Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26469589-20150620015100/@comment-26469589-20150620022356

Judgekoo wrote: Morality is a fickle thing. Jasper in the eyes of her people isn't in the wrong but in the eyes of humanity and those that side with it, Jasper begins to become more villanous.

Jasper, after the ship exploded, was anything but mentally scarred. She was really hypocritical. She said fusion was a cheap trick and proceeds to do it anyway. She wanted to win so badly that she threw away what "honor" she had, also forcing a gem who literally does not want to fight into a fusion (hmmmmm. I wonder why Lapis double crossed her?), and look what that lead to.

A few bad things? You mean a few bad things we've seen her do on screen. Jasper took part in the war thousands of years ago. A war in which Garnet describes as "a maelstrom of death and destruction". Rose had a decent army. Now it's reduced to Garnet and Pearl. Jasper is affiliated to homeworld. Homewrold forcibly fused broken Gem shards without discretion and consent. They initially wanted to literally suck all life on earth for their purposes. And Jasper is still in the army of said world.

The fusion is as much of a punishment as being thrown into jail. If you just make her go back to her gem, she isn't being punished at all. And after what Jasper did and took part in, I doubt the Crystal Gems would shatter her.

Also, you seem to forget that it wasn't the Crystal Gems nor Steven that imprisoned her in her watery jail. It was all of Lapis' doing. Her punishement to Jasper was as equal as a punishment to herself. The key word is "in the eyes of her people." As far as we are concerned, Jasper thinks what she is doing is right. As for wether or not she is being mentally scarred, the reason she resorted to fusion was because she pretty much went crazy trying to beat Garnet, and realized there was really only one solution. Lapis imprisoning both her and Jasper just goes along with how cruel this is. She is willing to hurt herself to make Jasper as miserable as possible instaid of mabye actually trying to reason with her or something. However, you did make a good point on not knowing much about her past, but that is pretty much the same with all war, not to mention, as I said, she respects the laws of war.