fantheoriesandfoodporn:

I’m sure I’m not the only one who noticed the oddly large number of red and pink gems among Blue Diamond’s court.

in general, gems fall roughly within sixty degrees of their diamond on the standard RGB color wheel. So far the only outlier for this rule is Pearl, who many suspect of having belonged to White Diamond.

None of the red gems we see in full detail have diamonds on their uniforms, suggesting they don’t have any specific Diamond, but it’s clear with one look at the color chart that red would fall under Pink Diamond.

What if the reason we have all these displaced gems who don’t seem to belong, was because their diamond was gone? What if it was because Pink Diamond was already corrupted at this point?

Our information about how the rebellion started and what Rose’s connection to Pink Diamond was are rather scarce.

All evidence points towards Pink Diamond being Lion and Rose Quartz being one of her generals, but evidence is unclear.

We know that the gem was really kicked off 5,500 years ago, and that 5,750 years ago the crystal gems were small in number but persistent. If Rose Quartz had betrayed homeworld, it seems unlikely that Pink Diamond would throw support behind her, and Lion probably would not be loyal to Steven and Rose. Likewise, she couldn’t have been in charge of the crystal gems at the time of The Answer because if she was they would have been a much larger force.

This is the beauty of this theory. Not only does it explain what happened to Pink Diamond, and when, but also why the red gems were in the blue court, and what was going on in the above scene from Rose’s Scabbard! Rose is facing the choice of what to do now that Pink Diamond is gone.

