Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26536478-20150627034634/@comment-26225030-20150709184441

Jasper is not a fusion. Jasper is one of my favorite characters so this whole thread just..gets to me. Sugilite and Alexandrite look pretty humanoid if you ask me. They're just really large. I think if Opal was the same hide as Alexandrite, neither would look more "monsterous and deformed" than the other. The only thing that made Alexandrite look anything like monsterous was her multiple mouths. Sugilite is still very humanoid though. Like, what isn't humanoid about her? Malachite would be humanoid if one of the pairs of her legs were arms, but instead the Crewniverse just decided to give her the centaur look because the fusion was beast like and insincere. That fusion, for all intents and purposes, should not even be a thing when you consider what a fusion is supposed to mean.

Ever consider Jasper is so big because she has so much power? Jasper is very strong and Lapis is probably the strongest gem we've seen. Maintaining gem bodies takes energy, that's why they recede into their gems when damaged so they can focus all of their energy into recovering. Amethyst got really big in Reformed but obviously couldn't sustain it, in fact she couldn't even make her entire body large. I'm not saying bigger gem automatically equals stronger gem but there is a trend. Rose was an assumed power house and she's no fusion but look how big she is. Garnet is right underneath her and she's the strongest CG. Jasper is pretty tall and pretty strong. Now Lapis is only about Pearl's height but most of her energy goes into hydrokinesis. She doesn't need a super strong build because she probably isn't a close range fighter(she has wings).

I just think, the more power the gem has, the bigger they'll be able to be. Not to say all bigger gems are stronger than smaller ones, I have just noticed that trend. Lapis and Jasper have so much power. And if we agree that fusion is "even more than the two of" the gems that make up the fusion, than that energy is only multiplied by the fusion, thus allowing them to be much bigger.