Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26199360-20150313065226/@comment-3271485-20150313094605

I find myself agreeing with both of you here. From what we can tell the Gems are uni-gendered (they only have one gender, not two) and while reproduction with males like what resulted in steven are extranious how close two or more gems are to each other would appear to effect the way they fuse. To put it blankly, the fusions between connie and steven, just like the fusion between ruby and saphire are a higher level of fusion than we've seen before. A more 'complete' level of fusion caused by their feelings for each other.