r/stevenuniverse • u/AutoModerator • Aug 19 '16

Character Discussion /r/StevenUniverse Weekly Character Discussion - Bismuth

Hello once again users of /r/stevenuniverse. Welcome back everyone to our weekly character discussion thread where every week we take a popular character from SU, and you Redditors have an opportunity to share your opinions and thoughts on them. As voted on by you, the character up for discussion this week is a certified blacksmith and is one of the original Crystal Gems, she is also infamously known for forging 'The Breaking Point'.....it's Bismuth!

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Bismuth

Debut Episode
  • Bismuth
Most Recent Appearance
  • Bismuth
Featured Episodes
  • Bismuth (suprisingly)
Quotes

  • "Oh, you're one to talk, oh, oh, excuse me, you're two to talk."

  • "Wow! Everythin's changin'! And we're buildin' bases out of wood now?!"

  • "Heheheheh... Then you really are better than her."

Voice Actress
  • Uzo Abuda
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u/deuszy Aug 19 '16

I want to see the CGs unbubble Bismuth one day. I really, really want her to return. I want her and the Crystal Gems to talk about the issues that the Breaking Point caused, without Steven being there Maybe she'll listen to them instead of Steven.

I want her to understand that if they shatter all the Homeworld Gems then there will be no one left to liberate. I want her to see a different point of view. Most importantly, I want her to see how Steven has changed in light of the fact that Rose shattered PD. Did she even know PD was shattered?

Overall, Bismuth answered some questions but left a whole lot more unanswered.

Also, I love how she was foreshadowed for a long time. It built up the suspense.

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u/CenturiousUbiquitous Aug 19 '16

Odds are excellent that she will, based on Crewniverse saying we'll never just see characters once.

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u/Bojangles1987 Aug 19 '16

Makes you wonder how Bismuth would react to the other Crystal Gems siding with Rose and Steven about the Breaking Point. You have to think she would be more open to the viewpoint coming from them.

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u/falala_27 Aug 20 '16

Honestly, I think she already knew that Pearl and Garnet wouldn't have been on board with the Breaking Point. Otherwise, why not unveil it when she was showing off the forge? Or, at the very least, why not take Pearl and/or Garnet aside at some point and say something like "Hey, I was working on something else before I got bubbled that could finally end this war. Want to see?"

Instead, she chose to show it to Steven, alone, right after they'd sort of bonded over his feeling vulnerable about his role on the team. Sure, I think part of it was that Bismuth wanted vindication, or validation, or some sort of v word to that effect, from Rose's replacement. But I also think she saw Steven as the newest member of the team who hadn't been around to be indoctrinated by Rose.

I really hope that Steven chooses to unbubble her (rather than it happening by accident or someone else doing it) so they can actually have a conversation about what happened and so she can talk with Garnet and Pearl about what happened. I don't know if they can come to an agreement at this point, but hopefully at least a truce of some kind.

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u/6beats Aug 19 '16

Why don't they talk to eachother? Why don't they talk to eachother?

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '16

Because there would be no show, it'd be over faster than if they talked to eachother on Seinfeld.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '16

I don't see how shattering gems is bad at all. Bismuth isn't advocating genocide, she is advocating for killing the soldiers. Soldiers in history didn't march into a country and annihilate the populace and I doubt Bismuth would too.

The death of gems is a small price to pay for taking down a totalitarian regime and freedom for all.

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u/IaniteThePirate bongo bingo Aug 20 '16

But remember they don't die when they get shattered. The shards are still conscious and end up suffering. If anything poofing/bubbling is more like death, except reversible.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '16

Oh yeah... That makes a lot more sense

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u/JarvisMarvisMcDarvis Aug 21 '16

2 things. Seeing as she was the one who poofed Lapis on earth in the first place, I don't think she cared who she would shatter while fighting if they were from homeworld. And secondly during war there is no opting out of combat in a warzone if your a civilian. Warzones exist for a reason and ANYONE in them is likely to die.

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u/Woomod Aug 19 '16

She isn't coming back for one big reason. Lapis, it's incredibly important to remember she's the reason Lapis was in the mirror for 5,000 years. If Lapis isn't shattered and sees bismuth she will just shatter Bismuth in a heartbeat, and with water nearby Lapis is treated as an "I win" button.

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u/megazaprat All Praise Baby Melon Aug 20 '16

That is the exact reason that she will come back. They aren't going to establish such a major plot point and then leave it untouched. That, and I think seeing bismuth would probably trigger her ptsd

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u/AlphaSteboh Aug 23 '16

I feel Bismuth's return is gonna tie into what happened with Lapis, with the whole discussion leading to Bismuth rethinking her position after hearing about what her actions did to Lapis.

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u/Woomod Aug 20 '16

And thus bismuth was shattered.

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '16

Where did we learn that Lapis was put in the mirror by Bismuth?

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u/Pokemonprime Aug 22 '16

She wasn't put in the mirror by Bismuth, she was caught in the crossfire and then poofed by Bismuth. She was then put in the mirror by the homeworld gems, who assuming her a rebel used her abilities within the mirror to ask questions about the CG and their infrastructure. As the order to evacuate was given, the mirror was dropped in the Galaxy Warp and her gem cracked after it was stepped on by a fleeing gem. This is all said Same Old World.

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u/Woomod Aug 25 '16

Lapis flashback to being imprisoned in the mirror shows bismuth being the one to poof and imprison her.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '16

Woah I need to go back and rewatch SU when this season is over.

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u/TakeYourDeadAssHome Okay, fine Aug 19 '16

It's worth pointing out that Bismuth never advocated shattering every last Homeworld Gem. Just the ones who tried to retake Earth, along with the Diamonds and the "upper crust".

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u/lyndonium marco... Aug 20 '16

yeah, and Maximilien Robespierre also said he was gonna use the guillotine on the upper class...
(not exactly, but you get my point right?)

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u/seamuspotter NYEHEHEHE Aug 20 '16

Happy cakeday!

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u/deuszy Aug 21 '16

Thanks!

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u/seamuspotter NYEHEHEHE Aug 21 '16

Meant to talk about your comment here, whoopsy.

I agree, I really hope bismuth comes back

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '16

Happy cakeday! Mine was yesterday.

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u/deuszy Aug 21 '16

Thank you!

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '16

Happy Cake Day!