History Recap / StevenUniverseS1E45RosesScabbard

* CheshireCatGrin: Pearl [[http://steven-universe.wikia.com/wiki/File:Rose%27s_Scabbard_067.png does one]] when she and Steven reach Rose's armory.

* ImpliedLoveInterest: Pearl's behavior towards Rose in this episode has a lot of romantic undertones, especially the scene with the hologram of her and Pearl grasping hands.

* BittersweetEnding: Pearls issues aren’t fixed and she’s still really misses Rose but because of everything that happened in the episode Steven and Pearl develop a much closer bond with each other.

* ContinuityNod:
** Steven mentions the events of [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E17Lion2TheMovie "Lion 2: The Movie"]] and [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E35Lion3StraightToVideo "Lion 3: Straight to Video"]], namely how Rose's sword and other stuff is inside Lion's mane, and how he's been to the training room before. And in the ending montage, Steven pulls out the tattered flag that was inside Lion's mane.

-->'''Pearl:''' Everything I did, I did for her. Now she's gone, but I'm still here...

The Crystal Gems are on a trip back to the strawberry fields, reclaiming the giant weapons there left by gem warriors who fell in battle 5,000 years ago. As Garnet chooses an axe three times her size, Steven exclaims he'd like something like that. Pearl suggests he find something a bit more suitable for himself. When Steven asks Lion to help him find something, the big pink cat walks away. Pearl tells Steven he needs to train it better. Steven tries to prove that Lion listens sometimes, but is ultimately unsuccessful. But after a few moments, Lion returns with a pink scabbard. Pearl says that the scabbard belonged to Rose Quartz, and angrily removes it from Lion's mouth. Pearl goes on to describe the battle. Amethyst says she wishes she had been there. Garnet insists she wouldn't have, describing how many gems were broken and destroyed. Pearl pops up to remind them all that the Crystal Gems won.

-->'''Pearl:''' Now from here it's a three hour hike, and then a 1 hour climb ninety degrees. Think you can handle it?

During the ensuing three hour hike and climb, which Pearl climbs on her own with a well tied Steven on her back, she explains how, as leader, Rose was forced to keep secrets for the good of the team--with Pearl as her only confidant, telling her secrets she shared with no one else. One of these secrets was Rose's armory.

Steven demonstrates to the Gems how Lion has a pocket dimension in his mane, one which he currently uses to store his stuff in, as did his mother. While Garnet and Amethyst handle the news well--[[LampshadeHanging it's a bit obvious in retrospect, after all]]--Pearl goes into violent denial at the thought that there was apparently a secret which Rose never shared with her. Garnet tries to reassure her teammate, as does Steven, explaining that he's sure Rose just wanted to protect her.

-->'''Pearl''': How would you know? YOU NEVER EVEN MET HER!

-->'''Steven''': PEARL! Did I- did I do something wrong?!

As Steven approaches, Pearl remarks on how ''similar'' he is to Rose, how she wonders if he has ''any'' of her memories. Then she summons a hologram of Rose and reenacts the exact conversation she had with his mother thousands of years ago before the fateful battle. Rose offers to Pearl a last chance to walk out the battle, explained that they would likely die, and even if they succeeded, they would never be allowed to return home. The devoted Pearl rejected the offer to return to their home planet, saying that it would mean nothing if she were not at Rose's side.

* AnAxeToGrind: Garnet hefts a giant ax she finds on the battlefield (and by "giant" we mean ''as tall as a house'').

* BrokenPedestal: Pearl's pedestal of Rose breaks a little when she learns Rose kept some secrets even from her. This is illustrated beautifully when Rose's portrait fell from the wall after Pearl punch it in anger, while saying to Steven that he [[DoubleMeaning never met her]], and it almost hit her on the head.

** The episode starts off in the same battlefield-turned-strawberry-field in "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E8SeriousSteven Serious Steven]]".

** Rose's training room shows up for the first time since "Lion 2: The Movie", and Steven still pokes himself to get certain things to appear. Pearl also reveals the names of some of the artifacts there.
** Steven has not improved in his "jumping suspended platforms" skills any since "Giant Woman".
* CheshireCatGrin: Pearl [[http://steven-universe.wikia.com/wiki/File:Rose%27s_Scabbard_067.png does one]] when she and Steven reach Rose's armory.

** Steven mentions the events of "Lion 2: The Movie" and "Lion 3: Straight to Video", like how Rose's sword and other stuff is inside Lion's mane, and how he's been to the training room before.
** In the end montage, Steven pulls out the tattered flag that was inside Lion's mane in "Lion 3: Straight to Video".

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: While Pearl talks with Steven about Rose once they warp back to the temple, Garnet and Amethyst can be heard in the background trying to fit the giant axe through the temple door.

* KickTheDog: During Pearl's HeroicBSOD, she not only snaps at Steven for suggesting why she kept secrets, she even doesn't help him when he's dangling off a mountain.

* MomentOfWeakness: Following her discovery of Lion's connection to Rose, Pearl begins to have a freakout at the fact that Rose Quartz kept secrets even from her. When Steven tries to suggest that Rose was trying to protect her, Pearl blurts out that he couldn't possibly know that because he never met her. Pearl runs off immediately after.
* NeverSayDie: Garnet starts by describes the Gems which fell in battle as being "broken" (this is actually proper terminology for Gems, as they ''aren't truly dead'', shown back in "Secret Team"), but one ''sentence'' later [[SubvertedTrope calls the battle "a maelstrom of destruction and death"]]. And in Pearl's holographic recreation of a scene from 5000 years ago, Rose says that if they lose the fight against the Homeworld, they'll be killed.

* PurpleIsPowerful: The giant ax is purple.

* SequelEpisode: Most of the episode's events are a result of Steven's trip to Rose's armory and finding her sword in "Lion 2: The Movie".

* SurvivorsGuilt: Been hinted at before with regards to Rose's death affecting the other gems, but here it's put right out in front.
--> '''Pearl:''' Everything I ever did, I did for her. Now she's gone. But I'm still here.

* WeaponTombstone: The Crystal Gems return to the FieldOfBlades from "Serious Steven", and each weapon is said to be left by a gem that died in the battle. They end up [[RobbingTheDead taking several of the weapons]] to use, because the situation has gotten that bad.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Pearl's behavior towards Rose in this episode has a lot of romantic undertones, especially the scene with the hologram of her and Pearl grasping hands.

* GravityIsAHarshMistress: Steven attempts to reach Pearl by jumping off a floating rock. Given how far he had to jump, it doesn't take long for him to realize this.

* NeverSayDie: Garnet starts by describes the Gems which fell in battle as being "broken" (this is actually proper terminology for Gems, as they ''aren't truly dead'', shown back in Secret Team), but one ''sentence'' later [[SubvertedTrope calls the battle "a maelstrom of destruction and death"]]. And in Pearl's holographic recreation of a scene from 5000 years ago, Rose says that if they lose the fight against the Homeworld, they'll be killed.

* TheReveal: While it has already been hinted before, this episode makes it clear (or at least as clear as it's possible to be in a kids' cartoon) that Pearl was in love with Rose.

[[caption-width-right:350:"Everything I ever did, I did for her. Now she's gone, but I'm still here."]]

* DeathGlare: Pearl's expression when she turns to Steven seems to scream "I wish you weren't born", even for a brief second.

* WarIsHell: Garnet, on the other hand, sees it as a harrowing battle which cost the lives of many Gems.

* CheshireCatGrin: Pearl does one when she and Steven reach Rose's armory.

He makes the final jump, one that ultimately proves too far from him, and to Pearl's horror, begins to plummet. Luckily, he manages to grab onto some vines. However, seeing Steven dangling precariously from the roots at the bottom, Pearl makes no move to help him, forcing the boy to climb up on his own. When he reaches the top, he finds Pearl pleasuring herself furiously with the now drenched pink scabbard.

He makes the final jump, one that ultimately proves too far from him, and to Pearl's horror, begins to plummet. Luckily, he manages to grab onto some vines. However, seeing Steven dangling precariously from the roots at the bottom, Pearl makes no move to help him, forcing the boy to climb up on his own. When he reaches the top, he finds Pearl sobbing silently but heavily, clutching the pink scabbard to her chest.

* DeathGlare: Downplayed. Pearl's expression when she turns to Steven isn't murderous, but rather it seems to scream "I wish you weren't born", even for a brief second.

* KickTheDog: During Pearl's HeroicBSOD, she not only snaps at Steven for suggesting why she kept secrets and even doesn't help him when he's dangling off a mountain.

After the opening theme finishes, we see the title card...and Rebecca Sugar is wielding the quill of this episode. You know what that means: a homosexual DramaBomb!

The episode begins with the Crystal Gems on a trip back to the strawberry fields, reclaiming the giant weapons there left by gem warriors who fell in battle 5,000 years ago. As Garnet chooses an axe three times her size, Steven exclaims he'd like something like that. Pearl suggests he find something a bit more suitable for himself. When Steven asks Lion to help him find something, the big pink cat walks away. Pearl tells Steven he needs to train it better. Steven tries to prove that Lion listens sometimes, but is ultimately unsuccessful. But after a few moments, Lion returns with a pink scabbard. Pearl says that the scabbard belonged to Rose Quartz, and angrily removes it from Lion's mouth. Pearl goes on to describe the battle. Amethyst says she wishes she had been there. Garnet insists she wouldn't have, describing how many gems were broken and destroyed. Pearl pops up to remind them all that the Crystal Gems won.

After the opening theme finishes, we see the title card...and Rebecca Sugar is wielding the quill of this episode. You know what that means: a DramaBomb!

* KickTheDog: Pearl angrily telling Steven he never met his mother (who, effectively, died giving birth to him.) The way she immediately runs off afterwards implies she realizes she went too far, though luckily for her Steven is an AllLovingHero and is more worried about her than about what she said.

* NeverSayDie: Garnet starts by describes the Gems which fell in battle as being "broken", but one ''sentence'' later [[SubvertedTrope calls the battle "a maelstrom of destruction and death"]]. And in Pearl's holographic recreation of a scene from 5000 years ago, Rose says that if they lose the fight against the Homeworld, they'll be killed.