|| It is very much interesting thinking about the fact that despite discouraging individuality, the system of Homeworld has created differing ways for its subjects to deal the damage its ideology and practices inflict, and how their duty and caste intertwine with that.
|| In Eyeball’s case, she has very much become dependent on its caste to deal with her own sense of inferiority and replaceability. She is desperate for approval, for recognition, to make her stand out, and she looks to Homeworld to remedy that. Specifically, she wants to have fame, and status and status comes in the form of owning a Pearl.
|| Holly Blue’s way of dealing with her role is through taking it out on others. She yells, she hits, she abuses the Quartzes. She’s quick to blame them for everything, she’s willing to call them derogatory things to let her anger out.
|| Rutile Twins and Fluorite deal with it in a very similar fashion. They are completely aware that Homeworld does not only just not want them but actively would try to kill them. They just... Accept that. They turn that into self-loathing, but not self-destruction. They live, even if they are hated.
