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“And this is the turning point where you find out that Rose Quartz is a really awful person.”
“Rose did wrong.”
“All of Steven’s compassion is coming from Greg.”
All quotes by Rebecca Sugar on rose from the latest podcast…
The last line surprises me a bit. I thought she might be a little evil but ALL steven’s compassion comes from Greg? wow.
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.”
This podcast touched on many things, one thing I like is that it confirmed that dramatic anime villain Jasper is literally all just one big act, it’s a front and it’s what she thinks she should be but it’s not her true self.
Once she gets healed, I can’t wait to see the REAL Jasper.
I wish they talked about something that wasn’t completely obvious, but oh well, at least I get to say:
I FUCKING CALLED IT EVERYTHING I THOUGHT ABOUT HER PERSONALITY BEING JUST A FRONT AND HOW SHE THINKS SHE SHOULD ACT WAS CORRECT!!!!!
It’s weird how people used to tell Jasper fans that they were “thinking too deep” or “she’s not that complex” when it came to her. And then all of a sudden the Jasper meta turned out to be true.
On a side note, when Sugar said Jasper’s just letting herself get destroyed, a small giggle slipped out from her and it terrified me.
Absolutely nothing on this planet tastes sweeter than being right.
big jasper!!!
“Just let me do this for you!”
What a total lie. We all know Lapis is doing it for herself. If she really wanted to save Steven from Jasper, there’s just about a thousand different ways she can use the Ocean to dissipate and then bubble Jasper. No, Lapis likes the control she can have over someone else, even if she doesn’t realize it. Turning the tables after being imprisoned again and again over thousands of years.
Malachite is a mirror of Lapis Lazuli’s design.
Also, this line is uncomfortably similar to the bombshell line at the end of Sworn to the Sword.
WOW *wink
“that dirt doesn’t care how green your thumb is”
a metaphor for peridot and lapis’ dysfunctional relationship
so this is something I’ve been mulling over since the episodes went up on the app. I feel like the ending of “back to the kindergaren wasn’t just a metaphor for peridot trying to move on from lapis, but also for their relationship itself.
we learned in “raising the barn” that peridot literally and figuratively bent over backwards to make sure that lapis was okay. she put lapis’ needs ahead of her own. she is constantly considering and tending to lapis’ needs:
“lapis was very agitated when she heard you were on homeworld. I was bending over backwards to make her feel better”
“maybe it’s good that we’ll be away from everything, where nothing can change. no surprises or developments, she’s been through so much, she needs consistency”
“sometimes you have to do things you don’t want to do. like, get jettisoned into space to live forever on a floating rock with a barn and ‘just us’ for as long as time exists. lapis needs us!” “we don’t have a choice in this”
not only that, but she feels like she can’t talk about things, because she’s scared of “upsetting” her.
“well. there are many things I should say, but they would upset you so in general I don’t say those things?”
considering lapis’ response was to yell at her for “lying”, I think that fear is not unfounded.
see, for all of the emotional labor peridot pored into their friendship, lapis didn’t really give anything back. this entire episode, she was dismissing peridot (and pumpkin). that is, when she wasn’t yelling at her.
peridot really cared about lapis and showed that by trying to make her happy. and lapis took that, and the most she ever really gave back was presence and humoring her if she felt like it.
it’s understandable that lapis was panicking. it’s understandable that she no longer feels safe and wants to leave. but she didn’t just leave. she took the barn with her.
the barn was peridot’s home first. she shared her home with her. she shared her art, her interests, everything, so that she would have a friend who understood what she was feeling and that she could help adjust to earth.
because I think this line from “back to the kindergarten” should be considered, when we talk about peridot:
“I was pretty much using this as a distraction from losing lapis, losing the barn, and just a general sense of complete hopelessness I tend to deal with on a day to day basis. but it really only confirmed for me that once you mess something up it’s ruined for good and nothing will ever be able to grow again.”
like I’ve said in my post about lapis’ trauma, lapis isn’t special. basically every character on this show is going through something. peridot lost her home too, she was so desperate to have lapis as a friend in the first place because she was another gem who could understand where she was coming from when she said that earth “didn’t exactly feel like home yet”. during gem drill, she teared up and said that it was hard not having feelings about where you came from.
and here, peridot more or less admits that she is depressed on a general day to day basis. she doesn’t show her feelings the way that other characters do, but that doesn’t mean that nothing’s wrong. peridot’s going through her own stuff too. that doesn’t change because she pushes them all to the side to comfort lapis who has “been through so much”.
the bottom line is, lapis has been through a lot, but peridot’s been through a lot too. it’s very sweet of peridot to be so concerned about lapis, but their relationship was unhealthy. peridot gave and lapis took, until lapis literally took everything from her and left.
in that sense the kindergarten soil is like their relationship. “that dirt doesn’t care how green your thumb is”. it didn’t matter how much peridot gave lapis, she can’t fix her, and their relationship won’t grow because lapis wasn’t going to give anything back to her.
now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying that lapis doesn’t care, that she’ll die alone, or that her relationships are ruined forever. though that could be one way to interpret it, I don’t think that steven universe is that cynical. as a show about love and healing, I’m sure that there’s hope for lapis, and even for her relationship with peridot. but I don’t think that regrowing that relationship will be easy for her.
lapis’ problem is that she is selfish. the only thing she has been concerned about since day one is herself, and her self preservation. if she has any hope of having any kind of healthy relationship, she needs to think about someone else too. lapis is the one who will have to put in the work now if she wants to make things right.
“back to the kindergarten” ends with peridot seeing that even if she couldn’t do anything with the kindergarten, there’s still an entire world blooming all around her. she disregarded it at first, because it’s not what she had hoped and dreamed for. but it’s still there, and it’s still beautiful.
even if she wasn’t able to have the kind of relationship she wanted with lapis, life goes on. she was able to pull out of her depression because she saw that she had other people in her life who love her, support her, and want to see her happy.
rest of fandom: noooo lapis come back!! oh what if she decides to go back to homeworld, what if she never becomes a crystal gem???? ;_;
my fed up ass:
It’s fitting for the situation right now
ENJOY!
HERE IS THE PLAYLIST OF ALL THE NEW STEVEN UNIVERSE EPISODES
Steven Universe: How much damn easier it would’ve been
LOL so I was reading some scanned pages from that new su concept art book and the paragraph on malachite literally says,
“Jasper herself is temporarily defeated through forced fusion–imprisoned in a joint body, Malachite–with Lapis Lazuli, who has to use all of her energy to hold their unsavory fusion together on the bottom of the ocean.”
Forced fusion. As in nonconsensual. This is literally all I’ve been saying since that episode aired and I’m just glad I was proven right t b h. Yet I bet some delusion lapis stans will still insist on their warped perception of Jailbreak being true because they refuse to believe Lapis could be anything other than a weak, fragile, and powerless victim.
my ONLY regret is that i wasnt on the show long enough to make peridot obsessed with fidget spinners canon
youve ruined her character enough, zuke
(rubbing my grubby gay immature hands all over steven universe) ha ha i wrote for this show and you didnt
….are you serious
JASPER DOESN’T SHARE FOOD
Mellow Frames: Our Favorite Ruby
reblogging because I accidentally left out two panels. They’re back in now.
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Lapis confirmed for worst gem.
She was a million times more likable in the new crystal gems.
Also for the sake of the Bible I might have to rewrite Lapis, post The Return
THIS. THIS THIS.
I’m really glad that this video was made and that so many people agree with it. sometimes it feels like I’m alone in seeing lapis as an abuser and that I only see things that way because I’m losing my mind.
