It's possible Yellow or White sent a Rose Quartz armed with a sword to kill Pink, but that doesn't explain the points that Zircon made about Pink's whole entourage just letting her pass and get close, or Pink getting out of her defensive palanquin to meet with said Rose Quartz.
Something fishy is going on. The last point is why I think Pink Diamond may have been ready to perform a Heel–Face Turn, otherwise she wouldn't get out for a Rose Quartz. But it doesn't explain her entourage's behaviour, or why no Sapphires told Pink that she would get shattered if she got out of her palanquin.
That's part of why I suspect Mind Control of some kind might be in play here, because as Defense Zircon pointed out, it doesn't make sense that her whole entourage witnessed it and yet did nothing to prevent it.
Oissu!As Zircon pointed out, the whole point of the trial was to get Rose to say what happened. Whether or not Eyeball is a reliable witness, Blue Diamond doesn't find her testimony fully trustworthy.
I definitely disagree on that specific point (I never thought it started the war, much less saw a consensus that it did), but they are right that Zircon's conclusion involved information the audience didn't have—mostly that Pink Diamond's shattering was more of an assassination than the end of a mass military offensive.
edited 30th May '17 9:31:33 AM by thatother1dude
Jasper was made during the rebellion itself, wasn't she? As a last ditch effort for more troops, in fact. I doubt she'd take Pink Diamond's demise so prsonally if she never got the chance to, you know, serve her, so it's obvious to me that Pink was shattered closer to the end of the war.
edited 30th May '17 11:23:17 AM by SalFishFin
I dunno, I just heard a lot more people talking about this like Rose shattering Pink was the big kick-off point of the war before Wanted aired.
From people expressing sympathy for Jasper for having a former friend shatter their leader, to people talking about how Blue Diamond in The Answer might have been mourning Pink's death, to people thinking that Rose was being a huge hypocrite when she was telling Bismuth not to kill if she had already killed Pink.
It certainly seemed like the majority opinion.
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I don't know if it would be so much a redemption as an Enemy Mine situation, Jasper just seems to want bloody revenge on whoever killed Pink Diamond.
I found those timelines frustrating because it really never added up. Bismuth you think would have called out Steven/Rose for her hypocrisy if she was already a shatterer when they were friends. I'm like "Why is this the majority opinion in the fandom?"
The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.I think it'd be more along the lines of Yellow Diamond having a hand in assisting with the death of Pink Diamond by allowing Rose the opening to attack. Rose would be the one behind it, but Yellow would have pulled strings in order to do so.
Either way, if Jasper gets healed and finds out Yellow Diamond had a hand in this, she'd be pissed but I don't think she'd be on the Crystal Gems' side. Rose still had a hand in it, after all.
edited 30th May '17 12:49:49 PM by AdricDePsycho
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?I'm almost certain that White Diamond was involved. Her lack of precense in the story + the fact that YD being the culprit seems to at odds with her previous behavior.
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Pink was starting to question the Diamond Authority. Either that or Yellow really is a monster who just hated organic life so much she wanted to wipe it out by any means necessary, and shattering a fellow Diamond would cause so much horror that the other Diamonds would agree to use their corrupting ray, which she thought would kill off all Terran life.
I think option 1 is more likely, but 2 could be possible.
edited 30th May '17 12:55:29 PM by PhiSat
Oissu!

Well, the Rose Quartz's powers were apparently unique to her, but I suppose that's not something you notice unless you're actually in combat.
edited 30th May '17 9:24:23 AM by LSBK