@Kronshi I still don't know if I'm going with it, but it'd be cool for sure...Going back to the idea that there are other corrupted hydrocarbon gems who weren't able to properly manifest due to being too unstable, perhaps Microcline's shards were added into the equation to try and create a stable version, and though it worked, the end result would be something that would meet the same fate as Talc if they were on Homeworld; be used as something disposable for when more important gems would rather not have been risked due to their short life expectancy. He, knowing Talc, wouldn't have been something he'd ever create intentionally, knowing the self-harmful and deprecating mentality Talc (and though it's still not too prominent, Eve is beginning to have) developed because of it. It could bring up a lot when the two meet again in their flashback as well.