x3 I think Pearl had a prior relationship with Rose before the rebellion began, as Rose gives her the opportunity to leave, which she obviously wouldn't have if she were just another rebel.
> Regardless of who Pearl served, how she joined the Crystal Gems is a question that should be answered.
I feel there are some things which should remain unanswered because whatever the real answer is it won't be as exciting as what we've think it should be,It may turn out Pearl has absolutely no connection to any of diamonds or any high ranking gem,and she was'nt even owned by Rose before she was freed.The explanation may be the most mundane thing ever.
This show has a lot of unanswered questions,and by the end they may answer some,but they'll probably leave things so fans can continue to speculate
edited 15th May '17 12:01:08 PM by Ultimatum
have a listen and have a link to my discord serverSee, if it really was that mundane, I honestly feel like we would have known the truth by now.
In any case, the fact that Pearl quite noticeably hesitates suggests that this isn't just something being left unaddressed, so much as deliberately being obscured.
Sure, some stuff could stand to be left unexplained, but I don't think it makes much sense for this to be one of them.
Oh God! Natural light!I feel if it was something that mundane, it would have been answered when Peridot asked to begin with.
The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.We've tread this ground before. I contended that Pearl being owned by Rose makes complete sense, and any Unfortunate Implications people see in that aren't so much implications, as they are very obvious facets of Pearl's preexisting character and getting over them has been the crux of her entire character's developmental arc.
edited 15th May '17 1:00:39 PM by PushoverMediaCritic
I agree with Poshover there. I don't know if they're going to go that route, but it would make perfect sense if they did.
Pearl still thinking of herself as a "pearl" and defined by others is a major part of her character. As is breaking away from that mindset.
edited 15th May '17 1:05:04 PM by LSBK
My big issue is... If it's that simple, why hasn't it been brought up by now?
The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.Also, although I do have doubts about Pearl and Rose's relationship starting like that, I will say that it probably wouldn't totally undermine her rebelling with her.
I have to image that pearls, just like all Gems, are expected to put loyalty to the Diamonds, and their Diamond in particular, above the loyalty of whoever they happen to "belong" to. So even if Rose was her "owner" it was still probably a big thing for her to choice to rebel along with her.
That being said, Rose characterized Pearl (along with Amethyst and Garnet) as being a "long story". That does imply something else going on.
Because the SU storyboarders and showrunners cannot into proper pacing.
But there is 100% a Pearl backstory episode somewhere in the crewniverse files. There have been too many moments where the show backed away from answering even the simplest questions about Pearl's backstory that I don't see why the show wouldn't do something like that. The only real reason that I see why Pearl's backstory hasn't happened yet (other than simple pacing issues) is that there are things that are crucially important to her story that we, the audience, are not supposed to learn about yet, at least not through Pearl's backstory. A big reason why we probably couldn't see Garnet's backstory until the end of Season 2 was because Blue Diamond was involved with it, and they wanted to save the formal unveiling of Blue and Yellow Diamond for the part in the story where they began to play a more active role in it, that is to say Peridot's conversation with YD.
That sort of adds credence to "Best Pearl is WD's Pearl" theorists, but it could also be that Pearl is so close to Rose that showing Pearl's backstory implies revealing details about Rose that Steven (and to an extent we, the viewer) isn't ready to see yet. Like maybe it has something to do with Lion, or at least Rose's earlier experiments with organic life.
Things that links Pearl to White Diamond are the similar locations of their forehead gems,and the fact that Pearl has ivory white skin,but she has pink hair which would link her to Pink Diamond,and White Diamond and pink diamond are next to each other on the mural..
Thinking out loud here,but I'm stuck between the 'Pearl was White Diamond's pearl and the 'Pearl was Rose's Pearl camp right now
edited 15th May '17 4:39:37 PM by Ultimatum
have a listen and have a link to my discord serverThe thing that kills the "Pearl was White Diamond's" theory for me is that there's only two real pieces of evidence for it: her skin color and the placement of her Gem. I'm inclined to think that Gem placement doesn't actually have any meaning in-universe, and the correlation between Blue and Yellow Diamond and their Pearl's is just a coincidence. On her skin color, it's certainly light, but it's not pure white. Pearl's natural skin color is off-white, looking like very, very, very light yellow in neutral light, and changing depending on the lighting.
I thought that "Pearl belonged to Pink Diamond" was the main theory behind "who Pearl belonged to." Didn't her space suit have a pink rhombus?
Now I'm wondering what could White Diamond's relationship to the other two be. I mean, Yellow and Blue seem to be "sisters". What if White Diamond is the oldest Diamond, the one who finds planets juicy enough to birth Diamonds? (assuming they aren't birthed in Homeworld or were created at the same time)
IMO, Pearl being White/Pink Diamond's is the "Lapis is Blue Diamond" or "Rose is Pink Diamond." Everyone we know little about was, and is, commonly theorized to be a Diamond, or very close to them. I'd put Pearl having belonged to a Diamond as being more likely that the others, but I'm not expecting it.
edited 15th May '17 5:28:02 PM by SilentColossus
I initially thought that was a mistake (I used a color analysis program on her model sheet, and it says her hair was orange
), but it's apparently close enough to be considered "peach pink" instead of just "peach".
edited 15th May '17 5:34:43 PM by thatother1dude
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I mean both Lapis and Rose WERE in BD/PD's court respectively, the fandom just heavily misread certain symbols and looked way too hard to find evidence for things that weren't there simply because they played into certain well worn tropes. There is some degree of weight behind the idea that Pearl wasn't just an ordinary gem, even before she was part of the Rebellion. There's a certain amount of weight given to Pearls as a status symbol, which implies that Pearl was, if not aristocracy herself, well acquainted with it.
The main reason I like the idea that our Pearl is someone else's Pearl is because it's a good opportunity to introduce a new character with a deeply significant tie in to an existing character's backstory, like Jasper for Amethyst, or Bismuth for Rose (and Lapis, though it's never directly confirmed or even addressed).
This is an odd question, but is Steven's shirt red or pink? I keep hearing it described as red, but considering how light it is, and Steven's general color motifs, I can't help but see it as pink.
The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.
