#weapon summoning

I got bored and decided to rewatch from episode 1 for shits n giggles, and of course, not halfway through ep 1 I have to stop and write about stuff.

So cookie cat is still foreshadowing because “he left his family behind!” And stuff, but actually it struck me as interesting how the gems explained summoning their weapons, and how we can explain why now.

Pearl talks about careful planning and hard work, and how for her, summoning her weapon is like a dance. We know now that this is because she wasn’t built to hold a weapon in the first place, and because dance is an instinctive part of who she is as a pearl. Weapon summoning was a foreign concept for her at one point, so naturally it took dedicated study to figure out how to use her preexisting “programming” to make it work.

For Amathyst, however, her “programming” is weapon summoning. She’s a quartz soldier, so she was made to be able to summon weapons and use fighting abilities like sapeshifting and dash ball without having to think about them in the heat of battle. She already came out of the ground possessing the skill set pearl had to work so hard to study.

When Steven asks garnet about this, wondering if he’s supposed to do two seemingly opposite things simultaneously, she first responds “yes.” She’s actually not entirely wrong; Ruby is a soldier type like amethyst, equipped with innate knowledge of weaponry and battle tactics, so on the one hand there’s an instinctive element to weapon summoning for Garnet as well. On the other hand, sapphire is gem nobility, and would never have had need for a weapon until she became a crystal gem, so she would also have needed to study and practice like pearl. Having understanding of how discipline and intuition do work together in this case, Garnet then gave Steven a seemingly cryptic, cosmic answer about channeling the universe through her gem, which actually sounds a lot like meditative concentration.

Day 2: Weapon Summon 

Jade’s weapon is a gauntlet with spikes on the knuckles with a oval on the back where her gem is under the gauntlet. 

She summons her weapon usually by just pumping her fist but sometimes he likes to look cool and adds flare to her summoning, she’s amazing and quite nimble. Why not twirl whilst summoning?