User blog comment:BlackBismuth/Hurt 'n' Heal/@comment-2054732-20170515052955/@comment-30385427-20170518105049

((Man I made a good long post but wiki rejected it so))

Long!tl;dr: I've never seen Jasper claim responsibility of any of her actions except maybe her being the reason no one fuses with her anymore, Jasper still tried forcing her (it's not like Lapis had a choice to flee) but Lapis continuing to fuse with her was idiotic once they left any place Jasper could find Steven, remember that Jasper STAYED fused as Malachite once she gained power and wanted to be Malachite again afterwards, and I'm simply playing devil's advocate here, and I'm just saying that blindly accepting someone and disregarding their flaws while demonizing the other even if they both did extremely rash and bad things is just plain mean.