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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#48551: Apr 13th 2017 at 12:21:09 PM

Though that would be a near-Game Breaker power
Lapis can already make structures from water that are complex, extremely durable, and can he immediately reformed if damaged.

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#48552: Apr 13th 2017 at 12:23:06 PM

And she stole the ocean once.

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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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#48554: Apr 13th 2017 at 2:01:57 PM

> And she stole the ocean once.

And almost drowned a lot of people

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#48555: Apr 13th 2017 at 2:06:40 PM

By way of stealing the ocean...

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SalFishFin Since: Jan, 2001
#48556: Apr 13th 2017 at 2:19:45 PM

Honestly she just kind of borrowed it without asking. Now, if she'd used it to make a colossal pair of water wings and flew to Homeworld with them... that would be stealing.

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#48557: Apr 13th 2017 at 5:07:04 PM

Plus she was really homesick so it was out of desperation more then anything else,she was imprisoned against her will on an alien world for thousands of years,so it;s kinda understandable that she resorted to drastic action like stealing Earth's seas to build a water tower

She's lucky she even survived her flight through space given how it's a lifeless void filled with flying rocks

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RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#48558: Apr 13th 2017 at 11:57:42 PM

Well, for Gems the 'filled with rocks' part is the only relevant danger.

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#48559: Apr 14th 2017 at 12:01:59 AM

And the Sun, for some...

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#48560: Apr 14th 2017 at 6:27:28 AM

Well, Lapis is a Game-Breaker on Earth, where there's enough water for her to basically be armed and dangerous pretty much regardless of where she goes. But let's move the action to, say, Yellow Diamond's arm ship. Lapis is just a fairly frail gem with nothing to manipulate beyond any water that she might have brought with her (consequently, I imagine that Lapis, in this situation, would have the sense to bring along a bubble, a jug, or something so that she wouldn't be completely unarmed, but she still wouldn't have nearly the power or versatility that she would on Earth).

However, if a Peridot/Lapis fusion did have metal-shaping powers, then even on the arm ship, she'd be a powerhouse - literally everything in reach would be a weapon. Or a shield. Or whatever she wanted it to be (and since Peri is good with machines and modern gem tech, it would stand to reason that any fusion involving her also would be, so it's not unreasonable to believe that the fusion of the two could make complex weapons on the fly). I think she would just be a complete Conflict Killer, which is part of why she hasn't come up yet.

As a side note, just to guess, this theoretical fusion would be about as tall as Garnet, maybe a bit taller.

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#48561: Apr 14th 2017 at 6:32:26 AM

[up]A Conflict Killer is something that causes a conflict to end without a proper confrontation, not something that makes that confrontation anticlimactic.

edited 14th Apr '17 6:33:10 AM by thatother1dude

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#48562: Apr 14th 2017 at 6:49:28 AM

(Reads trope page)

Okay, neither of us got Conflict Killer exactly right there, but fine, it'd be a remarkable Anti-Climax.

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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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#48563: Apr 14th 2017 at 11:00:56 AM

> Well, for Gems the 'filled with rocks' part is the only relevant danger.

I forgot to add those flying rocks are often going really,really fast and could slam into Lapis before she even leaves the Earth.There's like a billion and one hazards in space that make simply flying through space without a spaceship a mission of no return,gem or not she would not survive.

Its cool though,I imagine there there was a passing ship that gave her a lift,or according to some posts on Reddit she found a world with warp pad and used that instead.

edited 14th Apr '17 1:24:23 PM by Ultimatum

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#48564: Apr 14th 2017 at 4:26:41 PM

However, if a Peridot/Lapis fusion did have metal-shaping powers, then even on the arm ship, she'd be a powerhouse - literally everything in reach would be a weapon.
You're assuming the ship is made of the kind of metal that Peridot can contol. Who knows what it's made—the old ship looks most of it is made of stone.

Victin Since: Dec, 2011
#48565: Apr 14th 2017 at 8:25:01 PM

Well, actually it isn't easy to get hit by a rock in outer space. Going through asteroid belts is much chiller than Steven Universe and Star Wars would have you believe, as far as I know. I mean, you could argue this isn't true for the show, but I think it's just Rule of Cool.

Though I believe you do have to worry about space dust. Maybe?

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#48567: Apr 14th 2017 at 11:40:29 PM

The way it's worked in Steven Universe seems even crazier than the standard Asteroid Thicket because two space flights in a row happen to randomly run jnto space rocks after a few minutes.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#48568: Apr 14th 2017 at 11:42:38 PM

Maybe it was just a continuous one...

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superboy313 Since: May, 2015
#48569: Apr 15th 2017 at 10:04:37 AM

Hmm... I think that The Corruption as launched by the Diamonds could be blocked by certain barriers beyond Rose's shield - my guess is that the prison setup on Lapis' mirror was a block to prevent any energy going in either direction, so that mirror saved Lapis. Also, I guess tons of rock also could prevent it, which is why unemerged Amethyst was fine. Also, Bismuth was not only bubbled, but bubbled in an extradimensional space, so that's why she was safe from it. Slightly related, I have wondered about what if there was another gem that escaped (maybe being deep underground) and decided to completely go to ground. What would happen if such a gem met the Crystal Gems today? (I can only imagine how much fanfic exists based on this idea.) As for what other characters would think of The Corruption if they knew the details... Well, I'm sure Steven is going to learn more details, and he's going to be suitably horrified. I can see him giving a full Kirk Summation to the Diamonds when he gets a chance. I presume Amethyst was actually given the details some time in the last 5000 years, so I imagine her reaction was just pure shock, and maybe fear. I kind of wonder if Lapis knows about it; I guess it depends on whether anyone was caught by it near the galaxy warp when she was still trapped. My personal guess is that she doesn't; I kind of question why she'd have wanted to go to Homeworld in the first place if she knew they'd do something like that. Then again, there is the Fridge Logic about the fact that Lapis did want to go to the planet of the people who unjustly tortured and imprisoned her - early Lapis was all kinds of messed up by her experiences. I suspect that Peridot would have undergone her Heel–Face Turn more rapidly if she had known about The Corruption. She would have found the idea of such collateral damage extremely wasteful. Of course, I think today's Peri would just find it disgusting (kinda how she reacted to Jasper being corrupted), but it would just reinforce her currently held opinions. She probably would handle it best of all the heroes. Connie, I bet, would react similar to Steven - a mix of scared, disgusted, and horrified. She probably would also be the one most likely to have a very awful Fridge Horror moment - who's to say that Homeworld couldn't figure out how to corrupt other life forms... and, in fact, maybe that's why the human zoo exists, for Homeworld experiments on human corruption. Flipping over to Homeworld forces, I bet Jasper would just have been "You got what's coming to you... you should have been strong, like me!" She probably would use corruption as proof that she's really that great, because she avoided it... well, until she didn't. Oops. Yellow Diamond's Ruby Squad, though, I bet they would just be all "Yeah, show those Crystal Gems who's boss! Use it!" Little jerks.
I dunno. The Homeworld Gems seem to know NOTHING about corruption. And that if they found out, they would feel betrayed.

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#48570: Apr 15th 2017 at 11:26:59 AM

Oh hey more episode titles !

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#48571: Apr 15th 2017 at 11:29:26 AM

Ah good, we're coming back to that then.

I wonder if the ones that appear to be Beach City episodes are connected to it in some way, though?

edited 15th Apr '17 11:29:35 AM by KarkatTheDalek

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#48572: Apr 15th 2017 at 11:57:24 AM

Yeah, the Diamonds are gonna be stealing people now...

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#48573: Apr 15th 2017 at 12:19:27 PM

Finally, a Doug episode!

*Reads the rest of the titles*

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DeathsApprentice The Ultimate Lifeform from The Ark Since: Aug, 2011 Relationship Status: Is that a kind of food?
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#48574: Apr 15th 2017 at 12:34:58 PM

"I Am My Mom" is one of the episode titles.

Holy shit.

BTW, did you guys hear that the SU soundtrack is going to be released soon?

edited 15th Apr '17 12:38:54 PM by DeathsApprentice

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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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#48575: Apr 15th 2017 at 1:08:03 PM

I'm curious as to what mistakes he's trying to fix

Bismuth?

Jasper?

Or maybe it's something mundane

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