YGPIM Analysis Log date 4 306 8
ALL ART MADE BY @yourgreenpalminmine
SPOILER WARNING FOR ALL OF STEVEN UNIVERSE AND YOUR GREEN PALM IN MINE
Original steven universe peridot will be referred to as “The great and lovable peridot.”
I feel that peridots first log mostly just establishes the plot of the first (season i suppose) of the comic. This first log is mostly representing the sophistication and more job like side of peridot. You could compare the way she speaks to a business email being sent to royalty, even whilst it's a personal log; this isn't for anyone's eyes but hers. It’s obvious to readers that this job is expected to be fast, regulated, and just like every other job she’s done.
Now that we have the log out the way let’s go into the art. At the forefront were given a back view of our peridot; wearing flared shoulder sleeves rocking a hairstyle similar to the great and lovable peridot, just shortened with more rectangle shapes at the top.
holo-tablet to the left being used to assess the location, right one giving us a small glimpse of the rose quartz gem, and the smallest one containing a small seemingly anatomy sketch which most likely is the designed build for the rose quartz since they do end up having that similar large chest, long legs, and longevity in the neck. Now where it becomes juicy is the color scheme and smallest of details.
We see an almost set path of rose petals Infront of peridot leading into the kindergarten. I like to see this as extremely heavy foreshadowing as once she steps foot into the kindergarten her entire view upon life or lack there-of shall change forever; as she will end up meeting a rose quartz who literally changed everything peridot believed in.
Looking up, we see two lapis lazuli flying over the kindergarten, likely meaning it was recently terraformed. So this is quite literally the start of everything. Rose Quartz and Amythyst come to life, and peridots journey through her own self-being. With lazuli’s above far enough to where you can barely notice them, possibly foreshadowing peridot to meet lapis lazuli’s in the very distant future.
So far other than some smaller pieces of foreshadowing, stepping back and looking at the entirety of color use is where we get everything we need to know for the entire first set of panels. (from here on out a lot of this might not be intended by the creator so humor me)
Before we get to the greens we can start with the landscape's colors, our plateaus and clouds are given these tones of bluish grey, like green blue greys can represent calmness and tranquility, but also “In color psychology, blue-gray can evoke feelings of detachment, sadness, and uncertainty due to its hue.” (thanks, figma for the quote!) So, Peridot is quite literally walking herself into a world of pain, as she is blessed with love just for it to be taken from her in a moment's notice. Detachment in this case could represent an abundance of things. As peridot is already emotionally detached, the plateaus could mean peridot becoming detached from who she once was before she entered the kindergarten.
Green represents calmness, health, and renewal, with renewal meaning of rebirth. Once again, the entirety of peridots beliefs and identity will be questioned, destroyed, and rebuilt from the ground up. Green can also represent inexperience. Which means so much with peridots character because physically peridot is extremely talented and experienced as she’s been doing this for thousands of years; but a thing that many peridots have little no experience in is emotional stability and emotional understanding. Funnily enough, this is practically the same emotional arc the great and lovable peridot went through. (Which I will explain further down the panels) So just by staring at the peridot and the grass around her we see her entire character arc set out for her.
At first staring at the colors of the rose petals we see a bright pink, heavy on the (at first) as when you zoom in, some of the petals on the outer section have a darker more so dying tone of pink, I feel it could almost equate to the fly walking into a venus flytrap; loaded to the brim with beautiful colors, but the more you walk in the less light there will be, and the less life you’ll see. This could mean that the path peridots on will emotionally eat her alive (were in angst city fr)
That should be everything for this Analysis! Follow @yourgreenpalminmine for the next panel and me for the next analysis!
