<div class="quote"><i>Benbarrett82 wrote:
Well, I saw this coming a long time ago, but I must say that I'm a bit floored now that all of my theorizing has been validated. There are a few things that bother me with this new bit of information:
<p>1) Rose Quartz isn't real. I always liked Rose Quartz as a character, and looked forward to her episode appearances. She was always, theorizing aside, a separate character from Pink Diamond. She was her own gem, and over the course of the series I became very fond of her. Now we find out Rose Quartz was all a ruse, a disguise, a mask. Really, she amounted to little more than one of those sets of fake glasses with attached noses that you can buy in any joke or costume shop. That makes me sad. This one time, I wish I'd been wrong.
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</p><p>4) At what point did Homeworld begin work on the Cluster? Surely Pink, who was so in love with the planet that she sacrificed the lives of untold Gems to liberate it, would have had some serious objections to this? Pink Diamond was a large part of the war and a member of the Diamond Authority for the greater part of the Earth invasion and would NOT have initiated work on such a terrible geoweapon herself. It wasn't until Pink was "shattered" that Blue took over. She even dismissed Pink's concerns and told her to just "smile and wave". Seriously? Smile and wave? It doesn't seem like Blue and Yellow ran things on Earth for long before they packed up and sent the Corruption Song. When did these Cluster experiments take place?
</p><p>So many questions, so few episodes left.
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<p>For #1, I wouldn't say Rose Quartz was a fake being. I personally like to view Pink/Rose similarly to how I view Bruce Wayne/Batman, with their "true" face actually being a mask, acting how the outside world expects them to act, while their secret identities allow them to be the person they truly are. Also reminds me of the Oscar Wilde quote: "Give a man a mask and he will show you his true face."
</p><p>As for #4, I'd say the diamonds started working on the cluster shortly after Pink's shattering. Judging by how she acted when talking about Pink, I'm assuming it was Yellow's idea to create the cluster, as her coping mechanism towards Pink's shattering seems to be putting it all behind her, and the best way to do that is to destroy everything that reminds her of Pink: changing the diamond logo to only show 3 diamonds, destroy Earth using the cluster, etc. I doubt Blue came up with the idea and we simply know too little about White (she hasn't even gotten an official name drop yet, if I'm correct) to theorize about her involvement.
</p><p>EDIT: Btw, first post here. Hi all.
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