Talk:Corrupted Gems/@comment-5473848-20150926004829/@comment-26512843-20151028045444

I agree more with the first theory you put forth; 'corrupt' insinuates that the gems were once pure, after all. If they had started out in the Kindergarten and taken these forms and behaviour due to a lack of guidance, that wouldn't be 'corrupt', that would simply be misguided or - oh my god I just realized that Rosie043 has a picture of Peridot and Lapis making out. I can't tell if it's adorable or not.

As for the first theory... well, it would appear that there are two likely (technically, I suppose, hypotheses) theories. One is that they have been damaged mentally, due to a lack of gemstone damage (Lapis was not corrupted, after all... or... maybe she was? She was stuck in a mirror... for the sake of this discussion, let's assume that Lapis was uncorrupted) and the other is that they are gems who regenerated too fast (as suggested by ProjonMiner.)

I find it more likely that they are gems that regenerated too fast simply due to the fact that Gems seem to be well-equipped with handling immortality and I highly doubt that they'd become mentally damaged in any other way (and even if they were mentally damaged, why are there so many surviving gem monsters? What cataclysmic event could have shattered so many minds?)