Candra, With Love

Keeta has always been a fan of Miku’s work.

How Times change, and yet the queen still reigns.

oh, my aesthetic? X/X/X/X/X/X/X/X/X/X

Here’s an example: when Jasper showed back up in “Alone at Sea” and started groveling and begging to fuse, it came totally out of left field for me. Instead of developing that plot-point, the show just sort of implied that Jasper had developed Stockholm Syndrome and tossed out a metaphor or two. If you remember, the last time we had seen Jasper (conscious) she was absolutely LIVID about being part of a forced fusion. She was angry and she hated it. That’s where I was expecting Jasper’s narrative to pick back up, because that’s what we left on. Instead, the writers just sort of side-eyed the audience and said: yeah, that happened while you weren’t looking... don’t worry about it.

That wasn’t the end. It just keeps happening.

We have a romantic narrative between Lapis and Peridot that’s been brought forward by Lauren Zuke, but we have seen so little one-on-one interaction between them aside from the conversations that were orchestrated by Steven. I concede that since they moved into the barn there’s been more of that, but it’s long overdue. The huge milestones in their “relationship” happened when we weren’t there. Meep-Morp. Camp Pining Hearts. The barn renovation. When they originally planted the corn field. We got to see none of it, and again it was the same sort of situation: yeah, that happened while you weren’t looking.

Here’s another one: when Bismuth got bubbled! That’s a HUGE one! You’ve got this character with a reasonable narrative who’s been vilified for it and that’s not okay. They attempt to justify it by having Bismuth attack Steven, but when considering her circumstances it’s hardly worth the treatment she got in the end. I think the big question was how things originally played out with Rose, and we never got to see that. We just got to hear about it and that’s not enough. What happened? did she try to kill Rose as soon as she was told no? did Rose force a duel with her and just trap her in a bubble in the end? What was it like when she hadn’t been trapped in a bubble for over a thousand years and left to be forgotten? It probably wouldn’t make the conclusion good but it might have made more sense at least.

I see the same sort of thing happening again with the rubies, how they’re supposed to be bad guys but the only one who did literally anything to Steven was Eyeball and she was totally justified. She was in a bubble with what she believed to be the enemy general who killed Pink Diamond. Why do they deserve anything they got? What reason? Is it just gonna be another one of those moments where Navy says the others were mean to her and that’s it?

Wait... wait a minute...

Holy shit.

The gems talk about how Rose was able to manipulate plant life, which is absurd if you think about how Gems normally interact with anything and everything biological. It’s weird and unprecedented for a gem to form a mutually beneficial relationship with an organic life-form. What if Rose’s fascination with organic life wasn’t only about their unique traits and aesthetic? What if she was trying to use organic life to create gems without destroying it in the process? What if she saw the potential, and was trying to harness it?

It’s was more than just a ludicrous idea too: Steven is the proof that gems an organic life are compatible - mentally and physically. He’s literally a amalgam of gem and human anatomy, and although it’s not a perfect science, it’s something incredibly profound. Steven can fuse with humans, with plants (watermelon Steven), and with gems. They’re not mutually exclusive identities.