
It takes Pearl fusing with her and talking it out for them to acknowledge the shared trauma.

In fact, this becomes a plot point in 'Volleyball'. Don’t forget to for this article and follow us on Twitter and Facebook. : In-universe, Pearl and Steven find it rather disturbing that Pink Pearl talks very calmly about her time as being White Diamond's Meat Puppet and how Pink Diamond hurt her. Thanks for reading The Dot and Line, where we talk about animation of all kinds. In “It’s Over, Isn’t It?” Pearl asks, “Why can’t I move on?” For her trouble, Rose forcefully silenced her anyway.Īll this time that she’s been fighting alongside the Crystal Gems, and raising Steven, and trying to evolve and do things like use a cell phone, she’s been held back by the moment when a person in power told her that things had to be a certain way, then shut her up for good.

Still, Pearl made the tough call and acquiesced to the request because she trusted Rose. As Steven’s Inception-style dive into her mind revealed, and as we already know after Pearl songs like “It’s Over, Isn’t It?” and “Do It for Her,” Pearl is never able to move past that original sin-one that wasn’t something she wanted to do in the first place. She formed a toxic attachment to Rose both as a result of her Pearl function but also because she serves as the agent of Rose’s original sin on the show: lying to the rest of the Crystal Gems about who she was. As a Pearl, she cannot disobey any direct orders from her Diamond. It’s hard not to empathize with Pearl here, and now more than ever. She also manipulated Pearl into being a party to that lie and exercised her Diamond-level power over Pearl to hold that secret in for even longer-well after Rose died and Pearl was helping to raise her son.

She lied to her teammates, keeping it a secret for centuries. Rose was part of the Diamond Authority she was rebelling against. The last seconds of the latest episode of Steven Universe ended with a cataclysmic revelation: Rose Quartz, Steven’s mom and the leader of the Crystal Gems, was in fact Pink Diamond all along. It's confirmed that Pearl was in love with Rose due to the events of " Lion 3: Straight to Video" " Rose's Scabbard" " Story for Steven" " Sworn to the Sword" " We Need to Talk" and " Chille Tid".This post contains spoilers for the latest episode of Steven Universe : “A Single Pale Rose.” So much episodes of love, pierogi lol Confirmed Theory And one can even say the fusion dance Pearl and Rose do to form Rainbow Quartz was intentionally romantic between the two characters. If you're still skeptical, in the episode " We Need To Talk", it's shown that Pearl was jealous of Greg getting attention from Rose, even stating near the end, "I think he's her favorite too," when Greg and Rose are dancing at the end of the episode. During the song Pearl shows a hologram of her constantly doing her best to save or help Rose, but by doing so she makes herself retreat to her gem multiple times. Another example would be " Sworn To The Sword", in which Pearl and Connie sing together. This clearly shows that Pearl was very close to Rose. It's also implied that things like this have happened before when Amethyst states, "I hate it when she gets like this!" in the same episode. Throughout the show, it has been heavily implied that the character Pearl had feelings for Rose Quartz.įor example, in the episode " Rose's Scabbard", when Pearl finds out Rose had kept secrets from her, she breaks down, running away from the gems whilst crying. Pearl was in love with Rose Theory is now a confirmed theory! Congratulations to the theory's author, GoopHug!
