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Why would Rose be forced to shatter PD just because she (somehow) became corrupted? And who says the other made her an Un-person?
Honestly, if there were any extenuating circumstances, Garnet would have told Steven about them. It's being treated as pretty clear cut here.
edited 15th Aug '16 3:13:58 PM by LSBK
Not quite. Yes she was removed from the sigil, but the other gems like Ruby and Jasper still know who she is and presumably feel free to talk about it. There isn't a taboo on whether they're supposed to know about her not.
Pink Diamond could have still been the Token Good Teammate (comparatively speaking) and Rose could have still decided to shatter her anyways. That's what I'm hoping for, personally.
edited 15th Aug '16 3:15:33 PM by Draghinazzo
@LBSK: Considering how powerful diamonds are implied to be (godlike is one way of putting it), that's something that might be impossible to hold in a bubble for starters. As far as the Un-person thing goes, well there's the fact that iconography associated with PD in certain gem ruins on Earth was seemingly deliberately destroyed/defaced. It's not a hard "Un-person" where you'll be killed for speaking her name, but it seems to me like a deliberate effort to downplay Pink Diamond's existence to the point where it's a historical curiosity known only to extremely old gems and perhaps a few others.
edited 15th Aug '16 3:17:10 PM by CaptainCapsase
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There is no indication that a Gems strength makes bubbling them difficult after they have been poofed. And it also seems very unlikely that any vandalism (if it was even that) was done by Home World's side. It would make a lot more sense for the Rebellion to do that.
edited 15th Aug '16 3:17:16 PM by LSBK
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It was just Pink though, none of the others were damaged, which implies it was done by loyalists for whatever reason.
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There's different degrees of "Un-person"; it's not a big secret, but it seems like it's something that only very old gems and perhaps a few others are aware of; the fact that there was once a fourth diamond is something that would be a huge deal, and while it's been thousands of years, the fact that gems are immortal gives them a drastically different outlook on time.
edited 15th Aug '16 3:20:35 PM by CaptainCapsase
I wish I had Mystical White Hair.
My hair be very light brown.
ppppppppfeiufiofuiorjfadkfbnjkdflaosigjbkghuiafjkldjnbaghkd@Daft: Hair dye is a thing.
I suppose we'll have to see.
As far as the idea of Pink being the Token Good Teammate of the diamonds and Rose shattering her anyway that would be interesting, especially if it was due to a Poor Communication Kills or My Species Right Or Wrong, that would be an interesting Blemish on Rose, in addition to her penchant for secrecy.
edited 15th Aug '16 3:24:05 PM by CaptainCapsase
Honestly, I have to wonder where the gems came from originally. The diamonds yes, but from where did they come?
Perhaps the gems were originally created by precursors as weapons in a war against a long forgotten and probably still around somewhere foe that ended up turning on and destroying their masters because that's what happens in science fiction when you create life.
edited 15th Aug '16 3:26:49 PM by CaptainCapsase
The only instance we have of defacement is, to my knowledge, a single sigil in the Sky Arena where Pink's symbol is only partially damaged. It is still clearly visible. The statues from the same place don't even appear to actually be the Diamonds; their gems are in the wrong place, with two of them having a gem on the nose, so I wouldn't take the face that one is missing as meaning too much.
There really isn't much evidence for PD being an Un-person anymore.
edited 15th Aug '16 3:36:57 PM by SilentColossus
On the flipside, one of the things I like about the show is that while Rose isn't portrayed as being as evil as the Diamonds, her killing Pink Diamond isn't portrayed as necessarily good or just, but something that Rose and the Crystal Gems felt was the best option at the time. While the war may have been necessary for freeing Earth, it was still a bloody mess, and it shows in how the surviving Crystal Gems react to it- Pearl plays up the glorious bits but hides the ugly parts, Garnet either doesn't talk about it or talks about how terrible it was, Bismuth creates the Breaking Point because she's tired of seeing her comrades die, and Rose- Rose decided she was tired and decided to literally start over, by giving her life force to Steven. It almost sounds like a suicide.
Even Homeworld seems affected. Yellow Diamond could come back with a fleet, kill any surviving opposition, and then continue terraforming Earth, but instead she decides to blow it all up. Jasper and Eyeball try to avenge Pink Diamond, despite how much it costs them- Jasper ends up corrupted and bubbled, and Eyeball's floating in space.
TL;DR: The writers are committed to the narrative that War Is Hell, and even if the Crystal Gems rebelled for all the right reasons (and they did! I like living on Earth) it was still a miserable, bloody affair even before most of the Crystal Gems were wiped out.
edited 15th Aug '16 3:40:08 PM by JBC31187
And it wouldn't be a good plot development in any case. It'd be making the situation with Rose less complex and interesting in favour of laying all the blame for the ugly sides of the war at Bismuth's feet.
Basically, it's trying to blame all the world's problems on some single villain you can dislike instead of a complex network of interrelated forces beyond anyone's control.
I wasn't a big fan of "Know Your Fusion", although it did give me more evidence of "Garnet is arrogant."
My various fanfics.

Saying that Rose didn't kill PD feels kind of like pulling a form of Death Is Cheap. Not resurrecting the character, but still having an impact from one character dying, only to pull back later and say "nah, not really how it happened".