Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25539649-20150620190612/@comment-26472528-20150621220603

Hmm, so Sardonyx is made of sard (brownish-yellowish-orange) and onyx (black)... We know of only one supposedly non-fusion character with two eyecolors (iris and pupils), and those eyecolors are yellow and black.

And she's the only gem with two skintones, besides Malachite (who has two skintones BECAUSE of her) and the forced-fusion experiments.

I think you know where I'm going with this.

What if Jasper IS Sardonyx? Depending on how forced-fused gem shards behave, she might not even know she is a fusion. She might have memories from different gems, which would explain her Gem War recollections but at the same time not even realize they are from entirely different gems. Or, she could be the first gem shard fusion, formed before/during the war, and the experiments seen in the modern era are just "picking up where they left off."

It certainly would be ironic, given Jasper's very vocal disdain for fusions. If she is revealed as a Sardonyx fusion, it might provide some sort of resolution to the Malachite problem...

There's something that still bothers me about the shard-fusion experiments, though: Why bother? Couldn't they just get Kindergarten up and running again, creating new gems that can fuse more easily? If Homeworld really wanted Earth, couldn't they just take it? It seems like the experiments are an act of desperation more than anything, which is really unsettling, because obviously Homeworld doesn't need them (or any new gems at all) to conquer Earth... which makes me wonder if there's something ELSE out there we don't know about that the gems are afraid of...