She seemed to be running on pure adrenaline when it came to Diamondo...
Because just earlier she was talking about how they were gonna die...
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.Edited by xanderiskander on Jul 7th 2018 at 7:12:24 AM
So what's the situation with the diamonds? Did they tell anyone else that they were going to earth? Because this seems like something the two might have been doing in secret.
Like, if they went to earth just to check on the cluster and kickstart it again, i assume they would at least bring a few soldiers with them but they seemingly did not.
I guess the reason both came alone (pearls may or may not be included) is because of their personal connection with PD and seeing Earth one last time without any of her followers knowing. Just a thought
Uni catAll of this, I think, gives Steven and the Crystal Gems a foothold on Homeworld socially and politically. Blue and Yellow are probably going to be so overjoyed about Pink being alive they're not going to care about fighting the Crystal Gems, destroying Earth, and the promos indicate they're all right with Steven not having Pink's memories.
They'd probably think Steven is Pink's reincarnation,bt learning he has actually a 'son' would be difficult thing for them to grasp,and telling them she gave up her physical form so he could exist would be really disturbing/upsetting for them since it means to them that Pink Diamond really is gone forever
have a listen and have a link to my discord serverI still don't think they're liable to take it well. If their first reaction is to (incorrectly) assume they can just kill or otherwise excise Steven and bring Pink back (like Pearl almost tried years ago) that's going to be a problem, and with their disdain for organic life in general (Yellow's especially) that's not an unlikely outcome.
Edited by xanderiskander on Jul 7th 2018 at 8:42:58 AM
Hopefully Yellow has realized that she won't be able to control the Cluster, because if she still wants her geoweapon then I can see her still trying to cause the thing to hatch. She seems to have come because she heard it got bubbled, but I have no idea how she could have found that out. Do you think there's a way to get the Cluster out of the Earth's core and safely into space?
We already know from experience that the first reaction Gems tend to have to learning what Steven is: that what he truly is is impossible, and thus that he's either a projection or an obstruction. Every Gem who knew Rose and meets Steven reacts this way, with no exceptions: they either believe Steven is Rose, or they think Rose is dormant within Steven. Pearl, who was a lot less disdainful of human life than Yellow Diamond, came within a hair breadth of killing Steven to try and get Rose back when he was a baby, while struggling with the same emotions Blue and Yellow are now.
So they could come to that conclusion, but given what we know about Gem perspective it's unlikely that they would understand Steven's connection with Pink's Gem enough to do so.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Jul 7th 2018 at 7:51:01 AM
I think there might be a Gem civil war coming with Blue and Yellow on opposite sides. I think Yellow's likely to have her previous opinion that all this happened because Pink was too young for a colony reaffirmed (only instead of being shattered by Gems she couldn't control Pink wasn't hardened enough to keep from being swayed from her purpose) and go right back to running the Gem Empire as a militant oppressive force. Blue, however, I think is more likely to want to reconnect with and preserve what's left of the Pink she knew, and in doing so take to heart what Pink and now Steven felt that she didn't listen to when Pink was still around. So Blue might try to introduce reforms that she thinks Pink would have wanted, but Yellow goes "not you too!" at Earth turning another sister towards individuality and suppress all reforms (and possibly attack Earth for being at the heart of all the disruptions).
I mean, Blue's response to keeping Pink's memory alive in the past was to forcibly imprison a multitude of Gems who resembled the one who supposedly killed her - presumably for eternity - and also to imprison humans because that's what she assumed Pink liked. She's never really understood what Pink was about, she was just hoarding Pink's memorabilia to make herself feel better.
Note that between the two of them, Blue is the one shown attempting to murder one of her subjects for accidentally insulting her by stepping out of line. Garnet doesn't hate her guts for no reason. Beyond their feelings for Pink, Yellow's so far known for her nasty, irrational temper, and Blue is known for a cold, callous cruelty.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Jul 7th 2018 at 8:09:48 AM
There were also bad communication issues between Pink and her sisters. Who were apparently left with the impression that Pink wanted to preserve Earth because colonizing was tooooooo harrrrrrrrrrd
Forever liveblogging the AvengersHer trying to kill Ruby has even less justification than what Yellow tried to do to Peridot, as in Yellow's case Peridot at least had a stake in it: Yellow entirely wrong and being petty on top of it, but lashing out at an underling who dared speak up is still less jarring than the cruelty of doing the same thing to one who was just trying to exactly what was expected of them, simply because in doing an exemplary job she caused something that ruffled Blue's feathers. In terms of what she was going to be killed for, Ruby was an innocent.
Blue is used as an indication of how awful life on Homeworld really is for anyone who isn't higher class, whereas Yellow is used as an indication that under the idealized propaganda they spit out the Diamonds are as flawed as the rest of us.
Whether Yellow would have killed them doesn't make Blue's actions any less unconscionable than they are, especially since we know for a fact that Blue did so not out of a respect for their lives but for her own entirely selfish reasons. Both Diamonds are dealing with grief by being hypocritical, just in different ways. Imprisoning those Gems keeps them alive (though it prevents them from actually living), but that doesn't change the fact that Blue doesn't actually care about their lives: she only cares about hoarding what Pink used to have.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Jul 7th 2018 at 9:42:07 AM
I take issue with the hair's breadth comment. People act like she actually tried to pull his gem out, but she didn't even come close to actually doing it. She touched his gem with her fingers for a millisecond, he laughed, and in an instant, she grimaced and stopped.
Yellow Diamond is also analytical and in a position to actually understand different physiologies better and that there are risks with tampering with something like this. She's emotional, but she's not stupid or rash. I mean, she waited 6000 years for a planet to blow up. I think it's equally likely that even if she wanted to do that, she'd want to be certain it'd work so she doesn't end up "killing pink" in the process.
Edited by xanderiskander on Jul 7th 2018 at 12:11:50 PM

Though it probably just happened to facilitate a meaningful costume change (for both Peridot and Lapis) did Peridot just rushing out like that seem rash even for her, to anyone else?