SU Spoilers for a Single pale rose incoming So, i've been thinking a lot about Pink Diamond and how she went from bratty little shit to bitter runaway in between her first and second appearences. Pink is a little brat in her first appearence, she sounds like a selfish todler who isn't getting their way. And in 'A Single Pale Rose' she seems bitter and angry. I've seen a lot of stuff over the past few days calling her selfish, and indicating that she is (and Rose by extension), a terrible person to her core. But... like, I don't think so. So I've been doing a lot of thinking as to why she ended up this way. As far as we can see, most gems aren't raised. They change, but the come out of the ground as a fully functioning person, not an overgrown baby. I doubt Pink emerged from the ground a little brat who throws a fit when she doesn't get her way. But when I think about it, Pink emerged from the ground, unaware of the society she was about to, more or less, rule to be greated by her fellow diamonds. And what is the most striking thing about her. She's small, she's overcooked. She's not right. Immediately after being born she is treated like she's a mistake. She learns what she is and how important she is, and she wants to be treated the same as the other diamonds. But, by this point I would expect she's already developed a complex about her inferiority, and being refused a colony isn't the diamonds making a good decision since she acts like a child; it's because she's worth less than them. They didn't even make her mural look like her. They spent her whole life pretending she was normal, ignoring her defect. When she came to them with concerns and opinions different from their own, when she tried to fight back (quietly, and without the involvement of her death) against colonizing earth, they brushed her off. Told her to grow up, to be the diamond she was meant to. So she's mad. Despite the fact that Blue and Yellow did care, she couldn't see it. Because her first intro to them was probably negativity at her imperfections. And she sees them as uncaring. Of course she doesn't think that they'll retaliate when she is killed. She thinks that they'll pull out all the remaining soldiers, or that they'll go back on their own. She thinks that they'll leave Earth behind because "who cares, it was just pinks planet." She wants the crystal gems, the gems like her, the weirdos, the defects, the imperfects, the rebels, to have a place. She wants them to live happily on Earth. And she wants to be free of the Diamonds, free of her title, free of the expectations that made her so diassapointing when she was first born. And we can't forget about the character development Rose went through either. During Greg's flashback we see Rose change. She's "playing along" she thinks its fun. Kinda like how she thinks staging her own death and rebeling against homeworld is exciting. But she changes, she becomes the rose we see in her videos, she becomes the Rose we all thought she was in the first season. Despite this, I don't think her decisions were good ones. I definitely don't think she went about it right. Staging her death was a dumb idea. The most inexcusable thing I think is leaving Pearl to deal with the weight of Pink's choices all alone for years. They never speak of it again. Pearl has to deal with all of her guilt and second-guessing quietly, without having anyone to help her, and then the only person who knows decides that now's a good time to not be herself at all anymore. And Pearl is left completely alone. I don't think Pink wasn't selfish, but I do think she had good intentions. And I do think she genuinely cared about the other crystal gems and the humans, and that she wanted them to be happy. She just never let go of her animosity towards her 'parents,' and never really took other people's emotions into consideration (until she met Greg). Good people do bad things sometimes. And I think Pink thought that the secrets she was keeping were for everyone's own sake. She didn't want to tell the others that Bismuth wanted to start killing people, so she never told them she had bubbled her. I'm not sure why she kept Lion a secret from Pearl, and I'd like to know. Honsetly, I'm excited to see how Steven handles this. I'm excited to see how the other gems handles this. I want to see how Rebecca Sugar sees Pink's decisions, and how it effects the rest of the show. I'm excited to see how this all ends. Also, this means that never once was Rose poofed. Because everyone would have known. Maybe that's why Pearl was always jumping in the way, to keep the secret.
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