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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#56276: Jul 11th 2018 at 3:04:24 PM

I'd figure myself as somewhere between Garnet and Lapis.

Edited by LSBK on Jul 11th 2018 at 5:06:04 AM

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#56277: Jul 11th 2018 at 3:30:38 PM

@Ultimatum: Why in the world would you believe a poster saying that without even a screenshot as evidence?

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#56278: Jul 11th 2018 at 3:34:14 PM

You really think someone would do that,just go on the internet and tell lies?

I'll ask them for screenshot proof hold on

edit:if it turns out they were lying I shall be so embarrassed,but like it sounded so convincing

Edited by Ultimatum on Jul 11th 2018 at 10:38:11 AM

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kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#56279: Jul 11th 2018 at 3:41:03 PM

Apparently I'm a Garnet. Seems legit.tongue

MrSeyker Since: Apr, 2011
#56281: Jul 11th 2018 at 4:08:29 PM

[up] That's a big family. Love the last one where all of them are in frame.

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#56282: Jul 11th 2018 at 5:02:06 PM

I wonder if anyone will ever point out Amethyst and Steven are sort of like half-siblings. Not make a big deal out of it, I just imagine them thinking that's kind of neat.

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#56283: Jul 11th 2018 at 5:13:30 PM

I think they already consider themselves siblings, period, so it probably wouldn't change much between them

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#56284: Jul 11th 2018 at 5:19:02 PM

I could see Steven thinking in those terms, but would Amethyst?

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#56285: Jul 11th 2018 at 5:52:50 PM

[up][up]Of course it wouldn't change anything, or really be that significant.

[up]Rose and Steven are mother and son, and Steven told Yellow and Diamond "We're family." Outside of that, Amethyst is the only one who's applied familial terms to gems. She's the one who called Jasper "sis" and the other quartzes at the Zoo the "Famethyst".

Edited by thatother1dude on Jul 11th 2018 at 8:01:45 AM

32ndfreeze Since: Mar, 2012
#56286: Jul 11th 2018 at 8:57:06 PM

Someone may have already brought this up, but this one line in "It's Over, Isn't it?", was another hint in retrospect.

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#56287: Jul 11th 2018 at 11:45:56 PM

@Quiz: I got Pearl.

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#56288: Jul 12th 2018 at 1:24:12 AM

@The comic: "I add new ones periodically." Steven please.

Also, if we're thinking of Steven and Amethyst as siblings, wouldn't that make the Famethyst Steven's long-lost sisters?

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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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#56289: Jul 12th 2018 at 5:27:15 AM

I would say Steven and Amethyst are half Siblings as they both share the same 'mom' but only Steven has a father in the equation

The Famethyst are Amethyst's full on siblings though as they all came from the Prime Kindergarten,which makes the Famethyst Steven's half siblings like Amethyst

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#56290: Jul 12th 2018 at 5:48:14 AM

Never understood the need to distinct between siblings and half-siblings.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#56291: Jul 12th 2018 at 6:17:39 AM

She's adopted anyway...so it doesn't matter.

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#56292: Jul 12th 2018 at 7:01:05 AM

Re: quiz: I guess part of my shock at getting Sugilite is that the only thing I see having in common with her is a poor temper. And honestly, if they were going to match me up with someone based on that aspect of my personality, I would have thought Jasper would have been more likely. There are definitely gems that I think I end up being more alike to - even Pearl.

As for the "how well you match up with each aspect" thing, I think this quiz uses fusions for that purpose - if I were to guess, the quiz probably thinks that I'm equally alike both Garnet and Amethyst, so it shunted me into Sugilite. Which is weird because, for all that I do like Garnet, I don't think I have much in common with her at all. I can see Amethyst a little more, but not much. Relatedly, I bet someone who manages to pull off being dead level with Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl will manage to pull Alexandrite.

As for familial relations... I kinda wonder how much most gems would even have a concept of the idea. The main Crystal Gems sure would, between the amount of time they've spent in/near human civilization as well as their time raising Steven (Amethyst most strongly for several reasons). And based on how they've acted (particularly regarding Pink), I bet Blue and Yellow Diamond have some concept of it, even if it's taken through a prism of Blue-and-Orange Morality (I could see them accepting Steven as family, but I'm not so sure about anyone that isn't at least part-Diamond). While I wouldn't be surprised if it's roughly on the radar of Bismuth, Peridot, and Lapis, I'm not sure just how much they can wrap their brains around it as yet (I'd bet Bis would be curious and know it's a thing but not quite get it yet; Peri and Lapis would depend mostly on how much they could connect the concept to "Camp Pining Hearts"). Anyone else? Well, given how Aquamarine acted back in "Are You My Dad?", I think it's reasonable to think that quite a few gems would not be able to wrap their brains around familial units at the moment at all.

On the flip side, given that their duties are basically "care for humans in captivity," if there's any group Homeworld gems that would get families, it'd be the Famethyst.

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#56293: Jul 12th 2018 at 12:11:31 PM

Never understood the need to distinct between siblings and half-siblings.

Use to be a matter of formality and settling inheritance (legitimate children got more, illegitimate half-siblings got, well, half), and you could say it's good to know for medical history and stuff.

None of this actually matters for Steven or Amethyst though because there's no actual shared genetics of DNA involved, we're just talking spiritually.

Victin Since: Dec, 2011
#56294: Jul 12th 2018 at 12:13:38 PM

Well, if Amethyst is related to Pink Diamond, then maybe she is related to Steven.

Whowho Since: May, 2012
#56295: Jul 12th 2018 at 12:16:57 PM

I'm surprised Holly Blue isn't in that group photo when Aquamarine is.

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#56296: Jul 13th 2018 at 11:07:10 AM

Had scary thought about what work Lapis was doing on the planet during the period when she was 'just visiting' ,supposing they used her terrforming abilities to dig out the space needed for the cluster (they wouldn't have told her what the space was for just that it needed digging) and afterwards she was poofed so there wouldn't be witnesses,but the proceeding attack by the rebels means she gets captured and interrogated by her own side who have no idea she was even doing on the planet

The only evidence I have this is that in the flashback where's she poofed it looks like the Prime/Beta Kindergarten

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#56297: Jul 13th 2018 at 12:50:27 PM

Huh... so you think Lapis was deliberately placed where she could get poofed in a You Have Outlived Your Usefulness moment? Hrm... I'm going to lean towards "no" for a few reasons.

First and foremost, simply on a practical level, I don't think Lapis would have been useful for the variety of terraforming needed to implant The Cluster. Temperatures below the lithosphere of the Earth are absurdly hot (the coolest I can see record of is 500 degrees Celsius), so there wouldn't be any water for Lapis to work with. If she had terrakinesis, I could see it, but I don't think hydrokinesis would have helped much (and if she did have terrakinesis, I think she would have used it before now).

Second, up until now, it seems like Homeworld loyalists have been pretty neutral-to-positive on The Cluster. Take Peridot for example - she didn't develop any problems with The Cluster until it became apparent that it was a threat to her continued existence. Homeworld gems wouldn't have seen any need to neutralize someone who knew about it because they were all on-board with it (again, go back to Peri - Yellow Diamond was fully expecting her to come back and keep working right up until Peri famously talked back to YD). I think, if she had known about The Cluster, that Lapis would have just been evacuated and just said "whatever, what's next to terraform?"

Third, who would have even given such an order? As established above, the Diamonds surely wouldn't have - they didn't care who among their loyalists knew about The Cluster or anything related to it. We still have no indication that there was anyone other than Blue Diamond directly above Lapis. I mean, I could theoretically see the possibility that there was someone (maybe an Agate similar to Holly Blue) who had a grudge against Lapis who set Lapis up for petty reasons, but that's conjuring a character from whole cloth that we have no reason to suspect exists.

I guess it's not totally implausible, as I clearly can conjure a circumstance that works with canon in which it happens, but it seems too contrived (plus, completely tangential to the arc of the show) for it to be shown.

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#56298: Jul 13th 2018 at 12:53:23 PM

We don't know why Lapis was on Earth, but it's never been implied it had anything to do with the Cluster. She said it was just supposed to be a quick trip, but then all hell broke loose and she got swept up in it.

PhiSat Planeswalker from Everywhere and Nowhere Since: Jan, 2011
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#56299: Jul 13th 2018 at 1:06:28 PM

My guess would be that Pink didn't have enough Lapises for some reason (maybe she targeted them as part of the rebellion so that the Earth couldn't be terraformed properly) and had to borrow some from other courts, like Blue's.

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#56300: Jul 13th 2018 at 1:38:03 PM

I don't think Lapis was deliberately placed on the Earth,no,more likely this hypothetical they took advantage of the terraformer who could move a load of Earth with her giant watery hand,as for how when there's no water about,well she can fly,find source of water,summon giant hand,dig into Earth and remove soil,rinse repeat

Alternately they could have just used hands ships like we saw the Diamonds using their Armships for

As poofing her away so she's not a witness,yeah,it doesn't make a lot of sense for their side,but what about Crystal Gems?,they had no idea about the cluster project,if they feared her being captured during the attack could expose their operations when they interrogate her poofing her away makes a little more sense

Anyway,it just an idle thought I had while I was working outside in the hot sun,my brain is fried.

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Edited by Ultimatum on Jul 13th 2018 at 8:43:19 AM

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