I mean, the fact that the Cluster was able to communicate with Steven like that at all puts their sapience somewhere above Lion.
And, yes, I know they're battle damaged, but what kind of battle-damage isn't specified. Or the extent.
I like the idea that Steven doesn't just heal people using his healing powers, he also heals them using his words. Maybe if the pieces of the Cluster learn how to coordinate with each other, they'll be able to create a more stable form. Although first they'd probably need to be teleported out of the core so they don't destroy the earth.
Gave them our reactions, our explosions, all that was ours For graphs of passion and charts of stars...Honestly the Cluster could go either way with its stability. They could come up with a convincing explanation for either. It's just that it wouldn't make sense for the Cluster to be defeated in such a, well, offhand manner. 10+ episodes worth of buildup and team building to be resolved in 5 minutes by one character seems very suspicious, and there are very few other things that they could else be building too, seasonal arcs be dammed (Jasper isn't a significant threat on her own, Homeworld isn't going to send anything higher than basic troops and maybe some slightly higher tier soldiers at best, maybe the geode?). It certainly changes the gameplan on how the characters are going to deal with the Cluster, but it doesn't suddenly make the Cluster resolved.
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No form the Cluster takes would be small enough to not do damage to the Earth.
Gems have set sizes, it just won't work.
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.Garnet already knows what HW thinks of fusion...she can't exactly dislike Jaspee anymore because of this Malachite fiasco...it's like the same thing.
There's no reason why she should bear any ill feels towards Lapis either...she kinda sorta saved them by doing the fusion thing.
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.I kind of agree that Garnet's going to have complicated feelings about Malachite, but I don't think she's going to outright hate Lapis for it. Garnet's interactions with Peridot has shown that she's a very patient person when it comes to dealing with the mentality towards fusion that Homeworld has instilled in its population. I think she'll probably end up talking to Lapis about it, but I can't see her snapping at Lapis. It's not in character.
Gave them our reactions, our explosions, all that was ours For graphs of passion and charts of stars...![]()
What did everyone else do to ya?
Why ya hatin'?
Less growth by comparison for the Crystal Gems.
edited 15th May '16 1:43:13 PM by randomness4
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.Lapis saved the Crystal Gems by fusing with Jasper but that was more of a side-effect of her wanting revenge on Jasper and trying to protect Steven.
In no way, shape, or form has anything Lapis did been for Garnet's sake, or Amethyst's, or Pearl's. That they're saved as well constitutes collateral damage.
Near as I can tell she still hates their guts.
You went in the opposite direction.
It's not about how Lapis feels, it's about Garnet's feeling on Lapis' use of fusion from that link you posted.
Garnet wouldn't care why they fused...them fusing was a dangerous situation and Lapis saved their butts even if she was using it as a prison for Jaspee.
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.@Xander Iskander: Unnoun is saying the lack of communication between shards in cluster gems is why their body composition is so random.
Steven made them aware of and able to communicate with each other, so it can be "I'll form the head. I'll form the left arm." instead of "I'll form the left arm. I'll form the left arm. I'll form the clitoris eyeball".
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The reason why Garnet got so upset about the Sardonyx incident was because Pearl was her friend, and she violated Garnet's trust and boundaries.
Like I said, Garnet will probably need to talk to Lapis about what happened, since she understands fusion the best out of the Crystal Gems, but I doubt she'll be that pissed off about it. (Especially since her reaction to Lapis and Jasper fusing was a deadpan "Yikes.")
edited 15th May '16 2:23:14 PM by Collen
Gave them our reactions, our explosions, all that was ours For graphs of passion and charts of stars...Violated her trust, used her, and wasted time they could've been using to track down P-dot...three strikes for Pearly.
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.It's worth noting that we've seen cracked gems in the form of Amethyst and Lapis and. While they were unstable. They did mostly maintain the form they had. But with distortions. And the ability to control the entire ocean.
But in that one episode where Amethyst regenerated a bunch of times in succession. She got increasingly unstable and uncoordinated in a dangerous sense.
Centipeedle's gem doesn't look damaged. Not many of the corrupted gems do, actually.
So it almost seems like the corrupted gems come from not damage to the gems themselves but damage to their bodies. They die and regenerate over and over again too quickly and the pain of it drives them nuts. Until they can't process it anymore.

Well, I'm not seeing any reason to believe it's form is supposed to be different now because Steven talked to it. We would have had to see it form in the first place for us to know that.
And it was explained in the guidebook that corrupted gems are "battle damaged". Moreover the gem mutants can't communicate through normal means either. Steven entering the cluster's mind has been the only time we've seen that happen.
edited 15th May '16 11:22:30 AM by xanderiskander