[art] Game Over: Continue? or Load Game
Date Created: 2018
Tools Used: printer paper, mechanical pencil, and colored pencils
Show: Steven Universe
Characters: Lapis Lazuli, Peridot
Relationship: Lapis Lazuli/Peridot
Peridot and Lapis are my favorite characters from Steven Universe and when they got a ‘game over’ in the episode “Reunited,” I thought it would be a fun idea to draw them in the Kingdom Hearts game over screen.
Context
For context behind the Kingdom Hearts 1 game over screen: whenever the player’s health bar reaches zero, you enter the game over screen where you choose to either ‘Continue?’ or ‘Load Game’. A heart can sometimes be seen floating above the character. “Hearts” in the game are literally the soul of the character.
In Steven Universe, Peridot and Lapis are alien-like beings who are literally gemstones. Their gems can take on multiple forms and when they’re heavily injured, they lose their form and return to their gemstone to regenerate. Each gem character has their gemstone placed somewhere on their body. Peridot’s is on her forehead whereas Lapis’ is on her back.
So because both IPs have a similar idea and I love both series, I thought it would be fun to combine them! The gemstones represent the gems’ “heart” and that’s why it appears above the characters in my drawing.