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Published: 2015-08-30 22:26:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 9464; Favourites: 82; Downloads: 0
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WOO! Ok, this one has been a LONG time coming, and I put a lot of work into it. I am so happy with how this turned out. I loooooove alignment charts, and I've seen a few for Steven Universe floating around, but none of them were satisfying to me. Plus, none were a 5x5 one, and thus too many characters were left out! >~<Some notes on my choices for characters:
RUBY and SAPPHIRE: I knew right away that Garnet was Neutral Good. She just is
And I started this project before 'Keystone Motel' came out, so I didn't have a lot to go on for Ruby and Sapphire's personalities(although I think that episode does reinforce my points). I thought making them Lawful and Chaotic Good respectively made sense, both because it seems to fit, and I liked that Garnet was the middle point between them. I used the same logic but in reverse for OPAL, since we don't know that much about her personality yet either. LAPIS: My first instinct was to make her Chaotic Neutral, but a friend pointed out that all the times we've seen her act particularly chaotic is when she's been scared and enraged and backed into a corner. If you judged everyone by how they acted in those situations we'd all be chaotic. Besides, Amethyst is a much better fit for CN anyway.
ALEXANDRITE and MALACHITE: For the time being, it seems like Malachite doesn't really have a distinctive personality yet, instead just being Lapis and Jasper mashed together. She doesn't even have a unique voice actress. I put Opal in under the justification that she does have a unique VA, and I can see enough of a personality there to justify her inclusion. Yes, Alexandrite also has her own VA, but she really just seemed like, in the context of her own episode at least, a mish mash of the Crystal Gems. So I left her out.
JENNY and PEEDEE: Not gonna lie, I couldn't really think of much to do with these two. Peedee maybe, but I felt the people who made it into the chart trumped anything I could have done. They're still reoccurring cast members so I felt I should justify their exclusion.
JAIME: Started this before 'Love Letters'. Sorry
Would love any and all comments/feedback, so let me have it!
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What are these thing called?
Tambutch
- cusses in every sentence
- tomboy
- salty 24/7
- kind of a tsundere
- 5x5: lawful evil
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I can agree with the birds being Chaotic Evil.
A bunch of birds were at my last softball game, and they were surrounding the school.. It was kinda creepy...
Also, there were a bunch of birds when I went to see Finding Dory with two of my sisters. I think they may have been stalking me....
All in all - Birds are evil. No doubt about it.
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Right?! Thanks for the fave!
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Birds are untrustable, but more importantly, they're evil.
And no problem!
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The seagull is chaotic evil, that a new one, and really creative!
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Aha, it makes sense
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My favourite quotes are
"HISS"
and
"RAWR"
i can relate to them on an emotional level
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aha, same
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I think Lapis is definitely one of the hardest ones to place because almost all of her screen time she has been under immense stress, so we don't really have a good idea of what her true personality, ideals and morals are like. She seems like she keeps trying things hoping they will finally lead to her being less miserable, but instead keeps digging herself in deeper and continually convinces herself she's doing the right thing without actually thinking through how her actions will affect herself and others. She seems to make her decisions spontaneously and heavily based on emotion. (i.e I think she probably could have easily beaten Jasper without fusing with her, but made the choice she did because she wanted to turn the tables and be in control of something for once.)
I would have originally thought Jasper closer to the Lawful end of the spectrum since she does seem to have a strong loyalty to the very Order-inclined Homeworld and is presumably of a higher-ranking soldier caste, though we also see she also tends to do what she thinks will be most beneficial to them - (bring Steven or "Rose Quartz" to Yellow Diamond) - rather than doing exactly what she's told (safely escort Peridot to Earth and let her check on the Cluster without interference). She also seems to judge others at least somewhat on a code of honor - thinking of fusion as a "cheap tactic" and all - but again we see she herself isn't above using fusion as a last resort when cornered and stressed. (Then again, hypocritical as she is, she probably thinks it's only fair - Garnet's a fusion; she's only leveling the playing field, right?)
The Good-Evil axis of the spectrum is, of course, particularly subjective territory; that said I would personally put Lapis somewhere below Mayor Dewey since I think her actions have hurt a lot more people than he has. Dewey seems like he's set up to be a stereotypical Awful Politician at first glance, but in spite of his ego he's been harmless at worse and helpful at best.
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I definitely agree about Lapis, and I think the same can be said about Ruby and Sapphire too(seriously, I just want one episode where they're voluntarily unfused) so I made do with what I could. I originally wanted to make Lapis chaotic neutral, since that seemed like a very close fit. I stand by that, but my friend pointed out most of what we've seen her do, as you pointed out, has been under duress, and if you judge people based on what they're like then then everybody is chaotic neutral xD Besides, Amethyst is a better fit for that slot anyway.
And I agree with you on the evil spectrum part. Obviously redemption is a big thing in this show so not everyone will stay where they are, although I think this is pretty accurate for the time I composed it(just after 'Keystone Motel')
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Yeah, Amethyst is definitely a free spirit. She's spontaneous and does what "feels right", without much regard for rules. It's one of the reasons I'm not really on board with the theories I've seen about her defecting to Homeworld; from what we've seen of their society she really would not mesh with the way they run things. She's kind of the "black sheep" of the Crystal Gems in some regard, and her carefree attitude masks a lot of serious self esteem issues. But I think she also sees eye to eye with Steven and at times understands him a lot more than Garnet and Pearl do, especially since, like Steven, she lives in that weird leeway between Gem and human cultures. And she so often just genuinely wants her friends to have a great time and have a great time with them. If anything I want to see her as being closer to the Chaotic Good side of things, but obviously her living in the moment and not thinking through the consequences of her actions have hurt other people as well.
Lapis... well, even her seemingly lawful actions in deciding to do what Homeworld told her were as much a reaction to stress as anything else she's done - a kind of "maybe if I stop fighting back it'll all be over" rather than her actually agreeing with any of their ideals. That said I think her lack of control over everything that's happened to her and how lost that has made her is part of the driving force behind her choices. Malachite was basically "I can't control what happens to me, but at least I can control you" and I think she's convinced herself she has to hold the fusion together for Steven to justify it to herself (when it's... not really what Steven wants at all) so that she can feel like she's doing the right thing. So I think having a sense of direction, however off the mark it may be, matters to her.
Basically Amethyst is like "I dunno if this is the right thing to do but it kinda feels right so let's roll with it" and Lapis is like "this may not be the right thing to do but I feel like doing it so I'm going to convince myself it is". Or something like that.
Moral complexity as a whole is definitely a big thing in this show, I think. The characters make a lot of bad decisions but have reasoning behind what they do that can be explained and at least understood if not sympathized with to some degree. Redemption is definitely going to be a theme, but even that won't be as simple as "everyone turns good and joins the Crystal Gems and defeats Homeworld", because from Homeworld's perspective, the Crystal Gems are the bad guys. They're the rebels that turned against their own people and caused.. well, a war. A war that we don't really know enough about to properly determine much of the morality of either side beyond Greg's words in The Return: "There's no such thing as a good war, kiddo." Whatever progress is made toward resolving the many conflicts in play is going to have to come hand in hand with more being revealed about the backstory of the Gem war and Gem society as a whole.
That said, out of the alignment charts I've seen for the series this is probably the one I've most agreed with, especially given there's only so much you can do when it comes to simplifying the morality of characters in a series as complex as this and trying to limit it to only one person per box. It's actually the first time I've seen a 5x5 alignment chart instead of the typical 3x3 one. Kind of nice actually, I've had D&D characters who I had trouble classifying who might fit into this version at least somewhat better.
Wow, I rambled for a while there, sorry.
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I very much agree with your take on Lapis. Her Malachite gambit was very much made in haste, and she's kept it going for so long as a way to justify it, which I think goes well with the idea that Malachite is supposed to resemble a toxic relationship.
Glad you like my chart!
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It's a terrible situation for both of them, dang I am really interested to see how the show handles Malachite's return though and integrates it into the narrative. They're good at leaving us hanging.
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*thwacks with broom* Get back under the ocean, you!
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: just you wait. i'll be back and when i come back YOU'RE GONNA REGRET MESSING WITH ME
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Mostly a joke, but also a half-serious fan theory a friend and I have regarding the seagulls of Beach City
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I don't think Frybo is rebel evil. technically it did follow the commands given in way of the be careful what you wish for. It bended rules not broke them.
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I get what you're saying. But listen to how Peal put it:
'I’m serious, Steven. *Starts explaining* These Shards have a powerful partial consciousness that has been harnessed by Gems throughout history in order to create semi-sentient drone soldiers with the capacity to follow basic orders. Gems once created an army of these drones, but found their obedience waned as the shards overdeveloped inside their uniforms and turned on their commanders. You see, any shard inside any kind of container could become a monster. That’s why it’s very, very important it’s kept away from any kind of garment or it could become a monster'
It took their orders, and kept filling out the last one it was given, yeah, but then it stopped taking orders outright. Plus, Pearl said it's in the thing's nature to specifically to turn on and rebel agaist their masters. That plus the logic pathways it seems to favour, Frybo comes off as pretty Rebel Evil to me(that and there haven't been that many evil characters yet xD)
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aren't they, though?
Thanks for the fave!
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yea, they're always attacking steven. Nasty birds
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Ah, the most evil character in Steven Universe. How did I not see it coming?
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lol, just a joke.
HOWEVER
My friend and I have a silly fan theory that there's something sinister going on with the seagulls of Beach City. Another joke, but the weird thing is we keep noticing stuff that could be interpreted as backing up our theory xD
ps thank you for the fave ^^
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Thank you! For the favourite as well!
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Do you know where I can get a blank template for this? I'd love to make one for my OC's.
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I googled '5x5 alignment chart' and edited an existing one down to a template that I liked. As far as I'm aware, the link at the bottom of the chart is who made it in the first place. Why I left it on. I still have the template if you want me to post that.
Thanks for the fave!
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That would be nice, yes! Please upload the template!
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I can have it up tomorrow.
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Ah, no need! I just found the template. Sorry about that!
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quite alright! enjoying charting
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