Consider the Following - It Could’ve been Great

WARNING!

CONTAINS SPOILERS!

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SPOILERY SPOILY SPOIL THINGS! You were warned.

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So I’m a little late, been mulling this over in my head a lot



Please take this time to Consider the Following.

This might be a short one, but I promise I’ll give you some fat to chew until the next episode (not much more of a wait for that, but I’m still here xD)

What are the gems looking at here? Home… freedom to live and love, life teaming and bustling free (for now) from the threat of extinction.

This is the place they’ve fought so hard for.

To them and many of us it is beautiful. This is a place for them to be who they want to be without restriction or regret. And slowly even a to-the-core Homeworlder is coming over to their side.

“I think you’re all INSANE, but I guess I am too.” admitting you like them.

“Anybody would be if they were stuck on earth with you…” and owning it like a Peri-BOSS! :D



”YEAH!”

And here it was, a brief glimpse of Peri-Crystal Gem. Fleeting, but beautiful at a glimpse.

And now we move the plot forward, we’re OFF TO SPACE!

And here we see a bigger glimpse into what a homeworlder is like. She is enamored with the Diamond Authority, closed minded and unquestioning to her overlords.

How could she? These murals depict the people she is taught from birth to revere. These gems are her caretakers, her loyal taskmasters. They might as well be her GODS from some the things she was saying!

“We LIVE to SERVE them.”



Good god this is smelling more and more like “There is nothing wrong in Ba Sing Sei” and I’d rather Peridot not be another Joo Dee.

“But think of GOOD it would have done! The gems that would have been made? Out empire expanded!”



(New SU meme? New SU meme!)

This type of hostile takeover of planets is normal to her, this is all Peridot has ever known…

‘Grow the empire.’

‘Work work work and never stop.’

‘You’re happy when the Diamonds are happy.’

‘Do it not for yourself but the collective,’ and other Borg stuff like that.

Peridot can only see the good it would do for her people. People who, if we recall, may depend on these worlds to reproduce and without them would die out as a race… o.o





You see when the Crystal Gems think of a perfect Earth they think of this.

A fragile beautiful natural world full of life that is always under threat, which needs their protection. A paradise to protect. Yet when our little drone engineer thinks of a perfect Earth, she was bottle fed to instead see…





this…



It is just the other side of the mirror, conditioning can’t be blamed on the conditioned. What homeworld is doing is just as reasonable to them as the colonist expanding into an “unoccupied” continent.

We never stop to consider the ants forced from their homes and into extinction by our building and farming, we never consider that what we’re doing is devastating an ecosystem. How could we? We know in our hearts that what we’re doing is for a greater good.





Her viewpoint is simply shifted in the wrong direction, same with Jasper. They can all change, all see the light if they just turn in the right direction.

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I’d like to apologize again for how late this is getting to you guys, hope you still enjoy it! :D