Was Pink Diamond A Defective or Off Color Gem!? - Steven Universe Theory

Just because PD may not have been as physically as imposing as the rest of the diamonds, but she was still just as powerful. She also shows extreme intelligence an manipulation skills. I would even goes so far as to say her miniscule size gave her an advantage. She looks fragile and sweet, and has also been eager to prove herself to the other diamonds. She may not have been the same size as the rest, but she wasn't wrong. If I had to describe her, I'd use the same phrasing as Bismuth: PD is a deepcut. The deeper you cut a gem, the more brilliant it shines, and has a lot more color/pigmented look to it. It's richer; almost more pure.

I always thought of Pink as an off color, considering her other diamonds are in fact the primary colors while Pink is not The color pink is more of a secondary color, a mixture of white and red, an off color per say, so the fact of Pink being an off color gem would just makes sense, at least in my perspective it does

Is this why Steven said "If it were me, I'd really want to be a giant woman" when Pearl and Amethyst formed Opal? Was that one of Pink's feelings surfacing? She could've felt that way because of how blue and yellow treated her because of her size and/or because of her adoration for them.

Well they say that a gems physical form reflects their mental state so what if Pink Diamond is just small because she had a child like state of mind at first? We have never seen Blue or Yellow Diamond when they were first made so what if they were smaller as well but grew and changed as their minds did?

i remember watching a video, i think it was this one, but it said something about her emerging AFTER her mural was painted, but i also realized that those circles in the mural represent the planets they have colonized, meaning the mural was painted AFTER she recieved earth. the two circles in her mural represent earth and the moon, and in everyone elses mural represent different planets

I feel like Pink Diamond’s court represented the misfits.... if she was a misfit, then those they deemed flawed went to her. That would explain why everyone, including other gems liked pink bc she took them in when they would have otherwise been destroyed. Like Jasper said, u have to fit in the diamond authority. Without pink, there is no place for those flawed. Idk, thats just what im 🤔 thinking right now. Even if pink wasnt a planned defect, they still could use her to toss aside the gens the other diamonds dont want.

I think as a Diamond she would have grown as she gained more colonies. After acquiring Earth she seemed to grow.

My mini theory is that Pink Diamond isn’t defective-but the other diamonds make her feel defective; that they make her feel like an inferior to them. She isn’t defective-but the other diamonds already have their own images of flawlessness imprinted into them at “birth”-and, I’m unsure if they feel as though that she fits their view of perfection as a diamond-thus why they treat her more as a child that a peer/equal So she could, potentially, see herself as defective or useless-like she can’t fit the shoes of being a diamond/strict Commander Akin to how Steven couldn’t see himself as able to fit/step into Rose’s shoes as the leader of The Crystal Gems-due to his already perceived view of what his mother was-a great, strong, dependable, and intellectual leader But, after some time, he saw that his mother wasn’t as great or as amazing as everyone painted her to be And, going back to Pink Diamond/Rose-maybe she saw the same thing as Steven did-she May have seen that the diamonds weren’t perfect-that they just put up the front of being perfect to their subjects within order to maintain power over gem kind And, upon her seeing this, she decided enough was enough And tried leading her way Which would be a really unique way for Steven to go-instead of trying to be Pink/Rose-he could lead The Crystal Gems his way-and try to make peace with Homeworld-instead of Pink’s view of just staying far away from it

I'm thinking that Pink is the product of the dwindling resources that Peridot mentioned. (If that is an actual thing and Homeworld wasn't lying about it.) It stands to reason that making a diamond cost far more than other gem types.

I believe that Pink Diamond was the most powerful of the Diamond Authority tetra; she can heal cracked and possibly shattered gems; she can control the rate of friction at which she fell based on emotion aka floating; she can also bend plant life to her will while also giving it humanoid form; all yellow can do is shoot lightning from her fingers INQUISITIVELY; I mean does yellows lightning even have a purpose other that wide range combat; does she have a power that may be suitible for HOMEWORLDS well-being other than violent occasions such as war or invasion; blue is able to bend peoples emotion to her will, but again what good can it do for the well-being of HOMEWORLD; only Pink Diamond and of coarse possibly White Diamond have powers that may prove useful to the difficulties yet to come on future colonized worlds.

I think one of the theory I still enjoy is that Pink was supposed to be Red Diamond, as well as normal sized like Yellow or Blue. If she came out smaller than expected and a different color, then the defective narrative would make more sense but...We don't have any evidence of that. If there's another flashback or something that explains the process of how to make a diamond or how specifically Pink was made, Then That would really help!

I'm surprised that people are not talking about the size change of Pink between Jungle Moon and A Pale Rose. Do Diamonds grow as they age? White is believed by the fandom to be the oldest and she is the biggest. Blue and Yellow are nearly the same size and depicted as the older sisters of their bratty younger sister Pink that White probably maded them babysit. We believe that the Diamonds popped out of the ground like the rest of the Gems just more powerful. Maybe they don't and that is a reason why they are more powerful. Why it was unthinkable that they could be shattered.

You know, I actually have a theory that Pink Diamond is not defective. Maybe she was supposed to be that size. And I think the diamonds size is caused by gem placement. The higher the gem placement, the taller. And since White Diamond has the highest gem placement, she is the tallest diamond. And Yellow and Blue are the same size because they have the same gem placement. And since Pink Diamond has the lowest gem placement, she is the smallest, thus therefore, making it seem she's defective.

Based on the size difference of pink diamond before and after getting her first colony I think it could be possible that the more colonies you have the bigger you get. I mean, white diamond is the largest and has the most colonies, blue and yellow are the same and have the same amount of colonies. Pink was the youngest and still immature, at some point she got earth, grew bigger and also seems a bit more mature (at least she is not throwing tantrums like in "jungle moon").

Pink Diamond is defective. She's defective by Homeworld's standards. It's not just her short stature. It's also in her character design. She is designed to look like a clown: The poofy hair, the poofy pants, the little poofs on her shoes. Clowns wore that. Another way she could be deemed defective is in her character. She's impulsive, a little (or very, depending on how you look at it) selfish, and doesn't always hold herself accountable. By what we've all seen, it's implied that Diamonds are meant to be calm, and collected. Diamonds are the leaders of conquest, and when you look at PD she doesn't fit the bill. On top of that, the other Diamonds have known PD longer than we have, and if they're treating PD this way then there must be something wrong with her, in their eyes. *However*, just because PD is defective, it doesn't diminish her narrative in any way. In fact, I think that the message is actually that "being defective doesn't diminish a person's importance or their brilliance." Another message could be that "you can be special in your own way; you don't need to conform to society's standards (Homeworld's standards)."

If she was so defective then how does she has so many powers

I think she is small on purpose. White Diamond is at the top of the insignia, and she is the largest Diamond. Yellow and Blue are both on the middle, and seem equal in both size and power. Pink is on the bottom, so her being small and having less authority than her fellow diamonds makes sense.

I love how u always think outside of the box :)

A Defective Gem is a Off Color gem Edit: "Detective".... I hate you google

I disagree with the idea that PD being defective/off-colored would take away from her message. So many other characters have done a lot and grown a lot in the series despite their more obvious defects and I think that's what the crew is trying to get across here--especially since we got Paddy, who has shown value despite what she does. Times like these, I remember when people thought Rose saying "my pearl" was looking down on Pearl as if she owned her, but Rebecca Sugar later confirmed it to be the opposite with the possessive "my" being a form of respect. Can never be too sure :) Another thing I was thinking about in response is... Veering off to another less concrete argument that relies on symbolism: the NFPA diamond has red in it and the diamond insignia closely resembles that, so that kind of has me wondering if Pink Diamond was supposed to come out differently. We also know unusually small size to be correlated with overcooking, like with Amethyst, so I don't think that PD's size might just had to do with the crew just wanting to make her Rose. Also pink diamonds IRL have warped structure from compression. Another thing is Yellow and Blue have obvious small flaws in their personality--with gems all saying the diamonds are perfect beings and the show illustrating ways they exactly AREN'T, I'm super curious to see White Diamond, because in real life the yellow and blue color of diamonds is due to the presence of impurities. Is White Diamond really perfect??? Haha