Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25172698-20150223234000/@comment-25807710-20150310203528

I like this set of explanations, and to be honest as soon as the thought occurred to me that Garnet could be a fusion, I didn't really want to believe otherwise. However, your argument is really valid. But I wonder: maybe the two fused gems "losing" themselves is not only to do with their personalities, but perhaps also physically. I think it's important to remember that if this is true and a fusion becomes more difficult to separate as time progresses, Garnet has been fused for hundreds of thousands of years. I don't know why they would have stayed fused so long, but if the personalities are taken over, they might lose their own physical forms as they lose their ablility to separate, leaving the fusion (or at this point, just a gem) with the momento of the fusions abilities, like Garnet's heat tolerance (it's mentioned she can swim in lava), beyond-normal-gem-level strength, and a third, predictive eye.

But alas, all we can do is speculate. Rebecca Sugar could basically explain Garnet (or not at all) and I will eat it out of her hand. SU is honestly one of the best cartoons on television right now.