additionally: even if she tricked them into seeing something that wasn't really happening--what did she do after, shapeshift forever? Pink Diamond and Rose Quartz look radically different, according to the mural we saw, and I'm pretty sure if Rose was Pink Diamond, someone in her forces would've recognized her if she didn't shapeshift forever, and holding a shape forever is, as far as we're aware, impossible. additionally, most of the Quartzes we've seen so far--with the exception of Jasper--have a similar gem shape. Rose has that gem shape. I'm sorry, I just don't see how she can possibly be Pink Diamond.
i also agree that she's not pd but wrt the shapeshift thing, maaaybe if she saw herself as a new gem, one to lead a revolution, she could've reformed as a different shape? we don't know the limits of reforming (although i suppose if it were that easy a faulty gem could just make their light form look normal) and if psychologically she saw herself as a new person she could hypothetically drastically change her shape. edit: i realize i'm reaching here i just thought it could be something interesting to play with
I mean it could be interesting to play with, but I doubt it's actually possible? I don't think their forms are based on how they see themselves psychologically.
The more bitey Pearls I see, the more I'm just thinking of a circle of Quartzs, Sapphires, and Cubic Zirconias (because that seems like a good equivalent to a low-ranking noble-type, an obvious "not Diamond but close enough") with a gaggle of specifically bred Bitey Pearls. Like the rough equivalent to a small dog breeder club, if pugs were sapient beings who could only show their general distaste in existence via cutely nipping people their owners don't like.
you're right, it's probably more than that, i just wonder sometimes with the occasions where clothing reforms around where they're poofed. i'd also maybe equivocate it to controlled corruption. i kinda wanna make an oc around this idea now, i don't think it could actually apply to rose.
hmmm. I always kind of assumed that was a conscious choice? shrugs. in any case, an OC around it would be pretty cool, go for it if you wanna!
Is this why Pearl takes like three days to reform after poofing? Because she's spending that long going over all her possible clothing options to see what outfit would be more suiting to current events and have the best mobility compared to comfort, with a slight hint of subterfuge in case of walking through human territory?
That is exactly what my pearl was bred for except it backfired and she went "fuck this noise i'ma eat my owner too and run off to join some rebellion seeya suckers"
Spoiler Keeping different types and castes of gems as segregated as possible is about what I'd expect of Homeworld. I don't even think it's about fusion in specific--it's about preventing cross-class dialogue, keeping anybody from giving each other ideas about what it might be like being something different than what they were made to be. As Garnet herself says, she is a conversation, and that's what makes her so threatening to the social order of Homeworld. A common soldier and an aristocrat talking, bonding, getting the chance to literally see through the same eyes? Just in the earliest parts of their relationship, in "The Answer", Ruby causes Sapphire to question her powerlessness in the face of fate for the first time in her life, and Sapphire questions to Ruby's face the assumption that as a common ruby, her individual life has no value. Homeworld's entire social order depends on the premise that gems, by nature, exist for one purpose and that purpose only and can never be anything else. By fusing and talking to one another, Ruby and Sapphire began to realize that isn't true. And so could anyone else, if Homeworld isn't careful.
Spoiler holy shit what if this is what's up with homeworld's experiments into refusing shattered gem particles. they saved pink diamond's gem and are trying to piece it back together. if rose quartz was pink diamond's, and pearl was rose quartz's, it would make sense for pearl also to be pink diamond's. underlings would be part of the same... faction, as their superiors.
I think they meant theorizing that Pearl directly belonged to Pink Diamond. Made for her, not Rose. Same way as Yellow Pearl and Blue Pearl for their respective Diamonds.
i love the idea that pearl is older than rose quartz, and was a hand-me-down aide de camp. she wasn't made on earth, she's got too much resentment about it— she's trapped here, not from here. so she could have been made for pink diamond, but discarded for a newer model, and then given to a gem that wouldn't necessarily be awarded a new pearl, but was still doing well enough to have some pearl. it would also be a really fucking cool role reversal from what's been presented to us, that pearl is a little girl soldier under motherly rose's protection. pearl could have been a tired, worn-out old secretary, and then given to this vivacious, radical young prodigy of a quartz soldier, and started to learn new things and think new thoughts and become young again, too, in this new way of living.
I immediately jumped to the same conclusion as KB proposes when I read "a circle of [nobles]" in the first part, haha. I don't know if it makes sense for there to be fighty pearls given everyone's SHOCK!! at our Pearl, but oh man do I want it
but therein lies the appeal. look how absolutely RIDICULOUS it is, everybody! PEARLS fighting each other. why, they can barely even throw a punch! how adorable.
