Remorse

Onyx speaks with Diamond.

**Remorse** is the eighth episode of *Ties of Fate*.

## Summary

Jade explains to Garret that Reina is recovering after being drained. Garret goes to see her while Jade heads to Ana-lee with Akimoto. They discuss their pasts, Jade hinting at a conflict with her father, Calder. She mentions that Onyx is a skilled assassin who trained her and her sisters, but she prefers not to use those skills. Ana-lee makes new armor for Reina using Mithril and fire opal dust, explaining her home planet’s habit of combining materials to strengthen armor, like her silver rapier made with cobalt and ruby dust. She mentions how this makes it easier to fight against fire and water. Jade realizes the Guardian replicas are named after gemstones, and after noticing that Garnet looked the oldest despite Lolite being in the image of the eldest, she realizes Grace created the children from the gems themselves. Realizing Ana-lee has the opposite of each gemstone, Jade requests her to infuse their weapons with the gems’ “weaknesses.” Knowing Grace needed real humans to model her children, Jade believes the opposite gems will return them to their original forms.

In his kingdom, Diamond tells his brother Onyx that he only waged war to strike back after Chaos banished him. He explains his past of growing up with Light, Dark, and Onyx, and how everything changed when he saw a statue of Destiny. Diamond learned that Harmony and Melody lived inside two twin girls that could cure any wound. He cut Light’s wrist to test it, only for Onyx to attack him. Diamond stabbed Onyx in the eye before Garret hit him with a Sound Wave. Jade used Aqua Echo to stop Onyx’s bleeding while Diamond explained himself, claiming to be a child of Destiny. Jade retorted, saying Harmony and Melody would not reincarnate as a Jiralian race. Diamond countered by saying they could mask their abilities like the Ma'at's, but Chaos soon arrived after a report from Yue claiming the prisoners in the catacombs had been killed. He thereby banished Diamond to the City of Traitors.

In the present, Diamond explains how he met his wife Grace from the Crystal Kingdom. Grace had affirmed she could make soldiers out of gems with samples from the Guardians, but it would take 20 years for the first one to grow. Onyx and Diamond argue until Onyx proposes a deal. If Diamond were to call off the war, he would no longer be banished. Diamond accepts, so Onyx returns the news to Chaos. Apolla finds Topaz moping and the two bond over their lack of a family (Apolla’s mother having given her life to the tree), only for Destiny to present herself to them. Destiny promises to make Topaz a real being and give Apolla a family, also revealing that she created Diamond and Onyx and left them in the care of Chaos. She mentions that the Sword of Vengeance belonged to Diamond, the Orb of Empathy belonged to Onyx, the Heart of Zen belonged to Melody and the Flora of Vice belonged to Harmony. The Heart became a bow for Light due to it becoming whatever she needed in battle. Destiny breaks the gem on Topaz’s head and changes his eyes to match Apolla’s. When word of the deal reaches Chaos, the king denies it, but Onyx makes a case that Diamond’s love for Grace would want him to end the war for her sake.

## Characters

* Jade
* Garret
* Akimoto
* Ana-lee
* Diamond
* Onyx
* Chaos
* Grace
* Topaz
* Apolla
* Destiny
* Aurora
* Tora
* Lindsy
* Calder
* Morpheus

## Trivia

* At 36:38, this was the longest episode at the time of its release.