Ali Montanez
Sep 4, 2018 · 3 min read

Steven Universe does an excellent job with how they handled Garnet and Amethyst. This is a reminder- they came from outer space, and they are sexless and genderless rebels. Garnet is a mysterious, quite beautiful fusion of two gems (notice how I said gems, not people, they don’t have genitals), and she is the LITERAL representation of LOVE. She is the leader of the Crystal Gems, now that Rose is gone. Look at it like this- if Pearl truly made everything greater and she was Rose’s comrade, why isn’t she the leader? Why Garnet? Because Garnet is truly stronger emotionally-wise. She isn’t ghetto or… ‘black’ (why would you compare ghetto to being/having blackness, I have no clue). You might think of Amethyst being ghetto as well, but Amethyst is more like an overgrown child. She develops over the series amazingly, and the lack of a regard to that astonishes me. When she is shown before Steven’s time (when Rose was still around) she was shown as a literal little kid hyped on candy. She developed and changed over the course of the series to match who she is today- and she disregarded her own feelings to help Steven, truly showing what a great character she is. Pearl is one of the most troubled characters in the series. She’s still in love with the woman who abandoned her after 1,000 years of fighting. She was a slave on her home planet. She kept a dirty secret for 5,000 years from her friends, from Steven. But she didn’t ‘rape’ anyone. Fusion isn’t sexual. It is giving your whole holographic body made of light to another person you trust, then making a whole other person out of it. Fusions are about love, whether it be romantic love (Garnet), platonic love (Stevonnie), or familial love (Smokey Quartz). Pearl and Garnet do love each other, and Garnet consented to all the fusions Pearl has asked for, even though it was under false pretenses. Due to the false pretenses, Garnet falls apart because there isn’t any trust between Pearl and her anymore. She doesn’t flinch or any of that because it isn’t her physical or mental state that has been hurt, it is her emotional state, the truly strongest part of Garnet. She was not raped. Pearl isn’t ‘white’ because they have no race. Her voice actor is Asian, and shes dainty because she was trained to be like that, as she is a slave. The Pearl and the other pearls (Blue and Yellow Diamonds’ pearls) are forced to be like this, dancing for their masters like ballerinas. You can’t judge her based on her paranoia (her so-called carefulness is just paranoia and anxiety) and how she was before she came to Earth. Also, Sugilite is destructive because early Amethyst was destructive and Garnet (Sapphire, being cold and Ruby being hotheaded) having bad qualities to their characters, as well. Pearl has many bad sides, and we’ve seen them throughout the show. You made Pearl into a devil, when she’s the most abused character in the show, easily. Garnet can fall apart, just like Pearl and Amethyst and Steven. It doesn’t mean they are bad representations of black women. They just have different personalities. Please, dont turn a beautiful LGBT and very representative and forward-looking show in times like these (Donald Trump) like Steven Universe into a SJW war. Love, a fellow woman of color.