okay so something i really adore about garnet is that she’s cool, but she’s very deliberately cool. she knows she’s cool. she works on it. she doesn’t ask questions. she delivers gravely portentous lines. she adjusts her shades to gleam meaningfully in punctuation to whatever bit of mysterious wisdom she’s imparting. she’s constantly showing off how good she is at punches, then pretending like it’s no big deal.

and when she’s not doing her absolute best to be the cool mom, she’s a huge fangirlish dork who picks pearl up and shakes her when she’s excited about shit. and who gets flustered on the phone. and who makes heart-fingers at steven and wears oven mitts and thinks most of what amethyst does is hilarious. she’s not the most mature gem in the room. she’s two kids in a beautiful trench coat playing I’m Definitely A Real Grownup who breaks character the very moment she thinks of a good pun.

but she is cool.