How gems kept discipline and order...

How gems kept discipline and order? Do you think they had different punishments or it's instant shattering once you go awry?

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Gems are made to like what they are made to do. If they get out of line that means they are defective, and if it persists then yes, they are shattered

LOOK AT THEM THIGHS

>Do you think they had different punishments
Bubbling (the real Rose Quartzes) and imprisonment in objects (Lapis). This was explicitly shown in canon, pay attention smoothbrain

Well they're preprogramed and also have the constant threat of shattering or poofing if they get too out of line

Seeing how all the evils of the Diamond Hegemony have only ever been told to viewers through the perspective of the crystal gems, a group led by a psychotic bitch that thought her sisters being concerned with her maturity was the same as calling her a failure, I'd say gem punishments were honestly really nothing and the gems exaggerated most of the grievances the hegemony had with them. Hell look at those gems at the zoo who fuck around with their superior officer and don't seem to suffer any punishment, a lawyer that all but calls the diamonds out for regecide is only poofed, and the rubies that lost a gem ship to enemy hands don't suffer any punishment either

Lapis' situation wasn't a punishment you retard.

There isn't enough art of Holly Blue and them thigh high boots

Neither CG's nor Homeworld had any intentions of punishing Lapis. They simply thought her as a non functioning object.

SU games gives more insight about gem life than in fucking show.

but what was punishment for smaller crimes? their equivalent of a fine, or jailtime, or even physical violence. all of those wouldnt work on a species that doesnt use money, needs any kinda necessities to survive and can spend millennia standing in one spot as not much more than a boring inconvenience

Depends who you offend and how.

Also, Peridot mentioned being “harvested” as an alternative to Shattering but we never found out what that meant.

Peridot wasn’t sentenced to Shattering despite fucking up, it took personally insulting her owner. Despite being believed to be a traitor, Lapis was placed into an object to be a slave.

There is no indication that anyone but Blue actually did Shattering herself since she’s the only one specifically indicated as an executioner. The Robonoids were hunting the Offcolors specifically, rather than being generic hunter/killers.

In regards to non-offense Shatterings, most imperfects seem to be accepted in Era 2 when they can have their deformities covered up, like Amethyst with limb enhancers on Homeworld as well as the Famethyst shorties who didn’t even have to wear those.

Rutile fled as soon as she was born, so she may not necessarily have been marked for Shattering. We have no backstory for Para, she may have been labeled an Offcolor for fucking up something or for fleeing.

Plus, the Movie added the punishment of mindwipes.

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Homeworld specifically called her a traitor and interrogated her in the mirror.

Show writers wrote the games though. Sugar said the point of the show was Steven’s journey. I guess the games warranted more wiggle-room.

Giving that gem culture is explicitly hierarchical, those punishments would equal to something like a reduction of a rank or being forced to work in menial labor like a sapphire cleaning the rabbles in a kindergarten.
>Lapis was placed into an object to be a slave
Lapis' punishment was more aimed towards inprisonment than slavery.

user, their regime change into embracing western liberalism and individualism hasn't resulted in violent civil war, when they've adhere to dictatorship and strong social order for thousand of centuries. So, they probably rarely actively keep discipline and order to start with, the transition mustn't have been that drastic. A transition like that almost always accompanied by a civil war or some sort throughout human history.

sounds to me like theres no justice system and crimes and punished arbitrarily depending on whatever the diamonds are feeling
which is... actually very appropriate for a dictatorship

but how do they then keep gems in check? how do they keep soldiers from misbehaving during training? or gems from committing less serious crimes? is every gem just threatened with the worst possible outcome? or are they allowed to do as they please to each other up until they cross their superiors?

Yeah but what afterwards? We literally have no idea about what HW had in plans for Lapis or what did she meant by "going easy" in pic related because Sugar is a fucking hack.

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I think punishment system is somewhat like in the Roman system. High ranking gems usually got away or simply exiled from HW while lower ranking gems were put in degrading punishments or shattered.

motherhood

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>degrading punishments
>implying

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>Sugar said the point of the show was Steven’s journey
You know a show made a horrible way of doing it when your side characters gets more frequent discussion than the MC.

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>Lapis was placed into an object to be a slave
Why do people keep forcing this headcanon? Lapis was put in a mirror for interrogation before imminent shattering if CG's didn't interfere.

What's going on here?

gem NSA arresting Jasper off-the-book for punching her diamond

Nice. Jasper is the best muscle mommy

that's like literally every fictional story ever made except if the MC is a baddie

Peridot's only punishment for ruining a ship is being reported to her manager

they are gonna remove her muscle enhancers as a punishment

she also receives the gift of Earth culture enrichment, she's getting quite the bargain here

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I thought the only reason there was a supposed resource crisis was because they went with instant shattering and hated anything that wasn't in order.