Thread:Grabbergirl/@comment-26710532-20160126025550/@comment-27150321-20160204140611

Did I say my idea for elite gems? Apologies if I have already. Ok...

When Gems are created, they are basically clones. They may have their gemstones in different places, but they are physically identical. They also have identical skills/powers.

Sometimes the incubation process in Kindergartens can go wrong, it's rare but it happens. We have seen the effects that have happened to Amethyst (she's a fully functioning Quartz, but she's short)

Now flip that defect switch in reverse. What if there is a rare chance, perhaps because a Gem/gemstone got placed to something pretty good in the Earth, that a Gem becomes defective in an awesome way. For example Lapis Lazuli. I think regular Lapis Lazulis do not have half the power Mirror Lapis Lazuli has. Pearl's reaction to Lapis in Ocean Gem was telling, she didn't expect the Gem in the mirror to be so powerful. Why would this be possible if all Lapis Lazulis are the same? They are not the same! Nor are Sapphires, Sapphires could be rare but CG Sapphire has future vision which makes her almost unique. Rose Quartz has dditional powers beyond regular Quartzes like Jasper and Amethyst (skill-wise). I don't think she's Pink Diamond, I think she's one of these uber powerful Elite Gems.

The problem is that although the Diamond Authority could possibly recreate the process to obtain elite Gems, they may not fully understand how it happens. If they do then they chose not to allow it to happen too often or else what would happen is a bunch of Mega-Mirror-Lapis-Lazulis fuse together? Goodbye Blue Diamond, that's what. It would only become a matter of time before a group of likeminded Elite Gems joined forces and become a fusion that the Diamonds cannot handle (I'm refering to same-Gem fusion as it's obvious now why Diamonds don't like different Gems fusing)

So... Rose Quartz is unique among her kind, so is Lapis Lazuli (which may explain why she was stuffed into a mirror instead of being ground into Gem shards), and so is Sapphire. I personally think Centipeetle was an Elite Gem too before she was corrupted as she shares similar skills with Lapis and Steven/Rose (water cloning - plant clone warrior things - centipeetle can acutally clone herself)

I think the nest example is Ruby vs. Sapphire. Both Gems are types of Corundum, both have very similar basic powers (Ruby is super strong and can heat things up, Sapphire is super fast and can cool things down), but Sapphire has the added bonus of future vision. My theory suggests that if we see another Sapphire, she'll only have super speed and be able to freeze stuff, unless she is an elite Gem, but then she will not have Future Vision, it will be a completely different power.

This is bad news for Jasper fans as it makes the probability that Jasper being Yellow Diamond's second-in-command... nil. That's another character we have yet to meet... Oh dear.