#sugalite

Some more old prints from my artist table days. I think I posted early sketches or whatever of these years ago, but never shared the finished works, so here you go!

Sex and fusion are VERY different. This difference isn’t directly brought up in the show but is sort of mentioned in the rose and Greg episodes. “We need to talk” Greg learns about fusion and try’s to fuse with rose but can’t. Rose has probably tried to fuse with other humans in the past, we can also assume she’s had sex with humans in the past too, she’s been around them for I would assume 6,000 years (in the answer garnet says her and Ruby first fused 5,000 and some change years ago) if anything rose has done it all but is finding that special connection with Greg.

Both fusion and sex take alot of trust in another person, your allowing someone access to the most vulnerable parts of your body and mind. In sex Ofcourse it’s allowing another person to see the most embarrassing parts of yourself, but fusion, you have access to each others memories, personal thoughts, for us people with intrusive thoughts, fusing with another person would allow them to hear the horrible things that your brain plagues you with. 

Garnet said it best, she is a conversation, she is a visual manifestation of Ruby and Sapphires love for each other and their identity together. They aren’t making everything about each other, they are each other. I think when they get married is something that signify that they have changed each other so drastically from their original form, they can’t bear to separate.

Stevonie is a case of a boy and a girl fusing together, but nothing about their fusion is sexual, even when Stevonie starts growing facial hair in jungle moon, it’s not sexual. Yes Stevonie in that point in time goes through both sides of human puberty. If I had to go through both points of human puberty with my partner as one body I think that i would be eternally tied to them. I want to note that yes, Steven is most definitely romantically attracted to Connie, seeing themselves as the book characters at the end of season 1, but he fuses with Connie because both of them have a platonic bond with each other. They don’t even declare themselves a couple until (correct me if I’m wrong) season four or 5, literal years of them being best friends together. So their case is evidence that fusion isn’t and has never been strictly sex.

Fusion can also be A way for gems to up their power level together, it is accepted on home world that gems of the same kind can use together only because the cast system divides these gems into all thinking assumedly the same way, that’s why Ruby is different and often was outcast in her own ruby groups. Garnet exists because Ruby thinks differently from other rubys strengthening sapphire‘s future vision by allowing it to see multiple options all at once. Other examples of gems fusing to have advantages for doing certain tasks would be Malachite, Alexandrite, opal, sardonyx, Sugite, ect. They’re not having sex, they are completing a task or goal.

I wanna mention peridot here too, paradox cannot fuse with other gems because she is still strictly classes with her thinking of other gems and herself. She can communicate, but she cannot cohabitate with other gems. My favorite Steven Universe fan animation is the one where lapis lazuli and paridot fuse by using sex because compared to fusion, sex is so much less intimate but it give peridot an idea of what to do because theirs no wrong way to have CONSENSUAL sex. Rose and Greg can’t fuse for similar reasons as to para cannot inherently fuse, Greg and Rose are each other‘s windows to both the human and the alien world, something neither of them have full knowledge of, but you don’t need to know someone’s childhood someone’s race, or background to engage in sex unless it pertains to sex. Sex still has a lot of rules aside from consent, I don’t consider consent to be the end all be all for that sort of situation, it’s more of the door to the act than the act itself. Safe words, saying no to certain positions, and talking about SA and STI history are part of the rules of sex, if any of those rules are broken it’s not sex, it’s assault.

Assult happens with fusion too, Malachite being the main example of a toxic relationship and taking advantage of someone for a goal, but “Cry for help” and the episodes that follow can be seen as fusion assault too. The threat of homeworld coming back to earth after centuries of peace, reminds pearl of the previous cast system she was a part of. Fusion is an escape from that anxiety so she tricks garnet who’s having that same anxiety into fusing with her to take down the transmission tower over and over again. This is a breach of trust for not just ruby and Sapphire, but the whole crystal gem team. It drags in amethysts similar anxiety’s , which pearl uses as a way to brush her off as an excuse to use sardonyx instead of sugalite. Pearl taking advantage of garnet was wrong, and hurt not just her feelings but also her trust, and the next couple of episodes signify’s that garnet doesn’t have to forgive her for her actions much like with sexual assult. Pearl is her oldest friend and watched her get created, and I think garnet forgives her because pearl doesn’t understand the extent to how important fusions are to gems like her.

I know Amethyst can be VERY impulsive at times but she had good intentions and still, Sugalite went out of control. However, Pearl was lying about the very reason they had to fuse and Garnet never sensed anything was wrong??

I know Garnet trusted her a lot but still, didn't she suspect anything when her future vision didn't work? I dunno, goes to show how much those two believed in her I guess.

Dont speak-Steven universe edit