One of my favourite details about this finale has to be how Pearl looks after reforming because it’s so telling of her character growth like
Look at how she starts out, chronologically
While in servitude, bending to her intended purpose, she is dressed in the epitome of femininity. A lovely perky dress, lots of layers, lots of frills. This is what Pearl was intended to be by the system.
Now the more she rebels and starts leaving the system and her purpose behind her, her clothes abandon the classical femininity.
Even in her first known reforming, already she is opting out of it
Her outfit is more practical, she started wearing pants, but there is still a large influence of who she used to be with the dress tunic.
And through her reformations, we see her start losing more and more of that societal expectations of her in the form of her outfits.
But the expectations she puts up for herself are still there, because she can’t help but base her entire sense of self worth around another person (Pink and later on, Rose, and even after that, Steven)
So remnants of what she thinks is expected of her still remain.
Even the clothes she chooses to wear when she picks out human clothes are polar opposites of what the gem society expects her to wear
and of course, the infamous Rebel Pearl outfit, which I am sure is where a good part of her healing really started (because it marked her moving on from Rose), and upon which her current reformation is based on
and the final reformation, which completely abandons the classical femininity, frills and pzazz of the first form she had. She is still very feminine, yes, but in a way that is her own, not in what is thrust on to her by expectations.
This is who Pearl, just Pearl, without having to depend on others, who doesn’t build her entire sense of self around others, is. Her self worth no longer depends on Pink, or Rose, or Steven, or anyone, but herself.
Pearls growth is one of the biggest ones in the show, and it shows so much in how she reforms.
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