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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#48376: Apr 1st 2017 at 3:54:23 PM

He would've just let it happen apparently...

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Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#48377: Apr 1st 2017 at 3:59:13 PM

To be fair Navy was very persuasive.

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TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#48378: Apr 1st 2017 at 4:01:16 PM

@Kurtz: Apocalypse Now is a movie about a CIA operative from the US Army sent during the Vietnam war up a River of Insanity to find Colonel Kurtz, a Green Beret special forces guy who was an extremely able and accomplished officer yet abandoned any possibility of career for the sake of performing hyper-dangerous Spec Ops in the field. He goes rogue from the insanity he sees in the war, or rather, he completely and honestly embraces its evil without all the sugar-coating, rationalizing, and other palatable trappings that the saner parts of the military still use even as they torch entire villages with Napalm and gut their enemies with machine gun fire from helicopters while high out of their minds.

Jasper doesn't really go the same way as Kurtz, but there's parallels. It stops being about the mission as soon as Rose is involved, she compromises more and more of her warrior ethics in the name of victory, associating with and practicing things she despises, growing even addicted to them. She progressively loses her morals and her mind, such as they are, but, ultimately, she never stops being loyal to her Diamond.

Her Diamond, that is.

So I feel it might be interesting to write a story where Yellow Diamond gets wind of Jasper's deranged activities, intercepts strange transmissions,

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dispatches, say, an Obsidian, to "terminate" Jasper "with extreme prejudice".

Note: that's a lot less impressive than it sounds.

An interesting twist might be to have this be an entirely different Jasper, during the Rebellion, rallying humans in her rogue attempts to fight the Crystal Gems. Homeworld vs. CG could be paralleled with US vs. VC, to a point.

Skip to 2:38 for one of the most chilling monologues that character has.

Another approach might be to make it about our Jasper going for an assassination mission against Rose, but seeing Rose's ideology as complete and utter insanity from Jasper's perspective. Jasper herself grows more insane the deeper she delves into Earth, but not in the same way as Rose, though as a reaction to her, but gets an Aborted Arc when she suddenly needs to escape the planet.

edited 1st Apr '17 4:01:44 PM by TheHandle

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#48379: Apr 1st 2017 at 5:32:01 PM

I don't know about Apocalypse Now, but now I want to see Obsidians as men in black types for Homeworld.

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#48380: Apr 1st 2017 at 5:33:03 PM

I don't know about Apocalypse Now, but now I want to see Obsidians as men in black types for Homeworld.

I've proposed that idea before, I believe.

edited 1st Apr '17 5:33:38 PM by KarkatTheDalek

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#48381: Apr 1st 2017 at 5:48:01 PM

Hmmmm

To me since since Obsidian is really sharp I think they probably serve as Gem Empire's Special Forces

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#48382: Apr 1st 2017 at 5:48:32 PM

I also proposed something like that.

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Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#48383: Apr 1st 2017 at 5:49:50 PM

Great minds think alike!

Edit:It would be more fitting I think if their Elite Warriors were Aquamarines,Obsidians probably guard the Diamonds or something

edited 1st Apr '17 6:00:17 PM by Ultimatum

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#48384: Apr 1st 2017 at 10:12:25 PM

So I just remembered that (at least in the present) Homeworld seems to lack the concepts of art and fiction. You think the someone might take advantage of that to trick Honeworld gems with mundane special effects? Like Shao Pai Long from Macross, but deliberate.

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#48385: Apr 2nd 2017 at 1:32:36 AM

"Homeworld seems to lack the concepts of art and fiction."

They sure seem to love their songs, architecture, and murals. And Pearls presumably can all do ballet, or at least are dressed for it.

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#48386: Apr 2nd 2017 at 1:36:07 AM

Peridot doesn't know about art likely because she doesn't make it her business to know anything not directly relevant to her job. Time on Earth has changed that, but she's still got a lot of blind spots. I imagine Lapis was just "eh. Not going to bother to correct her."

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#48387: Apr 2nd 2017 at 2:03:06 AM

Abstract dadaist art installations are in a somewhat different category from the previously-listed.

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darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#48388: Apr 2nd 2017 at 9:16:29 AM

It's more that Peridot was excited at the idea that she could make whatever she wanted, and it could become unique simply for existing. She finds Earth so diverse and chaotic it's the kind of spontaneousness she'd been lacking. She excitedly tells navy Ruby that the best thing about Earth is you can be whatever you want, who knows!

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#48389: Apr 2nd 2017 at 9:35:33 AM

I forgot about the murals and other art in the architecture, though I'll point out Peridot explicitly didn't know anything about music. It's not clear if they have fiction, though.

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#48390: Apr 2nd 2017 at 9:37:48 AM

Peridot didn't know about music, but Gems in general have a concept. Yellow Diamond did tell her Pearl to sing Blue Diamond a song to cheer her up.

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#48391: Apr 2nd 2017 at 9:52:35 AM

Which is what I'm saying: at least some of them are completely unfamiliar with music, though I think Peridot at least knew what it is (Hence the "singing and crying" line).

edited 2nd Apr '17 9:53:26 AM by thatother1dude

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#48392: Apr 2nd 2017 at 9:52:51 AM

I think gems know roughly what art and music are,it's just they just don't have the time to be creative,they're probably constantly working,a species that doesn't need to sleep or eat probably doesn't take holidays or have any sort of downtime,anything they create has to be practical like architecture,or the Murial,which is basically showing how many worlds have been conquered and likely would only be appreciated by the Diamonds

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#48393: Apr 2nd 2017 at 11:30:56 AM

Any Gems who do understand art are likely Gems created specifically to be artists

superboy313 Since: May, 2015
#48394: Apr 2nd 2017 at 6:09:39 PM

You know how fans complain about the so-called filler Steven Universe has?

Well what if the series were to have only 10 episodes a season like Game of Thrones?

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#48395: Apr 2nd 2017 at 6:18:24 PM

We'd have the same amount of episodes we have now, but more seasons...

7+ more...?

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superboy313 Since: May, 2015
#48396: Apr 2nd 2017 at 6:24:48 PM

But what if a LOT of the slice of life stuff was cut out in favor of the whole Homeworld conflict?

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#48397: Apr 2nd 2017 at 6:25:54 PM

Then the show would probably be over by now but if it's only ten episodes the pacing would be off, I guess? I don't fucking know, why is this important?

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superboy313 Since: May, 2015
#48398: Apr 2nd 2017 at 6:27:39 PM

I dunno. I'd thought it'd be fun to speculate.

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#48399: Apr 2nd 2017 at 6:28:48 PM

The show would be lesser if it only focused on its myth arc.

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#48400: Apr 2nd 2017 at 6:41:36 PM

When you take out commercials, one season of Game of Thrones is as long as about 54 episodes of Steven Universe.

edited 2nd Apr '17 6:42:57 PM by thatother1dude


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