Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26949737-20150705063149/@comment-26225030-20150705171713

I don't agree that Lapis "decides to pick a fight" I think she would have done what anyone would do when faced with her imprisoners and rebel enemies. She had the power to kill all of them I'm sure, but all she wanted to do was get home so most of her power went to stretching the ocean and only a small bit of water was used to fight the CG. They were in the way and not only in the way they were actively trying to stop her--her prisoners for millennia. And then Steven, the guy that JUST broke her trust, wants to talk it out like best buds. She picks him up after he says please don't drown me, which she totally could have and that would have been it, but even then she's being fair. She picks him up and asks "what are you doing here Steven" because her mind she already picked the enemy side. However she still doesn't want to kill him or she would have. He heals her, and she gains her wings and smile back. Her wings are the most symbolically tragic thing about her.

Even though she has the ability to travel anywhere she wants: underwater, through the sky, throughout space, with the freedom of a bird, she is ALWAYS imprisoned. Forgive me for sounding so cliché but she's this beautiful bird that can't soar. She has never been giving the right to feel free because everywhere she turns is betrayel. She flew home only to find even more captivity and the reality of the changed world BETRAYED her hopes and expecations. Now she didn't even have a home. Where was she to fly to? Then she was most likely tortured to get the information out about Steven and whatnot. Her first reaction was what I have done I have to warn Steven and she did!

This girl who has so much power and so much freedom can't use any of it. This super strong person and gem is always literally shackled by her problems. So instead of being freed from the ship, she decides to stay imprisoned behind the energy wall because she finds more safety in imprisonment, the thing that never betrays her, than actual freedom itself. She tries to fly from Jasper and decides no more running, I'll imprison MYSELF before anybody else can. She probably could have just held Jasper down with all her power without being fused, but she still finds solace in being imprisoned because that's all she feels worth and that's the only time she's truly strong. She's doing it for STEVEN.

Rebecca said that all the CG reflect a different aspect of her and her little brother's relationship. She repeatedly says that this show is a tribute to him and an allegory of their life. If Lapis becomes a crystal gem, she is to represent a very very dark side of Rebecca's relationship to her brother Steven Sugar and the fans realize that. There is so much to be impressed with, so much to admire, about Lapis. She's so strong, she's funny, she's beautiful, and was the hero at the end of the first Steven Bomb as well as the first new gem we ever saw. I think if any character deserves romanticism, it's Lapis. Of course the fandom always takes extremes with things, but I believe everything I've said and more is why people like Lapis. That's why I like her. Why they like Peridork? I don't know.