All the Crystal Gems gave themselves internal organs to replicate some human bodily functions (breathing and eating most notably). Either the internals of their Shapeshifter Default Form can be semi-permanently changed on the fly, or they just caused/waited for their next regeneration.
edited 24th Feb '18 4:21:53 PM by thatother1dude
@53293 That's rather plausible. I had considered the idea that Yellow Diamond had a hand in it before, but the motive for doing so had been difficult to pin down (I played with the idea that YD secretly hated PD, but it's flawed with what we've been shown so far). The idea that YD set it up to put PD in her place but had the whole thing Gone Horribly Right (with Rose being way more of a threat than YD anticipated) is a potentially sensible option.
@53299 Well, I'm sure it'll come out sooner or later, though I've had the theory for a while that Rose was a Death Seeker (fairly certain that I even said that here before), and that having Steven was thus an intentional move on her part. Not so much "deal with her mistakes" (I'm fairly certain Rose never anticipated that Steven would have to deal with Homeworld... after all, she went, what, 5000 years without doing so herself?), but more a way to leave behind the pain she felt over everything.
@53303 Well... there's a pretty good argument that sacrificing herself so that Steven could be born is sacrificing herself to protect a life.
@53320 I still wish that had made it into an episode (even if it was a later one). Amethyst vs. other gems vis-a-vis food is hilarious.
That said, yeah, it does clash with the "no shapeshifting" problem Peri was later established as having. That said, I have wondered if it might just be something that she can later develop (as in, the Era 2 gems were stunted and develop some of the abilities of Era 1 gems later; they mostly just hadn't reached that stage yet).
Reminder: Offscreen Villainy does not count towards Complete Monster.Maybe it's something we'll never know for sure because Steven can't personally know Rose, but we should eventually get to know what Greg knew. I'd certain hope it was something she discussed with Greg!
I joke about that, but I get the impression Rebecca Sugar is into new age stuff a little bit so I wouldn't be surprised if that's exactly right.
Plus gems don't seem to "die" naturally from what we can tell, or even if they do it seems they're so long-lived they don't really think about it. Gems could wrap their mind around murder (shattering), but Rose probably wouldn't have a primal fear for her mortality the same way humans do. She might see Steven as a form of fusion like Garnet does.
edited 27th Feb '18 10:49:39 AM by xanderiskander
If Peri still had that food inside her all that time... if nothing else, you'd think that it would smell after a while.
Reminder: Offscreen Villainy does not count towards Complete Monster.I joke about that, but I get the impression Rebecca Sugar is into new age stuff a little bit so I wouldn't be surprised if that's exactly right.
New Podcast,this time it's focusing on Lapis
Remember how before Lapis left, there was a lot of criticism of the barn episodes as ruining Lapis and Peridot's characters? Yeah, bullshit, this was the whole point.
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?I don't, I'm just satisfied that the over the top complaints of how Lapidot was "ruining the show" finally faded now that this happened and ultimately strengthened Peridot and Lapis's characters. I distinctly remember hysterical complaints about how the show was just done with them and that they'd never do anything with them ever again, and now this happened.
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?Complaints about Lapis mostly seemed about how she didn't really do anything ever since she and Peridot moved into the barn. Which is actually something I agree with, her leaving would probably be even better, if she got involved more and we more clearly saw the toxic influence her relationship with Peridot had. And that's not saying it wasn't there, just that they could have showed it better.
There's complaints like that and then outright hyperbolic ones about how "Oh she has no character/personality" (blatantly untrue) or how they were just going to shunt her and Peridot into the barn until the end of the show (which would've made absolutely no sense to do). Trust me, there were a lot of those kind of complaints popping up, it was weird.
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?

Posting because I can.
One thing I'm glad for is that the show hasn't go down route of having a Prophecy or a 'Magical Gem Destiny' this is despite having gems like Sapphire who can look into the future,normally when a show deals with something like a Hybrid or saviour figure there's some kind of prophecy that comes from somewhere,in this show's case it would have been foretold by someone like Sapphire,and it would have had some vague wording about Steven being Savior/Redeemer of Gem kind or something but any case they've avoided that trope,for now
Though you never know,there might just be a prophecy that they'll come to eventually..
Oh absolutely
edited 24th Feb '18 4:50:08 PM by Ultimatum
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