Talk:A Single Pale Rose/@comment-26365046-20180508020928/@comment-35524067-20180508024938

Pearl helped Pink Diamond fake her own death so she could abandon her role as a Diamond and live on Earth with the Crystal Gems. Pink made fake diamond shards, ate them so when she was "shattered", all that would be left is the fake shards. Pearl shapeshifted into "Rose" and "shattered" Pink, leaving the fake shards on the ground for everyone to see and ran away with Pink's real gem in hand. Now that Pink is "dead", she regenerated and shapeshifted into a Rose Quartz and lived her life as such. She fought in the war, met Greg and gave up her physical form for Steven. So Steven's gem isn't a Rose Quartz, it's a Diamond. That's why he can feel Blue Diamond's emotions, why "Rose" could protect Pearl and Garnet from the Corrupting Light, why Steven brought Lars back from the dead and so on.