| 1 | [[WMG:[[center:[-''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' '''[[Characters/StevenUniverse Main Character Index]]'''\ |
| 2 | [[Characters/StevenUniverseCrystalGems Crystal Gems]] ([[Characters/StevenUniverseStevenQuartzUniverse Steven Quartz Universe]] | [[Characters/StevenUniverseGarnet Garnet]] | [[Characters/StevenUniverseAmethyst Amethyst]] | [[Characters/StevenUniversePearl Pearl]] | '''Rose Quartz''' | [[Characters/StevenUniverseConnieMaheswaran Connie Maheswaran]] | [[Characters/StevenUniversePeridot Peridot]] | [[Characters/StevenUniverseLapisLazuli Lapis Lazuli]]) | [[Characters/StevenUniverseGemFusions Gem Fusions]] | [[Characters/StevenUniverseHomeworldGems Homeworld Gems]] | [[Characters/StevenUniverseDiamondAuthority Diamond Authority]] ([[Characters/StevenUniverseYellowDiamond Yellow Diamond]] | [[Characters/StevenUniverseBlueDiamond Blue Diamond]] | [[Characters/StevenUniversePinkDiamond Pink Diamond]] | [[Characters/StevenUniverseWhiteDiamond White Diamond]]) | [[Characters/StevenUniverseYellowDiamondsCourt Yellow Diamond's Court]] ([[Characters/StevenUniverseJasper Jasper]]) | [[Characters/StevenUniverseBlueDiamondsCourt Blue Diamond's Court]] | [[Characters/StevenUniverseSpinel Spinel]] | [[Characters/StevenUniverseOffColors Off Colors]] | [[Characters/StevenUniverseGemMonsters Gem Monsters]] | [[Characters/StevenUniverseLittleHomeworld Little Homeworld]] | [[Characters/StevenUniverseHumans Humans]] ([[Characters/StevenUniverseGregUniverse Greg Universe]]) | [[Characters/StevenUniverseOther Other]]-]]]]] |
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| 4 | !Rose Quartz |
| 5 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SusanEgan |
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| 9 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here for her outfit as a Quartz soldier]]\ |
| 10 | https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rose_quartz_homeworld.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
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| 12 | ->''"Isn't it remarkable, Steven? This world is full of so many possibilities. Each living thing has an entirely unique experience: the sights they see, the sounds they hear, the lives they live are so complicated... and so simple! I can't wait for you to join them."'' |
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| 14 | Rose Quartz was the founder and previous leader of the Crystal Gems. She found Amethyst and brought her into the core of the group. About sixteen years before the series began, she met and fell in love with Greg Universe. She became pregnant with Steven, but since the holder of the magic gem can only be one person, Rose, as Greg puts it, "gave up her physical form to bring Steven into the world". Although she could fight as well as any Gem, she was full of love and compassion for every living thing she ever encountered. |
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| 16 | For her tropes as her former identity, see it [[Characters/StevenUniversePinkDiamond here.]] |
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| 19 | %%Do NOT merge Pink Diamond's page into Rose's page. Please keep them as separate entries. |
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| 24 | * TheAce: Rose is always described as being exceptional at whatever she did. [[BrokenAce It's not an image she lives up to]], because [[PerfectionIsImpossible no one could]]. |
| 25 | * {{Acrofatic}}: Rose is easily one of the larger Gems we've seen onscreen; she canonically wears a size XXL shirt. That doesn't prevent her from being able to jump quite high and land so gracefully that she's practically ''floating''. [[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E6StevenFloats "Steven Floats"]] explains that she had the power to regulate her descent speed, hence her grace when landing. [[spoiler:Played with on TheReveal her "Rose Quartz" form was at first a shapeshifted disguise and her true form was Pink Diamond, while certainly a large Gem as befitting her kind, is built rather proportionally. Her powers likely still played a role in how she can move so gracefully, however.]] |
| 26 | * AdiposeRex: [[spoiler:PlayedWith, since Rose is actually Pink Diamond in disguise. Her Diamond form is much thinner and taller, though.]] |
| 27 | * AllLovingHeroine: |
| 28 | ** Rose is always described and remembered as a Gem full of love towards every living being and the world they lived in. She held her fellow Gems, Greg, and Steven especially dear and the video she left for Steven highlights it, thanks to her monologue. She even comments how she looks forward to Steven's birth despite knowing full well that she'd die as a result. |
| 29 | ** A good example of this happens in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E25TheAnswer "The Answer"]]; she meets the recently rebelled (and fused) Garnet, whom all previous Gems mentioned was unnatural and should be destroyed: |
| 30 | --->'''Garnet:''' I don't... upset you?\ |
| 31 | '''Rose Quartz:''' ''[happily]'' Who cares how ''I'' feel? How ''you'' feel is bound to be much more interesting. |
| 32 | ** This behavior is ultimately why she poofed and bubbled Bismuth, whose weapon, "the Breaking Point", would've led to much higher and much more permanent casualties, especially on Homeworld's side, Bismuth's PayEvilUntoEvil contrasting heavily with Rose's desire to see Homeworld's forces merely pushed back rather than destroyed outright (Bismuth also implies she attacked Rose as a result of this). |
| 33 | ** [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E18ASinglePaleRose "A Single Pale Rose"]] and [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E19NowWereOnlyFallingApart "Now We're Only Falling Apart"]] revealed that she [[spoiler:[[CharacterDevelopment developed]] this mentality as Pink Diamond when she grew to love the Earth.]] |
| 34 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Steven reveals in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E19StevenVsAmethyst "Steven vs. Amethyst"]] that he sometimes feels like he'll never be as great as her. |
| 35 | * AnimeHair: Big, poofy, and styled in tubelike ringlets. |
| 36 | * AntiHero: |
| 37 | ** [[spoiler:For all her compassion, she isn't perfect. As Pink Diamond, she created the Rose Quartz alter-ego, instigated a rebellion, and faked her own assassination with the goal of ending the Gem colonization of Earth, having come to cherish Earth's organic life. However, she deceived her followers for millennia and placed a {{Geas}} on Pearl that prevented Pearl from ever revealing the truth, which caused Pearl no end of anxiety. While her intentions were noble, she caused her friends to live a lie and unwittingly brought down doom on countless Gems after her "assassination". It goes to show that not even the Diamonds' TokenGoodTeammate is flawless.]] |
| 38 | ** [[spoiler:In general, Rose's idealism is tempered by a profound aversion to solving difficult moral problems, which can lead to a unintentional thoughtlessness. That Bismuth was thrown in a bubble to be ignored indefinitely is probably the biggest illustration, as is the fact she never tried to resolve Pearl's feelings for her. Plays into and goes hand in hand with being TheAtoner, down below.]] |
| 39 | * AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: A possible explanation of Greg's comment that she "gave up her physical form". The home movie she left behind for Steven states that she became half of him. |
| 40 | * TheAtoner: It's implied by Greg that she's not exactly proud of a lot of things she's done. [[spoiler:Given she was the ''Diamond'' who began the colonization of Earth and the corruption attack was due to a mistake on her part, it's easy to see why.]] |
| 41 | * BareMidriffsAreFeminine: Her original Quartz Soldier outfit includes a crop top which shows off her gem, which is in line with her gentle, motherly personality. Her default long dress outfit goes for a NavelWindow instead. |
| 42 | * BarrierWarrior: Pearl notes that Steven's shield and bubble were inherited from her, which would logically make her this. [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E48TheReturn "The Return"]] implies that her defensive abilities were more valued than her strength in battle. |
| 43 | * BatmanGrabsAGun: It's believed she had to violate her ThouShaltNotKill policy and shattered Pink Diamond to save the Crystal Gems and humanity. [[spoiler:Except she didn't. Rose Quartz ''was'' Pink Diamond, and enlisted Pearl to fake her own death at the hands of her alter ego, thinking it was the only way to make the Gem war stop.]] |
| 44 | * TheBeastmaster: Was noted in Buddy Buddwick's personal journal to have lived (or at least spent time) among a pride of seven lions (three lions and four lionesses) as if they were housecats at least 200 years prior to the series. She also was the previous partner/owner of Lion, who has partnered with her son/reincarnation Steven after Rose "died". |
| 45 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Rose wanted to free Earth from Homeworld and create a place where the Crystal Gems could live their lives as they wanted and humans would be safe from Homeworld, going so far as to [[spoiler:fake shattering herself as Pink Diamond to do it]]. Homeworld ''did'' leave...after Corrupting every single Gem still on Earth into monsters, thus ensuring almost none of the Crystal Gems would be able to enjoy their freedom and would instead become a new threat to humans. |
| 46 | * BecomingTheMask: |
| 47 | ** Rose sees Steven as a way to become human in a way and experience humanity for herself. |
| 48 | ** [[spoiler:Pink Diamond also chose to permanently become Rose after faking her own shattering.]] |
| 49 | ** WordOfGod is that she dearly, consciously wanted to be an AllLovingHero capable of great empathy, but [[spoiler:coming from a place of such power]] it was very hard for her to truly relate. Steven has no such issue. |
| 50 | * BeingGoodSucks: Even though she was against killing, she had to endure warfare against Pink Diamond because in Garnet's words "The Earth belonged to Pink Diamond. Destroying her was all Rose could do... for Amethyst to be herself... for Pearl to be free... for me to be together... for [Steven] to exist." [[spoiler:The truth turns out to be more complicated. However, trying to be good has brought Rose a fair share of pain. WordOfGod is that she painted the most negative image possible of Pink Diamond to her followers, and so created an environment in which all of her chosen friends kept essentially telling her to destroy herself. And she did.]] |
| 51 | * BenevolentBoss: |
| 52 | ** Was this to the Crystal Gems, ''especially'' compared to [[WeHaveReserves the]] [[BadBoss Homeworld Gems]]. This is most clear concerning Pearl, who on Homeworld would've been treated as a pretty thing to own rather than a person, and Garnet whom Blue Diamond tried to kill half of simply for fusing into her ''doing her job''. Even Amethyst, who would have been seen as an 'overcooked runt' and defective on Homeworld, was never treated any differently. [[spoiler:It becomes even more heartwarming when it turns out that she's actually ''Pink Diamond'', who [[HeelFaceTurn previously]] ''wanted'' to be a BadBoss like her fellow Diamonds.]] |
| 53 | ** [[spoiler:As the series went on, this gets {{Deconstructed}}. While Rose did genuinely care about the Earth and the Crystal Gems, her HeelFaceTurn could not overwrite thousands of years of conditioning to believe she was superior to other gems. While Rose paid lip service to freedom and free will, she still tended to assume she knew best and made many decisions without consulting the others. In fact, seconds after she promised to "free" Pearl, Rose still chose to put Pearl under an involuntary {{Geas}} to keep her identity hidden. In addition to her identity as Pink Diamond she kept many secrets from the other Crystal Gems, particularly the existence of Lion and the fact that she bubbled Bismuth for advocating use of lethal force.]] |
| 54 | * BettyAndVeronica: The "Archie" for Pearl's "Betty" (Rose's bodyguard and very first ally in the war against Homeworld) and Greg's "Veronica" (aspiring human musician). |
| 55 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: She's a loving, kindhearted person and AllLovingHero, but she also ''did'' lead a armed rebellion against a cosmic empire. She's also physically strong enough to smash the metal controls for a Ferris Wheel with one punch, then ''stop'' said Ferris Wheel in its tracks just by jumping in front of it and grabbing it. |
| 56 | * BigBeautifulWoman: She's stated to be at least eight feet tall, is considerably heavier and rounder than the rest of the Gems (her shirt size is XXL, and it's pretty snug on her), is a UniversallyBelovedLeader, and is gorgeous. Her animation and voice acting also allude to this; she speaks very gently and eloquently, and her animation is very subtle and fluid, with her hair shifting and bouncing with the smallest movement. [[spoiler:Played with on TheReveal she's actually Pink Diamond, whose flashbacks show that, while certainly large and beautiful, is also quite a bit thinner and taller than her Rose Quartz disguise.]] |
| 57 | * BigGood: Her actions before and after Steven was born indicate this. Several episodes indicate that she dedicated her life towards benevolence, such as healing broken Gems, defending her newly adopted Homeworld and even bonding with a human which resulted in her giving up her own existence just so that Steven may live. But since this story is about Steven, her legacy and subtle guidance is what drives him forward. This later gets complicated as the series continues. She was a major force in saving Earth from Homeworld, but [[spoiler:she was far from a perfect person. She did many morally questionable things and was also varying stages of immature throughout her backstory. Though she paved the way to the peaceful co-existence between Earth and Homeworld, her actions also left EVERYONE close to her with major baggage that continues to plague them in ''Future''.]] |
| 58 | * BloodKnight: [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E25TheAnswer "The Answer"]] shows that she took a certain amount of satisfaction in combat. However, she didn't actually kill anyone and is her usual kind and loving self outside of battle. |
| 59 | * BothSidesHaveAPoint: Bismuth and Rose's argument over the Breaking Point. Bismuth argued that, since Homeworld doesn't fight fair or hold back, they shouldn't either. Rose argued that this would make them no different from the Gems they were fighting, and was against everything they stood for. Granted, it has become more complicated than that [[spoiler:since the Diamonds are hiding plenty of secrets about the war, including from each other. It's eventually revealed that Rose didn't want to shatter the Homeworld Gems because she was ''one of them'' — Pink Diamond — and didn't want to hurt her family, or any of the Homeworld armies.]] |
| 60 | * BrokenAce: As time goes on and we get more of an insight into what Rose was like when she was alive, it becomes very clear that she was... less than perfect. While Rose did love humanity, her behavior towards them was more like seeing them as pets instead as individual beings, she seems to have handled the Greg/Pearl LoveTriangle poorly (and, ''before'' Greg came along, is strongly implied to have had a long series of human lovers that she only ever toyed with), and her tendency to keep secrets (most prominently the fact that [[spoiler:she came to blows with, poofed and bubbled fellow Crystal Gem Bismuth over a political dispute]]) left the remaining Gems in the dark on at least a few important issues. [[spoiler:We soon learn why; her original identity, Pink Diamond, was a WomanChild who was doomed to remain perpetually immature. Rose pretended to be a mature, wise figure but had the mentality of a desperate, overburdened and self-loathing teenager.]] |
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| 65 | * CaringGardener: She gardens magically through the use of her GreenThumb powers, and she's the one that led the Crystal Gems and cared for them as a TeamMom. |
| 66 | * CessationOfExistence: [[spoiler: Implied with Steven's "She's gone." comment. No one knows for sure whether she still exists in any afterlife, but she's certainly nowhere she's easy to reach.]] |
| 67 | * CharacterDevelopment: |
| 68 | ** Despite her sympathy and compassion, [[SmugSuper Rose's "love" of humans is compared to thinking of them as cute pet animals, and not worthy of equal respect]], though she does show a desire to respect their wishes. Her interaction with Greg taught her to see and value humans in a more respectful way. [[spoiler:It's implied she also had this when she came to Earth and learned the value of humans and her fellow Gems, as she formerly seemed to have the same views of organics as her fellow Diamonds.]] |
| 69 | ** In a heavily ironic way, [[spoiler:Rose Quartz eventually does become the more mature leader that White, Yellow, and Blue always wanted Pink Diamond to be.]] By the end of her life, she still had [[spoiler:Pink's]] cheerfulness and desire to support and connect with others, but she also exuded wisdom and composure, all tied into a deep fondness for almost everything and everyone — and the maturity to face her flaws with grace and sincere attempts to improve. Though her character did start out immature and silly, and does continue to have flaws throughout her life that are never resolved, eventually Rose does mature into a style of leadership which can best be described as "[[TeamMom motherly]]". (Further ironically, her actual biological child is the only one she was never able to lead and guide this way.) |
| 70 | %%* ColorMotif: Pink. |
| 71 | * CombatMedic: Rose had healing and defensive abilities along with martial prowess apparent by her collection of weaponry. |
| 72 | * ConsummateLiar: Steven sadly acknowledges this over the series, the more that he learns about his mother. Rose hid lots of secrets from the people she loved, including Pearl and Greg, whom she cared about deeply. She lied about poofing and bubbling Bismuth, telling the Crystal Gems she was worried Bismuth had been captured or shattered to spare their feelings about the latter's betrayal. [[spoiler:She also lied about Pink Diamond being cruel and unwilling to spare the Earth. After he gets over the initial shock of her biggest lie — that she didn't shatter Pink Diamond but instead ''was'' Pink Diamond and faked her shattering — he admits to Amethyst that he shouldn't have been surprised because he knew Rose was a liar. [[StrictParentsMakeSneakyKids She actually gets this trait from her fellow Diamonds' strict and neglectful treatment towards her]], making it hard to reveal anything about herself out of fear of disappointment from her friends and family.]] |
| 73 | * CoolSword: Her sword, which would later be used by Steven and Connie. Not only does it look cool, Bismuth considered it her finest creation. It's designed to be able to slice through any Gem's physical form in [[AbsurdlySharpBlade one slash]], including gems with SuperToughness like Garnet or Bismuth. However, it's specially designed to [[OnlyFleshIsSafe always leave their Gem unharmed]]. |
| 74 | * CovertPervert: It's not-so-subtly implied that Rose has had multiple sexual partners in the past, makes a few innuendos both in song form and when talking to Greg in "We Need To Talk", indicating that before she became romantically involved in Greg, she had only physical relationships with her partners. |
| 75 | * CreateYourOwnVillain: In a sense. Most of the rebellion's animosity towards Pink Diamond comes from Rose's stories of her as a cruel and uncaring monarch, creating a "villain" for them to rise together against. [[spoiler:It's a complete fabrication. Rose Quartz was Pink Diamond, and slandered her own name, fought her own army, and rallied the Crystal Gems against ''herself'' to try and change things for the better.]] Much of Homeworld's animosity for the Crystal Gems also stems from Rose's shattering of Pink Diamond. [[spoiler:Though the shattering was faked.]] |
| 76 | * CrypticBackgroundReference: Rose's backstory before starting the rebellion is unknown, with Bismuth stating matter-of-factly that Rose was made on Earth's soil. However, Rose's talk with Greg while they were dating seems to imply that she lived on Homeworld, as she tells him that she never misses it. This seemingly minor reference calls into question whether the origin story she gave to the majority of the Crystal Gems is true, and what her true origins even are, seeing as her relationship with Bismuth was part of a reveal that it was in Rose's character to lie. [[spoiler:The discrepancy turns out to be foreshadowing.]] |
| 77 | * CultureClash: She had trouble understanding the human version of relationships at first. |
| 78 | * CulturedBadass: Rose was more familiar with human culture than the other Gems, and had an appreciation for music. The reason she met Greg was solely because she couldn't resist hearing him play, and she excitedly whispered to the other Gems about his gimmick when he came to give her a shirt he'd promised. That said, as [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E12WeNeedToTalk "We Need to Talk"]] has proven, she wasn't an expert on humans nor on their relationships, which became a large block in her relationship with Greg. |
| 79 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: She led the Crystal Gems in a long and violent war, and by the end of it all, most of her followers were either dead, corrupted, or insane. {{Discussed}} in this conversation: |
| 80 | -->'''Greg:''' I barely know you.\ |
| 81 | '''Rose:''' [[TheyreCalledPersonalIssuesForAReason That's a good thing.]] |
| 82 | ** It's expanded a bit in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E22Earthlings "Earthlings"]]; according to Jasper she did ''[[NoodleIncident something]]'' to Pink Diamond. At first we don't know what, but Jasper hates her for it, even after thousands of years. We find out what in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E23BackToTheMoon "Back to the Moon"]]: Rose Quartz ''shattered'' Pink Diamond. And then [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E18ASinglePaleRose "A Single Pale Rose"]] shows [[spoiler:she actually was Pink Diamond, which really makes her life look like a mess in hindsight.]] |
| 83 | * DarkSecret: She killed Pink Diamond. Many Homeworld gems knew, and Crystal Gems that fought in the war with her, but she kept this from Amethyst, and Garnet and Pearl kept it from Steven. [[spoiler:Actually, her ''real'' dark secret is that she was Pink Diamond herself. Pearl shapeshifted into Rose to help the real Rose fake her own death.]] |
| 84 | * DeaderThanDead: [[spoiler:The Diamonds' powers can resurrect organic lifeforms recently killed by injuries and even long-shattered gems. Rose's MindReformatDeath on giving birth to Steven is the ''only'' thing we know they cannot reverse at all.]] |
| 85 | * DeathByChildbirth: Rose Quartz "gave up her physical form to bring Steven into the world", as Greg puts it. It turns out that she became half of Steven, since she and Steven can't both exist at the same time. |
| 86 | * DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: If she can be considered truly "dead" is a somewhat philosophical question, but she's not able to directly be there for Steven regardless. It turns out to be deconstructed harshly while still played straight as the show goes on; Rose was TheAce and an AllLovingHero and a UniversallyBelovedLeader... but she wasn't as perfect as the Crystal Gems made her out to be. She had flaws, her own CharacterArc and her loss is far more than the window-dressing for Steven's story. Bereavement doesn't magically disappear immediately, and no inherited legacy (however awesome) can replace a dead parent. |
| 87 | ** Especially deconstructed in regards to Steven. She genuinely possessed all of the positive traits that those who knew her remember but that only puts more pressure on Steven to live up to her legacy and causes him to have several doubts about himself and his relation to the Gems. |
| 88 | ** Finally the trope is subverted as of [[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E6StevenFloats "Steven Floats"]]: the pressure Steven feels, and the emotional scars he sees that Rose left in both the Crystal Gems and his dad, make him unable to summon happy thoughts when thinking about her, instead having complicated thoughts. |
| 89 | ** Another aspect of this is when an AwfulTruth about her comes to light, she's no longer there to be able to explain to Steven ''why'' she did what she did or her side of the story. |
| 90 | ** This gets deconstructed even more after [[spoiler: it's revealed she was actually Pink Diamond]], as there is increased focus on how Rose's actions affected those around her, and how little she actually thought about the consequences [[spoiler:such as her forcing Pearl under an unbreakable order to keep it a secret, the effects faking her death had on the other Diamonds, her casual abandonment of Spinel]], and the fact that she never really had a long term plan for any of this in regards to Steven. By the events of the Movie, Steven reveals that he actually believes she was capable of such actions. |
| 91 | * DefectorFromDecadence: Led the other Crystal Gems in splitting away from the Homeworld Gems after the Homeworld Gems planned to do something that would have hurt the Earth. [[spoiler:Turns out she ''is'' Pink Diamond, and thus an even bigger example.]] |
| 92 | * DeliberatelyNonLethalAttack: When Bismuth forged her iconic sword, Rose specifically requested it be able to cut through a Gem's physical form while leaving their HeartDrive gemstone unharmed. While just seeming to be another facet to Rose's [[AllLovingHero loving nature]], this later becomes a major detail of doubt to the reveal that [[spoiler:Rose shattered Pink Diamond]], as everyone insists she used her sword to do so. |
| 93 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: |
| 94 | ** One of Rose's biggest flaws, and one that causes problems for others long after her death: While an effective leader and strategist, most of her plans were temporary solutions at best such as bubbling Bismuth after coming to blows or making Pearl [[spoiler: swear to never reveal her true identity even after the War had ended.]] As such, her actions come off as selfish, and deeply hurt those who cared about her. |
| 95 | ** Despite much foreshadowing and red herrings regarding Rose's apparent machinations, she repeatedly displays an inability to plan beyond the short term that consistently comes back to bite her. [[spoiler:She faked her own shattering as Pink Diamond, thinking it would make Homeworld leave Earth alone, and instead got almost every Gem on the planet corrupted as reprisal. She abandoned Spinel in Pink's garden just to get Spinel out of her hair, not thinking of the toll the centuries of isolation would take on her. She bubbled Bismuth to bury the knowledge of the Breaking Point, hiding her away so the issue wouldn't be breached again. And immediately prior to the series, she gives up her physical form to make Steven, seeing it only as creating a child, not considering the grief she would leave her family with.]] |
| 96 | * DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E23BackToTheMoon "Back to the Moon"]] confirms that Rose Quartz ''shattered Pink Diamond''. [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E18ASinglePaleRose "A Single Pale Rose"]] confirms [[spoiler:that she didn't. She IS Pink Diamond in disguise. She faked her own death.]] |
| 97 | * TheDreaded: It's obvious that her rebellion truly terrified Homeworld, even ''before'' she shattered Pink Diamond. |
| 98 | * DrivenToSuicide: Between her immense self-loathing, the intentionality of her decision to have Steven, and the fact that WordOfGod states that Rose ''could've'' had a fully human child and survived, it's ''really'' not hard to read Rose's death this way. Of course, this being a children's show, it's never stated outright. |
| 99 | * DudeMagnet: [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E12WeNeedToTalk "We Need to Talk"]], [[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E8MrGreg "Mr. Greg"]] and [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E13YourMotherAndMine "Your Mother and Mine"]] imply that she had relationships with several other men before Greg. |
| 100 | * EarthyBarefootCharacter: She walked around barefoot and was a FriendToAllLivingThings. |
| 101 | * EternalLove: Rose has had [[MayflyDecemberRomance multiple human lovers she outlived]] (and Greg, who outlived ''her''), but through it all she and Pearl have held a mutual love since the rebellion first started six millennia ago. |
| 102 | * EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Subverted. She is actually Pink Diamond, but Pink Diamond became her because she'd already had a HeelRealization and decided to save Earth and give it to the Crystal Gems and humanity.]] |
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| 106 | * FakeUltimateHero: [[spoiler:Played With. She was actually Pink Diamond, but at that point she genuinely ''did'' want to save Earth's organic life and give it to the Crystal Gems and humanity. So she wasn't who she said she was, but she was still heroic. Sapphire in particular [[BrokenPedestal does NOT take this revelation well]].]] |
| 107 | * FatalFlaw: |
| 108 | ** [[JustifiedTrope Due to Rose being dead]], this only shows up in ''medias res''. While Rose was genuinely good-natured, she had troubles dealing with consequences of her actions and could only come up with short-term solutions at best. In the present, her son has to try and clean up the mess she left behind when she just disappeared to give birth to him; something even he eventually wants to call her out on. |
| 109 | ** Rose also wasn't good at understanding others' feelings and trusting them fully. Her InnocentlyInsensitive nature and tendency to hide the truth away ended up seriously hurting those close to her such as Greg, Pearl, Bismuth, and [[spoiler:Sapphire]]. |
| 110 | ** She also had a tendency to leave difficult problems unsolved or run away from them rather than solve them, many of which had disastrous consequences. |
| 111 | *** [[spoiler:As Pink Diamond, instead of rebelling openly, she faked her own death to become Rose permanently, believing that her fellow Diamonds didn't care about her, but hoping that "Rose" being powerful enough to "shatter a Diamond" would scare them away from Earth. Turns out, they ''did'' care about her, and were so enraged by her "death" that they unleashed a massive corruption wave across Earth that corrupted nearly all the remaining Crystal Gems.]] |
| 112 | *** [[spoiler:While she loved Pearl, she didn't openly address Pearl's over-dependence on her or the nature of their relationship, apparently not noticing that Pearl was jealous of her relationship with Greg and figuring she could have them both. After Rose's death, Pearl has no idea what to do without her and still bitterly resents Greg for "taking her away".]] |
| 113 | *** [[spoiler:When she and Bismuth fought over the issue of shattering enemy Gems, she ended up poofing Bismuth and sealing her bubbled gem away for thousands of years in a secret location, so secret that not even the remaining Crystal Gems knew what had happened to her. She would have stayed in there forever if Steven hadn't accidentally freed her, and when she is freed, she's heartbroken when she realizes that Rose sealed her away and didn't even tell her friends where she was, believing she meant nothing to Rose, who she would have given her life for.]] |
| 114 | * FlowerMotifs: As befitting someone named Rose. Most evident with her Laser Light Cannon, which blooms into a flower to fire, then fires a flower-shaped beam which then blooms into the shape of Rose herself. This was passed onto Steven, as the design on his shield is the same as the rose design on the bottom of the cannon. |
| 115 | * FluffyTamer: Apparently, Rose saw beauty in everything and cared for things that most others would find gross or unattractive. In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E14LarsAndTheCoolKids "Lars and the Cool Kids"]], it's revealed that she tended a garden of some nasty-looking sentient moss. In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E23MonsterBuddies "Monster Buddies"]], after Steven has some success taming a centipeetle, the Gems reveal that she also attempted to tame the monsters they came across. In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS4E3BuddysBook "Buddy's Book"]], we see that Rose had a pack of lions as companions in the desert some time during the founding of Beach City. By Gem Standards she also felt this way about Humans... |
| 116 | * {{Foil}}: To her son, Steven. Both are [[NiceGuy friendly]], [[MagneticHero charismatic]] Quartz Gems who [[AllLovingHero try to see the best in everyone]], serve as an [[LivingEmotionalCrutch emotional support to the other Crystal Gems]], have an InterspeciesRomance with an {{insecure|LoveInterest}} human, and have the same powers. However, as more secrets are revealed about Rose, it turns that unlike Steven who is a BadassPacifist, Rose was a deconstruction of MartialPacifist with her actions eventually bringing trouble for her son. Also, while Rose had trouble handling people's feelings and had an (initial) paternalistic attitude towards humans, Steven is surprisingly emotionally mature for his age and even when he's InnocentlyInsensitive, he ''will'' (mostly) know when he stepped out of line and apologize; plus, he doesn't see humans as inferior species since he ''did'' grow up with them. [[spoiler:Additionally, Steven CannotTellALie, yet Rose has kept a lie for ''millennia'' (and even then she ''never'' intended for the truth to be known). Also, Steven has never doubted the Gems' love for him, whereas Rose, who was Pink Diamond, believed the Diamonds never cared for her at all; and on that note, Steven even forgave the other Diamonds themselves, something Rose would clearly never do.]] |
| 117 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:There's a huge number of hints towards her and Pink being the same being, like how she has so many different Gem powers, her sword seemingly shattering Pink despite being unable to shatter any Gems, Pearl being so loyal to her, implying to Greg in flashbacks she's been to Homeworld despite others saying she was born on Earth, being the only character other than Pink with a pink-colored gem, and so on.]] |
| 118 | * FormerTeenRebel: [[spoiler:As [[BrattyTeenageDaughter Pink Diamond]], at least in her "earlier" years.]] |
| 119 | * FreudianExcuse: |
| 120 | ** Her opinions on humanity before meeting Greg, while seeming somewhat condescending by human standards, are a product of her environment, who as a whole view organic life as pests to be exterminated ''at best''. She's actually remarkably ''kind'' towards organics by Gem standards, trying to turn away an impulsive Greg who she thinks is abandoning his dreams. |
| 121 | ** [[spoiler:Her fellow Diamonds gave her very little emotional attention at all and apparently ignored what she wanted when she did see them, to the point she genuinely believed they didn't give a darn about her, but also were rather forceful that she needed to act like a proper Diamond and put on a proper appearance for her subjects. Her problems with empathy and difficulty letting others see the unsavory parts of herself make a lot more sense with that in mind...]] |
| 122 | * FriendToAllLivingThings: Rose loved every living being and saw the beauty in all things, no matter how "gross" or undesirable others might view them. |
| 123 | * FromZeroToHero: As Bismuth stated, Rose was "just another Quartz soldier, made right here in the dirt". And Rose eventually became a RebelLeader who killed Pink Diamond. [[spoiler:Later subverted — Rose Quartz was Pink Diamond all along, and her origin story as told to everyone else was a lie, [[DoubleSubvertedTrope though]] you could say that Rose was originally just a fake identity created by Pink Diamond so she can have fun and explore the Earth, but later became... something more.]] |
| 124 | * GenkiGirl: [[spoiler:In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E19NowWereOnlyFallingApart "Now We're Only Falling Apart"]], she is overjoyed to see the newly formed Amethysts while disguised as one, the beauty of the newly-formed planet Earth, and is elated when she sees gem fusions, which inspires her and Pearl to unsuccessfully attempt fusion.]] |
| 125 | * GirlsLikeMusicians: In addition to falling in love with the musically-talented Greg Universe, one telling of her origin story shows an image of her falling in love with a dancing tribal from a very ancient civilization. |
| 126 | * GirlyBruiser: She wore a long, frilly white dress at all times, sported long pink hair in RegalRinglets, lived in a room made entirely of pink clouds, and loved flowers, animals, and humans so completely as to put a Disney princess to shame. She was also the leader of a bloody rebellion against her home planet and goes into battle with a pink shield and matching pink sword, having been made to be a warrior. |
| 127 | * GodzillaThreshold: According to Garnet, she shattered Pink Diamond because it was the only way to free the Earth from her. [[spoiler:When she ''was'' Pink Diamond, she tried and failed to get the other Diamonds to abandon Earth every other way she could think of, including outright telling them she didn't want to kill off life on Earth. She chose to fake her own shattering because she took Blue Diamond's words to mean that the only way that Earth could survive was if she removed herself from the equation.]] |
| 128 | * GoingNative: She grew enamoured with Earth and all of its little wonders and eventually led a civil war against Homeworld for its independence. |
| 129 | * GoneHorriblyWrong: |
| 130 | ** Quartz Gems are made to be warriors for Homeworld. Rose turned against Homeworld, and appears to be the least combative Quartz ever produced: her main weapon is a defensive shield (though she had Bismuth make her a sword), she had healing tears, and hated killing in general: she would poof but never break Gems, [[spoiler:which serves as an early clue that she didn't actually shatter Pink Diamond]]. |
| 131 | ** [[spoiler:She's actually Pink Diamond and faked her death under the belief that the other Diamonds don't give a darn about her and if she "died", Earth would be left alone and forgotten by the Diamonds for the humans and Crystal Gems to live in peace. Unfortunately for everyone, she completely underestimated how much the others cared for her and this utterly backfired.]] |
| 132 | * GoodBadGirl: Rose Quartz is an AllLovingHero and FriendToAllLivingThings, but allegedly had various human lovers over the course of her years on Earth, and acts ''very'' flirtatious towards the people she loves. |
| 133 | * GoodCostumeSwitch: She used to wear a standard quartz warrior uniform when she served Pink Diamond, but when she started the rebellion, she changed into the white dress she's been wearing since. [[spoiler:Even ''bigger'' one, as she used to ''be'' Pink Diamond and Rose Quartz as a whole actually ''is'' a GoodCostumeSwitch for Pink Diamond.]] |
| 134 | * GoodParents: While Rose never actually got a chance to interact with Steven, she made it a point to leave a video that emphasized how much she loved him, and how she'll continue to love him after she is a part of him and no longer her own entity. By all accounts, she wanted him to live his life and enjoy it with no greater plan beyond that. As "Storm in the Room" shows, despite his doubts about her, he imagines that she would have been a good, loving parent who supported him and didn't want him to deal with her problems like he has. |
| 135 | * GoodPowersBadPeople: PlayedWith. Rose Quartz was well-known for her healing powers. And from the perspective of Homeworld, she was the worst criminal in Gemkind's history, a revolutionary and eco-terrorist who committed high treason and regicide. [[spoiler:If only they knew...]] |
| 136 | * GreaterScopeParagon: The Crystal Gems still follow her mission and became the people they are because of her influence, on top of being Steven's mother, but she's been dead for over a decade. |
| 137 | * GreenThumb: Rose has an affinity for plants, as demonstrated by the moss in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E14LarsAndTheCoolKids "Lars and the Cool Kids"]] and the brambles that defend her fountain in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E24AnIndirectKiss "An Indirect Kiss"]]. [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E34WatermelonSteven "Watermelon Steven"]] confirms that she had the power to [[PlantMooks grow and command plant life]]. [[spoiler:[[PowerMisidentification Though in truth]], this seems to just be a specific application of a broader {{Biomanipulation}} ability.]] |
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| 139 | |
| 140 | [[folder:H-I]] |
| 141 | * HealingHands: Rose's tears have immense healing potential, strong enough to even mend a cracked gem. |
| 142 | * TheHeart: She was the emotional core of the Crystal Gems. Without her, they struggle for guidance and are usually fighting amongst each other (more like Amethyst and Pearl fight, while Garnet and Steven try to keep things together). |
| 143 | * HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Her deep sympathy and real love for every living creature is what empowered the healing properties of her tears. |
| 144 | * HeroicSacrifice: Although Rose knew that she'd have to pass her gem to Steven upon his birth and sacrifice all of her physical presence, she still chose to shapeshift herself a womb so she and Greg could have him. Deconstructed; Greg and the Gems grieve Rose, while Steven regrets that he can never meet her. There's also the fact that, without her around, the Crystal Gems have no leader, and [[spoiler:Steven nearly gets killed due to being mistaken for her, multiple times]]. |
| 145 | * HeroicSelfDeprecation: While she didn't regret starting the rebellion to save Earth and leaving Homeworld behind, it is clear she feels heavily burdened by her mistakes and believes she is not deserving of love. She tries to push away potential lovers out of fear that they'll sacrifice their dreams and goals, but she's reluctantly willing to support their decisions to be with her. Whenever she realizes she's hurt someone, she's genuinely distraught by her ignorance and desperately tries to make amends and compromises but still unable to open up about herself out of fear of disappointing them further. The way she feels not good enough for Homeworld or anyone on Earth, she ultimately believes herself to have changed for the worse and makes her decision to have Steven under the false belief that her loved ones would be better off without her. |
| 146 | ** If the ending credits song, "Love Like You", is from her perspective (as theorized by fans), she may have held her loved ones in higher regard than herself, despite everything that she'd accomplished. |
| 147 | -->''I always thought I might be bad''\ |
| 148 | ''Now I'm sure that it's true''\ |
| 149 | ''Because I think you're so good''\ |
| 150 | ''And I'm nothing like you''\ |
| 151 | ''Look at you go, I just adore you''\ |
| 152 | ''I wish that I knew''\ |
| 153 | ''What makes you think I'm so special...'' |
| 154 | * HeroinesPreferSwords: While her shield seems to have been her actual Gem weapon that she could conjure at any time, she also wielded a rose-themed sword forged by Bismuth and considered her finest creation. It's also designed to be devastating to Gems' BODIES but not able to accidentally destroy their gem. |
| 155 | * HippieParents: The show's creator has specifically described Rose as a "hippie parent" [[ParentalSubstitute toward Amethyst]], leaving Amethyst ignorant of what Homeworld made her for, and how she differed from most Amethysts, so she wouldn't feel any kind of limitations about what she could be. Despite not being there to raise Steven, Rose had the same attitude for him, wanting him to be whatever he wanted to be. This backfired to a degree, as both are left feeling like they don't have any purpose at all. |
| 156 | * HumanityIsInfectious: Rose loved humans very much and wanted to be just like them, but could not quite fully grasp how emotionally complex they are. She wanted to share in human culture and even be a human herself, partly leading her to have Steven. |
| 157 | * HumansAreSpecial: |
| 158 | ** According to her tape in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E35Lion3StraightToVideo "Lion 3: Straight to Video"]], she held this view. Though [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E12WeNeedToTalk "We Need to Talk"]] revealed that she had a very {{condescending|Compassion}} view about humans, [[InnocentlyInsensitive regarding them at maximum as pet animals]] in comparison to Gems, and it was her interaction with Greg what taught her to see and value humans in a more respectful way. Of course by ''Gem standards'', viewing organic life as anything more than pests to be ignored ''at best'' is a gigantic improvement. |
| 159 | ** She's also amazed by, and seemingly a little envious of, how humans are able to change, grow, and find their place in the world, while Gems are BornAsAnAdult, made to fit predetermined roles as cogs in the Diamond Authority's machine. |
| 160 | * HumansThroughAlienEyes: Rose admits to Greg in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E16GregTheBabysitter "Greg the Babysitter"]] that it took her a ''long'' time for her to realize human adults and human infants were the same ''species'' and still doesn't have a good understanding of human infants. This is because from her viewpoint, ''humans'' have BizarreAlienReproduction as Gems literally don't have an infant stage. She's also completely amazed by humanity's ability to change and grow, as it's something Gems simply don't do. |
| 161 | * {{Hypocrite}}: |
| 162 | ** Rose loved humans, but according to Greg, she didn't even know how to take him seriously until he called her out for [[CondescendingCompassion being insensitive about his desire to have a serious relationship for her]]. She also didn't know that babies needed a lot of care and watching, and took a ''long'' time to figure out that human adults and babies are of the same species. |
| 163 | ** Rose wanted the Crystal Gems to be free of Homeworld's tyranny and choose their own path, and wanted her son Steven to live for similar reasons. However, she wasn't willing to fight dirty for them herself even in the face of Homeworld's ruthlessness since it went against her AllLovingHero beliefs, something the more pragmatic Bismuth took issue with. The unfortunate timing and circumstances of Steven's birth, combined with the reveal of Rose's more unsavory actions, caused Steven to believe she only gave birth to him so she could [[KarmaHoudini run away from her own mistakes through him]], forever trapping him in her shadow and forcing him to face the wrath of Rose's enemies in her stead. [[spoiler:There's also how one of her last actions as Pink Diamond involved placing an involuntary {{Geas}} on Pearl that forbade the latter from revealing her true identity, causing Pearl much psychological anguish many years later as she literally couldn't give the answers Steven sought even if she wanted to.]] |
| 164 | ** Steven later calls out a hologram version of Rose in the Room for her DoubleStandard with how she poofed Bismuth and hid her away for wanting to shatter Homeworld Gems, while he assumes she probably used Bismuth's Breaking Point to shatter Pink Diamond. [[spoiler:The last point at least was a lie that Rose perpetuated; Pink Diamond faked her death to assume the Rose Quartz identity permanently, ordering Pearl to never tell anyone.]] |
| 165 | ** She encourages self-love in everyone, yet the only person she truly hates is [[HeroicSelfDeprecation herself]] because [[BeAllMySinsRemembered she could never forgive herself for the people she's hurt]]. |
| 166 | * IChooseToStay: Chose to stay on Earth and defend it, despite knowing that if she did, she could never return to Homeworld, and that she would be killed if she lost. |
| 167 | * IDidWhatIHadToDo: Subverted. Rose never regretted her actions in kick-starting the rebellion, or ever confided in anyone else her failures. Everything she did, she did for the sake of the Earth, and all living things upon it. It's Steven on the other hand [[BrokenPedestal who needs answers and justifications]] when he discovers his mother killed Pink Diamond. As Garnet explained to him, she didn't always do what she thought was right for her, but ''right for the Earth''. If she had done nothing, Amethyst, Pearl, Ruby, and Sapphire could not be free... whereas Steven and Greg along with all present-day humans, wouldn't even exist. [[spoiler:Steven finally gets his answer in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E18ASinglePaleRose "A Single Pale Rose"]], where it turns out his mom was Pink Diamond all along, but her faking her death was indeed for the reasons Garnet stated.]] |
| 168 | * IHatePastMe: She felt deeply guilty that her past naïve actions led to things like the destruction of parts of Earth and the corruption of so many Gems that just wanted to be free. [[spoiler:She also performs a massive HistoricalVillainUpgrade on her old self, Pink Diamond, after the war, to the point Garnet and Amethyst attribute most of the {{Jerkass}} actions the other Diamonds hit Pink with to Pink herself.]] |
| 169 | * ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: Her relationship with Greg has shades of this: what ''really'' wins her heart is him putting his foot down and being willing to stand up to her on his terms. [[spoiler:Given her past as Pink Diamond this is even ''more'' this trope: the other Diamonds would stand up to her, but weren't very good at actually ''showing'' her love despite feeling it for her, none of her other human lovers ever did what Greg did, and her subjects loved her because they were ''made'' to love her, a problem even Pearl had to some degree. In general, she genuinely loved Greg as much as she did because he both genuinely loves her ''and'' because he's willing to assert himself and put his foot down, a combination no one else in her ''extremely'' long life had ever shown her.]] |
| 170 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: Rose laughs at Greg's attempts to fuse with her in order to get intimate in the same way she can with Pearl, and she saying that she loves ''[[LovingAShadow humans]]'' because they're all so funny. When Greg asks in complete seriousness if she respects him, Rose ''still'' thinks he's trying to be funny. She wasn't ''trying'' to be insulting, and in fact by her species' standards was being remarkably loving (as most Homeworld Gems view humans as pests to be exterminated at best), she just genuinely didn't realize she was being such. However, she seems to have largely outgrown this by the time she was pregnant with Steven, if her speech in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E35Lion3StraightToVideo "Lion 3: Straight to Video"]] is any indication. With that said, she disregarded how people would feel when she gave up her form to have Steven; [[spoiler:Pearl knew and was sobbing about it in private because she didn't want to lose Rose]]. |
| 171 | * InsecureLoveInterest: Back when she and Greg were dating, Rose was very unsure of their relationship and felt that the relationship wasn't a real one; Greg also felt the same way. It eventually definitely became real. |
| 172 | * InterspeciesRomance: |
| 173 | ** With Greg. It's deconstructed in a surprisingly realistic fashion; despite their relatively similar appearance, they actually have to iron out some pretty big culture differences to make their relationship really work. Not to mention their biological differences meant Rose literally had to ''make'' a womb to have a child with him, and the process was ultimately fatal for Rose as her kind simply aren't made to reproduce that way. |
| 174 | ** Rose dated or at least had flings with numerous men on Earth before Greg, though the relationships never lasted, as hinted in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E12WeNeedToTalk "We Need to Talk"]] and confirmed in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E8MrGreg "Mr. Greg"]] by Pearl. |
| 175 | * IntriguedByHumanity: Rose finds humans and Earth life in general fascinating, and doesn't miss her home planet at all. The darker side of this is that she tended to think of humans collectively, so she initially [[LovingAShadow failed to appreciate]] Greg as an ''individual'' rather than as just ''a'' human. |
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| 177 | |
| 178 | [[folder:J-M]] |
| 179 | * JustTheWayYouAre: She fell for Greg because he had the free will to stand up to her when she made mistakes, communicated that she was worth loving despite her flaws, and treated her like an adult rather than like a paragon or [[spoiler:a spoiled child as Pink]]. Pearl [[spoiler:was made to love Pink, who wanted her courtesan to have free will]], Garnet idolized her, and Amethyst saw Rose as a mother figure. |
| 180 | * KickingAssInAllHerFinery: Her default outfit is a white dress/gown that she wore even in battle. |
| 181 | * KilledOffForReal: The process of forming Steven effectively [[MindReformatDeath erased Rose from existence]]. [[spoiler:[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E28ChangeYourMind "Change Your Mind"]] even shows that when Steven is separated from his gemstone, it reforms into a holographic duplicate of Steven, not Rose Quartz.]] |
| 182 | * LadyOfWar: She was gentle and graceful in life, and her shield, sword, and [[WaveMotionGun Laser Light Cannon]] clearly showed that she was no stranger to combat. Not accounting for the ''massive armory'' she had hidden away. |
| 183 | * LargeAndInCharge: She was the founder of the Crystal Gem faction and was at least a head taller than even Garnet. Even more so as [[spoiler:Pink Diamond, who was taller than her Rose Quartz persona and was going to be ruler of Earth before she secretly rebelled]]. |
| 184 | * LastOfHerKind: [[DownplayedTrope In a sense]]. [[Recap/StevenUniverseS4E14ThatWillBeAll "That Will Be All"]] reveals that all other Rose Quartzes are being held in bubbles at Pink Diamond's human zoo after what she did, and if Yellow Diamond had her way, [[FinalSolution they'd all be shattered]]. |
| 185 | ** [[spoiler:Later subverted. She isn't even a Rose Quartz at all, she's a Diamond.]] |
| 186 | * TheLeader: Before her "death", Rose was the leader of the Crystal Gems. |
| 187 | * {{Leitmotif}}: A piano piece accompanied by strings that plays whenever anybody thinks or talks about Rose. It was incorporated into [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7dmHmNoL2g "Lion's Mane"]] and an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8ASguRgpMo acoustic version]] was used in "Story for Steven". An ominous DarkReprise version is used in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_24rJEKuGaE "Night Drive 2"]]. |
| 188 | * LightIsGood: Rose wore a strapless, white dress and is the closest thing to being the BigGood. Everyone who remembers her idolizes her thoroughly, presenting as an angelic, flawless being. But, eventually, her flaws come to light, and this perception of her is held to be unhealthy. |
| 189 | * LivingEmotionalCrutch: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. She was this to the Gems, who are just beginning to accept her death. Amethyst saw her as a mother figure and resented Greg for taking Rose away from her after they began a relationship. Pearl was deeply in love with her and appears to have the hardest time dealing with her death because of this. Her "death" led to all of them not knowing how to go on without her, especially Pearl. They constantly admit to feeling lost and deal with their emotional turmoil in unhealthy manners. |
| 190 | * TheLostLenore: To both Greg and Pearl. While Greg clearly misses Rose, he handles his grief well. Pearl has a much harder time with it. |
| 191 | * LovesMyAlterEgo: [[spoiler:Even though many Crystal Gems, such as Garnet and presumably Bismuth, hate and fear Pink Diamond and the Diamonds in general, they adore and idolize Rose Quartz. The same is true in reverse for the Homeworld Gems, particularly Jasper.]] |
| 192 | * LovingAShadow: Rose's singing in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E12WeNeedToTalk "We Need to Talk"]] implies she loved the ''concept'' of human beings, giving some red flags to Greg about the nature of their relationship. Greg also realizes he doesn't know anything about her. They both get better. |
| 193 | * LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Pearl notes in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E38TheTest "The Test"]] that Steven's shield is the same as hers. [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E48TheReturn "The Return"]] reveals that the Crystal Gems pretty much survived the war thanks to her shield being the only thing able to protect them all from powerful attacks. |
| 194 | * MagicalBarefooter: She was a very powerful Gem with several magical powers such as healing, and she went around barefoot. |
| 195 | * MagicalGirlfriend: Was this to Greg. Vidalia even calls her this in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E16GregTheBabysitter "Greg the Babysitter"]]. |
| 196 | * MagicKnight: [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E38TheTest "The Test"]] reveals that she wielded both her sword and her shield in addition to using healing and plant-control powers. |
| 197 | * {{Magnetic Hero}}ine: Anyone who knew Rose always had something good to say about her, even her enemies. This is eventually subverted over time, however, with quite a few Gems; Bismuth became angry and bitter towards Rose after she refused to become a KnightTemplar with her and bubbled her away without telling anyone, Jasper hated her for what she [[spoiler:allegedly]] did to their sovereign Pink Diamond and of course Yellow Diamond wanted to blow up the Earth out of spite towards Rose. |
| 198 | * MartialPacifist: She's an AllLovingHeroine, but that doesn't stop her from effortlessly beating up a triple-Ruby fusion with her bare hands if she decides it's necessary. Her personal sword was designed to be able to easily slice through the bodies of Gems, but never destroy their actual gem. |
| 199 | * MayflyDecemberRomance: When Greg and Rose met he was a 22-year-old traveling musician while she was a more than 6000 years old LadyOfWar from a race of sapient gems. Tragically subverted as Rose died a few years later, leaving Greg to care for their son. That said, Rose had plenty of other humans lovers before that she ''did'' outlive. |
| 200 | * MeaningfulName: In gemstone mythology, rose quartz is associated with love and health. [[http://crystal-cure.com/article-myths.html It is also said]] that giving a rose quartz to a baby will aid in its transformation from the spiritual world to its physical body. Let that sink in with everything else written on this page about her death. |
| 201 | * MessianicArchetype: Through the series, she's treated as a saviour-figure who brought about social change and an almost divine reverence from her followers. |
| 202 | * MindReformatDeath: A Gem's [[HeartDrive gemstone]] is the physical basis of their existence, and Rose's remains unaltered in Steven's body, but she has not existed as the same person since it became part of Steven. [[spoiler:This is [[DeaderThanDead completely irreversible]], regardless of what happens to Steven's organic half. Even the gemstone by itself is no longer Rose, it's just a fragment of Steven.]] |
| 203 | * TheMinionMaster: In the past Rose used her powers over plants to have them fight for her. We see some of them in Rose's garden in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E24AnIndirectKiss "An Indirect Kiss"]]. In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E34WatermelonSteven "Watermelon Steven"]], Garnet says Rose's plants "lived to fight". |
| 204 | * MissingMom: By childbirth. She gave up her physical form so Steven could be born. |
| 205 | * MorphicResonance: [[spoiler:Her "Rose Quartz" form retains traits from her "Pink Diamond" form. Most obviously the pink palette and her gem in her belly, but also the shape of her bangs and the way they frame her face is identical in both forms, with her bangs dividing over the right side of her face, one curl extending around to the left side, and both bangs slightly covering her cheeks. The longer curl also branching into "smaller" curls right in the middle of her forehead. [[https://imgur.com/ufmBzH1 This is most obvious when looking at them side by side]].]] |
| 206 | * MuggleMageRomance: She (a magical Gem) and Greg (a human) were a couple when she was alive. |
| 207 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: It's not really her, but Cloud!Rose looks visibly ashamed when Steven starts calling her out for the things the real Rose did, like hiding Bismuth away. |
| 208 | * MysteriousPast: Very little about her past has been revealed. Back when their relationship was starting out, Greg expressed concern that he knew so little about her, and her only reply was "[[TheyreCalledPersonalIssuesForAReason that's a good thing]]".[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E18ASinglePaleRose "A Single Pale Rose"]] reveals her true origins: [[spoiler:she wasn't made as a Rose Quartz; she used to be Pink Diamond.]] |
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| 210 | |
| 211 | [[folder:N-Q]] |
| 212 | * NavelWindow: Her dress had a star-shaped hole cut over her stomach to leave her navel-mounted gem exposed. |
| 213 | * NiceGirl: Rose Quartz is indicated to have had a caring and loving personality. In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E24AnIndirectKiss "An Indirect Kiss"]], she was said to be very sympathetic when her loved ones were hurt. She had been said to have seen beauty in everything "no matter how gross", showing that she saw value in things others dismissed. |
| 214 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: |
| 215 | ** During the war against Homeworld, Rose shattered Pink Diamond so as to protect Earth and the Crystal Gems. In retaliation, Homeworld forces unleashed the Corruption, permanently corrupting several rebel Gems and any Homeworld Gem who failed to evacuate Earth in time. [[spoiler:Even when it turns out that Rose and Pearl staged the murder, this trope still applies because she severely underestimated how much her siblings cared about her. She placed a geas on Pearl that prevented Pearl from revealing the truth about Pink Diamond's fake assassination, which caused Pearl a great deal of grief and nearly got Rose's son killed. It's also implied that Rose/Pink intentionally made the Beta Kindergarten defective, which condemned most of the kindergarten's flawed Gems to a life of marginalization.]] |
| 216 | ** Her decision to have Steven, well-intentioned as it was to create a child to live the life that she couldn't, had a bunch of devastating consequences, such as causing the Gems and Greg to grieve, with Pearl coming very close to removing Rose's gem from a baby Steven and [[spoiler:probably killing him]]. Steven ends up growing with her legacy, the good ''and'' the bad, to the point he thinks he'll never measure up to her while being disappointed in the secrets she kept. Worst of all, it meant that with one of the two witnesses gone, [[spoiler:the Diamonds nearly execute Steven when he turns himself in as his mother, and the only proof that Rose was innocent of the shattering was circumstantial or buried in Pearl's memories.]] |
| 217 | * NoBiochemicalBarriers: Averted relatively realistically. The very first time a Crystal Gem and a human successfully reproduce, the process is lethal to the Gem. Conversely, "ordinary" Gem reproduction which involves a terrestrial environment is lethal to that environment. |
| 218 | * NonHumansLackAttributes: Notable aversion; she's the only Gem drawn with cleavage. [[spoiler:Possibly justified since her form of Rose Quartz is artificially shapeshifted and she's infatuated with humans, so she chose to have breasts.]] |
| 219 | * NonstandardCharacterDesign: Her character design is far more clearly ''human'' than any other Gem we've seen, rather than the slightly-abstracted character designs of other Gems. This includes eyes that are wider and narrower than anyone else's and are the only ones with a visible gleam (making them look more like an anime character's), eyebrows that are always visible, and a ''ton'' of shading/highlighting. |
| 220 | * NotQuiteFlight: As demonstrated in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E5StoryForSteven "Story for Steven"]] and [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E25TheAnswer "The Answer"]], and outright stated in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E6StevenFloats "Steven Floats"]], she was able to control how fast she could fall through the air, and was able to use this in conjunction with a talent for [[WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack jumping good]]. |
| 221 | * NotSoAboveItAll: [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E12WeNeedToTalk "We Need to Talk"]] revealed that she didn't fully appreciate Greg's feelings for her, nor the real concept of human love. She loved him, but by that point wasn't ''in'' love with him. |
| 222 | * OneHandedZweihander: Her sword is about five feet long. [[https://steven-universe.fandom.com/wiki/File:New_Op_11.png A size comparison.]] It works for her because ''she's'' eight feet tall. |
| 223 | * OneHitKill: Her sword was able to poof other Gems. |
| 224 | * OnlyFleshIsSafe: Her sword is designed to slice through nearly anything and poof other Gems in one hit... but ''never'' their Gem, making it [[DeliberatelyNonLethalAttack designed for non-lethality]] on a Gem. [[spoiler:This is even more impressive as it's ''not'' designed to ''not'' be sharp enough to cut through a Gem, but that it simply ''can't'' cut through Gems. This is shown when it was capable of even poofing her, a Diamond, whose durability is so immense that attacks that'd shatter a normal Gem outright won't even ''poof'' them.]] This safety feature only applies to Gems — Stevonnie ([[WhoNeedsTheirWholeBody non-fatally]]) sliced up an insect-like alien, and presumably works like any sword would on organic creatures, humans included (not that Rose would ever draw it on a human). |
| 225 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Rose in most of the flashbacks is shown to be a PerpetualSmiler that occasionally lapsed into surprise or wistful sadness; even when attacking Blue Diamond's army, she looked happy. The Crystal Gems also tell Steven that Rose saw the beauty in everything, even stuff that seemed "gross". Steven could only ''imagine'' her angry, while hallucinating as Stevonnie. We've only seen Rose seriously angry or disgusted twice: [[spoiler:when Yellow and Blue Diamond shut down her attempts to cancel the Earth colony peacefully, making her adopt the Rose persona as a figure of rebellion; and when she told Pearl that they had to fake "Pink Diamond"'s shattering because Blue and Yellow didn't actually care about what she wanted in either persona.]] |
| 226 | * ParentsAsPeople: She was this to Amethyst and is this to Steven after her death. Amethyst appreciated how Rose said she was fine the way she was, but later was frustrated at how [[spoiler:she and Steven bore the brunt of the consequences for Rose's actions when neither of them were involved in the great war. What's more, Amethyst says it's not fair that Steven tries to support everyone in Rose's place when he has his own problems]]. Steven admits his feelings about his mother are complicated and calls out a hologram of her about why she left if she loved the Gems and him so much. |
| 227 | * ParentalSubstitute: Some of her interactions with Amethyst can be interpreted as one between a mother and daughter. [[spoiler:Considering how she's Pink Diamond, the Gem Amethyst was made to serve, she's basically the closest equivalent in Gem terms to one Amethyst could have.]] |
| 228 | * PeerlessLoveInterest: A DiscountLesbians example and [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed as well]]. Pearl clearly saw Rose as her "liege" and made it her purpose in life to follow and protect her. These feelings became unhealthy during the war, however, given how Pearl would needlessly sacrifice herself for Rose during battle (something that Rose was very much against), convinced that her own life was worthless in comparison to Rose's. Her love for Rose also made Pearl blind to Rose's flaws, something that was explored in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E45RosesScabbard "Rose's Scabbard"]], where she became ''very'' unhinged after learning that Rose had kept secrets from her. [[spoiler:Makes sense why Pearl would act like this since she's the ''only'' other Gem, other than Rose herself, to know the truth that Rose is Pink Diamond and that Our!Pearl was her assigned Pearl. It also makes sense why Pearl would grow unhealthy protection of Rose/Pink, after all, if "Rose" ever poofed, everyone, Homeworld or Crystal Gem, would instantly know the truth.]] |
| 229 | * PerpetualSmiler: The flashbacks featuring Rose show her as generally happy, or smiling even when she's wistful. [[spoiler:Which makes it ironic that when she seriously rebelled, she looked ''furious''.]] |
| 230 | * PinkMeansFeminine: Rose Quartz was the textbook example of femininity among the Crystal Gems: she was amicable, graceful and loving. Her powers, weapons, and temples associated with her have a pink motif. |
| 231 | * {{Polyamory}}: Rose was in a [[EternalLove very long-term romantic relationship]] with Pearl, but simultaneously took a series of human lovers, ultimately including Greg. Far from being an ideal poly relationship, it was more of on-and-off LoveTriangle where Pearl resented sharing Rose with anyone else, only tolerated most of them because their love didn't go deep or last long ([[MayflyDecemberRomance nor did the humans themselves, from Pearl's perspective]]), and outright despaired when Rose and Greg made a more meaningful connection. Greg, however, didn't seem to mind that Rose also loved Pearl, just Pearl's ensuing acrimony, and even found [[RomanticFusion them forming Rainbow Quartz]] rather impressive. |
| 232 | * PoorCommunicationKills: One of Rose's ''biggest'' flaws, while good at many great things, she was ''not'' good at being open with others and kept a great many secrets, [[spoiler:up to and including her true identity as Pink Diamond]]. These secrets caused her a great deal of trouble, and would ultimately come to haunt Steven long after her death. Bismuth explicitly lists lacking this fault as proof he's superior to his mother. |
| 233 | * PosthumousCharacter: She functions as one regardless of whether or not one considers her dead. What we know about her is mostly from flashbacks, videotapes, and the descriptions from Greg and the Gems. As of "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E28ChangeYourMind Change Your Mind]]", [[spoiler:it's demonstrated that she truly is gone forever. Even if all that was left of Steven was his gem, it would reform as Steven, not Rose.]] |
| 234 | * PowerMisidentification: Rose Quartz is known for her [[HealingHands healing tears]] and [[GreenThumb control of plant life]]. [[spoiler:However, she is actually Pink Diamond, and the plant life control was just a false specialization likely intended to explain and disguise her real power over life in general. The ability that brings the plants to sentience, sapience, and mobility is actually the same one that heals the injured, raises the dead, and gives the same sentience, sapience, and mobility to inanimate objects: the liquid secreted from her Gem form bestows life and the restoration of that life to all that comes in contact with it. As Rose Quartz, focusing on plants was a choice, not a limitation of her power.]] |
| 235 | * PragmaticHero: |
| 236 | ** In spite of being a FriendToAllLivingThings, Rose still started a war and led forces in battle against the Homeworld Gems for the sake of saving the Earth. And, when it came down to it, her anti-shattering stance had one exception: Pink Diamond, whom she destroyed to secure the fate of Earth, its creatures, and her allies [[spoiler:or so it seems]]. |
| 237 | --->'''Greg:''' She gave up everything just to stop what they started here and drive the invading Gems off of Earth.\ |
| 238 | '''Steven:''' So she saved the world, that's good!\ |
| 239 | '''Greg:''' [[WarIsHell No such thing as a good war]], kiddo. Gems were destroyed. People, too. |
| 240 | ** She kept a lot of secrets from the other Crystal Gems, the biggest probably being that ''she'' was the one who poofed and bubbled Bismuth after learning about the Breaking Point (and Bismuth's words implying that Rose was attacked by the Gem in response for disagreeing with her). As some have noted, the other Gems learning about the weapon could've not only caused a schism in the ranks of the Crystal Gems but could have also caused Homeworld to retaliate even ''harder'' than they already did — which is saying something when they make their exit with a FantasticNuke. Turns out that isn't the biggest secret, with that being [[spoiler:she was Pink Diamond herself, having defected from the Diamond Authority to save Earth's organic life]]. |
| 241 | * QueenIncognito: [[spoiler:When she was co-leading as Pink Diamond, she disguised herself as one of the Amethysts with Rose Quartz's pink ringlets when visiting the colony in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E19NowWereOnlyFallingApart "Now We're Only Falling Apart"]]. It's implied she pretended to be Rose Quartz for a while before abandoning her Diamond identity.]] |
| 242 | * QuirkyCurls: Her hair is all styled in curls except for her bangs, and while the hair resembles the trope, her personality also lines up with RegalRinglets — her calming dignity being tempered by some of the free-spirited ''joie de vivre'' that she would later pass on to Steven. Although her interactions with humans from Greg's accounts do bring light to her more quirky aspects by way of her learning curve. |
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| 246 | * RaceFetish: Sort of, when Greg expresses his worries that being human drives a wedge between them, she tells him that she "loves humans because they're all so funny" and it seems she believed that was enough for a romantic relationship to work. After Greg stands up to her, however, she starts to realize that if a relationship is going to last there needs to be more than just fascination with the species. |
| 247 | * RankScalesWithAsskicking: Was the leader of the Crystal Gems, and extremely strong. For reference, she effortlessly takes out a triple Ruby fusion in one pace ''bare-handed''. [[spoiler:Makes sense once you learn that she's Pink Diamond.]] |
| 248 | * ReallyGetsAround: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. She apparently had several human lovers over the years prior to meeting Greg, but given her line about "playing along" with humans and how long it took her to grasp [[BizarreAlienReproduction human reproduction in general]] it's up in the air whether there was a sexual component [[CourtlyLove or not]]. Seeing as she did shapeshift a womb for Steven, she could have had conventional sex if she wanted. Regardless of all of that, she's lived on Earth so long, she could have had dozens of lovers without any of them living within a century of each other. |
| 249 | * RebelLeader: Led a rebellion against the Gem Homeworld to save the Earth. She won. |
| 250 | * RegalRinglets: Her hair is this up to eleven, consisting of long, thick pink ringlets that reach all the way down to the backs of her legs. |
| 251 | * TheReveal: She is central to the very biggest surprise of the series. [[spoiler:Rose is and always was a shapeshifted Pink Diamond, who started a rebellion and later faked her own death thinking it would make Yellow and Blue Diamond to leave Earth alone. By extension, this means Pink Diamond was never shattered, but simply sacrificed her a physical form to bring Steven into the world.]] |
| 252 | * RoseHairedSweetie: Rose Quartz was, by far, the sweetest Gem of the group, loving everything (including ugly things) for their inner beauty. She was the emotional core of the Crystal Gems and had shimmering bubblegum pink hair to emphasize the goodness of her heart. |
| 253 | * RunningBothSides: [[spoiler:Turns out she's Pink Diamond and started a rebellion against... herself. She wasn't in charge of the whole Gem Empire though, so her Diamond "allies" were still a threat.]] |
| 254 | * SatanIsGood: Where do we even begin? She's a rebel challenging the in-universe analog to God to favor freedom, self-expression and nature. [[spoiler:With the reveal that she's Pink Diamond, the parallels get tighter since she's a "fallen" representative of "heaven", as well as a massive liar.]] |
| 255 | * TheScapegoat: [[spoiler:Made her Rose Quartz identity one of these for the shattering of Pink Diamond.]] |
| 256 | * SelfMadeOrphan: Pink Diamond was the creator of the entire Rose Quartz Gem type. Rose ultimately had to kill her. More heroic than most example, as Pink Diamond was Earth's EvilOverlord and she could only free the planet by doing so. [[spoiler:Subverted, as Pink Diamond was Rose Quartz all along.]] |
| 257 | * SetSwordsToStun: According to Bismuth, Rose's sword can destroy a Gem's physical body but not their actual gem. |
| 258 | * SharedFamilyQuirks: As the show goes on we learn that Rose had a lot of Steven's traits. In addition to the big ones, like their [[AllLovingHero love for all things]], they also share minor traits like [[WingdingEyes stars in their eyes]] when they get emotional. [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E19NowWereOnlyFallingApart "Now We're Only Falling Apart"]] establishes she used to ''laugh'' like Steven. |
| 259 | * ShapeshifterDefaultForm: [[spoiler:After abandoning her Pink Diamond identity, Rose Quartz was "the form she chose" for centuries. When Pink Steven emerges, it's confirmed that when Pearl poofed Pink Diamond, she regenernated directly into the form of Rose, as it appears during Pink Steven's regeneration.]] |
| 260 | * SheepInSheepsClothing: In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E19NowWereOnlyFallingApart "Now We're Only Falling Apart"]], [[spoiler:[[BrokenPedestal Sapphire]] is enraged at [[BitchInSheepsClothing Rose's]] lies, believing her to be EvilAllAlong with the reveal that she's [[EvilOverlord Pink Diamond]] and that she [[ManipulativeBitch manipulated]] her [[FalseFriend fellow Crystal Gems]] into a [[WasItAllALie fake]] war for her own selfish purposes. Pearl and [[RebuiltPedestal Steven]], however, help Sapphire realize that the ideals Pink expressed as Rose were still genuine and that Pink/Rose was inspired by her fellow Crystal Gems instead of using them. At the end of the episode, Sapphire understands.]] |
| 261 | * ShroudedInMyth: On Homeworld, propaganda has turned her into a terrifying anti-Christ figure, to the point that some think she's an urban legend. |
| 262 | * SmugSuper: Deconstructed. She was this in the past, but while not in a mean or dismissive way, [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E12WeNeedToTalk "We Need to Talk"]] shows her love of humans as being less respect and more thinking they're cute animals, though in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E5StoryForSteven "Story for Steven"]] it's clear she does believe that humans should prioritize their own dreams and aspirations over playing with her. [[spoiler:This stems from her upbringing as Pink Diamond, who as a Diamond counts as a PhysicalGod among Gemkind and whose family (White Diamond, Blue Diamond, and Yellow Diamond) sees themselves as superior to all living beings.]] Greg eventually [[WhatTheHellHero takes her to task]] over her CondescendingCompassion towards humans -- him included -- and by the time she has Steven it's safe to assume she got better. |
| 263 | * SouthpawAdvantage: In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E9SwornToTheSword "Sworn to the Sword"]], Pearl's hologram shows Rose using her shield in her right hand and her sword in her left. Given that her shield is usually referred to as her primary weapon, [[SubvertedTrope the right hand might actually be the dominant one]]. |
| 264 | * StatuesqueStunner: She's at least 7 to 8 feet tall, towering over her lover Greg by at least 2 to 3 feet. [[spoiler:And her true form as Pink Diamond is even taller.]] |
| 265 | * StepfordSmiler: It's revealed that Rose was genuinely cheerful and kind, but [[spoiler:she was hiding from everyone, including ''Greg'', that she actually used to be Pink Diamond and gave up her true form so as to free the Earth and end the war early. Then she found out that in revenge the Diamonds sent the Corruption Beam, which ended up hurting most of the Gems remaining on both sides, and she could only save Pearl and Garnet. She had to poof Bismuth after the latter attacked her with the Breaking Point because Rose didn't want to shatter the Diamonds or their soldiers, even if ''she'' had spun the story to make others view her as a killer. We also learn that as Pink Diamond she believed that the other Diamonds didn't love her and that they wouldn't miss her if she was gone, hence the faked shattering. Rose coped with her self-loathing and guilt for five thousand years by finding and bubbling the corrupted gems, taking on human lovers, and supporting plant life. During one of the few times, she's vulnerable with Greg, she admits that she finds it amazing that humans can grow and change because Gems are expected to be static.]] |
| 266 | * TheStrategist: Aside from being the leader of the rebellion, she was also their first tactician. Jasper remembers the war and respects her for her strategies. [[spoiler: Possibly subverted, since she was Pink Diamond, and basically sabotaging Homeworld's side from within. On the other hand, Pink being a PuppetQueen for Yellow's and Blue's control over the actual invasion could mean Rose actually ''was'' TheStrategist against the war plans of the far more experienced Diamonds.]] |
| 267 | * SuperpowerLottery: Out of all the Gems, Rose seems to have the most abilities beyond shapeshifting and summoning a weapon; she had healing tears that could completely heal pretty much any injury or disability [[spoiler:and even resurrect the dead]], NotQuiteFlight, and the ability to grow sentient or sapient plants to act as her defenders. [[spoiler:This was foreshadowing the fact she was Pink Diamond, as she had a far more versatile power set than normal.]] |
| 268 | * SuperSoldier: Quartz Gems are the warrior elite of Gem society, and Rose is no exception. She's a strong warrior, leader, tactician, and likely CombatMedic thanks to her healing tears. [[spoiler:Except she's not a Quartz, she's a ''Diamond''.]] |
| 269 | * SuperStrength: Easily smashes a Ferris wheel's control panel into oblivion, and later grabs the Ferris Wheel itself and brings it to a dead stop. |
| 270 | * SwissArmyTears: Rose Quartz's tears are the only thing that can repair a cracked gem (until Steven inherits this power... in his saliva). Given that the gems are basically their "soul", this was possibly her greatest power. |
| 271 | * SympatheticSlaveOwner: She may have been a kindly liberator of Crystal Gems [[spoiler:and a defected Diamond who wanted to stop Homeworld's plans for Earth]], but even though she was trying to encourage her Pearl's independence, Pearl was still Rose's property. |
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| 275 | * TeamMom: She's a charismatic rebel leader who every member of her squad, considered a combination mother, leader and mentor. Sadly, she [[DeathByChildbirth gave up her physical form to give birth to Steven]] before the series began, and it becomes increasingly obvious that the team is struggling to cope without her. Garnet and Pearl try to step up as replacements. |
| 276 | * TemptingFate: During the tape she made for him, she outright tells Steven, "And I need you to know that every moment you love being yourself, that's me, loving you and loving being you. Because you're going to be something extraordinary. You're going to be a human being". Too bad Steven winds up having PTSD and ''massive'' self-esteem issues pertaining to his Gem experiences and being a [[spoiler:Diamond, to the point where he comes to see himself as a FakeUltimateHero and becomes a literal monster.]] |
| 277 | * ThatManIsDead: Rose's shattering of Pink Diamond was not all it appeared. [[spoiler:It was orchestrated precisely because Rose ''was'' Pink Diamond. Faking her own shattering gave Rose the chance to shed that identity forever.]] |
| 278 | * ThouShaltNotKill: DoubleSubverted. We see in the season three episode "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E20Bismuth Bismuth]]" that, while she led the rebellion against Homeworld, she never considered an option meant to kill/shatter her enemies. In fact, her sword was specially made so that it could only harm the body (VERY effectively) but never the Gem. She eventually did kill one person — Pink Diamond — when she absolutely had to. [[spoiler:Only she didn't even kill her; Rose was Pink Diamond, and staged her death with Pearl's help. She actually didn't want anyone to be hurt, which was why she didn't want Bismuth to use the Breaking Point.]] |
| 279 | * TimeAbyss: She's over 6000 years old. [[spoiler:It turns out she's ''Pink Diamond'', and thus likely far older than that even as the youngest Diamond.]] |
| 280 | * TimeDissonance: Sometimes, she felt that things on Earth moved too fast for her. |
| 281 | * TinyGuyHugeGirl: Greg is a pretty big guy, but he only stands eye level with Rose Quartz's chest because she's about eight feet tall. [[spoiler:Even more so, given her ''true'' form, Pink Diamond, is ''much'' larger.]] |
| 282 | * ToughLeaderFacade: Ironically for a RebelLeader [[spoiler:who chose to reject her own throne]], Rose actually becomes this in all but title. Initially Rose's purpose was [[spoiler:for Pink Diamond to be able to [[LonelyAtTheTop socialize with others and experience freedom from the restraints of her class]]]], but since her decision to spearhead the Rebellion, she had to become whatever necessary for her fellow rebels to believe in her competency in leadership and maintain unity in the cause. She had a lot of personal baggage that probably would have torn the Rebellion apart if her secrets had been known and led to the doom of the Earth and the rebels, so she hid her flaws under a graceful, perfect, wise, infallible veneer in order to keep the Rebellion together. Which ironically [[spoiler:though not uncoincidentally]], reflects many traits in the façade propagated by the Diamond Authority about their own leadership. |
| 283 | * TheTragicRose: Rose died shortly after achieving true emotional maturity, and the decisions she made beforehand resulted in tragic consequences for those she left behind. |
| 284 | * TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside: She was a big believer in this trope. She saw the inner beauty in everything, from moss to monsters to Greg Universe. |
| 285 | * TwoAliasesOneCharacter: [[spoiler:She and Pink Diamond are the same person.]] |
| 286 | * UglyGuyHotWife: Just look at her compared to Greg! Greg ''was'' better looking when they first met, though. |
| 287 | * UnreliableExpositor: Rose told Garnet that she was born from the Earth, came to love humans, and pleaded with Pink Diamond to spare the Earth, and Pink Diamond cruelly refused her. [[spoiler:Rose lied; she was from Homeworld due to being ''Pink Diamond'', came to love Earth's organic life in general, and pleaded with Yellow and Blue Diamond to spare the Earth. When they refused, and ignored her because Pink Diamond was the smallest Diamond and her tantrums weren't worth listening to; she became Rose Quartz to make sure they couldn't ignore her.]] |
| 288 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: |
| 289 | ** Not only did her actions unintentionally cause Steven to go through events that would lead to him being a ShellShockedVeteran, it's suggested that her [[spoiler:allegedly]] shattering Pink Diamond is part of why Yellow Diamond wishes to destroy Earth out of spite (instead of the methods Peridot suggested, which would preserve the planet while serving Homeworld's needs). |
| 290 | ** [[spoiler:She had hoped that her death as "Pink" would convince the Diamonds to leave Earth alone. She ''severely'' underestimated their feelings for her and they nuked the entire planet with their Corruption attack, turning all the Crystal Gems save Garnet and Pearl and all remaining Homeworld Gems into monsters, out of vengeance. As a result, Rose had to deal with the guilt of realizing that she got the freedom she wanted and almost none of her followers would ever be able to share in it.]] |
| 291 | ** She [[spoiler:ordered Pearl to never tell anyone that she was Pink Diamond and that her death was faked, placing Pearl under a binding {{Geas}}]]. This causes a ''lot'' of problems when [[spoiler:Steven thinks that his mother is a murderer and turns himself in to save his friends]]. |
| 292 | * UptownGirl: To Pearl, who was a member of the lowest caste of servant Gems. [[spoiler:Taken up to eleven when it's revealed Rose was actually Pink Diamond and Pearl was originally her personal servant. It seems Pearl never grew out of her servant mentality even after Pink Diamond gave up her status.]] |
| 293 | * ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: [[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E16GregTheBabysitter "Greg the Babysitter"]] shows Rose had this reaction concerning Greg, specifically when [[ItMakesSenseInContext the control box of a Ferris wheel was causing him distress]]. |
| 294 | -->''Leave Greg alone!'' |
| 295 | * VisualPun: When [[spoiler:Actual Rose Quartzes are introduced in ''Rose Buds'', their chest is flat, contrarily to Rose who has a visible bust. This is a hint at her true nature; Real-life rose quartzes have indistinct ''cleavage'', but Pink Diamonds have perfect cleavage in all four directions.]] |
| 296 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: As with all Gems, this is a natural ability. She shapeshifted herself a womb so Steven could be conceived. [[spoiler:Her form that she’s maintained for thousands of years is in fact an example, since she’s really Pink Diamond, though to a lesser degree, as she used the reformation when Pink was "Shattered" to set Rose as her default form.]] |
| 297 | * WalkingSpoiler: A lot of information about her in later seasons starts inching towards this for newer viewers, especially after we learn that [[spoiler:she and Pink Diamond were one and the same]]. |
| 298 | * WartsAndAll: Throughout the series, it becomes more and more apparent that, while still a fundamentally heroic and well-intentioned figure in many ways, Rose Quartz was also deeply, even tragically flawed, and just as the trope description suggests, expecting her to match their idealized idea of what she's like brings more than one character to sorrow. |
| 299 | * WaveMotionGun: She possessed and could operate a Laser Light Cannon, which basically works as the name suggests. Her armory had three more Laser Light Cannons called the Quartizine Trio. |
| 300 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: While her motivations for what she did was incredibly pure, [[spoiler: her general actions, and faking her death as Pink Diamond lead to a lot of pain and confusion for the people that she cared about, and threatened the universe as a whole. A gentler example then most because she's still overall a hero.]] |
| 301 | * WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Pearl certainly wonders this. She fell in love with Greg for reasons unknown. When he was holding a concert, she was the only one who showed up... and from there they hooked up. [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E14LarsAndTheCoolKids "Lars and the Cool Kids"]] notes that she saw the inner beauty in all things, which is probably what drew her to Greg. [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E5StoryForSteven "Story for Steven"]] shows her flirting with him a bit at the concert, and his advances at the end of the episode sufficiently charmed her. |
| 302 | * WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Her relationship with Greg was a little rocky at the start because of the [[CultureClash differences between human and Gem relationships]], especially since she couldn't fuse with him. |
| 303 | * WhatTheHellHero: |
| 304 | ** Greg called out Rose for being insensitive to what he wanted out of their relationship in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E12WeNeedToTalk "We Need to Talk"]]. He had just risked his dignity to attempt fusing with her. As he puts it, she was an alien who doesn't understand that he's not just a toy, and that they both need to think about how to fall in love when they don't even know each other. Much later on, in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E16GregTheBabysitter "Greg the Babysitter"]], he asks with horror why she let baby Sour Cream climb a Ferris Wheel, especially since Rose has been on Earth for thousands of years. |
| 305 | ** Bismuth was furious with Rose for being a {{Hypocrite}} about not wishing to fight dirty for other Crystal Gems, when Homeworld ''would'' fight dirty. She's also hurt that Rose poofed her and hid her away, believing that Rose was ashamed of Bismuth. She tells this to Steven, who she believes in a fit of rage is Rose in disguise. |
| 306 | * WingdingEyes: Steven gets his habit of getting star-shaped eye gleams when emotional from her, as shown in her response to Greg's flirting at the end of [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E5StoryForSteven "Story for Steven"]], the kiss he gave her in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E12WeNeedToTalk "We Need to Talk"]], and the sight of baby Sour Cream in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E16GregTheBabysitter "Greg the Babysitter"]]. |
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