Reblogging the Theories

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[poetofthepiano]

Okay the episode "Back to the kindergarten" Season 5 ep 8... Am I looking too much into the theme of the episode... Or does it speak of how to let go and move on? Like how Peridot wanting life back in the kindergarten is similar to her wanting the barn and Lapis back... Basically telling her to move on to fresher areas and focus on other people? Like she can't keep focusing on what happened but she can choose to look for others that will make her happy?

Hi there! I’m rather fond of that episode, and before anything I wouldn’t say that it qualifies as “overthinking” at all! When art is put out there, it does not solely belong to its creators any more. Your take on the episode is how I’d read Peridot’s character development as well.

The desire to have something grow in the Kindergarten is more than just wanting Lapis and the barn back. Recall that making things come alive in Kindergartens is what Peridot was created to do. Being a “Certified Kindergartener” was a point of pride for her, and a huge part of her identity. When she was stranded on Earth with no allies and no hope of being rescued, the one thing that helped her gain some sense of independence and re-humanisation was when she went with Steven and Amethyst to the Kindergarten in Too Far. Before that, she was leashed to a post, her incendiary statements were dismissed or led to punishment instead of educating her and helping her unlearn what she’s believed her entire life.

The Peridot of today derives her identity from so much more than just making Gems pop out of the ground. Farming had become a way to combine her past, all her knowledge about soil material and making things grow, with sustainability and a newfound appreciation for organic life, something Peridot hinted at in Message Received.

Wanting the flowers to grow in the Kindergarten on the most immediate level was about gaining some semblance of routine and familiarity. Her “home” was gone, and the crops that she had cultivated and nurtured around it would always have that gaping hole close by, reminding her of what wasn’t there anymore. The Kindergarten was her old “home.” It was where she started out her journey on Earth and where she began to find her place with the other Crystal Gems. She may have thought that she could reinstate some sort of new home now that her real home was gone.

Of course, it’s more complicated than that. Home wasn’t just the physical barn and the crops. It also involved having someone like Lapis, someone with whom she could learn about the ways of Earth. As different as they were, Peridot was right in saying that they were in the same position: they had nowhere else to go. 

Her presence was something that no physical place could fill. That’s why even after “moving in” to the Gem Temple, Peridot saw no reason to try making the space her own, the way she did the barn. 

Another thing is that Peridot can be very absorbed into her work. Having something to do can give her tunnel vision. She regards good work ethic and competence highly. Outcomes and results are important to her very pragmatic mind. Working together with the Crystal Gems to stop the Cluster was precisely how the Steven was able to reach out to her.

So aside from creating a space of familiarity, Peridot was also looking for a distraction. She could focus on the new farm and spend all her time and energy on it, leaving herself no time to miss Lapis, the barn, and the comfortable Earth life she had finally settled into. 

She says as much,

I was pretty much using this as a distraction from losing Lapis, losing the barn, and just a general sense of complete hopelessness I tend to deal with on a day-to-day basis.

Source: SU Wiki

It’s striking to me that amid this internal struggle to fill in the holes left by Lapis’ departure, Peridot blames herself. Conversely, we have Amethyst saying, “Wow, you were right. This place really is dead.” Amethyst is saying that it’s the ground, and not the farmer that prevented anything from growing. 

On the other hand, Peridot directs the responsibility towards herself. Now that her home was gone, she returned to tying her self-worth with her ability to get things done, in this case, making something grow in the Kindergarten. 

This clod’s just like us! Too dumb to get with the program!

Source: SU Wiki

Initially, we think she’s going to blame the quality of the soil or the Earth for being unable to sustain life in the Kindergarten, but in the end, it’s a simile for herself. 

It should be noted that when Peridot is talking about the general feeling of hopelessness that’s pervading her day-to-day activities, it’s more than just losing Lapis and the barn. Homeworld is coming, and they’re angry. To Peridot, the Crystal Gems have a very real chance of losing this one, and the Gem who has offered her the greatest solace recently, has left. 

In Raising the Barn, Peridot was already on the fence about taking Steven’s advice. She didn’t want to leave Earth, but she didn’t want to lose Lapis. Peridot isn’t amazing at reading people, but she’s lived with Lapis long enough that she knows what sets Lapis off. It’s a testament to the efforts she’s made to understand her Barn Mate.

Given that, she also knows that Lapis’ coping mechanism is to shut everyone out and burn bridges to survive. 

But it really only confirmed to me that once you mess something up, it’s ruined for good and nothing will ever be able to grow again.

Source: SU Wiki

The thing is, Peridot probably knew that Lapis would have left with or without her. She knew the risk of speaking her mind and she obviously knows how much the life they were living meant to her. That she did says a lot about how she values life on Earth and it’s something for another post. 

At the heart of the endeavour, Peridot wanted to fix what was broken. When she sees the fields of sunflowers, she says that she wanted that for the Kindergarten. She wanted everything to be okay. 

The thing is, we can’t control everything. Sometimes things don’t work out the way we want to. And I like that the Kindergarten was what was used for this. Sometimes, there’s just a context, a background, some baggage that we didn’t really cause, but now we’re there and living in the aftermath.

Peridot didn’t strip the Kindergarten of all life. She didn’t cause Lapis to fear trusting others. She didn’t cause the tension between Earth and Homeworld. But all these things were happening. Though her confession to Lapis may have played a role in putting her in the situation everyone was in now, it was by no means the sole cause of it.

Understanding that is a big step in accepting that there are just things that won’t always work out in our favour. And I do think that by the end of the episode, that was what was running through Peridot’s head.

[hotdognachos-deactivated2022050]

Ok regarding that diamond size setting on the ruby ship, assuming that all gems are equally affected and their actual gem size does not change, one of two very excellent things could happen:

1) ruby sized diamond crushed under her diamond sized gem

2) a very intimate ride in a ship of all diamond sized gems

Either way the diamond’s pearl and the ruby crew won’t have a good time.

[tigergem-draws]

This is absolutely amazing

[johndeaky-deactivated20180623]

Why Blue Diamond chose this particular public defender. Hope she is doing okay.

[selineabanto]

Rebecca Sugar QnA- Volume 1 Finale of the SU Podcast

- long post about Rebecca answering fan questions - info from the podcast episode “Leading the Way- Rebecca and Steven Sugar”

If Rebecca were a gem, she’d be under Blue or Pink Diamond’s court

The gem placements of the main characters relate to who they are - Pearl (head)- way too inside her head, intellectual - Amethyst (chest)- passionate, impulsive, speaks from the heart all the time - Garnet (hands)- “hands-on”, active, extremely balanced

For every new gem, [the crew] evaluates who they are based on where their gem is placed

Amethyst’s favorite soda is Apple Seedra (?)

Flourite’s design was inspired by the caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland and Grandmother Willow

Pearl’s favorite color is pink

Rebecca loves pineapples on pizza

Rebecca’s favorite job to do in animation is storyboarding (if it is a board-driven show)

Rebecca’s favorite arc in One Piece is the Sogeking Usopp vs. Luffy fight/arc, Usopp is her favorite character

Pumpkin doesn’t need to eat but he does sleep

When asked if Steven Universe is canonically just a cartoon and if so, if Sardonyx is aware of this, Rebecca replied, “Sardonyx is self-aware. I think Steven Universe is canonically just a cartoon in the canon of real life but within the show, it’s reality. But Sardonyx has this transcendent mind. I think of Sardonyx a little like Psycho Mantis (…) from Metal Gear. She can see outside of what’s going on y’know and that’s something that I feel like Garnet can see beyond the moment into the future and not just into the future but also all of these possible futures so Sardonyx is sort of on this other level where she has that ability but Pearl’s also in there so it’s also obnoxious.”

The theory about Garnet’s glasses changing the ratio of red or blue depending on if Ruby or Sapphire’s personality is dominant at the time is NOT TRUE. Garnet isn’t piloted by two people, she is her own person.

The zircons are poofed, not shattered. “They are certainly not not in trouble, but they’re not shattered.” -Rebecca

The people in the SU Universe have a different relationship towards stories about superheroes due to the gem war

On references of the zircons’ designs: Paul Villeco showed Rebecca history about a night club in Paris called Le Monocle, the monocle as this iconic lesbian fashion statement. Other inspirations include: What’s the Truth about Mother Goose, Jughead and Film Film Film

The Unfamiliar Familiar is a reference to ‘His Dark Materials’

When asked if gems who have their gem over their eye have any sight impairments, Rebecca said, “I think it could affect their depth perception but I don’t know if gems necessarily function the way humans do. I think, if anything, they might even have some sort of enhanced sight (…) like, your gem placement I think has a lot do, like I said, with you as a person. And even Eyeball, I mean, was sort of scrutinizing everything. Then I suppose also other senses could be heightened but that’s very human. I think gems—gems are different. They work a little differently.” McKenzie: “So does that mean Jasper has a really good sense of smell?” Rebecca: “Oh, that I don’t know. Maybe not. I mean that was sort of just a simple—like hard-nosed thought as a way a person could be.”

It is possible for a non-fusion gem to have the same gem-type as a fusion (e.g. a Garnet that is just one gem) It would look different though

Rebecca would like to have an OK K.O. crossover.

Back when OK K.O. was called Lakewood Plaza Turbo, Rebecca and Ian hoped that to have a crossover called Stewood Plaven Turbiverse, resulting in mushing the 2 shows together. Characters would include Mr. Gar-net (Garnet & Mr. Gars), K-ven (Steven & K.O.), Penid (Pearl & Enid), and Radethyst (Amethyst & Radecles)

feel free to add on to this post if I missed any information!

[johndeaky-deactivated20180623]

Crewniverse makes a meticulous effort in the backgrounds to reflect the lasting impact of a recent destruction. These infographics specifically deal with the continuity of damage done to “locations.”

Made by request for the Steven Universe subreddit.

[mamapluto]

Blue Diamond Theory

Stop me if y'all’ve heard this before, but I just brought together a Steven Universe theory. 

So there’s a theory going around that White Diamond has the power to alter memories, right? This is supported largely by Centipeetle’s drawings where her memories are ‘whited out.’ 

She also draws her and her crew with green hair in all pics before the Whiteout. That could just be for the sake of ease, but you never know.

It’s also generally accepted that the attempt to remember is what worsens the corruption.

Now this’ll seem like a tangent, but it’ll all come together by the end.

We are all pretty familiar with this image by now:

Now I’d like to juxtapose the above with the following, focusing mostly on the hair.

You could try to say that the dark blue hair in the mural is just her cowl, but take a closer look at the gif. Even if that is the case, something is off.

While we can’t very clearly see her hair color in the above gif (though given that it’s the exact same shade as the rest of the cowl when there’s enough light to shine on both her lips and her diamond makes me inclined to believe that it is a shade of blue, rather than white), we can see that it does not go across her chest as it does in the modern day:

Now, some people who have pointed out the hair change just chalk it up to the crewniverse having been unsure of her design. While that’s not impossible, it does seem super unlikely lmao.

What seems more likely to me personally, and this is where I’m gonna tie it all back together, is that Blue changes because of White Diamond (or her currently unknown agents) directly.

See, we know a couple things. One, that Blue believes that Pink was shattered by Rose via a Sword:

(Can’t find a subbed gif, but there’s her whole “It was a SWORD” thing during the trial.)

Two, that Rose’s sword can never shatter any gem, much less a Diamond:

So here we have:

* Centipeetle having a tampered-with memory *Centipeetle having white hair (but drawing herself and her crew with green hair before the white diamond memory tampering) *Centipeetle having named the diamond authority as the people who tampered with said memory *Centipeetle being corrupted as a result.

*Blue having blue, or at least, noticeably different hair before Pink’s shattering *Blue having misinformation (or faulty memory) regarding Pink’s shattering *Blue now having white hair.

Soooo tldr: White Diamond fucked with Blue’s memory just like she did with the Centipeetle crew’s. This left all of them with white hair.

And just for shits and giggles, let’s have a bonus round.

Guess who else has solidly white (and not tinted, as with Holly Blue, Opal, Malechite, Jasper pre-corruption, etc) hair?

Another corrupted gem.

Bonus bonus round:

If White Diamond tampering with memories gives gems white hair, and if that is also tied to gem corruption, and if touching on the forgotten and/or altered memories quickens that corruption, it would add an entire other dimension to Yellow Diamond wanting to get the trial over with as quickly as possible. (Also, why she wants to keep Blue away from all of Pink’s stuff, beyond that just being her style of grieving)

If White Diamond altered Blue’s memories, as I suspect she did, then Yellow (who hasn’t changed, as far as I can tell) would want to prevent any corruption of Blue that might come as a result.

 ♫ Wouldn’t you rather forget her? ♫ 

[snapbacksteven]

I'm thinking about the chest in Lion's mane and honestly I love all the theories about it being Pink's Pearl or something dramatic and climatic and big and revealing but... what if it was something small? What if Rose intended for Steven to open that chest at a certain age? What if he gets it open when he's too young or too old and he finds something ordinary but meaningful and/or well-intended, like brochures for colleges, and it's at that moment Steven and the audience truly realize that she -

never intended for all this to happen to him, she probably didn’t even expect he’d go on so many missions with the gems. She just expected him to live a fairly normal life, but he would do something extraordinary like become a doctor or win an award or publish a book, not end a war she began.

Y’know, I’m really with you on this one!

There’s so many theories about it being something big (from a gem standpoint), but really? Knowing Rose? It’s a lot more likely she left him something like what you mentioned.

Rose was so excited to have Steven because he would be human. She found humans and human life exciting and wonderful and unique.

Her gem stuff? She just left all that sitting around in piles like garbage.

But the human things, like the Mr. Universe shirt? She kept it somewhere safe.

So whatever’s in that chest is something important. But probably not important in the way everyone thinks.

[perimarine]

Head canon that Blue Diamond changed her appearance because of stress

Since the Wanted arc aired, I’ve been thinking about Blue Diamond a lot lately and after seeing this video, it made me want to draw her.

In this video, it brings up a very great point about Blue Diamond’s appearance change from her mural depiction in the moon base to what we’ve seen so far.

In the mural, she wears what looks like a long flowing dress that exposes her gem and arms. Her hair color is depicted as darker than that of her skin. So we all expected her to look somewhat similar to that. BUT she ended up like this.

Why is that? Because she’s been mourning the loss of Pink, of course. So because of this, I wanted to draw what she could have looked like before Pink’s shattering.

Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love Blue’s design so much! I love the way she contrasts Yellow’s jagged and sharp design, but I don’t think Blue has always had the white flowing hair and mourning attire she has now.

Any Thoughts?

[mushroom-cookie-bears-deactivat]

Yellow Zircon's eyelids are colored differently than the rest of her, does that mean Yellow Zircon wears eyeshadow?

Not just with Yellow, with Blue too!!!

Both of them have eyelids that are colored a darker shade from the rest of their skin.

I’ve always thought of it as dark circles, like how people get from a lack of sleep. But, I can see it being eyeshadow, too!

[mushroom-cookie-bears-deactivat]

little under-appreciated peridot moments that i love

“IS THIS YOUR BIZARRE ICON??!??!?!?!!?!?!” (holds up image of a crying waffle)

“the fusion experiments are developing properly….a few have even emerged early-EYOOHA”

That little noise she makes in that moment in Catch and Release where she’s in the bathroom yelling at the Crystal Gems and she’s lying down on top of the towel bar holding a plunger and she almost slips

(Steven: I know you use my tooth brush!) “n….no……..well, Yes-”

(voice cracking immensely) I h A V EN>T  Cr A C K ED!!!!1

when she keeps holding the drill the wrong way in Back To The Barn

the one scene that she has in Steven’s Birthday

the face she makes in It Could’ve Been Great when Steven says “Just look at that view”

That scene in Message Received when Steven locks her in the car and we see her from inside the car and she looks like this

That moment in Log Date 7 15 2 where Garnet catches her wearing the alien boxers and she rips them off in the most dramatic way possible

IN GEM DRILL WHEN SHE’S SO CONCERNED ABOUT STEVEN AND HIS WELL BEING THAT SHE STOPS DRILLING THE CLUSTER ALL TOGETHER AND HOLDS HIM AND THAT RELIEVED SMILE SHE DOES WHEN HE WAKES UP FROM TALKING TO THE CLUSTER SHARDS SHE CARES ABOUT HIM SO MUCH I’M GONNA CRY SCOOB

W H E N S H E H U G S S T E V E N I N G E M D R I L L

That moment in Same Old World where she makes exaggerated sound effects while telling their story about drilling the Cluster

Her little hand gestures in Barn Mates

The cute little cartoony smile she makes in Barn Mates when Lapis asks her if she’s okay

IN HIT THE DIAMOND WHEN SHE’S HIDING UNDER THE BOX AND STEVEN TAKES IT OFF HER AND SHE LOOKS LIKE THIS

When she puts the tablet on her arm in Too Short To Ride and it looks like she’s dabbing

When she keeps saying “ow” very flatly while Steven and Amethyst are trying to stretch her in Too Short To Ride

That lil moment in Beta when she’s talkin all casually about the Beta Kindergarten and she just twirls a tuna can in the air using her metal powers while she talks

IN EARTHLINGS WHEN SHE’S TALKIN ABOUT HOW MUCH SHE LOVES EARTH AND IT SET HER FREE

In Gem Harvest when she’s trying to get the Pumpkin Dog to say “clod”

In Adventures In Light Distortion where’s talkin about how she can change the settings on the Ruby ship and it’s indirectly confirmed that she changed the settings of the entire ship from The Return so it would be green like her

The loud yelling she does when she’s levitating the cars in The New Crystal Gems

The fact that she can levitate cars in the first place

The way she says “Look at it! It’s great!” in The New Crystal Gems while presenting the new car wash sign to Greg

The entirety of her role in The New Crystal Gems

Her wet hair in Room For Ruby. I legit screamed when I first saw that

In Room For Ruby when she rolls around in the dirt with Steven and Navy???? so pure

When she tries to console Lapis in Room For Ruby

just…her????? i lov peridot so much

[rebloggingthetheories]

cute

[pearlssardonyx]

Whats??? Going??? On?????? 

[rebloggingthetheories]

what what what what????

[rebloggingthetheories]

.actually wait a sec. this is peridot’s gem:

 this is not:

it doesn’t have the right shape! 

also the “diamond” gem on fluorite doesn’t look like any of the diamonds’ gems that we’ve seen:

[pearlssardonyx]

Whats??? Going??? On?????? 

[rebloggingthetheories]

what what what what????

[rebloggingthetheories]

Diamonds: The Origin

Theory: Whoever made the diamonds made white diamond first on homeworld. she was perfect in every way: a gemstone without imperfections or inclusions, and a mind free from emotional flaws: completely rational. 

white diamond learns how to make her own gems, then somehow escapes from the makers, probably through reasoning with them. 

later on, she attempted to make other diamonds. though white diamond was intelligent, she didn’t know everything about the diamond-making process. the new diamonds were made on different planets, so they had different personalities. yellow diamond came from a desert planet, and blue diamond hails from a water world. yellow diamond was too like the harsh sands of her home planet, and blue diamond drowned herself in her own tears. frustrated, white diamond tried again, settling on a planet her scouts called “earth”. it was a nice place, she thought. not to dry, not too hot, so this new diamond would not be that extreme. pink diamond eventually emerged from russia, where the large hole in the map exists today. but pink diamond was different: the three other diamonds had been made from lifeless planets, whereas pink was made in a planet with creatures existing on it. she had empathy.

[horreborre]

HOMEWORLD

[rebloggingthetheories]

GUYS. THERES SO MUCH TO PICK APART HERE

first of all: the moneyshot. this is probably not white diamond herself, but maybe her palace. OR  maybe the place where the arm ships dock!

yo! is that homeworld?? or maybe something like the ruby ship.

two words: gladiator fights. 

i mean, homeworld is a very militaristic society. it places a lot of worth on strength. im guessing that gems would duke it out here to see who’s stronger. the loser would probably be shattered, you know, weed out the weak.

[artemispanthar]

whoa, man, whoa. What a ride that was like dang, infobomb and, like, dang man that was so good!! Just, so much to process though so forgive me while I try and organize my thoughts.

First, okay, so Topaz is great. She’s great. I really hope we see her again

Surprising but also not surprising - a Diamond shattered Pink Diamond. I know that’s been discussed at length because, among other things, in real life, only diamonds can cut diamonds. I figured that would come into play somehow, since its a pretty well-known fact. But Gems don’t necessarily follow gemstone rules so

Also, another Gem I love, Zircon. The defendant one. She figured it out, something no other Gem seemed to have before. 

Blue Diamond definitely didn’t seem to know, but Yellow Diamond? Hm. And where’s White Diamond in all of this? How is this new information going to affect the Diamond Authority? It would have to cause dissent among them. And what happened to cause a Diamond to shatter Pink Diamond? Was she growing sympathetic to the Rebel cause or was it just a power grab (perhaps caused by her weakened position due to the rebellion?)? How come so many eyewitnesses thought it was Rose that shattered her? Illusion? Shapeshifting? A straight-up lie (Eyeball seemed pretty convinced, though)? I’m so so excited to find all this stuff out

I love all the off-colors? They’re great, they’re all great, I already want to see them all again they’re great all of them

Lars’ “redemption arc,” so to speak, is so good! I love how he developed over this arc and in the episodes to come (I imagine). I’m just so looking forward to where his character goes from here and just. I just really like it. Just way to go Lars!

Also, we know what Lion is now? He’s a lion brought back to life by Rose’s tears (so Rose could heal organics too??) That’s one big ol’ mystery solved… partially solved.

Anyways, this is really scattered because that was just so much to process (also I’m fighting a migraine so I’m a little unfocused tbh) but man that was so good! So good!!

[rebloggingthetheories]

Reactions to the Wanted Special

OK OK 00OOOOK

buckle your seatbelts ladies & gents (+the rest of you fine people) here’s gonna be the worst. post. ever.

lars and lion have been shown to be very similar with abilities- using the pocket dimension with the trees, same light pink hair and darker pink body. so i’m gonna speculate they have the same abilities.

So lion can teleport, right? yes! so lars, once he gets the hang of his new powers probably can teleport too. but here’s the thing. lion got tired just teleporting to the moon, if he tried to teleport to steven, who is lightyears away...i think lion would probably die. also if lars tried to teleport home, he’d probably die too.

ALSO ALSO ALSO

when lion was found he was probably near dead/actually dead, and rose was so sad and surprised she started crying. the tears had to fix so much of lion’s body they became a part of it, which is why lion is pink (and by extension lars). the reason connie didn’t turn pink was because only her eyes were fixed

but wait! don’t forget! the trees on the pocket dimension islands probably show where the host-ers of the pocket dimension are from. on lion’s island, there is an acacia tree. these trees grow in the sahara desert, which is where i’m assuming rose quartz found him. 

see?

and lars is from the tri-state area. you know what’s a very common tree there? oak trees! 

that’s the tree on lars’ island.

shazam son

[douwatahima]

You know, I’ve always been really confused about what the initial point of Rose Quartz’s were to Pink Diamond/Homeworld. Because, really, if the plan for earth was this:

then what is the point of having a gem who has the ability to create life the way Rose is shown to be able to do? And if every other Quartz type we see is built like a freaking body builder (with the exception of the gems from the Beta kindergarten we see in That Will Be All, but according to Peridot nearly all of the gems there “came out wrong” so…) and have weapons that can be used offensively:

then why have this single type of Quartz who looks soft and approachable and give them a shield as a weapon? Then this bomb came along and…I noticed a couple of things about that zoo. The first thing was these flowers on the door.

Five petalled flowers with what looks like the centre of Rose’s gem upside down in the middle. Does that look familiar? How about now.

These look startlingly similar to the flowers Rose grows on earth. On top of this, we have the room where Yellow and Blue Diamond discuss Pink Diamond’s death. When I watched this I couldn’t help but think it was strange that all of the Rose Quartz’s were here for some reason.

Like, if this room was Pink Diamond’s version of the temple, why are there no other gem types anywhere? Surely she didn’t only bubble Rose Quartz’s in her time alive. And if they were put here…in memory of Pink Diamond or something then someone would’ve had to take the time to move all of these bubble gems to this location.

Unless, they were already there.

Unless, the zoo is where Rose Quartz’s used to work.

The zoo is meant to be calming to humans. A place where they live a life of complacency and safety. Would it not make sense that the gems working there would be approachable to humans should they ever need to go into the enclosure? Would it not make sense that they would be able to grow new wildlife should something happen to the ecosystem in the enclosure? Rose Quartz’s would make the perfect guards for such a place.

At least until one of them decided she liked humans a little too much and didn’t want the planet they came from to be destroyed.

[pizza-horse]

Everything about Rose Quartz makes PERFECT sense.

>The ability to create plant life over night, in case something went wrong with the ecosystem at the zoo. The humans would not starve.

>A shield, because the humans probably tried to escape a lot (at first) and they didn’t want a more violent gem to pull out their weapon and destroy the inhabitants. A shield would keep them back without harm.

>Healing powers, for when humans were hurt, since they wouldn’t have access to Earth medical technology or doctors.

>Rose Quartz is one of the most human looking gems, including her gem placement.

>She was made to love humans. She could never truly love another gem (Pearl). That was why she always loved humans, but could never quite match Pearl’s infatuation. Pearls, in the same vein, are meant to serve and be loyal to a single gem.

>The fatal flaw in the design of the Rose Quartz gem was making their role to serve (and care for) humans… not to serve Diamonds.

We all thought Rose Quartz gems were made to be big bad warriors like Jasper.

No.

They were created to be zookeepers.

[amaet]

im like 90% behind this theory and i would only like to add something important to it that further makes it rly solid.

it was mentioned that the door to the zoo opened only once, ever. my proposal is this: the rose quartz that went tru this door was our rose quartz. it was long ago, and the human that was hurt was from the first generation of humans, the ones who were born on earth. rose confronted this human and they talked. the human told rose about the earth, its beauty, about how no annoying voice is dictating you what to do, instead you grow and you can become anything you want. and that planted the seeds of the rebellion in roses mind…

[gnjoneswriter]

Sold.

It would also explain how Rose knew about human reproduction enough to make Steven. Could she have asked Greg? Sure, but try to imagine him telling her and not just stuttering off into incoherent noises while his face turns bright red.

 Now, imagine that Rose was a zookeeper whose role was to care for and nurture humans. She would have to understand human anatomy (to heal them), human nutritional and enrichment needs (to feed and play), and also human reproduction. She would have to know it not just in theory, but intimately. Because things can go wrong with fertility, pregnancy, and birth even in a paradise like the zoo. 

Small wonder she of all gems thinks to create a gem/human fusion with Greg.

*Also remember that Rose had to have a physical sword/weapon made to fight because her actual ‘weapon’ was a shield, as OP pointed out.