Diamond Theories: Obelisk Gem is White Diamond? I’m not so sure.

Here’s my theory on WD being a forehead gem. Please note, I assume OG is WD for the purposes of discounting Chest Gem WD.

Hahaha, you ready for some outright ground-shaking views? Here we go.

So, lets start with the basics. Obelisk Gem is the Corrupted Gem in Serious Steven, found within the Upside-Down Pyramid. Her Gem is a Table Cut, seemingly like Yellow Diamond’s, and sits in a similar position. Furthermore, she seems to be powering a lot for just one gem. So there’s plenty of things that suggest she may be a Diamond.

But there’s a lot more than that, at least to me.

It seems like the Obelisk itself is the gem on the far left in the shot we have of the Mural. They both have a distinctive triangle - head shape, and they both share the same hand positions. They even have the same above-the-eyes-but-over-the-nose helmet thing on them.

But I really, really doubt the four gems we’ve seen on the Mural are the Diamonds. If they are, that doesn’t explain what’s happening in the remaining two panels, and the one next to Yellow Mural Gem has a Moon on it - so wouldn’t that be where Blue Diamond, the gem associated with the moon, would go? Not to mention there’s five panels, which doesn’t divide evenly among four Diamonds.

(From now on, the Serious Steven Mural Gems will be known as, from left to right, White Mural, Blue Mural and Yellow Mural.)

And Yellow Mural doesn’t match YD at all. She’s got way spikier hair, no apparent arms, no neck whatsoever, when Yellow Diamonds are actually associated with the throat and our YD is like a llama, and the triangle on her chest is the wrong shape for YD’s gem - and considering they included Rose’s gem, I assume that if the gem was there, they’d show it.

I suspect that the Moon Base was the first structure built in Earth’s vicinity. It’s the only place where the plans of the gem colony are stored, apparently, and it’s view on the earth is unparalleled, so they probably used it’s vantage point to help visualise the colony. So it’s reasonable to assume the Murals there are how the Diamonds looked at the very start of the colony. So, unless YD swapped her outfit and her neck mid-war, and then swapped it back after, they’re not the same.

The neckst problem is that - you ready for this? - OG’s gem causes a broken pattern among the Diamonds. I came into this theory with two main ideas for how OG and YD’s gems relate:

OG’s gem is cut the same as Yellow Diamonds, but that would conflict with the fact that the Diamond Shape is more common in their mural depictions, and means two of the Diamonds have exactly the same cut when Blue Diamond has a different one (and, if you follow RQ=PD theories, then Rose has a different cut again). It also means that out of three cuts, they typically depict all four Diamonds with Blue’s cut, which just doesn’t make sense.

YD’s cut is the same as Blue Diamonds, and all the Diamonds share the same shape, but her gem is off-model in her first episode. I mean, it’s their first depiction of her and her gem, after all.

YD’s gem is awkwardly placed - It’s leaning back quite a bit into her body, following the curve of her chest. If you actually look at an extended shape on such an angle, it does look flattened, so I could believe that it’s longer than it looks… but to prove it’s an actual diamond shape, and not a square, I’ll need some more solid evidence than that.

Hello, Solid Evidence. This is Jasmin Lai’s work, from Danny Hyne’s character design, and that is DEFINITELY a diamond shape. It’s also MUCH closer to BD’s shape, though harder and sharper, than it is to OG’s. So there’s a pretty clear distinction there, at least, I think so. I tweeted crewniverse as I was typing this up, to hopefully get that distinction cleared up.

So yeah, I REALLY doubt OG is WD.

Still more theories to come! I think I’ve gotten one of Blue Diamond’s fusion parts down to two possible gems, and I’m ready to cause trouble with my idea. So yeah, if you think Blue Diamond has too many arms for a non-fusion gem like I do, the next theory may just be what you’re looking for…