User blog comment:BlackBismuth/Hurt 'n' Heal/@comment-2054732-20170515052955/@comment-2054732-20170518142407

Alot of people say Jasper tried to force her to fuse which I disagree with it's true Jasper grabbed her to stop her from flying off, which is wrong. But when asking her to fuse Jasper did just that she asked a question laid down reasons for Lapis to do it, and actively stepped back to allow Lapis to make a choice. None of Lapis's own statements about the event say she was forced into it, although its possible she was scared due to Jasper's size or fear of retailiation, but her own statements don't provide that argument with much water. Also I want to no more about what happened in Malachite because from Jailbreak to Chilli Tid Jasper is shown trying to escape the fusion. at some point between Chilli Tid and Super Water MElon island Jasper learns she likes being controlled and being fused and wants to remain as Malachite for power.

Jasper take resonsiblity for her actions multiple times, mainly because her actions can be boilled down to one thing, fighting. All she has done is faught the crystal gems And she herself has stateted that she was made for fighting, she likes fighting, and will continue to fight. When she gives a reason why she is fighting it isn't to excuse her from the consequences of those actions, but instead to justify why she won't allow Steven (Rose in her eyes) to help her deal with those consequences.

Finally I don't blindly accept Jasper she is a flawed chracter, I just like her better because to me her flaws make more sense and she is a better developed character in my eyes. She went through a logical develpment over the course of the series. Where as to me Lapis's development is inconsitant and very cold. For instance as I said Jasper was born to fight and likes fighting and continues to fight because thats what she likes to do. That makes sense to me. Lapis However was subjected to torture for probably a couple hundred years, and then left alone for close to 5000. She always talks about how bad that expirence was for her, and then at the first chance she got chose to put another through a similar situation because thats what she likes to do. She either flat out ignores her part in many events like malachite or breaking peridot's taperecorder after being told its her favorite thing (still waiting for that apology) or is inconsistant with responsibility going from "I'm bad because I stole the ocean and broke your fathers leg" to "Ehh I nearly drowned alot of people." Even her treatment of the crystal gems is inconsistant as she seems to hate them in mirror gem, wants nothing to do with them in return/jailbreak, mad at them in same old world and barn mates, but totally fine with them from that point on, so whats the deal with that? It's those reasons and more that I just don't like Lapis, she just went down hill for me as she was my favorite character from Mirror gem- about 9 and a half mins into Jailbreak, where my intial reaction was, "What did she just do!?" and it only got worse from there. Which is the opposite of Jasper I went from hating her in Return to immdietly feeling bad for her in Jail break and she got more developed from there, which is a reason I like her more.