The Perfect Diamond

The mind was a fickle thing. Memories, perceptions, they could be easily molded by time and events. But once they were, it took great energy to change them. Some were easier than others. But the strongest and most distinct memories and ideas difficult to break.

White knew this. It wasn’t a power she exercised often, but the times she had, she remembered. She knew which ideas were easier to change, which memories easier to erase. It all stemmed from how close a gem held them.

And this one had been a tough one to manipulate. A traitor with in her own ranks, Iolite.

This gem had been stubborn, and needed a new outlook. White blinked, her power fading. It was done. It had started as a simple inspection and suppression, and had changed to a complete reprogramming when the memories proved too tough, but it was done. The intricate process of creating a new mind had forced her to delay reading reports and sending troops to other sectors, but it was done.

Iolite was fixed for her insolence. Now to see what Iolite thought of this.

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Also, to me, White changed her mind too easily. Though, I guess she did say that she felt like Pink and suppressed it before. But offcolors and fusing seemed to be hated before the rebellion, and for White to just change her stance of all of it immediately is way too quickly. No one changes their world view THAT quickly.

They also made helping the corrupted gems a montage instead of actually focusing on it when that was why they even talked to White in the first place! It’s been a goal of Steven’s since Season 3, and to have it done so quickly just feels cheap. It’s been a long-standing desire to see the corrupted gems healed, and then it’s just glossed over without dialogue. We barely even see White react to the corrupted gems.

And my pettiest reason, we never got to see Peridot and Lapis fuse.