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Peridot is most likely developing a crush on Amethyst. One may be inclined to brush off all their interactions as Peridot being a suck-up to "the best gem here" - but all of the positive interactions crammed in so few episodes coupled with the defining scene in Too Far (you know the one)... I simply can't take it that way, Peridot just being "manipulative", I just can't. Peridot's coming to like Amethyst for who she is, not just her rank. More on that Peridot saving Amethyt scene, they could've gone about that scene in so many different ways. They could've made Peridot land next to Amethyst, or a distance away from Amethyst, but no, they chose to mimic the anime trope. They also certainly didn't need to have them atop each other for 11 seconds (the same amount of time Steven was over Connie when he saved her in Bubble Buddies, there are even more parallels but I'll leave it at that for now). The writers know exactly what they're doing. Plus, much of Crewniverse are anime fans themselves (as if the various references throughout the show weren't enough to tip you off)

As for how it would exactly out between the two of them, I can't say. All I know is I would sincerely love to see a positive, healthy relationship between these two (with their entertaining dynamic intact, but not without the occasional squabble as is perfectly normal) female-coded characters form before our eyes. It would probably mean a lot to a good portion of viewers, particularly the younger set, to see such a relationship between these young gems in a positive light. There's much potential to be had, but they've got to take it slow if it may be.

As for Rupphire already fufilling this, I've always seen Ruby and Sapphire as adults pretty much (not to mention their love story was contained in one episode, albeit a very good one), versus how I see Peridot and Amethyst - they're more immature, teenager-like with Amethyst being the slightly older seeming one. Hence why I don't multi-ship, there's not much choice for Ame/Peri if you care about ages at all; looking at the popular but (as of yet) unfounded Lapidot, Lapis is far too old and thus holding an entirely different (and likely very jaded) mentality than Peridot. Gems pop out of the ground looking like adults, but we know young ones can have a youthful mentality and that matters. Lapis has been spotted back in The Answer (or so it appears), and we know Peridot is at least a post-war gem (<5.5k years old.) As for Pearlmethyst, it effectively sunk for me when I saw how toddler-like Amethyst was in the 80s flashbacks. Pearl was like a big sister or mom trying wrangle her wild kid. And that was not very long ago

If Crewniverse can beautifully and satisfactorily integrate Amedot (even if it's on the more subtle side) into the show as I'm suspecting, it would mean a lot.