The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
What the fuuuuuck
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Steven Universe Season 2 |OT| Obama chuckled. "You mean the Crystal Gems?"
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Just a couple of hours left before the end!
Weltall Zero
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More like she is manipulated by Peridot. Still, I don't believe anything they post, they love to throw people off (as they should).
Unrelated, I was thinking earlier about how fusion works in a mental plane. Most people (including me until now) assume that the gems' minds merge into the fusion's mind, and were therefore somewhat confused by how can they withhold information from each other (see: Lapis' plan to sink Malachite, Pearl's plan to use Rainbow Quartz to upset Greg). But what if they actually don't? I was assuming that because if they form a single body, they must have a single brain... but their "brains" aren't in the same place as ours are: they are their gems. And those gems are precisely the only part of them that doesn't merge.
So my assumption is that they work more like networked computers, with their fusion bodies acting as the network. They can cooperate by communicating via that body (and in turn, communicating with the body to make it move, speak, etc.). But they can also attack each other and fight for resources (which would be each body part, see Alexandrite's infighting and Malachite's sinking). In that sense, they would literally share no information with each other than they wouldn't want to. It also explains why Lapis is able to use the ocean's water against Malachite: she, i.e. her gem, is the only one capable of controlling it, Jasper has no power over it at all.
However, when they are completely in sync, they start acting like a single entity, like a server farm. The more time they spend together and focused in a single task, the more they start losing their individual differences and start thinking like a single being, i.e. what happened to Sugilite. This is temporary and separating reverts them to individuals, like disconnecting two mirrored servers.
It might seem weird comparing them to computers, but the series already does this. They refer to Steven as "organic", meaning they themselves aren't (them being "gems", they are most likely silicon-based rather than carbon-based), and also, notice the digital glitches in Amethyst's physical body when her gem is cracked.
Thoughts? Am I grasping at straws?
DrForester
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Yeah, but there's always that chance they've been doing that this whole time so that when they do finally post one that accurately represents the episode, we won't believe it, leading to us being caught off guard when shit actually goes down...
Shouldn't Amethyst be tiny and have short hair? Wasn't that what she looked like before meeting Greg, kind of child-like?
and now for some fan art
http://artofcarmen.tumblr.com/post/116123425732/temple-fusion-gem-finished-this-was-super-fun-to
close ups are on the post
http://artofcarmen.tumblr.com/post/116123425732/temple-fusion-gem-finished-this-was-super-fun-to
close ups are on the post
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
The gems are thousands of years old, and it wouldn't surprise me if their maturity and even their personalities go in long phases that last longer than our lifespans.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
and now for some fan art
http://artofcarmen.tumblr.com/post/116123425732/temple-fusion-gem-finished-this-was-super-fun-to
...damn. Now I hope that's what the actual full fusion looks like
You had me for shocking 5 seconds. My goddamn heart
it's 3 months old. i wonder if the Crewniverse has seen it
What?
well ok
Sibersk Esto
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bravo
Simpler: fusions are Megazords with personality. (That's probably oversimplifying your idea
)I recognized that voice too quickly.
Look at all those Homeworld's gems!
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I don't know how far in advance they work. They were recording the script for Cry for Help way back in November
Rebecca: Ok we made this character sufficiently likeable. Now let's torture them emotionally!
Saucycarpdog
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Yeeeeeh!
What is this, the RR Martin school of writing? "You love, they suffer"?
Saucycarpdog
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Lol steven
commanderpepper
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Too friendly Steven.
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Xpike
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well that's certainly pearl hitting rock bottom
commanderpepper
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Jeez Garnet, speak to Pearl. Maybe it would mellow her out.
Saucycarpdog
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The trash talking is hilarious.
Saucycarpdog
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And of course peridot escapes.
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