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Steven is determined to help Pink Diamond’s original Pearl, who gets named Volleyball, heal the scar on her face.

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The episode begins with Steven healing the cracked gem of one of Nanefua's Ruby guards and then doing the same to a group of Quartzes. Once the Quartz gems leave to go play volleyball, Pink Pearl shows up, thinking Steven might be able to heal her cracked eye. Steven tries to use his spit on her gem, but is confused when it has no effect. He then tries to put the spit on her eye, but to no avail. Steven then asks about what happened while Pink Pearl was under White Diamond's control, but she says she doesn't remember anything and that she got this scar before White Diamond controlled her. Steven automatically assumes White Diamond was the one who scarred Pink Pearl. When she states Pink Diamond was the one who gave her the scar, Steven tenses up at the mention of his mom and briefly turns into his pink form. Steven is determined to help fix Pink Diamond’s original Pearl's scar, and leads her out of the house so they can find Pearl.
They find that Pearl is the referee of the volleyball game between the group of Quartzes. Steven asks Pearl if she can help Pink
Pearl, who gets to which she agrees. Steven struggles introducing the Pearls to each other due to them having similar names, and suggests a nickname for Pink Pearl. Pink Pearl states that Pink Diamond used to give her nicknames all the time, and starts to reminisce about her. When a volleyball hits Steven's face, he decides to give Pink Pearl the nickname of "Volleyball".
Pearl tells Steven that whenever a Pearl was damaged, they were taken to be fixed at The Reef. Steven agrees to go there and Pearl warps the two of them to The Reef, a clam shell-shaped dome. They are greeted by an A.I.
named Volleyball, heal Shell and explore the scar customization options for Pearls. Pearl smirks at the many weapons and tools and asks Pink Pearl if she can believe this. Pink Pearl then shows Pearl a ribbon wand that Pink Diamond gave to her. When Pink Pearl asks Pearl what Pink Diamond gave her, Pearl walks away, jealous. Once they enter the center of The Reef, Pink Pearl stands on a circle to be healed by Shell.
However, Shell exclaims that Pink Pearl cannot be fixed, as
her face.gem is not cracked, and that her damage must be psychological. Pink Pearl’s crack then expands further. When Pearl asks Pink Pearl what White Diamond did to her, she chuckles and says that she has it all wrong and Pink Diamond was responsible for the damage, upsetting Pearl. Pink Pearl says that after Pink Diamond grew tired of Yellow and Blue Diamond denying her requests for a colony, she went straight to White Diamond. White Diamond denied Pink Diamond's request as well, saying that she wasn't ready for the responsibility. Pink Diamond then had a tantrum and lashed out at Pink Pearl, giving her the scar.
Pearl begins to argue with Pink Pearl, claiming that Pink Diamond was nothing like the way she described her. As they continue to argue, Steven tenses up and turns pink again, saying that he doesn’t want to hear another bad thing that his mom did before inadvertently destroying most of the room. Shell then concludes the two Pearls are defective in response to their behavior and attempts to rejuvenate them. Pearl and Pink Pearl bond over their shared emotional pain from Pink Diamond's actions and fuse to form Mega Pearl. Mega Pearl and Steven escape The Reef before Shell can rejuvenate them.
The episode ends with Mega Pearl standing next to Steven on the beach as they unfuse while staring at the night sky.
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** It's implied that Pink Diamond had this reaction to permanently scarring her first Pearl, given the artwork Rebecca Sugar posted of her receiving her second Pearl and that she apparently never used her destructive powers to the point that her second Pearl never even knew they existed. Mega Pearl implies this was what caused her to change from her destructive SpoiledBrat persona to an healing AllLovingHero.

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** It's implied that Pink Diamond had this reaction to permanently scarring her first Pearl, given the artwork Rebecca Sugar posted of her receiving her second Pearl and that she apparently never used her destructive powers to the point that her second Pearl never even knew they existed. Mega Pearl implies this was what caused her to change from her destructive SpoiledBrat persona to an a healing AllLovingHero.
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** After he reaches his RageBreakingPoint and furiously yells that he [[BrokenPedestal doesn't want to hear anything about his mother anymore]] and just wants to fix Volleyball's scar, Steven has this reaction right after looking down on the floor and realising he's turned pink, shattered the structure around him, and inadvertently caused Shell to attempt to [[IdentityAmnesia rejuvenate]] both Pearls.
** It's implied that Pink Diamond had this reaction to permanently scarring her first Pearl, given the artwork Rebecca Sugar posted of her receiving our Pearl and that she apparently never used her destructive powers to the point our Pearl never even knew they existed. Mega Pearl implies this was what caused her to change from her destructive SpoiledBrat persona.

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** After he reaches his RageBreakingPoint and furiously yells that he [[BrokenPedestal doesn't want to hear anything about his mother anymore]] and just wants to fix Volleyball's scar, Steven has this reaction right after looking down on the floor and realising realizing he's turned pink, shattered the structure around him, and inadvertently caused Shell to attempt to [[IdentityAmnesia rejuvenate]] both Pearls.
** It's implied that Pink Diamond had this reaction to permanently scarring her first Pearl, given the artwork Rebecca Sugar posted of her receiving our her second Pearl and that she apparently never used her destructive powers to the point our that her second Pearl never even knew they existed. Mega Pearl implies this was what caused her to change from her destructive SpoiledBrat persona.persona to an healing AllLovingHero.
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* WorldBuilding: It's shown that Pearls are not made at Kindergartens like most gems, but a single facility called the Reef.
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** After he reaches his RageBreakingPoint and furiously yells that he [[BrokenPedestal doesn't want to hear anything about his mother anymore]] and just wants to fix "Volleyball"'s scar, Steven has this reaction right after looking down on the floor and realising he's turned pink, shattered the structure around him, and inadvertently caused Shell to attempt to [[IdentityAmnesia rejuvenate]] both Pearls.

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** After he reaches his RageBreakingPoint and furiously yells that he [[BrokenPedestal doesn't want to hear anything about his mother anymore]] and just wants to fix "Volleyball"'s Volleyball's scar, Steven has this reaction right after looking down on the floor and realising he's turned pink, shattered the structure around him, and inadvertently caused Shell to attempt to [[IdentityAmnesia rejuvenate]] both Pearls.
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-->'''Pearl:''' I love your energy! It reminds me of when I was younger.\\

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-->'''Pearl:''' I love ''love'' your energy! It reminds me of when I was younger.\\
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** Pink (not White, as both the characters and part of the fandom assumed) was responsible for her first Pearl's crack, and said crack is actually an ''emotional'' scar.

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** Pink (not White, as both the characters and part of the fandom assumed) audience are lead to believe) was responsible for her first Pearl's crack, and said crack is actually an ''emotional'' scar.
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* BigWhat: Steven lets one out when Shell states it's about to [[ResetButton rejuvenate]] the Pearls.

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* BigWhat: Steven lets one out when Shell states it's about to [[ResetButton [[IdentityAmnesia rejuvenate]] the Pearls.
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* BittersweetEnding: Steven's complicated feelings on his mother grow even more complicated with what he learns she did to Volleyball. In addition to that, Steven's powers are shown to have a very dangerous edge to them and he struggles to control them much like his mom did. In spite of that the Pearls are saved from being reset and Shell is shut down. Fusing together allows the Pearls to find a level of closure regarding Pink/Rose and how in spite of her flaws she actively sought to better herself. Volleyball's eye remains damaged, perhaps permanently, but the final shot emphasizes that despite everything she's still going strong.

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* BittersweetEnding: Steven's complicated feelings on his mother grow even more complicated with what he learns she did to Volleyball. In addition to that, Steven's powers are shown to have a very dangerous edge to them and he struggles to control them much like his mom did. In spite of that the Pearls are saved from being reset and Shell is shut down. Fusing together allows the Pearls to find a level of closure regarding Pink/Rose and how in spite of her flaws she actively sought to better herself. Volleyball's eye [[TheUnreveal most likely]] remains damaged, perhaps permanently, but the final shot emphasizes that despite everything she's still going strong.
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* TheAtoner: The Pearl Fusion implies that the reason why both Pearls' accounts of Pink Diamond were so radically different — Volleyball remembering her as a destructive SpoiledBrat who [[CannotKeepASecret could not keep secrets]], Pearl remembering her as an AllLovingHero with too many secrets — was because [[HeelRealization Pink Diamond realized she'd hurt Volleyball and sought to become better]]. Seems to be confirmed by [[https://www.instagram.com/p/B50qVwfH9lH/ this image]], wherein Pink can be seen thinking to herself "Don't break this one" while receiving her new Pearl — tellingly, she's [[MakeMeWannaShout covering her mouth]] while doing so...

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* TheAtoner: The Pearl Fusion implies that the reason why both Pearls' accounts of Pink Diamond were so radically different — Volleyball remembering her as a destructive SpoiledBrat who [[CannotKeepASecret could not keep secrets]], Pearl remembering her as an AllLovingHero with too many secrets — was because [[HeelRealization Pink Diamond realized she'd hurt Volleyball and sought to become better]]. Seems to be confirmed by [[https://www.instagram.com/p/B50qVwfH9lH/ this image]], a piece of concept art]], wherein Pink can be seen thinking to herself "Don't break this one" while receiving her new Pearl — tellingly, she's [[MakeMeWannaShout covering her mouth]] while doing so...
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* BittersweetEnding: Steven's complicated feelings on his mother grow even more complicated with what he learns she did to Volleyball. In addition to that, Steven's powers are shown to have a very dangerous edge to them and he struggles to control them much like his mom did. In spite of that the Pearls are saved from being reset and Shell is shut down. Fusing together allows the Pearls to find a level of closure regarding Pink/Rose and how in spite of her flaws she actively sought to better herself. Volleyball's eye remains damaged, perhaps permanently, but the final shot emphasizes that despite everything she's still going strong.

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* AesopAmnesia: Justified; Pearl handled her GreenEyedMonster tendencies with Greg about Rose Quartz, and her jealousy on learning that Rose kept secrets from her. She hasn't begun to deal with her closure about knowing Rose as Pink Diamond, or how Pink changed so much with her first Pearl.

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Justified; Pearl handled her GreenEyedMonster tendencies with Greg about Rose Quartz, and her jealousy on learning that Rose kept secrets from her. She hasn't begun to deal with her closure about knowing Rose as Pink Diamond, or how Pink changed so much with her first Pearl.
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** And Steven saying to "put the past behind us" sounds very similar to the attitude he had in the movie. [[HumansAreFlawed But people don't always hold strong to their goals,]] and this has more to do with dealing with his mom's actions than dealing with the fact that happily ever after doesn't exist.
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* DissonantSerenity: Pink Pearl has a disturbingly blasé mood to the fact that she lost 8000 years with no memory under White Diamond's control.

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* DissonantSerenity: Pink Pearl has a disturbingly blasé mood to the fact that she lost 8000 8,000 years with no memory under White Diamond's control.
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* BrickJoke: A more heartwarming example. When they enter the facility, Pearl assures Volleyball that she'll be holding her hand. At the very end of the episode, they're both seen holding hands after de-fusing.
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* DissonantSerenity: Pink Pearl has a disturbingly blasé mood to the fact that she lost 8000 years with no memory under White Diamond's control.
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* AbsenteeActor: Amethyst and Garnet are absent in this episode.
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* PostTreatmentLollipop: Steven gives one to the Ruby guard, who's positively gleeful.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: In-universe, Pearl claims that Pink was a healer and too secretive closed up for her liking. Volleyball says that Pink was a WomanChild who had destructive powers and had trouble keeping secrets. When they later fuse, they realize that the catalyst for Pink changing was her hurting Volleyball and losing her.

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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: In-universe, Pearl claims that Pink was a healer and too secretive closed up and closed-up for her liking. Volleyball says that Pink was a WomanChild who had destructive powers and had trouble keeping secrets. When they later fuse, they realize that the catalyst for Pink changing was her hurting Volleyball and losing her.



* TheAtoner: The Pearl Fusion implies that the reason why both Pearls' accounts of Pink Diamond were so radically different — Volleyball remembering her as a destructive SpoiledBrat who [[CannotKeepASecret could not keep secrets]], Pearl remembering her as an AllLovingHero with too many secrets — was because [[HeelRealization Pink Diamond realized she'd hurt Volleyball and sought to become better]]. Seems to be confirmed by [[https://www.instagram.com/p/B50qVwfH9lH/ this image]], wherein Pink can be seen thinking to herself "Don't break this one" while receiving her new Pearl--tellingly, she's [[MakeMeWannaShout covering her mouth]] while doing so...

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* TheAtoner: The Pearl Fusion implies that the reason why both Pearls' accounts of Pink Diamond were so radically different — Volleyball remembering her as a destructive SpoiledBrat who [[CannotKeepASecret could not keep secrets]], Pearl remembering her as an AllLovingHero with too many secrets — was because [[HeelRealization Pink Diamond realized she'd hurt Volleyball and sought to become better]]. Seems to be confirmed by [[https://www.instagram.com/p/B50qVwfH9lH/ this image]], wherein Pink can be seen thinking to herself "Don't break this one" while receiving her new Pearl--tellingly, Pearl — tellingly, she's [[MakeMeWannaShout covering her mouth]] while doing so...



* EveryoneHasStandards: Steven goes pink with anger when he finds out that his mother -- whom he had to deal with being a well-intentioned liar and hypocrite-- ''injured'' Pink Pearl and shattered her eye.

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* EveryoneHasStandards: Steven goes pink with anger when he finds out that his mother -- whom he had to deal with being a well-intentioned liar and hypocrite-- hypocrite — ''injured'' Pink Pearl and shattered her eye.



* MentalFusion: Pearl and Volleyball both knew Pink Diamond, but at radically different parts of her life. They fuse to create Mega Pearl, who combined the memories of both to get a much clearer idea of who Pink was.

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* MentalFusion: Pearl and Volleyball both knew Pink Diamond, but at radically different parts of her life. They fuse to create Mega Pearl, who combined combines the memories of both to get a much clearer idea of who Pink was.



** After he reached his RageBreakingPoint and furiously yells that he [[BrokenPedestal doesn't want to hear anything about his mother anymore]] and just wants to fix "Volleyball"'s scar, Steven as this reaction right after looking down on the floor and realising he's turned pink, shattered the structure around, and inadvertently caused Shell to attempt to [[IdentityAmnesia rejuvenate]] both Pearls.

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** After he reached reaches his RageBreakingPoint and furiously yells that he [[BrokenPedestal doesn't want to hear anything about his mother anymore]] and just wants to fix "Volleyball"'s scar, Steven as has this reaction right after looking down on the floor and realising he's turned pink, shattered the structure around, around him, and inadvertently caused Shell to attempt to [[IdentityAmnesia rejuvenate]] both Pearls.



* PassiveAggressiveKombat: Every time Volleyball keeps talking about her positive experiences with Pink, Pearl talks down to her, viewing her as naive while thinking she knows more about Pink.

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* PassiveAggressiveKombat: Every time Volleyball keeps talking about her positive experiences with Pink, Pearl talks down to her, viewing her as naive naïve while thinking she knows more about Pink.


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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: In-universe, Pearl claims that Pink was too secretive, a healer, and closed up for her liking. Volleyball says that Pink was a WomanChild who had destructive healing powers and had trouble keeping secrets. Eventually when they fuse, they realize that the catalyst for Pink changing was her hurting Volleyball and losing her.

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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: In-universe, Pearl claims that Pink was a healer and too secretive, a healer, and secretive closed up for her liking. Volleyball says that Pink was a WomanChild who had destructive healing powers and had trouble keeping secrets. Eventually when When they later fuse, they realize that the catalyst for Pink changing was her hurting Volleyball and losing her.
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%%* * YouNeverDidThatForMe: Pearl gets visibly jealous when Volleyball reveals that Pink Diamond gave her a ribbon wand as a gift. She tries to grab it until Steven tells her to stop dawdling.
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* WeAreNotGoingThroughThatAgain

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* WeAreNotGoingThroughThatAgainWeAreNotGoingThroughThatAgain:
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* AdultFear: Pink hurt one of her closest friends by accident. As Pearl tells Volleyball, that Pink didn't mean it is trivial to the fact that Volleyball was visibly injured, emotionally and physically.
* AnAesop:
** The people who love you can still hurt you in meaningful ways, physically or emotionally. Trying to deny that will only make your inner turmoil worse and it's better to acknowledge that they hurt you.
** You can't help someone without dealing with your trauma first. Steven can't help Volleyball because he doesn't understand how his mother could continue to be wonderful and terrible.
* AesopAmnesia: Justified; Pearl handled her GreenEyedMonster tendencies with Greg about Rose Quartz, and her jealousy on learning that Rose kept secrets from her. She hasn't begun to deal with her closure about knowing Rose as Pink Diamond, or how Pink changed so much with her first Pearl.
* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: In-universe, Pearl claims that Pink was too secretive, a healer, and closed up for her liking. Volleyball says that Pink was a WomanChild who had destructive healing powers and had trouble keeping secrets. Eventually when they fuse, they realize that the catalyst for Pink changing was her hurting Volleyball and losing her.


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* CooldownHug: Pearl offers Volleyball this when telling her that the pain from someone you love hurting you never goes away.


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* EveryoneHasStandards: Steven goes pink with anger when he finds out that his mother -- whom he had to deal with being a well-intentioned liar and hypocrite-- ''injured'' Pink Pearl and shattered her eye.
* FreudianExcuse: It's implied that the reason why Pink could never return our Pearl's feelings was because she felt guilty about how she hurt Volleyball and wanted to never cross that line again.


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* StatingTheSimpleSolution: Steven tries his healing spit on Volleyball's gem and her broken eye. Neither work. The Reef also can't fix Volleyball without rebooting her and wiping all of her memories. No one wants that either because erasing the trauma doesn't help.


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* WeAreNotGoingThroughThatAgain
** Steven doesn't want to have another existential crisis on learning that his mother physically hurt another Gem and has broken her pedestal again.
** The Reef tries to rejuvenate the Pearls in an attempt to "fix" them. No one wants that, after all the trouble that rejuvenation caused in the movie.


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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After he reached his RageBreakingPoint and furiously yells that he [[BrokenPedestal doesn't want to hear anything about his mother anymore]] and just wants to fix "Volleyball"'s scar, Steven as this reaction right after looking down on the floor and realising he's turned pink, shattered the structure around, and inadvertently caused Shell to attempt to [[IdentityAmnesia rejuvenate]] both Pearls.

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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
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After he reached his RageBreakingPoint and furiously yells that he [[BrokenPedestal doesn't want to hear anything about his mother anymore]] and just wants to fix "Volleyball"'s scar, Steven as this reaction right after looking down on the floor and realising he's turned pink, shattered the structure around, and inadvertently caused Shell to attempt to [[IdentityAmnesia rejuvenate]] both Pearls.Pearls.
** It's implied that Pink Diamond had this reaction to permanently scarring her first Pearl, given the artwork Rebecca Sugar posted of her receiving our Pearl and that she apparently never used her destructive powers to the point our Pearl never even knew they existed. Mega Pearl implies this was what caused her to change from her destructive SpoiledBrat persona.
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* DressedToHeal: As Steven treats injured gems, he wears a labcoat, head mirror, and rubber gloves while carrying a clipboard.

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* DressedToHeal: As Steven treats injured gems, Gems, he wears a labcoat, head mirror, and rubber gloves while carrying a clipboard.
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* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E24AnIndirectKiss Like Amethyst before]], Steven's cracked patients don't think much of their gem cracks despite being potentially fatal.



* OnlyAFleshWound: [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E8Reformed Like Amethyst before]], Steven's cracked patients don't think much of their gem cracks despite being potentially fatal.

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* GeniusBonus: In computing, a ''shell'' is the initial program that an operating system runs on startup, which functions as the user interface. Shell is the Reef's shell.

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