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It's Steven's Universe, We All Just Live in It

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    edited August 2017
    Gvzbgul wrote: »
    The ink on the scroll was made by grinding up gemstones for pigment.
    Creepy.

    Would this be the equivalent of a human skin leatherbound book? Or writing with blood instead of ink?

    Fencingsax on
  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    King Riptor wrote: »
    -Tal wrote: »
    Remember the evil gem painting he shoved into lava?

    Those were shards though.

    Shards still live.

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    -Tal wrote: »
    King Riptor wrote: »
    -Tal wrote: »
    Remember the evil gem painting he shoved into lava?

    Those were shards though.

    Shards still live.

    that's the name of my new nightcore band

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  • wanderingwandering Russia state-affiliated media Registered User regular
    Hexmage-PA wrote: »
    wandering wrote: »
    I definitely think the show is heading towards an everyone-comes-together-and-the-bad-guys-are-redeemed ending.

    Thoughts:

    Jasper's main beef was that Rose supposedly shattered Pink Diamond. If Rose really didn't don it and Jasper is convinced someone else is responsible (perhaps a Homeworld conspiracy) she might could join the Crystal Gems.

    Bismuth's deal was that she didn't want to show Homeworld's soldiers any more mercy. Perhaps the presence of new Homeworld defectors could help change her mind, or maybe she'd be willing to aid in a plan to remove the Diamonds from power once and for all. Honestly, I can envision Jasper making a heel-face-turn easier than I can Bismuth...

    Both Bismuth and Jasper caused Lapis Lazuli harm, and she's already reluctant to join the Crystal Gems. It would be very difficult for her to work with both the one who poofed her, leading to her imprisonment in the mirror, and the one who brought her back to Earth as a prisoner again.
    One thing that I think is almost inevitable is that Steven will, at some point, at least try to heal the gem that Rose shattered

    A survivor's story.
  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    -Tal wrote: »
    King Riptor wrote: »
    -Tal wrote: »
    Remember the evil gem painting he shoved into lava?

    Those were shards though.

    Shards still live.

    Not in any meaningful way. The Cluster is a unique case but normal shards areņt self aware

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    edited August 2017
    The scroll had will. It was alive. And Steven snuffed out that life without hesitation or remorse.

    -Tal on
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  • WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
    Why is it important to you this point is made

    why are you writing grimdark Steven universe fanfiction

  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    It's just a matter of record, Whippy. It's canon.

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Nah

    it is never said that the gems are alive in there

    it's filled with "dark magic" and that's it

    I'm 100% down with explaining it as fucked up necromancy that was powered by the now dead gems (because if shattering kills a gem then grinding them up so fine as to make ink absolutely would) rather than the gems themselves

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  • WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
    -Tal wrote: »
    It's just a matter of record, Whippy. It's canon.

    cool good talk

  • StasisStasis Registered User regular
    Sure, Steven "killed" the gem dust painting. After it possessed his breakfast to turn it into a giant monster to attack his family and try to crush him. Steven didn't know that it was made of gems, nor did he even know what a gem was at that point, nor that the monsters Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl fight used to be like them. Steven got caught up in something he didn't know about and acted defensively to save his family and himself from a breakfast monster. If anyone deserves blame, it's Garnet.

  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    All that early stuff is going to come back, mark my words

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Stasis wrote: »
    Sure, Steven "killed" the gem dust painting. After it possessed his breakfast to turn it into a giant monster to attack his family and try to crush him. Steven didn't know that it was made of gems, nor did he even know what a gem was at that point, nor that the monsters Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl fight used to be like them. Steven got caught up in something he didn't know about and acted defensively to save his family and himself from a breakfast monster. If anyone deserves blame, it's Garnet.

    Frankly the fact Garnet would want it destroyed is enough proof that it was to dangerous to just bubble

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    Garnet tried to bubble it

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  • Hexmage-PAHexmage-PA Registered User regular
    I wish there was an explanation for the more magical-seeming elements in the first half of the first season. I know according to the art book that the show was originally more fantasy than sci-fi, but it still feels weird that the empire used to basically have portable time machines (for example).

  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    I just got caught up

    I always knew Lars was good

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  • JavenJaven Registered User regular
    The idea that shards are still alive is a weird thing, since shattering a gem is considered synonymous with killing them. It's why Peridot forcibly fusing gem shards was fucking awful

  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    They seem to be still 'alive' but only at whatever level passes for cellular/metabolic in a being made out of minerals and magical light. Like a tentacle separated from a squid.

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  • EnlongEnlong Registered User regular
    With what he knows now, Steven does definitely feel for gem Shards, such as the cluster and the other forced fusions (like the ones he felt bad about blasting off the drill on the way to the cluster).

    Remember when he used some shards to animate Frybo? I very much doubt he'd do that now, knowing what he does.

  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    Hexmage-PA wrote: »
    I wish there was an explanation for the more magical-seeming elements in the first half of the first season. I know according to the art book that the show was originally more fantasy than sci-fi, but it still feels weird that the empire used to basically have portable time machines (for example).

    this is also why season 1 is the best

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    -Tal wrote: »
    Hexmage-PA wrote: »
    I wish there was an explanation for the more magical-seeming elements in the first half of the first season. I know according to the art book that the show was originally more fantasy than sci-fi, but it still feels weird that the empire used to basically have portable time machines (for example).

    this is also why season 1 is the best

    Well you do thrive on general vagueness for your dark scripts so that makes sense

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    That's my shit, for sure

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    Every time i see a new post in this thread i get my hopes up that the next episode date is announced, only to have them dashed.

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  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    Tofystedeth wrote: »
    Every time i see a new post in this thread i get my hopes up that the next episode date is announced, only to have them dashed.

    Could be worse. People could be posting page after page of DBZ discussion in this thread. *shudder*

    "excuse my French
    But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
    - Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Cambiata wrote: »
    Tofystedeth wrote: »
    Every time i see a new post in this thread i get my hopes up that the next episode date is announced, only to have them dashed.

    Could be worse. People could be posting page after page of DBZ discussion in this thread. *shudder*

    true

    lets talk about this SU fanart instead

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    Hey Satan!
  • RadiusRadius Registered User regular
    Ok, but Garnet is Tien

    Everyday we stray further from God's light
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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Who would Connie be?

    Krillin? The world's strongest human?

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  • WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
    Radius wrote: »
    Ok, but Garnet is Tien

    and when she unfuses it's chiaotzu and chiaotzu's weird creepy doll wife

  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Whippy wrote: »
    Radius wrote: »
    Ok, but Garnet is Tien

    and when she unfuses it's chiaotzu and chiaotzu's weird creepy doll wife

    Wait whats this about a creepy doll wife

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  • masterofmetroidmasterofmetroid Have you ever looked at a world and seen it as a kind of challenge?Registered User regular
    I was ready to call bullshit on this buuuuuuut

  • WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus

    Affiliations
    Chiaotzu (owner/husband)

  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    Whippy wrote: »
    Affiliations
    Chiaotzu (owner/husband)

    Same

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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Uh what the fuck chiaoutzu

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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Chiaoutzu And The Real Girl

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  • RadiusRadius Registered User regular
    edited August 2017
    Whippy wrote: »
    Radius wrote: »
    Ok, but Garnet is Tien

    and when she unfuses it's chiaotzu and chiaotzu's weird creepy doll wife

    The DBZ wiki is an emotional roller coaster

    Radius on
    Everyday we stray further from God's light
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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Peridot is so very clearly Vegeta

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Peridot is so very clearly Vegeta

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    Hey Satan!
  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Peridot and Vegeta are my favorite SU/DBZ characters so it was meant to be

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  • RadiusRadius Registered User regular
    Whereas my favorite characters are Best Mom and Best Dad so it was meant to be.

    Everyday we stray further from God's light
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