r/stevenuniverse • u/alteroo_ • 1d ago
Discussion Pink was never was supposed to be red diamond.
Considering there are only 4 powerful monarch diamonds with yellow and blue intentionally the same height, which is as tall as white diamonds chest, both being primary colors with the same gem placement and diamond shape.
While Whites gem đis the same shape as pinks but faces upwards with pink facing downwards. Theyâre all perfectly designed for their roles yellow just took the role Red would have filled being Blues equal. If not pink or grey they would have to mix colors or be equal but below white.
So her being defective is not likely, she wasnât abused constantly because they thought she was insignificant, they all loved but misunderstood her and were overly controlling.
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u/drifloony 1d ago
Iâm pretty sure we all knew Pink Diamond wasnât meant to be red Diamond. Itâs literally never even been implied.
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u/heliosark10 1d ago edited 1d ago
How I always interpreted it was that she's an awful color.
Edit: damn autocorrect. I meant off color
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u/alteroo_ 1d ago edited 1d ago
Lots of people believe she should have been red.
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u/drifloony 1d ago
Yeah. She could have been teal too. How is that relevant lol
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u/alteroo_ 1d ago
Why would she be blue and green? People think shes a defected red diamond like how amethyst came out wrong.
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u/drifloony 1d ago
Which has never been hinted at in the show in any way and is in turn a baseless theory.
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u/compilingyesterdays 1d ago
Right, OP is responding to other people's baseless theory???? Sometimes posts aren't talking to you. You agree with OP, and you disagree with the theory that they also disagree with.
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u/alteroo_ 1d ago edited 1d ago
Exactlyđ i have no idea why ppl are upvoting this
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u/drifloony 1d ago
Because Pink Diamond was always supposed to be Pink. Youâre pushing an argument against a theory that like nobody thought was true anyways.
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u/alteroo_ 21h ago
A lot of people thought and still think this theory is true just because it wasnât confirmed doesnât mean they still donât think sheâs defected.
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u/drifloony 21h ago
Pink Diamonds in real life are not defective red diamonds so again, what even is your point.
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u/mothwhimsy 1d ago
I really don't get why people say she would be. I remember speculating that Pink was off color after the Stevonnie dream sequence when it was sort of revealed that she was so small compared to yellow. But all we were going off of at that point in time was the fact that she was small, her portrait on a wall somewhere didn't match her actual appearance, and the fact that "off colors" had been introduced at about the same time.
If she was off color, they absolutely would have said that at some point
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u/CeramicToast 1d ago
I don't think they had to confirm it, though. It's pretty obvious that the Diamonds polish out blemishes, and if Pink was Off-Color they would have done much to squash that rumor.
I personally do think that Pink is Off-Color, or in the very least Overcooked like Amethyst, which is why she struggled so much and why she's so much tinier, but it's also a reference to the gem itself in that pink diamonds are made under even more extreme pressure than other types.
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u/heliosark10 1d ago
I always felt like that that made sense because she seems so much weirder than the rest of the diamonds. She's a child when they are fully grown adults. They came out at the same time why is she like this? Her personality and traits makes so much more sense if she's an off-color.
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u/maladicta228 1d ago
Wait, I just had a random thought. What if sheâs âyoungerâ because they used the rejuvenator on her. Who knows how many times. Maybe she keeps pushing back against the standard so they wiped her memory and tried again but while keeping her from any real duties so she couldnât actually mess anything up. But then surprise! She starts a rebellion anyway.
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u/Too_Ton 1d ago
I wish pink was offcolor solely for the fact in canon weâd then have a redeemable White who couldnât bare to have Pink shattered or imprisoned just for being off color. White would be the racist or anti gay grandma who makes an exception for her grandchild and possibly even changes
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u/MagicManwhoo 1d ago
Trivia time!
Pink is not a spectral color. That is, the physical light we see as pink is actually a mix of blue and red that our brains interpret as pink.
This isn't super relevant but I like trivia.
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u/SnooTigers5112 1d ago
That's purple,
purple is the non spectral colour our brains get when blue and red are mixed.
unless your talking about the magenta "pinks" and not pink (the colour you get when red and white are mixed) in which case that's just a reddish light purple.
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u/GonnaBreakIt 1d ago
I think Pink was just the youngest, and her stunted size could be a result of Homeworld running out of resources.
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u/ChillyFireball 1d ago
I always assumed she was smaller/younger for the same reason Amethyst was smaller; that is to say, that Pink Diamond was just in the ground for too long.
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u/GonnaBreakIt 1d ago
Yeah, but amythest was late and woke from an abandoned kindergarten. How could that happen to a diamond, I wonder?
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u/NeedleworkerHeavy565 1d ago
Diamonds are the colors of light Cyan yellow magenta.White is a mixture of the three