Steven Universe: The Diamond Legacy

The Fantastical Adventures of Mr.Rainbow and the Starlight Child

*edited 2/9/2021*

Sometimes you find the most interesting things when you're stuck inside during a rainy day, and I wasn't intending to. I was on my bed eating cheese puffs while reading a book with Hanami on my shoulder and Selene watching the rain from glass door that opened to the deck.I accidently dropped a puff that rolled under the bed.

"Great." I murmured, placing Hanami on my pillow and crouched on my knees, ducking under the bed. I retrieved the runaway cheese puff, and found something else. "Huh, now what is this?" It was a cardboard box with 'Nora's drawings' written on the side. I pulled it out from beneath the bed and opened it. "Selene get a look at this!"

"What have you got there?" Selene sat on her knees next to me. "Please tell me they're not more artifacts from your grandmother."

"Nope." I said with widened pupils.  I took out piles of paper dated from over a decade ago.  "They're drawings I made when I was a little kid. Back before I really learned how to talk I would draw pictures about the things I did and saw when I was on vacation in Beach City. It was my way of bonding with my parents and the Crystal Gems." Flitting through them in wonder, memories of drawing them came rushing back. "Look, here's me playing with Lion, walking on the beach with Dad, looking out on the lighthouse with Mom, my favorite ice cream, walking in the park with My grandparents , my stuffed dragon and..."

I grinned starry eyed showing her the drawing I made of my family and I. "All of us."  I was in between my parents holding their hands with the Crystal Gems surrounding us. Every member was there, smiling as though I were taking a picture.  "I can't believe the Gems kept all of these."

"These are very detailed for a young child." Selene noticed. "Thanks." I said. " I had a knack for visuals even back then." I saw something I thought I'd never see again. "Oh my gosh." I took a colorful scrapbook out of the box. "Selene look!" The front cover was a child's illustration of a little girl holding the hands of a strange pink person with a parasol.

"Who is that?"

I smiled. "My imaginary friend."  Selene cocked a brow at me. "Imaginary friend?" "It's a person someone makes up in their mind to keep them company. A lot of kids have imaginary friends and I was no exception."

"Humans are so strange." She muses. "Why would someone create a fictional person when they can talk to humans or Gems? Isn't that the same as talking to yourself?"

"That's one way of seeing it." I said. "Humans have different reasons they make them up, usually because it's fun to pretend to have a companion that will always listen to you and play with you no matter what. We also love to create things that are not real, like books and musicals.  The friend can be whatever you want it to be, a giant talking dragon or an elephant dolphin hybrid, anything you can think of."

"I see." The Tahitian Pearl mused, trying to understand it. "And this was your imaginary friend as a child?"

"Yes." I chuckled at the old memory. "His name was Mr. Rainbow, he was a Gem that crash landed on Earth from a purple planet. He was lost and confused, he didn't have any friends until he had me." I opened the cover to the first page. "'Mr. Rainbow and the Starlight Child' By Nora Universe, a five year old girl.'" I chuckled. "I was always into specifics. Want me to read it out loud?"

"Of course." Selene smiled. We sat on the bed together with Hanami in my lap, I turned the page and to a drawing of me on the beach next to Rigby, waving a hand at my imaginary friend.

Once upon time there was a little girl. She loved to walk on the beach and find seashells with her dragon Rigby. One day when she was picking up a seashell from the water she saw someone. "I've never seen that person before." Rigby said. "He looks lost." Said the little girl. Rigby and the little girl went to the stranger. " Hi. My name is Nora, I'm five years old! "What a pleasure to meet you Nora!" The pink person shook her hand. "They call me Mr. Rainbow!" The little girl asked if he wanted to be her friend and he said yes.