Guy’s… I think we’re missing something big. more under the cut

So the first time we really have a look at pearl from someone else’s perspective is when Jasper refers to her as a ‘lost defective pearl’



So the initial reaction of the fandom is that Pearl is actually physically defective which makes sense when we see the other pearls in the series.

As we can see Pearls gem is an oval. Therefore there must be something inherently wrong with her.



Except that’s not really how ‘defectiveness’ works with gems, at least not how it’s been presented.

Amethyst is confirmed to be defective, she doesn’t look like a quartz is ‘supposed’ to. but If we compare her gem with the gems of the famethyst they look pretty much the same despite one gem being ‘right’ and one being ‘wrong’

There’s also the fact that Peridot, the gem we know knows the most about gems, never once points out Pearls irregular shape in fact she refers to Pearl as ‘Fancy’.





So lets talk about the corrupted gems.









and lets focus on Centipeetle (Nephrite)

This is what her gem looked like before steven healed it in ‘Monster Reunion’





and this is what it looked like after

See? it changes, the gem itself actually changes. you could say it’s stylistic but I think this might be a deliberate choice on the crews part. So whatever happened with the corruption has warped the physical gem itself. and that warping has severely affected the gem’s physical, mental and emotional state.

This leads of course into a discussion of Diamond powers. so far we’ve seen the powers of two out of three of the diamond’s involved with causing the corruption.

Blue’s emotional projection





and Yellows ability to destabilize gem’s physical forms





And many people have theorized that White Diamond has powers relating to the mind, there’s theories all over the place about this so I won’t rehash them here, but basically that means that the corruption is a disruption of a gems physical form, mind, and soul for lack of a better word.

Now I’m not suggesting that Pearl’s corrupted. though that would be an interesting reveal. No I’m suggesting that Pearl’s gem shape is actually related to this





I agree with a lot of people who think that something is keeping Pearl from talking about the diamonds. and I’m not the first to think that it’s something that White Diamond did. But I think that theory may have more credit than we’re giving it.