Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190403163405/@comment-38339538-20190418225610

The only issue I have with the hybrid theory is that it's established that shapeshifting for extended periods of time does harm to a Gem, in "Stevens Birthday". In order to carry a human child for 9 months and then give birth to it, a Gem would need to shapeshift a uterus, vagina, and everything else, and hold that form for 9 months straight. After all, being a non-sexually reproducing race, Gems wouldn't naturally have a reproductive system. I can see a powerful Diamond being strong enough to handle that (and even then it ended up killing her after it was all over), but an ordinary Gem? Probably not