So, there’s these…
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pink: *begins her colonization of earth*
blue: aren’t you happy, dear?
pink: yellow… i want another pony.
Pink Diamond looks really menacing, I guess that means the story is being told by the CG’s perspective, finally they’re talking about it. Cool to see Bismuth there too.
That can’t be Pink. Garnet’s there, and she’s the first ever fusion between two completely different Gems (besides maybe Rhodonite). Garnet was formed in The Answer, which took place after the Rebellion had already started.
Every Gem is made for a purpose – to serve the order of the Diamonds.
Those who cannot fit inside this order must be purged! To come out misshapen, to reshape yourself outside your purpose, and to defend this ruined, worthless planet is a disgrace!



So Pink turned into Rose and that likely turned her into a disgrace, falling away from her original purpose of being a Diamond, a leader of Homeworld. But still with that she couldn’t escape what she was made for, she was still a leader even as a Rose Quartz. Which eventually lead her into being Steven
Yellow calls humans disgusting yet for a fact we know Pink LOVED them and loved Earth. It seems like more than anything she’s just out to bash anything of Pink’s at any given moment.
In the concept art for Steven’s Dream it again shows Pink’s love for humans in Blue’s dialogue.

“Ah… She loved these.”
Rose was all about gems being able to change what they were made for. What better way to start the rebellion than showing that a Diamond of all gems could change? Pink wasn’t poofed or shattered when she stepped down from her palanquin, no, she changed. She changed into a Rose Quartz. And Yellow is disgusted with that and tries to cover it up.
What sort of message would that send to other gems, especially to the other Diamond who was so, so close to Pink? Homeworld would fall apart.


Pink Diamond never refers to herself again as Pink Diamond, only going by Rose Quartz. Why would Pink only have one colony? She doesn’t want to be a Diamond.
She doesn’t want to conquer and destroy, she LOVED Earth and wanted to save it. Pink becoming Rose would have been the ultimate message to show that Homeworld is wrong, and it’s good to be whoever you want. But no, Yellow couldn’t have that. She covered it up as soon as she could, viewing Pink and the entire rebellion as a disgrace and as something that needed to be destroyed.
Pink was never shattered, it was a cover-up from Yellow, being disgusted with her change and likely in fear that Blue would leave and change, too.
And honestly, I think that’s the ultimate message. Don’t be what your family and other people want you to be, be yourself, who YOU want to be.
This is actually a really good take on the “Rose is Pink Diamond” theory!
After rewatching Island Adventure, I had this thought. Do you think that Mask Island was Pink Diamond’s original attempt at making a Zoo?


The Zoo, from what we’ve seen, looks awfully similar to Mask Island. What reason would Mask Island have to exist for Gems anyway? Gems on Earth already had giant structures that were havens to them, such as the Lunar Sea Spire.
The other huge thing that made me think the island was originally a prototype for the Zoo is the only Gem we know of that was found there.

Was this a Gem that originally monitored the Island in case something went wrong with the humans, such as one trying to escape? If she had invisibility powers PRIOR to the Song of the Diamonds, it would make a lot of sense.
The lack of a proper exit (outside of a nice, long swim) and probably even forgetting the island in general could be a reason why this Gem was still there.