Garnet (Canon)

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**Garnet** is a main protagonist in the show *Steven Universe*.

She is a fusion of Ruby and Sapphire, and is considered the current, de-facto leader of the Crystal Gems. Along with her team, Garnet is one of the last surviving Gems on Earth who rebelled against the Gem Homeworld to stop their invasion of the planet. After the war, Garnet helped protect the Earth over the next 5,000 years. After Rose Quartz gave birth to Steven and lost her physical form, Garnet began to mentor Steven and help train him on how to use his powers.

## Appearance

Garnet is the tallest Crystal Gem, but she is one of the shortest fusions. She stands at about seven feet, and is the most muscular of the group. Her right eye is a bright ruby-red, and her left is a bright sapphire-blue, while the center third eye is a reddish violet, which resembles the eye color of the two of her eyes combined. Her gemstones are embedded in her palms. Garnet also appears to blush dark red as shown in "Story for Steven."

### Pre-regeneration (debut)

She had dark, reddish-brown skin, and curly, soft, black hair styled into a cube-shaped afro. She almost always wore a triangular futuristic orange tinged visor, which cover all three of her eyes. She wore a black and crimson bodysuit, with cubic shoulder pads (the right one being light pink, the left one being crimson), and a pink star with a magenta outline on her chest. She also wore long black gloves that covered her middle fingers.

### Post-regeneration (current)

Garnet still wears the same bodysuit, but with a different color scheme and pattern. As opposed to crimson and black, her bodysuit is now multiple 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 is even different, now being cerise rather than pinkish-brown. Her weapons are still mostly red, but with a more cerise shade, 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 star on the end facing her arms, they are now just orange. The star's color also changed- instead of a pink star with a magenta outline, it is now an amaranth star with a soft pink outline. Her hair is now also no longer black, but rather a very dark heliotrope and also is shorter and generally smaller than before. Her shades are also now a soft pink and blue color, instead of pale orange, and different light sources cause different colors to reflect off of them. Her shoulder pads are also an oval-like style, instead of cubes and both are a dark orchid/eggplant color as well as her arms and gloves.

## Personality

Though she's often the most stable member and a mentor for Steven, 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 loses her usual stoic demeanor when Steven began rapidly aging in "So Many Birthdays" and starts violently shaking him, she makes a reckless decision of fusing with Amethyst to form Sugilite in "Coach Steven", and creates an overly-exaggerated story while speaking to Connie's mother over the phone in "Fusion Cuisine". While mostly level-headed, she occasionally demonstrates a fierce competitive spirit. This is best seen while playing volleyball, Steven Tag, and arcade games.

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 gain an attitude if the team members refuse to follow an order. The other Crystal Gems have even shown some fear towards Garnet because of her potential reactions to unwanted activity, as shown in "Secret Team."

The defusion and eventual refusion of Ruby and Sapphire in "The Return"/"Jail Break" appears to have had an impact on Garnet's personality; in consequent episodes she appears a lot more outspoken, lively and engaging. In "Jail Break", she shows lots 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 the situation, and in "Joy Ride" she speaks the most out of the three. This is is a huge contrast with pre-regeneration Garnet, who rarely spoke or interacted with anyone outside of the Crystal Gems.

## Abilities

Garnet possesses standard Gem abilities, including weapon-summoning, bubbling, shape-shifting, fusion, regeneration, agelessness and superhuman strength/durability.

## Skillset

* **Gauntlet Proficiency**: When channeling the collective power of the universe through her gems, Garnet is able to summon a pair of crimson gauntlets. Garnet is highly proficient when using her gauntlets and is extremely skilled in hand to hand combat. She is able to deal massive strikes that can easily shatter the earth and deliver swift blows with lightning speed.
	+ **Rocket Gauntlet**: Garnet takes aim with her gauntlets and shoots them as projectiles in "Watermelon Steven". In "Reformed", after Garnet launches her gauntlets, her hands are detached from her body, and her gems are moved to the stubs of her arms.
	+ **Weapon Size Augmentation**: Garnet is able to increase the size of her gauntlets, easily quadrupling their size, and deal increased damage at the cost of reduced speed. This was hinted during "Garnet's Universe", and could also suggest that Steven knew about it before its proper debut.
	+ **Deflection**: Garnet is able to use her gauntlets as a shield as seen in "Onion Trade" to deflect a volley of Dave Guys. They are also used in "Catch and Release" to block Peridot's electrokinetic discharge in Amethyst's whip.
* **Electrokinesis:** Garnet can generate electricity, as seen in "The Message" when she used it to charge the battery of Greg's van's, and in "Catch and Release" to fight Peridot, and also in "Arcade Mania" when, after Steven unplugs "Meat Beat Mania" and she restarts it with this ability.
	+ **Electric Resistance**: Garnet is impervious to electricity. As seen in "Future Vision" when she easily deflected a lightning bolt that was about to hit her and Steven with her gem. It, again, is seen in "Catch and Release" when she stopped Peridot's electricity from traveling down Amethyst's whip, only to send her own electricity back at her.
	+ **Electric Jump:** In "When It Rains", Garnet use her electrokinesis for offensive for the second time, she generates electricity and releases it on the ground, and the bolt jump to the target enemy and save Steven and Peridot, this move can hit enemies from a long distance.

### Unique Abilities

* **Future Vision**: Garnet can see multiple future outcomes and probabilities with her third eye, as revealed in "Future Vision". This includes extremely unlikely and ridiculous outcomes, as a considerable amount of her available visions depict Steven's (and possibly other individuals') demise at the hands of mundane tasks or objects on a regular basis. The ability does take some time to use, as she has been shown in a thinking position when activating it. During that time, someone can alter the future, as seen in "Marble Madness", when Steven ruined the plan to learn about Peridot by going up to her while Garnet was still using future vision. This power comes from Sapphire, as confirmed in "Keystone Motel". Her future vision seems to operate at will and with only specific details that she is looking for, as in "Cry for Help" when her future vision did not show her Pearl's actions or the consequences of her actions, instead only noticing that Peridot was in none of the potential futures.
	+ **Temporary Power Transfer**: In "Winter Forecast" and "Jail Break", it is shown that she can temporarily pass on her future vision ability to others through lip contact.
		- While Garnet has only been seen using lip-to-forehead contact to transfer her power, it is unknown if this is the only method. As she has only been seen sharing her power with Steven, her affection could bias how she chooses to transfer the power.
* **Heat Resistance**: Her invulnerability is most commonly displayed in her extreme resistance to heat, from when she had scalding-hot coffee splash onto her without flinching in "Future Vision" to when she left to retrieve the Earth Beetle (which required her to swim in active lava) in "Giant Woman". It has also been said that she could swim in the core of the Sun and survive. This may be because of Ruby's thermo-regulation.
* **Enhanced Calculations**: Garnet mentions her ability to sense structural integrity in "Cheeseburger Backpack".
	+ It is currently unknown whether this is a unique power, a separate portion of her heightened senses like her future vision, or just a simple observation.

## Fanon Relationships

### SnowFlake Obsidian

They were best friends, Snow being the only one that understood her, and defended Garnet from teasing classmates. After Snowflake Obsidian's death, Garnet mysteriously disappeared from the school campus, with no knowledge of her running away...

### Ronaldo Fryman

Ronaldo is her love interest. They both love each other, and Garnet isn't afraid to scare him into doing things for her.

## Trivia

* Garnet is the first fusion to appear on-screen.
* Garnet is rarely seen consuming food or drinking. This is probably not out of disgust, but simply because Gems have no practical reason to do so.
	+ This is heavily implied as she takes a sip from a cup of soda in "Secret Team" when Steven meets her at Fish Stew Pizza. However, this is perhaps only to indulge Steven.
	+ This is again cited in "Keystone Motel".

* Garnet is the only Crystal Gem whose temple room has not been seen yet.

* Garnet is the second shortest fusion so far, behind Stevonnie.
* Garnet is the only fusion who has shape-shifted, transformed parts of her outfits, and fused to make other fusion Gems.
	+ She is seen shape-shifting for the first time in "Steven and the Stevens".
* Garnet is the second Gem whose body has been critically injured, with the first being Pearl.
* Garnet is the third Gem to do a visual change after regenerating, or in Garnet's case, re-fusing, with the first being Pearl and the second being Opal.
* Garnet is the first (and so far only) regenerated Gem to have the pattern on her weapon change.
* Garnet has sung the longest song in the series.
	+ She is the first fusion to sing (singing a part in the show's theme song), but she is the second to have her own theme song, after Opal.
* Garnet is the only *fully* stable fusion, being able to maintain fusion for possibly thousands of years. This is because of the close romantic relationship between the two original Gems.
	+ She is also the first fusion without additional limbs (similar to Stevonnie).
		- The only extra body part that she has is a third eye.
* "Frybo" is the first episode that neither Garnet nor Amethyst appeared in.
	+ "Joking Victim" is the second episode that neither Garnet nor Pearlappeared in.
	+ "An Indirect Kiss", "Story for Steven", and "We Need to Talk" may count, due to every scene with the Crystal Gems appearing being a flashback.
* Garnet has complete Heterochromia iridum, which means each of her eyes are a different color. The left eye is deep blue (representing Sapphire), the right eye medium red (representing Ruby), and the top eye is colored purple.
	+ Purple is a combination of red and blue, which represents Ruby and Sapphire.
	+ Garnet wears a visor to hide her third eye, although it is unknown why she does so, seeing that neither Ruby nor Sapphire wear anything similar to her visor.
* In "Steven and the Stevens" and "We Need to Talk", it is shown that Garnet knows how to play the keytar, and that Greg may have taught her how to play it.
* According to Rebecca Sugar, Garnet's fighting and dancing style is based onWaacking.
* Garnet's favorite music is the works of Estelle, according to Rebecca Sugar.
* According to Ian Jones-Quartey, Rebecca Sugar planned Garnet to be a fusion long before the "Pilot", which also includes the fact that Ruby and Sapphire would be the two Gems to make her.
	+ Several hints were given to show that Garnet was a fusion.
		- During the Crystal Gems' introductions in the "Pilot", Garnet had chunks of ruby and sapphire gemstones laying around her.
		- During the "Pilot", the original design of the Crystal Temple had ruby and sapphire gemstones on its hands.
		- During the intro, Garnet has two shooting stars on her title card, a subtle hint that she is a fusion.
		- During the scene where Alexandrite breaks up in "Fusion Cuisine", Garnet's silhouette is shaped as two individual Gems (Ruby and Sapphire), while Pearl and Amethyst have normal silhouettes.
		- In "Steven and the Stevens", Garnet was playing a keytar, which is a combination of a keyboard and guitar
		- Garnet's door involves two active lights, red and blue, unlike the other members of the Crystal Gems, who only have one active light each. The red light is for Ruby, while the blue light is forSapphire.
		- In "Alone Together", Garnet mentions she doesn't have trouble fusing, subtly referencing the future reveal of how easily she is fused from Ruby and Sapphire.
* As she stated in "Love Letters", Garnet does not believe in love at first sight.
* All of Garnet's fusions have her shades and shoulder pads.
* Garnet's reason for protecting Earth is because it is where she may live free as a fusion.
	+ Her lines from the extended opening theme are "*I will fight for the place where I'm free! To live together and exist as me!*".
* Garnet's regeneration uniform bears some resemblance to her uniform in the "Pilot", having pointed shoulder pads, darker hues, and a hint of red on her chest.
* In "Rising Tides, Crashing Skies", Garnet states that she does not enjoy cameras filming her.
* Ian Jones-Quartey's favorite Gem is Garnet.
* In the "Guide to the Crystal Gems" Garnet describes herself as "Electric" because she is a combination of Ruby's "Hot" and Sapphire's "Cold."

## Fanon Trivia

### Paroo Fandom

* She has a daughter, Alison Fryman.
* Garnet is shown in "Reality Show" to be so camera shy that it caused her to separate into Ruby and Sapphire.
	+ Her being camera-shy is first shown in "Home Movie Therapy Again".
* **Unused Concept**: Garnet was going to be obsessed with peanut butter, but this concept was ditched shortly before the start of Paroo Fandom.
* Garnet earned her drivers license by scaring her driving instructor.
* Garnet is shown to be a lot less intelligent at times, as shown when she burnt out the sun in, "We Burnt Out The Sun!!", and when she got stuck in the Mc wendybucks playground in, "Locked In".
* She hates Dr. Maheswaran for reasons unknown.

### The Legend of Onix

* She falls in love with Emerald.
* She is shown to be extremely motherly to Steven when he is frightened.
* She is a fusion of Ruby and Sapphire.
* In The Legend of Sapphire, Ruby and Sapphire make Garnet into a Gem of her own.