Talk:Crack the Whip/@comment-26127367-20160802232631

Ok, I feel like Amethyst is upset because Stevonnie was able to defeat an actual Gem when she's never had the opportunity herself.

Amethyst was born/popped out of the ground after the war had occurred, where any Gem versus Gem combat would be more common unless it was due to infighting, and thus has only been able to combat monsters.

So when Jasper comes around, she sees this as opportunity; her first actual Gem fight by herself, something that has never happened to her before, and especially to someone who mocks her for her insecurities, and what she could be, and she loses.

But when she reforms and discovers that Steven and Connie, two things that SHOULD be weaker than her as a Gem beat an actual gem together, she sees that not only has her opportunity at a fair fight been defeated, she sees that a half-gem and a human which are 1/4th of a Gem, are able to beat a 100% gem. And she's starting to question whether she's useful.