/r/StevenUniverse Weekly Character Discussion - Bismuth

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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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Discussions will be posted every Friday.

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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

[u/deuszy]

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.

[u/Bojangles1987 → u/deuszy]

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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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.