Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4224349-20150212230234/@comment-26061718-20150213133642

Bloo Gem wrote: Dioptase wrote: Aclysmic wrote: Marhawkman wrote: Interesting thought.... but what distinguishes whether a gem can manifest a proper body? Pearl seemed to be essentially comatose when she was temporarily incapacitated. This gem seemed to be fully aware but with no proper body. We can take into account the shards from "Frybo" that took over clothes. The shards in "Secret Team" that scattered around everywhere on their own. The fact that despite Lapis being trapped in a mirror and her gem being cracked she was still aware. I could even argue that Desert Glass from the episode "Steven's Lion" cannot form a physical body but could form a fortress by possessing or project its magic on the sand around it. Maybe that's just how they make buildings? Since the last episode confirmed that they can create new gems, I wouldn't be surprised if they made some with specialized functions such as controlling machines and building fortresses.

Well, at least this explains why the gem shards from "Frybo" behaved differently than the ones from "Secret Team": It was a "possessing" gem that got split up to animate an army of living armor. So instead of enslaved gems (though, I don't deny there aren't any enslaved gems like why Lapis Lazuli was possibly trapped in the mirror) that are cognitive and sentient such as GAP, Lapis Lazuli, and Peridot for instance, there are gems created with limited mental and emotional capability so that these “kind” of gems are the gem equivalents of animals and machines and therefore it really wouldn’t be so immoral to use them as livestock and tools, respectively?

The main point I was trying to make is that if gems without physical bodies could project themselves onto inanimate objects, then that means Rose could do the same, since only "half" of her a part of steven.

But with the point you are making, yes that could also be a possibility that those kinds of gems could be the equivalent of animals and tools. Maybe not immoral, but if we look at the gems as a whole. All of the gems they have been fighting are corrupted in some way, and then they have these few instances of gems being used to control/make buildings. Pearl mentioned that the mirror lapis was in, was "powered" by the gem, so I would believe that the buildings were "powered" by the gems. So this leads me to believe that those gems are enslaved in some way, and maybe not just made to be that way from the start.