Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25539649-20150618004228/@comment-26446602-20150627073701

While it's hard to buy as just an animation error (it doesn't seem at all like just subbed-in stock animation), it also seems too abstract to be intentional.

Centipeetle was one specific creature, and it's gem was a clear part of it's body. It was even announced to definitely be a gem, in the same disclosure that confirmed Pufferfish as Watermelon Tourmaline, so it's hard to imagine that a fused cluster of shards is what a centipeetle is, especially given that we have no current instances of multiples of the same gem.

I mean, so far we have both gem shards and corrupt gems being bubbled, with neither really showing any definite long-term reaction(at least one that could be considered healing). A pile of shards, unclustered, doesn't change form.