Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26198832-20150313023659/@comment-26274004-20150403171700

Opal4Life wrote: Veavee wrote: I'm on the fence on when Jasper referred to Pearl as defective in the means of either because she turned her back on the Homeworld, or rather her gem was structurally deficient.

One way I could agree with the abandonment theory was how I've seen people suggest the Pearl gem could be a servant class, with her loyalty belonging to Rose Quartz. Her loyalty could have driven her to become insurgent to the Homeworld just as Rose had for the revolution on Earth.

I do like the idea of her gem being structurally different, with her emotional instability being a good starting place for that.

On a different note, there was also theories of Pearls serving a past function as Peridots do today. However, this could be debunked with how Pearl is battle-proficient, when compared to the technical purposes Peridot is tasked with.

As far as I know, I can't wait to see the episode with the monster let loose in the temple! The Crewniverse does good work with how they forbode and drop hints now and then that tie past episodes to new ones. Pearl is a very interesting character for me. I honestly, have three theories.

Either A:  There are Kindergartens on the homeworld, which made the original gems. It continued working and made more then one Pearl, and more then one of other gems.

B: Like you said before, Pearl is a servent class and then changed from that to a rebel against the homeworld. Her original master was Rose, explaining their deep past. She was taught swordfighting from Rose and was able to transfer some of those skills to her weapon which she was, prior to this event, practicaly unable to use, and only practiced with it in her freetime. She trained more with her Spear untill she was even able to use it more then swordfighting when she needed to fight. She kept training untill she managed to be a master spear-man.

C: I think this theory was mentioned more then once, but a couple of days after Jailbreak, a theory was stated on the wiki that Pearl was "Defective" because of how emotional she was. (Don't believe me?  Just COMPARE Peridot and Jasper to Pearl in Say Uncle)  Homeworld gems swiftly take over and conquer planets, so having a caring attitude and being able to be quickly connected with things, along with letting emotions control behaviour must be considered "Defective" I can see where you come from with the third theory! Pearl is ruled by emotional responses over logical, and then she could be seen as an outcast, or just not as efficient as they need. When it comes to staying on Earth, it's evident how much the Crystal Gems to have to care about the place, since they were the ones who defended it against the Homeworld in the first place.