Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26204104-20150314142954/@comment-4515118-20150328111736

Gnx486 wrote:

Kevin125 wrote: She's just following orders, it doesn't make her more innocent, but it prevents her from being monsterous, it is wrong what she's doing, but we can't be that quick to judge her, we haven't even seen her that much, nor do we know much about her. She followed orders and was visibly disappointed and annoyed when those orders were "We're going home, you can't kill Earth right now." Of course she was. She was pissed that she couldn't follow the orders she was given. She's highly methodical and gets angry at delays in her missions, but tends to keep it to passive-aggressive mumbling and calling people names.

As far as her job goes, and Rose's previous actions 6000 years ago, do you really think they're going to say "we're killing everyone on this planet"? No, they're gonna tell her to create more gems, contribute to the gem race by making more with a restarted Kindergarten. Simply because she recognises there are humans on the planet and gives the impression of disliking the idea of them (and she sounded more like she was annoyed by Steven interrupting her than anything) doesn't mean she wants to see them all dead.

Even Pearl, a Crystal Gem, is visibly disturbed by some of the things humans do, like eat. She overreacts to things not going her way, too. She's methodical and resists things getting in the way of whatever plan is set forth. Does that make her evil, as well? No, but she was introduced as a protagonist, so of course no one is going to say anything about her.

I doubt Peridot's intention is to commit mass genocide and destroy a world. I don't think she knows that will happen. I don't think she was told that, at all. I may be proven wrong, but if we shouldn't be so quick to count her among the villains, then I doubt she's going to be so vile as to want people wiped out.

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tl;dr - She's a gem-tech-support nerd. That's her job. Not "world destroyer". So don't judge her over being determined to complete her assigned job.