Talk:A Single Pale Rose/@comment-27011284-20180509011634/@comment-31509668-20180510015531

@Surtur13

Pink Diamond should be demonized. During the Gem War Pink Diamond was in command of both sides. She gave each side the orders that resulted in the shattering of thousands of gems who didn't know they were all fighting for the same person.

And Pearl knew it!

Pink Diamond single handedly slaughtered her own kind hoping the other diamonds would abandon the planet. She went as far to fake her own death to convince them Earth wasn't worth it. She didn't anticipate that the remaining diamonds would be so infuriated that they would launch the corruption attack.

Garnet fought at the side of Rose Quartz believing Pink Diamond to be her enemy. How many gems do you think Garnet shattered over the course of that thousand year conflict? How much metaphorical blood is on her hands? The only way she can accept what she did is by believing in the rightness of Rose Quartz and her cause. That belief is gone now. She now knows that the gem she believed was her enemy was actually standing by her side and giving her her orders. Orders to kill other gems that Pink Diamond had ordered to kill her.

Every shattered gem on Earth is Pink Diamond's fault. Every corrupted gem on Earth, bubbled or unbubbled, is Pink Diamond's fault. Every bubbled Rose Quartz gem at the human zoo is Pink Diamond's fault. Whatever repercussions that are rippling through the Gem Empire are all Pink Diamond's fault.

And then there's Steven. He has Pink Diamond's gemstone in his belly to serve as a constant reminder to the others of the massive lie they've been living for millennia. What's that going to do to his relationship with the Crystal Gems?