Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26095220-20150317031410/@comment-5391523-20150320132354

Nevets Negaverse wrote: If you reverse the triangle it'll have the shape of a diamond. Maybe Rose Quartz was actually a high-class Gem, and didn't want to bother living in the aristocracy, so she shafeshifted to a Rose Quartz, a necessarily commoner gem, that wouldn't bring attention to her future cause. I wouldn't mind thinking that the reason Pearl was so attached to her, was because she worked for her (AFTER she turned into a RQ), and she was different from the other Gems because she treated their servants well, that is plausible given the fact that the gems in this cartoon are driven not by "good" or "evil", but by factors like love, hatred, worship, etc. So she must have done something for Pearl to make her so attached to her.

And we can't really say crystal gems were evil or not, because colonizing planets and stealing their lifestream is like "tradition" for the Homeworld gems, given how disturbing that quote by Pearl was, indicating that she travelled through the Gem-dominated Planets all around the galaxy with no problem.