hello !!!!!!! sorry i didnt explain much i didnt realise pearl having a love obsession (??? i dont remember what its called exactly) wasnt a common interpretation, im saying this as someone who has personally experienced this and personally saw her as having some behaviours i displayed when i was going through this, it basically means that you have some kind of trauma and as a reaction to that you develop an obsession with someone your in love with, like you become absolutely fixated on them to an unhealthy agree, pearl was completely devoted to rose, which can be sweet and healthy but to me it seemed like the sheer level of devotion pearl had to rose was due to trauma of being objectified and constantly talked down to on homeworld. she started falling in love when pink diamond/rose was the first person to treat with respect and as a real, valuable person, which can be a cute and healthy love story !!! just due to the obsessive ways pearl behaves after this i feel like because of the way shes been mistreated in the past it seems like she really latched onto rose, partly due to genuine love and partly as a trauma response.
also i assumed she was probably 'programmed' in some way when being made to be completely devoted to the diamond she was serving, like she was literally designed that way or something, kind of like the way that children are instinctually attached to their parents to some extent. i dont think this is the whole reason shes in love with her, but its what i assumed was the reason that she was SO devoted and attached to her. I know this isnt every persons interpretation, but its just how i saw it as someone whos experienced that. its not that i think shes in love with rose soley because of how she was made and her past of being objectified, but i do think it changed the way that she loved her, growing so much devotion that she develops obsessive tendancies and even becomes self sacrificial.
for example especially in season 1, sometimes when she talks about rose she seems agitated like making anxious expressions and shaking ect, its just the way she talks and behaves around her and when talking about her, like constantly being desperate for her attention and doing anything to impress her, and the way that she puts her on this pedestal and completely idealizes her, the way that she is fulling willing to die for her without hesitation like she teaches connie in sworn to the sword, honestly i think she (at least for a lot of the show) was still in the mindset of being below pink diamond/rose. also, back the fact she is willing to die for rose without even hesitation (at least in that point of the show). i honestly dont know how that could be interpreted as healthy love, it is my personal interpretation that she developed obsessive tendacies about rose, and everyone else is entitled to their own interpretations, but i honestly do not know how anyone could possibly explain the way she acts about rose in sworn to the sword specifically as just healthy love towards someone. maybe some people see it that way but i just genuinlly dont understand how anyone could, honestly id be happy for anyone who does maybe think this to explain why because im genuinly curious.
basically the "level of devotion" i was talking about was referring to my personal interpretation of how pearl acts and feels about rose and why, also im a bit confused by what u said at the end but for clarification yeah rose is absolutely not suppose to reciprocate (what i see as) pearls obsession towards her, this kind of obsession is super unhealthy and is rooted in deeper issues like trauma, not love.
btw, with roses side of this relationship, she did some really bad things to pearl, like forcefully making it so that shes never be able to talk about what happened in a single pale rose, which i am pissed at her for, but generally in the relationship (weather it was platonic, romantic or otherwise) i think rose was just super niave. like she just genuinlly didnt understand that pearl was in love with her, and if she loved her back i dont think she understood that either, her whole arc with greg was about her not understanding love, so i think its kind of unfair for people to expect her to be able to recognise love in other people (like pearl) when she cant even recognise it herself and barely understood what love even is, at least before and at the beginning of her and gregs relationship
anyways its cool if u disagree, a lot of people interpret pearl and roses relationship in a lot of different ways so if you wanna ask anything or explain how u see it pls feel free !!!!! id actually really like to hear other interpretations if u (or anyone else) wanted to share
ok just before i post i just found the names of 2 conditions that r based on obsessive love, limerence and obsessive love disorder if anyone wanted to look into it more :) i didnt know there were multiple so there may also be more that im not aware of
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