Reflections

Reflections 💕

Notice when Garnet looked at Pearl, Sapphire was in control but with Peridot, Ruby was in control.

Message Received:

So in the upcoming steven bomb the 4th episode is called Message Received and it came to me that where else in season 2 have we seen a message being involved in the plot of an episode.. 

There Peridot was sending a message to Homeworld more specifically Yellow Diamond. I think in the upcoming episode we will see the response from Yellow Diamond and it probably won’t be good

Yellow Diamonds reply might have a big impact on Steven as the episode description reads “ Steven has doubts about believing in everyone” So could he learn a dark secret that the crystal gems could of been hiding from him the entire time? This could also signal Yellow diamond return Earth.

can you tell who is control with garnet?

sometime, i notice that garnet acts more like ruby or more like sapphire.

like in love letters

when garnet says NO YOU DON”T to jamie, her visor is more red, she say this pretty sternly. 

but when she gives her little speech about how jamie is a good actor, her tone is calmer, kinder. Her viser also changes color to be mostly blue with only the flash of heart broken jamie, when it comes back to her, the visor is different. 

there was also in reformed, garnet answers amethyst very calmly, explaining that she followed the slinker through a tunnel. her visor is mostly blue when she speaks calmly.

see here, garnet gets more sassy and a little in amethyst’s face about the slinker. her tone is much stricter than a second ago and her visor is mostly red.

I decided to look into this in other episodes, and the first one I checked out was Future Vision. I figured there’d be a good flash here or there whenever actually discussing Sapphire’s unique power comes into play.

But blue is not an element of Garnet’s design in Future Vision.

Only her post-reformation form has blue. This method only works with season 2 Garnet, then, if it does at all.

Given that this is the case, it seems the best examples to search for would be those instances in which Ruby and Sapphire literally speak to each other, aloud, through Garnet.

There’s no flashing back and forth here, though there is a clear split, in contrast to OP’s examples, where there are not three sections of color, but two. I’m unclear whether that is her default design, or whether the split in this scene is noteworthy. Note that the triple-color design appears in the neutral pose above.

Garnet’s visor is slapped off by the main shard fusion in the Kindergarten, but when Ruby and Sapphire talk to each other in this scene,

The visible pupil color is significant and identifies which of the two is speaking.

Beyond that? I searched for two different Garnet emotions. I found the moment at which she is frozen in fear — likely, paralyzed in deep thought — in Keeping It Together, and her visor does flash mostly blue.

And, at her angriest, in Cry For Help, her visor is mostly red, with a new design element —

A jagged line between the two. The colors on her visor are actually really volatile during this scene.

They’re red when Garnet initially doesn’t understand what’s happened. They’re blue when Pearl says it just feels good being Sardonyx, pictured above. They’re back to red seconds later, after dropping Pearl

“THAT’s why I couldn’t see us finding Peridot!”

They’re even split again, this time with a jagged line, as Garnet advances on Pearl — “You tricked me!”

Sapphire and Ruby vying for control, perhaps?

Either way, I’d say that, starting with season 2, Garnet’s visor color is in fact a tool that the crew uses here and there to indicate that one of Ruby or Sapphire is exerting most influence, when the Ruby v. Sapphire distinction is of significance.

This actually happens in “Stronger than you” as well! (forgive me, i don’t have screenshots) But during more aggressive lines, Ganret’s visor is reddish, during less agrressive lines it’s blue, and during the “I am their Fury, I am their patience, I am a conversation” lines it’s practically clear, implying absolute balance.

I got you

And these next two caps are literally consecutive frames

Shoutout to Ruby for one of the sickest burns of 2015

My theory that not all gems are made for a purpose, and that not all fusion gems are exclusively fusions could be backed up by new evidence from the canon.

We’ve learned that quartz gems are warriors. “Broad shoulders, intimidating” Well, you know who’s a quartz but is almost the opposite of how Peridot describes a quartz warrior, and is also a fusion involving no quartz gems?

Sardonyx is a quartz, but Pearl, Ruby, and Sapphire are all not quartz.

So, fusion gems are different to normal gems.

A normal Sardonyx (which were most likely made in the kindergarten) would be how Peridot describes a quartz. But fusion Sardonyx is not. When gems fuse, they can ignore the “rules” of what a gem should be. THis is probably why homeworld looks down on them so much. They go waaaay out of the norm. I mean, no offense to Sardonyx, but she’s not exactly intimidating. Sardonyx is 3 gems, none are quartz, but Sardonyx is; and she defies everything we’ve been told about quartz gems.

So basically. There can be gems like Sardonyx, Sugilite, or Garnet that are just one single gem, and not a fusion. However, the fusion versions will be vastly different from the single gem, as they’re made of different gems, who all have their own traits. That’s why homeworld hates fusion, and sees it as a weapon. Because fusions go so against the strict norms that their society is built on.

My aesthetic: precious cinnamon rolls with self-worth issues.

#PROTECT AMETHYST AT ALL COSTS

And maybe it’s Peridot that could help her build her self-worth.

just goes to show how much of an impact the gem’s personalities make in their fusions

I’ve had a revelation about Opal.

Sardonyx, when she was done taking out the tower’s working parts, was more than happy to leave and let Pearl and Garnet return.  In a vast contrast to Sugilite, she understands that she only needs to be there as long as necessity dictates.

At the sky spire, Pearl and Amethyst fused in order to take out the bird and save Steven.

However, we can see that she tailed along back to the warp and the house in turn.

Opal was going to stick around, and probably would have if Garnet hadn’t mentioned the heaven beetle.

So that would mean Pearl and Amethyst WANT to be Opal.

Actually, he just saw her on TV

Garnet’s visors

↱we are a conversation↲

It has come to my attention that not a lot of people are aware of this frame of Amethyst.

Just look at her.

She’s barely taller than the tv.

she smol