I like the theory that Yellow Diamond knows who really killed Pink Diamond, and it was White Diamond. Since it's implied White Diamond is the eldest of them all, Yellow Diamond had to comply with covering everything thing up to keep up a facade that Rose Quartz did it. She has had that guilt for eons, and can't bear for Blue Diamond to know.
Either Yellow Diamond wasn't involved, or she was, but in a way very different than Zircon expects.
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The Rubies knew Jasper was supposed to be orange but were fooled by Blatant Lies that the sun somehow burned her and turned her purple. If the Rubies believed that I have no doubt they'd be fooled by an "off colour" Rose Quartz.
It's after Blue Diamond says that Pink was killed by a sword, she sinks into her chair and lets out a blue energy wave that makes everyone in the vicinity cry, including Yellow Diamond.
edited 30th May '17 9:02:15 AM by PhiSat
Oissu!Yes, but the official report (which would assuredly have been built from things such as Eyeball's testimony) is that she used a sword to do it. And this is significant for the viewer, as we know that the sword Rose used most often was designed to be nonlethal.
Which, I should reiterate, does not mean she isn't responsible for Pink's death, even if it turns out that what the witnesses saw wasn't the murder weapon. It would just mean that someone else is also responsible, and/or that the death happened somewhere other than the palanquin.
I have a message from another time...Even ignoring eyewitness accounts, Pearl and Garnet corroborated the story of Rose shattering Pink Diamond. This strongly implies that Rose herself acknowledged having done it, or at least didn't deny it. Why would Rose intentionally incriminate herself in a way designed to piss off the Diamonds into a murderous rage?
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We don't know yet, but we know Rose kept a lot from the other Crystal Gems. My thought right now is that she made some kind of deal to take the blame and was double crossed by the Diamonds, but it's too soon to tell what her motivations were at this point.
Actually, I have a minor complaint with this reveal: we weren't given the opportunity to figure it out for ourselves. Before this event, there were two camps on how the timeline of this event took place:
A. Rose shattering Pink started the war.
B. Rose shattering Pink ended the war and provoked the Godzilla Threshold of Corruption.
Both of these were thrown around as possibilities, but A was more widely accepted, specifically because of the inconsistencies in B brought up by Zircon. Given Steven's description it's clear that the show wanted us to believe B was the case since he name-dropped the Breaking Point which was made late into the war.
If the Crystal Gems, Jasper, Eyeball, or the Diamonds had been more explicit in when Pink's shattering took place relative to the war, than maybe Rose having help in performing the act would've been an already existent theory by the time the reveal happened.
As it is, we could've had just enough foreshadowing to theorize about it beforehand, but because of the Crewniverse's insistence on keeping things vague, we got a great reveal that came out of nowhere and contradicted the prevailing headcanon's logic.
edited 30th May '17 9:11:41 AM by PushoverMediaCritic
My first guess for why she'd hide the truth would be to protect whoever who co-conspirator was. Possibly she considered that gem's safety more important than her own, and was ready to take the fall to ensure their safety, since she was already a criminal who couldn't return.
I have a message from another time...Pink Diamond had a Heel Realization or was warming up to organic life, but got Heel Face Door Slammed by either Yellow or White Diamond, who proceeded to blame it on Rose Quartz.
Still unclear as to why Rose would take the blame but it's the start of a theory.
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Rose has proven to be someone who kept secrets, even from people she really should be able to trust with everything. Bismuth's silent imprisonment is proof enough of that. Maybe she was afraid that something would be watching if she ever revealed it. Maybe she thought that the info could bring danger down on her friends. Maybe she was afraid of her long-lived enemies returning and learning about it after she relaxed. Maybe she thought she didn't deserve to have the truth come out and be seen as anything less than a killer. There could be any number of personal rationalizations for it. If what I suggested is what happened, her reasons are her own, until we learn more about them.
edited 30th May '17 9:17:16 AM by Enlong
I have a message from another time...I don't believe Pink Diamond's shattering started the war as the Defense Zircon stated Rose had been an official threat for centuries by the time the shattering happened.
If Rose is still the culprit, but had help, I wonder who instigated the alliance. Rose? Or the other party?
edited 30th May '17 9:20:02 AM by sgamer82
To think the series started as just mainly a Slice of Life show with occasional dips into fighting monsters and interacting with weird stuff. Now we are just getting into a deep conspiracy involving Homeworld, and it is really digging into something deep.
I've also kind of wondered about if multiple Rose Quartzes were playing leader of the Crystal gems sometimes. I don't really have any real evidence, or like the idea very much. It's just that if there were, nobody would be able to tell the difference.
That and it allows Steven to have a Real Rose Quartz to confront about the past since his mom is dead.
edited 30th May '17 9:24:02 AM by xanderiskander

Although on the memory changing powers. Steven can apparently hop into people's minds, so it wouldn't be farfetched for Rose to have memory modifying powers also.
edited 30th May '17 8:58:23 AM by xanderiskander