fairymascot:

lennythereviewer:

Fusion is very important to her

Fusion IS EVERYTHING to her

It’s what she IS

If the lyrics of the extended theme song are anything to go by, back home fusion is looked down on. On Earth she’s free to exist as the combination of Ruby and Sapphire

“I will fight for the place where I’m free/to live together and exist as me”

In “Keeping It Together” She was emotionally destroyed to see what Homeworld thought of fusions and the mockery they made of it with the Gem Cluster, and it nearly made them destabilize…

and now…

In Garnet’s eyes, her own friends don’t even respect fusion. They only see it as a way to make themselves feel important and strong. Pearl and Amethyst see fusion as a means to their own end.

She feels they don’t respect fusion

She feels they don’t respect HER…

MAN this is super good and important and i love it. 

to garnet, fusion is an honest, genuine, mutual union – it means the world to her. to realize that pearl had dishonest motives behind it, that it WASN’T equal or genuine, that pearl – in a way strikingly similar to the homeworld’s methods – was using it as a way to feel stronger, without considering garnet’s feelings…. yeah, god, that must hurt. it hurts so much that the only way she can feel about it is livid, without realizing what it really meant to pearl. 

yes, she used garnet, and that was wrong no matter how you look at it – but she did it because of her feelings for her. she was just so desperate for that unity and wholeness and all that garnet believes fusion is for. it wasn’t really about power at all – it was about feeling safe and loved and yes, strong, but not physically, emotionally.

but as garnet said, the key to fusion is ‘get open. get honest’. and pearl didn’t. pearl exploited her emotionally, in a way that must’ve hit all the deeper after the events of keeping it together.

god, this is such a beautiful, devastating mess.