Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25478491-20140927064619/@comment-25469541-20140927084750

Kitsukami wrote: Airbenderedacted wrote: Yes, but Opal was still able to summon Amethyst's whip and Pearl's spear from their respective gems before forming the bow and arrow. Sugilite's flail was also Garnet's gauntlets and Amethyst's whip before they fused into a single weapon. Fusions can't summon fusion weapons instantaneously because the Gems that fuse together in order to create them each had their own signature wepons that they summoned from their gemstones, (wherever their gemstones are located on their body.) Opal can't just materialize her bow and arrow because neither of her gems summon that weapon; she first has to summon Amethyst's whip and Pearl's spear and then combine the two. If Garnet were really a fusion Gem, she would have to combine two different weapons in order to form her signature gauntlets. As for the temple door, garnets can come in blue! It's an extremely rare occurence though, and the fact that her gems on the door are blue and red garnets probably represents something really important about her character that we aren't aware of at this point in the show yet.

Well, just because it hasn't happened yet does not mean it is impossible, it's still too soon to conclude that the summoning of the seperate weapons first is necessary for the fused weapon. I'm not sure if it could be possible though...

I mean if they brought out their fused weapon by instantly materializing it into their hands, (like Amethyst did in Together Breakfast with her dual whips) then I could see it being possible like that, but since fusions have multiple gemstones and each gemstone(s) belongs to their respective Gem, it wouldn't make sense for them to pull their fused weapon out of only one and not the other. (Like if Sugilite were to summon her flail using the gems on her hands, the fact that it already has the part that's made from Amethyst's whip wouldn't make sense as the flail is being summoned soley using Garnet's respective gems.)

It makes the process of summoning the seperate weapons first and then fusing them together pointless if they could just pull the fused weapon out of one of their gems to begin with...