Lapis Lazuli: True Strength & Weakness 

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*[She stole the earth's ocean, resisted Blue's pathokinesis, brought a whole house to the moon and even created a giant water monster, of course she would be extremely OP!]*

Seeing lapis turn into a giant woman made of water scared me

i think she is "perfect" like Jasper, due to the location of her stone (where the wings appear)

I wish either Steven and Lapis would have suggested, as an alternative option, to the two other Lapis(s) to continue terraform, but in the opposite direction. Terraform a lifeless planet into something that can support life. And another thing that would have been awesome to see, the two Lapis(s) fused together to fight but our Lapis can still single-handedly defeat them.

I always had a theory that a gems strength comes from their emotions. The stronger the emotions the stronger their powers

Title sounds like a competitive pokemon breakdown video

Your point on arguments is so true. When i see people argue with other people online, it usually ends up with one of the people arguing to go silent or stop participating in the argument leaving the other to think they've won. You're right about how people just bash someone into submission with petty insults and witty comments instead of agreeing to disagree with the person and moving on and that it's not a sign of strength, it's a sign of impatience and weakness. You can have a peaceful argument with people, you can have your disagreements with them without trying to hammer them into the dirt and make them feel bad. So sad that people think just insulting someone automatically makes their arguments stronger than theirs when it reality, it doesn't.

Lapis is such a boss she doesn't need to fuse to turn into a giant woman

Lapis has a lot of strengths besides her water powers. Her patience like you said, also her beauty, and her loving singing voice. You can't forget that, can you?

*_[well, her specialty certainly doesn't lie in fire, which is obviously my specialty... Pyrokinesis is what makes us Rubies so hot after all... literally, not figuratively]_*

I am starting to wander if she has a degree in psychology

ah. Lapis talking about restraint and patience. like a flowing river, smoothing sharp, craggy rocks. it's interesting that she struggles to be more like her element...and while she may or may not ever become that serene, clear pool of water, it is the effort she puts in that yields its own rewards... ...which is why Lapis is probably my fave character of the series.

Me, earlier today : "Might as well subscribe and turn on notifications since I watch her videos" Me, now : *LAPIS IS THE BEST CHARACTER YESSSSSSS*

*[We better get to see more of the Lazuli twins]*

"doing that makes you the bigger person" lapis literally reacts the wrong way AND becomes the bigger person lol

I wish I had Lapis' old dress. It was so conservative and pretty.

This was a really nice message, almost felt like a therapy session or smth lol, I really wish people thought like this more :)

Seeing Lapis from the first season one all the way through Future made me feel happy because I don’t want Lapis to be sad and lonely, she deserves to be support. Lapis taught me that being lonely is sad and no supportive. I get hates on Twitter for making artwork that they didn’t really like it and putting hate comments and it really hurts me without getting support. Seeing Lapis now is exactly like me when I’m not feeling alone. I have friends on Discord and they support my artwork. 💙❤️

I have ended a very Toxic relationship that was causing me a lot mental health stress&I am so much happier that I broke myself free. 😇💖

*Restraint takes strength* . That's a good lesson which Lapis had taught me

Off Topic but why doesn’t Amethyst take Jasper to that wrestling place she always went too? This could teach jasper discipline about hurting organics, and could give her that fighting urge she has.

She’s probably the most powerful gem in the show cause look how she trapped jasper in the ocean when they both fused, lifted the barn to the moon and bring it back to earth to crash it at blue, made an arm out of water to slap the Ruby’s ship and trap garnet for a bit, became a big water giant woman and managed to hold on to Steven when he turned into a big pink monster

Really needed this, today. Thank you.

Lapis is so powerful she even has a susanoo

After watching Fragments, I feel like Lapis bearing Curls & Freckles was meant to foreshadow Jasper swearing allegiance to Steven after he shattered her: both Lapis & Steven gained respect from opponents they couldn’t reason with, but not in the way they wanted. Plus, unlike Lapis, he lost his patience & restraint, letting his anger take over and go all out on Jasper

Why So Blue solidified Lapis Lazuli as my second favorite character (Spinel is number one) because of how well this ep was executed with its message.

Ok I love Lapis even more now!!! I could really relate to Lapis in this episode. Sometimes when my classmates are annoying me I imagine myself being violent to them because I feel like that’s the only way they’re gonna take me seriously. Of course I don’t act upon these thoughts (for the most part...) but I always want to blow up or anything just so that they’ll take me seriously because nothing else works. Sometimes even blowing up doesn’t work either. I just want them to take me seriously and leave me the heck alone!!! It’s tough being in high school 🤣💙💖🌊

I feel like each episode teaching us a lesson, is meaning we are getting closer to the episode where Steven decides to break those lessons.

Welcome to SU where most ocs have ptsd or have been mentally hurt in the past Also including space rocks

That's why it's better to yell out in the middle of an argument, "I was FROZEN today!" because it's not hurtful and it's not a cheap shot.

Well, above all else, Lapis' sheer power is easily Diamond-Level. She is so OP.

See my favorite Crystal Gem on the notification thumbnail, I click.

So we have Steven universe Future, so wheres Steven Universe Junior? We haven't seen him since before peridot!

9:06 DAMMIT THIS VIDEO IS REALLY HITTING ME HARD RN- FOR REAL THO F O R R E A L T H O

Well said , I agree. My family does a lot of the "Bashing you and your intrests into the ground for a joke"

“The show has only given us 10 episodes so far” *_laughs in late_*

I relate to Lapis a lot. she makes me feel better about myself, and though I think she has a lot of problems and toxic traits which she should work through, she will always be my favourite character. I don't think she will have more screentime in the rest of Steven universe future, which is sad, but understandable because there are so many characters in the show. I appreciate you talking about this message as well because I believe it is important to talk about.

I feel like they would need the entire crystal gems to stop lapis… if she went mad

Idk, I’ve always felt that there are people out there who respect strength. Like these two Lapis. And that using strength to get through to them makes sense to me. At the very least, using that strength to push them into deeper understanding. Further, if Steven actually wants them to stop destroying that world, he should be willing to use force if they won’t hear reason. What they’re doing is clearly a threat, which Steven should be willing to end.

5:48 I've been dealing with a toxic friend, and I just cut myself off from them. Now they're going on a big rant about it, and their followers are now upset at me too. I cut myself off from them because they were making my mental health stoop lower. They think they've done nothing wrong, that I'm just a "toxic Connverse shipper" who doesn't agree with their opinions. What? This has nothing to do with ships. It's that they've been hurting me, with or without knowing it, and it needed to be stopped. Now I don't know what to do. They are getting angrier, and I'm scared. Not as scared as I was when I was still friends with them, but none-the-less, scared.

I think Freckles Lapis is going to betray Steven and Lapis ...

I love lapis.

Sooooo uh Lapis' bit about true strength and her struggle with restraint and mercy hit a little harder after "Fragments"

This is the best video that i have seen like in a year Love you Lea

Honestly this was a perfect case for masculinity. Why? Masculinity sometimes involves showing a firm hand without going too far. Being able to show the necessary force without actually hurting someone. Lapis approach was necessary because as she told Steven they need to restrain these other gems and talking won't work. She knows who her specific gem kind tends to work. Whoever Steven wanted to not do that despite each fail attempt. This pushed Lapis to lose that restrain and not only capture them, but to nearly kill them.

Toon Ruin I love Lapis Lazuli she is like me a survivor who suffered&grown as a person or a gem&I agree with you that the real sign of strength is to control how you stand up for yourself with out hurting the other&only fight back in you are defending yourself. 😇🐺

thank you, really needed to hear this. (:

Feels great when you learn and take away from something that you previously never thought of before in these types of videos.

I needed this. Thanks. And imagine all the things Lapis could with a cracked gem. Now without-

"you hurt the person to be quaite" me: EXACLY

I like Freckles

I like your point of view of this episode. I never thought of it like that

SO GOOD!! I loved how you articulated everything!!!

I love lapis so much because she’s taught me so many things. I just recently got out of a very toxic relationship, and if I’m having a bad day, I think of how emotionally strong she is, and how far she’s come. Because, maybe if a fictional character can do it, I can do it too.

Thank you for this lovely video

Yes girl this is such an insightful video!

Laps is the Water Goddess.

Very good! Your Job is amazing here.

*Pearl singing about being strong in a different way*

Amazing video and chapter analysis, it was also a great explanation. In other hand, it's funny that the main problem of the original series was resolved with a comeback in change your mind

Well I needed this vid at this point in time more than I thought lol

I really needed this video...thanks RU-vid recommendations...

I loved her character and her redemption arc and I think you did a good job summing up some of the reasons why

There is also the grey area. Pointing out someone's hypocrisy is a comment directly against them as a person, but it's also a very valid point. It's not a cheap shot to point out hypocrisy and call someone on their bullshit.

I can't wait to see how you potentially handle bluebird (both gem herself and the episode), the graduation episode, and Gem Guidance (Steven and amythest)

Everybody gangsta till Lapis forms her water Susano'o.

The title should really be : “insulting someone till their quiet is not good or strong in 15 diffrent ways”

you make a great point with this video, a very important one - however that's not the takeaway i had from this episode. my takeaway was: no matter how far people think or claim Lapis has come, she's still the same person she was in Jail Break. things get a point where she decides people need to be punished, and then she will punish them with extreme, overwhelming force. no slap on the wrist, no wind up. from 0 to 100 in 0.1 seconds. every single conflict with Lapis ends this way. it's her way or the highway. the fact that people don't see that is terrifying. I'm hoping the crewniverse is playing the long game and that there will be an episode where Lapis' behavior gets called out (like Steven has (eventually, in some cases) done with every single other character in the show when they have behaved in a toxic or problematic way), but at this point I doubt it. it feels like an incredible oversight to have a character as dangerous and as toxic as Lapis just be allowed to act however she wants and never face any consequences for her actions - this is a very dangerous message. Lapis is a power fantasy. a revenge fantasy. she's the quintessential dark and broody teenage girl who's been wrongfully and unjustly targeted with some kind of abuse-escapism daydream fantasy drug. nothing is your fault because you've been driven to breaking point! look at all the pain they're in now, it's all their own fault - they made you hurt them! sweet, sweet righteous revenge, with all the blame on someone else. if Lapis had shown true patience and restraint in this episode she wouldn't have snapped, period. even if she eventually stopped herself, the fact still remains that she did snap (i know that's not the point you were making, but others have). I would agree with your interpretation of this episode more if Steven would have taken Lapis back home *before* Lapis snapped. if they had just gone "we can't reason with these guys" and Lapis maybe argued with him and got riled up, but then calmed herself down - by *herself*, on her own initiative, because she realized what she was doing, not because of Steven's or anyone else's reaction to her behavior. I would agree even more if the episode had ended with them going back home and reaching the conclusion (summarized by Garnet) "you can't make everyone see your point of view, that may be hard to accept, but it's true. sometimes people need time to process new information, sometimes people just don't want to change. or listen. then the best thing to do is to walk away" - if that had happened (imo that would have been a much better lesson for people to learn), I would be willing to step down from my well-established Lapis is a terrible person-soap box and say that Lapis actually had had some character development for once. thank you for coming to my Ted-talk.

So she’s essentially a ultimate master waterbender that could rival the Avatar? (In terms of raw power and skill)

I wish curls went to little home world with freckles

I have really learned something from this video thank you

Glitch Techs trailer came out! I can’t wait to hear your thoughts about it.

Anyone else hopes that they talk about the recent information on Glitch Techs? I discovered that’s it’s February 21st on Netflix! Everyone mark your calendars!

Hey you wanna make a video in kipo and the age of winderbeasts it’s really good!

Do more of these please! Maybe with like Peridot or Connie

*_[Hey! Where are the rest of my Rubies? Already got Doc, where are the rest of you?]_*

I get what you’re saying, and it makes sense, though I think there is a slight mistake in this train of logic. Sometimes you need to show a person that you are strong. Be that in a fight, or some other way. People like Jasper and Curly Lapis respect that strength. Steven isn’t hurting them by fighting them, on some level they expect some level of toughness in tone or manner. Once you have their respect you can get them to try other ways of thinking more easily. If Lapis had kept that picture of strength, she could have brought both to Earth to try and see differently. As it stands we still have a rouge Lapis recking worlds.

4:14 wELL I MEAN- H E C K

Lápis💙Tão linda, tão bela💙 Ótimo vídeo!!!

Greetings. The Crystal Gem Lapis Lazuli is my favorite in the Steven Universe show. 💧💧💙💙📺📺💎💎🩷🩷 The behaviors and personalities that both the Mean and Nice Lapis displayed strinkingly mirrors Anastasia and Drizella, Cinderella’s stepsisters. 🔍🔍📺📺👠👠🐭🐭🐎🐎🏰🏰🕰️🕰️ Poor Crystal Gem Lapis, she was held trapped inside that mirror for eons and suffered very horribly. ☹️☹️😞😞🪞🪞❌❌🚫🚫

I love this take!

Less about Lapis Lazuli and more about humanity.

Dammit. You just made a situation I'm currently dealing with much more complicated

0:08 nah it didn’t end. we possibly gon get 10 more episodes in the future

Are you ganna be mad if I ship period and lapis

UHEM. It was already 2019 just about when it ended. Where did time goo

As a teenager that gets easily angry. This made me have a new perspective

Well, even if the message that display in this episode is very serious, i personally liked a lot, you know my grandma and my aunt makes very bad things with my mother, even if they are good people they have this ridiculous weakness of making my mom very sad, i don't know what i can do at this point, and this episode just shows completly how my mom is treated, mean lapis and nice lapis just laugh at lapis just because she changed for good and are making beutiful things in beach city with peridot and bismuth, my mom is being treated just like that, after she marry my stepfather my grandma becomed a terrible person to us and most likely to me and to my mother, my aunt was making very bad things in my house as well, like cutting off the flowers from the garden, urinating in our bathroom towels, and my mom just treats them like nothing is happening at all, if you see this episode and see what lapis is capable of, is exactly what my mother wants to do, but she can't,and i already told her to say things to the 2 of them but she prefer to ignore it, but is getting really worse now, this is making her very upset and sad, i wish she can finally release the lapis inside of her, and show that she had enough of the 2. Is very disapointing, i love and like both of them a lot, but i don't like the things they do

WHY DOES EVERY SINGLE STEVEN UNIVERSE FAN YTER HAVE TO HAVE SOME APP TO CUSTOMIZE YOUR CARACTER.

Smoll Lilly bois

This video hits differently after the first Presidential debate......

Lapis is the best; deal with it.

"Without her water powers she would be pretty weak" I highly doubt that. Like any gem, lapis can learn to use a weapon like the other crystal gems. I honestly think she would still be powerful with or without her hydrokenesis. ik this has nothing to do with the video I just wanna put it out there

What if lapis uses her water power to form a smaller version of the neo zeong form gundam uc the other lapis: oh ****

Patience and restraint.

… But how well did she develop said patience and was it all well written?

So what happens to Curls now?

I think that nice Lapis or as I call her pony Tail is a spy working for Aquarium and Rudy.

"Little Outburst."