I’ve made it a point to stay out of this whole ‘Was Bismuth right or wrong’ argument, but I felt this was worth sharing. Bismuth’s actions through the perspective of someone in the military
BISMUTH IS A MORALLY COMPLEX CHARACTER AND I APPRECIATE THAT AND I REALLY HOPE WE CAN ACKNOWLEDGE HOW SHE ISN’T FULLY GOOD OR BAD WITHOUT GETTING ANGRY AT EACH OTHER
okay, but amen to this? rebecca and the crewniverse didn’t put their heart and soul into creating these complex characters only for the fandom to try and dumb them down into some binary categories of “good” or “bad.”
Steven Universe: Here's this episode about how compassion is better than murder! About how even though the world is ugly, we should always strive to be merciful!
The SU fandom: Yeah but Rose Quartz wasn't 100% right, Bismuth's side had merit and I don't like how the show is treating it as such a black and white issue--
Steven Universe: Anyway here's this episode about how maybe people shouldn't be so radical about violent ideas!
The SU fandom: Rose is #alllivesmatter! They're teaching us to 'turn the other cheek' and don't do anything to your oppressors! That's so problematic!
Steven Universe: ANYWAY HERE'S A SHOW MEANT FOR CHILDREN!!! WHERE WE'RE SPREADING A MESSAGE OF LOVE AND MERCY TO CHILDREN!!!! WHO ARE CHILDREN!!!!!! WHY WOULD WE SPREAD A MESSAGE OF MORAL GRAY AREAS AND 'NECESSARY EVIL' TO C H I L D R E N???????
*has a pacifier pony icon* "im qualified tovtalk about anything serious"
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>makes judgements based on the users avatar rather than what they say
>doesn’t know the meaning of ad hominem
>what’s that say about you who refuses to show their face and clearly knows less about the subject
i just did the BOFA thing to my mum and she goes “that’s very rude” and I said “i’m sorry, i meant it as a parody” and she said “of what?” then i said “a parod-eez nuts” and i heard my dad laugh from the other room
She tried to SHATTER her own commander Rose / Steven, twice, just because they didn’t want to use a terrible weapon.
I’ve seen people try to defend her, but she was wrong. The Breaking Point wouldn’t have been used against “upper crust” gems (like Sapphire) let alone the Diamonds. It would have been used against grunt warrior gems in battle, gems who never in their lives ever got to make a single choice about anything but who just obeyed their orders, doing the thing they were created to do. Just like Rose or Bismuth or Peridot - before they were made to understand they have a choice.
Rose’s entire ideology was to give the gems that choice; a possibility and freedom to choose their own fate. Bismuth wanted to shatter them before ever offering them the same choice that had opened her own eyes and given her an identity and freedom from the HW.
She may be good at heart, and the core of her motive - freedom from oppression - is admirable, but she became an overly violent bloodthirsty extremist, and when her own dear liberator and commander Rose refused to use the brutal weapon she’d devised due to ethical reasons, she attacked her and apparently tried to shatter her - for disagreeing.
After Steven released her and she got a “second chance”, she, again, tried to shatter Steven’s gem / Rose Quartz, just for not seeing things her way.
I believe she’ll be unbubbled at some point and Steven will work his magic and bring her around - but Bismuth’s a great example of how fighting for a good cause can still twist into working against the very ideals you’re supposedly defending if you get too extreme about it, driving one into horrid deeds.
A great character illustrating an important point, but please let’s admit she deserves to be bubbled for now.
I love how important stuff has always been there in Steven Universe
for example, Connie’s bracelet was already there in the first episode
And Bismuth also was already there in Lion 3: Straight to Video
The amusing part is that there’s legit some people who think that crewniverse is just browsing tumblr and stealing our theories when in reality, they’ve just been leaving enough clues for us to figure shit out.
the chat and i were gonna go with just norman doodles but then we branched off and somehow ended up talking about a guy that norman works with that heavily suspects him being a robot
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