Talk:Nephrite/@comment-24793749-20150906135218/@comment-5057483-20150907144934

It is possible. Maybe corruption happens in stages. Lapis used to be a corrupted gem until Steven healed her broken gem. So the first stage is that the gem becomes cracked or broken in some way (maybe even being chipped). The second stage is that everything begins to distort for the gem, each time getting progressively less and less humanoid before the Gem finally is only able to maintain atrocious forms.