phantomrose96:

Man, this episode was chilling for a bunch of reasons, but the thing that gets me the most is Jasper’s view on Rose Quartz.

Because…hell she’s right.

Rose became a sort of safe haven for the Gems who didn’t fit into their intended role somehow: fusions, runts, non-conformers, you name it. And she was appealing in part because she was the last resort for those sorts of Gems. Jasper makes it clear these Gems would otherwise be shattered under the Diamonds. Joining Rose may not have always been a free, voluntary, ideological choice; maybe, sometimes, it was pure desperation.

That leads me to this: Jasper didn’t swat away Steven’s touch because she suspected him; she swatted him off because she understood him.

She understood he was doing what Rose Quartz always does: identifying a Gem so destroyed beyond its original purpose, and then offering to help it, offering compassion and comfort and gentleness. Against the dawning realization that only shattering awaits them on Homeworld, what Gem wouldn’t reach for Rose’s hand? 

And no, Rose wasn’t being compassionate strictly as a military strategy. Not at all. But that’s what Jasper sees. And from an objective standpoint, she’s not wrong. This is how Rose recruits Gems–with kindness in a hopeless situation. 

At that moment, Jasper saw Rose’s hand extended to her. And knowing what she knew, that could only mean that Rose has pegged her as something irredeemable to Homeworld. She had broken down into something defective and corrupted enough to seem worthy of pity in Rose Quartz’s eyes, worthy of being swayed.

And that–that’s Jasper’s breaking point.

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