Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190403163405/@comment-26006155-20190419120156

WhatsYourExcuse wrote: 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 I thought the issue was that Steven tried to become larger and older than his age, and after the strain of keeping that up he snapped back like a rubber band and spent the same amount of time as a baby?

Sort of like how Amethyst strained to keep up her Jasper disguise for too long. She seems like a natural at shapeshifting, but trying to radially shift in mass was exhausting.

Gems can shift their forms into different stable formations over time. We've seen Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl all change their "looks" from different time periods. And we've just seen Bismuth, Peridot, and Lapis change forms when they reformed.

Why couldn't a gem reform in a way that they were compatible with humans?

For someone without working equipment, Pearl has been getting a lot of phone numbers. And former Mayor Dewey is totally taken with her.

And Amethyst tried having a thing with Greg after Steven was born and Rose wasn't around anymore. Which is why they got go wrapped up watching Little Butler together. And why Amethyst got so *FURIOUS* when Greg left to be with his son, which in her mind Amethyst still considered to be Rose. She thought he was leaving her.. so she lashed out at him in a cruel fashion, pretending to be Rose. And that look on her face when *Steven* witnessed this was true heart-shattering horror.

Just like how some gems are into food, some are also into more earthly pleasures.

I recall that Pearl first saw Mystery Girl right when she tried apple juice for the first time, as if by magic. And Amethyst LOVES food, even food that isn't actually food, and she was into Greg, and still seems to be a bit.

I keep thinking back to when Bismuth and the party were watching television, and Bismuth was eating the pizza, but Garnet just left hers on her plate. Bismuth was into material pleasures.. and the Fry family have hair that looks like hers. While Garnet, with her unique closed relationship, wasn't looking for outside partners.

There used to be an army of gems stationed all over the world, and they stayed there for a very long time. If even a few of them were into humans, and were curious enough to try, you'd get hybrids.

Also, I'm still not entirely convinced that "Rose Quartz" never existed except as an alter ego of Pink Diamond.

The shield Light Steven used when White Diamond and the other possessed gems attacked looked different than Rose's toy-like shield, and it withstood an attack by Three Diamonds and The Possessed Crystal Gems without breaking. But Bismuth was able to pop Steven's shield on her own during their fight, as if it was just a regular quartz soldier shield.

Pink Diamond's energy might be in that gem, but I think Steven's going to discover he has a rose quartz gem in his navel that's cut to look like Pink Diamond's, since both are cut the same way in real life.

Which would also explain why Pink Diamond didn't just reappear when White Diamond pulled Steven's gem out. As Steven said... Pink Diamond is gone.

Also, the show has led us to assume that if a gem has a child, they must pass their gem on to the child, destroying their own physical form.

But this was debunked in Gem Glow, because Centipedal was able to create gemless children from her own energy.

And even while accepting that Centipedal was a corrupted gem, Pearl has frequently created "Holo Pearl" replicas of herself that were more than just soulless robots, as we saw when one stabbed her, then repeatedly tried to overcoming her Training Dummy programming to attack Steven.

So if there *happened to be* gems hiding in human society that survived the Corruption Song, and wanted to have  children with humans, there's no law that says they couldn't just keep their gem, and created a gemless child from some of their light and the human's material.

A child like Onion, for example. Who was somehow able to talk to Topaz in their own language, even if English seemed beyond his grasp.