#nikkisha16

I don’t think the gems have ever outright BLED. Pearl did look ‘roughed up’ in the Sugilite ep but I’m presuming it was more an unconscious pseudo-shapeshift of how she was feelin on the inside. 

The final say on gem biology is: It’s a cartoon! We can overanalyze it to death but the truth is, sometimes they sacrifice detail accuracy for the sake of visual cues and narrative. 

Also, though - Diamond sweat and saliva and tears DO have definitine effects on the physical world and we can therefore theorize that although their light-projection bodies do NOT technically have physical ailments, their gems DO produce, in some way, er.... physical... liquids? That’s something to think about.)

They’re not just rocks, they’re sentient rocks. There’s lots of stuff that they can do that’s probably way more complex than we can fit into a single children’s cartoon.

It couldn’t have taken place any time sooner (aside for that first mention during her convo with Blake) because it couldn’t have occurred until after she’d confronted her feelings and relationship (or lack thereof) with Raven. And once Yang has done that, now she’s able to finally re-acknowledge how Summer was her mom, in all the ways that mattered and more.

That could work, I would also throw “Untouchable Until Tagged” and “Achilles' Heel” there.

  Saying both Marinette and Adrien have a point in...

I felt like Alya was speaking on the fandom’s behalf when she told Mari she shouldn’t feel bad just because Adrien did. But yet again Adrien’s feelings matter more to Mari than her own because of this stupid crush that is somehow killing my love for the love square more and more (along with the reappearance of Brat!Chat in “Frozer”). If this is all some strategy to push us into shipping Luka/Mari or Kagami/Adrien, someone should tell Zag that this is a terrible plan.

Well, I don’t at all believe that Marinette put Adrien’s feelings before her own in Malediktator because of her crush on him, she put his feelings above hers because that’s just the person she is. Marinette has more than once put her own hurt aside because she’s been guilted into doing it (Ms. Bustier does this too). She’s a sweet pea, but she’s a sweet pea that the show isn’t letting have any self respect because she has to be the bigger person no matter what. 

I was gonna say because she’s a brown woman but then I kept reading.

And that scene was so hard to read, not only because she’s was repeatedly killed and brought back over and over again, but because Talia herself has said in the past that she doesn’t want to use the Lazarus pit ever (you hear that Tom King?) also on a side note, did she HAVE to be naked while it happened? I mean it’s not like the Lazarus dissolve clothes or anything.

Also while I’m no fan of even attempting to acknowledge all the horrible ooc things the writers made Talia do, her being tortured by Nyssa might have been at least decent enough of an excuse to cover their ass? I mean Gleason (bless him) made an effort in Robin: Son of Batman with those colorful pearls that effected Talia’s mind, the black one was the one that made her do all of those evil things and she refused to have it back inside of her, so who knows maybe the black pearl appeared because of what happened to her?

i talked a little about it here, but my personal preference with the AceOps is to read them as ALL being from Mantle, and the program is some kind of model minority uplift/brain drain situation. Marrow would be part of that, and doubly exceptionalized because he’s also a Faunus.

wrt to your question about personal stakes...the thing about Mantle is that it has been suffering for a while, so if Marrow STILL has family down there, it’s hard for me to imagine him being like “i can excuse slow death but i draw the line at dropping a bomb” when he probably would have jumped ship MUCH earlier. things crystallize much faster when you have personal stakes, and Marrow has always had a good head on his shoulders about right and wrong--it’d be much easier for him to extrapolate.