Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26037921-20150309212855/@comment-23837455-20150616033108

MCcomics wrote: Pearl showed more of her admiration and love (not the dating love, the general love) in this episode compared to any other, even in Rose's Scabbard. I'm really just more sad because we saw more of how happy Pearl was being with Rose.

On the debate argument, specifically about the theory that gems are usually asexual:

Their natural appearance is the most similar to that of a female human with weird colors. But they're not. There is not a 'gender appearance choice rule' like there is for humans so a romantic relationship between two isn't exactly a 'homosexual' one.

The gems are semi-immortal, 'polymorphic sentient rocks' that are shown to be able to create more gems by chemically altering solid rock into life with bacteriophage-like machines. How Earth lifeforms reproduce, either by cloning or having two share their zygotes to make a new lifeform, is different from the known gem method of reproduction. The closest thing to Earthen reproduction that the gems do is fusion (even though it can be done for other reasons, not just for romance), and the canon romantic relationship of Garnet shows that.

The desire to procreate with another is not a natural feeling for gems, so I don't think that specified definition of love is felt in Gems NATURALLY. What Rose did 'was highly unusual,' and Garnet is in love with 'Garnet.' I am guessing that Pearl knew Rose and had the same kind of love for her before she really knew anything about human reproduction.

Also, since certain organs are not necessary for gems, they probably don't have anything 'there', unless they choose to take on a human form in a regeneration, or in short term shape-shift things around. Which is supported in a quote by Pearl: 'And though our human constructs are capable of eating, I find it very uncomfortable.' The gems have 'human' forms, where as the homeworld gems probably don't.

With this said, gems can 'fall in love', and I think Pearl was more in love with Rose than anyone should ever be. And the pain she felt when Rose 'died' is... too vast and horrible to describe. Mostly I gave a biology lesson, but I bet you guys can throw around more things I missed. I tried to avoid any canon contradictions, and you can correct me. I'm gonna be honest I'm not 100% sure what your trying to communicate here, the biology doesn't seem particularly relevant, especially since Gems are an alien species and we know nothing about their biology or psychology, But it's been confirmed that gems are capable of romantic attraction (and I'm assuming when you say "general" and "dating" love you mean romantic and platonic) And romantic and platonic attraction can be completely divorced from sexual attraction. So Pearl is totally capable of being in love with Rose in either sense.