Now, it could get someone she loves seriously hurt. Before, it never mattered that she was the most inexperienced in a group of trained soldiers. Amethyst is now expected to take responsibility and protect him. He’s the one who’s young and sweet and has everyone going out of their way to look after him. “I will fight for the world I was made in!”Īmethyst was always the baby of the group, and now suddenly, Steven is.
AMETHYST AS ROSE QUARTZ STEVEN UNIVERSE FREE
With her support, Amethyst felt free to do as she pleased, content that in Rose’s eyes, she didn’t need to change.Īnd then Rose Quartz died and turned herself into a baby. “You’re perfect the way you are,” she would say. While Pearl always spoke openly about the horror of the Kindergartens, Rose Quartz stood as a gentle maternal figure who could reassure Amethyst. Amethyst crying in the Kindergarten (On The Run) Having been created in one of those Kindergartens, Amethyst felt like the enemy her family fought against, a parasite that fed on her own home. The Crystal Gems fought to prevent Kindergartens from sucking the planet dry of all life. Even though Garnet immediately pointed out the sheer horror of it all, Amethyst continued to feel out of place among these comrades-in-arms. “I wish I could’ve seen it,” Amethyst once remarked. The Crystal Gems fought for Earth and freedom, and to hear Pearl tell it, the war was nothing but a glorious victory. Unfortunately, it was a family who were all laden with their own emotional baggage, and they couldn’t help but pass it onto their newest member. She’s perhaps the most self-sufficient of the main cast, yet also the one most likely to dramatically lash out to get attention.Įventually Amethyst was found by the Crystal Gems, who welcomed her into a loving, if atypical, family. We can only imagine the intense levels of boredom she must have faced, and that still impacts her character into the present. She emerged into an empty Kindergarten, where she was left alone for an unknown amount of time.
Unlike other Gems, who once served Homeworld and then chose to rebel against them, Amethyst was ‘born’ after the Great Gem War was over. The answer? Lots and lots of internalized self hatred. Why was she so needlessly cruel to everyone around her? Amethyst and Pearl fighting (Tiger Millionaire)
In fact, it was fairly hard for some audience members to sympathize with her at all. Despite being millennia old, Amethyst acted like a teenage trickster, pranking and irritating people for the sheer heck of it. Amethyst was introduced as the fun-seeking, free spirit of the Crystal Gems, but five seasons have peeled away her scruffy outer shell and revealed the deeply self-critical Gem underneath.Īmethyst was designed to fit into a very specific cartoon archetype: the troublemaker.
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