Thread:Strong In The Real Way/@comment-23880286-20150625204958/@comment-23880286-20150625205715

Strong In The Real Way wrote: Because they are? The Crystal Gems buried the "remains" (i.e the shards) of the Gems who died during the Rebellion. They may contain some residual magic, and somehow were brought back to life when "stitched" together into a Cluster - but the fact is that they were buried as if deceased. To Gems, the shattering of one's Gemstone clearly indicates "death". The thing is that, like you say, the remains of the Gems are the shards. If I would die, then Vogel100 would be deceased. My remains could be  my bones, and they would still very much be alive. Or at least, not any less alive then they were before.

If these Gem Shards were from a Gem named Emerald for example, Emerald can now be considered deceased. The Gem Shards cannot.

Gem Shards are objects, which makes them immune to dying, since objects have never been alive. Only characters can die. The characters that the shards belong to are not the same as the shards themselves.