thatsthat24 did a challenge for someone to draw the Steven Universe Gang as Adventure Time characters for Halloween and it was literally the cutest thing I had ever heard of so I wanted to give it a shot!
but Garnet’s future vision (especially in the eponymous episode Future Vision) manages to be a more accurate metaphor for what living with OCD and intrusive thoughts are actually like than any depiction of OCD I’ve seem on television
especially the contrast between Steven and Garnet. Steven’s clearly suffering from it and has severe anxiety from all the things that he’s seeing (or rather, hearing from Garnet).
Garnet on the other hand has managed to cope with it to the point where it doesn’t effect her, but makes it clear in the episode’s climax that she still has to deal with constant, unending, reminders of all the ways her friends can get hurt.
The /very/ powerful line “I see so many things that can hurt you, I should have never let one of them be me.” is what really sells it for me.
And it makes me happy to think that the kids in the audience dealing with OCD can find something they can relate to.
Reminder that human Sadie battled an invisible monster-gem virtually alone, hindered by rain, mud, and an injured arm, with nothing but a pointy stick- and WON.
That Steven Universe/Les Miserables fic is done! Who wants a read?
Rating: PGprobably
Fandom: Steven Universe/Les Miserables, sort of Summary: In order to impress Pearl, Mayor Dewey attempts a one-man production of famed musical Les Miserables.
Exactly what you would expect to happen, probably, happens.
That Steven Universe/Les Miserables fic is done! Who wants a read?
Rating: PGprobably
Fandom: Steven Universe/Les Miserables, sort of Summary: In order to impress Pearl, Mayor Dewey attempts a one-man production of famed musical Les Miserables.
Exactly what you would expect to happen, probably, happens.
People have already theorized that more than one being exists for each gemstone; meaning, there are many pearls, many amethysts, many rubies and sapphires, etc.
If only ONE being existed for each kind of gemstone, even if there are thousands of kinds, Homeworld would barely have enough hands to run the empire, let alone manage the implied-hundreds of conquered planets. There would HAVE to be more than one gem for each gemstone. (Not to mention for the gem population to be large enough that the Crystal Gems are still cleaning up corrupted gems centuries later.)
But that’s not what I’m talking about. What I wonder is, how do you think gem society would TREAT these copies? What caught my attention the most was Rose Quartz’s line in Lion 3: Straight to Video.
“This world is full of so many possibilities. Each living thing has an entirely unique experience. The sights they see, the sounds they hear. The lives they live are so complicated, and so simple.”
Rose is awestruck at the idea that a group of living creatures can have unique lives – that they experience new sights and sounds different from anyone else.
What I theorize is that gems are considered interchangeable with others of their “breed,” and made to be nearly identical to each other. Of course they would have different memories and slightly differing personalities based on their experiences, but you could destroy an Emerald and fill that position with another Emerald and hardly notice. Peridots are always weak technicians who adhere to the rules, Jaspers are always military brutes, Lapis Lazulis always control water. Every gem, when cut, has a future already etched in stone, members of different gem breeds essentially sharing the same life as others of their breed. If they DON’T act exactly like they are grown to, then there is something wrong with them.
That isn’t to say gems CAN’T be different, or want different things, (the Crystal Gems and Rose’s rebellion being the case and point), but most gems are loyal to Homeworld or are too afraid/too ignorant to even think about moving from their place in society.
This is why Rose Quartz would be fascinated that humans are all born different and can choose their own life.
This is also why Jasper would call Pearl “some lost, defective Pearl” in The Arrival, because she chose to rebel with Rose Quartz instead of staying loyal to her pre-set duties. She is defective because she didn’t obey the calling Homeworld had chosen for pearls.
It could also give Peridot’s statement a little more context, while still being funny.
“There appears to be an infestation of ‘Stevens’ in the Kindergarten.”
“And how many more ‘Stevens’ are present in this area?”
If this theory is correct and gems are all made to be the same, Peridot might have assumed other species were similar, with “Stevens” being a “kind” which is why she lumped him into a group. Then again she specifically mentioned humans as a singular species instead of ‘stevens’ being a breed of humans, so this might be reaching.
If this is correct it would also make fusions more complicated. Are there non-fusion Opals, Garnets, Alexandrites, Sugilites and Malachites naturally in gemkind? Could a singular gem we know of (like an Amethyst or a Pearl) be a fusion of two gems? Could you take ANY Sapphire and ANY Ruby and mush them together to make the same Garnet or would the fusions differ?
The only way we’d know if this theory holds water is if one of the casts meets a counterpart gem. What do you guys think?
