Tag: su spoilers

the-gitz:

So about that reveal from the newest Steven Universe episode, “A Single Pale Rose”- stop here if you don’t want to be spoiled:

If how I interpret Rose Quartz as being someone who genuinely meant well, but was very naive and had a childlike understanding of how to deal with conflict, not being able to fully grasp and realize how her decisions can have negative consequences on others, wasn’t already something I think is true, then what has just come to light gives me even more of a reason to think so.

Seeing the promo for the next upcoming episode/s this summer, it’s obvious the actions of Rose/Pink isn’t something other gems are just going to immediately shrug off and accept right away.

“Rose’s” reluctance to let Bismuth use the breaking point on the Diamonds makes all the more sense, in hindsight, too. As from what they’ve shown us so far, I think it wasn’t only so much that “Rose” didn’t want to shatter her own kind; but it’s very likely that deep down she still held out hope that her fellow diamonds would eventually change their minds about colonizing Earth, just as she herself did. (She also probably wouldn’t have wanted Bismuth to spill the beans about how her sword couldn’t shatter gems, but only poof other gems, which would give away her faking her death, too.)

Tl;dr: I still don’t believe that “Rose Quartz” was an awful or malicious person. I still think she more than anything had a very childish and short sighted understanding of how to deal with conflict and settling things, not realizing or comprehending just how much her actions would affect others long term; the reveal that she herself was actually the very immature Pink Diamond gives me all the more reason to believe this about her.

x-mochasippi-x:

The craziest thing about all of this is knowing that Pink wasn’t fully mature enough to know how much she meant to others like…!

She didn’t expect the diamonds to nuke the earth over her.

She didn’t expect her former soldiers to seek revenge against Rose.

She didn’t expect Pearl to base her whole existence on her.

She thought everyone would move on without her, that they’d embrace that newfound sense of freedom. She had Steven just to let him enjoy the feeling of growing freely, making his own choices.

She didn’t expect him to feel burdened by her too.

I honestly love Rose’s writing.

wakor:

First, she was built up to be this ethereal, flawless, loving being. Then that image cracked when the show began to show us that she was manipulative, hypocritical, and a liar. Either way, we were meant to believe that she was still intelligent and in-control. That her actions were calculated, and that her decisions were resolute.

But no. None of that was the case. Rose was a young, idealistic, inconsiderate, selfish person who never meant for this to happen. She wasn’t a cunning, inspirational leader who sparked a rebellion for liberation, she was someone who got caught in her own web and spent 2000 years covering for it. She spent centuries lying and lying and lying to the people who were dragged into a deadly war because she wanted to run away from home. And she could never, ever own up to it. 

Well, she could have, but she didn’t want to.