The Answer
Garnet tells Steven how Ruby and Sapphire first met and fused.
"The Answer" is the 22nd episode of the second season of Steven Universe, premiered on January 4, 2016 on Cartoon Network. It was written and storyboarded by Lamar Abrams and Katie Mitroff, and in it Garnet tells Steven how Ruby and Sapphire met, fused to create Garnet, began their romantic relationship and joined the Crystal Gems.
Quick Facts
- Series
- Steven Universe
- Season
- 2
- Episode
- 22
- Director
- Byung Ki Lee (animation)
- Jasmin Lai (art)
- Joe Johnston (supervising)
- Writer
- Lamar Abrams; Katie Mitroff
- Air date
- 4 January 2016
- Length
- 11 minutes
- Guests
- Susan Egan as Rose Quartz
- Erica Luttrell as Sapphire
- Lo Mutuc as Ruby
Lore & Background
5,750 years in the past, while the Gem Homeworld is colonizing Earth, Sapphire and three Ruby bodyguards are among a team of diplomats sent to investigate a group of rebels. Sapphire foresees that in the coming battle the rebels will defeat seven Gems, including herself and two Rubies, and then be captured.
Reader's Guide
The episode was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Short-format Animation and was adapted as a best-selling children's book. Its art was inspired by the animator Lotte Reiniger.
When Rose Quartz and Pearl attack the Sky Arena, the last Ruby refuses to accept Sapphire's fate and leaps to save her, fusing with her by accident and forming Garnet for the first time. Blue Diamond sentences Ruby to be shattered for the illicit fusion, but Sapphire grabs her and escapes to Earth's surface. The two get to know each other while singing "Something Entirely New", fuse again, and tumble into Rose and Pearl; Rose tells Garnet that she already is "the answer" to her questions. In the present, Garnet tells Steven the answer was love.
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