Talk:Saint/@comment-24680843-20141130191035/@comment-5230978-20150131114758

From SS2:

“Oh, Shirai-chan, have you never heard of Gemstones?”

“…”

''“Oh, dear. Have I upset you?”''

''“Well, yes. Day in and day out, my power is studied by having stimuli applied to my brain through electrodes, drugs, and even hypnotic suggestion, so I’d rather you didn’t bring that up.”''

''“I just see it as the difference between an artificial diamond and a natural one,” said Sakashima as he moved the scissors to her bangs. “If a certain phenomenon has been caused artificially, then, as long as the same circumstances as in the experiment are recreated in the natural world due to some factor or another, the same phenomenon will occur with no help from humans. If you don’t like the diamond example, how about a stun gun versus a bolt of lightning?”''

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“I know that, if what Academy City creates are artificial diamonds, then Gemstones are natural diamonds created when the exact same circumstances are recreated in the natural world. Given that, what is a Gemstone?”

From NT 2:

"And that remained true whether it was an esper artificially created using drugs and electric stimuli or one of the people known as Gemstones who were espers that had been created by chance due to a combination of things in the natural environment."

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''“This isn’t just limited to Imagine Breaker. Natural powers like yours are often initially set to conform to the environment or situation. And the natural Gemstones are people who received psychic powers via stimuli from the environment of Earth,”''

The series is quite clear about the topic. It compares espers and Gemstones to artificial and natural diamonds, both of them created thanks to the external stimuli and conditions. The only difference is the nature of this stimuli, artificial for the first and natural for the latter. The series, (well it was actually Kaizumi) clearly says "Gemstones are natural diamonds created when the exact same circumstances are recreated in the natural world" and so this implies that to become a Gemstone one should be already born at least, otherwise we can't talk about "exact same circumstances". And more importanly, if they are born with a power, it means that they gained it when they were still in their mother womb. Now, can someone develop a Personal Reality before coming to light? As they would barely have a personality and would know nothing of the world they are supposed to distort with their PR, it doesn't sound realistic novel-wise. Also, the series talks about "natural world/environment" and "environment of Earth". A woman's womb doesn't fall in that category. Not to mention that if Gemstone were born that way, AC would have known as they must have investigated about their past to better understand the phenomenon that Gemstones are.