Theory: Peridot is a cyborg survivor of the war

This has been going through my mind ever since Marble Madness episode. The underground network under Kindergarten is designed on the principle same as Rose’s armory, that only the person with the specific gem can access it.

Yep, Peridot was the original overseer of the Kindergarten.



But here comes the problem:



Peridot seems to be completly oblivious to Earth’s history, even the one regarding the Gem war, and she’s forced to rely on past reports and reacent contacts (Red Eye), which would indicate that she’s a young gem, younger even than Amethyst. Not to mention that she has no idea who Crystal Gems are.





Well, remember these little buggers?

In Secret Team episode, the gem shards that were contained in the orb were actually body parts of some shattered gems.

So even if the gem has been chipped, while the limb is is saperated from the main body it’s still alive, which must be the same for the prime piece.



So what happend?

It was likely that during the war, while Peridot was still maintaining the control of Kindergarten, she was wounded and her gem fractured in the process. Since Rose was the only one that could heal broken gems, the Gem homeworld did best they could to put her back together, since she was the only gem that could control the Kindergarten.



Here’s the thing about Peridot gems. It’s very fragile while being molded. If the cutter does not know how to handle it properly, it can get fractured even more.



So while they were trying to fix her, they damaged her in the process, wrecking her memory (and likely her gem powers).



Now they had a problem: they had on their hands a gem that is beyond anything but useless abomination in their eyes (remember this is comming from a person like Jasper calling Pearl lost and defective, Amathyst an overcooked runt and Garnet… well no comment, basicly “Diamonds are perfect”), yet at the same time she was the only one that could access a place that is essential to their plan (whatever it is).



So they waited a few thousand years, probably had her in stasis in meantime so she wouldn’t regenerate, until their technology got advanced enough (from ancient greek to starcraft) and made a fresh start on her by augmenting her with robotic limbs and all, making her a technitian, with ability to control the weaponry of her own ship with her bare hands, and just gave her orders on what to do.



Now… let this image sink in a bit.

EDIT: P.S.: Historical fact I forgot to mention, peridot gems are one of the oldest known to be used in jewlery by Egyptians. So it’s not wonder that Peridot mite be alot older than she appears to be.

