Garnet

"♫ I will fight for the place where I'm free! To live together and exist as me! ♫"

"Garnet" is one of the four main protagonists of Steven Universe.

She is the fusion of Ruby and Sapphire, and is considered the current leader of the Crystal Gems. After Rose Quartz gave birth to Steven and sacrificed her physical form, Garnet began to mentor Steven and train him on how to use his powers.

Personality
"Garnet is definitely the leader of the team. She is totally in control of everything everyone does."

Though she's often the most pragmatic and straight forward of the Crystal Gems, Garnet tends to act on intuition rather than seriously analyze a situation. As the de-facto leader, Garnet is often the peacemaker of the Crystal Gems, especially when Pearl and Amethyst start arguing. She demands utmost respect from the Crystal Gems, and is not hesitant to berate team members refuse to follow an order.

Most of the crystal gems cannot really explain to Steven, as seen in episode: The Return, but Garnet was able to explain to Steven perfectly, in which shows how wise Garnet can be even though she can be in struggle sometimes.

Garnet demonstrates a fierce competitive spirit. This is best seen while she's playing volleyball in "Beach Party", "Steven Tag" in "Keep Beach City Weird" and arcade games in "Arcade Mania". Garnet has a tendency to act in extremes, either maintaining her normally reserved nature or lashing out with extreme emotion, rarely feeling anything in between, which is similar to her two constituent Gems the passionate Ruby and the reserved Sapphire.

While mostly level-headed, Garnet can lose her cool, such as when Steven began rapidly aging in "So Many Birthdays" and Garnet started desperately shaking him, thinking that violence was the answer. And in "Fusion Cuisine", she panics under pressure when talking to Connie's mother over the phone, leading her to claim that Steven and Connie had died while playing with swords.

The un-fusion and eventual re-fusion of Ruby and Sapphire in "The Return" and "Jail Break" appears to have had an impact on Garnet's personality; in consequent episodes she appears much more outspoken, lively and engaging. In "Jail Break", she shows great enthusiasm when reunited with Steven and in her fight with Jasper. And in "Joy Ride" she speaks the most out of the three. This is a huge contrast with pre-regeneration Garnet, who rarely spoke or interacted with anyone outside of the Crystal Gems.

Garnet is also the most encouraging of the gems, and is usually the first to give Steven the chance to try out his ideas (particularly in "Marble Madness") and prefers to emphasize when her show of trust causes a breakthrough such as when Greg Universe helped in "The Message". However, when Garnet feels betrayed such as in "Mirror Gem" or "Cry for Help", she can lose her temper on a level rarely seen. This was an additional source of tension in "Cry for Help" onwards. "Future Vision" turned things on its head, as Garnet found she had betrayed Steven's trust in her, and she felt remorse.

Garnet clearly believes fusion to be sacred and personal. Garnet tells Stevonnie in "Alone Together" that they are considered neither a person nor two people, but rather an experience. She was open enough to answer Steven's personal questions regarding Ruby and Sapphire in "Keeping it Together". As such, any form of misuse of fusion greatly upsets Garnet and is one of the few things that breaks her otherwise calm and controlled demeanor; seeing Homeworld's experiments disturbed and frightened her so immensely that she nearly separated from the shock.

Garnet has demonstrated that she takes her occupation as leader seriously and has a strong moral compass. In "Cry for Help", Garnet is deeply disturbed by Pearl lying to her about Peridot rebuilding the Communication Tower so they can form Sardonyx, and for wasting time in finding Peridot. Garnet does have a difficult time trying to express her thoughts to her teammates as seen with Amethyst in "Reformed" since Amethyst was trying to please her, and with Pearl in "Friend Ship" since Pearl was trying to make it up to Garnet by finding Peridot; Garnet was too angry to tell her that she was more upset at the lie. Garnet tends to be very independent as she will often go on missions by herself even if others want to join her. She can be oblivious and stubborn, as seen with Pearl's warning in "Coach Steven" and to Steven's explanation of his dream in "Chille Tid".

Appearance
Garnet is the tallest of the remaining Crystal Gems, but the second-shortest fusion. (Stevonnie stands inches shorter than Garnet.) She stands at about 7 feet (2.1 m), and is the most muscular gem of the group. Her right eye is a bright ruby-red, her left a bright sapphire-blue, while the center third eye is a reddish-violet, resembling the combination of blue and red. Her gemstones are embedded in her palms (with Sapphire's on her right and Ruby's on her left, which reversely correlates to her eyes colors). Garnet's hair resembles Ruby's, and her upper body part resembles Sapphire's while her legs resembles Ruby's.

Pre-regeneration (Debut)
She had dark, maroon colored skin, and black hair styled into a cube-shaped afro. She almost always wore triangular futuristic translucent orange-tinted shades, which covers all three of her eyes. She wore a black and crimson bodysuit, with cubic shoulder pads (the right one being magenta, the left one being crimson), and a pink star with a magenta outline on her chest. She also wore long, elbow-length black gloves that covered her middle fingers.

Post-regeneration (Current)
As of "Jail Break", Garnet still wears the same bodysuit, but with a different color scheme and pattern. As opposed to crimson and black, her bodysuit is now a larger multitude of colors. Her right half is covered in a vivid blue-violet stocking, and her left is covered in a deep orchid/eggplant stocking. Her skin tone has also changed, now cerise rather than pinkish-brown. Her weapons are now a reddish-cerise color. However, there is a ring of black on the outside closest to her arms, and the glowing aura that appears when summoning them is now pale magenta. Instead of a gold star on the end facing her arms, they are orange. The star's color also changed - instead of a pink star with a magenta outline, it is now an amaranth-colored star with a soft-pink outline. Her hair is now also no longer black, but a very dark heliotrope and also is shorter and smaller than before. Her shades, instead of pale-orange, are now a soft-pink, pale-blue, or combination of the two depending upon the light sources. Her shoulder pads are also oval-like instead of cubes, and both are a dark orchid/eggplant color as well as her arms and gloves. This costume lacks more contrast in colors than the pre-regeneration outfit does. The two halves of her lower body are now separated straight down the middle as opposed to the left thigh before regeneration.

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Abilities
Garnet possesses standard Gem abilities and traits.

Garnet is very tolerant to pain as in "So Many Birthdays" she displays no visible reaction or discomfort, when Amethyst blindly swings a baseball bat at her. This is explained and justified due to the fact that she is a fusion of two Gems. While not outright invincible, it is shown that Garnet is the most physically durable of the Gems. She endures all sorts of different levels of damage from falling cars to fighting Jasper and various other forms of physical force.

Fusions

 * When fused with Amethyst, they both form Sugilite
 * With Pearl, they form Sardonyx
 * With Amethyst and Pearl, they form Alexandrite

Skillset

 * Gauntlet Proficiency: When channeling the collective power of the universe through her gems, Garnet is able to summon a pair of crimson gauntlets. Garnet is highly proficient when using her gauntlets and is extremely skilled in hand to hand combat. She is able to deal massive strikes that can easily shatter the earth and deliver swift blows with lightning speed.
 * Rocket Gauntlet: Garnet takes aim with her gauntlets and shoots them as projectiles in "Watermelon Steven". In "Reformed", after Garnet launches her gauntlets, her hands are detached from her body, and her gems are moved to the stubs of her arms.
 * Weapon Size Augmentation: Garnet is able to increase the size of her gauntlets, easily quadrupling their size, and deal increased damage at the cost of reduced speed. This was hinted during "Garnet's Universe", and could also suggest that Steven knew about it before its proper debut.
 * Deflection: Garnet is able to use her gauntlets as a shield as seen in "Onion Trade" to deflect a volley of Dave Guys. They are also used in "Catch and Release" to block Peridot's electrokinetic discharge in Amethyst's whip.
 * Electrokinesis: Garnet can generate electricity, as seen in "The Message" when she used it to charge the battery of Greg's van's, and in "Catch and Release" to fight Peridot, and also in "Arcade Mania" when, after Steven unplugs "Meat Beat Mania" and she restarts it with this ability.
 * Electric Resistance: Garnet is impervious to electricity. As seen in "Future Vision" when she easily deflected a lightning bolt that was about to hit her and Steven with her gem. It, again, is seen in "Catch and Release" when she stopped Peridot's electricity from traveling down Amethyst's whip, only to send her own electricity back at her.
 * Electric Jump: In "When It Rains", Garnet use her electrokinesis for offensive for the second time, she generates electricity and releases it on the ground, and the bolt jump to the target enemy and save Steven and Peridot, this move can hit enemies from a long distance.

Unique Abilities
"No one can see the future. I can see options and trajectories. Time is like a river...that splits into creeks, or pools into lakes, or careens down waterfalls. I have the map, and I steer the ship."


 * Future Vision: Garnet can see multiple future outcomes and probabilities with her third eye, as revealed in "Future Vision". This includes extremely unlikely and ridiculous outcomes, as a considerable amount of her available visions depict Steven's (and possibly other individuals') demise at the hands of mundane tasks or objects on a regular basis. The ability does take some time to use, as she has been shown in a thinking position when activating it. During that time, someone can alter the future, as seen in "Marble Madness", when Steven ruined the plan to learn about Peridot by going up to her while Garnet was still using future vision. This power comes from Sapphire, as confirmed in "Keystone Motel". Her future vision seems to operate at will and with only specific details that she is looking for, as in "Cry for Help" when her future vision did not show her Pearl's actions or the consequences of her actions, instead only noticing that Peridot was in none of the potential futures.
 * Temporary Power Transfer: In "Winter Forecast" and "Jail Break", it is shown that she can temporarily pass on her future vision ability to others through lip contact.
 * While Garnet has only been seen using lip-to-forehead contact to transfer her power, it is unknown if this is the only method. As she has only been seen sharing her power with Steven, her affection could bias how she chooses to transfer the power.
 * Maxresdefault-1.jpgHeat Resistance: Her invulnerability is most commonly displayed in her extreme resistance to heat, from when she had scalding-hot coffee splash onto her without flinching in "Future Vision" to when she left to retrieve the Earth Beetle (which required her to swim in active lava) in "Giant Woman". It has also been said that she could swim in the core of the Sun and survive. This may be because of Ruby's thermo-regulation.
 * Enhanced Calculations: Garnet mentions her ability to sense structural integrity in "Cheeseburger Backpack"
 * It is currently unknown whether this is a unique power, a separate portion of her heightened senses like her future vision, or just a simple observation.

Steven
"Steven, I know you don't think we trust you. I know more often than not we treat you like a human child. But the truth is, we rely on you. Your voice inspires us, binds us, reminds us why we promised to protect the planet."

Steven respects Garnet as a leader and a responsible motherly figure. In return, Garnet tends to have more faith in Steven's plans and ideas than Amethyst and Pearl. She also protects him from their antics and bickering. She loves Steven deeply, and rarely gets mad at him, unless he disobeys an order. It is clear that Garnet holds a high amount of trust in Steven and his judgement, listening to his ideas in "Cheeseburger Backpack" and "Marble Madness". This trust is mostly displayed in "Future Vision", her future vision always provides various ways on how Steven could get hurt while trusting Steven to live while making the right choices on his own. She has grounded him a number of times, though, regardless.

Amethyst
"Shut down by the G-Squad!"

While Amethyst chafes at being told what to do, she will follow orders from Garnet. Amethyst respects Garnet's leadership abilities and judgment, even so far as referring to her as "the boss". Garnet has also been shown to be much more willing to play along with Amethyst's jokes than Pearl except in serious situations. However, Garnet is not beyond scolding Amethyst when she feels her reckless actions impact the integrity of the team. Amethyst was really hurt and upset that Garnet liked fusing with Pearl better than with her.

Pearl
"There are times when I look up to you for strength. You are your own gem. You control your destiny. Not me, not Rose, not Steven. But you must choose to be strong so we can move forward. So I can trust you again."

Like Amethyst and Steven, Pearl respects Garnet's leadership abilities. While she is occasionally patronizing and condescending to the other Gems, Pearl treats Garnet as an equal. In "Cry for Help", however, her relationship with Pearl sours after she finds out she's been being duped into fusing with her. Although after "Keystone Motel", after Ruby and Sapphire make up, she says "Not now", meaning Ruby still hesitates to forgive Pearl. In "Friend Ship", Garnet talked to Pearl saying that she looks to her and wants her to be strong; this eventually led to her and Pearl making up.

Ruby & Sapphire
"♫ "Go ahead and try to hit me if you're able. Can't you see that my relationship is stable? I can see you hate the way we intermingle. But I think you're just mad 'cause you're single." ♫ ♫ "I am their fury, I am their patience, I am a conversation. ♫ ♫ I am made O-o-o-o-of Lo-o-o-o-ove. (of Love)" ♫"

"We're gonna stay like this forever." implies that Ruby and Sapphire wish to remain forever fused, due to their deep feelings for each other. Garnet represents the close intimate/love-bond shared between Ruby and Sapphire and is the physical embodiment of their love. It was confirmed by Writer/Storyboard Artist Joe Johnston, via his tumblr, that Garnet being such a strong fusion of Ruby and Sapphire is meant to reinforce the romantic affections they have for one another. The song, "Stronger Than You", also reinforces the romantic nature of their relationship.

During times of great conflict of opinion, Ruby and Sapphire are able to talk to each other through Garnet as seen in "Keeping it Together" and "Keystone Motel", before they start to de-fuse.

Greg
"Let me tell you something, Mr. Universe. I think you can do it, but it won't work if you dance like Pearl. You have to dance like you. You have to fuse your way. Get open, get honest, invent yourselves together. That's fusion."

When she first met Greg, she treated him as an intruder in the temple and intended to evict him by force, intimidating him whenever she could. While not being openly opposed to or in favor of Greg, she does admit that Steven should be in contact with him.

"The Message" reveals that she is the Crystal Gem who has the most faith in Greg, telling him not to feel bad that he failed to decode the message as well as convincing Pearl to give him a second chance at it. In "We Need to Talk" she also seems to think favorably of him as she supported his and Rose's relationship, revealing that she already thought highly of him back then. She even goes so far as to give him some advice on how to have a closer connection with Rose and encouraged him not to give up at trying to learn how to fuse with her.

The end of the episode reveals that she knew (with her Future Vision) that Greg wouldn't have been able to fuse with Rose, but by confronting her over it he would force her to talk about their relationship and the two would come out of the argument closer to each other.

Garnet also casually revealed to him that she has three eyes as she lowered her shades to wink at him. In addition, Greg knew that Garnet was a fusion in "Keystone Motel", meaning that Garnet showed him Ruby and Sapphire at some point, something not even Steven knew about until "Jail Break".

Jamie
"You make a very convincing lovesick fool. You convinced these children, you even convinced yourself. You're a fantastic actor."

When Jamie first met her, he felt incredibly enamored while Garnet, being a relationship already, was not interested. Despite this, after hurting Jamie's feelings, she encouraged him to take up local theater as she felt he was such a good actor that he fooled himself into thinking he was truly in love with Garnet.

Hand Cluster
"They were forced together... They were forced to fuse! This is wrong!"

Garnet is deeply disturbed by the Hand Cluster, and the sight of it unsettles her to the point that she almost unfuses. At the same time, she is sympathetic to it, and instead she directs her fury against Homeworld which she believes did this to them as a cruel punishment for the rebellion. She mentions details of their previous lives such as the fact that they were buried together after having gone missing after the war, stating that the Crystal Gems had searched for them but couldn't find them.

Peridot
"You gotta lotta nerve taking refuge here. Of all places! But I don't know where you get off attacking defenseless humans in your dead-beat escape pod. And if you think you're safe here, well I got news for you. You lost! Now! Stay off my planet!"

Garnet was initially wary of Peridot's appearance in "Warp Tour" since her arrival signaled the Homeworld gems to Earth. As seen in "Joy Ride", Garnet was about to destroy Peridot's escape pod in blind fury because the actions in "The Return" and "Jail Break". She states that Peridot is not really a physical threat in "Keeping it Together" since she assures Pearl that Steven can come along but she is surprised by Peridot's abilities when chasing her. As of Catch and Release, Garnet is willing to tolerate Peridot living in Steven's bathroom due to her having critical information regarding the Cluster, though she finds her irritating. In "Too Far", Garnet reacts to Peridot's request for her to unfuse by humorously tying her to a fence, denying her free-roam of the barn. She also does not trust Peridot to wander off alone, instructing that she must have a chaperone at all times.

Jasper
"♫ If you break us apart we'll just come back newer, and we'll always be twice the gem that you are! ♫"

Jasper looks down on Garnet for being a fusion, which she considers a cheap tactic used to make weak gems stronger. Garnet, however, thinks nothing of Jasper's provocation and proceeds to fight her "one on two". After Garnet emerges victorious, Jasper fuses with Lapis Lazuli to form Malachite and is subsequently trapped at the bottom of the ocean. Garnet is currently searching the ocean for them.

Trivia

 * Garnet is the first fusion to appear on-screen.
 * Garnet is rarely seen consuming food or drinking. This is probably not out of disgust, but simply because Gems have no practical reason to do so.
 * This is heavily implied as she takes a sip from a cup of soda in "Secret Team" when Steven meets her at Fish Stew Pizza. However, this is perhaps only to indulge Steven.
 * This is again cited in "Keystone Motel".
 * The full inside of Garnet's room has not been seen.
 * Garnet is the only Crystal Gem whose room has not been seen yet.
 * Garnet is the second shortest fusion so far, behind Stevonnie.
 * Garnet is the only fusion who has shape-shifted, transformed parts of her outfits, and fused to make other fusion Gems.
 * She is seen shape-shifting for the first time in "Steven and the Stevens".
 * Garnet is the second Gem whose body has been critically injured, with the first being Pearl.
 * Garnet is the third Gem to do a visual change after regenerating, or in Garnet's case, re-fusing, with the first being Pearl and the second being Opal.
 * Garnet is the first (and so far only) regenerated Gem to have the pattern on her weapon change.
 * Garnet has sung the longest song in the series.
 * She is the first fusion to sing (singing a part in the show's theme song), but she is the second to have her own theme song, after Opal.
 * Garnet is the only fully stable fusion, being able to maintain fusion for possibly thousands of years. This is because of the close romantic relationship between the two original Gems.
 * She is also the first fusion without additional limbs (similar to Stevonnie).
 * The only extra body part that she has is a third eye.
 * "Frybo" is the first episode that neither Garnet nor Amethyst appeared in.
 * "Joking Victim" is the second episode that neither Garnet nor Pearl appeared in.
 * "An Indirect Kiss", "Story for Steven", and "We Need to Talk" may count, due to every scene with the Crystal Gems appearing being a flashback.
 * Garnet has complete Heterochromia iridum, which means each of her eyes are a different color. The left eye cobalt (representing Sapphire), the right eye reddish-violet (representing Ruby), and the top eye being purple.
 * Purple is a combination of red and blue, which represents Ruby and Sapphire.
 * Garnet wears a visor to hide her third eye.
 * In "Steven and the Stevens" and "We Need to Talk", it is shown that Garnet knows how to play the keytar, and that Greg may have taught her how to play it.
 * According to Rebecca Sugar, Garnet's fighting and dancing style is based on Waacking.
 * Garnet's favorite music is the works of Estelle, according to Rebecca Sugar.
 * According to Ian Jones-Quartey, Rebecca Sugar planned Garnet to be a fusion long before the "Pilot", which also includes the fact that Ruby and Sapphire would be the two Gems to make her.
 * Several hints were given to show that Garnet was a fusion.
 * During the Crystal Gems' introductions in the "Pilot", Garnet had chunks of ruby and sapphire gemstones laying around her.
 * During the "Pilot", the original design of the Crystal Temple had ruby and sapphire gemstones on its hands.
 * During the intro, Garnet has two shooting stars on her title card, as a subtle hint that she is a fusion.
 * During the scene where Alexandrite breaks up in "Fusion Cuisine", Garnet's silhouette is shaped as two individual Gems (Ruby and Sapphire), while Pearl and Amethyst have normal silhouettes.
 * In "Steven and the Stevens", Garnet was playing a keytar, which is a combination of a keyboard and guitar
 * Garnet's door involves two active lights, red and blue, unlike the other members of the Crystal Gems, who only have one active light each. The red light is for Ruby, while the blue light is for Sapphire.
 * In "Alone Together", Garnet mentions she doesn't have trouble fusing, subtly referencing the future reveal of how easily she is fused from Ruby and Sapphire.
 * As she stated in "Love Letters", Garnet does not believe in love at first sight.
 * All of Garnet's fusions have her shades and shoulder pads.
 * Garnet's reason for protecting Earth is because it is where she may live free as a fusion.
 * Her lines from the extended opening theme are "I will fight for the place where I'm free! To live together and exist as me!".
 * Garnet's regeneration uniform bears some resemblance to her uniform in the "Pilot", having pointed shoulder pads, darker hues, and a hint of red on her chest.
 * In "Rising Tides, Crashing Skies", Garnet states that she does not enjoy cameras filming her.
 * Ian Jones-Quartey's favorite Gem is Garnet.
 * In the Guide to the Crystal Gems Garnet describes herself as "Electric" because she is a combination of Ruby's "Hot" and Sapphire's "Cold."

Gemology


Gemstone Information


 * Garnet is the traditional birthstone for the month of January, the zodiacal stone for Aquarius and the second anniversary stone.
 * Garnets range from a 7.0 to 7.5 on the Mohs scale of hardness and are found in the U.S. (Arizona), South Africa, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Myanmar (Burma), Scotland, Switzerland and Tanzania.
 * Garnets are formed when high temperatures and/or pressure is a factor and geologists often use garnets as a gauge of the amount of temperature and pressure that was present during their formation.
 * Although red is the most commonly occurring color, garnet is available in a veritable plethora of colors, such as yellow, orange, peach, green, purple, blue (rare), brown and pink.
 * Garnet also rarely occurs in color-change varieties, which have a different color depending on whether they are viewed in incandescent or natural light.
 * The rarest color-change garnet appears blue in daylight, and changes to purplish-red under torch light.
 * Garnet is not a single mineral, but a group containing closely related, isomorphous minerals that form a series with each other.
 * Garnet is a gem group that occurs in over twenty varieties. Of these varieties, six main types are used as gems. These are pyrope, almandite, spessartite, grossularite, andradite and uvarovite.
 * Garnets are associated with strength, bravery, love, determination and self-confidence, all characteristics that fit in with Garnet's personality.
 * In more New Age style beliefs, garnets are known as stones that provide protection to their users from evil.

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