Mini recaps for Lars of the Stars and Jungle Moon are up by the way
Here's an explanation that's mundane in Steven Universe's context: White Diamond is a fusion of Blue and Yellow, which as opposing colors, form white together. But since Homeworld culture heavily frowns on fusion for non-pragmatic reasons, it's a secret kept by the Diamonds themselves.
Alternatively they're Diamonds and can do whatever the hell they want, but Blue(or both Blue and Yellow) are too traumatized by the death of Pink to form a fusion again. Hence why White is absent.
edited 9th Jan '18 9:51:26 AM by Luminosity
The Diamonds are the ones who say what Homeworld culture is, you really think they're going to be concerned about what any of their subjects think?
The fusion angle has been mentioned before it doesn't address the very obvious issue if they're willing to represent on their fusions in the symbol, why would they also do the other possibilities. It really doesn't hold up.
Because it's an well-established element that fusions are their own personalities, unique from the gems that form them. For all intents and purposes, White Diamond is a different person even as a fusion.
I didn't say anything about fusions having their own personalities, I said that if they're going to represent a fusion of Yellow and Blue as an individual (which white doesn't even make sense as, by the way) why wouldn't they do that with any of the fusions with Pink? I'm not really sure how you got confused, my point seems pretty easy to understand.
And that's still very much a cop-out by the way, the murals and symbols paint them as distinct individuals with distinct colonies. So unless White had her own domain separate from Blue and Yellow, it still doesn't really make sense.
edited 9th Jan '18 10:02:29 AM by LSBK
Diamonds are different Gems via the standards we go by in the show. Gems of the same type are given the same voice actress. Each Diamond has a different VA.
My big problem with the White fusion theory is 1) White has a Gem location that is outright absent in the other Diamonds 2) If WD's a fusion how can she have colonies of her own?
edited 9th Jan '18 10:05:33 AM by RhymeBeat
The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.Occam wise, e simplest idea to me is that White is absent because she doesn't want to be there.
Blue and Yellow are hard hit by Pink's loss, so, barring anything to contradict that, it's reasonable to assume White is, too. Blue's and Yellow's grief has taken different forms so, from a meta standpoint, it's reasonable to assume White would be yet a third form of grief.
Blue is saddened and hoards anything related to Pink she can get. Yellow is angry and wants to just blot out any reminders of Pink's death, like her rebellious colony.
What White might be is harder to say, obviously. My own guess is denial. She doesn't want to acknowledge the loss so she stays the hell away from the reminders Blue and Yellow would rather preserve or destroy, respectively.
No reason to lie about that when it's only her and "Rose", though.
The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.I just gave a reason why they would lie about that. They gain by moving up in gem society. And if they're the only witness no one can prove they didn't see it, so they don't lose anything by lying.
Still It's more likely she saw something, and just misunderstood what she saw.
edited 9th Jan '18 12:21:20 PM by xanderiskander
Eh it's not really weird for her to stick to the facade. The context for that scene is her trying to murder him, and bring Rose's gem back for a reward just after him revealing who his gem belongs to. And she laughs as if the whole thing is ironic. You could read that scene as Eyeball taunting "Rose".
Especially because Steven seems woefully ignorant about everything also.
edited 9th Jan '18 12:48:10 PM by xanderiskander
Eyeball straight up says that "Rose" can't talk her way out of dying because she shattered a Diamond. Eyeball genuinely believes that's what happened. Well, that and the whole speech about wanting closure.
The only taunting is in "Rose" getting what Eyeball thinks she deserves.
edited 9th Jan '18 12:50:00 PM by LSBK

Kevin is the only hot guy in this whole show.