Stop me if y'allāve heard this before, but I just brought together a Steven Universe theory.Ā
So thereās a theory going around that White Diamond has the power to alter memories, right? This is supported largely by Centipeetleās drawings where her memories areĀ āwhited out.āĀ
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.
Itās also generally accepted that the attempt to remember is what worsens the corruption.
Now thisāll seem like a tangent, but itāll all come together by the end.
We are all pretty familiar with this image by now:
Now Iād 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 canāt very clearly see her hair color in the above gif (though given that itās the exact same shade as the rest of the cowl when thereās 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 thatās not impossible, it does seem super unlikely lmao.
What seems more likely to me personally, and this is where Iām 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:
(Canāt find a subbed gif, but thereās her wholeĀ āIt was a SWORDā thing during the trial.)
Two, that Roseās sword can never shatter any gem, much less a Diamond:
* 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 Pinkās shattering
*Blue having misinformation (or faulty memory) regarding Pinkās shattering
*Blue now having white hair.
Soooo tldr: White Diamond fucked with Blueās memory just like she did with the Centipeetle crewās. This left all of them with white hair.
And just for shits and giggles, letās have a bonus round.
Guess who else has solidly white (and not tinted, as with Holly Blue, Opal, Malechite, Jasper pre-corruption, etc) hair?
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 Pinkās stuff, beyond that just being her style of grieving)
If White Diamond altered Blueās memories, as I suspect she did, then Yellow (who hasnāt changed, as far as I can tell) would want to prevent any corruption of Blue that might come as a result.
Ā ā« Wouldnāt you rather forget her? ā«Ā
