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hello! spoilers for “Legs from Here to Homeworld” incoming

so the visual parallel between Evil Wedding Connie (generated by Rose’s room in the episode Open Book) and White Diamond’s Pearl have been mentioned in this post. But I think it goes quite a bit further.

(The visual parallels are seen in the missing eye, white-based color scheme, and the round hair/accessories on the sides of the head.)

We know that Pearls are physically incapable of refusing an order from their designated Diamond, both because of CG Pearl’s inability to tell Steven that Rose is Pink Diamond, and because of later word of god.

It’s also worth mentioning that there’s a bit of the art book that has this photo in it, which seems to say, “A new, sensible Pearl is custom delivered to Pink.” This, in addition to White Pearl’s outfit being so similar to Pink Diamond’s, seems to suggest that WD and PD exchanged Pearls at some point. In fact, their pearls have their gemstones in the opposite locations. And! CG Pearl was the only one of the group to actually have something to say about WD when Yellow and Blue brought her up, which was “she’s not like us.” Perhaps this was from personal experience?

Here’s another odd thing: White Pearl isn’t voice by Deedee (the usual VA for Pearls–gems of the same type generally have the same VA). Instead, she’s voiced by White Diamond’s VA, and she mimics WD’s pose as well. People have suggested that White Diamond might literally be controlling her, that her broken eye might be symbolically indicative of a lobotomy. I agree!

But why would that be the case, you ask? What could have necessitated White Pearl’s sense of self being so completely and utterly destroyed and taken over?

GLAD YOU ASKED! BECAUSE THAT’S THE POINT OF THIS POST!!

Let’s take a step back to the episode Open Book. In this episode, Connie and Steven enter Rose’s Room, where everything is made to match Steven’s will. That on its own is an interesting parallel to how Pearls act towards their Diamonds, not even thinking about things unless ordered to.

In Open Book, Connie gets replaced with Fake Connie, who Steven thinks is the real person for a while. But she refuses to make her own decisions, instead deferring to Steven for everything. Eventually, he says, “I don’t want you to just do what I want!” which sends her into some sort of contradictory logic loop. She gets confused and starts saying “I want what you want what you want want want want…”

Steven gets spooked and makes everything fake in the room disappear. Fake Connie refuses to vanish, though. When Steven asks why, she says, “You told me not to do what you wanted.” She then chases Steven around against his will, appears in the wedding outfit (as seen above), and fights against him and real Connie. (She disappears when Steven admits something to Connie, but I think this is more relevant to the episode’s moral than the symbolism I’m addressing.)

So why was Pink’s original Pearl given to White and brainwashed? Because Pink Diamond did to her what Steven did to Fake Connie!

In Now We’re Only Falling Apart, CG Pearl says “I was given to Pink Diamond just a few thousand years before she was given the Earth. I was supposed to make her happy, I just… never could.”

Then, in the flashback, Pink Diamond tries to make casual conversation, and Pearl responds robotically & respectfully. Pink frowns at this.

But she doesn’t directly try to make her stop, just looks a little upset and continues working.

So the idea is this: Pink Diamond was casual and fun with her original Pearl, but eventually went too far and made a direct order akin to “Don’t follow my orders,” which broke that Pearl’s mind and had her act traitorously. Then, perhaps at some request of PD’s that the Pearl not be shattered, WD took her and brainwashed her into being nothing but a puppet. Pink must have been upset by this whole thing, thus White’s Pearl being given to Pink to “make her happy.”

That’s what I’m thinking, anyway! Do you guys have any thoughts?

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THAT Picture…

I wanted to talk about this picture of Rose and Greg because it doesn’t make sense at first glance, and I wanted to discuss what I have found about it.

This reason this photo doesn’t make sense is because it’s new. We see in Three Gems and a Baby that Greg still has a full head of hair by the time Steven is born.

So we have a dilemma: there is a photo of Greg and Rose that doesn’t make sense within the given timeline.

Maybe Greg just took a picture of him with Rose’s portrait that hangs in the temple?

Well, there are a few subtle differences between the two, such as a wider smile, visible eyebrows, and wilder, curlier hair.

I thought that Greg could have used Rose’s Room to create an imaginary version of Rose as Steven did in Storm in the Room.

I thought he might have done this because he misses Rose. I thought he would have asked the Gems to give him access to the room so he could see Rose again.

But then I quickly remembered that in the same episode Steven can’t take a photo of the imaginary Rose.

I then thought of an episode in which the photo in question is featured; Maximum Capacity.

In the episode, Greg and Amethyst get into an argument, and Amethyst starts shapeshifting to get on Greg’s nerves. It eventually leads to this:

There are two immediate problems with this.

Amethyst is purple, even when she shapeshifts.

She has a gem in the middle of her chest. In the picture, there is no gem on Rose’s chest, which is visible.

So Amethyst can’t be the gem in the photo, but it also can’t be Rose herself or from her room in the temple.

Then, I remembered A Single Pale Rose.

In the episode, we see Pearl shapeshift into Rose.

But the problems that Amethyst’s form present aren’t present when Pearl shapeshifts.

Pearl’s skin tone and hair match Rose’s

There is no gem visible on her chest.

The only two visual distinctions from the real Rose and Pearl’s form are her eyes and her gem.

Pearl’s pearl is on her forehead, and her eyes are blue, even when in the form of Rose.

However, in the photo of Rose and Greg, Rose’s eyes are closed, with her hair blocking her forehead where Pearl’s pearl would be.

This leads me to believe that the gem next to Greg in the photo isn’t Rose, but Pearl shapeshifted to look like Rose.

As for why this would be the case, that is up in the air.

I have no idea if this has been done before, so if anyone can find an existing theory about the topic, let me know and I’ll give credit where credit is due.

If you feel I’ve missed anything, feel free to say so!

Constructive criticism is appreciated.

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HELLO STARLIGHT

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A w k w a r d t e n s i o n.

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Me going to sleep without seeing the SDCC SU episode

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i just wanna put this into perspective here

because it irritates me but makes total sense

Lapis, vs

(how fast she poofed against) The Diamonds

Lapis is a really powerful gem, mk? regardless if you side with her or not (i know the fandom is a bit torn about her) she’s freakishly powerful she created water clones to fight the Crystal Gems, can speak through them, and can control multiple at any one time she took the whole friggin ocean to get into Space, making a tower from the water, consistently rising up ALL WHILE Chilling at the top of the tower, which is literally over 60 miles tall AT LEAST and Rising NOT ONLY THAT, but she did ALL of this AT THE SAME TIME With A Cracked Gemstone

not even at full power, and fully capable of all this without even looking tired without a cracked gem? she can fly at incredible speeds, making it back to Homeworld pretty darn fast without a ship’s capabilities flew out past the Milky Way, carrying a Barn full of stuff, in a water bubble, THEN turned back and plopped it on the moon to chill a while but… vs a Diamond? well she’s still pretty capable at least… with someone like Blue Diamond

who can incapacitate Gems without much of a problem by sheer grief alone

completely unimpressed in the face of a Diamond and that incapacitating grief?

nah

her powers of Depression are unmatched

single handedly, chained Blue and cancelled that power

granted, it is easily broken, Blue still has to put forth the effort (even if it is a little) to use her own power to break it Blue is strong as hell too, taking a straight hit from a physical barn, (also thrown by Lapis) several hits from the Crystal Gems, (including Lion’s roar which we don’t know too much about) and having her own giant ship crash down on top of her

what happens?

upset, but pretty well unfazed

and that brings us to Yellow Diamond. and what does Yellow Diamond have?

electricity. which brings us to why Lapis Lazuli poofed so easily

because, although I’d love to say that Lapis shouldn’t have poofed that fast because she’s INCREDIBLY powerful for the reasons listed above… shes still a Water type gem that got hit with an Electric type attack This is like a lvl 100 Water Starter and built Pokemon, going up against a lvl 85 Electric Legendary

It’s Super Effective!