Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26536478-20150627034634/@comment-25521131-20150709180921

Here's one thing to consider though -

It appears that the more gems there are involved in a gem fusion, the more mosterous and less humanoid they look. So far, every single gem fusion we've seen supports this. Examples being Opal, Rainbow Quartz, Stevonnie,and Garnet, each of them only have two gems ( or two entities in Stevonnie's case ) involved, and yet, they seem very much like humanoids, and generally have a singular, stable personality, with Stevonnie being the only exception for obvious reasons. Now there are the fusions with more than two, namely Sugilite, Alexandrite, the Cluster,and possibly Malachite - all of them look extremely monsterous and deformed, additionally, their personalities are also very unstable, Sugilite is the only one of these that appear to have a single defined personality, and it turned out to be very destructive and unstable. So perhaps the case is the more gems involved in a fusion, the less stable, and more deformed it appears as a result of being able to keep the personalities together. This further supports the theory that Jasper may in fact, be a fusion.

As far as the issue with only having one gem goes, we know that the homeworld has been experimenting with forced gem fusion - but here's the suspicious thing, they were only using shards. This may be a bit of a stretch, but Jaspers' gem is particularly small, and compared to other gems, has a rather odd shape. So what if Jasper's central gem is actually a gem shard? Or futhermore, what if it's even a cluster, and the rest of this cluster of gem shards actually go further into Jaspers' skull? The physical form of gems are only an illusion after all, so this sort of condition likely wouldn't have any sort of negative effect on her. When we saw the Cluster, we saw the gem shards were melded together, perhaps it wouldn't be that much of a stretch to theorize, perhaps they finally perfected it, and the melding together of gems could be much neater, or maybe even form a single gem as a result, seeing as the real gem Jasper is essentially is a compilation of other gems