At first I thought this picture was just them pointing at different paintings for no reason, but, I was wrong. Garnet is pointing to Blue Diamond’s painting, her former diamond, and Pearl is pointing to White Diamond’s painting.
Pearl is off-screen for the majority of the time they are in this room, only wandering over once Peridot finds the stairs. Where was she?
It’s worthy to note that Pearl starts acting strange after they pass White Diamond’s painting.
As every scene is storyboarded carefully, this shouldn’t go unnoticed. After walking past White Diamond’s painting Pearl looks sullen. She didn’t seem to look like this before they walked past this painting at all.
Not only does Pearl look like this, she also seems incredibly on edge. She’s the first one to get irritated with Peridot.
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But where is the cluster now?” Pearl clearly wants to get out of there as soon as possible, even more than the others. Why would Pearl get so irritated? Probably because she was White Diamond’s Pearl. She’s been here before and she’s incredibly uncomfortable with being here again.
