All The Jasp

So it looks like we can start posting our pieces for the @tigerzine !! Here’s my entry piece! I’m so happy to finally be able to post it.

“Come here, sis”

After two years I can finally post this beauty, oh my days did this take bloody FOREVER to finish! I want to say a massively heartfelt thank you to @rhandi-dandy / @thegembeaststemple for taking time off her busy schedule to put the @tigerzine together, and for being an inspiration for this piece ❤️ You’ve done an incredible job and I cannot wait for the hardcopy to make its way into my letterbox! 

“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.”

Jasper has already been confirmed to return since the discovery of the Off-Colors. So we know that she’s coming back.

But let’s also not forget what this will lead to. Let’s take a look at everything we know.

As we know, Jasper was made to serve Pink Diamond. It is the sole purpose of which she, and her sisters were born. And every action she took was for her. In almost every sense, she was their mother.

A mother that Jasper had been led to believe was murdered by her sister.

But thanks to Zircon, and the things that we, the fandom have been able to piece together, we know that Rose isn’t the one who did it.

Much like most of us, Zircon knew there were pieces that didn’t fit together. If Rose, as a wanted rebel, had just ran up to Pink Diamond, why didn’t her quartz soldiers stop her? Why didn’t her sapphires warn her? Why didn’t her Pearl scream?

What, they all just missed her? No chance in hell.

Also something we know: Pink Diamond met her death by a sword.

But Rose’s sword is incapable of doing that.

Not only this, but Rose was so against shattering, that she put Bismuth down, and kept her hidden away.

She betrayed one of her friends. That’s how far she was willing to go to avoid killing.

But we’re to believe she’d turn around and kill someone?

This narrows it down. The only person who could’ve killed Pink Diamond was someone who could’ve gone right past all of her gems without any problem.

Someone with higher authority.

Diamond level authority.

That’s why Yellow Diamond intervened. Even if she’s not responsible, she knows who is, and clearly wants to keep it hidden. What’s more, she’s kept this from Jasper.

She did not only lie to Jasper, but she made Jasper a reflection of herself. When she separated Jasper from the other quartz gems, she cut off any chance Jasper ever had to move on.

She had to suffer alone, without her Diamond.

Without her sisters to comfort her.

Without anyone.

The only thing on her mind was revenge.

And when Jasper returns and discovers the truth, revenge will still be on her mind.

But it won’t be against Rose.

It’ll be against a diamond.

-inserts this one hard rock song that touches your heart and makes you go wild-

for me shes playing this one

Hard Rock Jasper commission! X)

kimberly: -named betty, ironically. and she’s very tough, and I’m trying to get into her voice right now but-  I just remember they were out of the one I wanted and I was like “well can I go to a different… can I go to a different sears and get the same refrigerator cause I really want this refrigerator” and she’s like

kimberly, in jasper’s voice: no, see we’re all pulling from the same warehouse.

kimberly: and I was like “that is the best voice I’ve ever heard” so I think I stored that in my brain and I think it came out cause it’s just- I loved betty so much

audience member asks if she could see jasper selling refrigerators

kimberly: I think if she come- you know she stays… and you know she mellows out…. she needs to get a job……..

kimberly, in jasper’s voice: you need this refrigerator