Can we have a thread to discuss Pearl's origins?

why

>Every time a Diamond gets sand in her vagina, a new Pearl is born.

My favorite theory is that she was originally created for White Diamond, but sheduled to be discarded for her imperfect, ovoid shape.
But Rose requested to be given her instead, seeing as she was Pink Diamond's personal bodyguard (another theory substantiated by her abilities being defense and healing) and standing in high favor.
As such they served under Pink Diamond for some time, Pearl serving as a pilot for at least Rose's transfers; potentially ferrying around Pink Diamond, too.
All of that changed when Rose rebelled and they stood against Diamond Authority.
Then she became Rose's terrfying renegade Pearl.
PD's fate is probably enough of a theory complex for another time.

I honestly don't think you're THAT far off.
She is very obviously different from the other gems. She's probably an artificially created gem. Like the gem version of a robot.
It's why she can do that whole hologram thing the other gems can't do, and why she CAN'T shape shift the same way the other gems can.

That's fan fiction
Hardly a theory
Not uninteresting
Just not likely

this is how its gonna go

pearl's diamond : im assigning you to rose guard her with your life

pearl obviously took it literally

Right
It would be funny if it was space clams

That would be pretty week

Pearl is thousands of years older than Rose. It's impossible that she was discarded straight away. My guess is that her first owner died and that's how she was given to someone else; Rose.

Honestly it would be funny if they are indeed formed in giant space clams and if there's a particular planet where this has to happen since not all planets have an ocean AND clams in the same way that earth does.

Not quite so.
Pearl has been called defective by Jasper and Peridot because her shape is off.
Rose has done nothing but collecting oddities of Gems around her.
Pearl does have a pilot uniform with PD's symbol on, but she does not have her colors.
And she has been getting very much emotional about it, which could indicate that she did it for a long time. And we have seen that Homeworld uses non-specialised Gems to steer spacecraft. The Rubies did it, Peridot did it. Stands to reason that a Pearl would be flying her master around.
Rose's abilities are extremely well-suited to protect someone, or heal a cracked Gem. Unlike other Quartzes she does not really have offensive abilities, doesn't do spin attacks or anything.

It is a lot of speculation, sure. But it puts the pieces together to form a complete picture.

Where did we hear that? I had just assumed that imperfection was simply not tolerated, which would likely mean summary shattering.

Look how cute Pearl was in a waiter's uniform.

>you will never dine at a maid cafe-esque restaurant where Pearls serve you

>Where did we hear that?
Pearl saying she was already thousands of years old when she learned how to fight.

Having an oval-shaped gem isn't exactly an imperfection either. Have you see actual imperfect pearls? Ovals have symmetry and are the very least still round.

They're basically robots....come to think of it has Pearl ever shapeshifted?

Pearl has never shapeshifted on-screen, no. I have plenty of headcanon about why, but it could honestly be anything from "she finds it pointless and doesn't do it" to "something PTSD-related."

>Pearl has been called defective by Jasper and Peridot because her shape is off
When did Peridot call her defective? I'm pretty sure she calls her "fancy."

she can change outfits, and outfits are parts of gem's bodies, so technically yes, she can.

Pearl is a "fancy one" according to Peridot.

My theory is just Pearls don't have that function.

My theory is that her prior owner made her shapeshift all the time, so she purposely avoids doing it now. Is there any real basis for this theory? No. I just like it.

Those are two very diferent things to say.
We have no idea how long Pearl and Rose knew each other before the war.
They could have been in Pink Diamond's service for a long time. You know, flying among the stars, as Pearl put it.
And the other Pearls we saw are perfectly spherical, which means she is clearly off-spec.

Let me look up what she said exactly.

Didn't she say something else too?

I think she can but she refuses to shapeshif for some reason.

Rose was made on Earth which already implies she's a fairly new gem. Going by Garnet's words; 5700 years ago, Earth was still a "new" colony. So I wouldn't put Rose's age past 7000 years old. Whereas we have evidence that Pearl has a.) fought for 6000 years and b.) she was already "a few thousands years old" when she started fighting. At the very least she's between 9000 and 12.000 years old. Way older than Rose.

I don't see why she'd lie about that though

Pearl being super fucking old is an interesting theory. Maybe she was the first Pearl ever created.

They are Diamond pearls exactly for that reason though. Their pearls are perfetly round which is rarer to find, they are of higher worth in the pearl business as well.

Pearl's pearl isn't perectly round, discarding the possibility that she was a diamond's pearl, but her pearl is oval-shaped. In the pearl market, these oval-shaped ones are the 2nd most valuable after the perfetly round ones.

This would explain why, despite Pearl not being a diamond's pearl, Peridot calls her a fancy one, because she is still a highly valuable pearl.

Pearl shapeshifted into Rose in front of Greg. Calling it now.

So, she probably belonged to the gems that are second-in-command of Homeworld. What type of gem do you all think is second to a Diamond?

Quartz soldiers maybe?

Or maybe even an overpowered Lapis Lazuli.

Quartz soldiers are in the upper middle section of the hierarchy, it seems, but there has to be much higher bureaucratic ranks than quartz soldiers.

I can think that if a Quartz soldier acquired one hell of a feat, that they'd be given a pearl as valuable as Pearl but not quite as valuable as a diamond's pearl.

We don't actually know Rose was made on Earth. In fact, it's pretty unlikely. She told Pearl "we can never go home." This implies they both came to Earth.

I think you may be taking Bismuth's line too literally.

Rose was a Pink Diamond gem. Earth was Pink Diamond's colony. Every pink diamond gem we know, Jasper and Amethyst were also made on Earth.
And yes, I take Bismuth's line quite literally; she was made RIGHT HERE in the dirt"
I think all gems see "Homeworld" as their real home, that's why I think she said that line.

Pic related are the most valuable gem stones.

Pearl's owner could be anywhere among these gem stones.

Only Jasper said that and she never said why she's defective, I'm assuming it's all to do with the colours on her outfit, her theme doesn't give any indication as to what court she belonged in.

Calling it now, the second-in-command to the Diamonds are Beryls.

>The homeworld originally wanted to colonize earth because it had clams
>Rose rebelled because conquering planets just for fucking clams is goddamn idiotic

Jasper called her "lost defective" pearl, lost as in she has no owner, defective as in she's a pearl that fights and doesn't obey orders from a master. That's my interpretation at least.

You are right. She called Pearl "common" at the end of Back to the Barn. My bad.

That is still just speculating on vague numbers, though. No saying you are wrong, just that it's a lot of things only vaguely in relation through different people talking generally about rough estimates. And this also ignores time distortion relativistic speeds. If they should have thought of that.

She did not look at her Gem for that, though. She checked the dress for some reason, walking to her backside. Possibly something to do with the ability to emulate cloth convincingly?
Also all Gems look like cut stones, not natural ones. And they don't seem to have any variation in shape.
Yes, if we were talking real-world pearls, then you would have it right.
But Gems are clearly not that. They are produced.
Pearls that massively off in shape seem a strange idea after a large number of perfectly cut Gems and precisely one ovoid Pearl to two perfect ones.
By the way the Gem is placed, she could have been "made to order", as Peridot put it, for White Diamond and come out below the cut. Which could make her still good enough for lower ranks as an award.

I always assumed it was because of her gem placement

Other Pearls we've seen all have gems in their collarbones like pets.

The placement matches the placement of the Diamond's gem. They're literally perfect in both cut and where their gem rests in their physical form.

We don't know that Rose was made on earth or when, we just know that she was made in the crust of a planet like every other gem. It's likely that she was made on Earth shortly after Pink Diamond was.

You're assuming that because pearls are produced that they will come out perfectly since that's the mission. But similar to how real pearls are produced, the shape of the pearl depends entirely ofn the cirsumstances around the formation of it, whether it's a perfectly round one or a mishapen one is something that can't be influenced by outside forces.

Just like you also have holes in the Kirdergarten that are more perfect that others. During the process of when a gem is made, there isn't an outside force that can directly influence it, just wait and see how they turn out.

The diamond pearls coincidentally popped into existnce as perfectly round pearls, and that's why they were chosen to be the pearls of diamonds.

Also, the clothes that pearl wears could perfectly well be influenced by her value as a pearl, as well as her ability to create clothes in all kinds of colors ranging from yellow to blue to pink, I've never seen wear anything white.
As for this, take Garnet and Amethyst as an example when they shapeshifted into Steven, they were unable to amulate his colors and could only stick to their usual colors, purple and black for Amethyst, red and black for Garnet, other colors aren't in their range of availability. I assume that Peridot thought Pearl was a fancy one because of her multi-coloredness since not all pearls are capable of doing that.

maybe
but its not like only Diamonds could have Pearls
could have easily just started as Rose's

Peridot also says that Steven was made on Earth because he's a Rose Quartz. Peridot wouldn't be wrong about that, she is literally a walking library.

Rose was made on Earth, that's why she loved the place so much. Amethyst says that she fights for the Earth because she was made there. Jasper is just tsundere for the Earth.

We do know. We have verbal confirmation from 2 gems. See and Bismuth. The only evidence you have against this is that she calls Homeworld "home" which isn't so weird at all considering the name of the place is literally HOMEworld.

Ok. Would you losers watch this if the crystal gems were men?

Wouldn't that make Steven a gay sex baby?

No way, that shit would be gay.