malachitenecklace replied to your post: Also starting to wonder if like Rose Quartzes...
really like this… In addition, maybe they were meant to be like other quartzes, but somehow… Turned out wrong? Not like one gem being “defective,” but the entirety of the rose quartz family? Just a thought, might be looking too deep into it lol
It’s very possible, tbh, my PERSONAL headcanon is that all of the earth gems? They’re ‘defective’. One way or another, they all wound up ‘flawed’ by Homeworld standards. I think something to do with Earth itself really messes with gemworld technology and creations. They don’t come out uniform, they don’t come out as intended, at a much higher rate than you would get from other planets. In this way, I believe that Jasper was the ultimate anomaly, because unlike almost all other gems, she came out not only as intended, but better. The reason she’s such a celebrity? She’s super special, not in the normal ‘deviation from the mold’ way, but in the ‘Good for you, you’re actually what we wanted, you fit the box we made for you perfectly’ way. (Unrelated, but god, the pressure of ‘You’re the only one to not completely botch it’ for your entire life? Hoo boy, no wonder she completely collapsed under one failure.)
I mean. All those Jaspers back at the zoo? Who deviate from each other not just in little ways like where their gem is, but in massive ways, height, shape, weight, bulk, EVERYTHING, who are seen as a messy sort of disgrace by Holly Blue, I don’t think that’s normal. Based on the off-colors, that’s not usually tolerated. Earth, as a breeding ground for gems, is an absolute, 100% bust.
AND, based on the latest episodes: I think that extended to Pink Diamond as well.
Personally, I believe Pink Diamond is why we have no Russia. And I think Pink Diamond might have been swayed by Rose Quartz’s rebellion. I mean. She curated a zoo. Of humans and earth-life. For what reason other than she liked Earth enough to want to preserve a piece of it?
Pink Diamond was killed, her murder covered up, because Pink Diamond, by virtue of being born on earth, was irreparably flawed, just like every member of the court that she made there. And if we assume White Diamond is the high ruler of all Gems, and White Diamond is the one that created and enforces the strict castes and hierarchies of Homeworld, then White Diamond simply can not afford for a diamond to be ‘off-color’, to be sympathetic to lifestyles outside the one she architected.
I went way off on a tangent but I’m very excited about my own theory.
