>>114051013The crew entirely forgot to elaborate on the evil scroll, to the point of having to reveal the ink was from pigments of crushed up Gems in a Q&A. Which is pretty important, since many gems in real life are mostly used for that purpose like lapis lazuli. Its possible they chose not to go that dark, since elaborating on if it was humans or Diamonds that made the scroll would make someone “Nazi soap” evil and would bring up some very unfortunate questions finding out Unshattering is a thing since they burned the scroll.
What horrifed Garnet wasn’t that they were dead Gems, non-sapient Gems are used in architecture and as power sources all over the show, like the cores in the Nephrite ships and the geodes on the island. The Crystal Gems probably didn’t think anything survived after Shattering, and given Pearl’s choice of words she probably just thought it was bad interpretation of orders or fragments of junk data like any robot uprising idea.
What shocked Garnet was:
1) Them projecting light forms, meaning Shattered Gems are still conscious to a small degree.
2) Homeworld’s version of Fusion is so twisted that they literally just stuck random parts together. Not a Frankenstein’s monster, just a mass of limbs.
3) They were probably inspired to do that to the Crystal Gem dead both by the Crystal Gems reusing corpses and using multi-type Fusion constantly. The latter being because of Garnet being one of their top ranking members, meaning the existence of her former comrades and subordinates as tortured things is doubly causing guilt.
Its interesting to note Garnet’s reaction in detail. Sapphire’s eye (the purple one oddly enough, since its the one that sees the future) is entirely in an expression of shock like she couldn’t foresee what they were about to find out ahead of time which is likely because of how chaotic and unfocused the actions of Cluster parts were before Steven unified them, and Ruby’s eye is the only one crying.
