Okay so coming out of Too Short to Ride I was thinking about Peridot’s new metal manipulating abilities when I came across a theory that I thought was pretty solid. It states that Peridot has always had this power and is subconsciously using it when controlling the fingers on her limb enhancers.



This makes a lot of sense for a lot of reasons but for me it seems to fix something that’s always bothered me, why doesn’t Peridot just make new limb enhancers? Now there are a few reasons behind why I say this.



1. Peridot is shown to be a very intelligent and knowledgeable technician even with limited resources a la Back to the Barn and her Peribot.

2. Peridot is very familiar with the limb enhancers and it’s possible that she has had them her whole life. In this case she should be very familiar with how the limb enhancers are made and even if she’s not, remember she still has a piece for reference coupled with her resourcefulness.

3. Even if she was lacking parts for her limb enhancers construction, when the Homeworld handship crashed in Jailbreak it left behind tons of pieces of Homeworld technology which the Crystal Gems collected and theoretically still have possession of.

So it always bugged me that Peridot didn’t just make new enhancers for herself but after her new power I kinda figured out a reason why. If the limb enhancers were controlled by her metal powers and those powers were unknown to her, she wouldn’t know how to make her limb enhancers from scratch because it’s always been something inherent to her and not something she had to figure out. But now that they’re gone, she doesn’t know how to make them because she doesn’t know what it was that made the fingers float. She’s been told her whole life that Era 2 Peridot’s don’t have powers so she wouldn’t have even considered it.

So all in all just a fun little theory for something that always bothered me but who knows, I’m just throwing stuff out there.

