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Spoilers.

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• Lapis was only supposed to be on Earth for a short time - Maybe also called by Blue Diamond, like Sapphire was?
  
• Homeworld put Lapis in a mirror - they thought she was a Crystal Gem
• Homeworld didn’t know where the Crystal Gems had their base
• Later, Homeworld Gems fled in panic. Then the light in the sky - the thing that happen, the thing that made them think all Gems were wiped out because that’s what Homeworld tried to do, the thing that left only a handful of Crystal Gems alive. Homeworld planned that final attack
• And then it was Pearl who found her. I feel like there’s something significant about it being Pearl? Who used Lapis’s mirror all this time but didn’t think about who the Gem powering it was.
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• I love Peridot. I love the way she sat on that tractor, acting like she owned the place. I love that she did decide to help fix up the barn. That she had no qualms about just walking up to Lapis and Steven and acting like she had every right to be there, to talk to Lapis, to act like she did nothing wrong. 

oh shit wait

Lapis already had ‘mirror’ powers, the power to show history. 

She really likely has to also be a rather rare, high-class gem, like Sapphire. Same blue color palettes, same blue diamond on her dress, same ‘vision’ powers. 

They don’t just put gems in mirrors to access memories, probably - they choose a mirror specifically to use Lapis Lazuli’s powers. 

Disclaimer: I’m not a geologist, my chemistry is basic level, this is only me summarizing the little research I did.

Also, long post.

• Gems are crystals, which means their chemical structure consists of highly organized molecules. 
• From information we got in the guidebook and the show, something is put into the ground, left to ‘incubate’ before popping out. 
• The book calls it ‘colorful goo’, the short calls it ‘this junk’ - It’s probably a magical crystal ‘seed’, like in real life, where putting a crystal seed into a solution offers a site for molecules to attach to. 
• So in Steven Universe Earth’s case, the magical Gem seed uses Earth material it needs to create a large quartz, as well as using some kind of life force. Only, it doesn’t reach equilibrium - it’s not waiting for those units to eventually bond together, it actively takes what it needs. It just sucks dry everything, leaving nothing behind.
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• Rose Quartz’s tears probably induces the same sort of crystallization in cracked Gems. That’s how she can heal - simply having the basic magical units of what composes Gems replicate and grow until it fills the crack.
  
• She has the ability to grow Gems to a degree. Rapidly. Without needing new material, because it creates it new. That is an incredibly important ability.
  
• But it’s not so extraordinary that it can create whole new proper Gems, else Homeworld wouldn’t need planets to grow their Gems. Perhaps there’s something about the speed that doesn’t allow for proper growth; maybe it can’t be used too often or for Gems that have too much damage.
  
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• The warp pads are probably made of crystals too, since Peridot kidnapped Steven to ‘heal’ the galaxy warp. It’s been shown in the series that a lot of Gem-tech seem to be made from stone, minerals, crystals of some sort. 
• (Like having everything around you made of human-like biological material, including your technology. Freaky.)
• So sentient, alive Gems are probably made from the same material as the crystal-like Gem technology. Both have similar physical and magical properties.
• Peridot herself, in ‘Gem Drill’, mentions that she and other Peridots are made of the same stuff as the lava-like super-heated peridotite.  
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• It’s just, here’s something else, something different and additional about Gems that make them Gems, living, thinking, doing. (A ‘soul’, if you will?)
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• Gems and humans are actually quite alike in that we both have something to hold the data of how to build us. 
• In humans, DNA is the data storage. 
• In Gems, it could be some magical encoding in the crystal lattice. Real life science have found ways to storage data in quartz glass - and it turns out, that can last nearly forever.
• Change the encoding, mutate it, and you have a whole different setup. Gem monsters.

Got a feeling Pearl meet Rose Quartz by being in the same manner of recklessness as she was in this ep.

Ok, so a major theme in Steven Universe is romantic love. There’s Garnet, the manifestation of love - in midst of a relationship. There’s Pearl, who loved and still loves Rose Quartz - a past relationship . 

What if for Amethyst, her story is one of the beginning a relationship? 

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Day in Fandom History: October 15…

Steven and Amethyst get into some gem gossip from Peridot while looking for parts for the drill over at the Kindergarten but Peridot’s big mouth gets her in trouble again, this time, creating friction between her and Amethyst. “Too Far” premiered on this day, 8 Years Ago.