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i noticed how the ships that were at the site for nora's video looked like legs so it's got me thinking, did the diamond ships used to form like a giant body or something? I mean we won't know until then (if ever) but it seems to be pointing to such a thing.
Eyyy!
So now we have arms, a head and maybe torso, and legs.
I was wondering, why would White Diamond be kept in the Diamond insignia if she was on the Earth, corrupted, and about to be destroyed by the Cluster? Wouldn't her symbol have been removed, just like Pink's was? All that buildup towards White's reveal would be for nothing if she was just corrupted. That doesn't make much sense, as she was part of the corruption light. When you first analyzed YD, you seemed convinced that all the other Diamonds were somehow taken out of the picture by the war.
Okay, several questions coming from this post.
I’d been asked about White’s status on the GDA logo before but in light of the new information, a more comprehensive answer is warranted. Blue and Yellow Diamond talk about PD in a very specific way. In Steven’s Dream Blue Diamond is filled not only with sadness, but also with regret. She says, “I should’ve done more.”
That same regret is expressed by Yellow Diamond as a feeling both of them have in What’s the Use of Feeling (Blue)? We have reason to believe that there was a falling out among the Diamonds shortly before PD’s shattering, and it resulted in a separation between Pink and the others that BD and YD believe contributed to the former’s being vulnerable, alone, and shattered.
As for WD, I’m not certain how clearly my point read in the analysis, but White was not only part of the light bomb, she was what set it off. White’s corrupting spread over to those exposed by the white light, just as Blue’s sadness spreads over to those exposed by her blue light. Unlike with the other Diamonds, I think it’s worth noting that we’re not getting a huge buildup to WD’s presence in the show. She exerts a mysterious but passive hold. Characters aren’t referring to her by name the way they did Yellow, Blue, and Pink Diamond. After PD’s shattering (and the disorder that preceded it), it would make sense for the Diamonds to present a united front. Everything since then would have had the new logo, including the Ziggurat.
As for my take on YD, I don’t think it’s changed very much. It matters little that we’ve seen another Diamond, and there’s a possibility for WD to be around. The read on YD was that she seemed to be all alone, handling a more work than she should be, and without a support system or emotional outlet. Even with the addition of gems regularly around her, it’s still true. She’s still in a position in which she doesn’t feel she can easily seek comfort and show vulnerability. Given Blue’s condition, she can’t find solace in her fellow Diamond either, lest she add on to the former’s obvious sadness.
Quite a while back, I wrote about Yellow Diamond, and my intent was to present the character I saw in totality. Even now, when I talk about the Diamonds and how they read strongly as characters with motives and feelings beyond just hurting others because they can, I feel like for the most part, I’m addressing questions about Yellow Diamond in particular.
Yellow Diamond is a character easy to picture as an irredeemable antagonist. Like Jasper and Aquamarine, she walks with an air of authority and certainty about her. A lot of people take her character as one who hasn’t shown any explicit self-doubt or weakness. It wasn’t long ago that The Answer aired and there was a lot of positive feedback because we got to see a “vulnerable” Garnet.
When I hear this sort of characterisation, I think back to these characters. While it is a very humanising experience to see a character previously presented as a bastion of unshakable strength question themselves and show a “fatal flaw” or weakness, it’s not the only way to present a relatable, dynamic character. To situate this in our world, it’s very rare that people choose to show their inadequacies in the first place. In fact, it is far more common for people to do everything in their power not to reveal vulnerability.
Yellow Diamond is a very complex character precisely because she shows indication of presenting herself as much more put together than she lets on. And, as usually happens in real-life as well, it’s not only for others’ sake but also for her own. In her, we see a character brutally honest, suffering neither formality nor trivialities for the sake of it. To view her consistently would be taking her actions into that context, and using that to understand where she stands on PD’s shattering. That’s something I want to talk about in this post.
So let’s get started.
I’d like to begin by talking about YD as a chest gem. Like Blue Diamond and other chest gems, she tends to interact with the world in terms of feelings. Remarkable moments in her life are likely best remembered by what she was feeling at the time they happened, and her first impressions are probably marked by how she felt about certain individuals, places, or things.
I think this is most evident in how she feels about Earth. In the past I’d talked about how Peridot was presenting a solution to Homeworld’s resource shortage in Message Received. What we’d learned at that point was that Homeworld was running out of resources, so much so that Gems couldn’t be made as physically strong or with the same abilities as they were supposed to be.
Upon closer inspection, it’s because the very means Homeworld uses in order to advance its species is inherently parasitic. They drain planets and have no means to replenish these resources. What Peridot claimed to find, after † a deeper appreciation for organic life, was a way to make use of Earth without damaging said life. And that’s a game-changing discovery, because the only way for that to happen would be a renewable or sustainable means of using a planet.
Peridot had expected Yellow Diamond to see the reason and logic of her plan, to be just as excited about saving Earth as she was because it meant helping all Gems. That was YD’s reputation. Recall that at this point, it was not that Peridot turned her back on Homeworld because she realised Earth was a better place to live. She realised that Earth was worth protecting, but she thought the Crystal Gems were unable to meet their own goals. That’s why she reached out to the most powerful, rational, objective being she could think of, Yellow Diamond, to help her reach that goal.
Peridot was sorely disappointed by that encounter. She realised her hero wasn’t perfect, but I wouldn’t say she wished for the destruction of Homeworld. I doubt that her take-away from that was that all Homeworld gems were evil. There was a time she’d worked with them, lived with them, learned from them. On her way to destroy the Cluster, the weapon of mass destruction about to shatter the planet she was currently living on, put there by Homeworld, she said it was difficult not to have feelings about Homeworld.
And I think that’s something to understand about the Homeworld defectors we’ve seen so far. Earth was a better option for them, but Homeworld would always be home. For the most part, those who chose to leave still imagine a better life for their fellow-Gems back home, but found no way to give them that life without leaving Homeworld altogether.
What this leads up to is the idea that all these Gems have strong feelings associated with Homeworld, and now Earth. But on different occasions, they put aside these feelings because they felt something better could be realised. Rose put aside her sentimental feelings of never being able to go “home” because she wanted to give the Crystal Gems the freedom they currently experience on Earth, and she wanted to protect the life that was already thriving there. Steven, more than once, has sacrificed the fear he felt and let himself be placed in dangerous situations for the sake of protecting others.
The other thing that I want to point out here is how we were led to believe Peridot was going to sell out Earth to Homeworld. We don’t get a lengthy monologue about how she feels or her plan. She just goes through with it and we feel a sense of betrayal, like the gems did. That she was thinking up a solution and pitched it to her Diamond shows that she didn’t just realise Earth’s life had value halfway through the conversation. It was her objective assessment from earlier on. Unlike most short-format shows though, these changes in characters aren’t exaggerated, and more closely reflect the interiority we experience in life.
On the one hand, we have someone like Blue Diamond, who has let the feelings of both sadness and regret take over her ability to act. BD is angry and upset with Earth. She cannot fathom how such a weak and fragile planet was able to shatter a Diamond. The wounds are raw enough that when Steven was unable to give the detail about the sword in The Trial, she uncontrollably used her gem ability on the court.
On the other, we have someone like Yellow Diamond, who has had to run everything in her stead as well as maintain her own duties, and those of Pink Diamond, and deny those feelings day in and day out. Peridot called her the paragon of objectivity and reason. Peridot, who prides sound logic above all else when making a decision, put her faith in YD.
That’s something I need to stress because it speaks of the depth of the wound inflicted by the war. More than that, it paints a more realistic image of YD. YD is someone trying to be the perfectly objective and emotionless leader, and most of the time she succeeds. She is the person she wants to be often enough that it’s become her reputation. That doesn’t mean the feelings go away. The irony of her being a feeling-gem is not lost here.
Re: Blue Diamond 1. I feel you miss an important facet of her power, and thus herself as an individual: she has projected /her/ feelings. This is a big trap if it only works the one way, as this is not empathy but a violation of others. It is a "forced empathy" that forces others to accept her feelings at no expense to her own autonomy. This is a key feature of Blue Diamond: a deeply selfish being who, lacking empathy, likes others relating to her but in her actions refuses to understand others.
Anonymous said:Re: Blue Diamond 2. So with that in mind, I personally appreciate your careful thought, and it feels like that you emphasise a lot of the beneficent sides to her character, while omitting / diminishing the truly malicious and harmful behaviours she exhibits. Yellow Diamond is treated similarly, by you, I feel. I really want to know if you are aware of this or not, because it reads like trying to present them in the sympathetically best light possible, which is not fair to those they have harmed.
Hi there!
When I write the character analyses of any of the characters, I do try to focus on their characters as a whole. And when reviewing Blue in particular, given the few times we have seen her, the only times other characters have been made to feel what she’s been feeling are Steven’s Dream, when Steven cried her tears, and The Trial, where the same has happened. The first time, BD seemed unaware she was affecting someone else in this manner, especially since she was halfway around the world and had no idea of Steven’s existence. In The Trial, it was shown that BD was overcome with emotion and the wave of emotion swept through everyone rather quickly.
But on the occasions she’s not overcome by how she feels, she keeps a stiff upper lip in front of the gems around her, such as in That Will Be All, when Holly Blue enters the room with the bubbled Rose Quartz gems.
And I do mention that gem ability is chiefly to influence other gems, and it fits in with the leader position the Diamonds have been assigned if we’re going by the rationale that gem abilities determine some gem functions.
What I’m trying to get at here is that there’s no deliberate effort to present the Diamonds in one way or another. It’s my read on the character, and from what we’ve seen, she has a complex personality and thought process that goes far beyond a singular desire to be understood. In fact, those instances of forcing other people to understand her have been largely in fits of strong, uncontrollable emotion. I think the dissonance between what she’s trying to control and what she’s letting out is much more interesting than pointing out something I’m certain everyone else has noticed.
I hope this answers your question!
What’s the use of feeling blue?
CN is doing AMVs with it's own footage. I'm not sure what to make of this. :))
I also noticed that Amethyst often seems to look like Rose lately. In the Steven Bomb and three gems and a baby, and maybe one more time? I want to look again to see. It might not mean anything, could just be a coincidence. I've only noticed this in the most recent episodes, anyway.
I would start by saying that as Quartz gems, Amethyst and Rose would have similar body types and features already. But I think that the ask is referring specifically to their faces and expressions.
So I looked through a few photos of Amethyst in more recent episodes, particularly Three Gems and a Baby, mentioned in the ask.
Amethyst looks most similar to Rose when she’s smiling widely and her eyes squint a little in the process.
Because her lower lids move upward and give her eyes the shape of semicircles. This is very similar to Rose’s eye shape. At this point, they already have the same full flips and small noses. They both have round faces and big hair that frames their face in a similar manner.
I think what’s always been a differentiating factor was the eyes then. In other recent episodes, such as in That Will Be All of Steven Bomb 5, a smiling Amethyst doesn’t really call back to Rose unless you deliberately make the association (in which case all the other mitigating factors in their similar gem type and appearance could sway your decision).
I’d say the implications of this aren’t too wild. Because of the already present similarities, and the limits of the aesthetic used in drawing characters in the show (in addition to the changing story-boarders), it wouldn’t signify too much about Amethyst’s character. I think a more definitive similarity would be telling though!
This is in regard to your Garnet ask about Room for Ruby: What made Garnet so afraid of Blue Diamond's return, to the point of letting Greg get kidnapped, to now just shrugging and laughing off Navy making off with the Homeworld ship? Is it because one threat was immediate and the other is more unknown?
I think it works on two levels. The first level is the threat level, and the second is the personal experience.
Something that I hinted at in this post, I feel that there’s always been a double standard when regarding threats from Homeworld. For instance, Lapis was never seen as a threat until she actually started flinging people around and taking up the entire ocean. As Pearl said, “I had no idea the gem in that mirror had so much power.” And after that, the gems exhausted themselves looking for her at the bottom of the ocean; both things were not easy feats.
Similarly, the Diamonds are known threats, and Garnet and Pearl started panicking when mention of them was made. Peridot, during her time as an unknown gem, was treated with as much suspicion in Warp Tour, but Peridot, as she grew more desperate and “dorkier,” was shrugged off as well.
Recall Friend Ship, when they managed to snag only her foot, and Garnet also told Steven to let her go. It’s a very different attitude from that of the Garnet who relentlessly pursued all leads to her at first. To the Crystal Gems Rubies are “low level” threats by virtue of their being Rubies. And as I mention in the linked post, it’s the very same boxing-in that they accuse Homeworld of unfairly doing. And that’s precisely how the Rubies, and Navy in this episode, were able to pull the rug out from under their feet.
I’d say the second factor would be experience. Garnet and Pearl are terrified of the Diamonds. They’re terrified of anything resembling the war. It has hurt them and traumatised them deeply. Hearing that Blue Diamond was back would have dredged up a lot of feelings they were purposely keeping inside. As such they tend to overestimate what the Diamonds are capable of. Recall that they believe the Diamonds are monolithic emotionless beings, when we’ve seen quite clearly it’s not the case.
The Crystal Gems don’t have as negative memories associated with the Rubies, and I think it’s a factor that causes them to underestimate the Rubies as a threat.
Blue Diamond reminds me a bit of Queen Victoria--who presided over a vast empire, and who plunged into decades of ostentatious (and absolutely sincere) mourning following the death of her husband Prince Albert.
You know what else I find striking about BD’s behaviour?
It’s odd to me that her grief and mourning is so clear to us because we got to see her in her private moments with Pink and Yellow Diamond. The thing is, gems around her like Holly Blue Agate don’t even consider what she does an act of mourning. She honestly thinks BD likes visiting the Zoo for kicks and because she so generously wants to preserve Pink’s memory out of duty.
And that sort of grieving is the most ostentatious because we’re led to believe in That Will Be All, that Blue hasn’t been doing her job. That Yellow finds herself picking up the slack more and more. Blue looks like she’s functioning but she isn’t. And because no one knows she’s not really working at what she’s supposed to, no one is making up for the gap in her duties.
A very volatile time for Homeworld indeed.
I was reading about your analysis about Holly Blue and a thought came up. Could Holly Blue adopted the physical reaction from being mingled with the Earth Gems for so long? I'm seeing that if she was in charge of a different group of gems, she wouldn't be nearly as physical? Using other methods of getting them in shape and in line?
That’s a really good point and now that you bring it up I do think that as well! In both the Holly Blue Character Analysis and the new Pearl Class Analysis I bring up why it’s significant that these gems are put in the service sector.
They’re separated from gems of their kind, so the socialisation process that we usually see, like Peridot still being able to compare herself to Era 1 Peridots in Too Short to Ride, the Ruby Squad, or Jasper talking about Jaspers as a collective, is largely absent.
In fact, there is an attempt from them to distance themselves from similar gems. Holly talks about the specific prestige of serving on an outpost in the middle of nowhere that no one visits.
So like Pearls, HBA’s may be expected to assimilate into the lives of their wards as well in order to get them to listen to her and respect her.
We needn’t go to my now, very tired example of the Ruby Squad. Let’s go to the Famethyst.
They grab.
They play fight.
They’re not too into personal space.
They pick each other up without asking.
And none of it is seen as threatening or an invasion of space. In their social sphere, the norms for what is acceptable is different. And that doesn’t meant in the slightest that they’re less “civilised.” Some cultures in our world speak louder than others. Some cultures accept what most Western societies would describe as a “too close for comfort” distance when talking to one another. Some cultures go right for the kiss when they greet one another.
Taking a culturally relativism standpoint, we can’t say one is more valid than the other.
So in order to appeal to that, Holly Blue’s “get in your face” tactic may have been learned as well.
Seeing HBA’s as middle-level managers, I could see them acting differently if in case they were in charge of another group of gems, depending on the way they socialise.
I would like to share this. This is definitely one way of interpreting the song in a live-action setting. I liked it :)
I thought it was because our Amethyst called them Famethysts at the end of the Bomb? Fam+Amethyst, hehe, Ame fam
That is true too! I sort of defaulted and invoked the One True Source, Rebecca Sugar XD
(1/2) hello =] I hope you've already seen the new episodes. If not, just ignore this ask! no spoilers for you! So, as a huge fan of your theories, I was a bit disappointed to see Blue Diamond is talking to Yellow Diamond, cause that means your theory about YD is wrong (well, also means blue fusion theory is wrong, which made my sad, but that's a different subject), but then I realised it actually made even more sense - YD IS alone, even more than if BD wasn't around, because BD is so sad, that
(2\2) she can’t lead or do anything but grief, and thus YD is not only stuck with covering PD job and doing hers, she’s also probably covering for BD, and she can’t relay on the only person how can help her and support her. I also think YD doesn’t feel like she can show her emotions and grief, because BD is not functioning and is sad all the time, and thanks to that YD doesn’t have her chance to grief without feeling like she neglecting her citizens. So yeah, I think your theory got better =]
Thank you! After publishing the post you’re referring to, I’ve added a lot of new parts to the theory of YD. At one point, I’d brought up the possibility that even if she weren’t physically alone, her comrades were probably not doing anything to temper her feelings.
Anonymous said: what were your thoughts on holly blue?
I’ll keep the introduction short for this post. Holly Blue is the second Homeworld character introduced affiliated with Homeworld and a specific Diamond. The first character was Peridot. While the Rubies openly talk about their service to Yellow Diamond, they don’t share the deep investment that Holly Blue and Peridot have shown in the story.
It’s interesting looking at her character knowing what we do about Peridot now. So let’s get right into it!
Anonymous said: What do you suppose Holly Blue Agate’s gem placement (the back of her head, at the base of her skull) symbolizes?
Going by anatomy, the back of the skull is where the occipital lobe of the brain is located. The occipital lobe functions not necessarily to let us see, but to help us make sense of what we’re seeing. That is, the occipital lobe helps us interpret and comprehend the images that our eyes are looking at.
And to me, there’s something interesting about every single moment we get to see Holly Blue’s gem in Gem Heist, when she’s first introduced. In those moments, she sees the CGs just as they’re doing something they’re not supposed to do, and each time, she misinterprets what happens and they don’t get caught.
The very first time we see her gem is when the CGs just arrive and try to convince the Amethysts of their credibility. That Sapphire isn’t a “disgraced” Homeworld defector and that she’s the leader of the entire operation bringing a new human for Blue Diamond’s Zoo. Holly Blue buys into this narrative completely and leads them exactly where they want to go.
The second time is immediately after Pearl is ordered to open the first door. Pearl makes a very un-Pearl face at Holly, who, with back turned, ignores it unknowingly, saving Pearl and Sapphire what could have been a heated questioning.
The third time, she and Sapphire walk in on the other CGs trying to destroy the door. And they look so obviously guilty, but Holly blames it on the Amethysts instead.
Close to the end of the episode, we have one more shot of her gem as the Amethysts take Steven away and he’s very loudly resisting. We know that’s a sign of the upturn that Steven causes later on, but Holly interprets it as a sign that things are running smoothly and going to be fine.
Note that none of these circumstances immediately signal to Holly that things are going wrong. The Zoo is a far off outpost that has been very low-key. Working there must be very quiet, save the occasional visit from BD. Holly wouldn’t be expecting trouble and that tinges the way she processes what goes on around her.
I’d say on a normal day, the Famethyst pulls a few pranks, Holly makes them clean up and then they train for a while. Holly goes around inspecting everything. And it’s boring. So when a noble gem shows up, Holly wants things to be the best they can be.
It’s a point in how our contexts tinge how we interpret what our senses tell us. In experiencing the world, there is definitely going to be an element of subjectivity. No two people experience the same scenario the same way because just from a physical standpoint, they’re never really in the same place at the same time.
I think this is especially true for Holly. Her gem, which I’ve mentioned before gives us an idea of how gems interact with the world, is behind her. That means she wants to be on top of everything, but she doesn’t face things directly when interacting with them. She’s always just a little bit behind on what’s going on.
Additionally, we’ve already seen a discrepancy between what she sees and what she makes of it. It implies that she’s out of touch with what’s happening on the ground. Extending it further, she’s a bit out of touch with herself. Functioning at her best, I’d say she’d be very perceptive. But that “gut feeling” has to be cultivated.
And being out of touch is a very real phenomenon. Holly is in the middle of nowhere. She doesn’t get to interact with a lot of gems and the gems she does interact with are ones she’s been with for thousands of years from very early on in their lives.
I’d say that she’s amazing at telling what the Famethyst are up to. She’s always suspicious of them, and that’s maybe because they’ve given her a reason to believe something is always brewing. If the mischievous character of our own Amethyst is anything to go by, poking fun at Holly’s uptight nature is something they’d be doing very frequently, even before the CGs came.
Holly can probably tell what the Famethyst are plotting even at a glance. She’s attuned to them, whether she wants to be or not. And that leads to the next point.
I miss the famethyst already; I wish we'd gotten to know some of them as individuals (and that Amethyst got to spend more time with them!). They seemed really friendly and apparently cool with the fact that our Amethyst was friends with humans and lived on Earth- wouldn't that have been weird to them?
I feel like it’s not the last time we’re going to see them. Holly Blue and the Famethyst were such memorable characters and people are already dying to know their stories.
Just like how we’re going to see the Rubies again soon (because the gems said they were going to pick them up on the way home), we’re likely going to see the Fam again. And I wouldn’t say it was weird to them that Ame had human friends at all. I’ll talk about it a little more in the near future, but I will say they were socialised with each other and that socialisation never let them forget they were from Earth. That’s partly why they were so interested in Amethyst.
Holly Blue never lets them forget where they came from. It’s likely other gems don’t either, that’s why they’re stuck working at the Zoo even though a group of strong Prime Kindergarten Amethysts could be so much more helpful elsewhere.
It’s again, partly because the Diamonds are hiding away things that reminded them of PD out of personal trauma. That cultivates a strong we-feeling among them, and as a group, they have nothing else to call themselves, only “Earth Gems.”
I’ve been mulling this song over since I'd first heard it. For one, it confirms a lot of things about Homeworld and the Diamonds that I’ve been harping on for a while now. But this post isn't a sermon about how to sympathise with the Diamonds better. I’m not too big a fan of that perspective. Rather, it’s the power that we receive when we empathise with them.
The thing about the Diamonds is that they’re all powerful, huge, and “human.” They err and have feelings, not necessarily in that order. So when they irrationally do something that hurts a lot of individuals and even entire planets, the answer isn’t to excuse them because “they’re sad.” The answer is to reach out to them in a way they understand so that they don’t do it again, and more appropriate to our context, make amends.
Because the two very polar sides of “forgive” and “punish” aren’t constructive. To side with either doesn’t do justice to the people and gems who’ve already been lost or still are losing. It doesn’t make things better for anyone.
This post will analyse the perspective Homeworld has of Earth and human beings. At the same time, the song reveals a lot about how gems view themselves and one another. I’ll round it up with how PD’s death impacted both Blue and Yellow Diamond and how their respective coping strategies led to the way things are now. And I’ll speculate on the immediate future of Earth in that regard.
So let’s get to it!
Why would you want to be here? What do you ever see here That doesn't make you feel worse than you do? And tell me, what's the use of feeling, Blue?
When the Steven Bomb opens in Steven’s Dream, we get a rare moment of hearing Blue’s thoughts. Bent over PD’s palanquin, she expresses deep regret. She says, “If only I had done more.”
We know that Blue is sad over PD’s death. And we know from the first verse that visiting anything related to PD makes both surviving Diamonds uncomfortable. But we can find, within the lyrics, something specific about why instead of just sad, regret is interspersed in their mourning of PD.
In sharp contrast to Blue’s lament of wanting to do more, later on in the song, YD says, “Now there’s nothing we can do.” That implies at one point in time, the Diamonds were in a position to do something that could have prevented PD’s shattering. And they didn’t do it.
I want to bring back one of my older posts regarding the circumstances of PD’s shattering. In it, I mention that there’s been some sort of historical scrubbing of PD’s memory from Homeworld, such that only older gems are aware of her or feel any affinity for her. The Great Diamond Authority Logo, colour schemes, and even gem factions show no sign of PD’s ever existing, when this wasn’t the case for older structures on Earth.
But in a slightly contradictory manner, we know the truth to be the opposite. The Diamonds didn’t take PD out of Homeworld’s memory because of the fight. Rather, they erased her because it hurt them personally to be reminded of her existence.
When we look at the circumstances of their argument, there are a few theories I can posit. The main one being this: PD had an unconventional relationship with her Earth gems. I say this because now we have two Homeworld “subordinates” as examples in contrast.
I brought up before that Jasper felt a deep personal affinity for PD. And this may be even without having met her personally, even with the possibility of her being created after PD was shattered. On the other hand, Peridot and Holly Blue talk about their Diamonds with a sense of detachment. There is a great divide that Peridot puts between herself and YD. YD is perfect; she is not. YD is the most objective; that is what she aims to be. YD is a great decider; she was there to reaffirm the logic of the former’s decisions.
It’s much the same for Holly Blue. BD decides to maintain the zoo; she is grateful for the opportunity to serve. BD is arriving; she wants to assure a pleasant visit for her.
In both these cases the gems don’t feel like they’re coerced into serving their Diamonds. They openly acknowledge that because their Diamonds are superior in different (and at times all) aspects, they’re worth following. It’s very similar to idolising someone and hoping they’d mentor you, or even that you could contribute to their cause in some way. This cause being the betterment of Homeworld.
The oldest Demo for “What’s the Use of Feeling (Blue)?”
I was so over the moon and so intimidated to write a song for the legendary Patti LuPone, words cannot describe! From here Aivi & Surasshu brought such an incredible otherworldly quality to this song… they helped me compose it at it’s earliest stages. It’s so odd to me now to hear this prototype version with ukulele!
Please you must listen to the final here as well!!! https://soundcloud.com/aivisura/steven-universe-whats-the-use-of-feeling-blue
Thank you so much for watching!
*Hyperventilates*
“What’s the Use of Feeling (Blue)?” Music: Rebecca Sugar, aivi & surasshu Lyrics: Rebecca Sugar Vocals: Patti LuPone, Deedee Magno Hall Strings: Jeff Ball
It’s here it’s here it’s finally here!!!
