Garnet

**Garnet** is a member of the Crystal Gems, acting as the group's leader. She is a perma-fusion, both components made up of Ruby and Sapphire.

## Appearance

Garnet is a fairly tall fusion by normal gem standards, with a prominent figure and a cerise color to her skin. As a fusion, she is naturally taller than both Ruby and Sapphire, and thanks to this she is currently the second-tallest remaining member of the original Crystal Gems. Although typically hidden behind her shades, she has three eyes: the right eye red and the left eye blue, with the middle eye just on her forehead colored an eggplant purple. Each of her eyes is meant to represent each of her fusion counterparts, with the middle eye fusing the colors together. She shares traits from both gems as well: having the square-shaped hairstyle of Ruby and the facial features of Sapphire.

She has two gemstones as opposed to one, each gemstone on each hand. Both are red complextion, one having a triangular facet like Sapphire's and one with a square facet like Ruby's.

### Previous Form

Shown briefly in a flashback in "New Kind of Day", her outfit is shown as a body suit with stocking colored both midnight blue and dark orchid. Her upper half held a zigzag design, colors mixing between an amaranth and soft-pink coloration. Her shoulder pads also were much darker, matching colors with her body suit.

### Current Form

Her current form is lighter in overall color compared to her previous form: her body suit is mostly made up of indigo and remains the same color on both sides of her body. A velvet-colored, dress-like pattern reaches from her chest down to her hips with the upper half marked in a slight star-shape. Her torso is yellow, wrapping between her chest and her hips. Her shoulders had changed into a neon pink, yet her gloves remain the same color as her previous form. Her feet end with both magenta-colored toes, but the heels of each foot differ from one another: her right heel is yellow, and her left heel is bright neon blue.

## Personality

Garnet is mainly the most level-headed of the Crystal Gems, being the main peacekeeper aside from Steven Universe when it comes to conflict within the team itself. Partially due to her Sapphire counterpart and her ability of future vision, Garnet is hardly ever caught off guard regarding numerous situations, keeping mostly calm and together regardless of the situation. In "The Council Meeting", out of all the Crystal Gems, Garnet had the calmest reaction to the news told to them by Raksha, not visibly shown to be distraught or scared by the information unlike the others. Although she is level-headed, that doesn't mean she doesn't occasionally jump to conclusions, as shown when she accuses Kimba to be a Gem in disguise rather than an actual lion.

Even if usually not showing much emotion, she does have a caring and nurturing side to her not dissimilar to a true mother and does care deeply about those she's close to. This is shown a number of times throughout the series, such as in "New Kind of Day", which she willingly carries Kimba back to his family as her way of apology for fighting him beforehand, despite Kimba insisting he can walk himself.

## History

### Volume 01. Arrival

Garnet first appears within the Bajelous Jungle, alongside Pearl, Amethyst and Envy, with Garnet taking the lead in trying to find out where Steven had gotten off to. She assures them that Steven had gone this way, and they they'll find him despite the worry that some of the others were feeling about it. During the walk through the jungle, she spots Dash running off within the nearby woods. Unfortunately, she mistakes her for one of the Homeworld Hares, claiming that "they" found them, and demanding that whoever was hiding nearby to come out (this case being Kimba). At first she tries to keep the others from fighting him right away, and after learning that Kimba can talk to them, she insists that he explain himself before they do anything else. Kimba tells her about Steven, and after hearing this she starts to ask Kimba questions about him to make sure he wasn't lying to her: first being his appearance and second being his full name. After Kimba got that wrong, Garnet confirms him to be a Gem in disguise who's trying to get them back to Homeworld, making her start attacking him.

She continues attacking him for a while until she sees Kimba starting to bleed, Garnet realizing her mistake and, on seeing Envy readying to finish him off, holds him back from doing so. She tells the others to check on Kimba to make sure he's alright before they can move on. However, she and the others end up confronted by Fox before they can do anything. Trying to keep the peace, Garnet explains that they weren't there to just fight them and asks Fox if he can either give them a minute or to just explain what he was talking about, not being familiar with Animalian Tribe concepts. Luckily things start calming down, and she admits her fault for jumping to conclusions too quickly.

After the fight, she and the others continue on and find Steven with Alexander's family, Garnet carrying Kimba the whole way there as her making up for her mistake. She gets Peridot from them, claiming how she's just glad that she and Steven are both safe, and tells them all that they're heading off home.

That night however, she returns to the Wolf Den, claiming that she and the others needed to talk to the wolves there about what happened to Earth while they were away. After being explained about it by Raksha, and after calming everyone down, Garnet inquires to Alexander about joining the Bajelous Tribe.

## Abilities

She possesses standard Gem abilities. As a fusion too, she possesses the same unique abilities as those of her components Ruby and Sapphire.

* **Endurance**: Garnet has an extremely high tolerance to pain, durable enough to be able to withstand attacks where other Gems would be incapable of doing. In "The Crystal Gems", she is shown perfectly fine while holding Envy even with both Envy's electricity being released and the Gem Collar going off at the same time.
* **Gauntlet Proficiency**: Her main gem weapon is formed with a set of gauntlet gloves, which she is shown as her main form of hand-to-hand combat. This combined with her superhuman strength and high speed allows her to deal swift and heavily damaging blows with said gauntlets.
	+ **Rocket Gauntlets**: Although often used in hand-to-hand combat, Garnet is also able to aim and shoot out her gauntlets like explosive projectiles. This temprarily leaves her hands detatched from her body however until she reforms them, the gemstones on said hands moving into her arms.
* **Future Vision**: An ability she gained from Sapphire, Garnet is able to see into the future. In contrast to Sapphire's singularity future vision though, Garnet is able to see into multiple different futures and potential outcomes - a addition gained from Ruby's impulsiveness, and a trait she often would use when trying to figure out decisions as leader of her team.