Alright let’s talk about these new gems!



Obviously they are the Off Colors that the third episode refers to. It’s easy to see that they are all misfits, but how did they come to be like this?

This gem(s?) doesn’t have a name yet so I will call them the twins. If you look at the gem it looks pretty familiar, right?

It looks a lot like the fusion experiments from Keeping it Together. But unlike the foot hand creature that formed from those shards the twins seem to be a much more successful fusion experiment.



This Sapphire is the only gem whose name we know. She is not a fusion like the other three and appearance-wise there seems to be nothing wrong with her expect for the fact that she is yellow. The gems of the various diamond courts are all the same (or similar) colors to their diamonds so this is a problem if she’s supposed to be in Blue Diamonds court.



But why is she yellow and why is her future vision so delayed? Also she seems very naive so how could she have survived since it seems that the diamonds have probably disposed of most of the misfit gems?

Now, possibly the strangest of the new gems is this one, the worm. She seems to be a fusion of 6 gems! Also for some reason her color scheme reminds me of Opal.



But why is she like this? We’ve seen from Alexandrite (a fusion of 4 gems) that it can be hard to keep fused since it requires a massive amount of cooperation. I find it hard to believe that 6 gems just decided to fuse into this very cumbersome form. I believe she is also a gem fusion experiment and cannot unfuse, but unlike the gem shard twins, she is made up of whole gems. A number of people have pointed out that the triangle gems are possibly peridots so I’m guessing that she is made up of low-ranking gems.

She also talks very slowly which is probably a side effect of being a 6-gem fusion.

And lastly, the suspected ruby-pearl fusion. I hesitate to call her a potential fusion experiment, but if she is, then homeworld is a lot closer to making artificial fusions since she looks almost normal.



She reminds me a lot of early garnet with the mismatched feet and cotton candy hair. But over time Garnet was able to better coordinate her look so why does ruby-pearl look so mismatched? I have 3 hypotheses

1. She only fused very recently.



I don’t think this is the case though, because to me it seems like these misfit gems have been down here a while.



2. She doesn’t know what fusion between two different gems looks like.

We have no idea how long it took Garnet to form her more cohesive look so it may be that ruby-pearl hasn’t quite learned yet or just hasn’t unfused enough times to figure out a more cohesive look.

3. She is a gem fusion experiment and can’t unfuse.

I doubt these misfit gems have ever left the kindergarten and somehow they managed to avoid being shattered, so when would they have ever been exposed to fusion, especially between 2 different types of gems. It seems unlikely that they would know how to fuse so I’m leaning towards ruby-pearl being a much more advanced gem fusion experiment, which means that homeworld is a lot closer to a potential army of artificial gem fusions!

