Steven Universe Headcanon: Amethyst the Tarzan of the Gem world

Hey everyone hope you all are doing great ^^. So with the recent announcement of the hiatus on us and the time spent waiting for new episodes to arrive I decided to look back on all we have seen. And something caught my eye. Remember way way WAY back to Keep Beach City Weird? Remember when the gems came storming in and are furious and all of them wanted to find Steven? Well there is something small I noticed in the scene that seems to be a recurring thing; Amethyst seems to be a bit more fearl and animal like then the others. While you may say “that is because she is from kindergarten” let me shine a little more light on this idea.

Amethyst has shown to seem animal like in things like having sharp teeth in “So many birthdays” and even “Barking” in Keep beach city weird. while this does point to the Kindergarten theory there is another episode that breaks this idea. that being A story for Steven. In here we see Amethyst doing odd things yet almsot natural for her

Her not only great transformations of animals but also how quick it is for her

Walking on all four legs, not crawling, literally walking and moving like that of a dog or other quadruped

Not really understanding personal space, and interacting/greeting Greg like an animal

Why would a gem, kindergarten or not, be acting like that. Maybe if she ran on 2 legs I could ignore it, but she is literally running on all fours. Why would a gem do that unless she was young and playing pretend like a kids would do. But amethyst is possibly ALOT older. This stumped me and was bugging me for a long long time. Nothing seemed to make sense about it until I was watching the movie Tarzan.

and

then

something

clicked

We know Amethyst was alone for a LONG time, and the place is not seen by humans much. Even the landscape is very barren, showing a skull or 2. For a newly emerged gems, especially one with a low attention span, this place was not doubt DULL with only rocks to play with. I could see Amethyst be afraid to leave the place but be bored out of her mind trying to pass the time and she’d start to look past the borders from the tops of the cliff ledges. Through her exploration she might spot animals of all kinds, in a not so far of area. She may see them together as a family and want to be like them. Searching for something to seem like she belonged. She’d try and think about them and be like them, and suddenly learn to transform. It might not be the best of whatever she was trying for, but end up passing at least. She’d try and get close to them and find that at least for a small amount of time she’d think they would accept her. No doubt it would fail once they see the gem and the odd design and run off, leaving amethyst alone and going back to her place. But she’d keep trying, and trying and spend her time practicing and perfecting her powers till she would be able to bond with other animals

Maybe like this

Or even this

She would no doubt stay close to the kindergarten, or at least go back every so often, but spend enough time with many different animals to know their ways and be like them. She pick up on habits like walking on all fours, snarling and growling, and keep becoming different animals to find one that fit her and she could belong. Once she was found by Rose, Garnet and Pearl, she’d see she was like them, and no doubt want to learn everything she could. Rose would no doubt put pearl in her care and have her learn things like like walking on 2 legs, talking, and maybe even reading and other gem aspects. It would also explain why Pearl was so protective of her in “A story for Steven” and why she seems to look a lot like pearl, since she’d be trying to do what she did in her past; learn and copy to fit in with the beings around her.

While I think she would eventually mostly grew out of her animal ways, I bet whenever she was angry, frustrated, or even overly excited, she’d revert back to being like an animal, and result in things like



That is why she walks on four legs and is animal like. That is why she is always transforming into animals and why she is so good at transforming. Little Amethyst is just doing what she was no doubt for a while probably grew up around.

I know it maybe odd, silly or far fetched. But something tells me our purple Gem has a lot of Secrets under that tough skin of hers.