Talk:Pink Diamond/@comment-25990281-20180114194427/@comment-3225961-20180122020606

There is a difference between YD telling BP to shatter herself, and YD telling BP to shatter BD, the latter of which is more akin to PP shattering PD. If we imagine the Pearls as Gem handmaidens, we would expect them to have a stronger affinity for their owner/mistress. Since the Diamonds are all of the same caste, It's probably implied that a DIamond would forbid her handmaiden from shattering her, and that "order" would conflict and probably supercede another Diamond ordering the adamacide.