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Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#39576: Aug 11th 2016 at 6:44:37 AM

Uh what?

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#39577: Aug 11th 2016 at 6:46:05 AM

Randomness is not operating at 75%.

Sorry if that previous post made no sense.

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PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#39578: Aug 11th 2016 at 6:51:18 AM
randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#39579: Aug 11th 2016 at 6:56:08 AM

I was sleepy...

But I just got 2nd winded for some reason.

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Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#39580: Aug 11th 2016 at 7:00:33 AM

Its time you entered sleep mode.

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#39581: Aug 11th 2016 at 7:02:01 AM

It's too late for that...

That 2nd wind just made me wide awake, it'll take like a 3 hours to get to sleep.

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Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#39582: Aug 11th 2016 at 7:05:15 AM

2nd wind?

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#39583: Aug 11th 2016 at 7:06:54 AM

Yes.

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Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#39584: Aug 11th 2016 at 7:21:58 AM

I dont know what you mean by second wind

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#39585: Aug 11th 2016 at 7:24:10 AM

I'm wide awake now...thas what it means.

edited 11th Aug '16 7:25:44 AM by randomness4

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KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#39586: Aug 11th 2016 at 7:54:37 AM

I'll admit, part of me wanted the end of "Bubbled" to break from Steven's viewpoint for once and show Eyeball getting picked up by a Homeworld ship (and maybe give us our first glimpse of White Diamond/present day Blue Diamond).

Something like this, I guess:

Oh God! Natural light!
darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#39587: Aug 11th 2016 at 7:57:13 AM

I want some of those space backgrounds for my desktop. Because space is awesome.

It's so, spacious.

YamiVizziniX Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
#39588: Aug 11th 2016 at 8:10:04 AM

For a moment I thought the Rubies had gotten their ship back and were going to take Steven back to Homeworld.

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RokukeShiba Since: Nov, 2014
#39589: Aug 11th 2016 at 8:38:47 AM

Is it right to assume Pink Diamond is the youngest diamond? I assume age by how many worlds they control.

Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Funny but not helpful
#39590: Aug 11th 2016 at 9:13:30 AM

That's what I've been assuming

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darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#39591: Aug 11th 2016 at 9:29:25 AM

Probably, but we just don't know enough to make a judgement call. Then again, when's that ever stopped the fandom.

Thankfully, all the Rose is Pink Diamond theories can finally be shattered for good.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#39592: Aug 11th 2016 at 9:32:04 AM

Shattered and then crushed to dust that gets scattered in space.

Alternatively: Shattered and then crushed into pigments used to draw a great big "In Yo' Face"...

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RegisteredUser Body contains a Human Soul. from It's as cold as it looks. Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Desperate
Body contains a Human Soul.
#39593: Aug 11th 2016 at 9:48:17 AM

It's hard to say if it's definitely right, but Pink Diamond's mural having only the Earth and its Moon depicted instead of the multiple planets the other Diamonds have makes her being the youngest of the four a reasonable assumption. The only other conclusion I think can be drawn from that detail is perhaps that Pink simply didn't take a colony for herself — instead having some different role in the Gem Empire then the other Diamonds — until the relatively recent attempt at Earth.

The latter is more of a stretch, and Pink simply being the newest of the Diamonds has fewer assumptions bound to it, but I do kind of like the idea of something like Pink being the original military leader of Homeworld, and her establishing the Earth colony as a personal(?) experiment. Buuut there's no reason to assume that's likely.

What I think is reasonable to assume given her mural is that, whatever her morality was — how much she "deserved" to be shattered beyond the necessity of it to liberate Earth — she was not like her "sisters." It's really striking to me just how different the depiction of Pink is in her mural compared to the other Diamonds.

Yellow, Blue, and White are all wearing these abstract, intricately designed outfits and posed in a state of... dignified repose — not relaxed, but definitely assured — their planets and moons arranged around them, held effortlessly in orbit around themselves. Yellow's balanced like scales above her hands, Blue's in a hanging column, White with a halo floating behind her with only the largest and most central of the bodies (easily assumed to the Homeworld itself) cupped in her hands.

Pink's mural has her depicted in the opposite in almost every fashion. She seems to be wearing nothing — presumably at least nothing worth any detail being spared on — and her posture is one of decisive action. She's springing upwards, leg up and back arched, rising, seemingly bursting from beneath her given the well of "light" around her lower foot. She's peering straight up, towards the Earth and Moon, balancing it on her hand as if it has great weight that she must forcibly keep afloat. She still has grace and poise, but she's also acting in a way the other Diamond's clearly are not.

I have no doubt we — and thus, Steven — haven't heard the last of Pink Diamond and who she was. I don't get the impression she was in any way "good", but, it feels undeniable that she was different. Perhaps there was very much a reason why someone like Rose Quartz and her rebellion could come from Pink Diamond's colony in the first place...

RokukeShiba Since: Nov, 2014
#39594: Aug 11th 2016 at 9:57:22 AM

I assume they can more diamonds, So I wonder if they made a new diamond to replace their lost Pink diamond? Or do diamonds take longer then normal gems? Not sure how Gem reproducing works. Because what Im getting from the show is that Gems are like ant colonies.

Now im picturing diamonds leaking goo that go into the injectors to make More gems lol.

darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#39595: Aug 11th 2016 at 10:03:52 AM

Jeez, just when you think that mural could no longer be relevant this late in the series, we're proven wrong. I've not seen that kind of strong foreshadowing so early in a series in a long, long time.

Is there a trope for something that holds a massive hint toward the end goal of a story very early in?

AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#39596: Aug 11th 2016 at 10:05:33 AM

Innocuously Important Episode and Arc Welding, kinda. But yeah it's shocking and a pleasant surprise just how tightly plotted Steven Universe is. And what's great about it is the foreshadowing is subtle enough that even the most Genre Savvy viewers can't just use it to map out the rest of the series like that.

edited 11th Aug '16 10:07:28 AM by AlleyOop

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#39597: Aug 11th 2016 at 10:17:52 AM

Given the change in Homeworld's emblem from the four-diamond to three-triangle motif, it doesn't seem likely at all that a new Diamond has been grown. Given what we've heard of Homeworld's resource shortages from Peridot — and going with assumption that Diamonds are the highest quality Gem and thus require the most resources to produce — it seems fairly reasonable to conclude that making a new Diamond is probably impossible for them at the moment.

Speaking about the old four-diamond symbol, though, the prominence of that emblem in the past does make me wonder if Pink Diamond hadn't already been around for a while, given how ingrained it seems to have been. ... But then again, we've only really seem the old emblems on Earth, and, well, that was Pink Diamond's colony, so if she's going to be represented on the emblem anywhere, it seems sensible that she's going to be there. (Along those lines, I wonder if the modern three-triangle symbol isn't actually older than we thought... It'd be kind of grimly hilarious if Homeworld only brought out and got to use the four-diamond symbol for like a thousand years or something before Pink got herself shattered. I could just see Blue or maybe Yellow complaining that they just changed all the fucking symbols on their colony's to reflect the new hire, and now she's dead? Gosh, what a hassle.)

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#39598: Aug 11th 2016 at 10:36:51 AM

I don't think they'd just want to make another Diamond even if they could. I wouldn't be surprised at all if the Diamonds origins are significantly different from all other Gems and you can't just make them.

JBC31187 Since: Jan, 2015
#39599: Aug 11th 2016 at 10:43:26 AM

Probably, but we just don't know enough to make a judgement call. Then again, when's that ever stopped the fandom. Thankfully, all the Rose is Pink Diamond theories can finally be shattered for good.
/

Clearly, Pink Diamond is Rose. Her special power is a mastery of shapeshifting. She shattered and replaced Rose, stuck some extra bits on to disguise her gem, and then "killed" herself using a piñata.

Her evil plan was to keep the rebellion going and separate Earth from the rest of the Gem empire, providing herself with a base the other Diamonds couldn't watch. She was going to hollow out the Earth, and use that army plus her loyal soldiers now inducted in the other Diamonds' armies to launch a sneak attack that would cut the Gem empire in two.

Unfortunately, Pink Diamond forgot all about the secret Diamond weapon, and her rebel army was corrupted. Trapped on Earth for six thousand years, she gave in to despair and started over as Steven Universe. Ironically, if she had waited another ten years, Peridot would have shown, giving her another shot at domination.

MousaThe14 Writer, Artist, Ignored from Northern Virginia Since: Jan, 2011 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
Writer, Artist, Ignored
#39600: Aug 11th 2016 at 11:21:42 AM

I have a theory.

Each Diamond seems to oversee certain types of gems in their particular courts. This is a major assumption, but let’s go with it.

We’ve seen Yellow Diamond is supposed to be the super logical one and therefore gems like Peridots would be under her command, and we can assume other analytical and technology type gems go with her.

Blue Diamond is hard to define, Sapphire was sent as a diplomat, and, okay, Hold on, I need to second to elaborate on Lapis since we’re going to assume she’s in Blue Diamond’s court: Lapis has the ability to replay events she’s seen in water, she seems to be associated with reflection. Also she was sent to earth to see it, not necessarily as a combatant. I speculate that Lapis was a reporter or on some kind of reconnaissance unit, perhaps a sort of gem documentary. I would put things like the verbal arts and reporting as, for lack of a better word that has come to mind, the Liberal Arts, so Blue Diamond’s court covers those sorts of things.

We don’t know anything about White Diamond. But Pink Diamond we have seen gems under her jurisdiction are Rubies, Jaspers, Roses, maybe even Amethysts: All warrior gems. I think that Pink Diamond has ever had a colony because that was never her purpose. She was meant to be the grand general in charge of crafting and leading all soldier gems to secure and enforce rule on new colonies, not the sort of work that would require owning your own planet. Earth was going to finally be her first after all these millennia either as reward or because she decided she wanted it bad enough.

Also it’d be a little heartbreaking to find out that Pink Diamond’s first go at having her own world got her killed, you know, like how it was heartbreaking for Jasper to lose the home she was born on.

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