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people on the internet seeing Pearl, an indescribably ancient self made warrior struggling to deal with a very complex love deal, the sudden death of her beloved and having to care for a child and basically invent those caring instincts on the fly while growing as a person in radically new ways, mourning a person she thought would be around for literal thousands of years to come, compressing all those feelings into a tiny span of time that she normally wouldn't even NOTICE, all while being an alien entity struggling to understand the people around her: LOL CUCK MEME
EXACTLY. Like why?
And then it gets 14 thousands likes.
ohhh I love that!! I honestly don't think they'd make an error like that which makes it even more bittersweet. If only we had gotten to see them all together :(
thinking about how when pearl finally fell asleep for the first time, her first ever dream was about rose. of course it was about rose.
you mean her beautiful GREG✨
thinking about how when pearl finally fell asleep for the first time, her first ever dream was about rose. of course it was about rose.
thinking about how when pearl finally fell asleep for the first time, her first ever dream was about rose. of course it was about rose.
Some of you never loved/obsessed over someone so deeply, that you would rather stay on their side even in chains than let them go and it shows
i wish we got more lapidot content but this suffices because OMGGG🩷
Another Steven Universe drawing, I haven't been watching the show lately or anything I'm just feeling nostalgic I guess idk
she's a single mother. she's an emancipated former slave. she wears jeans. she wears ballet flats. she wears a leotard. she wears a leather jacket. she's a lesbian widow. she has C-PTSD. she's a master swordswoman and a confirmed killer. she's both neglectful and overbearing. she has an unspoken secret she swore she'd keep forever. she's healing her heart through the power of friendship. she runs red lights and tokyo drifts. she gets more trim than a barbershop. i didn't say her name but she popped into your mind didn't she
young steven fighting his older monster self, this took me so long i'm so slow 💀
Pearl's Room has fountains of water running
Pearl finds the sounds of water soothing.
Pearl finds the Sea soothing
Rose considered this when they decided their New home and the temple should be built next to the Sea.
Rose loved Pearl
Checkmate Atheists.
I love THESE OBSERVATIONSSS
my favourite pearlrose sketches by rebecca sugar, things i’ve noticed, & some headcanons
look at them matching in the top far right picture :,) they’re so lovely. the middle sketch at the top is of their pilot designs in 2011 or 2012, according to sugar on instagram.
i love the middle bottom sketch where pink asks “what do you think?” and pearl is surprised. she’s always been different from her family, from homeworld. they’re quite young, and although they were not close yet, they witnessed each other’s trauma because they were always together. even early on, they sympathized with each other. we see pearl’s sympathy for pink in change your mind & now we’re only falling apart.
one thing that i find sweet about their relationship is how they showed affection for each other in gem ways and human ways. no matter what they learned, they also never stopped or lessened gem ways of showing love. they fused very casually (i.e., we need to talk) thousands of years later. this was particularly special because pearl told steven in fusion cuisine that she/garnet/amethyst only fuse in emergency situations. in the bottom left image, rebecca writes that they started fusing a lot after their escape.
it’s special that they were each other’s very first fusions, especially since it happened after pearl’s confession and it was a symbol of love rather than being for a fight. it was the gem version of a first kiss; fusion is the ultimate connection between gems. it was also the first fusion between a diamond and a pearl, an incredibly significant way to demonstrate they were against homeworld’s beliefs.
their intertwined fingers represented mutual respect, care, and affection, no matter what homeworld thought. on top of being each other’s first fusions, they were most likely each other’s first handholding, kiss, you get it. first love on earth experiences. as they began building their life together in this new environment, we see some of the things they’ve learned together about love on earth.
the halloween sketch is from 2014, and the chemistry between them is so interesting. the body language shows that they were both very comfortable with having a physical relationship. at this point, pearl is completely confident and flirtatious as rose says shhh. pearl seems to enjoy rose’s bashfulness. another aspect of their dynamic demonstrating that it went against—and was nothing like—something they would have if they shared any beliefs with homeworld’s. along with rose’s “my pearl” in the episode rose’s scabbard, their relationship was very much one between two individuals. which really reflects what they were fighting for together.
rose’s scabbard storyboard
here’s a picture i found from rebecca’s storyboards on the rebecca sugar/gallery wiki.
i just love the way that she looked at pearl. it said everything—the deep admiration, genuine love, and sad eyes because she was so in love with someone but she couldn’t love (let alone trust) herself. she clearly thought pearl was courageous, and brilliant, and beautiful… but she couldn’t see herself that way. this self-hatred rose had was confirmed by sugar in the truth about rose quartz and end of an era. anyway, the way that she looked at pearl reminds me of love like you.
& we see rose look at pearl this way many times, such as her expression in a single pale rose.
headcanons
forehead kiss sketch inspired a headcanon i have: i think rose liked kissing pearl around her gem placement. to pearl, it may have seemed like a simple physical gesture, but to rose, it secretly represented things, such as her admiration and love for pearl’s intelligence. it was also a comfort thing because she knew pearl had lots of troubling memories inside her gem (as steven witnessed in a single pale rose). as if she hoped her affection would find a way to pearl’s deepest and most painful memories.
i have another headcanon that pearl would show her affection by often resting her hand on rose’s abdomen near her gem when they were cuddling or hugging. to rose, it may have seemed like a simple physical gesture, but to pearl, it represented this reassurance that she knew and accepted rose’s dark secret. it was also this unspoken promise that she would protect her and be on her side, and she knew exactly what rose needed protection from. not only damage from a dangerous mission, but being discovered & found by the diamonds: rose’s worst fear.
i got this headcanon from the halloween sketch, but i know there’s more i could say about that.
(oh, did you think i had more headcanons about the halloween sketch? i absolutely do. but i’m going to end the post here.)
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