polnafuck:

I’m sorry I keep posting about it but god it’s so important to me.

Rose Quartz (who I will continue to call Rose Quartz, because no matter what this was the identity she wanted for herself) is not a Sociopath (please research Anti-Social Personality Disorder before you throw this word around) who manipulated everyone around her. Rose Quartz is a Gem who loved everything around her and was blinded by that.

She didn’t force a single gem to rally at her side, she never forced Pearl to stay with her and she never intended for a major war to happen.

Her adolescent mind failed to understand how much the Diamonds loved her and thought they wouldn’t care at all for the planet left behind by ‘Pink’ being shattered. Every portrayal of the Dimonds as unfeeling, cold matriarchs to the distraught Gems we know them as now was to make us understand exactly what things Rose had fooled herself into thinking!

We were supposed to see them as unkind and unloving as she did, only to learn through Steven that they truly adored Pink Diamond.

The Pink Diamond reveal is nothing new!

Rebecca didn’t just pull this out of thin air, she’s been preparing for this since the very beginning. The color of Steven’s Gem (which was the give away for me, as I’ve owned pieces of Rose Quartz in the past), little scenes here and there. The Pink Diamond Theory has been around forever because of Rebecca’s storytelling.

Rose Quartz is a flawed character, that’s something we’ve always known. That’s why I loved her so much, that’s why the Pink Diamond reveal has made me love her even more. She’s far from the perfect figure we were shown at the very beginning. That was intentional too, so we could watch Rose become less and less perfect alongside Steven, who viewed her as perfect and beautiful just like us back then.

Rebecca did the one thing I love most, she wrote characters with flaws who have made mistakes, but still had good intentions. People are allowed to make mistakes. People are allowed to make mistakes and change their minds and grow as people. That’s what Pink Diamond did. That’s what Rose Quartz did, and it wasn’t always pretty, but at the core of her as a Gem she loved and she fought and she carried her guilts with no idea how to ever fix them.

Character development exists guys, Rebecca Sugar doesn’t write Static Characters, that just isn’t her thing. And I can’t wait to see where she takes us next.