You’ve heard me screaming about at least some of the people in Beach City being gem/human hybrid experiments - the first of them probably being Dewey. This is a show about (gay space) rocks! Let me talk about rocks for a second:
In gemology, Deweylite includes lizardite and stevensite - I take the stevensite bit as Rose's involvement in Dewey's creation somehow.
Those little lizards? They have bits of gems running down their backs but they don’t poof like gems do when Lion kills them. They’re part gem and part organic. They’re lizardites - early tests of gem/organic hybrid life!
Lizardite is a variety of serpentine. Bismuth mentions a Serpentine in the bubble room of the temple in Made of Honor - so I am wondering if Rose may have used Serpentine as a test case. Maybe a way to re-purpose corrupted gems she couldn’t heal? (Sneeple! Snakes!)
This also might have something to do with some gems being easier or harder to make cuts of. Perhaps serpentine was easier to cut. (Similar to how the diamonds may all be cuts of one larger diamond!)
Also why are there feathers from that lizardite? This might be a reference to cats killing birds, I guess. but idk. everything feels significant to me now fff