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Character Name: Lapis Lazuli Series: Steven Universe Timeline: after the events of 1x49, "Jailbreak" Canon Resource Links:Lapis @ Steven Universe Wikia
Personality: Lapis is a rather interesting individual, and despite her relatively short screentime, she made quite a splash. I promise that will be the only intentional water pun in this app.
Lapis is, first and foremost, driven by her desire to be free. For hundreds - if not thousands - of years, she was trapped in a mirror, forced to show any user information she had witnessed since the moment of the mirror's creation. When she was freed from that, she was taken prisoner not long after. Therefore, her desire to just be free and live her life is pretty understandable. And even in her cracked, semi-corrupted state, that's all that really matters to her.
This leads to her doing some... rather questionable things. And by "rather questionable" I mean "outright bad". When Steven freed her from her mirror prison, she attacks the Crystal Gems, and later steals all the water in the ocean. This actually isn't out of malicious intent, believe it or not; she was defending herself in the former, and in the latter, she was just doing the only thing she knew how to do to go home. After everything that happened to her, all Lapis wants is to be left alone, but people and circumstances keep getting in the way of that, and so, she lashes out.
Besides, it's hard to tell if this malicious behavior is even part of her normal character. When she did what she did, her gem was cracked badly; this, as we saw this Amethyst, can lead to a gem acting addled and irrational. And while Lapis seemed more lucid, her gem was still damaged badly enough to affect her considerably strong powers, so it's very likely it affected her emotional state as well. This is supported by the fact that, when captured by the Homeworld Gems, Lapis makes no effort to escape, and in fact seems pretty resigned to her fate. Then again, with what we've seen of Homeworld's capabilities, it's pretty reasonable that she didn't fight back, especially against Jasper...
Lapis has, thanks to her consecutive imprisonments, become a very pessimistic person. She lost all faith in Homeworld upon seeing how corrupted the Homeworld Gems have become, and even though she gave the Crystal Gems ample time to prepare with how early she sent out her warning, she believes that there's no point in fighting them. She even tried convincing Steven to just do as Jasper and Peridot said and hope that they're merciful. This is a far cry from the scared, lonely girl who fought so hard just so she could go home. Because of all these events, it's pretty likely that Lapis has become completely disillusioned with her people, and will likely be wary of them for a long time to come.
That being said! Lapis isn't all doom and gloom. Underneath that lonely, pessimistic attitude is a girl who, when given a chance to shine, is a fiercely loyal friend.
When Steven earns her friendship during her time in the mirror - simply by treating her as a person rather than an object - she quickly becomes fiercely protective of him. She defies orders, goes behind the backs of her own kind and generally does whatever is in her power to help Steven stay safe. So great is her desire to help her only friend that she gave up any chance that she had at freedom - the one and only thing she wanted after escaping the mirror - to keep Jasper trapped at the bottom of the ocean. Part of this was for herself, of course; Lapis was absolutely fed up with being used and imprisoned by nearly everyone she came in contact with, so when the chance to turn the tides I'm sorry I know I promised no more water puns appeared before her, she took it without second thought. She was taking back some measure of control of her life and helping the friend who gave her the encouragement she needed to do so at the same time.
Lapis also has quite the playful side to her, if her actions while trapped in the mirror are anything to go by! She was rather mischievous in this form, laughing along with Steven's antics, encouraging him, and even blowing raspberries during Mayor Dewey's speech, just to get everyone to laugh. She can be silly, can play and joke the same as everyone else, and there could be hope that this side of her can still come out. She just... yanno. Needs to be in a situation where she or her wellbeing isn't being threatened.
This also helps set her apart from the Homeworld Gems. She happily played with someone who appears to be human, unlike Jasper and Peridot, who just seem to view humans as vermin. Lapis may hold no love (or hate) for humanity as a whole, but she didn't lash out or intentionally torment the Beach City residents when she stole the ocean's water, even though she could've done so easily. This is certainly worth noting, as Lapis is from a time where even the Crystal Gems looked down on humanity. She's far from being a lover of humans, but at the very least, she doesn't seem to see them as beneath her.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
+ Technological understanding: the Gem Homeworld is a highly advanced civilization, whose technological advancements are thousands of years ahead of Earth's. Though Lapis is a bit behind the times with Homeworld's tech as it is in this day and age, she's still familiar with tech far more advanced than our own.
+ Affinity to Water: Though she won't have her powers in Route, she's still pretty in-tune with the ocean without them. She seems to care a lot about aquatic life; when she made a pillar with all the water of Earth's oceans, she made sure to keep the wildlife inside of it, rather than let them die on the newly uncovered land.
+ Mental Strength: Lapis is mentally (and physically) strong enough to maintain a fusion with someone she's not totally in sync with - something that, as seen with Amethyst and Pearl, was thought to be impossible. She's also strong enough to be the dominant one in the fusion, and can still use her powers, even against herself (as part of the fusion).
- Trauma: Lapis has been pretty traumatized by everything that's happened to her. Between being trapped in a mirror for a few hundred years, being taken prisoner by her own kind, and being forced to fuse with her jailor, she's... a little bit emotionally exhausted with everything.
- Wariness Around People (Who Aren't Steven): Lapis has been imprisoned by more or less everyone she interacted with for the past few hundred years, so she'll probably be a bit suspicious if people try and get her to go along with even the most harmless-sounding plans.
- Apathy for Other People (Who Aren't Steven): on that note, Lapis doesn't particularly care for the fate of humanity or the Crystal Gems. Everything she did after returning to Homeworld she did to help Steven or herself. That's it. Whether she'll have a change of heart right now remains to be seen.
Pokémon Information Affiliation: Trainer Starter: Horsea Password: Cherries Jubilee
Samples First Person Sample:This isn't funny! [... Hey... hey there, Route. There's a rather angry-looking girl glaring into the 'gear this fine day.] You really think it's funny to kidnap someone and act like nothing's wrong?! What is wrong with humans?
[The girl grits her teeth, and her expression softens from anger to a bitter frustration. She's mumbling now, more to herself than to her audience on the network.] This happens.... this always happens... I try to do something and it always just blows up like this... I don't know why I keep trying.
[... Because she had someone who believed in her. That's why. And that someone was now in danger. If she was here, alone, then that meant that Jasper was free back in Beach City's ocean. Jasper can go after the Crystal Gems - go after Steven - and she can't let that happen.]
Listen, I... I can't stay here. I need to go-- go back to the place I came from. [Because Beach City wasn't home. She didn't really have a home anymore, did she?] There has to be some way out. Someone here better tell me!
Third Person Sample: Months. It had been months since Lapis had last seen the ocean. Time wasn't really something that Gems paid much attention to, but in this world, Lapis wasn't a Gem. She was a human, with human perceptions, so a few months felt like an utter eternity to her. And an eternity without being close to her element, unwillingly trapped in a completely strange land? It was almost as bad as her time in the mirror.
She may not have the same bond with the ocean she had as a Gem, but there was still something there. A tugging in her chest, a sense of longing simultaneously mixed with a wave of calm washing over her as she caught the scent of the sea, and heard the cry of the Wingull overhead. It was like being whole again, so when she and Steven reached the beach city everyone talked so fondly about, she had immediately taken off in the direction of the shoreline. She's sure Steven would follow, or go off on his own and look for her later, so she let him do his own thing.
And so, here she was, shoes off and toes wiggling in the sand as she sets her things down away from the water. Her Horsea is out, already splashing happily in the shallows, and Lapis couldn't stop a grin from spreading across her face. For the first time in countless years, she felt like she was home. Not even returning to Homeworld felt this good.
Her feeling of contentment didn't last long, however. It seems that her Horsea thought Lapis was taking a bit too long to join her. With a disgruntled squeak, it shot a small jet of ink straight at her face. With a surprised yelp, Lapis falls back into the water.
"Oooh, you..." She tries to sound angry, but the grin on her face is quickly turning devious, and she jumps back up, shoving a wave of water right at her pokemon.
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Character
Name: Lapis Lazuli
Series: Steven Universe
Timeline: after the events of 1x49, "Jailbreak"
Canon Resource Links: Lapis @ Steven Universe Wikia
Personality: Lapis is a rather interesting individual, and despite her relatively short screentime, she made quite a splash.
I promise that will be the only intentional water pun in this app.Lapis is, first and foremost, driven by her desire to be free. For hundreds - if not thousands - of years, she was trapped in a mirror, forced to show any user information she had witnessed since the moment of the mirror's creation. When she was freed from that, she was taken prisoner not long after. Therefore, her desire to just be free and live her life is pretty understandable. And even in her cracked, semi-corrupted state, that's all that really matters to her.
This leads to her doing some... rather questionable things. And by "rather questionable" I mean "outright bad". When Steven freed her from her mirror prison, she attacks the Crystal Gems, and later steals all the water in the ocean. This actually isn't out of malicious intent, believe it or not; she was defending herself in the former, and in the latter, she was just doing the only thing she knew how to do to go home. After everything that happened to her, all Lapis wants is to be left alone, but people and circumstances keep getting in the way of that, and so, she lashes out.
Besides, it's hard to tell if this malicious behavior is even part of her normal character. When she did what she did, her gem was cracked badly; this, as we saw this Amethyst, can lead to a gem acting addled and irrational. And while Lapis seemed more lucid, her gem was still damaged badly enough to affect her considerably strong powers, so it's very likely it affected her emotional state as well. This is supported by the fact that, when captured by the Homeworld Gems, Lapis makes no effort to escape, and in fact seems pretty resigned to her fate. Then again, with what we've seen of Homeworld's capabilities, it's pretty reasonable that she didn't fight back, especially against Jasper...
Lapis has, thanks to her consecutive imprisonments, become a very pessimistic person. She lost all faith in Homeworld upon seeing how corrupted the Homeworld Gems have become, and even though she gave the Crystal Gems ample time to prepare with how early she sent out her warning, she believes that there's no point in fighting them. She even tried convincing Steven to just do as Jasper and Peridot said and hope that they're merciful. This is a far cry from the scared, lonely girl who fought so hard just so she could go home. Because of all these events, it's pretty likely that Lapis has become completely disillusioned with her people, and will likely be wary of them for a long time to come.
That being said! Lapis isn't all doom and gloom. Underneath that lonely, pessimistic attitude is a girl who, when given a chance to shine, is a fiercely loyal friend.
When Steven earns her friendship during her time in the mirror - simply by treating her as a person rather than an object - she quickly becomes fiercely protective of him. She defies orders, goes behind the backs of her own kind and generally does whatever is in her power to help Steven stay safe. So great is her desire to help her only friend that she gave up any chance that she had at freedom - the one and only thing she wanted after escaping the mirror - to keep Jasper trapped at the bottom of the ocean. Part of this was for herself, of course; Lapis was absolutely fed up with being used and imprisoned by nearly everyone she came in contact with, so when the chance to turn the tides
I'm sorry I know I promised no more water punsappeared before her, she took it without second thought. She was taking back some measure of control of her life and helping the friend who gave her the encouragement she needed to do so at the same time.Lapis also has quite the playful side to her, if her actions while trapped in the mirror are anything to go by! She was rather mischievous in this form, laughing along with Steven's antics, encouraging him, and even blowing raspberries during Mayor Dewey's speech, just to get everyone to laugh. She can be silly, can play and joke the same as everyone else, and there could be hope that this side of her can still come out. She just... yanno. Needs to be in a situation where she or her wellbeing isn't being threatened.
This also helps set her apart from the Homeworld Gems. She happily played with someone who appears to be human, unlike Jasper and Peridot, who just seem to view humans as vermin. Lapis may hold no love (or hate) for humanity as a whole, but she didn't lash out or intentionally torment the Beach City residents when she stole the ocean's water, even though she could've done so easily. This is certainly worth noting, as Lapis is from a time where even the Crystal Gems looked down on humanity. She's far from being a lover of humans, but at the very least, she doesn't seem to see them as beneath her.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
+ Technological understanding: the Gem Homeworld is a highly advanced civilization, whose technological advancements are thousands of years ahead of Earth's. Though Lapis is a bit behind the times with Homeworld's tech as it is in this day and age, she's still familiar with tech far more advanced than our own.
+ Affinity to Water: Though she won't have her powers in Route, she's still pretty in-tune with the ocean without them. She seems to care a lot about aquatic life; when she made a pillar with all the water of Earth's oceans, she made sure to keep the wildlife inside of it, rather than let them die on the newly uncovered land.
+ Mental Strength: Lapis is mentally (and physically) strong enough to maintain a fusion with someone she's not totally in sync with - something that, as seen with Amethyst and Pearl, was thought to be impossible. She's also strong enough to be the dominant one in the fusion, and can still use her powers, even against herself (as part of the fusion).
- Trauma: Lapis has been pretty traumatized by everything that's happened to her. Between being trapped in a mirror for a few hundred years, being taken prisoner by her own kind, and being forced to fuse with her jailor, she's... a little bit emotionally exhausted with everything.
- Wariness Around People (Who Aren't Steven): Lapis has been imprisoned by more or less everyone she interacted with for the past few hundred years, so she'll probably be a bit suspicious if people try and get her to go along with even the most harmless-sounding plans.
- Apathy for Other People (Who Aren't Steven): on that note, Lapis doesn't particularly care for the fate of humanity or the Crystal Gems. Everything she did after returning to Homeworld she did to help Steven or herself. That's it. Whether she'll have a change of heart right now remains to be seen.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Horsea
Password: Cherries Jubilee
Samples
First Person Sample: This isn't funny! [... Hey... hey there, Route. There's a rather angry-looking girl glaring into the 'gear this fine day.] You really think it's funny to kidnap someone and act like nothing's wrong?! What is wrong with humans?
[The girl grits her teeth, and her expression softens from anger to a bitter frustration. She's mumbling now, more to herself than to her audience on the network.] This happens.... this always happens... I try to do something and it always just blows up like this... I don't know why I keep trying.
[... Because she had someone who believed in her. That's why. And that someone was now in danger. If she was here, alone, then that meant that Jasper was free back in Beach City's ocean. Jasper can go after the Crystal Gems - go after Steven - and she can't let that happen.]
Listen, I... I can't stay here. I need to go-- go back to the place I came from. [Because Beach City wasn't home. She didn't really have a home anymore, did she?] There has to be some way out. Someone here better tell me!
Third Person Sample: Months. It had been months since Lapis had last seen the ocean. Time wasn't really something that Gems paid much attention to, but in this world, Lapis wasn't a Gem. She was a human, with human perceptions, so a few months felt like an utter eternity to her. And an eternity without being close to her element, unwillingly trapped in a completely strange land? It was almost as bad as her time in the mirror.
She may not have the same bond with the ocean she had as a Gem, but there was still something there. A tugging in her chest, a sense of longing simultaneously mixed with a wave of calm washing over her as she caught the scent of the sea, and heard the cry of the Wingull overhead. It was like being whole again, so when she and Steven reached the beach city everyone talked so fondly about, she had immediately taken off in the direction of the shoreline. She's sure Steven would follow, or go off on his own and look for her later, so she let him do his own thing.
And so, here she was, shoes off and toes wiggling in the sand as she sets her things down away from the water. Her Horsea is out, already splashing happily in the shallows, and Lapis couldn't stop a grin from spreading across her face. For the first time in countless years, she felt like she was home. Not even returning to Homeworld felt this good.
Her feeling of contentment didn't last long, however. It seems that her Horsea thought Lapis was taking a bit too long to join her. With a disgruntled squeak, it shot a small jet of ink straight at her face. With a surprised yelp, Lapis falls back into the water.
"Oooh, you..." She tries to sound angry, but the grin on her face is quickly turning devious, and she jumps back up, shoving a wave of water right at her pokemon.
"You're gunna pay for that!!!"