Jasper Podcast by Rebecca Sugar and Ian JQ - Transcript
“So lets talk about Jasper first, what kind of impact did you want her character to have on the audience?”
“Like a lot of the characters I wanted her to appear more 1-dimensional than she really is, I mean all her behaviour has a route. As soon as you meet her, the reason she’s there, I mean she didn’t have to do be the one to do this but she’s got a stake in Rose Quartz and Earth, and early on you don’t actually know that but you just know there’s something behind her intentions. It’s very personal for her, she’s not gonna tell Peridot and definitely not Lapis on why this is such a personal thing for her but you slowly find out. There’s a lot of great moments in Jailbreak and The Return where you if you go back and watch those knowing what you know about Jasper, you see a lot of clues on how she feels about the gems and Rose Quartz especially.”
“In a past podcast you said Jasper was a decorated gem from humble origins. How does that affect her character and personality”.
“That’s everything. That’s the thing you don’t know when she shows up that’s colouring her actions because she is from Earth. It’s interesting because she is very different from Amethyst because Amethyst has problems knowing she’s from Earth because she’s gotten so many subtle clues that the kindergarten is this awful place and that she’s from this awful place, but Jasper feels differently because Amethysts kindergarten was a highly successful kindergarten, Jasper’s from a very unsuccessful kindergarten, not only is she from Earth which is a complete failure of a planet as far as Homeworld is concerned, but she’s from the worst Kindergarten on Earth. She came out with a lot to prove and had to live and work in a system that knows those things about her which is what defines her way. The gems that came out from the Beta Kindergarten were so flawed and she’s perfect, all evidence points to her being perfect but she’s never gonna shake the idea somethings wrong, she feels like she had to work harder than everyone else and prove herself with this nagging notion in her mind with this place that’s so disgraceful and when people think of Earth on Homeworld they think of Rose Quartz and this rebellion and she can never escape this really negative association with Earth and even though she’s the best thing to come out of Earth, she’s still from Earth.”
“Something I always liked about Jasper on the show is that she rarely put her emotions and feelings on her sleeve and they sneak out in small moments where you finally see the core of her character, but usually you see her in her element of being like this decorated, cool warrior gem, which is the complete opposite of how she actually feels, there’s a reason to put that so front and centre because deep down she feels she doesn’t deserve to be that. That’s why she can’t escape this place and she’s just letting it destroy her, like when she’s there I mean she’s destroying herself but because she’s so worried that the core of her self is wrong, she’s just diving into it and doing horrible things…cause she thinks of herself as horrible, it’s really tragic actually…I love Jasper. It’s one of those stories sort of about how these systems that are set up kind of fail people from different origins, the gem system sets up for successful gems from successful colonies who are having success in taking over the universe but when it comes to someone who’s a little out of the mold, it harms everyone, and Jasper falls into that even though on the outside it looks like she should be a model gem.”
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