Event designer Kazuhiko Aoki felt that the scene where Garnet cuts her hair was an important one in the story of "Final Fantasy IX". He explains that it is a quiet moment among otherwise frenetic action and was important to the game's pacing. Aoki was worried about how Garnet would be handled with this and told the writers that they would have to effectively write two Garnets, one with long hair and one with short. Event planner Nobuaki Komoto found this difficult, adding that players tended to have different images of Garnet in their heads. He felt that a person's thoughts on the character are reflected by which depiction they think of. While the development team referred to her as Dagger, the nickname she chooses to disguise her identity, most players still referred to her as Garnet. Garnet was first revealed in a Coca-Cola advertisement featuring other characters from "Final Fantasy IX". Garnet also appears in "Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia", where she is voiced by Mamiko Noto.