#homeworld bound spoilers

[diegosouzalions]

Olá, Diego! Quero trazer uma teoria sobre como as Diamonds crescem no Color Planet. Há algumas coisas muito pertinentes, ditas há bastante tempo, que fazem sentido para a gente trazer para o agora - principalmente quando ficamos sabendo que o Cognac não coloniza mais planetas e ainda consegue despistar a Peach e as demais Diamonds.

Antes disso, um pequeno contexto para quem vai ler o texto a seguir:

Não é segredo que as Diamonds aumentam de tamanho à medida que colonizam mais e mais planetas, satélites e estrelas. Mas como isso pode acontecer? A gente não sabe. É spoiler. Mas eu tenho uma teoria com base em uma pista que você, Diego, soltou em 2020, aqui no Tumblr. Então vamos lá.

Quando uma pessoa perguntou sobre o crescimento das Diamonds e como suas Gems crescem junto, você disse que é spoiler, mas deu uma dica com o GIF abaixo:

Como podem ver, no episódio “Homeworld Bound”, Yellow Diamond usou seus poderes de manipulação de metamorfose para manipular a forma física das Gems, sendo capaz de diminuí-las, aumentá-las, distorcê-las ou reparar seus membros, entre outras coisas.

Percebam ela fazendo isso com a Spinel. Olhem como a Gem da Spinel também cresceu. E é declarado pela Yellow que quando se usa esse poder, os efeitos são permanentes, ou seja, não há efeitos negativos se uma Gem tiver sua forma física alterada por um longo período de tempo.

Eu acredito que Rainbow Diamond é a responsável por fazer as Diamonds aumentarem de tamanho. Mas como ela nunca saiu de seu palácio, a teoria é sobre uma máquina que extrai a aura da Rainbow para disparar um raio de crescimento nas Diamonds. É um processo parecido com o Desestabilizador de Gems usado pela Jasper.

O processo de crescimento acontece no Color Planet, então fica melhor para a extração da aura da Rainbow em uma máquina. E não é uma coisa tão estranha assim. Vale lembrar que antes da Sun e Moon, a própria Rainbow controlava o sol e a lua artificiais do Color Planet. E tem uma máquina que extrai a luz das Diamonds, como visto em “Eclipse”.

Um outro argumento que também pode ser usado em contrapartida com a teoria da máquina é que, neste ano, soubemos que existe um tipo de Gem que pode aumentar o tamanho dos objetos, sendo responsável por aumentar o tamanho das estruturas para as Diamonds. Essa Gem, que parece um oposto das Vesuvianites, não apareceu na “Gems List” ainda. E falando em Vesuvianites, uma já foi contratada pela Cherry para diminuir o tamanho de sua Gem para o baile secreto da Silver. Cherry poderia ficar menor, mas sua Gem ficaria enorme no peito. Por quê? Porque é permanente o raio de crescimento da máquina! Cognac também diminuiu de tamanho, e sua Gem não encolheu, apenas ficou dentro de sua cabeça.

E por que eu acredito que é uma máquina? Por causa da Peach. Não existiam Gems comuns, somente as Rainbows, e mesmo que Peach tenha suas colônias e crie as primeiras Gems comuns com sua essência, o que garante que a Gem que aumenta o tamanho dos objetos estivesse nessa primeira leva? Peach teve que crescer também. Ela estaria um pouco maior do que a Lime quando ela foi criada. Então Rainbow pode ter deixado essa máquina pronta, como o sol e a lua do Color Planet.

Pronto. Fica aqui a minha aposta para o futuro! ⭐

Ótima teoria!

[freelanceexorcist]

FFVII Rebirth spoilers under the cut.

I don't know how I managed to miss the scene in the Gi village the first time, but I was skipping around, so that's probably why. Well, I just watched it and...wow.

So it would seem that the Gi are actually humanoid extraterrestrials who appear to date back to at least the era of the Cetra and may have been there even longer for all we know.

They're very tall, very slender beings with blue skin and purplish pink eyes. Wait, doesn't Jenova look like--

They kind of beat us over the head with lore regarding this one. The first clue was Sephiroth rolling up then disappearing in the same manner that Gi Nattak did as well as the invocation of "all born are bound to her."

Anyway, if I'm thinking correctly, the only way for the Gi to be free of their current predicament is to seriously transform the planet. Maybe by, say, using the black materia to start a merger of the worlds into one perfect one, and one of those worlds may include a Lifestream that isn't so hostile to them. I'd say this gives the Gi a legit beef with the Cetra, seeing as the Lifestream is some kind of exclusive club and they designated themselves the guardians of the velvet rope.

So this would mean that Jenova isn't just some cosmic serial killer tearing apart worlds for shits and giggles, she just wants to be able to rest after thousands of years of being stuck as a homeless ghost (and don't even get her started on Shinra shoving bits of her body into fetuses). It seems that Jenova's attack on the Cetra-assuming they're going in that direction this time-wasn't just an act of her being a colossal, cosmic bitch. She wanted that black materia for, dare I say it, a legitimate reason.

Now whether the black materia-wielding smokeshow we see throughout the game is Jenova presenting herself as Sephiroth or Sephiroth embracing that he's half Gi on his mom's side and leaning into his heritage, that raises some interesting questions. It even makes them somewhat sympathetic.

"It's not death, it's homecoming." We're already dead, and we just want to go home.

It casts the bit in The Case of the Lifestream: Black in a new light, too. The memories and emotions that he abandoned to the Lifestream were the human parts of him being accepted. What was left was pure Gi, and destroying the planet in Advent Children was how that part of him could go home, sailing the cosmos looking for the Gi homeworld.

Damn, I hope they give us more Gi lore in part three.

[artfulstar]

Ok so the Diamonds are Life Coaches now

Yellow is a Physical Life Coach

Blue is a Mental Life Coach

White is a Spiritual Life Coach

And Spinel is their secretary/agent

[intrepidember]

Oh.

[willosword]

too bad

[anglered-fish]

[pennylogue]

Steven is a Diamond, and that’s okay.

So, Steven’s way too caught up in the fact that he’s a Diamond right now, and therefore a hideous and overpowered monster who can’t hope to be understood by normal humans or normal gems. Let’s talk about that.

For all Steven’s enthusiasm to be a Crystal Gem and to demonstrate his powers, he’s always been weirdly ashamed of how being half-Gem affects his ability to live alongside humans. I don’t think he’s ever really decided how to feel about it. It’s only after seeing Steven growing substantially and changing his hair and getting diamond eyes, now that it’s clear that his physical form is so malleable to how he thinks of himself and what he wants to be, that it really hits me how growing up with Greg and around so many humans has affected his identity. How sort of…quietly unhealthy it was, to go around with his gem covered up all of the time, and his appearance so determinedly human. I mean, think of how upset and ashamed he was when he decided his inhuman aging would screw up his friendship with Connie.

Right now, Steven is a whirlpool of self-loathing mixed into repressed issues and trauma with the Diamonds and hatred for his mother, and because he’s feeling so disconnected from and alienated and misunderstood by both other humans and other gems, because his gem powers are being triggered by his trauma, he’s connected some dots and blamed it all on being a Diamond. 

Looking back at that quiet “No,” at the end of “Fragments”, it’s easy to identify it as one of horrified realization. And you know, this is the logical conclusion of Steven’s feelings about his mother in “Mindful Education”, of “Storm in the Room”, of “Volleyball”—but it’s also the sum of a lot of other things:

Peridot: The Diamonds are the Gem matriarchs! …We live to serve them.

The culmination of Peridot flipping to the Crystal Gems is tied directly into her rejecting the Diamonds. Diamonds are introduced as the symbol of everything wrong with Homeworld.

Garnet: “How dare you fuse with a member of my court? You will be broken for this!”

…

Garnet: Pink Diamond thought for a moment, and then laughed; a wicked, empty sound. “You wish to save these life-forms at the expense of our own? Ha! Don’t be absurd. Return to your post, and I will forget your insolence.”

Diamonds are shatterers. They hate fusion. They hate Earth and organic life. They hate Garnet. They’re the evil queens in Garnet’s fairy tale. 

Garnet: The Earth belonged to Pink Diamond. Destroying her was the only way to save the planet. For Amethyst to be herself, for Pearl to be free, for me to be together. For you to exist.

Free will and the Diamonds are utterly opposed. It might be a tragedy that Pink Diamond was killed, but she was a monster, like the other Diamonds. The  ultimate enemies of the Crystal Gems.

We got almost five seasons of the Diamonds being spoken of this way. You see how terrified every Gem is of the Diamonds, whether they worship them or despise them. 

And then we found out a) Rose Quartz was one of them. And b) that Steven is one of them. 

Hey, quick question–anyone remember what Sapphire said, right in front of Steven, after the reveal?

Sapphire: Of course she was a Diamond. What a long road she took, to torture us all like this...

…Yeah, we never really got his feelings on b, did we?

I think Steven was so overwhelmed by everything else that was going on and everyone’s reactions, and later so eager to jump on the chance that being seen as one of the Diamonds gave him to fix the corrupted gems and help everyone, that we’ve never really seen him process this realization. Steven drew a very clear line in the sand. The Diamonds are the Diamonds, and Steven is Steven. The Diamonds are wrong about everything, so they’re also wrong about him being Pink, the same way everyone else in the series who’s called him another name has been wrong. He’s not Rose Quartz. He’s not Pink Diamond. 

Except…that second part isn’t true. Sure, Steven has a human body. Sure, Steven’s not the original Pink Diamond. That doesn’t mean he’s not a Pink Diamond. 

But it was easy back then, right? Because Steven was so, so different from them. A Crystal Gem. A defender of fusion. Weak. Small. Human-colored. Harmless. And as Steven says in the finale promo:

I don’t hurt people. I help people.

Yeah, there’s no way that building an incredibly black-and-white mindset with impossibly high standards for himself to create and hold on to a sense of identity was going to backfire.

So yeah, we never really saw Steven process that he was supposed to be one of these terrifying rulers. Except now he’s hurting people. In fact, it seems that all he can do is hurt people. And since he’s only able to see the bad things he can do, the amount of horrible power he has and how isolating it is and how terrifying it is–of course he blames it on what’s always seen as the source of so many horrible things. 

No wonder he’s having an identity crisis! He’s always told himself that he’s different than the Diamonds. He’s better than them. He has to be. So if he’s doing everything wrong, if he’s a freak, if he’s a shatterer, than it’s because he’s a Diamond. He’s just like them. He’s just as bad as them. He’s just as much a monster as the Diamonds are.

It’s complicated, what’s going on. Steven’s very, very wrong. But he’s also, strangely, right on target.

The thing is, this isn’t happening because he’s a Diamond, it’s because he’s human. He’s experienced trauma while growing up and is trying to react to it in a very human way. He literally has PTSD and CPTSD, and if you’ll look up the symptoms you’ll see he’s showing all of them. He’s not a monster. He’s part-human, so his symptoms are manifesting in partially inhuman ways. And that means he just happens to have the power to do a lot more damage than other humans when he lashes out in a way that is, once more, very characteristic for humans. But you know, even the best of humans can do a lot of damage, too, especially when they never really get over trauma. After all, Greg sure did a number on Steven. 

The flip-side of this is that the hilarious irony of ancient magical rocks trying to treat themselves as perfect and inhuman alien beings has always been that, that in reality, they’re every bit as fucked up and human as humans are. That’s the whole point of the Crystal Gems and the Homeworld Gems. Remember back when Garnet seemed so perfect? Peridot seemed pretty alien and unfeeling at the beginning, right? Jasper, Topaz, Aquamarine, it goes all the way up to the Diamonds. 

The whole point of the Diamonds and why the old system was broken was that the Diamonds tried to present themselves as perfect beings without flaw, when in fact they were all just as much a disaster as every other Gem. Remember back when Rose Quartz was a flawless goddess? Yellow and Blue were terrifying when we first saw them, but then we saw them comforting each other at the Zoo. They’re literally just a screwed-up family grieving and dealing with the death of one of their own–White’s first appearance painted her as this terrifying and totally inhuman being above even Yellow and Blue, but in the end, every one of the Diamonds is a normal, flawed person…just vested with the power to do a lot more damage than most.

The thing about White, was that she was so sure she had to be perfect, that she had to make everything better, but in the end, the solution was just to…let go. Accept that she was imperfect, and live with the consequences of it. Let other people help her. Stop trying to fit into being something she’s not, and just let herself be who she is. 

Does any of this sound familiar?

All four of the original Diamonds had destructive powers. All four of the original Diamonds experienced a change and made a conscious choice to control themselves and try to stop using their powers to negatively affect others. White Diamond might be stuck being White Diamond, but as “Homeworld Bound” made clear, she’s also the only one who gets to decide what that means.

So you know what?

You can call Steven half-Gem and half-human, but that doesn’t really describe what he is. He’s a human with a Gem. A Gem with a human form. None of that’s good or bad. It is what it is. And as much as it sucks to be different from everyone else, he’s also the only one who gets to decide what being different means to him. Steven Universe isn’t Rose Quartz and he’s not his mom, but just like he’s a human, he’s also Pink Diamond, and that isn’t bad. 

And I think that’s what he needs to hear from everyone. The solution at Steven’s birthday party wasn’t to react to the situation they were in and cheer him up the same way you’d cheer up a baby. He wasn’t just a baby, he was Steven stuck in a body that he didn’t know how to control. What he actually needed was to hear from Connie that she wanted to be there for him, no matter how strange he was. 

He needs the people he loves to stop telling him he’s “better than” his trauma and his diamond powers, to stop freaking out at how much damage he can do or treat it like a problem to be fixed. To not tell him that they know he’s going through, they’ve been there, too. They haven’t, and that’s not what he needs to hear. He needs to hear that none of what he is is bad. That his loved ones will be there for him and will love him unconditionally. 

And I think that’s what will allow him to accept himself; accept that if he’s a Diamond then he’s also a human, if he’s human then he’s also Pink Diamond–and, just like the previous Pink Diamond, he’s the one who gets to decide what that means.

TL; DR I actually really hope diamond eye Steven is permanent for non angsty reasons. This kid needs to stop being ashamed of his identity.

[sadstevenhours]

[ask-whitepearl-and-steven]

Will Steven have White diamond’s new power seen in Homeworld Bound since it’s cannon in the show?

Only after he completes the necessary Regression into an Evil Dictator and then experiences Emotional Growth through an Intervention of Loveable Goofball Main Character. Then if he presses up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B and then A while in the Diamond Palace (on some consoles must crouch behind the White Diamond assigned chair) he can unlock the upgrade to Benevolent superpower. 

(Yes? No? Maybe? I mean, I’m not gonna just willy nilly throw him an SU:F superpower while we’re still in Season 1 of canon, timeline wise!)

[spinel-search-history]

does steven want his shoe back

[kloverleavez]

Spinel in the movie vs. Spinel in Homeworld Bound

[boneshine]

Things the SU Finale Answered ***SPOILERS W/PICTURES!***

Things that were answered in the finale:

The Zircons!

Lemon Jade, the Homeworld Fusion from “Together Alone” (see that little speck on the steps? Yeah, that’s them)

The Pebbles are running around

The Wall Gems are moving!

Yellow Diamond’s Fusion experiments are being repaired!

Spinel is coping happily with the Diamonds

Things that were not answered

[bb-ants]

Poor baby 😭

[artfulstar]

Haven’t seen someone point this out yet, but Steven pushes away White’s finger from his chest/stomach and we all know the reason why

yep

[intrepidember]

“I don’t want to feel better, I want to be better!”

This. These little frames gave me a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach. His conflicted expressions, the harsh laughter, physically rejecting Blue’s new power. Especially when you think about—

We’ve come a long way since Change Your Mind and it... hurts.

[willosword]

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