Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26233810-20150109184716/@comment-25997013-20150111182432

My socks remain on my feet, because I have three problems and one nit-pick with this theory's evidence.

Problem 1) Ronaldo's quote in Keep Beach City Weird

If we take what Ronaldo said as fact:

Polymorphic sentient rocks are definitely the gem race.

"AKA Diamond is a Crystal Gem." Diamond could be of the gem race, but not a member of the crystal gems, as none of them are a diamond. They are a Garnet which can be made synthetically to look like a diamond, but not like that naturally, an Amethyst, a Pearl and a Rose Quarts.

If this is foreshadowing, why say diamond? He could have said The Great Crystal Authority or The Great Gem Authority or even The Great Rock Authority if they wanted it to be linked to the Crystal gems.

Problem 2) Ocean Gem

"The gems don't really care about the earth" This quote is wrong.

http://www.watchcartoononline.com/steven-universe-episode-25-mirror-gem

At 18:54 on the top video, Lápis Lazuli states:

"Don't you know anything Steven? Your friend's, they don't really care about other gems. All they care about is the Earth."

The Crystal gems care more about earth than their own people, and protect it all the time from Corrupted Gems all the time.

Problem 3) Warp Tour

"She said she was doing a maintenance check on Earth. Maybe making sure that something - or someone - wasn't there. With the above evidence, we really have no option but to conclude that she was on the good side"

Boy, your knees must be sore, from jumping to conclusions!

All we can gather from that is Peridot was checking out the planet for her higher ups and fixing things, like an engineer, and got spooked off by the idea someone else had been there before.

I think it's more likely Peridot is a bad guy, due to her crushing the little repair droid asking for help like a child tugging on its mothers leg.

Nit-pick) Corrupted gems

"I just read a theory on the FNAF wiki. Here's the theory: 'The souls of the dead children possessed the animatronics so they could get revenge on Phone Guy, or specifically the night guards." 'Odd parallel but not the problem.

A Corrupted gem does not equal a cracked gem. All of the Corrupted gem monsters we've seen have had perfect gem stones. Not a scratch on the gem itself.

Amethyst had a cracked gem, which was exacerbated almost to a point where it looked like she was going to die. Then she was healed and returned to normal.

Since she was brought to the brink and back again, we can say cracking a gem does not lead to a Corrupted gem.

So here is my counter theory:

The Crystal gems, Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl and Rose were sent to earth long ago by the leader/ leaders of their race (The Great Diamond Authority), possibly to collect carbon and other elements to grow natural gems on their home planet. '''Once their journey to earth was complete and they landed, Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl set to work excavating the land attempting to find the raw elements in the ground. Rose on the other hand wandered off and started marvelling at earth’s sights and sounds; quickly falling in love with the planet earth. She continued until she came across people and watched them from a far, noting their behaviour and falling in love with our race. She returned to the others to find they had dug up a large quantity of raw elements, and were setting up the home world warp pad along with the rest of the other world warp pads. Rose showed them the area she went through but they were less impressed at something's, more impressed with other's. Amethyst sampled the fruits and vegetables they came across, loving the flavour. Pearl marvelled at the organic plant life becoming intrigued as how it came to be but found herself disgusted by humanity. Garnet didn't find anything interesting but took note of her team mates liking of the land. They then set up all of the warp pads and asked others to come see earth, including the Great Diamond Authority. They saw it as uninteresting and the Great Diamond Authority returned home to prepare a large scale drilling team to take all of earth's resources. Garnet, seeing how distraught Rose was knowing the planet would be sucked dry and destroyed, broke the warp pads with some of their race still on the planet, which became corrupted gems.'''

In summary, the gems are on the earth protecting it, due to rose's fondness of the blue rock and are now fugitives in the eyes of their race. That is my spin on this situation.