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I love Lapis–but she isn’t an angel despite gaining wings. I dunno why people are hellbent in seeing Lapis and Jasper in absolute black and white, and its a bit frustrating lol.
Like–Lapis somewhat cares for Steven, but dear lord she HATES the crystals gems and she HATES earth.
When she found out Steven was a crystal gem, that’s when she turned on him. Yes, we don’t know the full story but we have to wait on that. But here’s the thing, Lapis was Steven’s Beach Summer Fun Buddy until she counted she with “THE ENEMY”. People keep saying “she didn’t know” or “she didn’t mean to” and that’s being willfully ignorant. SHE sent out the Water Clones to attack. STEVEN’S WATER CLONE SPOKE IN HER VOICE. She was AWARE of what they were doing and she was OKAY with it if not outright CONTROLLING them.
“Look kids, Lapis can punch a child too!”
And the only reason why Steven and Connie weren’t killed was because Greg ran over the clone with his van, but then the clone threw his van and tried to kill HIM too.
Of course Steven still wanted to help because he’s Steven. She thanked Steven, but never apologized and just left, letting the ocean fall with Steven still on top. Steven had to be saved from that too.
“Lapis somewhat cares for Steven, but dear lord she HATES the crystals gems and she HATES earth.
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She sent a warning to Steven alone, but still led Peridot to the crystal gems’ base.
Since she does care about Steven, she hid information from Jasper and Peridot. “It wasn’t relevant to the mission.” She became a prisoner after it was obvious she withheld information from the homeworld gems.
She STILL led them to earth, to the crystal gems, with the mission to restart the kindergarden. SHE HATES EARTH. She didn’t seem so bothered with what would have happened to everything Steven loved, just him in particular on short term.
I still love her character but ffs, she has problems. I really want to see Lapis and Jasper to both come back and hopefully get a shot at redemption.
redemption nothing! She got redemption by sacrificing herself to stop Jasper. What she needs when she comes back, is recompense. An apology, some comfort, something to say “We’re sorry we kept you imprisoned for several millenia. We hope you could forgive us one day. Until then have some icecream”
We don’t even know why she was in a mirror to begin with. Pearl stated they found the mirror at the now broken galaxy warp (which brings up way more questions–I got my own theory on that.) They had no clue who she even was, or that she was even capable of communication, or even how OP she was. Idk, it’d send huge red flags to me if a homeworld sided gem suddenly started speaking to Steven. And that was sorta justified with how she reacted to the “crystal gems”.
Like it or not, there was a gem war. And like I said before, the idea everything is black or white is frustrating especially where I feel the narrative it going. I especially resonated when Greg himself said “There are no good wars, kiddo.” Bad things happened on both sides, we don’t know the whole story yet. We don’t even know how and why she was in the mirror just left at the galaxy warp period.
One thing I don’t quite understand myself is when Lapis blamed them for knowing she was in there. She never tried communicating with them, only Steven. Pearl seemed confused that the mirror was broken as well too. That and we have seen gems act for “inanimate” objects before, like the temple/ship one, so that just raises more questions.
That and her reasoning wasn’t to sacrifice herself to protect anyone, it was to make someone else suffer the same way she did.
“I’m tired of being everyone’s prisoner… Now you’re MY prisoner, and I’m never letting you go!
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Its actually pretty sad when you realize she’s continuing a cycle here.
That’s why I’m hoping we get more backstory on that whole thing eventually, there’s a HUGE chunk of the puzzle missing. I’m not sure why people assume me saying Lapis did questionable things means I think she’s a irredeemable baddie, because that’s not it. I want to understand the motivation why she chose this path, and I want to see her recover.
I was just doodling Steven randomly and it turned into this huge sketchy mess of random comic scenes in which Malachite is unfused and everyone gets their shot at redemption all at once.
(I apologize to everyone following me. My dash has been really busy today, and too much of things like the above have piled up. I want to get this out there in hopes of keeping at least some of this from happening to someone else.)
Okay then: Steven Universe side of Tumblr? You can like or hate comics or theories, but this kind of “argument” is not okay. You can criticize all you want, we certainly do it to the canon material! You can even do it as rudely as you want, if you want to be “that person”. But personal attacks are never okay. Because surprise, the person who drew/wrote these things in question is an abuse survivor.Assume only makes an “ass” of “u”. It pisses “me” off.
It’s also condescending as hell to assume my history prevents me from thinking critically, but that might explain why some people completely rob the Lapis Lazuli character of her agency too, dismissing everything she does as “she didn’t mean to”. You’re treating this character as an “object” as well when you do that: an object that can’t possibly have the intellect to claim their own actions and needs to be told “it’s okay, you didn’t know any better”.
My abuse experience isn’t my get out of jail free card when I make mistakes, nor should it be, and I’m not even talking about the level of Grand Theft Ocean. It’s okay to make mistakes, it’s okay to admit mistakes! Like ianjq said, you learn new things that way! You can recognize when a character makes terrible mistakes and still like them, and you can still wholly sympathize with their tragic circumstances. And since this is Steven Universe, you can be rest assured they will grow as a character!
But you shouldn’t use it as an excuse to the harm they deal, and you especially shouldn’t use it as an excuse to attack other fans. I for one don’t want to be patted on the head and say “it’s okay, you didn’t know any better” when I say something that hurts someone. You don’t learn that way.
“Yikes. Those two are really bad for each other.” Even GARNET placed equal responsibility in Jailbreak. It’s okay to. Just because a character hasn’t learned yet doesn’t mean they won’t! And it makes for a very well-rounded, dynamic character.
I had to bring my personal history up on Tumblr exactly once before this, in the pony fandom, when accused of being an “SJW”. I have had to bring this up like four or five times now, here in the SU fandom, because apparently I need some kind of bizarre survivor cred to speak my mind about a character’s behavior when what the fandom says doesn’t add up to me. And that is just the times I actually responded. That is not being the Cool Kids, SU fandom.
There is a vast difference between someone saying “I don’t think a character acts the way the fandom says they do” and directly accusing an actual,
live person of being an enabler at worst, or uncaring at best. Learn it. “Choose love”. And don’t harass the writers about pie, either!
This is the last time I will address comments like these. It’s exhausting! I’m going to go back to drawing silly Gem shenanigans and what this show is actually about.
I apologize again for the unhappy on your dash. I return tomorrow with more art!
WWWWWOOOOOOW that’s gross. I knew some of this was bad but good lord.
Work in progress. Taking one of my and Kristybob’s oC RP characters and making them into a Gem, modeled after Septarian, also known as Dragonstone. I have three pounds of the stuff in my collection, and I love it! So a sort of IRL fusion here. :p
