When Keystone Motel aired we got our first good look at Ruby and Sapphire. Their appearance in Jailbreak was very brief and they were both very focused on finding each other, so it didn’t help us much.
We’re not saying that they were acting normal in Keystone Motel either. They were both under a lot of stress, meaning their behavior was skewed. Their reactions to stress are quite interesting though, and we get to see other sides of them towards the end. They are very different, and while real rubies and sapphires are just different colors of the same mineral, corundum, the only similarity Ruby and Sapphire seem to share is temperature control that goes haywire when they are angry. Otherwise they don’t seem to have much in common.
They’ve been in the Crystal Gems for a long time though. What are normal Rubies and Sapphires like on the homeworld, where Gems don’t inter-mix very much? We can make some guesses.
GC13, Ken, and Hunter discuss Steven’s Lion, the source of a two great enigmas: Lion and the Desert Glass. At least with the Desert Glass it’s okay to not know much about it, but since he’s been an important character in so many episodes Lion must put some serious effort into being enigmatic.
No! We were so close! The new crop of episodes was almost within our grasp, but the
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