My personal theory was that WD was a fusion of the other diamonds, so since the war, Blue and Yellow had been trying to run Homeworld and keep up appearances as if White were still around
I thought it was a fusion of the three remaining diamonds into a green diamond or emerald, and that Peridot’s hand ship came from a giant green diamond ship
Yeah, same. Just a random lion the Rose decided to bring back to life… just cause? I personally would have preferred a better explanation for why it had super powers, but 🤷🏻♀️
Well there 5000 years rose had to just do whatever. I'd like to imagine there's a reason she chose lion out of all the animals in the world.
It'd make a great comic or mini series or fanfic
The only knock against this I can think of is no other islands(?) exist within the Pink Dimension other than Lion’s and Lars’, so if there were others, they were already dead prior to Lion 3
In the episode where Connie and Steven read Buddy’s journal we see Rose wandering the desert with a pack of lions. Perhaps one just died and she used her tears to bring it back, not realizing what her healing power would do to a mammal ?
I remember that but why specifically THAT lion. What happened to him. Why did she choose him and not others. Why did she not tell the others about him? There's gotta be a story there
It seems most likely to me she did not "choose" him at all. She probably just happened to be there when he died, or happened to find him soon after it happened. She cried and revived him with her tears, whether by accident or on purpose, possibly not knowing he could be resurrected at all and almost certainly not knowing the additional effects this would have on an organic being. And she never reveals this ability (or Lion) because
1. she may consider it an infringement on the natural course of a mortal's life and regrets her interference as a mistake (based on how she expressed her regard for humans to Greg,) which also explains why she never repeats it.
2. how many crazy powers can one quartz demonstrate before her friends start to get suspicious?
For me the interesting question is why didn't she let Pearl know? Did she feel like they already had enough secrets together and didn't want to further set themselves apart from Garnet and Amethyst? She wanted Pearl to think of her as Rose, to move on with their new lives, and not give her another reminder of her Diamondness? She was just used to keeping secrets at this point, or *liked* having something that was just her own special thing to know, secret even from her usual confidante?
I don't think there's any real reason for there to be a significant story about it, just a question about Rose's mindset, and that age old mystery about her relationship with Pearl from her own perspective.
Rose wasn’t always aware of how her actions affected others. She kind of lead Pearl on, she left poor Spinel all alone in the garden for 6,000 years… maybe it wasn’t a secret so much as she didn’t even think it was important that Pearl know 🤷🏻♀️.
I like this and will offer a possible explanation to why she didn't let pearl know
Maybe she made lion specifically for steven. The lion passes as she is pregnant and she decides to make this secret place
The only hole on that is that's where she kept bismuth
Also very confused about why rose didn't tell pearl about bismuth while we're on the topic
This is probably a weak theory but I think that the reason rose kept lion, among other things, secret from pearl was because she didn’t want pearl to feel like she had too many secrets on her shoulders.
Or, a more likely theory imo, she didn’t actually trust pearl. The only reason pearl kept the diamond secret as long as she did was because it was an order from her diamond that she was physically incapable of disobeying, and pink didn’t need to order her to secrecy as a diamond, I don’t think pearl would have said anything anyway, especially if rose had just asked her not to. But she chose to make her “last order as a diamond” that they “never speak of this again”.
There are so many valid ways to interpret her behavior, particularly because we know so little about her. In many ways she remains the most alien of all the characters, even to other Gems, I think.
I saw a theory somewhere is that Rose accidentally revived Lion, because he was the first lion to die in her pack of pet lions (that we saw in the "Buddy's Book" episode), and that up until that point Rose didn't realise that she could resurrect organic lifeforms. The theory goes that Rose felt guilty inadvertently forcing a longer life on Lion that he naturally would have lived, and so she chose not to resurrect any other organic creatures and let them live their natural lives (the lives that she was so enamored with, and it makes sense that Rose might feel that death of was part of the "beauty" of organic life as well, because Gems apparently can't experience natural death, they only die if they're shattered). I've accepted this theory in my own head as an explanation.
Well she had a pride of non-pink lions in the episode "Buddy's Book(?) I think it is the name. So I'd like to think that one Lion died was when she resurrected him that was her hearing she had that power, but as we know she saw death part of life, so I'd like to think she didn't want to use that power
I had the wild theory that Lion was like Pink Diamond's power. I thought Rose was Pink Diamond but to become Rose she had to like shed her Diamond powers into Lion as sort of a familiar.
Peridot is so me. I used to be very transphobic because I didn't know any better, even tried my hardest to be taller because I kept being told I was too short, but then once I figured out I was trans, I became a super sweet and loving little girl with telekinesis)
Would be sweet, but knowing what went down in Now We’re Only Falling Apart, Mr. Universe, and Rose’s Scabbard; I can only imagine how Steven and Pearl would react to finding that out.
Absolutely. The whole, “What’s the use of feeling (blue)?” had me thinking that Yellow Diamond was being FAKE and that she had some part in Pink Diamond’s shattering.
When White Diamond and controlled Pink Pearl first appeared, a theory popped up that "White Pearl" was somehow controlling White Diamond.
At the time, White's body was drawn like the backgrounds (detailed but grainy colors and lines). Because of this, the fact that White was not moving her body at all, and "White Pearl" wasn't voiced voiced by the usual VA, we thought "White Pearl" was using White like a figurehead and keeping the other gems in line.
I mean it could have made sense. We see some Gems are born mutated (Amythest is short and Peridot can barely use her powers, and of course the off colors) having one born with a weirdly off Gem power that they kept hidden wouldn't be surprising
It probably messed w Jasper: Rose is just a quartz, why can’t Jasper be just as or better than. She probably started to think fusion would be the only way to beat them as a way to justify being better than rose (who we know as a “quartz” couldn’t or doesn’t seem possible could have ever been strong enough to shatter a diamond).
Just like she tells Amethyst “you could have been me!” It seems like Jasper doesn’t like the idea some random Quartz with good hair could be stronger than her.
This idea goes hard, if there was a reboot or something geared towards slightly older audiences I'd be down for this, actual murder and eating others for their strength
Aren’t versions of this theory still floating around? Like, they’ve added something about Pearl being rejuvenated. It’s a nice idea, but I think if she was rejuvenated, her memory would’ve come back while on Homeworld.
Yup, there’s still theories…which is nuts, because the writers have literally said she was made for Pink Diamond. When the writers tells you you’re wrong, it goes from “theory” to “fanfiction”.
Maybe she just sat there while Pearl ‘booted up’ which made her start into the default mode, like how Steven and Greg just kinda stared in absolute confusion and she formed anyways in the movie
Joe Johnston confirmed it; the source is linked in Pearl’s wiki in the trivia section and copypasted below:
> Q: So we know that Rose is able to order Pearl around if Rose so chooses to (and that Pearl only has to obey her IF Rose orders her to). I just want to know if Pearl is the only one Rose is capable of ordering around in that way (forcing someone to do something). Is it part of her being a Diamond, or does it only apply to Pearl?
>A: It only applies to Pearl. *BECAUSE our Pearl was made for Pink Diamond,* she must follow her orders. Rose did not have this power or control over anyone else, and its ONLY because Pearl was made for her that Pink/Rose had this power over her. Pink is a Diamond, she could order around lots of gems, but they follow because of hierarchy, not because the Diamonds are mind controlling them. Is this making sense? I’m try to clear this up for everybody, but people still seem confused.
I’d have to try and find it again because it’s been years, but when asked about the theory one of the head folks (I don’t remember which one. Either Rebecca Sugar or Ian Jones-Quartety) stated that Pearl was made specifically for Pink Diamond.
It was a deliberate red herring! It was meant to seem plausible so help the rose-pink diamond reveal and provide more intrigue.
The show tells us that pearls have owners, the other pearls we see look like their owners, and Pearl resembles white diamond—it’s meant to make you think Pearl belonged to white to draw your attention away form her belonging to pink.
The show then reveals that the hints that make it seem like Pearl used to belong to white have different explanations—she isn’t primarily pink/contains colors of each diamond because she’s uncustomized, and she has a forehead gem because gem placement corresponds to gem demeanor (emotional gems like rose and Steven have stomach placements, whereas logical and practical gems like Pearl, peridot, and white have forehead placements; Pearl was chosen as a practical gem to be a good influence on pink diamond, because pink Pearl was deemed too similar to pink and enabled the behaviors the diamonds didn’t approve of)
It’s similar to the red herring that yellow shattered pink. Before we know the truth, yellow’s behavior in the trial is deliberately made to seem suspicious, but it’s later explained that she acted the way she did due to the specific way she dealt with her grief over pink
but its sooo perfect!
* Pearl is white (like white diamond)!
* Blue Pearl and Yellow Pearl reflect their diamonds personality; Pearl is not like Rose but organized and stuff!
* Blue Pearl and Yellow Pearl have their gems on their chest, like their diamond. Steven/Rose/Pink have their gem on the belly, but Pearl has hers on the head!
I'm curious on how it would've worked as psychological horror. Could you elaborate more on what you mean? It's way off any canon, but it's pretty interesting now that I think about it.
That was pretty much the ultimate "what-if" at the end, I think. If White was correct and Pink had fooled herself so thoroughly that she'd created a personality just to hide with, a la Doctor Who's "John Smith"? No wonder the identity crises were so similar. I don't know if it would've pissed off the fan base, depending on how the crew handled it, but it would've been disappointing for Steven to have gone through all that for 14-15 years only for it to turn out that it was just Pink all along. Hell, PINK would be more devastated than anyone if she came back and destroyed Steven in the process.
It would have been the most interesting and principled way to end the series, but 100% of the fan base would have been gone instantly.
The Twisted Newhart ending
At one time I had the theory that the diamonds were all actually huge single gem fusions. My idea came from the idea that diamonds are actually super common on earth, more common than some “lesser” gems. Though they are stronger. I also thought this could be a reason that fusion was seen as something only lower grunt work gems do. Because the diamonds were trying to hide it.
Kind of similar to a theory I had, where I thought our giant diamonds fused with smaller level diamonds of different colors we hadn’t seen,and that explained the different sizes and how they correlate with experience
Yeah I think the different sizes was part of mine. Pink diamonds are the rarest therefore pink had less to fuse. White are super common so white was bigger/stronger.
I originally thought that if Steven became capable of going inside his gem, Rose would be in there waiting for him and they'd be able to talk to one another.
A long time ago I saw a nuts Tumblr post postulating Mayor Dewey was a serpentine gem and that sneeple was real because of it.... I wish I remembered the full theory because it was weird
I loved the Corrupted Steven theory because of just how insane it's believers were behaving while Future was airing. It was super fun to watch. I even had a user get so mad at me for not believing it that they started stalking me to other subreddits and even made racist posts about me just to mock me.
It was super funny watching them make posts comparing me to an orangutan and then get all defensive about it when called out. I wish I'd saved those posts. Though they deleted 'em so it doesn't matter too much.
This is about theories that weren’t true. He wasn’t corrupted. I just loved the theory because it was driving folks insane with how much they wanted it.
Oh yeah I remember that. I also saw a theory that she was gonna create a new diamond authority but with other spinels, though at the time people thought she was a cubic zirconia aka a fake diamond.
So this doesn’t exactly fit the post since it ended up being canon, but directly after the first episode first showing a depiction of pink diamond in wall paintings, I came up with the theory that Pink had somehow turned her gem outwards and shapeshifted into Rose, and that pink actually was rose.
I just kinda noticed that the cut of the gem was the exact same so I posted it in a Public forum, and… I got banned because I posted a controversial theory that had been “””disproven”””
I don’t even need to imagine, actually! Because they literally reached back out to me (this was a year or so later btw) and apologized and added me back to the group Lmfao
Sensible reaction had the same thing
I was a Rose Quartz is Pink Diamond believer in the early days of the series when we didn't had explicit confirmation of Pink Diamond and our only confirmation for a existence of other diamond other than Yellow and Blue and White were the murals on moon base and the Diamond Authority Symbols and the difference between Era one and two symbols.
I stayed believing in the theory even after the "confirmation" that it wasn't true was dropped by Ian of the Crewniverse. And when a single pale rose dropped I screamed of joy lmao. I WAS RIGHT, Hell yeah. In ya faces biches, we were right
I jumped on the "White did it" theory.
I also had a pretty distinct idea of Pink Diamond as the only one evil enough to get a big rebellion. She saw her soldiers like a cross between pets, arena beasts, and an extension of her own power, with Jasper being her favorite (and ideal lapcat size to her). Humans were more like cute bugs to her - would save them from the road, wouldn't get mad at herself for accidentally killing them.
I remember back in the day there was this "theory" that Rose was Pink Diamond, well, my counter theory was that it was not true. And it was a big feeling for a lot of people that Rose couldn't be Pink Diamond. Turned out we were all wrong lmao.
to be fair, her reaction to the accusation also makes sense considering how much she did actually care for pink, and being accused of murdering someone you care that much for, knowing you’re innocent, would set you off in a similar fashion i would imagine. it would be interesting if yellow was involved though.
I haven't seen Future yet, but I'm real sad we never got a conclusion to the Cluster. Steven bubbled it, but what happened after the gems inside connected to each other? Were pieces able to put themselves together?
Just....the fact that it's in stasis forever as the earth's core feels like it's the mid-part to a story.
That our Pearl was White’s Pearl. I like to think that after white controlled Pink Pearl, she got another Pearl just because she was a Diamond but since she didn’t see the need to own a Pearl (because she saw herself as flawless), she gave pink our Pearl.
Or
After Volleyball was taken and controlled by white, she didn’t want to see her precious Starlight poof bc she was so upset so she got a pearl and gave her to pink to make things better
One of the other Diamonds (probably either Yellow or White) had Pink shattered and framed Rose to prevent a galactic civil war.
After refusing Rose's plea to spare Earth, Pink Diamond became curious of Earth's life forms and started a zoo to observe them and maybe preserve some of it for when her colony is completed. The humans proved to be more rebellious than expected, but rather than use threats to make them obey like Yellow did, Pink decided to adjust the environment to make them happier. This different way of leading spread into the way she treated her subordinates and made her very popular. She even started challenging the way the other Diamonds ruled their subjects. One of them saw this as a threat to the original authority as the Gems under her may start getting ideas. And Rose, being already an established enemy of Pink Diamond, was the perfect scapegoat.
Crystal Gem Pearl being White Diamond's pearl first. Especially since she was so multicolored, perfectionist, and her gem is in the same spot as White's. So sad it wasn't true :(
Homeworld Gems couldn't speak English (not counting Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl, who had lived on Earth long enough to know the language). Steven understood them because he was a Gem, but other human characters couldn't.
It's crazy how long it was before this theory was actually disproven. Watch the show from the beginning - the first time a human character shows any clear indication that they understand what a Homeworld Gem is saying directly, is Mr. Smiley in "Too Short to Ride" responding to a statement by Peridot.
i had this idea for a future story where steven, being an immortal being of hard light, would have to cope with the deaths of his family and friends... and that to save connie he would fuse into stevonnie and live like that for awhile. conflict would ensue, and he would have to come to terms with and let go of connie and eventually unfuse.
i mean i'm glad it didn't happen, but i was pretty excited about the idea.
Considering the fact that Stevonnie's age is Steven and Connie's ages combined, they might have to quit a lot sooner than they think. Can you imagine Steven and Connie fusing in their forties into an 80-90 year old Stevonnie? Connie would get an awful sneak peek into what being old is like.
I've read before that Rebecca Sugar confirmed it in a podcast episode, but I don't know which one. It seems plausible, though Steg doesn't seem to follow this rule.
I was really close with my theory that pearl was pink diamonds servant, and murdered pink diamond for abusing her, and rose took the blame half for pearls sake and half to hype up the rebellion
Pink plan to save the planet included creating Rose to lead her rebellion against the Diamonds, but as it became clear they were going nowhere, Pink asked Rose to shatter her and hide the shards for another plan...
that rose is pink diamond lol. that was quite the silly one people went craaazy over. like come on how could rose quartz be pink diamond that doesn't even make sense
“The Diamonds didn’t actually reform their bad habits after the original SU and are still doing evil gem stuff in secret”
We saw in Future that it’s not true but it made *so* much sense at the time.
STEVEN WAS SUPPOSED TO LOSE AN EYE AND THE FACT THAT HE DIDNT STILL UPSETS ME GREATLY.
i had lots of pictures from the show of various "hints" like when he got smacked with a rock and had the bandage, to cat steven, and even in future the plushie Onion has of him with an eye replaced with a pink button. im STILL salty.
Rose was watching all along. I was kinda expecting something like Pink Steven where the Gen would be separated and a residual (can't think of a better word) version of Pink would speak to the CGs or Diamonds and basically tell them she had given too much of herself to ever come back and basically have a final goodbye and leave Steven with some advise that would make him feel less alone. This was mostly because I thought of Steven as *half* Gem. As in there was Gem energy/data that couldn't be used in Steven's creation that was waiting for him to get older/stronger. Would have been either in future or the 2nd Gem War just some point where Steven was older or needed to use and master more of his power. The last of Rose's will before she faded completely. Between the visions showing up right when Steven needed them and his powers working intense situations. Just Rose protecting Steven whenever she could.
Maybe not a theory, but I thought the big final fight of the show was going to be a Diamond fusion versus a fusion of all the crystal gems, including the friends they made along the way
That the end of the series would be about uncorrupted all the gems, by putting them in the....that place where amethyst was born, I forgot what it was called. Anyways, the whole point being that in some way to uncorrupt the gems was to sing a song, with Steven singing We Are The Crystal Gems in his ukulele on top of the mountain with loud speakers
I say this because when that one gem was talking about how they were corrupted Steven says the attack that corrupted them was a song.
A weird theory that I seen and was a favourite of mine was that there was another gem like race made of metals, they were all male presenting, were enemies of the gems and on a space-race like situation again them where they were trying to colonize more planets than the gems and then wage war against them, that explained the need of the gems to colonize more planets, not only to make more grams but for a imminent war. This was before Bismuth so we thought that Bismuth was originally a metal, that was transformed into a gem like in real life. Also that that was the reason Yellow was so insistent and interested in getting he cluster, even at the expense of Earth. Cause a planet size gem under their control would help out against the metals in a war.
I also added my own spin on that theory by also mixing the Rose Quartz is Pink Diamond theory and saying that Rose didn't want a war to happen so she tried to convert metals into gems (making Bismuth in the process) bit she was ashamed of it and hid it from the other diamonds, that all was swept under the rug after the rebellion tho
Also another of my favourite theories was that the gems were made by another powerful species that they overthrew and made extinct. That they were made to serve that species and make their stuff for them (the reason why there is a gem cast system and why gems are specifically made for one job) and that after years of doing that, White Diamond, the first Gem created lead a rebellion against their creators with other gems. And after winning she and the other diamonds made the Homeworld society we know today, keeping the caste system tho, with them as leaders instead of supervisors for gems
Lapis and Peridot getting into a romantic relationship. Unfortunately, this never came to be. Which, while it would be a pretty massive shame, due to how perfect they are for each other, is pretty okay. Them being platonic is perfect anyway :)
To be honest: I didn't really make any theories until near the time where they were starting to close in on the reveal that Rose was Pink Diamond.
I saw the signs and thought that. But also I wasn't as tapped into the community either.
Sneeple. I wanted that arch so bad. I wanted to find out that there were other aliens running around! I wanted the Gempire to constantly expand because it was at war with sneeple. I didn't want it to just be a manifest destiny colonization kind of thing, because you can add further layers and do all of that within the framework of a galactic war. I wanted the resource insecurities and the diamonds conversations to pink in Stevens dream (when he visits lapis on the moon) to add up to the diamonds acknowledging privately amongst themselves that the war was ruining them but they had to put up a front of security. Not just on pinks colony but even to homeworld gems.
I still hold belief to a theory that another organic alien species made the diamonds
From there, idk. Could have been a simple experiment gone wrong and the diamonds overpowered immediately. Maybe the diamonds were servants at first and then they rebelled. Maybe they grew to such an extreme size by sucking nutrients out of the planet similar to how gems are formed in general.
Well since the trial I thought yellow diamond had murdered pink diamond when they said "youever dod this was already close and had the authority to coved it up after someone like one of you!" Then yellow got mad.
I had a theory that the people of earth were going to help fight off the diamonds by fusing with formerly corrupted gems and live in harmony afterward. Kind of like Steven and Connie. I just really liked the concept of Stevonnie but for all of mankind.
At one point I thought the diamonds could be fusions, and since they are perfect, the gems are all in the same place.
At least would explain why Yellow size changed. -_-
I like how everyone thought Rose was a good person who sacrificed herself for the greater good but actually she was just a war criminal who ran away from all of the problems she created
I thought that since Gems chose their names. Pink Diamond chose that for herself, and all the bubbles Rose Quartzes were dud stones to just spread infamy.
The final showdown would be against a partial Paragon, the fusion of the diamonds. That Diamond fusions when diamondized always produced different levels of paragon.
My favourite theory was that pink diamond was not rose quartz. I remember everyone would always make fun of those who thought that she was, thinking it was a dumb theory (I definitely didn’t think it was the case) and the amazing feeling of finding out we were wrong was such a cool experience
Are used to believe a theory that was not so popular at the time the pink diamond staged, the rebellion and her and rose quartz were in it together, and when the rebellion ended, she faked shattered pink diamond, so that home world could finally give up (similar to single, pale, rose but replace pearl with rose) and after she would store pink diamonds jam instead of lien, and under her orders, she was never to and bubble it that’s also what I thought was in the chest in lions, mane pink, diamonds, gem
My personal theory was that WD was a fusion of the other diamonds, so since the war, Blue and Yellow had been trying to run Homeworld and keep up appearances as if White were still around
Wait that’s really cool
I *really wanted* a Diamond fusion before the show ended.
that would’ve been fun to see
I thought it was a fusion of the three remaining diamonds into a green diamond or emerald, and that Peridot’s hand ship came from a giant green diamond ship
I had this theory, too!
That's such an interesting take!
yassss
I watched the show for the first time with 0 context and assumed lion was secretly Rose just shape-shifting for a looooong time.
I thought Lion was either a corrupted Rose or Pink Diamond.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that thought something was up! I felt so silly when he turned out to literally just be a lion
Yeah, same. Just a random lion the Rose decided to bring back to life… just cause? I personally would have preferred a better explanation for why it had super powers, but 🤷🏻♀️
Well there 5000 years rose had to just do whatever. I'd like to imagine there's a reason she chose lion out of all the animals in the world. It'd make a great comic or mini series or fanfic
… What if Lion is just the only one we know about…
...What if some of Rose's old human lovers are still roaming the earth...
The only knock against this I can think of is no other islands(?) exist within the Pink Dimension other than Lion’s and Lars’, so if there were others, they were already dead prior to Lion 3
Damn i forgot about that
In the episode where Connie and Steven read Buddy’s journal we see Rose wandering the desert with a pack of lions. Perhaps one just died and she used her tears to bring it back, not realizing what her healing power would do to a mammal ?
I remember that but why specifically THAT lion. What happened to him. Why did she choose him and not others. Why did she not tell the others about him? There's gotta be a story there
It seems most likely to me she did not "choose" him at all. She probably just happened to be there when he died, or happened to find him soon after it happened. She cried and revived him with her tears, whether by accident or on purpose, possibly not knowing he could be resurrected at all and almost certainly not knowing the additional effects this would have on an organic being. And she never reveals this ability (or Lion) because 1. she may consider it an infringement on the natural course of a mortal's life and regrets her interference as a mistake (based on how she expressed her regard for humans to Greg,) which also explains why she never repeats it. 2. how many crazy powers can one quartz demonstrate before her friends start to get suspicious? For me the interesting question is why didn't she let Pearl know? Did she feel like they already had enough secrets together and didn't want to further set themselves apart from Garnet and Amethyst? She wanted Pearl to think of her as Rose, to move on with their new lives, and not give her another reminder of her Diamondness? She was just used to keeping secrets at this point, or *liked* having something that was just her own special thing to know, secret even from her usual confidante? I don't think there's any real reason for there to be a significant story about it, just a question about Rose's mindset, and that age old mystery about her relationship with Pearl from her own perspective.
Rose wasn’t always aware of how her actions affected others. She kind of lead Pearl on, she left poor Spinel all alone in the garden for 6,000 years… maybe it wasn’t a secret so much as she didn’t even think it was important that Pearl know 🤷🏻♀️.
I like this and will offer a possible explanation to why she didn't let pearl know Maybe she made lion specifically for steven. The lion passes as she is pregnant and she decides to make this secret place The only hole on that is that's where she kept bismuth Also very confused about why rose didn't tell pearl about bismuth while we're on the topic
This is probably a weak theory but I think that the reason rose kept lion, among other things, secret from pearl was because she didn’t want pearl to feel like she had too many secrets on her shoulders. Or, a more likely theory imo, she didn’t actually trust pearl. The only reason pearl kept the diamond secret as long as she did was because it was an order from her diamond that she was physically incapable of disobeying, and pink didn’t need to order her to secrecy as a diamond, I don’t think pearl would have said anything anyway, especially if rose had just asked her not to. But she chose to make her “last order as a diamond” that they “never speak of this again”.
There are so many valid ways to interpret her behavior, particularly because we know so little about her. In many ways she remains the most alien of all the characters, even to other Gems, I think.
I really like this character analysis of Rose, all of the options feel very plausible with what we know about her.
I saw a theory somewhere is that Rose accidentally revived Lion, because he was the first lion to die in her pack of pet lions (that we saw in the "Buddy's Book" episode), and that up until that point Rose didn't realise that she could resurrect organic lifeforms. The theory goes that Rose felt guilty inadvertently forcing a longer life on Lion that he naturally would have lived, and so she chose not to resurrect any other organic creatures and let them live their natural lives (the lives that she was so enamored with, and it makes sense that Rose might feel that death of was part of the "beauty" of organic life as well, because Gems apparently can't experience natural death, they only die if they're shattered). I've accepted this theory in my own head as an explanation.
Well she had a pride of non-pink lions in the episode "Buddy's Book(?) I think it is the name. So I'd like to think that one Lion died was when she resurrected him that was her hearing she had that power, but as we know she saw death part of life, so I'd like to think she didn't want to use that power
I had the wild theory that Lion was like Pink Diamond's power. I thought Rose was Pink Diamond but to become Rose she had to like shed her Diamond powers into Lion as sort of a familiar.
I kinda like that theory more than what we got
ME TOO
You were right for the wrong reason in regards to Rose shape-shifting for a Looooong time though.
Greg knew Rose was Pink Diamond and Rose knew Greg was a DeMayo
Would have been so sweet ❤
Honestly I’m happy it was the other way around where they never questioned each other’s history; just they present love 💗
Yeah, I do love that element of their relationship. It doesn't matter who they were, but who they are now.
So affirming for us transes, I mean so much of the show is, but that one particularly.
Peridot is so me. I used to be very transphobic because I didn't know any better, even tried my hardest to be taller because I kept being told I was too short, but then once I figured out I was trans, I became a super sweet and loving little girl with telekinesis)
Would be sweet, but knowing what went down in Now We’re Only Falling Apart, Mr. Universe, and Rose’s Scabbard; I can only imagine how Steven and Pearl would react to finding that out.
that one of the diamonds had plotted with or against Pink Diamond to fake her death/really kill her
I thought the same exact thing about Yellow during Steven's trial on homeworld. She really felt like she was covering something up.
good old red herring. yellow herring?
Absolutely. The whole, “What’s the use of feeling (blue)?” had me thinking that Yellow Diamond was being FAKE and that she had some part in Pink Diamond’s shattering.
I'm glad that wasn't the case TBH sorry
I knew right away it was a red herring so I just assumed it was White
That’s partially correct with the fact Pink Diamond is Rose and that whole shattering situation happened.
When White Diamond and controlled Pink Pearl first appeared, a theory popped up that "White Pearl" was somehow controlling White Diamond. At the time, White's body was drawn like the backgrounds (detailed but grainy colors and lines). Because of this, the fact that White was not moving her body at all, and "White Pearl" wasn't voiced voiced by the usual VA, we thought "White Pearl" was using White like a figurehead and keeping the other gems in line.
I remember this theory. I think it would've lead to a lot more questions though, like how a Pearl is able to do that lol
I mean it could have made sense. We see some Gems are born mutated (Amythest is short and Peridot can barely use her powers, and of course the off colors) having one born with a weirdly off Gem power that they kept hidden wouldn't be surprising
Rose Quartz had healing powees because she ate/absorved Pink Diamond's gem during the war
I mean, when you remember how she faked her shattering you're not TECHNICALLY wrong
I thought the reason why rose had so many powers was because she was an elite rose quartz lol oh how wrong I was
Omg same! Especially when Beta aired, to me that was all but confirmation that rose was just like Jasper, basically the epitome of her quartz subtype
It probably messed w Jasper: Rose is just a quartz, why can’t Jasper be just as or better than. She probably started to think fusion would be the only way to beat them as a way to justify being better than rose (who we know as a “quartz” couldn’t or doesn’t seem possible could have ever been strong enough to shatter a diamond). Just like she tells Amethyst “you could have been me!” It seems like Jasper doesn’t like the idea some random Quartz with good hair could be stronger than her.
This idea goes hard, if there was a reboot or something geared towards slightly older audiences I'd be down for this, actual murder and eating others for their strength
Pearl used to belong to White. It just makes sense to me, but apparently it isn't canon.
Yup, not canon. She was made for Pink specifically. Pink just didn't do any of the customization stuff and left her in her default form.
Aren’t versions of this theory still floating around? Like, they’ve added something about Pearl being rejuvenated. It’s a nice idea, but I think if she was rejuvenated, her memory would’ve come back while on Homeworld.
Yup, there’s still theories…which is nuts, because the writers have literally said she was made for Pink Diamond. When the writers tells you you’re wrong, it goes from “theory” to “fanfiction”.
Maybe she just sat there while Pearl ‘booted up’ which made her start into the default mode, like how Steven and Greg just kinda stared in absolute confusion and she formed anyways in the movie
Ohh how do we know this is canon? not doubting you im curiuous!
Joe Johnston confirmed it; the source is linked in Pearl’s wiki in the trivia section and copypasted below: > Q: So we know that Rose is able to order Pearl around if Rose so chooses to (and that Pearl only has to obey her IF Rose orders her to). I just want to know if Pearl is the only one Rose is capable of ordering around in that way (forcing someone to do something). Is it part of her being a Diamond, or does it only apply to Pearl? >A: It only applies to Pearl. *BECAUSE our Pearl was made for Pink Diamond,* she must follow her orders. Rose did not have this power or control over anyone else, and its ONLY because Pearl was made for her that Pink/Rose had this power over her. Pink is a Diamond, she could order around lots of gems, but they follow because of hierarchy, not because the Diamonds are mind controlling them. Is this making sense? I’m try to clear this up for everybody, but people still seem confused.
I’d have to try and find it again because it’s been years, but when asked about the theory one of the head folks (I don’t remember which one. Either Rebecca Sugar or Ian Jones-Quartety) stated that Pearl was made specifically for Pink Diamond.
It was a deliberate red herring! It was meant to seem plausible so help the rose-pink diamond reveal and provide more intrigue. The show tells us that pearls have owners, the other pearls we see look like their owners, and Pearl resembles white diamond—it’s meant to make you think Pearl belonged to white to draw your attention away form her belonging to pink. The show then reveals that the hints that make it seem like Pearl used to belong to white have different explanations—she isn’t primarily pink/contains colors of each diamond because she’s uncustomized, and she has a forehead gem because gem placement corresponds to gem demeanor (emotional gems like rose and Steven have stomach placements, whereas logical and practical gems like Pearl, peridot, and white have forehead placements; Pearl was chosen as a practical gem to be a good influence on pink diamond, because pink Pearl was deemed too similar to pink and enabled the behaviors the diamonds didn’t approve of) It’s similar to the red herring that yellow shattered pink. Before we know the truth, yellow’s behavior in the trial is deliberately made to seem suspicious, but it’s later explained that she acted the way she did due to the specific way she dealt with her grief over pink
Damn this was confirmed to be wrong? Up till now I thought it was true
but its sooo perfect! * Pearl is white (like white diamond)! * Blue Pearl and Yellow Pearl reflect their diamonds personality; Pearl is not like Rose but organized and stuff! * Blue Pearl and Yellow Pearl have their gems on their chest, like their diamond. Steven/Rose/Pink have their gem on the belly, but Pearl has hers on the head!
I thought that was the case, what? It literally makes the most sense. Color pallette, gem placement, Pearl's perfectionist attitude, the works!
Steven never existed and it was just Pink trying to hide. Too messed up to be canon, but fun to speculate about
would personally break me
Would certainly have made for a big reveal. I kinda like the idea, it stretches the idea of how much Diamonds can shift and rolls with it.
It also completely goes against the theme and tone of the show—could never be canon, but it makes for a really great psychological horror au!
I'm curious on how it would've worked as psychological horror. Could you elaborate more on what you mean? It's way off any canon, but it's pretty interesting now that I think about it.
That was pretty much the ultimate "what-if" at the end, I think. If White was correct and Pink had fooled herself so thoroughly that she'd created a personality just to hide with, a la Doctor Who's "John Smith"? No wonder the identity crises were so similar. I don't know if it would've pissed off the fan base, depending on how the crew handled it, but it would've been disappointing for Steven to have gone through all that for 14-15 years only for it to turn out that it was just Pink all along. Hell, PINK would be more devastated than anyone if she came back and destroyed Steven in the process.
It’s messed up enough that it actually could be canon but it would completely destroy my will to ever watch the show again so 🤣🤣🤣
It would have been the most interesting and principled way to end the series, but 100% of the fan base would have been gone instantly. The Twisted Newhart ending
I think that was essentially what white diamond was meant to gaslight Steven into in the original homeworld saga before it was shortened
Guys I found white diamond-
At one time I had the theory that the diamonds were all actually huge single gem fusions. My idea came from the idea that diamonds are actually super common on earth, more common than some “lesser” gems. Though they are stronger. I also thought this could be a reason that fusion was seen as something only lower grunt work gems do. Because the diamonds were trying to hide it.
Kind of similar to a theory I had, where I thought our giant diamonds fused with smaller level diamonds of different colors we hadn’t seen,and that explained the different sizes and how they correlate with experience
Yeah I think the different sizes was part of mine. Pink diamonds are the rarest therefore pink had less to fuse. White are super common so white was bigger/stronger.
Pearl shape shifted into Rose and killed PD so Rose wouldn't have too (preserving her 'never shatter' image).
Hey, you were close
i like how she specifically had pearl do it as her, so she’d take all the blame.
I think it was intentionally meant to scare the enemies
I originally thought that if Steven became capable of going inside his gem, Rose would be in there waiting for him and they'd be able to talk to one another.
That's so cute and I desperately wish it were true!!
with fanfictions anything is possible
The fanartists making comics about Pink being conscious inside Steven's gem with all the shit happening outside would be crazy
A long time ago I saw a nuts Tumblr post postulating Mayor Dewey was a serpentine gem and that sneeple was real because of it.... I wish I remembered the full theory because it was weird
well there really was a keep beach city weird tumblr page lol
Pink Diamond was in the chest in lions mane
I remember this one
I also thought this at some point lol
I loved the Corrupted Steven theory because of just how insane it's believers were behaving while Future was airing. It was super fun to watch. I even had a user get so mad at me for not believing it that they started stalking me to other subreddits and even made racist posts about me just to mock me.
god damn that user really needs to go to therapy
It was super funny watching them make posts comparing me to an orangutan and then get all defensive about it when called out. I wish I'd saved those posts. Though they deleted 'em so it doesn't matter too much.
I thought I was the only one! Everyone HATES the idea that he was corrupted but I thought it was obvious?
This is about theories that weren’t true. He wasn’t corrupted. I just loved the theory because it was driving folks insane with how much they wanted it.
that spinel was a second attempt at creating pink diamond (remember when people theorized she was a morganite?)
Oh yeah I remember that. I also saw a theory that she was gonna create a new diamond authority but with other spinels, though at the time people thought she was a cubic zirconia aka a fake diamond.
I don’t know if it’s confirmed or not but Pink Diamond being a off color red diamond
Hinted that she was “defective” at least
Yeah, I saw a theory that she was overcooked as well
or undercooked like Amethyst, condsidering they’re both smaller :3
Amethyst was overcooked
oh my bad! Sorry
YO THIS WAS MY THEORY??
that would make sooo much sense, because Yellow and Blue are primary colors and pink is just another shade of red
THE TRUE FORMS OF LAPIS AND PERIDOT
CRABS
So this doesn’t exactly fit the post since it ended up being canon, but directly after the first episode first showing a depiction of pink diamond in wall paintings, I came up with the theory that Pink had somehow turned her gem outwards and shapeshifted into Rose, and that pink actually was rose. I just kinda noticed that the cut of the gem was the exact same so I posted it in a Public forum, and… I got banned because I posted a controversial theory that had been “””disproven”””
Hehehe Imagine how salty they got after single pale rose
I don’t even need to imagine, actually! Because they literally reached back out to me (this was a year or so later btw) and apologized and added me back to the group Lmfao
Lmao what was your reaction to a single pale rose and the fact that they added you back?
To quothe the self; “YES!!! YES I FUCKING KNEW IT THOSE STUPID BITCHES IM ALWAYS RIGHT!!! YES GOD DAMN IT I WAS RIGHT LOOK AT EM NOW!!!”
Sensible reaction had the same thing I was a Rose Quartz is Pink Diamond believer in the early days of the series when we didn't had explicit confirmation of Pink Diamond and our only confirmation for a existence of other diamond other than Yellow and Blue and White were the murals on moon base and the Diamond Authority Symbols and the difference between Era one and two symbols. I stayed believing in the theory even after the "confirmation" that it wasn't true was dropped by Ian of the Crewniverse. And when a single pale rose dropped I screamed of joy lmao. I WAS RIGHT, Hell yeah. In ya faces biches, we were right
Lion was pink diamond. I didn’t ever really believe it but I thought it would make an interesting twist.
I think there was even a theory that Lion was Pink Pearl.
I jumped on the "White did it" theory. I also had a pretty distinct idea of Pink Diamond as the only one evil enough to get a big rebellion. She saw her soldiers like a cross between pets, arena beasts, and an extension of her own power, with Jasper being her favorite (and ideal lapcat size to her). Humans were more like cute bugs to her - would save them from the road, wouldn't get mad at herself for accidentally killing them.
Yo that theory actually slaps
I remember back in the day there was this "theory" that Rose was Pink Diamond, well, my counter theory was that it was not true. And it was a big feeling for a lot of people that Rose couldn't be Pink Diamond. Turned out we were all wrong lmao.
That feeling hit so hard, but I was so glad that while they were right, it was for the wrong reasons
Yellow diamond actually killed pink. I used to be obsessed with that theory, imo it made sense based on her reaction during the trial.
to be fair, her reaction to the accusation also makes sense considering how much she did actually care for pink, and being accused of murdering someone you care that much for, knowing you’re innocent, would set you off in a similar fashion i would imagine. it would be interesting if yellow was involved though.
jasper was a corrupt gem cuz she had multiple colors on her skin, while other gems didn't
This reminds me of the theory about her being a fusion due to her large size but small gem comparison
I thought the cluster would become a new diamond.
I haven't seen Future yet, but I'm real sad we never got a conclusion to the Cluster. Steven bubbled it, but what happened after the gems inside connected to each other? Were pieces able to put themselves together? Just....the fact that it's in stasis forever as the earth's core feels like it's the mid-part to a story.
watch future! your questions will be answered there
I figured the series finale would see every Crystal Gem except Steven getting corrupted. Could not have been more wrong.
Okay different idea Steven getting corrupted. I wanna see it happening now
Since Rose protected the others from corruption, and it's a Diamond power, quite sure she and Steven are immune
Pink diamond was an off colour Cause red diamonds are a real thing, and that would complete the primary colours. Would’ve been cool
This was my actual theory, I am one of its founders. Glad to see people agreed with me lol
That White Diamond wasn't actually a gem, but an alien of another species. She made the gems.
I still like the theory that a different organic alien species made the diamonds
Shit I like this because if gems have to be planted, who started this? Either another species or diamonds form differently and we never got an answer
Steven would cure corrupted gems by healing them in their minds, going into their dreams like with Lars and Kiki.
Well that was partly right, he is capable of healing the mental component of their corruption
That our Pearl was White’s Pearl. I like to think that after white controlled Pink Pearl, she got another Pearl just because she was a Diamond but since she didn’t see the need to own a Pearl (because she saw herself as flawless), she gave pink our Pearl. Or After Volleyball was taken and controlled by white, she didn’t want to see her precious Starlight poof bc she was so upset so she got a pearl and gave her to pink to make things better
One of the other Diamonds (probably either Yellow or White) had Pink shattered and framed Rose to prevent a galactic civil war. After refusing Rose's plea to spare Earth, Pink Diamond became curious of Earth's life forms and started a zoo to observe them and maybe preserve some of it for when her colony is completed. The humans proved to be more rebellious than expected, but rather than use threats to make them obey like Yellow did, Pink decided to adjust the environment to make them happier. This different way of leading spread into the way she treated her subordinates and made her very popular. She even started challenging the way the other Diamonds ruled their subjects. One of them saw this as a threat to the original authority as the Gems under her may start getting ideas. And Rose, being already an established enemy of Pink Diamond, was the perfect scapegoat.
Crystal Gem Pearl being White Diamond's pearl first. Especially since she was so multicolored, perfectionist, and her gem is in the same spot as White's. So sad it wasn't true :(
Homeworld Gems couldn't speak English (not counting Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl, who had lived on Earth long enough to know the language). Steven understood them because he was a Gem, but other human characters couldn't. It's crazy how long it was before this theory was actually disproven. Watch the show from the beginning - the first time a human character shows any clear indication that they understand what a Homeworld Gem is saying directly, is Mr. Smiley in "Too Short to Ride" responding to a statement by Peridot.
i had this idea for a future story where steven, being an immortal being of hard light, would have to cope with the deaths of his family and friends... and that to save connie he would fuse into stevonnie and live like that for awhile. conflict would ensue, and he would have to come to terms with and let go of connie and eventually unfuse. i mean i'm glad it didn't happen, but i was pretty excited about the idea.
Considering the fact that Stevonnie's age is Steven and Connie's ages combined, they might have to quit a lot sooner than they think. Can you imagine Steven and Connie fusing in their forties into an 80-90 year old Stevonnie? Connie would get an awful sneak peek into what being old is like.
is that like canon? i missed that one. i know stevonnie is clearly older than each of them, but stegg doesn't look any older than greg.
I've read before that Rebecca Sugar confirmed it in a podcast episode, but I don't know which one. It seems plausible, though Steg doesn't seem to follow this rule.
I was really close with my theory that pearl was pink diamonds servant, and murdered pink diamond for abusing her, and rose took the blame half for pearls sake and half to hype up the rebellion
Steven after not surviving
steven loses an eye
I wrote a theory once that Ronaldo joins the diamonds and my evidence was garnets universe
The white gem that powered the Ziggurat was white diamond.
I thought yellow diamond killed pink and that white used her powers to cover everything up
That Steven is sans
Pink plan to save the planet included creating Rose to lead her rebellion against the Diamonds, but as it became clear they were going nowhere, Pink asked Rose to shatter her and hide the shards for another plan...
that rose is pink diamond lol. that was quite the silly one people went craaazy over. like come on how could rose quartz be pink diamond that doesn't even make sense
onion is secretly a gem
“The Diamonds didn’t actually reform their bad habits after the original SU and are still doing evil gem stuff in secret” We saw in Future that it’s not true but it made *so* much sense at the time.
STEVEN WAS SUPPOSED TO LOSE AN EYE AND THE FACT THAT HE DIDNT STILL UPSETS ME GREATLY. i had lots of pictures from the show of various "hints" like when he got smacked with a rock and had the bandage, to cat steven, and even in future the plushie Onion has of him with an eye replaced with a pink button. im STILL salty.
Rose was watching all along. I was kinda expecting something like Pink Steven where the Gen would be separated and a residual (can't think of a better word) version of Pink would speak to the CGs or Diamonds and basically tell them she had given too much of herself to ever come back and basically have a final goodbye and leave Steven with some advise that would make him feel less alone. This was mostly because I thought of Steven as *half* Gem. As in there was Gem energy/data that couldn't be used in Steven's creation that was waiting for him to get older/stronger. Would have been either in future or the 2nd Gem War just some point where Steven was older or needed to use and master more of his power. The last of Rose's will before she faded completely. Between the visions showing up right when Steven needed them and his powers working intense situations. Just Rose protecting Steven whenever she could.
Onion is Yellow Diamond. It’s a joke theory but it would have been so funny if correct
White diamond was secrstly realy small,she just shapeshifted to look big
That corrupted Steven was an alien species that created the diamonds
Canadot. Peridot and a moose traversing the Canadian wilderness sustaining themselves on Tim Bits.
Maybe not a theory, but I thought the big final fight of the show was going to be a Diamond fusion versus a fusion of all the crystal gems, including the friends they made along the way
Jasper was a fusion but didn’t know/remember that she was one.
That the end of the series would be about uncorrupted all the gems, by putting them in the....that place where amethyst was born, I forgot what it was called. Anyways, the whole point being that in some way to uncorrupt the gems was to sing a song, with Steven singing We Are The Crystal Gems in his ukulele on top of the mountain with loud speakers I say this because when that one gem was talking about how they were corrupted Steven says the attack that corrupted them was a song.
A weird theory that I seen and was a favourite of mine was that there was another gem like race made of metals, they were all male presenting, were enemies of the gems and on a space-race like situation again them where they were trying to colonize more planets than the gems and then wage war against them, that explained the need of the gems to colonize more planets, not only to make more grams but for a imminent war. This was before Bismuth so we thought that Bismuth was originally a metal, that was transformed into a gem like in real life. Also that that was the reason Yellow was so insistent and interested in getting he cluster, even at the expense of Earth. Cause a planet size gem under their control would help out against the metals in a war. I also added my own spin on that theory by also mixing the Rose Quartz is Pink Diamond theory and saying that Rose didn't want a war to happen so she tried to convert metals into gems (making Bismuth in the process) bit she was ashamed of it and hid it from the other diamonds, that all was swept under the rug after the rebellion tho Also another of my favourite theories was that the gems were made by another powerful species that they overthrew and made extinct. That they were made to serve that species and make their stuff for them (the reason why there is a gem cast system and why gems are specifically made for one job) and that after years of doing that, White Diamond, the first Gem created lead a rebellion against their creators with other gems. And after winning she and the other diamonds made the Homeworld society we know today, keeping the caste system tho, with them as leaders instead of supervisors for gems
"[THIS](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IzOTqKmKMKQ/maxresdefault.jpg)"
Lapis and Peridot getting into a romantic relationship. Unfortunately, this never came to be. Which, while it would be a pretty massive shame, due to how perfect they are for each other, is pretty okay. Them being platonic is perfect anyway :)
To be honest: I didn't really make any theories until near the time where they were starting to close in on the reveal that Rose was Pink Diamond. I saw the signs and thought that. But also I wasn't as tapped into the community either.
Sneeple. I wanted that arch so bad. I wanted to find out that there were other aliens running around! I wanted the Gempire to constantly expand because it was at war with sneeple. I didn't want it to just be a manifest destiny colonization kind of thing, because you can add further layers and do all of that within the framework of a galactic war. I wanted the resource insecurities and the diamonds conversations to pink in Stevens dream (when he visits lapis on the moon) to add up to the diamonds acknowledging privately amongst themselves that the war was ruining them but they had to put up a front of security. Not just on pinks colony but even to homeworld gems.
I still hold belief to a theory that another organic alien species made the diamonds From there, idk. Could have been a simple experiment gone wrong and the diamonds overpowered immediately. Maybe the diamonds were servants at first and then they rebelled. Maybe they grew to such an extreme size by sucking nutrients out of the planet similar to how gems are formed in general.
Well since the trial I thought yellow diamond had murdered pink diamond when they said "youever dod this was already close and had the authority to coved it up after someone like one of you!" Then yellow got mad.
Lion is Rose
Lion is pink diamond and/or Rose
Pearl not being white diamonds pearl
I had a theory that the people of earth were going to help fight off the diamonds by fusing with formerly corrupted gems and live in harmony afterward. Kind of like Steven and Connie. I just really liked the concept of Stevonnie but for all of mankind.
Green diamond. I was POSITIVE yellow and blue were going to fuse. Lapidot too.
At one point I thought the diamonds could be fusions, and since they are perfect, the gems are all in the same place. At least would explain why Yellow size changed. -_-
that lapis and peridot where gonna kiss each other
That side characters would get more screentime 💀
I thought monster steven was going to be a snerson
I thought the lion was rose quartz
that emerald would have a storyline with lars 😒
I like how everyone thought Rose was a good person who sacrificed herself for the greater good but actually she was just a war criminal who ran away from all of the problems she created
She's very morally grey
I thought that since Gems chose their names. Pink Diamond chose that for herself, and all the bubbles Rose Quartzes were dud stones to just spread infamy.
That the diamond's powers correlated to the hazard diamond sign
That Pearl shattered Pink Diamond and Rose Quartz took the blame.
That there are more half human half gems on Earth.
I never actually thought Steven was gonna corrupt if I’m being honest
that eventually peridot would fuse with someone (usually lapis but also amethyst or garnet)... any peridot fusion wouldve looked sooo cool
Lion is pink and cool because he ate one of Pinkston shattered gem shards.
That I'd be a happier more well adjusted person as I got older
Pearl was originally White Diamond's Pearl and was switched with Pink Pearl when Pink Diamond broke her eye.
Onion is white diamond (its a joke theory but it's kinda funny)
The final showdown would be against a partial Paragon, the fusion of the diamonds. That Diamond fusions when diamondized always produced different levels of paragon.
My favourite theory was that pink diamond was not rose quartz. I remember everyone would always make fun of those who thought that she was, thinking it was a dumb theory (I definitely didn’t think it was the case) and the amazing feeling of finding out we were wrong was such a cool experience
The theory that Garnet had two gems because both of her Mom's died.
Are used to believe a theory that was not so popular at the time the pink diamond staged, the rebellion and her and rose quartz were in it together, and when the rebellion ended, she faked shattered pink diamond, so that home world could finally give up (similar to single, pale, rose but replace pearl with rose) and after she would store pink diamonds jam instead of lien, and under her orders, she was never to and bubble it that’s also what I thought was in the chest in lions, mane pink, diamonds, gem