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And we've already met them.

Blue Diamond, White Diamond and Yellow Diamond make up the so-called Diamond Authority which ruled (past tense!) the Gem Homeworld as a triumvirate. Now, it's just a dictatorship, with only Yellow Diamond remaining.

The Gem that had powered the Sleeping Pyramid from Serious Steven is White Diamond. And the poltergeist lighthouse Gem from Horror Club is Blue Diamond.

Neither the white Gem from Serious Steven nor the blue Gem from Horror Club are corrupted.

They exhibited none of the qualities of corrupted Gems we've seen so far, and more like those of Gems being attached or inserted into something as a power source, i.e. "Gem Powered" objects like Lapis' mirror. The white Gem changed the obelisk's face to 'happy' when Steven removed her Gem from its containment.

The blue Gem had very VERY startlingly human-like teeth and mouth, which is saying something considering it was using the materials of a house to makeup its physical being. It did not appear monstrous when it could very well have. And it was very, very powerful to be able to possess the entire building.



Gems who are corrupted exhibit animalistic or monsterish qualities, and are incapable of intelligence or speech as far as we can tell. Yet the white Gem could smile at Steven through the obelisk, and the blue Gem could whisper Lars' name and was able to project a past memory with resounding clarity. No corrupted Gems have been able to do these things, with the very very very close exception of the Mother Centipeedle saving Steven.

The white Gem (White Diamond) was inserted into the Pyramid, and blue Gem (Blue Diamond) was hidden in the lighthouse above the Crystal Temple.

How else could the blue Gem have been embedded within the wall of the lighthouse basement? I doubt that 5,000 years of time and happenstance just occurred to make it appear where it was, right above the Crystal Gem base. It was placed there on purpose by someone else, someone who did not want it found but still wanted it within close proximity to keep an eye on it. Someone affiliated with the Crystal Gems.



It was placed there by Rose.

White Diamond and Blue Diamond Gem cuts and designs are VERY significant! If you rewatch the episode Horror Club, look at the Blue Diamond gem after it falls out of the wall and once Steven picks it up. (I have a screenshot above.) While it the Gem has an overall fictional cut, it closest resembles the mazarin cut because of the triangles along the rim, '''OMG TRIANGLES YOU GUYS!! POLYMORPHIC ROCKS!!''' but no seriously it's got triangles on its cut. Triangles are the UNMISTAKABLE symbol of the Diamond Authority and the Gem Homeworld.



It's also important to note that the Blue Diamond has a CULET on its very bottom, which is where its point is flattened, very unlike typical gemstones. And even for a gemstone with a culet, it sure has a HUGE culet. Culets are added largely to protect the integrity of the gemstone. Equally, large culets act as windows parallel to the top of the gemstone, allowing light to escape through the bottom like a prism. As to what this means, your guess is as good as mine.

Culets are now considered unfashionable and antique for gemstones but they were developed in the 15th century for cutting DIAMONDS. This style preceded the "brilliant cut" of more modern diamond styles today.

If you don't think this is significant, my question is why did the creators add such a trivial detail like the culet to this Blue Gem if would only appear on screen for literally a matter of seconds and then get bubbled away by Steven? Well?? WHY?!

But get this: The white Gem? White Diamond's Gem? Its gemstone cut is called a table cut, which is a fairly simple and primitive gem style from the same time period when culets were first utilized and frequently gems with table cuts have culets.



White Diamond and Blue Diamond are (or were) part of the triumvirate of the Gem Homeworld known as the Diamond Authority. And at some point during the War, likely during its end, all three came to Earth to battle Rose Quartz and her rebellion in a final battle.

Look to the mural, which I'm sure you all know quite well: There are three separate figures in the mural. On the left panel, there is a triangular figure with many outstretched hands surrounding it. The middle panel is Rose and another triangular figure. The panel on the left is a triangular figure in a sun motif. Why are they so similar-looking? They're triplets, of course.

Saturate the colors of the mural, and you'll find the left figure is set in faded blue, the middle figure set in a colorless gray, and the figure on the right is in yellow! What's more, yellow diamonds are associated with the sun and energy! BOOM!

This mural was in the eighth episode of the first season, people!!! That is some intense foreshadowing!

Yes the Diamond Authority is real. Yellow Diamond is real. Renaldo was right the whole time, about the Kintergarden and the Diamonds. The creators love throwing bones to plot theorists. Just like the Cookie Cat song was foreshadowing on the Crystal Gems' origins all the back back to episode 1! THERE ARE NO SUCH THINGS AS A FILLER EPISODES IN STEVEN UNIVERSE, PEOPLE!! Every episode, without question, has had details for the overarching plot in some way or another.

Those unfamiliar with the Diamond Authority theory should also refer to the triangular symbol seen on the floor of the green hand ship of Jail Break when Garnet was facing Jasper. It was the exact same triangle symbol from the Pyramid's central room in Serious Steven, like an inverted Triforce, only there was coloration this time. One triangle was blue, another yellow, and one pure white.



This correlates with the natural coloration of diamonds! Blue diamonds are quite rare and quite valuable, known as 'fancy diamonds' for their atypical coloration which can range from blue to deep indigo or violet. The Hope Diamond is a famous example of a blue diamond.

Colorless or white diamonds are what we typically perceive as actual diamonds, devoid of color but very refractive of light.

Yellow diamonds are valuable too, but they are less valuable than colorless and blue diamonds. The more impurities, the more yellow a diamond will be (take that as you will). On market, the deeper the yellow coloration a diamond has the less its overall value.

There are, of course, exceptions. There are brown diamonds (also called "chocolate diamonds," brown diamonds are the most common type of natural diamond, below yellow in value), pink diamonds (like blue diamonds they are very rare and very valuable...and yes I said PINK! But that's another theory for another day!) and red diamonds (EXCEEDINGLY VALUABLE AND MOST RARE HOLY MOLY!). I believe there are also green diamonds as well, which come about due to exposure to natural radiation, but I could not find much information about them.

But for a majority, natural diamonds lie within the yellow-white-blue range.

We already know for a fact there is a Gem named Yellow Diamond who holds some significant power or authority on the Gem Homeworld. Now, it seems like quite a jump to assume there was a member of the Authority just resting above the Crystal Temple on Earth this entire time, and another who spent thousands of years trapped in a Pyramid at Strawberry Fields, but keep reading. It gets better.



To support the theory of the Authority being so broken apart, first of all we should ask why would Jasper mention only Yellow Diamond would be interested in seeing what became of Rose Quartz? What about the other Diamonds? If they were the Homeworld's rightful leaders just as much, wouldn't all of the Diamonds want to see what became of their most hated foe that gave them and their forces a thorough whooping on a backwater world like Earth? Didn't all three of them come to Earth? Why would only Yellow Diamond want to see Steven? Why should only the Yellow Authority see how low Rose has stooped, splitting herself? Is Yellow the only Diamond among the Authority that's left in power? Was there a coop? A secret plot to allow Yellow Diamond to use the conflict on Earth as a way to rid herself of her two sisters on Earth, cover it up discreetly by trying to wipe out all Gems on the planet, and keep command of the Homeworld all to herself?

That gets into another theory. But for the moment lets ask why and how did White and Blue Diamond both end up trapped on Earth. Let's ask how White Diamond was trapped within the Pyramid. Let's ask how Blue Diamond got her Gem trapped in the bowels of a lighthouse above the base of operations of the very people who defied her and her sisters' authority. How did all that happen?

'''White Diamond and Blue Diamond were set up to be trapped on Earth by Yellow Diamond. Or they were abandoned when the final battle for Earth was lost, or back stabbed. But in the end, only Yellow Diamond remained intact and escaped Earth to rule the Homeworld Gems.'''

As I mentioned above, the War over Earth gave Yellow Diamond the perfect opportunity to be rid of both Blue Diamond and White Diamond. The Gem Homeworld was losing badly to rebellious Gems trying to protect a world only meant for pilfering and propagation. At some point near the end of the War, the Diamond Authority must have seen it as necessary to go to Earth themselves to stop this rebellion. They were the most powerful Gems in existence. How could they even imagine keeping control over the empire of Gem-controlled planets if they were to lose Earth? How could they save face after such a failure? It was unthinkable...



But in the end, the Diamond Authority did lose. We know they lost because the Earth was saved. The Diamonds lost to Rose Quartz and her armies, by their burning passion for protecting Earth and all its living creatures. Blue Diamond and White Diamond were captured or killed and contained. They did not escape off-planet.

White Diamond was trapped within the Pyramid. By who? Could have been Rose, judging from the mural. Or it could have been Yellow Diamond... After all, why did the obelisk smile at Steven?



And what happened to Blue Diamond? That's truly a mystery for now, but her Gem undoubtedly retained some fraction of power, as clearly did White Diamond's. Perhaps a useful power, like the power to replay anything it was witness to, or the power to possess or strengthen the mind (look up blue diamond metaphysical properties!). Perhaps Rose used this power, keeping the Gem bubbled away except when needed. Perhaps the power of Blue Diamond's gem was dangerous. In either case, it was too dangerous to keep bubbled in the Temple. If the bubble ever broke, Blue Diamond herself would return.

So before her passing, Rose buried it in the lighthouse basement, fusing it to the very building like a power source to stop the Gem from ever materializing, keeping it somewhere close she could monitor. Or perhaps she did it as a form of pity, knowing the Gem she was containing was still very much alive and intact. I don't think Rose realized Blue Diamond was so powerful as to be able to assert her influence over the lighthouse itself and effectively 'haunt' it like a poltergeist.

But regardless, only Yellow Diamond escaped the last battle for Earth. She abandoned her twin sisters in the midst of heated combat, or set up their downfall, or was the one who directly stabbed their backs when they were beaten and cornered. In either case, Yellow Diamond was the one who orchestrated the destruction of all Gem-life on Earth by means of some sort of planet-wide corruption that afflicted only Gemkind, making them into mindless monsters. She would ensure no Gem, be it friend, neutral, or foe, would survive to tell Gems on Homeworld what happened on Earth in the final chapter of the War. Mindless and stupid, the corrupted Gems would destroy one another slowly, cracking and breaking their Gems, until no Gem remained behind and the Earth could be pillaged again without resistance.

It was the perfect cover up for Yellow Diamond's coop. Soon, Earth would be forgotten, and with it any memory of what happened to her sisters. Gem Homeworld would be all hers, for eternity.

Only Yellow Diamond did not realize that the corruption process would have no impact on contained Gems, or Gems being used for Gem-powered devices. Nor did she realize that Rose Quartz was able to protect herself and a very small few of her closest friends from corruption by means of her shield.

This is how Peridot knew nothing of the Crystal Gems. This is how Jasper survived Earth, by only being present during the first few waves of battle, but not there for the final battle. And, rather ironically, this is how Earth remained in a state of peace for the last five thousand years. 