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AMO 107 wrote: Painite wrote: AMO 107 wrote: Ghidorafour wrote: Yoshimickster wrote: Painite wrote: While I really hate to beat a dead horse, I just decided to add this as Diamonds are also represented or at least associated with triangles. Take a look at Rose's door. The difference is that the diamonds have upside down triangle while Rose's is upright. YYYYYYYYYYES! PINK DIAMOND, Steven is king of the gems. That or the temple views rose as a high ranker and the crystal gems equivalent of a diamond. If Rose Quartz(Pink Diamond) is the absolute ruler of gems, why Ruby, Saphirre, Pearl and Amethyst semms to not know about it? 1. Never said absolute ruler of gems 2. Rose and the Diamonds are about the same height in the temple hieroglyphs, even if she is slightly smaller the diamond depicted is no where near the size of a gem like Sugilite or Alexandrite.

3. Gems can shapeshift. True or not, if Rose wanted to hide her true nature from her companions and appear more humanlike. Either way, a quartz would be percieved as less of a threat to the Diamonds than another diamond.

4. Rose had secrets

From the Transcript of Rose's Scabbard

Garnet: Rose kept many things secret, even from us.

''Pearl: But not from me, I was the one she told everything! '' look at those pictures, note the legged figures, if they are gems, she was bigger than opal, if big gems could shapeshift into smaller, why alexandrite didnt shapeshifted in "Fusion Cuisine"? Amythest shapeshift into Rose in "Little butler" its the reverse true but in Garnet and Amythest transformed into Steven for Steven Tag in "Keep Beach City Weird".

"Real-life Egyptian murals tended to exaggerate size depending on how important the figures were, so I think Rose Quartz and Blue Diamond are meant to be larger-than-life since they are the two main figures in the mural.  Also, remember that shapeshifting requires concentration ("Secret Team").  Since GAP were fighting almost the entire time they were fused, I doubt they had the focus to pull off such a complicated shift."

There was no stating that Rose and Blue Diamonds were actually giants while fighting. In "Tiger Millionaire", Ameythest maintained her form as the Purple Puma despite being caught by surprise and getting emotional when the other gems appeared toward the end of the episode. Also diamonds are more powerful than other gems who is to say she did not maintain the form or even if the people or gems who made the temple were even there to see the entire fight.