Talk:Your Mother and Mine/@comment-5406733-20180411181530/@comment-32531832-20180412153607

To femslash_addict

There is no need to be so acrimonious; obviously we don't have enough information at this point to make a firm conclusion about what really happened (which is why I have three theories rather than one). I believe ShadowBeast is making a statement about what she believes to be most likely, not insisting on it being true. But there is enough in the show already to suggest the possibility that she is correct.

As to Pink Diamond: There is plenty of reason to believe she was more complicated than meets the eye, and her peronality and opinions may well have evolved over time. We know that Yellow and Blue are both more complicated than they seemed to be in their initial appearances. Garnet's account tells the story from the perspective of the Crystal Gems; it doesn't tell us much about how Pink experienced her colonization of the Earth, the outbreak of the Rebellion, or her relations with Yellow and Blue after she called to them for help. It's possible that there was infighting between her and them over how to manage the war, and this, coupled with a stewing resentment over the fact that they never treated her as a full equal ("I'm just as important as you!" is not something she would have needed to say aloud if it had actually been true) led her to do something drastic, like faking her death.

It may well be that this isn't what happened. But the evidence in the show suggests the possibility. We know for facts that 1) Yellow and Blue treat each other as equals 2) Yellow didn't respect Pink and treated her like a child 3) Pink resented this and wanted to be treated as fully equal to the other Diamonds 4) Pink was interested enough in humans to build a zoo to prevent their extinction (yes, the specimens are treated in a way that is seriously creepy, but endangered animals in real zoos aren't treated much different) 5) Rose was so opposed to the shattering of gems that she bubbled one of her most dedicated followers over it 6) Everyone seems to think thaat Rose Quartz shattered Pink Diamond using a sword that we know for a fact can't shatter gems. Theorizing about what really happened is a game of connect the dots; no doubt the show will slowly supply us with more and more dots and eventually give us the answer, but at the current time, multiple pictures can be drawn from the dots we have. The idea that Pink faked her death is one of the pictures you can draw, and shouldn't be dismissed as ridiculous simply because there are other possibilities that fit the data.