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Cool idea, but the others have said she hasn’t left Homeworld in eons, meaning she’s a separate being than the planet and CAN leave, but chooses not to. It’s still interesting how they chose to draw her though, maybe they didn’t bother putting extra effort into her animation since she wouldn’t move so much.

For eons, sure. Thousands of years ago, maybe the star had more energy and could fully form, and she’s hiding the fact that she no longer can. Or perhaps, if she really was the planet (I think the star idea is more likely, since the planet seems to be busted), maybe she’s always moved around with her consciousness in another carrier and has just kept that fact a secret. 

IDK, it’s just a fun concept. 

That could also explain why she's so short with people. Whatever the cause --whether age or nature or injury or strain from some other task(like holding the planet together) she has to focus on(I noticed her Pearl was cracked across the face; might be more foreshadowing of her being injured or disabled in some way. Then there's the ships)-- White Diamond might not be able to maintain coherence/attention for too long.

Also something super-obvious: White’s building/ship was a torso and head; Blue&Yellows ships were arms and hands; Pink’s was a pelvis and legs: They combine together to make one super-giant color-coded woman, voltron-style :|

Are cows NOT domesticated farm animals in “Steven Universe?”

In “Full Disclosure,” we see Steven swipe through the photos on his phone, and there’s this one of Steven and Connie at a restaurant. 

Notice the painting and the stuffed cow head. Stuffing and mounting an animal’s head is usually what you do with an animal that you’ve hunted and killed, not with domesticated farm animals that are slaughtered for their meat. 

And that painting is based on a real painting of Theodore Roosevelt, who was (among many other things) a big game hunter. 

And then there’s this line from Garnet in “Too Far:”

Are cows a wild animal that people hunt for sport in this universe?

You: White Diamond

Me, an intellectual: Steven Universe cow lore

Dogs aren’t domesticated, either. Lions, on the other hand…

I’m not saying Kevin dated mystery girl,

but Kevin dated mystery girl

Oh shit! @witchknights

You know, I’ve always been really confused about what the initial point of Rose Quartz’s were to Pink Diamond/Homeworld. Because, really, if the plan for earth was this:

then what is the point of having a gem who has the ability to create life the way Rose is shown to be able to do? And if every other Quartz type we see is built like a freaking body builder (with the exception of the gems from the Beta kindergarten we see in That Will Be All, but according to Peridot nearly all of the gems there “came out wrong” so…) and have weapons that can be used offensively:

then why have this single type of Quartz who looks soft and approachable and give them a shield as a weapon? Then this bomb came along and…I noticed a couple of things about that zoo. The first thing was these flowers on the door.

Five petalled flowers with what looks like the centre of Rose’s gem upside down in the middle. Does that look familiar? How about now.

These look startlingly similar to the flowers Rose grows on earth. On top of this, we have the room where Yellow and Blue Diamond discuss Pink Diamond’s death. When I watched this I couldn’t help but think it was strange that all of the Rose Quartz’s were here for some reason.

Like, if this room was Pink Diamond’s version of the temple, why are there no other gem types anywhere? Surely she didn’t only bubble Rose Quartz’s in her time alive. And if they were put here…in memory of Pink Diamond or something then someone would’ve had to take the time to move all of these bubble gems to this location.

Unless, they were already there.

Unless, the zoo is where Rose Quartz’s used to work.

The zoo is meant to be calming to humans. A place where they live a life of complacency and safety. Would it not make sense that the gems working there would be approachable to humans should they ever need to go into the enclosure? Would it not make sense that they would be able to grow new wildlife should something happen to the ecosystem in the enclosure? Rose Quartz’s would make the perfect guards for such a place.

At least until one of them decided she liked humans a little too much and didn’t want the planet they came from to be destroyed.

Everything about Rose Quartz makes PERFECT sense.

>The ability to create plant life over night, in case something went wrong with the ecosystem at the zoo. The humans would not starve.

>A shield, because the humans probably tried to escape a lot (at first) and they didn’t want a more violent gem to pull out their weapon and destroy the inhabitants. A shield would keep them back without harm.

>Healing powers, for when humans were hurt, since they wouldn’t have access to Earth medical technology or doctors.

>Rose Quartz is one of the most human looking gems, including her gem placement.

>She was made to love humans. She could never truly love another gem (Pearl). That was why she always loved humans, but could never quite match Pearl’s infatuation. Pearls, in the same vein, are meant to serve and be loyal to a single gem.

>The fatal flaw in the design of the Rose Quartz gem was making their role to serve (and care for) humans… not to serve Diamonds.

We all thought Rose Quartz gems were made to be big bad warriors like Jasper.

No.

They were created to be zookeepers.

im like 90% behind this theory and i would only like to add something important to it that further makes it rly solid.

it was mentioned that the door to the zoo opened only once, ever. my proposal is this: the rose quartz that went tru this door was our rose quartz. it was long ago, and the human that was hurt was from the first generation of humans, the ones who were born on earth. rose confronted this human and they talked. the human told rose about the earth, its beauty, about how no annoying voice is dictating you what to do, instead you grow and you can become anything you want. and that planted the seeds of the rebellion in roses mind…

IS EYEBALL GONNA KIDNAP GREG?!

Y’know, in the first opening sequence for Steven Universe, Connie is holding a copy of Madeline L’Engle’s A Wrinkle In Time.

So what is that novel about, again? Well, it’s about a shy, bookish teenage girl

who teams up with the boy she has a crush on

and three ethereal cosmic beings (who have taken on the form of human women)

in order to rescue the girl’s father, who is being held prisoner on an alien planet where conformity is valued above all else.

Food for thought.

Wow, I had no idea about this?? Thank you so much for pointing it out! Definitely something to think about.

I LOVE THIS THEORY. I LOVE IT SO MUCH.

And YES, I cosplay Rose Quartz. You had to ask?

– Petra

How are gems able to travel the vast distances between star systems? Well, it looks like they just showed us how! The attention to detail in this show is remarkable. 

(explanation below)

The closest star to earth, besides the sun, is about 4.4 light years away, meaning that traveling at the speed of light, it would take 4.4 years to get there. The approximate diameter of our galaxy is 100,000 light years. According to known laws of physics, matter cannot travel faster than light. So how is Homeworld able to go around galaxy conquering so quickly?

That ship appears to be creating an Alcubierre drive, one of the only theoretical propulsion methods capable of faster-than-light interstellar travel. I’m no expert, so correct me if I am wrong, but the physics behind it essentially are that it compresses the fabric of space in front of it and expands the space behind it, effectively meaning that the ship does not move at all, but rather rides on a ripple in the very fabric of reality. Matter cannot travel at speeds faster than light, but there is no limit to how fast space itself can expand. 

One proposed method for creating an Alcubierre drive is to create an artificial black hole in front of the ship to compress the spacetime in front of it. That is what they are doing here! Sorry for the long winded explanation; I get really excited when cartoons do their science right!

So there you have it, that is the level of technology Homeworld possesses. 

This adds a whole new layer to the Homeworld v Alternia military debate I hadn’t really thought about.

I see some people a bit confused about the whole “Jasper becoming corrupted” thing, and I’d just like to clear it up. 

Corruption isn’t really “contagious” as people are saying. It’s not like a Gem disease or something like that. What you have to remember is that when Gems fuse, they don’t just mash their bodies together. Their minds fuse as well. When Jasper fused with the corrupted Gem, that’s exactly what she did. She fused with the mind of a creature that had heard the Diamond’s song of corruption. And I’m willing to bet that song is the kind that gets stuck in your head. 

Jasper became corrupted because when she fused with the corrupted Gem, she heard the same song that corrupted it in the first place. It makes sense, and explains why even Steven’s healing power wasn’t able to help Centipeetle: The source of the corruption, the song, is still ringing inside of the heads of each and every corrupted gem to this day. 

And that’s also why I think Steven eventually will be able to surpass his mother, and heal the corrupted Gems. Because Steven, like his father, is a Bard, and there’s a little know bardic power that any fan of the Spoony One should be familiar with which can counteract any music-based spells or enchantments, called Counter Song.

COUNTERSONG, BITCH C O U N T E R S O N G also what do you want to bet that the countersong for the corruption is the credits song

REBLOGGING MAINLY FOR THAT LAST COMMENT BECAUSE HOLY SHIT

Not trying to be nitpicky. I loved the episode. But, she can survive this…

And this…

But getting lightly squeezed around the midsection causes…

I mean…yeah.

Dude have you seen Garnet fighting? 

She is clearly more dangerous than a bunch of rocks. 

But isn’t garnet just…. A bunch of rocks?

Originally posted by stevenugifs

Maybe since Peridots aren’t made for combat they’re designed to poof faster if they’re being attacked by another gem in the hopes that their gems will be left alone. They don’t poof very easily when taking damage from non-gem sources because its assumed support will be there in a minute or two to help them out during construction projects/kindergarden related tasks. 

Makes sense! They’re engineers so they’re expected to take a few hard knocks. Susceptibility to gem weaponry might be intended to prevent rebellion of the technical caste.

Actually… have we seen a gem ever be poofed by something that wasn’t by the direct action of another gem?

Oh woah

amethyst falls off a cliff and only scratches her gem, but gets poofed by jasper’s attack, i think it was a kick or a headbutt? actually, if you think about gems who have taken the most direct damage from other gems, pearl wins so far. she got kicked around like a sportsball by sugillite, one of the very strongest gem fusions, and didn’t poof. 

perhaps if technician gems like peridot are meant to buckle quickly in combat situations, pearls are meant to hold up under whatever physical abuse their much, much larger superiors dish out. i don’t think a diamond or high-ranking quartz would be pleased with a toy that snaps the first time they smack it, and doesn’t regenerate for weeks.  

imagine younger pearl realizing that how much abuse she was built to take could actually be a huge asset in battle, and let her face down gems ten times her size. imagine frustrated quartzes realizing this too. 

I think I figured out who wrote Camp Pining Hearts

HMMMMMMMM

Here’s your everyday casual reminder that the original Steven Universe is dead and we’re all watching everything that happens in an alternate timeline.

No really.

I’ve only been in the Steven Universe fandom for a few months now but I haven’t seen anyone talk about this.

The episode Steven and the Stevens is admittedly not one of my favorite episodes. I think they made Steven (and Steven and Steven and Steven and Steven and St) way too annoying and out of character. But it also brings up one of the most fascinating plot points in the entire show that nobody in the fandom seems to want to talk about. Or maybe, as a newcomer, I’m just looking at it wrong but I think the evidence is clear.

The episode starts off with Steven getting the hourglass and going back in time:

There he styles his hair:

Which is really important; this way we know that he is Steven, our Steven.

So chaos ensues and he eventually goes back to stop his past-self from getting the hourglass:

Which causes him to go mad with power:

He then realizes that none of this is right and he realizes that there’s only one way to fix it - destroying the hourglass:

And then he dies.

And then he dies:

He dies.

The original Steven Universe dies!

The Steven that we’ve watched for twenty-two episodes at this point dies, scarring his past-self who now lives in an alternate timeline where he never used the hourglass to go back in time.

Granted, we’re still watching Steven. But he’s slightly different than the original Steven that we’ve watched for twenty-two episodes. That Steven completely sacrifices himself and dies a horrific death on-screen and nobody seems to want to talk about it!?

And now, everything that has happened since that episode and everything that will happen is on an alternate timeline.

Don’t believe me?

Steven says it himself, when he’s singing at the end of the episode:

“I accidentally created an alternate timeline.”

Boom.

The original Steven Universe is dead and everything that we’re watching now is on an alternate timeline.

A Homestuck here. We’ve dealt with figuring out this kind of time nonsense for years.

The alternate timeline was created was when a Steven from the future didn’t appear. At that moment, the timeline was a Doomed timeline, but one that would affect the Alpha timeline.

That means that the Steven from episodes 1 to 21 is still the Steven from episodes 23 onward, and is the Steven in the final timeline of episode 22, but the Steven we see at the start of episode 22 IS from a different timeline.

And because he is from a non-Alpha timeline, Steven22 could not survive when he entered the Alpha timeline, but by appearing in the Alpha timeline, he ensured that it stayed on the Alpha path.

So, he is effectively the Davesprite of Steven Universe.

I LOVE THIS POST SO MUCH

But what if A!Steven turning into sand is only tangentially related to the hourglass? A!Steven exists because Past!Steven used the hourglass; if Past!Steven can’t use the hourglass, because it’s been destroyed, then A!Steven’s existence becomes a paradox. He can’t exist, so he stops existing. At the moment his existence becomes impossible, the Universe converts him and the other Time-Clones into an equal mass of sand; something more orderly and less likely to influence reality.  I haven’t watched this ep in forever, so I’m probably forgetting something, but the idea occurred to me and I just thought it was fun :]

Another Pink Diamond Theory.. sorta

A stupid thought came to me while re watching back to the moon.

Pink Diamond’s mural is drastically different from the murals of the other three diamonds.

White, yellow and Blue all have an ethereal floating stance. 

Pink’s mural is standing almost as if she’s freshly bursting out of the ground. To me it looks like a mural of a newly emerged diamond.

Stewing on that thought I wondered where she was and what she was doing as her “sisters” gained control of so many planets. Then the thought hit me. What if the Earth was truly hers. Diamonds are quite large and are supposed to have a lot of power. A planet that had enough life to bring a diamond to life might truly be rare. A planet that was lush with life to the extreme and have vast resources would be needed.

Considering the size and power of a diamond I can imagine it would create quite the impressive emergence hole on the planet they were born on. Now where on Earth has there been a enormous change in geography that is missing?

Making earth the place of a diamond’s possible birth and death.

to add to this:

Mir mine (occasionally known as the Naval of the Earth), the second largest excavated hole in the world, which produced 10,000,000 carats of diamonds per year in it’s hayday. This thing is so huge the airflow can sucks in helicopters. And were is it located?

Gemocide

i have this theory that the Diamonds are a massive fusion of every existing gem of their respective type, but only of identical specimens. identical clarity, identical coloration, identical cut, identical placement. any variant diamond who might alter the fusion in any way is shattered immediately. keeping the Diamond fusion absolutely static is how the conformity-obsessed Diamond Authority maintains unity and consensus. there is one standard Diamond and if you can’t be assimilated into it without leaving a trace of your individual self, you don’t get to live.

down here on earth, diamonds are not actually all that rare. they’re not special beyond their nifty hardness. they’re actually about as boring and bland and generic as gems can get. they’re valuable because people made them valuable. they are a good stone for this: tough, interchangeable, and generic. they are the most artificially value-inflated gem there is, and this came about through centuries of careful and deliberate manipulation of scarcity by controlling fuckheads using slave labor to maintain their stranglehold on the market. propaganda and marketing have convinced people of their value, so people value them. even though they’re a complete snore of a rock.

sounds about right to me.

anyway if this is the case, that means Rose Quartz may have slaughtered every single solitary pink diamond in existence when she smashed Pink Diamond. 

if i were pearl and knew how many gems died that day, i’d still be flipping my shit over the horror five thousand years later too.

How Pink Diamond was shattered

It’s all coming together.

So lets start off with this.

This is what started the rebellion, the first act of treason from Rose Quartz, but here’s the thing, we’ve already seen the scene directly after the act of poofing pink diamond. (I specified ‘poofing’ and not ‘shattering’ for a reason, bare with me)

This is it. Right here.

If you’ve watched Rose’s Scabbard as many times as I have (so many, too many) then you know how this scene goes.

Rose: “Pearl, I’m going to stay and fight for this planet.”

This dialogue is so, so important. They’ve reached a breaking point (ha) here. Something that Rose just did has pushed them both into needing to make a choice. There’s no going back. Rose chooses to stay.

It’s important to notice her expressions here.

The first thing that strikes me is that for a few frames she’s looking away from Pearl, looking back. What exactly is she looking at? The evidence of what she’s just done? Pink Diamond’s Gem?

But it’s her eyes that really do it for me.

She looks haunted.

Then the urgency of the situation comes in through the dialogue, and here’s why I think this just happened.

Rose: “You don’t have to do this with me.” Pearl: “But I want to!” Rose: “I know you do. Please, please understand, if we lose we’ll be killed, and if we win, we can never go home.”

She’s done something punishable by death, so she gives Pearl the option of leaving. She still has time to give Pearl the option of leaving.

This, if nothing else is proof that Homeworld doesn’t know that Pink Diamond has been poofed yet, that the act of treason has just been committed. They are the only  gems who know what has happened, we know this because not only does Eyeball confirm that there were witnesses to Pink Diamond’s shattering but, in the beginning of “The Answer” when Pearl and Rose first attack, the Ruby guards can be heard crying out:

“Who are you?!” “Show yourselves!”

At that point all Homeworld knew was that there was a rebellion, they didn’t know who had rebelled, who attacked Pink Diamond.

Back to Rose’s Scabbard.

If Pearl returns to Homeworld now it’ll be without consequence, she won’t be blamed because nobody knows what just happened, Pearl can lie, claim no involvement, anything. Rose knows this, tries to protect her by offering her a means of escape. (It’s obvious by her body language, her hesitation, and her resignation that she wants Pearl to stay but she would never ask that of her, but that’s another post entirely ;D )

Pearl declines, of course.

(Rose looks so relieved and happy and ajshgjakhgs)

We’ve just witnessed the start of the rebellion and the birth of the Crystal Gems.

Now this. This is where and how Pink Diamond was shattered.

The rebellion is underway, a thousand year war. The Crystal Gems are outnumbered, outgunned, and it all comes to a head in the strawberry battlefield where it seems that White Diamond has been sent in to finish them off once and for all.

This mural has always reminded me of something straight out of Sailor Moon.

And I believe the same scenario played out here. The odds were stacked against them, they were facing total defeat. So Rose, like Usagi, uses her last resort, her strongest weapon.

In this case, that’s Pink Diamond’s Gem.

And this is what happens.

She never meant to shatter her.

Thinkin’ about the differences between Steven and Rose Quartz - specifically, their healing powers.

I’m in love with the slow development/revelation of Steven using kisses to heal people, as opposed to healing tears. Remember back when the healing spit first came up and Garnet told him it was a good thing? It was Steven doing things “his own Steven-y way,” and you thought, aw, healing licks, gross and inexplicable and cute. But now as he’s defining who he is and getting better at what he does, the weird quirk of healing spit is starting to take a shape that makes sense: Disney-style healing kisses!

Ever since that came to light I’ve been wrapped up in the difference between helping people by crying for them - acknowledging their pain, pitying them, experiencing empathy - and helping someone heal by loving them.

Not that Rose Quartz didn’t love! This is not that kind of theory post. But her approach to healing definitely reflected her leadership style: a little distant, motivated by the existence of pain, and focused on getting that pain to stop. It seems like Rose Quartz kept all kinds of secrets from everybody because she didn’t want them to feel more hurt than they had to, even at the cost of their dignity. This makes sense! She was their commanding officer, not to mention embedded in a culture that said all subordinate gems were literally hers. Even if she rejected that explicitly, a lot of the implications of being solely responsible for every gem under her command were going to stick around.

But Steven is not Rose Quartz. His approach to healing is the difference between hiding what happened to Bismuth and telling the Gems; one outcome will make them sad for a while and then move on, the other opens up the kind of painful emotions that don’t get pushed away away maybe ever. The last one hurts, but if he really respected Bismuth as she is it’s the right thing to do. His approach to healing is also the difference between declaring corrupted gems a lost cause because they might never be all the way healed, and just listening to and spending time with them whether they’re healing or not. Her corruption was a barrier to them being friends, not a disqualifier.

Rose Quartz loved life and wanted to protect it, then cried when she couldn’t because preventing bad things was her self-appointed job. Steven just wants to be your bud but pain keeps getting in the way, so if he can he’ll make it stop.

Pity vs love, basically. Idk, I’m having trouble summing this up the way I want to, but I adore how this show is handling Steven being different from Rose Quartz in a hundred subtle ways like this.

^^^^^ this

What’s interesting though is Pearl’s reaction…as far as I can see, there are two possibilities and the second is what I’m going for:

1. Pearl was Pink Diamond’s Pearl (unlikely, gem placement is confirmed for PD’s stomach, and the other Pearls all have their gems in the same place as their Diamonds - almost personalized for them)

2. Pearl shapeshifted into Rose and shattered Pink Diamond. This is more exciting for the show because somebody who’s not a soldier, somebody who wasn’t made to fight, (not to mention the lowest caste of gem from what we know) shattering Pink Diamond is huge. A soldier shattering their leader, that’s a coup. A servant killing their master, now that’s a revolution.

Not to mention the second one also explains why Pearl never shapeshifts - her reaction in Back to the Moon makes it pretty obvious whatever role she played was triggering, and I’m sure shapeshifting would elicit the same response.

The only question then is, why did she bother to shapeshift? i’m thinking that Rose couldn’t do it. She wasn’t willing to shatter her, for whatever reason. So Pearl did it for her. she shapeshifted into Rose to make a statement, to show the success of their cause. because from the outside, any nondescript rebel shattering PD wouldn’t carry the same weight as the leader of the rebellion facing off against a Diamond and winning. it’s the ultimate showdown

ok as usual you never let me down………………… i literally dont care if this theory is Out There or whatever i’m literally DYING for this to be the truth. and if not to make a statement, maybe pearl did it because rose wanted to take the fall for her and keep her safe while giving her the satisfaction of shattering someone who thinks she’s a subspecies. 

because tbh i really dont think we’re getting a full picture of the situation; it just seems too convenient that eye ruby saw ~exactly~ what happened we’re definitely missing a piece

also: the whole episode was about the rubies mistaking amethyst for a different gem. if the theory is correct then that means eye ruby also mistook pearl for rose quartz, which is making me so angry at the potential foreshadowing im

HOLY SHIT @butchpilotpearl

I’d agree that Pearl seems marked as part of White Diamond’s court due to gem placement, but I wonder how she ended up with a pink diamond space suit (and why she never bothered removing the diamond insignia).

THAT 100% HAS TO BE PINK DIAMOND THAT ROSE IS FIGHTING

THEY ARE 100% FIGHTING IN THE BETA KINDERGARTEN THERE OH MY GOD

EDIT: That is completely the bubbling room in the temple above them.

Rose bubbled Pink Diamond oh my god.

IS THIS PINK DIAMOND’S BUBBLE?????

Left: White Diamond finishing the Cluster?

Right: Yellow Diamond dropping the corruption nuke?

Where’s Blue Diamond, you ask? If AJ Universe is right, she was in charge of buildings and culture - she likely had no use in wartime, and would’ve instead helped keep order back on Homeworld during the war.

Okay so I messed up two hours ago, by responding to another comment in a way that left important further points I made out of the main reblog chain, so I’m gonna do it here. Firstly, I hadn’t seen the leak for tomorrow’s episode when I doubted PD’s gem placement, but it’s cool to hear how it worked out! My friend @tflatte pointed out some good reasoning -

and honestly, relating back to the above linked video, it makes sense. The leader, forehead gem, at the top. Military, culture, structure, all comprising the middle, the “substance”, of society. And finally we have Pink Diamond, stomach gem, in charge of the literal propogation of her species, forming the support at the bottom, like grains on the old food pyramid. But now she’s gone, and like Peridot said - resources on Homeworld are dwindling. Resources are, of course, finite, but it’s very possible PD was more efficient with the process, and they’d probably be in a less strained place right now. Moving on to other replies!

This thread is a great read - @deliverusfromsburb and @zenosanalytic always have useful and thoughtful input. The thing I want to focus on before diving into this is to emphasize that I agree with @abstrusetheorist’s last comment - it’s certainly true that tyrannical regimes make Leaders (especially murdered Leaders) into martyrs, but the touch of subtlety about claiming you’re all-powerful, and having that proven otherwise, might be enough to tip the scale to erasure instead.

Zeno, regarding your input, these are all good ideas! I literally would’ve never would’ve thought of them sending a fake Diamond as a decoy just so they could drop the nuke, but it’s certainly a possibility - the lack of a White Diamond at home might further explain their strained, unstable state, but why isn’t she removed too? It’s still certainly ambiguous, though. Because with WD, they may well have actually pushed a martyr narrative saying she took the rebels down with her by like, dropping the Shatterstar on herself. Going down with the ship, so to speak. I’m not sure….

In any case, I’m reasonably convinced now that A. Rose is actually holding Pink Diamond, already poofed and B., while originally I thought it might’ve been Blue Diamond based on colors, Rose is probably facing against WD, or a WD decoy. Either way, that would explain why the war ended there. I’m not sure what to say about the figures, but whether the visuals support it or not, the history we’ve heard seems to support that Homeworld’s last stand took place at the Beta kindergarten. Hell, ignore the figures - the crystals coming out of the ground might be imagery enough.

It’s interesting that you say PD may have been corrupted, because I was tossing around the idea that Lion is a corrupted PD, possibly with the gem hidden under the mane. Gem placement may prove a problem there, but like… what other corrupted gems have we seen as lions? Lion seems special. It’s a stretch, but if this turns out to be true, it could lend the conclusion of the series to be a corruption-healed PD confronting her Diamond alloys allies once more, with a lot of heartfelt words, rather than primarily a battle royale.

Moving forward, @punchline-talkin said “i believe we’ve seen her statue in the arena” - maybe! Maybe like, the broken one, but I don’t think any of the ones we see besides the obvious YD really tell us much about Diamonds at all. Like I pointed out as part of this old post, I don’t think the four Sky Arena statues we see, including the broken legs-only one, are the Diamonds - because it doesn’t look like the arena was circular! Rather, I think it’s oblong like a track field, and really what we’re seeing is YD and the broken one next to her as two of the four diamonds, starting a row that we can’t see the rest of, and possibly across from each Diamond is their second-in-command. Again, we only see two of them there. Yellow Diamond’s, and probably White Diamond’s, given the forehead gem? But four statues are gone entirely. We don’t have as much information as you’d think.

Lastly, @d-alpha said “it looks like she’s using PD gem to fight WD” This doesn’t have much premise (example of happening before, what’s the word??), but I can’t deny it certainly looks like that, along with WD having 11 floating Gems herself. I’m not sure what to make of that, but it’s concerning if it’s accurate.