Welcome back to crystal-clear on the roundtable. I'm AwestruckVox, and what's with White Diamond and Pink Diamond?
All right.
So, as we all know, the episodes 'Can't Go Back' and 'A Single Pale Rose' revealed Rose's Pink Diamond,
But we also got a look into Pink Diamond's uhhh... Home life? Or life as a gem matriarch. Sorry
I just can't get the idea of the diamonds being a nuclear family out of my head.
Anyways, in both episodes or in the flashbacks
We see Blue and Yellow Diamond interact with Pink Diamond and Pink Diamond or 'Rose Quartz' name drops to the two.
During the scene where Steven finds out the truth. Yet
White Diamond is a no-show and story wise there has to be a reason for this.
Admittedly, up until this point there is no reason to name-drop her, to talk about her,
but once we're living Pink Diamonds memories, her interactions with Pearl talking about Homeworld and the diamonds
You'd think she would just naturally
come up at least once, but she hasn't. In fact, during said scene in Pink Diamond's palanquin, where Rose and Pearl are talking, Rose or
Pink Diamond specifically states Blue and Yellow don't care. That they wouldn't care about Pink Diamond's demise.
So between this and White Diamond's absence in 'Can't Go Back', the fact that during Garnet's flashback in 'Your Mother and Mine'
Pink calling upon Yellow and Blue was valid, yet White Diamond wasn't even mentioned then, but we know she exists. She's in murals,
She was stylized in 'Your Mother and Mine' in the beginning the flashback with the rest of the diamonds. Not to mention
We see her silhouette later on and she was one of the major components in the diamond attack, creating corruption.
So what was her relationship with Pink Diamond? Why she never came up?
Well, I have a few ideas about the relationship between Pink Diamond and White Diamond.
Let's dive in! Plain and simple, White Diamond just didn't care about Pink Diamond.
She didn't want anything to do with Pink. Now due to Pink Diamond's size, despite still being massive among her court
She's tiny in scale to the other diamonds, and for a long time
I was, and still am, a strong believer that Pink Diamond was defective or
off-color.
Combine that with Pink Diamond's attitude prior to getting a colony and if the reason she gave Blue Diamond for not colonizing the planet are any
indication, it didn't really subside. Then White Diamond could have saw Pink Diamond as nothing less than a failure. Now
yes, when speculating about White Diamond a lot of assumptions are usually made, such as Homeworld all about perfection.
The diamonds are said to be flawless beings, so White Diamond would probably be against any flaws, any off color gems, more than the rest
of the diamonds. The only reason Pink Diamond may have stayed around and not
shattered on sight was because of Blue and Yellow Diamond.
They could have had her back,
wanting to give her the benefit of the doubt and see if she's worthy of being a diamond.
This could explain why it took so long for Pink Diamond to get a colony. Why it seems she was just hanging around the diamonds
for the longest time. Pink never called to White Diamond for help, never mentioned her in a conversation, because as far as she was concerned,
White Diamond refused to acknowledge for existence.
So she assumed she wouldn't lend a helping hand, and Pink really took this to heart, which is why she never mentioned her in conversation.
That, from her perspective, if White Diamond won't acknowledge her, then she won't acknowledge White Diamond. Yeah, if that's the case
she really showed her, huh? But if all of this is true, then why would White Diamond participate in the diamond attack?
Well, just because White Diamond didn't care for Pink Diamond doesn't negate the fact that earth was filled with off color gems running amok.
I mean think about it,
The Crystal Gem rebellion was definitely a spit in the face to everything the diamonds stood for, and since Pink Diamond was the head of everything,
you could call this a teenage rebellion...
Pink diamond surmised in itself didn't anger White Diamond.
It was the fact these crystal gems pulled it off, that these group of gems really believed they could just hide from home world unpunished,
And that there would be consequences for their actions for disobeying the Diamonds.
Hey, for all we know, White Diamond could have saw Yellow Diamond and Blue Diamond's grief, their anger over Pink Diamond, and proposed a corrosion
attack to them. Something they were all for. Moving on to my other option:
What if Pink Diamond actually looked up to white diamond and since it appears
she's the head of home world, the head of gemkind, She did not want to let her down.
She didn't want to fail her.
none of the Diamonds do.
So when pink started the rebellion,what we may not have seen when she called upon Yellow and Blue diamond was the request to never
let White Diamond know this is happening. Or at the very least
tell White everything's under control, because I imagine it'd be pretty difficult to hide an entire war from a diamond
Especially when other courts are sending their forces to the planet, and if Pink Diamond did have this admiration,
she probably was deathly afraid of telling White Diamond, 'Hey, I love this planet and I don't want to colonize it.
She was afraid of being different.
I'm just saying, if gems are programmed to love their diamond,
why wouldn't the other diamonds be programmed to love the diamond that is in control of everything. Now ultimately,
this is no more unlikely of the two options just because of everything we know about Pink Diamond.
Everything we've seen, and if she did admire White,
I feel like she would have came up in conversation
when Pearl and Pink were plotting her stage shattering, which leads me to a third option: White Diamond actually adored Pink,
but Pink wasn't feeling the same way. Now this may sound a bit weird
But let me just explain. What if White Diamond wants a help Pink Diamond
But in ways different from what Pink Diamond wanted. What if when Pink Diamond was demanding her colony, White provided an alternate solution
Like part ownership over a different colony, but Pink Diamond wanted the full package deal. She wasn't going halfsies
So when Pink finally got her own colony,
Not only did she want to prove she could do it on her own, but didn't want White Diamond's help in the slightest. Understanding
White diamond intentions and thinking she just wants to ruin everything for her.
Whereas the other diamonds simply just
underestimate her. This would explain what appears to be a gem for white diamond's court, that Garnet poofs during a really brief
flashback in 'A Single Pale Rose', when Steven's exiting Pearl's gem. Against Pink Diamond's wishes, White Diamond still set jumps to help fight the
good fight, and this would tick off Pink,
Not only because in the scenario, she wouldn't want White Diamond's help,
but also
More and more forces would make it harder for the Crystal Gems to fight off, which I'll segue into a shorter final fourth option
What if White Diamonds felt the same way as Yellow and Blue, there is an emotional attachment to Pink Diamond, but still under-
estimating her and thinking she's not ready for a colony, giving in to her demands after she begs and begs for one,
but what if White Diamond's court is full of the strongest gems we've ever seen, thus Pink Diamond knew if she got
Involved the crystal gems could not win the war.
So she tried to the best of her abilities to avoid White Diamond,
But it wasn't successful or maybe a fifth option: White Diamond just does not like to be bothered.
Simple as that. A lot of people speculated that, and I could see it. It's simple. It works.
It's effective, and it leaves a lot to our imagination. But this is where conversation over to you guys. What do you think?
Why do you think White Diamond hasn't even been mentioned in the series yet?
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