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This is why Blue Diamond didn't want to shatter her captured rose quartz gems, telling Yellow Diamond they were "all they had of her."

This is a literal statement. There's a bit of Pink in each of those gems.

Which might also explain why White, Yellow and Blue are absolutely horrified with the idea of different gems fusing, while fusions between gems of the same type are ok.

Each of the gems is an expression of their Diamond Mother. Each designed for a particular purpose according to the will of their Diamond.

But when two different types of gems fuse? You get something the Diamonds never intended to exist. Fusions are their own creatures, examples of created life choosing its own path in the universe instead of what it was created for.

This radial idea of Free Will terrifies White, Yellow, and Blue. So they crush it whenever they can.

Steven recognizes that Free Will exists, regardless of what the other Diamonds intend. And he wants them to accept fusions, as well as the Off Color gems that came out strange, as beings with their own unique talents, and rights.

The Era Two three-Diamond authority shatters Off Colors as miscreated abominations, one reason Pink Diamond's small Amethyst-like overcooked state was a particularly powerful embarrasement for them.

Yet I think you'll find the hybrids of Beach City, as well as the Off Colors like Padparadscha Sapphire whose has the inverted gift to see the past, have misfit abilities that will prove essential in the trials and tribulations to come.