Garnet

**"Garnet"** is one of the four main protagonists in *Steven Universe.*

 Age

She is the fusion of Ruby and Sapphire, and is considered the current, de-facto leader of the Crystal Gems. Along with the rest of the team, Garnet is one of the last surviving Gems on Earth who joined the Crystal Gems in their rebellion against the Gem Homeworld to stop their invasion of the planet. Following the war, Garnet helped protect the Earth over the next 5,000 years. AfterRose Quartz gave birth to Steven and gave up her physical form, Garnet began to mentor Steven and help train him on how to use his powers. Though often stoic and of few words, her most recent exploits have shown her more jovial, outspoken, and emotional.

## Appearance

Garnet is the tallest of the remaining Crystal Gems, but the second-shortest fusion. (Stevonnie, the fusion of Steven and Connie, stands inches shorter than Garnet.) She stands at about 7 feet (2.1 m), and is the most muscular gem of the group. Her left eye is a bright ruby-red, her right a bright sapphire-blue, while the center third eye is a reddish-violet, resembling the combination of blue and red. Her gemstones are embedded in her palms (with Sapphire's on her right and Ruby's on her left). Garnet's hair resembles Ruby's, and her upper body part resembles Sapphire's while her legs resembles Ruby's.

### Pre-regeneration (Debut)

She had dark, maroon colored skin, and black hair styled into a cube-shaped afro. She almost always wore triangular futuristic translucent orange-tinted shades, which covers all three of her eyes. She wore a black and crimson bodysuit, with cubic shoulder pads (the right one being magenta, the left one being crimson), and a pink star with a magenta outline on her chest. She also wore long, elbow-length black gloves that covered her middle fingers.

### Post-regeneration (Current)

As of "Jail Break", Garnet still wears the same bodysuit, but with a different color scheme and pattern. As opposed to crimson and black, her bodysuit is now a larger multitude of colors. Her right half is covered in a vivid blue-violet stocking, and her left is covered in a deep orchid/eggplant stocking. Her skin tone has also changed, now cerise rather than pinkish-brown. Her weapons are now a reddish-cerise color. However, there is a ring of black on the outside closest to her arms, and the glowing aura that appears when summoning them is now pale magenta. Instead of a gold star on the end facing her arms, they are orange. The star's color also changed - instead of a pink star with a magenta outline, it is now an amaranth-colored star with a soft pink outline. Her hair is now also no longer black, but a very dark heliotrope and also is shorter and generally smaller than before. Her shades, instead of pale orange, are now a soft pink, blue, or combination of the two depending upon the light sources. Her shoulder pads are also oval-like instead of cubes, and both are a dark orchid/eggplant color as well as her arms and gloves. This costume lacks more contrast in colors than the pre-regeneration outfit does. The two halves of her lower body are now separated straight down the middle as opposed to the left thigh before regeneration.

## Personality

Though she's often the most stable member of the Crystal Gems, Garnet tends to act on intuition rather than seriously analyze a situation. For the most part, this works out well, but it has lead to some disastrous outcomes. She lost her usual stoic demeanor when Steven began rapidly aging in "So Many Birthdays" and started rigorously shaking him, thinking that violence was the answer. In addition, she makes a reckless decision to fuse with Amethyst to form Sugilite in "Coach Steven", and panics under pressure when talking to Connie's mother over the phone in "Fusion Cuisine", leading her to claim that Steven and Connie had died while playing with swords.

While mostly level-headed, Garnet demonstrates a fierce competitive spirit. This is best seen while she's playing volleyball in "Beach Party", "Steven Tag" in "Keep Beach City Weird" and arcade games in "Arcade Mania". Garnet has a tendency to act in extremes, either maintaining her normally reserved nature or lashing out with extreme emotion, rarely feeling anything in between, which is similar to her two constituent Gems  the passionate Ruby and the reserved Sapphire.

As the de-facto leader, Garnet is often the peacemaker of the Crystal Gems, especially when Pearl and Amethyst start arguing. She demands utmost respect from the Crystal Gems, and is not hesitant to berate team members refuse to follow an order.

The un-fusion and eventual re-fusion of Ruby and Sapphire in "The Return" and "Jail Break" appears to have had an impact on Garnet's personality; in consequent episodes she appears much more outspoken, lively and engaging. In "Jail Break", she shows a lot of emotion when reunited with Steven and in her fight with Jasper. She is later shown cracking a joke at Lapis Lazuli and Jasper's expense in the end. In "Full Disclosure", she is the only one who gives Steven any actual advice on how to deal with an overwhelming situation ("*Steven needs to see his friends and his father*") and in "Joy Ride" she speaks the most out of the three. This is a huge contrast with pre-regeneration Garnet, who rarely spoke or interacted with anyone outside of the Crystal Gems. In "Rising Tides, Crashing Skies" she stated that she does not enjoy cameras filming her.

Garnet is also the most trusting of the gems, and is usually the first to give Steven the chance to try out his ideas (particularly in "Marble Madness") and prefers to emphasize when her show of trust causes a breakthrough. She tends to be this way around many people, including Greg Universe when he helped in "The Message". However, you absolutely do not betray her trust, such as in "Mirror Gem" or "Cry for Help", or you might incite a level of fury Garnet almost never shows. This was an additional source of tension "Cry for Help" onwards. "Future Vision" turned things on its head, as Garnet found she had betrayed Steven's trust in her, and she felt remorse.

While not nearly as nervous or reluctant to the idea of fusion as Pearl, she clearly believes fusion to be sacred and personal. Garnet tells Stevonnie in "Alone Together" that they are considered neither a person nor two people, but rather an experience. She was open enough to answer Steven's personal questions regarding Ruby and Sapphire in "Keeping it Together". As such, any form of misuse of fusion greatly upsets Garnet and is one of the few things that breaks her otherwise calm and controlled demeanor; seeing Homeworld's experimentsdisturbed and frightened her so immensely that she nearly separated from the shock.

Garnet has demonstrated that she takes her occupation as leader seriously and has a strong moral compass. In "Cry for Help", Garnet is deeply disturbed by Pearl lying to her about Peridot rebuilding the Communication Tower so they can form Sardonyx, and for wasting time in finding Peridot. Garnet does have a difficult time trying to express her thoughts to her teammates as seen with Amethyst in "Reformed" since Amethyst was trying to please her, and with Pearl in "Friend Ship" since Pearl was trying to make it up to Garnet by finding Peridot; Garnet was too angry to tell her that she was more upset at the lie. Garnet tends to be very independent as she will often go on missions by herself even if others want to join her. She can be oblivious and stubborn, as seen with Pearl's warning in "Coach Steven" and to Steven's explanation of his dream in "Chille Tid".