Talk:Gemstone/@comment-10033036-20150312205922/@comment-29685060-20160820210624

Nope. Take this for example, every Esper in Academy City are "locks" before they went into AC. With the artificial methods to make them as Espers, their powers are "unlocked", which brings out their potential. However, Gemstones are something like "opened" locks already that can't be closed.

So if we are going to apply it in Tsuchimikado's hybrid case, If a "locked" person is unlocked, the "esper" power will engulf the whole potential of a person, making them unable to perform "magic". However, a "locked" person can perform magic, since their bodies aren't yet interrupted by any AIM fields, which an esper has, but making their bodies engulfed in mana. So only a Gemstone, who's originally unlocked from the beginning, has potential to perform magic, as their AIM fields are more "natural" and are not interfered with any artificial means. Which means Gemstones are quite a hybrid of Esper and Magicians with no harm to their own bodies.