Theory on the Diamond Authority, and Rose Quartz’ involvement

With the reveal of both BD (Blue Diamond) and YD (Yellow Diamond) we now have a frame of reference for what a Diamond is supposed to look like, as well as their size. Because of this, the Popular “Rose Quartz is Pink Diamond Theory” has taken a bit of a hit. Rose isn’t the size of a Diamond, so there goes the whole theory, all of the evidence is now meaningless just because she’s small. Or is it?

(lots of pictures and comprehensive steps leading up to the theory below the cut. Looks long, but is mostly pictures.)

I’m going to to be explaining why the theory isn’t dead, but rather stronger than ever.

The above pictures of all of the three diamonds we’ve seen depict very tall powerful gems, with rhombus shaped gems. WD (White Diamond) has hers visible on her forehead, while both YD and BD have theirs on their chests in more or less the same location. These locations seem to correspond quite well to the icon of the Diamond Authority, found on the Ship Peridot and Jasper came to earth on.

We also know there is a PD (Pink Diamond) which is found in the logo from the older pre-rebellion era structures. In this, the PD is on the bottom quarter of the logo. If gem locations were how the logo was decided upon, its only logical that PD has her rhombus shaped gem located somewhere below the chest. If it’s equidistant from her chest as WD’s gem is, then PD’s gem lands around her stomach. Conveniently around where RQ (Rose Quartz) has her circular gem.

So of course RQ isn’t as tall as the Diamonds, and her gem isn’t even the right shape. These two facts are what brought a lot of people to discount the RQ is PD theory, usually in favor of similar theories, except where Rose is in PD’s court, and maybe shatters her to start the rebellion.

But still, there have intentionally been no depictions of PD, which is really suspicious. The most we have is her abstractly drawn feet. Feet which don’t really resemble RQ all that much.

Changing gears to get towards the answers I’ve come to, lets talk about Garnet as seen in the episode The Answer. More specifically, let’s look at how other gems reacted to the cross-type fusion.

As Garnet said, the gems had never seen two gems of different types fuse before. However, BD was not at all curious about Garnet as a fusion. She simply ordered Ruby be shattered for fusing with Sapphire. BD acted like she knows about fusion, and doesn’t want others to know about it.

RQ seems more curious than BD, but still acts as though she has some background knowledge on the topic of fusion. She offers some relatively solid advice to Garnet that almost sounds like its coming from someone with first hand experience of sorts. But that’s debatable, as her word choice is a bit vague, and relies more on Garnet answering her own questions.

Why then would BD want gems to not be familiar with cross-type fusion? Perhaps the Diamonds recognize that “Fusion is just a cheep trick to make weak gems stronger.” Except with gems of the same types, the fusion would just be a larger version of the same gem, with all of the strengths and weaknesses of the base gem. But maybe cross-type fusion is more effective, and therefore more of a threat. Probably because different gem types can cover each others weaknesses.

In Message Received, Peridot explains that unlike everyone else, the Diamonds are flawless. Of course some of this was just because she was likely fed some sort of Diamond Authority propaganda all through her life. I’d guess though that it comes from some bit of truth, otherwise how would these Diamonds be able to rule for so long?

My theory suggests that perhaps the Diamonds are all fusions. I’ll qualify that a bit after I explain generally why I think so.

The Diamonds are huge, sizes we’ve only seen fusions come close to.

They’re powerful, supposedly well rounded gems

PD is gone, but no one has suggested she was shattered

BD doesn’t want gems to cross-type fuse

The question now becomes Where are the other gem stones on the Diamonds?

My suggestion is that they aren’t anywhere. They aren’t hiding or conveniently covered. Rather, each Diamond only has her one gem, the one in the locations described earlier. How is this possible? I’m not completely sure, but my currently guess is that two gems with their gem on the same location of the body can fuse, but maybe it takes more pressure? The result though, is not that the gems would go side-by-side but along with the rest of the gems, fuse together.

This would explain why Diamonds have comparatively much larger gems than others. YD’d Pearl is closer to the screen than YD herself is, and still YD’s gem is more pixels tall.

Now to get to the point, why do I think RQ is one of the gems who makes up PD?

Peridot doesn’t know what kind of gem Steven is. Its possible she doesn’t know about every kind of quartz since she’s a relatively young gem, definitely created post-rebellion. This suggests that RQ is SUCH an uncommon gem, that there may only be one of her. Although only one of not, that doesn’t affect my theory much.

As already stated, RQ’s gem is located where we would guess PD’s is, although its the wrong shape.

The show has completely avoided showing us any depiction of PD. Not on the moon, or the sky arena, or anywhere else. There has been a clear omission of PD’s form. Likely because if we were to see PD we would quickly come realize something important too soon for the plot.

There’s also a lot of little indications of RQ/Steven to be royalty or something of the like, the ones that fueled the original RQ is PD theories.

So now who was the other gem who was a part of PD? Do we have any way to guess this?

How did RQ’s gem which is circular, look like a rhombus as PD?

Did RQ shatter the other component of PD, or did she let the gem go?

Does RQ have a plan for if she wants to have the authority of PD again?

The pink Bismuth looking gem found bubbled inside of Lion’s mane, has been lion around for a while, completely unanswered.

Its shape is very angular, which is what RQ’s gem is missing from the shape of a Diamond’s.

Its possible that Rose Quartz and Bismuth once were constantly fused together, their gems combined together to form a rhombus, as Pink Diamond.