has a big mane made out of what appears to be fog, light, or fire depending on who's coloring the art - the thing I drew draws on that design for all the directly dragony features, including a mane that is also fire, WHICH IS VERY CONVENIENT
- The suit's "tail" is actually kind of a flat cape tail instead of a tail tail. It has trim on the end that is more of the fire mane stuff, to give the impression of a tail tuft.
- Wherever there's armor, the plates come together like the grooves on Ember Celica (neck, arms, legs), complete with the black lines but I didn't get that far.
- The flexible parts like the capetail and probably the pants things bear a carp/dragon scale pattern.
- I have no clue what's going on with the torso but it's probably not covered by the battlesuit so whatever's there clothes-wise is the fusion's actual default outfit.

[nailed_it]

Duuuuuude that is one boss looking fusion!

I love the inspiration it takes from Huang Long and other eastern dragons because yep, they are long cats. And I really like the fin-wing things too! It actually kinda gives it the seahorse look I was joking about earlier but in a leafy seadragon/Glauert's seadragon sort of way. It's so pretty! 8D

Did you have an idea for a potential gem for them? I thought perhaps Aragonite might be interesting and because it's one letter off from Dragonite but they've got a lot of different gem qualities to pull from!

[fixi]

Man I completely forgot about choosing a gem. Uhhhh let's seeeeee

/googles agate

Okay, so, staying within agate relatives would be fitting, because quartz = punching things.

Petoskey stones are agatized coral and the name they're derived from means "rising sun".

Blaaarf there's a couple of really cool and gorgeous red-orange agate varieties associated with water features but they have boring names like "Lake Superior stone" and "Patuxent River stone"

Fulgurite is a cool concept but lightning isn't quite fire and also it looks like a poop.

....Lechatelierite is similarly produced by the melting of quartz sand at REALLY UNCOMFORTABLY HIGH TEMPERATURES, often as a result of meteorites (falling stars). It looks less like a poop. Downside: I do not know how to pronounce that.

Trinitite is even more metal, being the result of sand melted by nuclear bomb tests. It does not look at all like a poop and is actually rather pretty. There's a slightly more yellow version available though that being an example of trinitite is very mmineralogically dubious but haha this is RP who cares.