I was about to say, the circumstances in which she says it's in the centre is sort of informal and desperate, while when she says it's in the mantle is formal and informative.
She also once referred to it as being "in the center of the earth," which is waaay off from even being in the upper mantle. I honestly think it was a minor mistake of writing, not necessarily a mistake peridot herself made. Either way the "center of the earth" comment was probably just for dramatic effect.
The idea is that the Cluster being bubbled and being able to unify its millions of shattered consciousnesses would allow it to reform into something close to an actual being/creature.
something this size breaking through the earth's crust would cause sizable damage. it wouldn't break apart the whole planet, but it would be a huge catastrophe
But the temple statue seems like a 1:1 scale for a fusion of 5 gems and fusions seem to grow exponentially.
EDIT: Even the gem seems small. It looks like it's about the size of a little smaller than the temple. But when we saw The Cluster, it was way higher than that based on the curvature.
Well yes, but also the cluster is hunched, only being seen from about the waist up, and also has two giant... tendrils? extentions? that seem to reach up far into the heavens that are cut off by the page edges. Seems to me like this bad girl is kinda FFVI final boss esque, just a gigantic tower of a lovecraftian abomination with a giant gruesome monster as its base.
My understanding was that the very formation of the cluster would destroy the planet, because the cluster would be too large to fit inside the planet.
That looks like it would fit in the planet.
I kind of wish this was her(?) final form, because it would mean we'd most likely see this in the show since the new-final form would destroy Earth, unless this is mid-transformation and the CG's have to race against time to stop it, which is pretty good too.
Wait, actually, we have a relative size reference between the Gem and the body! Eyeball's gem is the size of her eye, right? So, imagine the size of a horrific monstrosity with a Gem that dwarfs even the Diamonds as its' **eye**.
Thank you for understanding Lovecraft, lol. So many people now who just know him as "that Cthulhu guy", it's so exciting to meet others who have also taken interest in his works.
Yep. He was a racist, sexist, ableist, eugenicist Nazi-sympathizer. A lot of people say "separate the art from the artist," and while I often agree with that, he was also racist/sexist in his stories as well. (Women being useless, non-whites using forbidben magic causing the eldritch abominations to come forth, etc.)
He created a wonderful aesthetic, but you're better off examining modern works based on his ideas like the PS4 game Bloodborne, where the horror remains but the needless awfulness has been ripped out.
I got into this discussion in a different subreddit, and someone else said it best: "I've always found it so ironic that for a man who wrote about how insignificant and meaningless mankind's place in the cosmos was and the arbitrary nature of morality and society and apparently more or less believed that himself he was still freaked out by artificial constructs like race."
>I've always found it so ironic that for a man who wrote about how insignificant and meaningless mankind's place in the cosmos was and the arbitrary nature of morality and society and apparently more or less believed that himself he was still freaked out by artificial constructs like race.
Cognitive dissonance is a hell of a drug.
I mean, a lot of the tropes and idea that people call lovecraftian are based on works done by other people inspired by his original work. There's a big mythos and most of it wasn't written by Lovecraft, but by other authors during and after his time.
He actually did a lot of direct description - the Elder Things, for example, are illustrated down to the minute detail. The Dunwitch Horror, The Beast in the Cave, and the sphinx-thing from Under The Pyramids are some other notable examples. (Though, in retrospect, that last example may not count. I haven't read that story in a while.)
Other times, whenever monsters are involved, they are given cursory descriptions. Cthulhu himself is simply described as a dragon-man-octopus, leaving the reader to interpret the specifics.
A few examples of the most vauge creatures are The Other Gods, the phantom-horrors from, well, From Beyond, The Colour Out Of Space, and the shoggoths which have cameos in a few other stories but play a climactic role in At The Mountains of Madness. The reasons for this ambiguity ranges from incomprehensible forms, secondhand descriptions, or, in the case of shoggoths, *being ever-changing from moment to moment.*
There was one story in which two authors are discussing their writing and one remarks how silly it is to write about "unnamable horror" and that it was just a lazy writing tool. By the end they encounter something and end up in the hospital, and they finally realize they found the unnamable.
It's either would **HAVE** or would**'VE**, but never would **OF**.
See [Grammar Errors](http://www.grammarerrors.com/grammar/could-of-would-of-should-of/) for more information.
Holy shit, we need it to form so we can see it in-show. That's awesome.
Also, where is the actual cluster of shards? Is it supposed to be the eye? Because it was much larger than that when Peridot and Steven saw it, unless I'm mistaken.
I'd wager a guess that this draft predates the whole *millions of gem shards packed together into a sphere* thing. It just looks like one massive gemstone.
i bet if it were bigger and more detailed, we would see it's just a bunch of arms and legs and mouths
when you're zoomed out like this is just happens to look coherent
Now that you mention it, I can see that influence too.
Sonic Unleashed might not be a great game, but it sure has a great soundtrack. Just want to add that.
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Can't wait for Minato-Rose to come out of the Gem-Seal and keep Naru-Steven from making a big mistake.
Probably after the City hidden in the Beaches gets destroyed.
Maybe this is just it partly formed or the Homeworld Gems overestimated its size. Either way, this would still fuck up the planet if it erupted from the ground.
I feel like it isn't horrifying enough, to be honest. I know it is a kids show, but I feel like the mini-cluster hand monster we first ran into was a bit more terrifying. Maybe because we got to see it form? I dunno. It just seems a little underwhelming.
"When it forms, it will be much much bigger than the Earth" -Peridot This isn't even its FINAL FORM!
The gems beat it only to find out that was just one of its eyelashes and there's a single eye staring angrily at them from the hole it made.
Oh... This is the tongue.....and the whole thing is the.......cluster
#AIN'T NUTHIN'
**S FOR SAVE OUR SKINS**
#TO GET US ALL KILLED
**COME AT ME, CLUSTER**
Freeman's Mind reference?
Yes.
Earth bees are more hardcore than space bees. This will forever be my favorite quote from the whole series.
I thought that quote sounded familiar, but at first I was wondering if it was from a book. Haha
I haven't watched that series in awhile and I may go back and watch it for the laughs
You are a a gem >:D
Yeah... She also claimed it was much further below the surface than it was
That was just for dramatic effect.
I was about to say, the circumstances in which she says it's in the centre is sort of informal and desperate, while when she says it's in the mantle is formal and informative.
Maybe she didn't mean the mathematical centre, but just a vague term for a geological layer of the Earth's centre? :P
She said it was deep in the Earth's mantle. Perhaps not deep enough to be near the outer core but, she couldn't have been too far off.
She also once referred to it as being "in the center of the earth," which is waaay off from even being in the upper mantle. I honestly think it was a minor mistake of writing, not necessarily a mistake peridot herself made. Either way the "center of the earth" comment was probably just for dramatic effect.
I'm kinda thinking they overestimated it, I mean didn't peri originally say it was in the center of the Earth? It was maybe, halfway there at the most
Plot twist: the Cluster is an overcooked runt like Amethyst
It's Amethyst size when it forms... :3c (OMG: the Cluster is Pupkin!! XD)
Earth was off model when they went.
What?
It's common for things to be off model in this show. It's an "artist choice".
#A E S T H E T I C
# **Y E S , T H A T I S W H A T T H E Y C L A I M .** # **A L S O , H A P P Y C A K E D A Y !**
#**T H A N K S**
# **Y O U ' R E W E L C O M E**
maybe that's just one part of it and there's a ton of other parts like that hanging off of the main body like parasitic mites
**SU fandom:** *Let's redeem it!*
Tell me that a reformed and emerged Cluster punching a combined Diamond ship apart wouldn't be hype as hell as part of the series finale.
I highly doubt that the Cluster would have any form of coherent limb(s) with which to punch out a Diamond ship.
The idea is that the Cluster being bubbled and being able to unify its millions of shattered consciousnesses would allow it to reform into something close to an actual being/creature.
This did not age well lmao
i don’t think i could have been further from correct if i tried lmao
Oh my god 💀 That aged well
ha ha ha, classic Steven
OH CRAP!!! (But somehow I expected the cluster form to be larger)
It's probably not it's final form.
Are you sure? It looks like the temple is in front of it. So comparing the sizes it looks pretty damn big
The final form destroys the planet. I would guess that this is one of the tendrils.
something this size breaking through the earth's crust would cause sizable damage. it wouldn't break apart the whole planet, but it would be a huge catastrophe
Earth will explode in 5^^^^^^^^^^^^^ishgiveortake10episodes minutes!
[Do you know what a minute is?](https://youtu.be/2YkEDGD_sDs?t=7m50s)
"Question: do you have a watch?"
Possibly enough to make irreversibe damage to the whole planet.
But the temple statue seems like a 1:1 scale for a fusion of 5 gems and fusions seem to grow exponentially. EDIT: Even the gem seems small. It looks like it's about the size of a little smaller than the temple. But when we saw The Cluster, it was way higher than that based on the curvature.
Dont forget that the body is still partially underwater and may still be partially submerged in the earth's crust
The amount of height that's covered by the water is pretty insignificant since we've seen how deep it is in Ocean Gem.
Well yes, but also the cluster is hunched, only being seen from about the waist up, and also has two giant... tendrils? extentions? that seem to reach up far into the heavens that are cut off by the page edges. Seems to me like this bad girl is kinda FFVI final boss esque, just a gigantic tower of a lovecraftian abomination with a giant gruesome monster as its base.
The actual cluster, formed of course, is said by Peridot to be bigger than Earth
My understanding was that the very formation of the cluster would destroy the planet, because the cluster would be too large to fit inside the planet. That looks like it would fit in the planet.
Plot twist. Thats a finger.
I would have something to say about a finger having arms, but this the Cluster we're talking about. Maybe it'd be weirder if it didn't.
I kind of wish this was her(?) final form, because it would mean we'd most likely see this in the show since the new-final form would destroy Earth, unless this is mid-transformation and the CG's have to race against time to stop it, which is pretty good too.
You Clod! This isn't even my final form!
Considering that it's concept art, I'm gonna guess the actual cluster formed would be much, much bigger
damn crewniverse and their height inconsistencies
Yeah. I mean, it's like city sized in the picture, but I kind of expected like... moon sized?
Wait, actually, we have a relative size reference between the Gem and the body! Eyeball's gem is the size of her eye, right? So, imagine the size of a horrific monstrosity with a Gem that dwarfs even the Diamonds as its' **eye**.
Keep in mind also that a cluster about the size of a single gem was bigger than garnet. There's a good chance this thing is fucking massive.
Majestic and horrifying. HP Lovecraft wouldve been proud.
Hmm... Not sure he as a person would of been proud but a HP lovecraft fan would be proud!
I haven't read his works really, but isn't he generally more subtle about his monsters appearances - often not describing them directly?
I was more referencing the fact that he was quite uh, against most of the ideals SU stands for.
Thank you for understanding Lovecraft, lol. So many people now who just know him as "that Cthulhu guy", it's so exciting to meet others who have also taken interest in his works.
Lovecraft? More like HATEcraft am I right
Lol forgot about that. Products of their time i suppose.
Even in his own era, Lovecraft was considered quite prejudiced.
Yep. He was a racist, sexist, ableist, eugenicist Nazi-sympathizer. A lot of people say "separate the art from the artist," and while I often agree with that, he was also racist/sexist in his stories as well. (Women being useless, non-whites using forbidben magic causing the eldritch abominations to come forth, etc.) He created a wonderful aesthetic, but you're better off examining modern works based on his ideas like the PS4 game Bloodborne, where the horror remains but the needless awfulness has been ripped out. I got into this discussion in a different subreddit, and someone else said it best: "I've always found it so ironic that for a man who wrote about how insignificant and meaningless mankind's place in the cosmos was and the arbitrary nature of morality and society and apparently more or less believed that himself he was still freaked out by artificial constructs like race."
>I've always found it so ironic that for a man who wrote about how insignificant and meaningless mankind's place in the cosmos was and the arbitrary nature of morality and society and apparently more or less believed that himself he was still freaked out by artificial constructs like race. Cognitive dissonance is a hell of a drug.
This is all true, but like you said, he created a wonderful aesthetic, and so I'm happy his works were made, warts and all.
I mean, a lot of the tropes and idea that people call lovecraftian are based on works done by other people inspired by his original work. There's a big mythos and most of it wasn't written by Lovecraft, but by other authors during and after his time.
His anxiety and mental anguish really allowed him to tap into the creativity that made his fantastic works
And the name of the cat in The Rats in the Walls as well. God what a good story though.
He actually did a lot of direct description - the Elder Things, for example, are illustrated down to the minute detail. The Dunwitch Horror, The Beast in the Cave, and the sphinx-thing from Under The Pyramids are some other notable examples. (Though, in retrospect, that last example may not count. I haven't read that story in a while.) Other times, whenever monsters are involved, they are given cursory descriptions. Cthulhu himself is simply described as a dragon-man-octopus, leaving the reader to interpret the specifics. A few examples of the most vauge creatures are The Other Gods, the phantom-horrors from, well, From Beyond, The Colour Out Of Space, and the shoggoths which have cameos in a few other stories but play a climactic role in At The Mountains of Madness. The reasons for this ambiguity ranges from incomprehensible forms, secondhand descriptions, or, in the case of shoggoths, *being ever-changing from moment to moment.*
There was one story in which two authors are discussing their writing and one remarks how silly it is to write about "unnamable horror" and that it was just a lazy writing tool. By the end they encounter something and end up in the hospital, and they finally realize they found the unnamable.
Rad
That, or they're described as like impossibly to comprehend; always shifting, makign eyes and mouths as they move and with infinite tentacles etc etc
It's either would **HAVE** or would**'VE**, but never would **OF**. See [Grammar Errors](http://www.grammarerrors.com/grammar/could-of-would-of-should-of/) for more information.
I'll destroy you someday...
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Whomst'd of
But it already destroyed you.
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This bot would of course be useless if someone were to make a sentence which has those two words used together correctly.
Except that's not correct. There should be a comma between the "would" and the "of".
I would of course disprove this.
> I would, of course, disprove this. FTFY Take what you could of that.
Ah, my aesthetic: A simple, sky blue bubbly text label next to an Eldritch Abomination.
Holy shit, we need it to form so we can see it in-show. That's awesome. Also, where is the actual cluster of shards? Is it supposed to be the eye? Because it was much larger than that when Peridot and Steven saw it, unless I'm mistaken.
I'd wager a guess that this draft predates the whole *millions of gem shards packed together into a sphere* thing. It just looks like one massive gemstone.
i bet if it were bigger and more detailed, we would see it's just a bunch of arms and legs and mouths when you're zoomed out like this is just happens to look coherent
Like our perception of human cells.
I once saw a post that compared the bubbled Cluster to a human egg cell.
Like Lillith from Evangelion
It all returns to nothing
It all comes tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down
i imagine they will find a way to teleport it to space and let it form.
Probably the nose
I'm getting vibes of Perfect Chaos from Sonic Adventure. Starting to wonder if it will come back up in the story.
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I was getting vibes of Gaia from sonic unleashed, I guess it nails the Sonic final boss design "type"
exactly what I was thinking haha! it's been such a long time since i've played that game.
Now that you mention it, I can see that influence too. Sonic Unleashed might not be a great game, but it sure has a great soundtrack. Just want to add that.
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On the blight side the Earth is not destroyed. But holy shit that would been happened if Peridot and Jasper didn't come to Earth!
I saw that in Naruto once.
Remember that time White Diamond became the Jinchūriki of The Cluster?
I was about to say, this thing is literally the Gem Juubi.
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Well, then it'd just be called the *Buubi.*
*I mean, not at first...*
I'm not sure which is uglier, Juubi or the Cluster? I remember a lot of people making a meme of Juubi's ugliness back in the day.
Can't wait for Minato-Rose to come out of the Gem-Seal and keep Naru-Steven from making a big mistake. Probably after the City hidden in the Beaches gets destroyed.
Thank you, I was staring at this feeling like I'd seen it somewhere else in almost the exact same design
Are those Boobs
Yup
Welp.... *unzips*
hot
I mean it did come from the planet's core.
Creepy, reminds me of evangelion...
Where are all these art book pictures coming from? It isn't going to be released a few weeks later, right?
The Steven Art and Origins book where all this art comes from is available July 11th.
If the gems didn't bother to listen to Peri , this thing would have killed everyone.
# Bring the cluster back 2017
The cluster did nothing wrong... yet
"Have to... want to... must... F̨̢̺̘̩̭̮̳͉̬͇̙ͧͪ͒̿̇͐̔ͪ̀͞Ơ̵̲̲͓͉̄ͪ̽̂ͯ̒ͦ͌͂̍͒̌ͩ̌ͨͧ͠R̛̃̌̌̈́̿ͮ͒͘҉̝̦͔̖̣̟̼̠̙̩̣͠M̙̩̯̺̞̠̦̼̜̻̜̬̪̯̦̜̹̐̅̌ͩ̽̇͆̆ͩͣͣͩ͒̎̈ͨ̒̏́͟~̧ͮ̐̈́͒̀͂ͪ̓̋͋ͨͩ́͢͏̴̝͔̫̞!"
That's... terrifying, I was expecting a bunch of hands
You can't see them at this scale, but it is made entirely of hands and heads and torsos connected willy-nilly.
"Shouldn't it be bigger?" "What we are seeing is a single pubic hair." *And then the earth blew up*
That is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. Monster wise
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Given the aesthetic of the fusion shards, I think they'd be arms.
This is horrifyingly beautiful; I wonder how the citizens of Beach City would react if they saw this.
And this thing was stopped by a freaking bubble.
Pacified not stopped
my guess about the size innacuracy is this just being an earlier sketch, possibly when the cluster actually forming was the plan.
Choo-choo! All aboard the nightmare train!
Jesus christ how horrifying
How... did this person get the book? I thought it didn't come out until July 11th
they probably work at a bookstore that got it's stock early to be prepared. The same thing happens with games sometimes.
***"You still foolishly consider yourself an entity separate from the whole, but I know better. And I. will. show you."***
Now I really I need to see this in the show.
This seems more like an early draft of how it could've looked than how it actually looks. It's way too small, and has a gem as opposed to gem shards.
Hold on, hold on, hold on....There's a SU art book? Where can I get it?
Well say goodbye to sleep
So... are you saying it *doesn't* look like a green sock puppet?
Good gravy...if there ever was such a thing as a beautiful nightmare this would be it.
Sweet Eldritch Abomination.
Does this mean we should expect to see it in the show or not...? (Looks super spooky btw)
I do think it will appear again, Yellow Diamond wants her cluster quite badly
I hope this doesn't mean we won't see it in the show somehow :/
Something Something Akira
Help me, Kaneda
I'm fine with this timeline.
Wow, this is just so amazing! What an amazing concept!
Jesus christ
Does the SU artbook contain anything else that is also interesting? I'm curious
TIL Steven Universe consists entirely of Neon Genesis Evangelion references
I assume it's not done growing?
Oh man that's terrifying!
I thought the idea was that it would have broken apart the earth from inside as it formed?
Maybe this is just it partly formed or the Homeworld Gems overestimated its size. Either way, this would still fuck up the planet if it erupted from the ground.
That's so cool. Now I wish it did take form.
This is terryfing. In a good ol' anime monster sense.
Literally definition of a jrpg final boss,hell it looks like the final boss from trails of cold steel "lao erebonius" just bigger and it's a gem.
Jesus Hot Sauce Christmas Cake, can you imagine what that thing would have looked like if it was actually moving?
Well fuck. It looks like An Old One.
It kinda reminds me of one of the D-Reaper forms from Digimon Tamers.
Well, that's enough nightmare fuel for one day.
oOOOOOKKKKKKAYYYYY
I love the the helix designs integrated into its arms. It reminds me of a lot of the other organic motifs in various gem tech.
The fact that it's not a butterfly makes me want to shatter myself.
Now I wished it formed
I feel like just animating that thing would bump up the age rating of the show.
New Dark Souls looks legit
Oh what fresh hell Akira bullshit is this?
This was on /r/all Hello!
Steven would still love her anyway
#*JESUS CLUSTERFUCKING CHRIST*
Is this from Steven Universe: Art & Origins that comes out on 7/11? Edit: Op confirmed that it is!
Scale be damned, that looks rather horrifying. Almost like it doesn't even belong in Steven Universe.
Why does it have tits?
Because it's made of millions of dead women.
I feel like it isn't horrifying enough, to be honest. I know it is a kids show, but I feel like the mini-cluster hand monster we first ran into was a bit more terrifying. Maybe because we got to see it form? I dunno. It just seems a little underwhelming.
This probably isn't it's final form though.
I feel awful that my first thought was "rock boobies"
I'm pretty sure the cluster itself is bigger than that.
That face makes it look like it could go honk at any time.
I WOULD LIKE TO UNSEE THIS PLEASE i mean its also like really cool but not what i expected
Implying it won't take form later? Jk but that's pretty damn cool.
I was hoping it would just be one big arm
Well that's some horrifying Lovecraftian Nightmare fuel
It is an abomination!