thoughts about pink diamond now that we saw part of her mural? like some people are saying that her legs are too thin to be rose.
1) the Diamond Moon Base’s murals are stylized…
Pink Diamond’s legs do not necessarily look like that (note similarity in style between the depictions of Pink Diamond’s legs and Blue Diamond’s legs):
2) Blue Diamond’s height is not necessarily indicative of the other Diamonds’ statures. while we’ve yet to meet White Diamond(’s physical form), Yellow Diamond, or Pink Diamond in-show, the shot we got of Yellow Diamond during the extended theme…
…gives us an imperfect indication of her height. while she seems only slightly taller than Jasper at first glance, note that–whereas Jasper’s, Lapis’s, and Peridot’s limbs are at least partially showing–Yellow Diamond is depicted in such a way that only her waist is showing. depending on how long her legs are, she could be much taller than quartz soldier Jasper…and, by extension, Rose, who’s Jasper’s height and consistent with the standard height for the known quartz models. (it’s also important to remember that the crewniverse does not have set heights for the characters, only height relationships.)
3) “Steven’s Birthday” established that Gems cannot maintain a “stretched” physical form (i.e. bigger, taller, or larger) than the form in which they first emerged from their Kindergarten holes. however, this rule does not necessarily apply to Gems maintaining “smaller” forms than their “default” form. for all we know, a Gem can shapeshift comfortably into smaller forms.
4) while Pink Diamond’s symbol was present on the Sky Arena and Diamond Moon Base, sites that were built as part of Homeworld’s plan for the Earth colony/predated the Crystal Gem Rebellion…
…the pink symbol is missing from both “modern” Gem tech, like Peridot’s hand-ship…
…and the Sleeping Pyramid temple-labyrinth from “Serious Steven”:
this temple, by the way, has a mural that depicts scenes from the Crystal Gem Rebellion. here we see Rose and her allies confronting a Diamond in battle:
it also just so happens that the temple is located on the Strawberry Fields, which–according to Pearl and Garnet in “Rose’s Scabbard”–served as a battlefield during the Gem Wars for Earth where the Crystal Gems made their stand against Homeworld. this temple was not shown among the Moon Base’s original plans for the Earth Colony, implying that–although it was built thousands of years ago–it was not planned for in advance. additionally–as I’ve argued–this temple, which is almost certainly of Homeworld construction, houses a Gem that may be White Diamond:
again, the Pink Diamond symbol was already missing from White Diamond’s alleged temple.
tl;dr: why is Pink Diamond’s symbol missing from not only modern Gem architecture, but Homeworld Gem architecture constructed circa the Gem Wars for Earth, seemingly built specifically to protect one of the Gem Matriarchs of the Great Diamond Authority after her physical form was destroyed; a temple that is located on the very same battlefield where Rose, Garnet, Pearl, and their allies made their stand against Homeworld…?
maybe Rose and Pearl destroyed Pink Diamond; maybe she did something to piss her counterparts off. either way, these date estimates line up too neatly to be coincidence, imo.
5) related: why was the Pink Diamond statue on the Sky Arena–the site of the first battles of the Gem Wars for Earth–defaced/destroyed while the other Diamond statues were preserved? it’s like Homeworld had a vendetta against her, or something.
6) based on the Moon Base murals, we can infer that the Diamonds’ gem placements go like this: White (forehead), Blue & Yellow (chest). these positions match their individual symbols on both their pre-Rebellion and post-Rebellion symbols:
if we’re to follow the pattern on these emblems, then Pink Diamond’s gem placement would be below her chest–possibly on her navel.
7) why hide Pink Diamond’s mural/withhold her appearance from us when her counterparts’ forms have been revealed? why spoonfeed us details about her through imagery–the “old” Diamond crest including Pink on the Sky Arena and Moon Base vs. the “new” Diamond crest with Pink missing–so that her existence (like White Diamond’s) has never been explicitly mentioned by the characters? dramatically, this conserves tension. maybe because Pink Diamond was someone we already know; maybe because Pink Diamond is not someone we already know but the crew, knowing that many of us would believe that we’ve figured out who Pink Diamond is, made this choice to throw us off their scent.
8) in “Space Race,” Pearl wears a flightsuit with a pink diamond on it. this seems mirror the style in which Peridot’s, Jasper’s, and Lapis’s outfits feature yellow and blue diamonds to denote their affiliation with Yellow Diamond and Blue Diamond:
plus, when Rose and Pearl form Rainbow Quartz in “We Need to Talk,” the lower half of the star on Rose’s dress is shaped like a diamond:
it stands to reason that Pearl, as Rose’s first Crystal Gem ally and intimate confidante, would know more about her than most–perhaps to the point that her knowledge still manifests here, when they fuse.
9) the technology in Rose’s armory…
…resembles the technology seen in the Kindergarten control room and the Diamond Moon Base:
the latter of which, by the way, Steven–bearer of Rose Quartz’s gem–activates.
…look. I have reservations about Rose Diamond theory, mostly because it’s…questionable that an army of Gems deemed defective or outcasts by the Homeworld would be led by an “ex-Diamond”–one of the leaders of Homeworld; one of the Gems with power over an empire that deems its Gems defective in the first place–who changed her name (and possibly her physical form) to pass as a lower model soldier-class Gem, or quartz, after she visited Earth and had a revelation…as though the suffering the Great Diamond Authority inflicted on Gems, their own kind, was not enough to rouse her.
there may be any number of unrevealed Homeworld shenanigans that would explain that: maybe Pink Diamond was considered defective by the other Diamonds; maybe Pink Diamond was a title that Rose Quartz was given or expected to prove she was worthy of; maybe Rose Quartz was a soldier-class Gem in Pink Diamond’s service who struck her down, took (likely White Diamond’s) Pearl with her when she escaped, and ran off to start a rebellion. it’s way too early to tell either way, and it’s way too early to make judgments about how the crewniverse will or will not handle “Pink Diamond,” whoever she was.
the evidence is still there, make what you will of it.
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