User blog comment:Pokemonboy3000/Worried about Cuprite/@comment-26233996-20170114115507/@comment-2054732-20170114173434

Yeah, that plan works for My gemsona's like Ice and Lodestone, and The simple name change worked well for Flint because she was still a Quartz after Smoky Quartz became canon. The problem is similar to how Silk (do you mind if I call you Silky after my favorite teen titans charecter lol) described. Cuprite in my canon are basically garbage gems below pearls, so her entire existence, history and personalityis based around how she was treated back on homeworld and how Yellow Calcite, Rose,Bismuth and Pearl taught her to be free and whoever she wants to be on earth. That story wouldn't work if she was a unique gem as their wouldn't be a reason for her to be so different.