Rose Quartz

"Rose Quartz" is the mother of Steven and former member of the Crystal Gems. According to Greg Universe, she has given her physical form up in order to give birth to Steven, while passing her gemstone onto Steven as well.

Appearance
Rose Quartz had very long, shiny, curly pink hair in thick ringlets past her hips, pink lips, a heavier build than the other Crystal Gems, and has light pinkish skin. She is taller than Greg Universe. Rose wore a strapless, floor-touching, lilac-trimmed tiered white dress with a star-shaped cutout in the stomach area. In "Together Breakfast", her portrait revealed that Rose had a rose quartz gem on her midriff, much like her son, Steven Quartz Universe. In "Lion 3: Straight to Video", she is shown to have had black eyes.

Personality
Rose Quartz is implied to have a caring and loving personality and love every Gem no matter how evil, according to the Crystal Gems. In "An Indirect Kiss", she was said to be very empathic when her loved ones were hurt. She had seen beauty in everything "no matter how gross", showing that she treated everyone as an equal. She had good morals since she didn't take her powers for granted, instead using them to heal injured Gems. She was also a gifted tactician, gifted enough for Jasper to respect her strategies.

Abilities
All Gems have the ability to summon a weapon, shape shift, fuse with other Gems, retreat into their gemstone after becoming injured to heal, and are immortal. It is implied she could summon a sword via the pocket dimension in Lion's mane. Because of her peaceful nature, however, the weapon would have only been used as a last resort.

Unique Abilities
The original bearer of the rose quartz gemstone, that is currently in possession of her son and thus, shares most of her abilities with him.
 * Healing: Rose manifests her ability to heal through her tears. Her tears could heal broken gems and heal other creatures of their injuries.
 * Phytokinesis: Rose had the ability to grow sentient flora that acts as her guardians.

Legacy
Statues of Rose can occasionally be found in Gem ruins, indicating she was looked upon favorably by Gems before their disappearance. The Crystal Gems also hold her in high regard, and Greg misses her often. While pregnant with Steven, she made a video posthumously expressing her love for him.

Episode Appearances

 * "Laser Light Cannon" (Mentioned and Pictured)
 * "Together Breakfast" (Pictured)
 * "Frybo" (Pictured)
 * "Bubble Buddies" (Mentioned)
 * "Serious Steven" (Pictured)
 * "Giant Woman"(Pictured)
 * "So Many Birthdays" (Pictured)
 * "Lars and the Cool Kids" (Vision)
 * "Steven the Sword Fighter" (Pictured)
 * "Rose's Room" (Mentioned and voiced the Tiny Floating Whale)
 * "Coach Steven" (Pictured)
 * "Steven and the Stevens " (Pictured)
 * "Monster Buddies" (Mentioned)
 * "An Indirect Kiss" (Mentioned and seen as a statue)
 * "Secret Team" (Mentioned)
 * "Fusion Cuisine" (Mentioned)
 * "Garnet's Universe" (Pictured)
 * "Watermelon Steven" (Mentioned)
 * "Lion 3: Straight to Video" (In video tape)
 * "The Test" (Mentioned)
 * "On the Run" (Mentioned)
 * "Maximum Capacity" (Transformed Amethyst)
 * "Rose's Scabbard" (Mentioned, pictured, and hologram)
 * "The Return" (Mentioned)

Steven Universe
Steven Universe is the son of Rose Quartz. Rose gave up her physical form to bring Steven into the world while in a romantic relationship with Greg Universe (Steven's father). Steven doesn't seem to know much about his mother apart from what the members of the Crystal Gems and his father have told him, and as a result, he doesn't know what to think of her sometimes. However, insulting her is one of the few things that angers Steven greatly, showing that he still thinks highly of her.

Members of the Crystal Gems
Rose Quartz was previously a member of the Crystal Gems before she brought Steven into existence. The group seems to hold her in high esteem. Amethyst is quoted as saying: "If Rose were here, this would be so easy!" in the episode "Laser Light Cannon." The members of the group seem to mourn her disappearance from the world, but even though she gave up her existence to bring Steven into the world, they do not blame it on him and currently live with and raise him.

In an in-character interview with Newsarama, Pearl seems to confirm that Rose Quartz was a leader of the Crystal Gems, noting, "Brilliant leaders do brilliant things, that’s why you look to them for answers, answers no one else could have, that’s why you trust them, even when you can’t understand why they chose …Greg."

Pearl was also Rose's second-in-command in her battle against the Homeworld Gems on the ancient battlefield 5,000 years prior. She claims she and Rose were closer than the other Gems were to her and that Rose trusted her with information she did not tell Garnet and Amethyst.

Greg Universe
Greg Universe was the romantic partner of Rose Quartz until she brought Steven into the world. Greg and Rose seemed to have had a very good relationship, but most of what we know is from Greg's point of view. He said that the two of them met at one of his one-man band concerts in Beach City, where she was the only attendee. He also said that they became inseparable, yet he had no idea "what a magical lady like her ever saw in a plain old dope like [him]." In the episode "Lars and the Cool Kids," it is revealed that Rose saw beauty in everything, referring back to the episode "Laser Light Cannon," when Greg Universe wondered what someone like her ever saw in a "plain old dope" like him. It is a reflection on her feelings for Greg to note that Rose used his catchphrase as the activation words of her Light Cannon.

Trivia

 * The same symbol of Rose appears over and over through the series, shown when the door appears to her room, in the middle of Steven's shield and in the handle of Rose' sword
 * It is implied that Rose Quartz is a transcendent emotional developer, as all of the other Crystal Gems represent a level on the emotional development scale.
 * In the episode "Laser Light Cannon", the light that came out of the cannon resembled her.
 * A possible reason she fell in love with Greg was because of the song he wrote for her, "Let me Drive my Van into your Heart".
 * In gemstone mythology, Rose Quartz are stones associated with love and health.
 * Rose is the first known Gem to have a last name, the second being Lapis Lazuli. This is due to the fact that her gemstone has two words in it's name.
 * Rose's gem was located on her lower torso, just as Steven's gemstone is located on his lower torso.
 * The episode "Rose's Room", when Steven was falling through space in Rose's room, the tiny floating whale spoke to him in Rose's voice, saying, "What do you want, Steven?"
 * It is revealed that there will be more of Greg and Rose's backstory in future episodes.
 * The fusion Gem depicted on the Crystal Temple strongly resembles Rose.
 * In "Monster Buddies," Garnet told Steven that Rose tried to use her powers to save some monsters too, though she was never able to heal them.
 * It may be possible the gem bubble in Lion's mane is one of the Gems she tried to heal.
 * As revealed in "An Indirect Kiss", Rose has a healing spring filled with her magical healing tears.
 * Ian Jones-Quartey confirmed that Rose's skin color is based off of a peach light pink color, like some kinds of rose quartz stones.
 * Susan Egan, voice of Rose, stated that she will be recording a song as Rose Quartz for the show.
 * It is revealed in "Watermelon Steven" that Rose had the ability to make mobile sentient plant life as her defenders (chlorokinesis).
 * "Lion 3: Straight to Video" marks the second time that Rose's voice is heard.
 * This is also the first episode in which her eyes are shown open.
 * This episode also reveals that Rose was pregnant with Steven.
 * It has been revealed that Rose once owned two weapons; a sword and a shield, with the former in Lion's pocket dimension and the latter being in the possession of her son, Steven.
 * Although Lion is the guardian of Rose's sword, the Crystal Gems weren't aware of the possible connection Rose had with Lion as shown in "Rose's Scabbard".

Gemology
Learn more about the rose quartz gemstone here.

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