Alright, so imagine you’re Rose Quartz. You’re impulsive, and you always do what you want. You fall in love with every earthling you meet. You’re especially fond of human men. You also have a pack of seven lions that follow you around in the desert. One day a Lions dies, as happens far too soon with all earthlings. You hold it in your arms, weep over its body and, intentionally or not, you resurrect it into a pink, practically immortal being. Eventually the rest of the pack dies, and Lion is left alone save for the times you steal away to visit him. You give him a belly rub and check on the many secrets left in his mane.

Eventually, even you will leave him. You are with child, and so you will die as his pack did.



The Lion is left alone in the desert for over a decade, waiting for your return. You never intended to make a huge amount of “Pink” animals. It would draw too much attention from the Diamonds. However, you at least intended to preserve the rest of Lion’s pack, or even just a single mate or companion. In fact, you probably would have preserved more life than you should have. You wouldn’t have the restraint not to. You loved them all too much.



Here’s the thing, though. You can’t. In resurrecting Lion, you created a psychic link between him and yourself. Still being new to organic life, you didn’t fully understand your limitations in your ability to heal them, but as each other lion in his pack fades away, you realize that this link can only be created once in your lifetime. Your gem simply doesn’t have the “hard drive space” to maintain a constant connection to your own little pocket dimension with more than one being.



Soon, your gem memory is wiped, allowing your son to exist. He creates his own link, with a human named Lars. The same Diamond essence courses through both of their veins, just as it does with Lion. They are always in tune with each other, even when they are far apart, but you are not because you are dead. Erased. You’re not there to explain the limitations of this power to your son. You can’t tell him that this is a link he can only create once. So, he allows humans to fight by his side, figuring he can always save them, until one day he can’t. One day, he will hold Connie in his arms, and his tears will do nothing.