History Characters / StevenUniversePinkDiamond

** [[spoiler:She was also the recipient of this trope while she grew up — Blue and Yellow raised her with good intentions, but never seemed to realize how badly they were affecting her by isolating her from Gems of lower castes, brushing her off as if she was second priority to their empire, and treating her as ungrateful when she asked to let Earth go shortly after begging them for a colony of her own. White presumably treated her the same way, despite being her favored "child". While it made her sympathetic, she also never realized how she emulated her Diamond family until she met Greg, where she finally began growing and changing. Steven lampshades this in his confrontation to Blue Diamond, when he realized that while Pink Diamond knew no other way, Steven ''did.'']]

** Despite being noted for her empathy, many issues for other characters stem from her lack of taking into account how those who cared about her felt about her. [[spoiler: The diamonds, Greg and Pearl.]]

* LackOfEmpathy: One of her major flaws: she was obsessed with helping others, but rarely, if ever, understood how they felt. While she had multiple instances of this as [[spoiler: Rose Quartz, her most prominent example of all out of either identites was when she abandoned Spinel in space for millennia and presumably felt no remorse for it]]. [[spoiler:Thankfully, she ''eventually'' [[CharacterDevelopment sheds this]] in favor of becoming an AllLovingHero.]]

* 8 [[spoiler: Pink can manifest a shield, float, heal with her tears, resurrect organic beings while giving them unique abilities, and manipulate plant matter. Besides being the most compassionate Diamond, she's also the only Diamond who cares about the well-being of Earth, to the point where she rebelled against Homeworld when the other Diamonds ignored her pleas to spare the planet. She also empowers her allies with her mere presence as her alter-ego Rose Quartz.]]

* PersonalityPowers: [[spoiler: Pink can manifest a shield, float, heal with her tears, resurrect organic beings while giving them unique abilities, and manipulate plant matter. Besides being the most compassionate Diamond, she's also the only Diamond who cares about the well-being of Earth, to the point where she rebelled against Homeworld when the other Diamonds ignored her pleas to spare the planet. She also empowers her allies with her mere presence as her alter-ego Rose Quartz.]]

* TheBabyOfTheBunch: She is evidently the youngest of the Diamonds and the smallest, and is around four-tenths Yellow and Blue's height. The first time we see her, she acts like a whiny kid demanding stuff from her "sibling" Yellow, and her first colony wound up being her last, [[spoiler:but by her own choice]].

* BecomingTheMask: She could never stand up to her older siblings Blue and Yellow in protecting Earth's biosphere, but as her alias [[spoiler:Rose Quartz, on the other hand... In the end, she embraced this disguise as her new identity.]]

** While not the most powerful or feared Diamond, [[AdorablyPrecociousChild many Era I Gems, even those serving under other Diamonds, loved her]]. [[note]]Which is incredibly ironic (especially when it comes to Jasper, who has UndyingLoyalty for her) if it turns out her apparent size is the result of a defect (the way Amethyst is "overcooked"), given Homeworld's views on defective Gems.[[/note]]Given that she was a BenevolentBoss unlike her "mother" and "sisters", this is {{justified|Trope}}.

** For the Diamonds, their little sister died thanks to a rogue criminal whom they assumed wasn't a threat, and they destroyed everyone who aided her in revenge. [[spoiler:On Pink Diamond's side, she felt so misunderstood and ignored by her sisters that she faked her death to win freedom for herself and the Crystal Gems. She then spent the rest of her life living with the knowledge that it got nearly all of her friends effectively killed.]]

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Despite being a Diamond and therefore, in theory, an equal to Yellow and Blue, she was, in fact, the ''lowest'' one on the Diamond status and she would perpetually find herself overshadowed and overruled by her sisters, who forced her to run Earth how ''they'' wanted.

** Her small size among the Diamonds and her ballerina motif also has elements of the Pearls, who are basically tiny ballerina-like Gems and the lowest caste in the Gem hierarchy. [[spoiler:This adds some element to her assumption that her "sisters" didn't love her at all.]]

* BadassAdorable: An adorable CheerfulChild, but still a Diamond. [[spoiler:She masterminded and personally led an army of rebel gems against her sisters, becoming feared as the most powerful member of the rebellion, and subsequently [[FakingTheDead faked her death]], which fooled ''everyone''.]]

* BenevolentBoss: Compared to her sisters, she was this, especially in regards to her Pearl, who's supposed to be her slave that she can boss around as much as she wants. She effectively treats her Pearl as her friend than as her servant. It's shown most prominently when [[spoiler:Pink gives Pearl a bone-crushing hug as thanks for the idea to visit the Earth in disguise, and later tells Pearl that it was good she saw what the colony would do to the organic life. Yellow makes it clear that Pearls have to make their Gems happy, but Pink found the truth more important. The way her Pebbles react to "her" return implies she was kind even to the Gems she was expected to treat like objects. As Rose she genuinely intended to give Earth to the Crystal Gems and humanity as a world to be free.]]

* ChildProdigy: Once allowed to have her chance to shine, she created the Rose Quartz line, magical soldier Gems unlike any other in the universe. While this may be a case of SkilledButNaive for her sisters (if they sincerely believe one of the latter killed her) they were deemed more than worthy enough to be preserved by Blue, against Yellow's calls for their shattering. [[spoiler:She also flawlessly staged a fake rebellion against herself under Blue and Yellow's noses, culminating in faking her own shattering and managing to keep the exact truth hidden from everyone (except possibly White Diamond) for 6,000 years.]]

* CompensatingForSomething: She only has one small planet in her mural, so of course they made the circle that's behind her head three times the size of the circles that are behind the heads of the other Diamond murals. [[spoiler:And unlike her [[LargeAndInCharge gigantic]] sisters, she was only tall by human standards.]]

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Pink was evidently the most lighthearted and silly of the Diamonds, regularly doing nonsensical things for the others' entertainment. She was also seen as the family screw-up, unable to conform to even the simplest of her caste's behavioral standards. The Diamonds wrote her off as a silly, immature fool who never learned her place, eventually distrusting her leadership skills to the point of stripping her of her authority in all but name, completely dismissing her as powerless in comparison to them and feeling free to manhandle and push her around as they wished in the hopes that she would conform. Pink spent the entire thousand-year war against the Rebellion a seemingly powerless PuppetQueen under the control and supervision of Yellow and Blue Diamond. [[spoiler:But in actuality, she was the mastermind of the entire Crystal Gem Rebellion, [[LivingADoubleLife fooling the other Diamonds, subjects and allies alike]] for the purpose of sparing the Earth from Gem terraformation and freeing those suffering under the Gem caste system from their subjugation.]] And despite her [[spoiler:and her son's]] cheerful and free-spirited disposition, lack of offensive powers, and the ease with which her sisters felt they could push her around, [[spoiler:Pink Steven proves that]] Pink's defensive powers, if ever actually turned against her sisters, would have made Pink a NoSell StoneWall even against all three other Diamonds combined. [[spoiler:This was hinted at earlier, though, as Rose was able to shield Pearl, Garnet, and herself from the Diamonds' corruption blast]].

* DavidVsGoliath: Pink would never be able to beat any of her sisters or their mother-figure in a straight fight. First, she and the other Diamonds would never want to hurt each other, and besides which Yellow and Blue easily manhandle her and don't consider her brattiness worth their time. [[spoiler:She became a GuileHeroine as Rose Quartz to use war strategies to save the Earth, but eventually decided to fake her death as a last resort]].

* {{Determinator}}: She would '''never''' leave the Earth in peace, as it was her colony. This allegedly left her rebelling subject Rose, unable to drive her off the planet, [[IDidWhatIHadToDo with no choice]]. [[spoiler:Or actually the other way around: she was willing to slander her own name, fight against her own sisters, and even fake her own death to make the other Gems leave Earth in peace. Needless to say, once she got an idea in her head, no one else could make her back down.]]

** In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E17CantGoBack "Can't Go Back"]], Blue and Yellow had effectively taken control of the colony efforts during the Rebellion. [[spoiler:This led her to believe that they didn't care for her at all, and she ended up faking her death in the hopes that they would leave Earth alone like she had tried to get them to.]] In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E19NowWereOnlyFallingApart "Now We're All Falling Apart"]], [[spoiler:she literally got on her knees and ''begged'' her sisters to let her spare the Earth when she realized what the Gem terraforming would do to the Earth. Yellow flat out told her to continue her work, while Blue created the Human Zoo as a way to compensate her. Pink got fed up, so she created the persona of Rose Quartz — somebody they ''couldn't'' ignore.]]
** [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E26TogetherAlone "Together Alone"]] only continues this trend. [[spoiler:In Blue and Yellow's eyes, their beloved sister has been presumed dead for thousands of years and they ''still'' just think of her as an annoying child. Despite Pink supposedly being one of the almighty Diamonds, they can still openly chastise her, threaten and hurt her friends, and ''toss her in a dark room'' for what they perceive as poor behavior. Note that it isn't actually Pink, but Steven/Stevonnie, who they assume to be her.]]

* FunPersonified: In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E25Familiar "Familiar"]], ''Yellow'' notes that Pink always managed to make her laugh. Pearl also explained to Steven that she threw huge parties to celebrate the Diamonds' achievements, and knew how to juggle balls. [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] since it meant she was expected to be like this and her sisters did not think she had it in her to be more, which caused a large chasm between Pink and the rest of the Diamonds.

* HerOwnWorstEnemy: [[spoiler:The series builds up and breaks down the image of Rose Quartz and by extension the person who first created that image. Pink was a deeply flawed Gem shaped by a family that loved her but controlled her and never respected her. They would come to keep forcing her into a role she grew to disdain, to where they took her first friend away and replacing her with a more proper servant (the Crystal Gems Pearl) and more proper best friend (Spinel). While they saw it as well-meaning, it likely just reinforced the hollowness and artificiality of it all. Desperate for acknowledgement and respect, she would pursue finding her own colonies, only to realize the true horror of what happened. She founded a rebellion to help the humans, and later took in all the Gems that did not fit in with the rigid caste system of the Diamonds to try and grant them the freedom she was denied. However, Pink was hampered by [[LackofEmpathy a severe lack of understanding]] of others as equals (though she was very aware of this and resented that she had no one as an equal). Pink's childishness made her both more open to understanding other life forms but also more selfish in how she treated others. At the same time, much of her problems were also caused by forces outside of her control and many of choices were made out of pragmatism and desperation. She was reduced to a PuppetQueen by her older sisters who ran ''her'' colony ''their way'', reinforcing her lack of real power or choice and any attempts of communication was met with indifference or disdain, since they think she is being disrespectful. This was painfully seen as she is ''crushed'' by what looks like her failing to convince her sisters to give Earth to the Crystal Gems. Her pain and desperation drove her to fake her death, both to try and end the war desicively and out of not wanting to be herself anymore. While the war did end, she also caused virtually all of her comrades, other fellow Gems and bystanders to be corrupted and damaged with a terrifying technique that Pink knew about (as seen when she imidiately shielded an oblivious Pearl and Garnet from the blast.) but thought the Diamonds would never use. Having achieved a PyrrhicVictory, she tried to live her new life, but was unable to find the meaningful relationships she craved because she had to hide behind her facade while trying to watch over the humans and bubble the corrupted Gems. It's not until she met Greg that she could finally be happy and also began growing up. However, she left a long line of mistakes and problems, even years later as seen with Spinel, the Gem made to be her best friend, but also a reminder of her lost Pink Pearl and possibly of the disrespect her sisters viewed her with. She would come to leave her behind when she received a colony with a promise to return, which she never did, which broke Spinel (though it's actually unknown if Pink would've returned for her if she had the reasonable chance to do so safely). Much of the series is founded on Steven acknowledging his mother's failings but still being burdened by them. While the show has strong themes of redemption and atonement; Pink's death means she does not have the opportunity to redeem herself, though ultimately she did achieve her goal of finding happiness.]]

* InformedPoverty: As a Diamond, she's the Homeworld equivalent of royalty, making her a princess while her older "sisters" and "mother" are the queens. However, in the Diamonds' eyes, the fact that she doesn't have a single colony under her name makes her "worthless", something that frustrated her in the beginning.

** [[spoiler:Her faking her own shattering went wrong because she thought that the other Diamonds' aloof, ToughLove treatment of her meant they didn't actually care about her. Her death caused them to release the Corruption in revenge, and drove Yellow and Blue Diamond to become the petty {{Jerkass}} and perpetually grieving wreck they are in the present day. On the other hand, Pink had been reduced to a PuppetQueen by her own sisters and thus could not just give the Earth to the Crystal Gems, meaning diplomacy was out of the window, especially since they showed not to listen to her and she could not keep the war up forever. The fact was that the entirety of the situation was started because they ''refused'' to listen to her and take her opinions seriously.]]

** [[spoiler:She was also the recipient of this trope while she grew up — Blue and Yellow raised her with good intentions, but never seemed to realize how badly they were affecting her by isolating her from Gems of lower castes, brushing her off as if she was second priority to their empire, and treating her as ungrateful when she asked to let Earth go shortly after begging them for a colony of her own. White presumably treated her the same way, despite being her favored "child". While it made her sympathetic, she also never realized how she emulated her Diamond "sisters" until she met Greg, where she finally began growing and changing. Steven lampshades this in his confrontation to Blue Diamond, when he realized that while Pink Diamond knew no other way, Steven ''did.'']]

* LikeParentLikeChild: [[spoiler:Steven inherited her compassion, heavy sense of responsibility, self-loathing, and martyrdom. Steven like Pink tries to be everything that the Crystal Gems want him to be, the way she tried to prove herself to her sisters. It gets to the point where, like his mother, Steven [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices himself in the hopes of saving the people he loves]], [[DeconstructedTrope only for it to backfire terribly]]. Steven's lucky that only ''one'' person died and [[BackFromTheDead managed to]] [[CameBackStrong come back]] and he just had to deal with a few of his friends being pissed off at him when he did his sacrifice; Rose lost all of the Gems on Earth except for Pearl, Garnet, Bismuth, Amethyst and Lapis in her sacrifice. Mind that Lapis survived due to being trapped in a mirror, Bismuth was poofed and bubbled in Lion's mane, and Amethyst was deep in the Earth when the Corrupting Light hit; at the time, Rose thought that Garnet and Pearl were the only ones she had left.]]

* LonelyAtTheTop: [[spoiler:This was one of the main reasons why she was desperate for companionship. She is a Diamond, the highest of Gemkind and thus everyone but other Diamonds are beneath her. She is the BabyOfTheBunch, meaning all the other Diamonds are her authority figures, with Blue and Yellow serving as bossy older sisters and White as their detached matriarch. [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E26TogetherAlone "Together Alone"]] implies that when Pink managed to befriend her first Pink Pearl, White Diamond turned Pink Pearl into a completely subservient EmptyShell as punishment, and gave Pink Diamond a replacement Pearl to act as a proper servant and Spinel as a replacement best friend. While she did care for Pearl, the circumstances behind their appearances likely soured the bonds from the start. In fact, given how they were ''intended'' to serve as servant/counselor and best friend, it would render the relationships as artificial from Pink Diamond's perspective, lacking the casualness she wanted and the substance she needed.]]

** [[spoiler:Do '''not''' underestimate her love for the Crystal Gems, the Earth, its life and human beings, even if you're Blue or Yellow Diamond. There is the fact that she posed as a dangerous rebel and threatened her sisters and their armies as Rose Quartz, knowing that if she were ever outed that the consequences would be dire.]]

* NoRespectGuy: The ''Diamond Days'' arc reveal that even if her sisters loved her, they did not respect her or treat her as an equal; the events of [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E26TogetherAlone "Together Alone"]] show that even after several millennia that when push comes to shove the other Diamonds ''still'' don't value what Pink wants or her wishes. [[spoiler:Blue is [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone saddened]], to say the least, when Steven points out that her treatment of Pink was what caused her to rather live on Earth in the first place.]]

* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Subverted. [[spoiler:One price of saving the Earth was leaving all the humans in the zoo to her sisters' collective mercy. It's unclear if Pink consciously made the choice to abandon them or if she was just unable to rescue them (given how Homeworld would immediately pull out for the Diamonds use their combined attack, it's likely the latter, especially given how Rose could only save the Gems next to her).]]

** Her relationship with her fellow Diamonds can be compared to Connie's relationship with her parents before their CharacterDevelopment, best exemplified in Stevonnie's dream in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E12JungleMoon "Jungle Moon"]], where Dr. Maheswaran portrays Yellow Diamond. Not only that, but [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E17CantGoBack "Can't Go Back"]] further shows that Pink being a PuppetQueen to her sisters resembles Connie's parents' ControlFreak nature on her life choices despite caring about them respectively, forcing them to hide secrets of their personal lives out of fear of disappointing them, from Connie's magical adventures with Steven to Pink [[spoiler:[[ThatManIsDead disregarding her identity entirely and becoming Rose Quartz]]]]. In a more amusing note, Connie often gets WingdingEyes when excited that look like Pink's own eyes (which is used as a subtle joke in "Jungle Moon" when Stevonnie is taking Pink's place in a memory). [[spoiler:Connie also ends up using one of her weapons.]]

* PuppetQueen: Steven's flashback in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E17CantGoBack "Can't Go Back"]], and later in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E19NowWereOnlyFallingApart "Now We're Only Falling Apart"]], shows that Yellow and Blue were pretty much running the colony during the Rebellion. Blue even tells her that all she needs to do is smile and wave to her subjects. It {{justifie|dTrope}}s a lot of Pink Diamond's decisions and choices since it meant she likely never interacted with "her" army besides "appearing presentable" and could not do anything on ''her'' end without her sisters finding out.
* QueenIncognito: [[spoiler:When she was ruling Earth, she wanted to go see the Kindergarten and meet her Amethyst soldiers, but her older sisters would not let her. So her Pearl suggested that she shapeshift to look like a Quartz soldier herself, and thus her "Rose Quartz" persona was born. She would eventually renounce her identity as Pink Diamond and become Rose permanently during the war to save the Earth from Homeworld.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [[spoiler:It's revealed that, contrary to what "Rose Quartz" told Garnet, Pink was this. While initially she merely wanted to mingle with the Quartzes to play with them and escape her lonely existence, she becomes serious about realizing that the colony will destroy the organic life on Earth. Pearl, who had suggested the idea, apologized for upsetting her Diamond, but Pink thanked her because she needed to see the damage. And as soon as she could, she tried to abort the colony and keep her sisters from taking over Earth's destruction. The fact that they usurped her power shows they were ''less'' reasonable than Pink.]]

** The red to Blue and Yellow's blue, as a much more emotional and carefree Diamond than her sisters.

* RoyalBrat: It's implied that Pink was very much this trope prior to her CharacterDevelopment. In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E12JungleMoon "Jungle Moon"]], we see her acting as such, namely in demanding her own colony and army like Yellow Diamond has with several planets that she's conquered. [[spoiler:However, it's heavily implied this is based on the desire to be seen as an equal by the rest of her Diamonds. All of them have their own armies and colonies while she, the BabyOfTheBunch is more a performer and party-planner, an entertaining distraction from the humdrum of it all. Unsurprisingly, being treated as inferior by her supposed equals likely led to her behavior as lashing out for respect. Unfortunately, her powers would run rampant during her tantrums and innocent Gems would get hurt, causing Pink Pearl to develop a WoundThatWouldNotHeal out of sheer ''trauma''.]] As a noble though, she was the most affable to her subjects (so much so that it was partially why her sisters looked down on her, seeing it as unprofessional.) [[spoiler: All traces of this are eliminated when she gets her own colony; at first she is bored with remaining on the Moon Base with no interaction besides with her second Pearl before going to interact in disguise with her new Gems and then witnessing the horrible truth of their operations.]]

* SadisticChoice: When she got her colony, she could either [[spoiler:colonize the Earth herself, destroying all its organic life, or let her sisters quash the rebellion that she started, destroying all organic life. She decided to TakeAThirdOption and fake her death so that the Diamonds would leave the Earth alone.]]

* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: {{Averted|Trope}}, much to her bitterness and resentment. Despite being a Diamond, she always had to do what the ''other'' Diamonds wanted rather than what she wanted — including how Earth, ostensibly her colony, was to be run. Beyond being a bitter reminder of the lack of respect her sisters had for her, it also meant that her choices were very limited and had to take more drastic decisions to reach her objective. [[spoiler:[[HeelFaceTurn Blue]] admits in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E28ChangeYourMind "Change Your Mind"]] that Pink was right to leave Homeworld and live on Earth.]]

* ASimplePlan: She described her plan [[spoiler:to fake her shattering with Pearl's help]] as this. [[spoiler:Technically, the plan went off without a hitch, but Pink failed to account for the potential consequences, such as her sisters sending the Corruption Beam to wipe out all the Gems on Earth, though her surprise reveals she didn't even know they could do that.]] Additionally, one could count the Rebellion as this, since she likely did not expect her sisters making her a PuppetQueen (or at least hoped they would've listened).

* TrappedInVillainy: [[spoiler:Her talk with Blue Diamond shows she was trying rather desperately to just "surrender" Earth to the Crystal Gems and humanity for some time, but her sisters wouldn't permit her to do so. This is part of what made her decide to make her Rose Quartz SecretIdentity rebel against herself, as well as ultimately fake her own death.]]

* UnreliableNarrator: Based on the flashback in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E12JungleMoon "Jungle Moon"]] and [[spoiler:Pearl recounting how Pink Diamond begged her sisters to let her spare the Earth, it would seem that Pink was justified in thinking that the other Diamonds didn't actually care about her. However, it would then seen by their mourning that they did care about her, which clouds matters. Ultimately, it's revealed that while the Diamonds loved her, they did ''not respect'' her, and they [[KickTheDog took away her first Pearl when they transgressed normal Diamond-Pearl bonds]]. While she may have been a Diamond, the lack of respect makes the affection and sentiment seem hollow. Her Pebbles also adored her because she was kind to them, and fun. It still hammers in that Pink wanted someone to love ''and'' respect her of their free will and to not ignore her when she had something important to say.]]

** She was powerful by Gem and human standards, and [[spoiler:skilled with a sword, as we saw in her Rose Quartz guise]]. But Blue and Yellow can easily pick her up, manhandle or even hurt her. Her power and status means nothing to her sisters, and they all but acknowledge their bad treatment of her in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E28ChangeYourMind "Change Your Mind"]].

* YouAreNotReady: She was constantly denied a colony because her sisters knew she wouldn't be able to handle the responsibility of running one. While Pink did receive the Earth, it was only because Yellow had enough of Pink's childishness and gave it to her so she would stop complaining. [[spoiler: Turns out that they were right in a sense. Pink Diamond could not handle running a colony... but because she realized what they were doing was wrong.]]

* {{Adorkable}}:
** She shows shades of this, worshipping Yellow and messing with her control panel or jumping straight off a tower rather bothering to use stairs because she's excited. [[spoiler:Even as Rose, she gets ridiculously excited over just about ''anything'' new, geeking out over living on Earth, hanging out with her "fellow" Quartzes, and seeing a fusion of two different Gems for the first time.]]
** In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E24LegsFromHereToHomeworld "Legs From Here to Homeworld"]], it's demonstrated that she was [[DrivesLikeCrazy hilariously awful]] at driving her own leg ship (a deliberate contrast from Blue and Yellow's arm ships) [[spoiler:when Steven awkwardly steers his way into the bay to take off for Homeworld. He apologizes to Pearl and the other Diamonds, saying that his mother/Pink was probably more graceful than he is at driving the ship, and all Pearl can say is a fond "Heh. No... not really."]] All the while [[FreezeFrameBonus Yellow has her eyes shut in exasperation while Blue simply has a goofy grin on her face remembering Pink's antics]].
** According to [[spoiler:Pearl and the flashback-dream from [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E26TogetherAlone "Together Alone"]]]], she is also fond of juggling.

* BadassAdorable: An {{Adorkable}} CheerfulChild, but still a Diamond. [[spoiler:She masterminded and personally led an army of rebel gems against her sisters, becoming feared as the most powerful member of the rebellion, and subsequently [[FakingTheDead faked her death]], which fooled ''everyone''.]]

* StaticCharacter: PlayedForDrama. [[spoiler:Pink Diamond grew to hate herself and tried to change herself, as shown with her excitemen at becoming Rose Quartz over Pink Diamond, but even then, she maintained many of the core aspects and attributes that defined her as Pink Diamond. One could make the environment that she did begin to grow and change when she met Greg however. At the end of the day though, she hid herself fully even from him, afraid he would hate her. ]]

* {{Unperson}}: After her shattering, Yellow Diamond took steps to hide all references to her existence out of grief and desire not to be reminded of her lest it trigger more grief. Blue Diamond hoarded everything she could, maintaining Pink Diamond's Zoo, employing her Earth-born Quartzes, and even protecting the remaining bubbled Rose Quartzes from Yellow Diamond's wrath. White Diamond [[spoiler:seems to have known all along about what happened, but kept it to herself because she believed Pink Diamond was just throwing the equivalent of an extended temper tantrum and needed to get it out of her system]]. Newer Gems like Leggy aren't even aware of her existence, a fact that distresses Blue.

* SpoiledSweet: After outgrowing her bratty behavior, she started hanging out with the other gems [[spoiler:while disguised as Rose Quartz]] and even treats her [[spoiler:second]] Pearl with more respect and kindness.

-->'''Spinel:''' Oh, you're so protective with your ''real'' friends, that you're so ''careless'' with your fake ones!

* BiTheWay: [[spoiler:[[LipstickLesbian Lipstick Bisexual]] specifically, as she [[PinkIsFeminine dresses in pink]], wears [[TutuFancy a tutu]] and Tinkerbell-like shoes, and reciprocated Pearl's attraction to her — especially as Rose Quartz (although both are actually sexless). That said, she ultimately had a child with Greg.]]

** [[spoiler: Her decision to give up her Gem to Steven also reeks of this. WordOfGod explains that Rose was able to shapeshift all the organs and genetics necessary to produce Steven; the logical implication being that Rose was likely actually capable of having a child without surrendering to them her Gem and thus her life.]]

* FlowerMotifs: Associated with pink flowers, particularly ''Hibiscus syriacus'', the national flower of South Korea where she was supposedly shattered. A bush with pink flowers has grown around her abandoned palanquin, the palanquin itself is shaped like a flower, her zoo has flower symbols on its walls, the [[http://wondernerdnotes.tumblr.com/post/162834589771/heres-a-higher-quality-logoless-version-of-the signing poster]] for San Diego Comic-Con 2017 represents her with a pink flower, and the [[https://steven-universe.wikia.com/wiki/File:SDCC_2016_signing_card.png 2016 signing poster]] shows Jasper wearing a hibiscus to show her connection to Pink Diamond while Steven and Greg wear roses to show their connection to Rose Quartz. [[spoiler:Tying into how she is an alternate identity of Rose Quartz, ''Hibiscus syriacus'' is commonly called '''Rose of Sharon''' or '''Rose Mallow'''.]] In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E18ASinglePaleRose "A Single Pale Rose"]], [[spoiler:Pink gives Pearl a pink hibiscus, ''a single pale rose''.]]

* HairTriggerTemper: [[spoiler:In "[[Recap/StevenUniverseFutureS1E4Volleyball Volleyball]]", according to the titular character, AKA Pink Pearl, Pink Diamond was originally a RoyalBrat with [[GooGooGodlike incredibly destructive powers]] that could shatter walls and break parts of a Gem's physical form, as revealed by Volleyball herself. This side of her was deconstructed when Volleyball was taken away and placed under White's control, leading Pink to realize how horrible her temper was and decided to use her powers to heal and help other Gems.]]

** [[spoiler: In "[[Recap/StevenUniverseFutureS1E4Volleyball Volleyball]]", it is implied that Pink Diamond was originally an incredibly destructive SpoiledBrat whose defining moment of changing into the AllLovingHero she would eventually become was when she [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone permanently scarred her original pearl in one of her tantrums]].]]

* RoyalBrat: PlayedWith, namely in that her royal stature actually had little to do with her bratty behavior. [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E12JungleMoon "Jungle Moon"]], we see her acting as such, namely in demanding her own colony and army like Yellow Diamond has. [[spoiler: However, it's heavily implied this is based on the desire to be seen as an equal by the rest of her Diamonds. All of them have their own armies and colonies while she, the BabyOfTheBunch is more a performer and party-planner, an entertaining distraction from the humdrum of it all. Unsurprisingly, being treated as inferior by her supposed equals likely led to her behavior as lashing out for respect. Unfortunately, her powers would run rampant during her tantrums and innocent Gems would get hurt, causing Pink Pearl to develop a WoundThatWouldNotHeal out of sheer ''trauma''.]] As a noble though, she was the most affable to her subjects (so much so that it was partially why her sisters looked down on her, seeing it as unprofessional.) [[spoiler: All traces of this are eliminated when she gets her own colony; at first she is bored with remaining on the Moon Base with no interaction besides with her second Pearl before going to interact in disguise with her new Gems and then witnessing the horrible truth of their operations.]]

* SpoiledSweet: After outgrowing her bratty behavior, she started hanging out with the other gems [[spoiler: while disguised as Rose Quartz]] and even treats her Pearl with more respect and kindness.

* {{Hypocrite}}: She had this tendency, though the circumstances do complicate matters. [[spoiler:She wanted Pearl to be free and make her own decisions, but gave her a final order to never tell anyone that Pink faked her death and was living as Rose Quartz, as well as pressure Pearl to poof her if it came to be. While the silence was painful to Pearl, eventually it became clear that Pink's final orders was a result of her being ProperlyParanoid. Furthermore, Pink valued human life, but she didn't realize how fragile it was and confessed to Greg that she took some time to understand how babies work, though this was more out of ignorance and she made the effort to learn. While she did order Spinel to remain behind, it's unknown if she would've ever come back to her (since circumstances changed drastically). Subverted with Steven's own worst fears: that Rose was a murderer who wa against Bismuth showing off the Breaking Point.]]

* LackOfEmpathy: One of her major flaws: she was obsessed with helping others, but rarely, if ever, understood how they felt. Shown when she [[spoiler:abandoned Spinel in space for millennia and presumably felt no remorse for it]], just to name one example. [[spoiler:Thankfully, she ''eventually'' [[CharacterDevelopment sheds this]] in favor of becoming an AllLovingHero.]]

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** [[spoiler:She is also this to Gemkind ''in general''. Aside from the ones who don't know her, ''every'' gem, Crystal Gem or Homeworld Gem, loves (or at least admires) at least one of her two (three if you include Steven) identities. Being an AllLovingHero likely helps. There is one known exception, however: Spinel, who seeks revenge for Pink abandoning her. And even Spinel gets over it...eventually.]]

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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: In "The Movie", [[spoiler:she abandoned her playmate Spinel when she got her colony on Earth, making Spinel GoMadFromTheIsolation, ultimately trying to kill all life on Earth.]]

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* TragicHero: [[spoiler:The series builds up and breaks down the image of Rose Quartz and by extension the person who first created that image. Pink was a deeply flawed Gem shaped by a family that loved her but controlled her and never respected her. They would come to keep forcing her into a role she grew to disdain, to where they took her first friend away and replacing her with a more proper servant (the Crystal Gems Pearl) and more proper best friend (Spinel). While they saw it as well-meaning, it likely just reinforced the hollowness and artificiality of it all. Desperate for acknowledgement and respect, she would pursue finding her own colonies, only to realize the true horror of what happened. She founded a rebellion to help the humans, and later took in all the Gems that did not fit in with the rigid caste system of the Diamonds to try and grant them the freedom she was denied. However, Pink was hampered by [[LackofEmpathy a severe lack of understanding]] of others as equals (though she was very aware of this and resented that she had no one as an equal). Pink's childishness made her both more open to understanding other life forms but also more selfish in how she treated others. At the same time, much of her problems were also caused by forces outside of her control and many of choices were made out of pragmatism and desperation. She was reduced to a PuppetQueen by her older sisters who ran ''her'' colony ''their way'', reinforcing her lack of real power or choice and any attempts of communication was met with indifference or disdain, since they think she is being disrespectful. This was painfully seen as she is ''crushed'' by what looks like her failing to convince her sisters to give Earth to the Crystal Gems. Her pain and desperation drove her to fake her death, both to try and end the war desicively and out of not wanting to be herself anymore. While the war did end, she also caused virtually all of her comrades, other fellow Gems and bystanders to be corrupted and damaged with a terrifying technique that Pink knew about (as seen when she imidiately shielded an oblivious Pearl and Garnet from the blast.) but thought the Diamonds would never use. Having achieved a PyrrhicVictory, she tried to live her new life, but was unable to find the meaningful relationships she craved because she had to hide behind her facade while trying to watch over the humans and bubble the corrupted Gems. It's not until she met Greg that she could finally be happy and also began growing up. However, she left a long line of mistakes and problems, even years later as seen with Spinel, the Gem made to be her best friend, but also a reminder of her lost Pink Pearl and possibly of the disrespect her sisters viewed her with. She would come to leave her behind when she received a colony with a promise to return, which she never did, which broke Spinel (though it's actually unknown if Pink would've returned for her if she had the reasonable chance to do so safely). Much of the series is founded on Steven acknowledging his mother's failings but still being burdened by them. While the show has strong themes of redemption and atonement; Pink's death means she does not have the opportunity to redeem herself, though ultimately she did achieve her goal of finding happiness.]]

* LackOfEmpathy: One of her major flaws: she was obsessed with helping others, but rarely, if ever, understood how they felt. Shown when she [[spoiler:abandoned Spinel in space for millennia and presumably felt no remorse for it]], just to name one example.