Spoiler it actually depends on the sapphire! some of them are orange, yeah, but a whole lot of them are pink or salmon http://www.thenaturalsapphirecompany.com/education/sapphire-colors-varieties/padparadscha-sapphires/
Spoiler Looking at it again, it's possibly the lighting, but I saw this as purple. edit: properly spoilered
My thing, because it shows one of the new characters. Yours is just colors, I think it's fine. Sorry if I spoiled that for anyone.
Spoiler: shrug I see orange and tan. also, she was in pretty dark shadow most of the time we saw her. and Ruby's gemstone, which is red, has literally been colored a very dark purple at nighttime in the show. so I'm kind of unsure that her being purple-blue in color in shadows necessarily means she's that color all the time. and I'm not convinced that a place that's literally underground with no lighting isn't going to be just as dark as nighttime somewhere, or even DARKER than nighttime. it's just, y'know, if they made it that dark then I doubt anyone would be able to see anything.
Spoiler: new goal get all of the "flawed" Gems on Homeworld to Earth so I CAN FIGURE OUT PADPARADSCHA'S COLOR, DAMMIT, I DISLIKE NOT BEING SURE
Spoiler probably, but I have no idea how I would do that, because I can draw but I cannot....colors with things. that said, if she's, like, off-color for a Padparadscha Sapphire, I mean.....IT WOULD MAKE SENSE..... like, if most Padparadschas are pink or orange or orangey-pink, then if she was like blue and purple.... because I'd think Padparadschas would exist normally? I mean, all Sapphires can't just be blue, right? and Padparadschas are the right color to be in Yellow's court, or Pink's before she, y'know, bit the dust. but if she was off-color for a Padparadscha...
Spoiler: The Trial I like Zircon! She's in a pretty awful situation but she's trying to do things the right way anyway. I hope she'll be back - Blue at least has an interest in keeping her alive. Blue Diamond is actually being pretty terrifying here - I wonder if Steven was so affected by her empathy projecting powers before because of his own empathic abilities? (and when did Steven start getting quite so bothered about Pink's death? before or after he met Blue? I'm wondering if getting a massive dose of her grief on the matter influenced things) I really don't think Yellow killed Pink. I think Pearl was probably the one who did the deed, but that White probably got them in position for her own reasons - the CGs had would have wanted to take her out anyway although I would be extremely disappointed if this was just an inter-diamond quarrel. I also really want to know how the events on the pyramid mural fit in to all of this and if the gem found there was White - she seems conspicuously absent from homeworld. Spoiler: Off Colours Padparadscha is the best and I love her. Also SU is far too good at taking a character you dislike and making you care for them intensely within a week of episodes. Spoiler: Lars' Head This just raises further questions! Ok. So. Steven's Tears can resurrect. This is what happened to Lion, and the cause of Lion's pinkness, space-warping properties, and ability to live on far less food than a big cat really needs. I wonder if this what they're meant to do, and the healing's just a side effect? A lot of his/Rose's powers seem to have the result of take an organic life form and make them do what you say - the plant powers, the mind control, entering dreams and even though lion does act mostly like a cat, he's loyal in ways that animals generally aren't. I hope that's not the case with Lars, I really do. (but the CG's have a quick portal back to homeworld now, and I want to see how they're going to use it
Spoiler so was I, at first, but if padparadscha sapphires exist normally as a perfectly acceptable color variant in our world, I would be curious why they wouldn't have variants of Sapphires in theirs? like, especially since a lot of the courts seem to be. kinda color-coded, and Pink's mentioned as having Sapphires in her entourage.... of course, it's also totally possible our Padparadscha is off-color simply because she's a Padparadscha, but. I really want variant color Sapphires ;-; give them to me
Spoiler: colour correction i threw her through photoshop and removed the blue cast, although she's still rather dull compared to what her base colours probably are Spoiler: off-colour Also I got the impression off-colour referred to any defect, not just ones in colour.
Spoiler: so based on that it LOOKS like her gem is like, kinda light pinkish? which makes her a normal Padparadscha. but maybe there are still other Padparadschas and she's just kinda different from them? or there are no other Sapphires that are not blue. I hope it's not that one. GIVE ME ALL THE SAPPHIRE COLORS POSSIBLE
Spoiler yeah I kinda figured she was an "off color" because her future vision is faulty, not because of her literal color
