Garnet

Garnet

Series	Steven Universe
Age	???
Birthday	Unknown
Sex	Genderless, identifies as female
Species	Unknown
Height
Weight	???
Alignment	Neutral Good

“	I will fight for the place where I'm free! To live together and exist as me!	„
	~ Garnet

Garnet is the deuteragonist of the animated series, Steven Universe.

Background[]

On the Gem homeworld, there was a Sapphire gem who had the uncanny ability to see the future. Her superior was Blue Diamond, and she was assigned three Rubies to protect her wherever she went. She predicted that the rebel Gems, consisting of Rose Quartz and her renegade Pearl, would be captured after they "poofed" or disrupted seven Gems' forms in battle - including herself. But, when the moment arrived, one of the Rubies refused to accept this future and shoved Sapphire aside from an oncoming attack, accidentaly fusing with her, becoming the first cross-Gem fusion. Blue Diamond was not pleased with this and sentenced ruby to be shattered, only for the two of them to escape and reside together. Eventually, they decided that they were more comfortable being fused together, and to this day have been the most stable fusion between Gems, known as Garnet.

Powers and Abilities[]

Gem Physiology: Garnet possesses standard Gem abilities: bubbling, shapeshifting, fusion, regeneration, agelessness, and superhuman strength/durability. Garnet has a high tolerance for pain, as shown in "So Many Birthdays" when she displays no visible reaction, let alone discomfort when Amethyst blindly swings a baseball bat at the side of her head. This is explained and justified since she is a fusion of two Gems. While not outright invincible, it is shown that Garnet is more physically durable than Pearl or Amethyst. It is shown that she endures different levels of damage almost daily, withstanding falling cars, scuffles with Jasper, and various other forms of physical force.
- Future Vision: Garnet can see multiple future outcomes and probabilities with her third eye. This includes extremely unlikely and ridiculous outcomes, as a considerable amount of her available visions depict Steven's (and possibly other individuals') demise at the hands of mundane tasks or objects regularly. Future vision must be used consciously and takes some time to use, as Garnet has been shown in a thinking position when activating it. During that time, someone can alter the future, as seen in "Marble Madness", when Steven ruined the plan to learn about Peridot by going up to her while Garnet was still using future vision. Garnet must also consciously seek out specific details and judge which possible futures are most probable, which means she can overlook some possibilities, such as Pearl deceiving her in "Cry for Help". Garnet's visor improves her clarity and focuses while using future vision, but she can still use the ability with it off, as demonstrated in "Reunited" when she foresaw the Diamonds' arrival. Garnet's future vision comes from Sapphire, as confirmed in "Keystone Motel", although Sapphire's future vision is different from Garnet's. Due to Sapphire's passive personality, she can only see one future where she does not intervene. Garnet has Ruby's impulsive influence, so she can see multiple futures where she does intervene.
- Temporary Power Transfer: In "Winter Forecast", "Jail Break", and "Future Boy Zoltron" it is shown that she can temporarily pass on her future vision ability to others through lip contact. While Garnet has only been seen using lip-to-forehead contact to transfer her power, it is unknown if this is the only method. As she has only been seen sharing her power with Steven, her affection could say bias on how she chooses to transfer the power.
- Heat Resistance: Her invulnerability is often displayed in her extreme resistance to heat, from when she had scalding-hot coffee splash onto her without flinching in "Future Vision" to when she left to retrieve the Earth Beetle (which required her to swim in active lava) in "Giant Woman". It has also been said that she could swim in the core of the Sun and survive. This may be because of Ruby's thermo-regulation.
- Enhanced Calculations: Garnet mentions her ability to sense structural integrity in "Cheeseburger Backpack". It is currently unknown whether this is a unique power, a separate portion of her heightened senses like her future vision, or just a simple observation.
- Electrokinesis: Garnet can generate electricity, as seen in "The Message" when she used it to charge the battery of Greg's van, "Catch and Release" when she was tangling with Peridot, and "Arcade Mania" when she restarted "Meat Beat Mania" after Steven unplugged the game. Garnet has this ability due to the combination of Ruby's pyrokinesis and Sapphire's cryokinesis.
  - Electric Resistance: Garnet is impervious to electricity, as seen in "Future Vision" when she easily deflected a lightning bolt that was about to hit her and Steven with her gemstone. It is seen again in "Catch and Release" when she stopped Peridot's electricity from traveling down Amethyst's whip, only to send her electricity back at her. It was also used in "That Will Be All" when she caught Holly Blue Agate's electric whip in her hands to stop it from hitting Greg and Steven
  - Electric Jump: In "When It Rains", Garnet uses her electrokinesis on the offensive for the second time, generating electricity and releasing it on impact with the ground, where the energy then travels to the target. This particular move is long-ranged.
- Super Speed: In "Arcade Mania", Garnet karate chops the inner arms of the Gem Cave Creature and shakes Meat Beat Mania's ham controllers at incredible speeds. In "The Message", Garnet quickly places couch cushions around the Wailing Stone. In "Bismuth", Garnet engages Bismuth in combat with an immensely fast approach. She inherited this ability from Sapphire.
Gauntlet Proficiency: When channeling the collective power of the universe through her gemstones, Garnet can summon a pair of gauntlets. Garnet is highly proficient when using her gauntlets and is extremely skilled in hand-to-hand combat. She can deal massive strikes that can deal a heavy amount of damage and deliver swift blows with lightning speed. As of "Bismuth", Garnet's gauntlets have had spiked brass knuckles added onto them.
- Rocket Gauntlets: Garnet takes aim with her gauntlets and shoots them as projectiles in "Watermelon Steven". In "Reformed", after Garnet launches her gauntlets, her hands are detached from her body, and her gemstones are moved to the stubs of her arms.
- Weapon Size Augmentation: Garnet can increase the size of her gauntlets, easily quadrupling their size, and deal increased damage at the cost of reduced speed. This was hinted during "Garnet's Universe". Being an imaginary story, that means Steven knew about that power before the real debut in "Warp Tour".
- Deflection: Garnet can use her gauntlets as shields as seen in "Onion Trade" to deflect a volley of Dave Guys. They are also used in "Catch and Release" to block Peridot's electrokinetic discharge in Amethyst's whip, although it is unknown whether Garnet simply prevented the electric current using her gauntlets or absorbed it with her electrokinesis.
- Shock Wave Emission: As seen in "Gem Harvest", Garnet can pound her gauntlets into something and create a shock wave strong enough to make something, such as carrots, fly out of the ground.
Photokinesis: In "It Could've Been Great", Garnet can be seen using Photokinesis, an ability she shares with Pearl, "Doc", "Eyeball", Peridot, and the Rutile Twins. This might be a power that every Gem can use or a power inherited from Ruby.
Gem Storage: Garnet can materialize different items out of her gemstone(s), similarly to Pearl. In "Serious Steven", she summoned the key to the Pyramid Temple and in "Giant Woman" and "Love Letters", she summoned her goggles.
Fusion Realm: In the episode "Mindful Education", Garnet was shown to have helped Stevonnie gain a deeper connection to themself; the way this was done was apparently through a quite easily gained meditative state in which Garnet guided Stevonnie throughout. When Garnet and Stevonnie entered this realm Garnet showed Stevonnie how to keep in touch with themself and how to gain a deeper understanding of both their sides and how to resist falling apart by being honest to themself.

Equipment[]

Gauntlets: Garnet's weapon she can summon, which she uses for melee combat. By charging power into them, Garnet can enhance their size for more powerful strikes. Thanks to Bismuth, Garnet's gauntlets have been upgraded to include spiked knuckles, increasing the power of her punches.

Feats[]

Strength[]

Rebecca Sugar (Steven Universe's creator) stated that Garnet is easily the strongest Crystal Gem.
Lifted a falling car
Flipped a wrestling ring with one punch
Casually lifts and throws giant rocks
Knocked down a large pillar with one kick
Held back a charging Jasper
Could partially restrain Spinel.
Easily lifted a Gem Injector over her head with one hand.
Hit Amethyst with enough force to turn sand into glass on contact while being gentle.
Physically restrained Monster Steven while giant-sized.
Alongside Amethyst and Pearl, Garnet punched Centipeedle so hard it generated a large explosion that parted nearby clouds
Destroyed the base of a pillar and punched it over.
Alongside other Crystal Gems, stopped a tectonic emergency offscreen.
Spiked Amethyst hard enough she appeared to reach terminal velocity and created a large crater on the sand.
Created a large crater while clashing with Lapis’ water clone of her.
Launched Amethyst into the air and slammed her back down, making a large crater.
Easily broke open Peridot's escape pod, which crashed down into earth from space completely unharmed. (84 Megatons of TNT)
Alongside the Crystal Gems, Garnet can shake Mask Island with one attack.
Sapphire herself created a hailstorm. (9.8 Kilotons - 998 Kilotons of TNT)
Beat up the Snow Beast, which could create snow storms (603 Kilotons of TNT - 25.3 Megatons)
Destroyed part of a mountain in a single punch, which Steven states she can do in an earlier episode.
Can resist the force being exerted within a planet-sized black hole. (63.5 million metric tons)

Speed[]

Garnet once blocked lightning, which takes extremely fast reflexes.
Capable of throwing Amethyst at terminal velocity
When sharing her Future Vision with Steven, he could view multiple long possibilities that lasted for several hours long in the timespan of a single kiss to his forehead
Able to intercept Steven mid-warp travel (5.8 trillion times FTL)

Durability[]

Easily swims in lava
Got back up after being crushed in a building
Tanked getting crushed through rock
Shrugged off getting hit multiple times with a baseball bat
Tanked hits from Jasper, as well as a clone of herself created by Lapis.
Exchanged blows with Bismuth in practice.
Wasn't harmed after getting thrown into a wall by Topaz.
Stood close to an explosion without harm as it hit Jasper.
Can tank being at the epicenter of a cloud-splitting explosion
Able to survive Lapis Lazuli crushing her with a water construct
Tanked being at point-blank range from a combined attack from Pearl and Amethyst that shook Beach City

Skill[]

Defeated Jasper in a fight, the second time
Played Meat Beat Mania for 24 hours straight.
First Crystal Gem fusion.
Participated in the war between the Homeworld Gems and the Crystal Gems.
Is considered the most powerful member of the Crystal Gems.
Defeats giant monsters on a regular basis.
Can swim in lava and walk on the ocean floor with no ill effects.
Defeated a living island with the other Crystal Gems.
Punched a Gem monster so hard, that the mountain they were inside began to collapse.
Poofed Peridot with a single punch.
First fusion in all of Homeworld’s story of two completely different gems
Was one of the few survivors from Diamond’s corrupting blast thanks to Rose Quartz
In Attack the Light, one-shot George (embodiment of the Light Prism) on his regular form, scattering his pieces across the world
With the help of the Crystal Gems, fought pretty even against Spinel

Weaknesses[]

Gem Physiology: Gem bodies are fragile, and after sustaining enough damage they will disappear, leaving their gemstones vulnerable as they are forced to regenerate. Gems cannot regenerate if their gemstones are bubbled or contained in another object.
Gemstones: If a Gem's stones are cracked, it disrupts their ability to hold their form, warping their bodies into strange forms. If a Gem's stone is shattered completely, then the completely cease to exist.
Gem Fusion Stability: If Ruby and Sapphire disagreed, or argued and disputed, or fought in a way shape or form that got them emotionally unstable, they would unfuse. This would also happen if they were poofed.