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RhymeBeat True colors from Eastern Standard Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
True colors
#56676: Jul 25th 2018 at 1:27:50 PM

The explanation for the colors bit is that WP is damaged because IRL bleaching screws up the integrity of a lot of things IRL. IF WP was bleached it could account for the damage she clearly has, but is not (visibly) present in her Gem.

IDK though. While the Open Book parallels are interesting, even if our Pearl was dyed, I don't understand why she would be dyed three different colors instead of simply pink. Seems it would be much easier to just do that.

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ObligatorySarcasm Since: Aug, 2016
#56677: Jul 25th 2018 at 2:33:10 PM

What if the Diamonds didn't swap Pearls but the Pearls swapped the Diamonds?

-Witty line-
RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#56678: Jul 25th 2018 at 2:46:27 PM

That seems like it would take far more initiative than Pearl shows when she's first assigned to Pink. Pearl asks to be replaced for the crime of imagining things without Pink's permission, after all.

It's been fun.
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#56679: Jul 25th 2018 at 9:19:07 PM

Yeah, it seems like Pearls are more or less Blank Slates and only develop personalities of their own if their masters allow it. The Pearls we've seen so far seem to be reflections of their masters in some ways. They become what their masters need or want them to be. White Pearl takes it so far that she's effectively an avatar of White Diamond and even shares her voice.

Edited by M84 on Jul 26th 2018 at 12:21:22 AM

Disgusted, but not surprised
LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#56680: Jul 25th 2018 at 9:22:42 PM

Random thoughts:

Blue and Yellow are obviously weary of White Diamond but they still speak familiarly of her. It's still just "White" and not "White Diamond"; it might have been a nice touch if they added the Diamond.

All of the Diamonds have diamond shaped pupils. I wonder if during a big moment or awakening or something, Steven's pupils will change shape.

xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012
#56681: Jul 25th 2018 at 9:43:36 PM

Yeah, it seems like Pearls are more or less Blank Slates and only develop personalities of their own if their masters allow it. The Pearls we've seen so far seem to be reflections of their masters in some ways. They become what their masters need or want them to be. White Pearl takes it so far that she's effectively an avatar of White Diamond and even shares her voice.
I mean, it's only natural that their pearls would imitate some of their traits because of being around them full time, but I don't think that means they're "blank slates" by default like White's Pearl is at all. White Diamond's Pearl is clearly intended to be an unnerving extreme even by their standards. I mean it seems possible that White Pearl isn't even conscious of what she's doing.


As one example I doubt Yellow Diamond taught her Pearl to make smug faces through the communicator when she isn't looking.

Edited by xanderiskander on Jul 25th 2018 at 12:43:25 PM

SilentColossus (Don’t ask)
#56682: Jul 25th 2018 at 9:49:19 PM

Or take selfies when Yellow isn't looking.

I think White Pearl is either broken, or acts that way out of terror of White, or both.

Edited by SilentColossus on Jul 25th 2018 at 9:53:17 AM

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#56683: Jul 26th 2018 at 2:13:35 AM

How much of a personality they develop I think depends on how much autonomy their masters allow as well. The result is a Pearl who is well-suited to serving their master while still having some personality quirks of their own. In Yellow Pearl's case, the result is a Sassy Secretary (appropriate for someone like Yellow Diamond who is usually all business).

White Pearl? It's possible that White Diamond was such a Control Freak that she never let her Pearl develop any personality.

Disgusted, but not surprised
thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#56684: Jul 26th 2018 at 4:06:05 AM

I don’t think literally speaking in White Diamond’s voice is just a matter of behavioral conditioning.

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#56685: Jul 26th 2018 at 4:39:52 AM

> I wonder if during a big moment or awakening or something, Steven's pupils will change shape.

what about the times we've seen Connie's eyes change into the diamonds its clearly forshadowing white doing something

joking,but this explains it best

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MorningStar1337 The Encounter that ended the Dogma from 🤔 Since: Nov, 2012
The Encounter that ended the Dogma
#56686: Jul 26th 2018 at 4:40:28 AM

I woudne't put mind control or People Puppettry past White Diamond. She does give of an affinity of the Light elemental in a show with effectively Green Lantern rings that wield themselves. Seems to be the top of the hierarchy and the gems do exhibit Personality Powers, which means that with what we know of her so far, control of others is right up White Diamond's alley.

[up] Stevonnie taking up the role of Pink Diamond, hmm...seems like something for a Distant Finale.

Edited by MorningStar1337 on Jul 26th 2018 at 4:42:41 AM

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#56687: Jul 26th 2018 at 4:43:51 AM

Maybe Pearls are suppose to sound like their owners, ever thought of that?

By 5.

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MorningStar1337 The Encounter that ended the Dogma from 🤔 Since: Nov, 2012
The Encounter that ended the Dogma
#56688: Jul 26th 2018 at 4:47:38 AM

[up] Even if that's the case, White Pearl still takes it to unsettling extremes, considering that she shares a VA with White Diamond rather than the other Pearls.

Edited by MorningStar1337 on Jul 26th 2018 at 4:50:01 AM

CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
PhiSat Planeswalker from Everywhere and Nowhere Since: Jan, 2011
Planeswalker
#56690: Jul 26th 2018 at 7:36:27 AM

She looks lobotomized, and maybe just a mouthpiece for White Diamond. Maybe she really has nothing in her head.

I don't get how you do that to a Gem without damaging their gem itself but hey, Bizarre Alien Biology.

Oissu!
HextarVigar That guy from The Big House Since: Feb, 2015
That guy
#56691: Jul 26th 2018 at 9:48:44 AM

White's supposed to have a terrible temper, so maybe her Pearl said just the wrong thing at just the right time. Diamonds can repair gems, so she could have kept Pearls gem from shattering, lobotomised her and left the cracks as an objest lesson to others.

Your momma's so dumb she thinks oral sex means talking dirty.
Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#56692: Jul 26th 2018 at 9:53:10 AM

New podcast is up covers 'Heart of the Crystal Gems'

have a listen and have a link to my discord server
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#56693: Jul 26th 2018 at 10:04:00 AM

My guess is that White Diamond has power over light and since Gem bodies are Hard Light projections...

Disgusted, but not surprised
RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#56694: Jul 26th 2018 at 10:10:13 AM

I imagine White will not be won over as easily as Yellow and Blue ("easily"). Mostly because we still need a villain, but also because she clearly doesn't give a single shit what Pink thinks or cares about. At least when Yellow and Blue didn't listen to Steven it was because they were upset that Pink was dead.

It's been fun.
Smasher from The 1830's, but without the racists (Don’t ask) Relationship Status: The best thing that ever happened to a bum like me
#56695: Jul 26th 2018 at 3:12:23 PM

Besides more about WD, I'd like to know the state of the other crystal gems.

At least 4 were part of the Cluster, and two unknowns were pictured in Garnet's depiction of Pink's shattering.

RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#56696: Jul 26th 2018 at 3:51:07 PM

Bismuth recognized a lot of them in the Bubble chamber, so my thought is that most of them were probably either added to the Cluster or simply left to mutate out in the fields. Going off descriptions for "Legs From Here To Homeworld", it sounds like even the three lower Diamonds together don't have the oomph to fix it completely, though.

It's been fun.
CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#56697: Jul 26th 2018 at 4:27:31 PM

Is it just me, or does Yellow Diamond have the best facial expressions?

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#56698: Jul 26th 2018 at 4:32:51 PM

Regardless of what they have planned for White, ultimately they'll win her over, because this has been set up as needing all four of them to permanently cure the corrupted Gems (well, unless Steven somehow gets the power to do it himself or something).

Edited by LSBK on Jul 26th 2018 at 11:13:22 AM

CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#56699: Jul 26th 2018 at 5:03:19 PM

[up] They could win her over or force her hand by getting basically all of Gemkind to stand up to her.

Crossover-Enthusiast from an abaondoned mall (Lucky 7) Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#56700: Jul 26th 2018 at 6:02:04 PM

Even if Steven does manage to get White to listen to him, it's likely she won't give a shit about the Corrupted Gems anyway, at least at first.


In other news, Save the Light is coming to Steam!

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