Steven Universe Season 1B / Tear Jerker

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Poor Amethyst...

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House Guest

When Steven cries while arguing with his father, saying that his healing powers finally made him feel like a Crystal Gem, and being worried about not knowing what to do if he couldn't use them.
After Greg reveals that Steven had indeed healed his leg, and that he'd been faking his injury, Greg mentions doing it because he just wanted to live with his son again. Which, of course, raises plenty of upsetting questions about why Steven lives with the Gems instead of his father.

Space Race

Pearl sounds so heartbroken about not being able to return to her home.
Pearl: I will show it to you...
Pearl having to pull back and eject herself and Steven from the rocket when he convinces her that they could get killed in space, because she's both remorseful for dragging Steven into this, and also because her hopes to revisit other worlds have once again been dashed.
Greg's heartbroken, anguished scream for Steven in the same scene. He thinks he saw his son die in a rocket ship explosion, far away from him, where he can't protect or protest him. And just before this, he is obviously in pure agony when Pearl goofily mentions that she and Steven will be back in about 50 years, seeing that there is a real chance he will die before his only child comes back. Add that to the fact that Pearl convinced Steven to go with her to test the ship when Greg told him not to go just a couple of hours ago, and you have the ultimate parent's nightmare.

Secret Team

A good portion of the episode consists of Amethyst and Pearl arguing, with Steven desperately trying to make them get along so they can keep the "Secret Team" together (much like "Giant Woman"). The two only apologize and admit their mistakes when it looks like they're about to be crushed by a rogue Gem limb (actually Garnet).
Garnet: So, you two can't get along unless it looks like I'm going to kill you.

Island Adventure

Lars' breakdown. The guy may be a jerk, but the way he goes from screaming and raging over his phone to crying in despair and inelegant blubbering over the group's situation is heartbreaking. His delivery makes it even more sad when he reaches out to Sadie.
Lars: Sadie... do you ever get lonely, even when you're around people?
Lars and Steven finding out what really happened to the Warp Pad.
With this episode and "Joking Victim", the state of Sadie and Lars' relationship seem to be deteriorating as the series progresses.

Keep Beach City Weird

Ronaldo utterly collapses into himself when he realizes that all of the weirdness happening around Beach City revolve around Steven, not him.
Ronaldo: (dejected) I'm really not at the center of anything.
Peedee's reactions to Ronaldo's delusions, especially after he knocks Steven out and ties him up in the lighthouse for diagnosis, paying witness to both of these scenes, and even having to film the latter. He looks genuinely terrified and traumatized about what his brother is up to.
Ronaldo is basically delusional, but he's so lost when his "snake people" conspiracy theory is disproved that Peedee makes up a new conspiracy for him to obsess over, just so he would be happier that way.

Fusion Cuisine

Steven calling Connie out for repeatedly lying to her parents about not only him and his family, but how she still uses her glasses even though Steven healed her eyes. Steven comes to the conclusion that Connie is ashamed of him, but Connie says it's because she doesn't want to risk her parents forbidding her from having Steven as a friend. Either way, it's really sad.
The look on poor Connie's face when her mother snaps at her for lying. She and Steven get so upset that they spontaneously decide to just run away by getting on a random bus and seeing where it will take them... only for them to be stopped by an angry Alexandrite. Steven manages to save his friendship with Connie, but despite this, he is grounded from TV for 1000 years.

Watermelon Steven

Baby Melon's Heroic Sacrifice. For context, after sentient watermelons attack the Crystal Gems, Steven orders them to stop. The baby melon then punches Steven, knowing that the melons will defend their creator, and lets himself be defeated. Steven is devastated when he sees his body, now reduced to just a regular watermelon, and then calls out the watermelons for their actions.
Steven: Look at what you've done! You think I wanted this?! You should all be ashamed! He knew this is what it would take to calm your rage! ...He understood true loyalty.

Lion 3: Straight To Video

The Happier Home Movie that Steven and Sadie discover shows just how much Rose Quartz loved both Greg and Steven himself. She announces that she'll become half of Steven when he's born, because they can't both exist in the world. Even Steven and Sadie are driven to tears after watching it.
- And then Sadie calls her own mother, possibly to ask her if she can make lunches for her again. Considering that we later see how strained the relationship between Sadie and her mom is, this can also count as heartwarming.

Warp Tour

Steven gets increasingly frustrated at the Gems' lack of faith in his words in this episode, enough that he and Pearl actually butt heads, which in itself is horrible. It doesn't help that he nearly dies by suffocation in his attempt to prove he was right and is very aware that it'll be his own fault if that happens.
Steven: "I was right. And now I'm gonna die. A tired, frozen little sad sack."
Garnet manages to save Steven, and finds out that he was right about something else traversing the warp streams. Steven says he doesn't care about it anymore, but Garnet tells him that she does, and apologizes for not listening to him before. Just think about it, Steven nearly froze to death trying to prove that he was right, something he wouldn't have done if the Crystal Gems had listened to him. She may feel that her refusal to trust Steven nearly got him killed. She even wipes away tears during her apology.
The Gems' Not Now, Kiddo attitude towards Steven's ordeal. He is so obviously scared for his life and they just brush him off. Especially Amethyst's indifference towards himself is harsh, considering her Cool Big Sis demeanor.

Alone Together

Stevonnie's near-panic attack while at the rave, especially for anyone else who's dealt with stage fright or panic/anxiety issues. That they are pretty much forced to dance with a perfect stranger who's heavily flirting, making them uncomfortable, really doesn't help the situation.
In general Stevonnie's loneliness. They are happy to have this new level of connection, but are lonely since they can't share with each other since they are only one being now.

The Test

A brief one, but Steven thinking back to his mission to the Lunar Sea Spire and that he failed it brings back some unfortunate memories
Steven finding out the new test that the Gems have put him in was rigged again.
- Additionally, once Steven sees that his test was rigged and finds the Gems waiting for him at the end, we get to see some of the Gems' true colors. Despite being heroes with magnificent powers, they are facing quite possibly their most difficult challenge ever... Being good parents. With Rose, the most influential Gem of their team gone, their pride is just as, if not, even more so hurt than Steven's pride since they feel that with every bit of self-esteem or confidence that Steven loses, they're letting Rose down as well. Even Amethyst feeling she's failing Steven as a parent, despite her usual carefree attitude, is rather saddening to watch.
While it's pretty heartwarming in the episode, this marks the first obvious time that Steven puts aside his own feelings in order to help someone else with theirs, and it only winds up getting worse from there.

Future Vision

Steven's episode long terrified Freak Out over Garnet telling him, by way of her future vision, that he could die any number of ways any moment is bad enough, especially the scene where he ultimately ends up hiding from the world under a table wondering why he can't be braver.
Garnet's speech about it at the end makes the whole thing fairly tearjerky on her part as well. For much of the episode, it merely seems she is oblivious to the effect her words had on Steven - with the audience chalking it up to her tendency to believe he can handle things. However, in the end, she reveals that she was well aware of the risk that Steven would take it very badly, but willingly took the chance because of the off chance that he would understand and they would become closer. When she sees what she has done to him by gambling with his well being, she looks outright horrorstruck. It's raining in that scene, and when she takes off her glasses it becomes difficult to tell whether she may even be crying.
Garnet: "Steven, I see so many things that could hurt you. I should never have let one of them be me."
- In light of that, her quick advice for Steven to "stay off the roof" becomes this as well. Steven takes it to mean that something bad will happen to him, and ultimately ends up going up to the roof to dare the universe to do it, when really him going up to the roof is Garnet's bad outcome - as she saw Steven freaking out and going up there ahead of time as a bad result of her actions, and a sign she really had failed him. By asking him to not go up there, she's essentially asking him to prove to her that she hadn't screwed up.

On The Run

While it starts as cheery, the titular song quickly turns sad once Amethyst starts to sing.
- The second-to-last like, "but home's a place that I have never known", is sung by Amethyst and Steven together. Amethyst is confused due to being a gem made on Earth, and Steven is often stuck between being a Gem and a human.
The Reveal that Amethyst is a by-product of whatever horrible event that the Homeworld Gems were trying to accomplish, and the fact that she hates what she is, and thinks that everyone thinks of her as a mistake, or a monster. She's crying and sobbing in her hole by the episode's end because she honestly thinks herself as that. Luckily, with some prodding from Steven, Pearl is able to reassure her that they don't feel that way. This makes a lot of her behavior a lot Harsher in Hindsight (as well as Garnet's "we kept Amethyst" joke), as it's implied she's been a Stepford Smiler for all these years, as Pearl had no idea she felt that way, with her admitting that she didn't know triggering another tearful outburst in Amethyst.
The fact that Amethyst doesn't really feel as though she's at "home" with Steven or even the other Gems, to the point where she jumps on the opportunity to run away for a while for no real reason at all. The only place she remembers as home is a desolate wasteland that the others constantly tell her is an evil place that only spawned evil things (with the exception of her). It's all but stated that the fact that she still pines for the Kindergarten and remembers it fondly, is one of the many things she feels guilty about and hates about herself.
Amethyst: I never asked for it to be this way! I NEVER ASKED TO BE MADE! [tears run down her face]
Pearl: Amethyst...
- Taking into the "Kept Amethyst" quote in Steven's Lion, this moment is just horribly heartbreaking...
- The fight between Pearl and Amethyst. Pearl clearly doesn't want to fight her and Steven tries his best to stop it only to get roughly shoved aside TWICE, and Amethyst is simply lashing out because of how hurt she feels. The result is one of the saddest scenes the series has had so far, heartrendingly capped off by the above quote.
Amethyst: I'm not gonna let you stand there and remind me of everything I hate about myself!
- After Steven finally manages to get in-between Amethyst and Pearl, tears in his own eyes over the sight of them fighting, one of the old Gem machines starts to fall over from damage it sustained in the fight. Steven manages to shield himself and Pearl in his bubble, but Amethyst backs away and is caught outside, and runs away to her hole, with Steven calling out to her as it falls (and afterward, before he realizes she was safe in her hole and not squashed).
- Then there's this line between Pearl and Amethyst...
Pearl: You can't beat me!
Amethyst: [furious] I. DON'T. CARE!
There's some strong hints that Amethyst is a Wild Child that was left alone for quite some time after her creation, until Rose Quartz and the other Crystal Gems found her and took her in.
Amethyst's internal struggle over who she is and how she was made can be quite painful to watch for those who felt the same way about themselves, especially teenagers and young children. A lot of times some people are born with physical birth defects and/or mental disorders which make them the subject of social bullying and/or emotional and physical abuse from their parents. Even though Pearl and Garnet never ostracize her for being a leftover product of the Kindergarten, they sometimes unknowingly make insensitive remarks (remember Garnet's "We kept Amethyst" joke?) or tip-toe around the subject in a way that makes Amethyst feel like they hate her. Even sadder is her assumption that Steven (who she saw as a little brother) would treat her the same way.
- There's also the interpretation that, for a race of sentient stones, Amethyst is the closest their kind can get to being a child of rape, a being implanted into an unwilling (celestial) body and born from it in a process that is both deeply harmful and irrevocable, abandoned by those responsible for her creation, and then adopted as the one good thing that came from an awful situation. It gives the "we kept Amethyst" line an even more heartbreaking context.
  - This line hits harder with this interpretation:
  Pearl: You're (Amethyst) not the mistake! You're just a byproduct of a (realizes how bad this sounds and blushes)...big mistake.
- The line itself ("I NEVER ASKED TO BE MADE!") can be interpreted as coming from a person who learned that their birth was an accident.

Horror Club

Everyone else's reactions when Sadie is sucked through the floor, especially Lars and Ronaldo's.
At the end, we see how Lars and Ronaldo were childhood friends, only for their friendship to fall apart after Lars destroyed a picture of paranormal activity in the lighthouse (specifically, a board of the wall attacking him), out of embarrassment.
There's a parallel drawn between Lars and the lighthouse Gem, which suggest both it and Lars lash out because they feel hurt and alone.

Winter Forecast

The Serial Escalation of the visions. Not only is Steven getting more and more worried and confused, but it reinforces the idea that Garnet's Seer powers are a major case of Blessed with Suck.

Maximum Capacity

Greg and Amethyst getting sucked into watching the show and missing watching the fireworks with Steven, especially when Steven realizes they're not coming and when Greg realizes what time it is and tries to leave, only to get stopped by Amethyst.
Greg and Amethyst's fight, near the end of the episode. Both parties are holding a lot of inner pain, but Amethyst crosses it by Shapeshifting into Rose, just to mess with Greg, even after he told her that BASIC shape shifting really makes him uncomfortable. Greg's freaking out, and Amethyst holding some level of contempt for Greg for feeling like he stole Rose makes the whole thing really upsetting. Steven then walks in and chews both parties out. It's implied a similar incident is what caused Greg and Amethyst to stop hanging out.
Amethyst's wide-eyed look of horror when Steven catches them, followed by her running off in shame.
- It can also be interpreted as this: by seeing Steven, Amethyst realizes that had Rose Quartz seen her bullying Greg so shamelessly, Rose would be terribly disappointed.

Marble Madness

By the third time we see one of the giant Robonoids, the Gems have gotten extremely distressed from having to deal with them, while having no idea what they want.
Pearl: They just keep coming and coming, and we don't even what they are...we don't know anything!
Amethyst is confirmed to be 6000 years old, meaning that she had been bottling up her feelings about her origin for millennia. Just when the events of "On the Run" couldn't get any more tragic...

Rose's Scabbard

All of Pearl's upset expressions in this episode. She really still struggles with how much she misses Rose and how a part of her hopes Rose can see her. It's very heart-wrenching.
Pearl is shown to have had a much deeper relationship with Rose than Amethyst or Garnet did, so the revelation that there were things Rose hid even from her such as Lion's existence causes her to go into denial and become very distraught. Amethyst retorts that's she not the only one who misses Rose. Pearl then lashes out at all of the Gems, and even Steven, saying the former could never understand what she and Rose had, and the latter didn't even know her, before she runs away in tears. Garnet and Amethyst are so hurt by the outburst that they don't bother to go after her, and Steven has to be the one that goes after her. Garnet does quietly wish Steven luck, though, so she likely understood that Steven was the only one that could get through to her.
- So much worse in hindsight. Pearl wasn't exaggerating when she talked about being the closest to Rose; for millennia, she was forced to keep silent about Rose being Pink Diamond, and watched thousands of gems pay the price because of it. Being Rose's sole confidant, Pearl bore the guilt of the hundreds of gems that were either shattered or corrupted as a consequence of her complicity in Rose's plan, not to mention the extreme PTSD she's plagued with as a result of watching her friends die on the battlefield (which she simultaneously confronted as a possibility for herself). She did all of that for Rose, so it would be fair to suppose that a small pay-off would be acting as Rose's greatest ally and best friend. Of course she would lose it when realizing that Rose didn't feel the same way about all the sacrifices she made, to the point where she's willing to break her sacred promise to Rose to never reveal the truth about herself because she was still bitter over the fact that Rose was still keeping secrets from her (such as Bismuth's betrayal), even if she couldn't handle it. In short, Pearl tolerated the burden Rose/Pink placed on her for thousands of years just for her, only for her to begin losing her patience with her former master when she wouldn't tell her everything.
- The first time Pearl covered her mouth in this episode shows that she felt so betrayed by Rose keeping secrets from her, she felt her biggest secret didn't matter to her that she considered telling Steven about it when he insists, "you have to tell me what's wrong", but couldn't show him Rose's true identity. Sure, she got over it, but then two seasons later, it's revealed she kept yet another secret from Pearl, Bismuth's betrayal, which proves to be the last straw. Pearl covering her mouth more frequently starting from "Back to the Moon" after discovering this shows how she's become more desperate trying to tell someone about it because she thinks her role as confidant didn't matter anymore.
The thing that causes Pearl to run? She punches a wall, causing the picture of Rose to fall to the floor (though Garnet grabs it before it hits).
Pearl's lashing out at Steven about Rose.
Pearl: You can't understand what I feel, none of you had what we had!
Steven: She probably just wanted to protect you like everyone else!
Pearl: How would you know?! YOU NEVER EVEN MET HER!
When Steven is chasing after Pearl, he underestimates the distance for the final jump and nearly falls. Pearl doesn't jump after him immediately, showing how upset and off-balance she is.
- It isn't that he underestimates the jump; Steven makes it about halfway across before Pearl turns around and stares at him with so much anger and resentment that it stops his jumping entirely. Two seasons later reveal that Steven can control the descent of his jumps with his emotions; whatever Pearl's look made him feel, it was enough that he dropped almost immediately.
The entire scene between Pearl and Steven on the ancient battlefield. She reveals that she still sees so much of Rose in Steven, and it eats her up inside to think of what Rose would think of her today. She also saved a recording of the day Rose asked her to stay and protect the Earth, and she seems to have watched it so many times that she's completely memorized it.
The scene just before the montage of Pearl and Steven playing together: Steven seems ready to comfort her, but all he can bring himself to do is hug her from behind. Pearl is completely still as tears stream down her face. She continues to breathe heavily in a realistic matter, which just makes the scene even more tearjerking.◊
This episode could also make "Space Race" a lot sadder, if you think about it. Pearl willingly decided to stay on Earth solely for Rose (who died giving birth to her son later) even when she was told that she could never go home if she did. With Rose gone, Pearl trying to get to space and her failure to do so makes you realize that Pearl has lost two of the most important things to her.
The episode shows us the full extent of Pearl's love for Rose (blushing as she calls her beautiful, her descriptions of Rose, saying that everything she did was for her, etc.), as well as showing Rose's reciprocation of that love (softly calling her "my Pearl", prioritizing Pearl's safety and informed consent over their relationship, the trust she placed in Pearl) thus putting a whole new level of Woobie to Pearl.
Pearl's Death Glare to Steven. Judging by the expression, it appears as though she harbors some resentment toward Steven because he's responsible for Rose not being there. It seemed like, for a split-second, she wanted him to fall.
- Worse, when does Steven start to plummet? When Pearl turns around and he meets her Death Glare. His jumping stance completely crumbles, his face falls... then so does the rest of him. It's not clear if he couldn't have made the jump anyway, and this is just coincidence, or whether his shock at Pearl's hostility threw him off balance and gravity did the rest.
And then you realize the title Rose's Scabbard is a metaphor as much as it is literal. Rose and Pearl were very close, to the point that Pearl has felt like an empty scabbard with her gone.
Steven's frantic attempts to chase after Pearl and his utter confusion as to why she's running away from him. One of the most motherly figures in his life in the absence of his birth mom is screaming angrily at him to leave her alone, and it clearly upsets him greatly. Even worse if you remember how traumatized he was when she disappeared for two weeks in Steven the Sword Fighter, and now the same guardian seems to be mad at him and he doesn't know why.
Steven: "Pearl! [voice breaking] Di-did I do something wrong?"
- The look on Pearl's face as she turns to glare at Steven, makes it not at all hard to think any response would be along the lines of, "You were born."
Arguably what makes the moment with Pearl and Steven on the top of the floating rock so powerful is that, there is no happy resolution to this. Sure, Steven cheers Pearl up and they have some bonding time together, but the show absolutely does not shy away from the fact that while Pearl does have Steven, her grief for Rose has not been alleviated at all, and loving him doesn't cancel out her sadness. Nothing (that we know of) will change the fact that Rose is dead, and there's nothing Pearl can do about it but grieve. She may still be happy and experience other positive emotions, but none of those lessen how much the death hit her and how much she still continues to mourn it.

Open Book

While it may not have been the real Connie, seeing her physically force Steven to admit he liked the way the book ended (complete with pinning him to the ground and pulling his hair) was really hard to watch.
With the way Room!Connie is dressed when she's trying to get the confession out of Steven, it really looks like she's really trying to make him confess to something else.

Shirt Club

Buck and Mayor Dewey's strained relationship. The fact that he finds Steven's admiration of his father "funny" is an indicator of how deep the wedge in between the Dewey family goes.

Story For Steven

Greg's song about following his dream and the future, while optimistic and uplifting, is almost hard to listen to knowing where Greg is in the present. Not to mention you get a really bad feeling that this dream would have crashed and burned within a month even if he hadn't met Rose.
When Rose questions Greg how is he going to return to Earth from his one way trip to Cosmos he says that he is never coming back. She is a bit sad and upset because of that, saying that Earth is Greg's home. She might be voicing her own feeling as neither she nor her fellow Gems can ever return to the Homeworld.
Rose initially tries to push Greg away, due to a combination of not wanting to ruin his dreams and to avoid the tragedy of a Mayfly–December Romance.
- Speaking of ruined dreams, this episode shows that Greg had a real shot at making it big, but gave it all up when he met Rose.
- Rose telling Greg to move on because she'd outlive him is a tragedy in itself, since we all know she'd eventually die birthing Steven.
Seeing how the Gems acted when Rose was still alive. Garnet was less stoic, laughing and blushing more freely, Amethyst wasn't nearly so caustic, and she and Pearl got along really well. It just shows how much they had to grow up with her gone...
- Also, it's neat to see how much younger all the Gems looked back then... until you remember that a Gem's mental state can affect how they age, as seen in So Many Birthdays. Losing Rose forced them to grow up in more ways than one.

The Message

Greg's "I Want" Song, where he pleads with the Gems to "Have a little faith in me."
The phrasing he uses when calling the Gems out:
Greg: "You guys don't give up on anything. Except for me!"
The contents of the message. Lapis looks so frazzled as she warns Steven about how a Gem is looking for him, and that 'she's not alone'.
Poor Lapis Lazuli's situation in general. After how badly she wanted to make it home, for her to discover that the world she's returned to is nothing like what she remembers...

Political Power

It's a little heartbreaking to hear Mayor Dewey complain about how powerless he really feels in the midst of the insanity that happens in Beach City.
Mayor Dewey: Look, Steven, it's not lying when you're the mayor—it's politics.
Seeing them Gems trying to hide how scared they are of Peridot's oncoming arrival from Steven. It's like how a parent tries to reassure a frightened child, while being unsure of a situation themselves. It goes back to how the Gems feel like they're failing as guardian figures in "The Test".

The Return

The Gems looks of anguish and worry after Steven leaves with Greg is hard to watch. They know they've done everything they can to protect Earth just as Rose did, but with the new technology the Homeworld Gems now have, they know they won't stand a chance.
Greg's struggle over whether or not to let Steven return to Beach City hits pretty hard. Greg knows the circumstances that led to Rose and the rest of the Crystal Gems abandoning their mission to protect Earth, so he's the only one besides the Gems that understands what's potentially at stake. But he's still a father, and so he's torn between wanting to keep his son safe and recognizing that Steven might be the only one with the power to save the town- and with it, all of Earth.
- What's worse is that Greg knows that Rose, Garnet and Pearl are the only Crystal Gems left, because all of the others are dead. And now the enemy who killed an army of Crystal Gems has returned for the rest- including his son.
Jasper mocking the Crystal Gems as the last remnants of Rose's friends.
Jasper: "But this is all that's left of her army? Some lost, defective Pearl? A puny, overcooked runt? And this shameless display?"
Garnet being cut down. We get a nice, nightmarish slow-mo shot of her falling, and the expression on her split face as her eyes meet Steven's is just gutwrenching. Not to mention afterwords, we get a good moment to stare at the impression her pieces left in the sand. Oh yes, pieces.
Watching the panicked reactions of the Beach City citizens as the Homeworld ship approaches. Jenny is backing away in shock. Ronaldo is caught up in trying to catch it all on his phone. The saddest is Fryman trying to pull a pleading Peedee away from the restaurant.

Jail Break

It's actually really painful to see how desperate Ruby is to find Sapphire again since the implications behind who they are have already been made.
- Before Steven escapes his cell, all we hear from Ruby is her screaming over and over again. Either out of pure fury and concern for Sapphire, or because she's trying to escape from her cell and hurting herself.
- It's a small thing, but when Ruby tells Steven to be quiet because she can't see? She's so used to being Garnet that she has a moment where she forgets that she can't see the future without Sapphire. Seeing her frustration and fear when her own limits catch up to her is really heartbreaking.
- What's more, in "The Answer", Rubies were either grunt soldiers or bodyguards for high-class Gem in Homeworld. Ruby, a low-ranking Gem, was probably looked down upon and seen as entirely replaceable all her life that every time she fused into Garnet, the feeling of being fused with Sapphire, her partner and a high-ranking Gem, made her "strong" both literally and figuratively. So when she was forcibly separated from Sapphire, Ruby felt that strength disappear completely. She told Steven not to look at her because she initially assumed he'll belittle her for being a "weak" Gem like everyone else did, even though he had no idea who she was at first.
Lapis' choice to Fuse with Jasper. Not to beat her former captors like Jasper was counting on, but to seize control and drag her into the ocean. After everything she's been through, she ultimately sacrifices her own freedom to save Steven.
- Steven quietly begging her not to do it is, in itself, heartbreaking.
Lapis hit the Despair Event Horizon pretty badly; she's convinced that there's nothing to do against Homeworld but stay put, pray for mercy and succumb to their fates. Poor girl. There's also her reaction to when the ship starts going down. She just lowers her head and curls up. Does she think she's doomed, or did she realize that the Crystal Gems won (the most logical reason the ship would be going down) and that by not believing in Steven, she's going to die there alone instead of escaping with him, or is she thinking that Steven, despite his assurance, abandoned her?
Garnet making the understatement of the century.
Yikes. They are really bad for each other.

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