Talk:Pink Diamond/@comment-33995766-20180319174701/@comment-3225961-20180320032106

Let's think about this.

When taken literally:


 * Gems are supposed to be immortal, i.e., they would live forever if not harmed


 * Prior to the cluster experiments, there hasn't been any indication that Gem life is renewable

They seek out other planets to propagate their peoples, which has a side effect of depleting organic life from thriving, though Gem shards possibly return some nutrients to the soil. Speaking of shards, Peridot explains that these "broken Gems" attempt to seek out others to become "whole", but the beings that result are quite disorganized physically, mentally, and emotionally. So while the Gems' former consciousnesses still exist in the shards, it's a semblance of what it was, and the resulting being is barely coherent.

A Gem's life "ends" in two (or three) ways: shattering, relinquishing the physical form, or "harvesting", but that would be similar to relinquishing. We assume PD is shattered, so in this scenario, Steven would have to have some or all of PD's shards, which we haven't seen, and Steven seems far too coherent to be the product of fused gem shards. We know Rose gave up her physical form to create Steven, so even if we consider that PD's gem never shattered to create a coherent consciousness for Steven, this is just a rehashing of the RQ = PD theory. After all, PD's consciousness would have to be bound to her gem (shards), and "past" lives don't really make sense outside of what RQ did.

Figuratively:

This is a literary device. The similarities between the two could be considered a foil, or that Steven's personality in Season 1 was foreshadowing Pink Diamond's situation and relationship amongst the Diamond Authority. I don't think I need to elaborate on the already mentioned and established empathy abilities.