The fandom was rocked when we found out Garnet was a fusion. Sure, it was rumored throughout the fandom, but there wasn't really solid evidence until it was finally revealed in Jail Break. But now that we know, the Crewniverse doesn't shy away from hints about her fusion in season 2, and Ruby and Sapphire even got an unfused episode. But didn't Garnet seem more put together before Jasper tore her apart? Check out some neat observations from the fandom about determining if Ruby and Sapphire sometimes split control of the fusion.
Can you tell who is control with Garnet?
Sometimes, I notice that Garnet acts more like Ruby or more like Sapphire.
Like in 'Love Letters':
When garnet says NO YOU DON”T to jamie, her visor is more red, she say this pretty sternly.
But when she gives her little speech about how Jamie is a good actor, her tone is calmer, kinder. Her visor also changes color to be mostly blue with only the flash of heart broken Jamie, when it comes back to her, the visor is different.
There was also in reformed, garnet answers amethyst very calmly, explaining that she followed the slinker through a tunnel. her visor is mostly blue when she speaks calmly.
See here, garnet gets more sassy and a little in amethyst’s face about the slinker. her tone is much stricter than a second ago and her visor is mostly red.
This can also be seen in 'Future Vision'. I figured there’d be a good flash here or there whenever actually discussing Sapphire’s unique power comes into play.
But blue is not an element of Garnet’s design in 'Future Vision'.
Only her post-reformation form has blue. This method only works with season 2 Garnet, then, if it does at all.
Given that this is the case, it seems the best examples to search for would be those instances in which Ruby and Sapphire literally speak to each other, aloud, through Garnet.
There’s no flashing back and forth here, though there is a clear split, in contrast to the examples from 'Love Letter', where there are not three sections of color, but two. I’m unclear whether that is her default design, or whether the split in this scene is noteworthy. Note that the triple-color design appears in the neutral pose above.
Garnet’s visor is slapped off by the main shard fusion in the Kindergarten, but when Ruby and Sapphire talk to each other in this scene:
The visible pupil color is significant and identifies which of the two is speaking.
Beyond that? I searched for two different Garnet emotions. I found the moment at which she is frozen in fear — likely, paralyzed in deep thought — in 'Keeping It Together', and her visor does flash mostly blue.
And, at her angriest, in 'Cry For Help', her visor is mostly red, with a new design element —
A jagged line between the two. The colors on her visor are actually really volatile during this scene.
They’re red when Garnet initially doesn’t understand what’s happened. They’re blue when Pearl says it just feels good being Sardonyx, pictured above. They’re back to red seconds later, after dropping Pearl.
“THAT’s why I couldn’t see us finding Peridot!”
They’re even split again, this time with a jagged line, as Garnet advances on Pearl — “You tricked me!”
Sapphire and Ruby vying for control, perhaps?
Either way, I’d say that, starting with season 2, Garnet’s visor color is in fact a tool that the crew uses here and there to indicate that one of Ruby or Sapphire is exerting most influence, when the Ruby v. Sapphire distinction is of significance.
This actually happens in “Stronger than you” as well! During more aggressive lines, Garnet's visor is reddish, during less aggressive lines it’s blue, and during the “I am their fury, I am their patience, I am a conversation” lines it’s practically clear, implying absolute balance.
And these next two caps are literally consecutive frames
Shoutout to Ruby for one of the sickest burns of 2015
This all indicates that Garnet was much more in-sync before Jasper split Ruby and Sapphire apart. Having been together for so long, it seems plausible that the two of them would get lost in the fusion, much as Amethyst, Ruby, and Sapphire were lost to Sugilite. Because they fused for so long, they grew apart from their individual selves, and became more of the whole of Garnet. But after being split, they reformed their own personalities, which still bubble up from time to time in Garnet now.
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