>>116293593I guess the point and the reason it feels decent to have is the metaphors aren’t 1:1. I can’t recall if it was Sugar or not but someone said that all the characters have something “wrong” with them including the humans but are all positively functional, aside from the villains who are negatively functional.
I saw Peridot as having some kind of social handicap that she learned to work past as well as “grew up in a heavily religious household”-type fucked up views on the world, but I kind of got PTSD as the problem with Lapis and she uses art as therapy. Like how a lot of veterans became actors, writers, or painters, and how kids or spouses who survive abuse are taught to channel their feelings into creative outlets.
