my post that insinuates garnet may have chosen not save jasper has a couple responses along the lines of “she was busy holding amethyst and watermelon steven!”

and in the interest of fairness, I’d like to investigate these claims

the angle of garnet’s left arm makes it so she can’t be holding amethyst. it looks like she may be holding pearl or watermelon steven, but let’s take a closer look

nope! stevenmelon has got it covered. three points of contact, looks good. garnet’s right hand is nowhere in sight. anyway, we can see she’s not holding pearl’s hand when pearl reaches for jasper.

so i’m going to go ahead and conclude that she isn’t using her hands to support pearl, amethyst, or watermelon steven. but we can’t actually SEE her hands, so I contend that her hands were otherwise occupied. here’s an artistic interpretation of how, and with what: