Blooming Rose: A Pink Diamond Character Study

No More than a Nuisance

Perhaps the only way in which Pink Diamond could live with herself was in blissful ignorance of how much of a nuisance she was to everyone around her.

When the other Diamonds looked at her, they most often thought of someone else who, at this point, was a well-known cautionary tale throughout the Gem Empire. Stories would go round and round about a Halite, a subordinate involved with colonization who, at first, was only an annoyance in that she overworked the Gems assigned to her in the ever-growing Gem org chart. However, soon enough, she would find herself wanting more and more, and it was only a matter of time before she lost sense of the aforementioned org chart and took it up with her superiors, and from them, the Diamonds with unmeetable demands.

Like a wart on the feet of organic beings, Halite's desire for things would grow out of proportion. After the Diamonds had blocked any and all direct communication with her, she would find increasingly creative ways to contact them, and after the demands were not met, they would return with ever-greater scope and arrogance, up until she demanded to uproot the system outright and instate her as the overseer of all colonies of the Empire. In the end, classing her as an instigator of rebellion, they had no choice but to shatter her.

After this, the power of gossip muddied the story, to the point where the Diamonds, themselves, seemed to forget the exact details. Did Halite accidentally shatter her own subordinates, demand that the Diamonds "repair" them, and then, shatter them again? Did she end up colonizing the wrong planet of the star system and then arrogantly refuse to admit her mistake? Did she or did she not have others who had joined her cause, and did she even have a cause, or did she just demand for the sake of demanding? There was no way to know, and the Diamonds didn't particularly care about an old story.

Yet, no matter how outrageous the stories about Halite got, Pink seemed to be everything she was rumored to be - and worse.

Not in the sense of wanting more and more - Pink only really fixated on the fact that the other Diamonds were colonizing and conquering worlds in the name of the Gem Empire, whereas she, herself, had not received a single colony. Yet, where Pink lacked in raw ego, she more than made up for in... inelegance and silliness.

It would have been nothing if these were either isolated incidents, harmless ones, or both. However, with her own presence and seeking of the mysterious "fun" force, Pink was seriously threatening the integrity of the Gem Empire. The physical destruction that her escapades caused, whether direct or indirect, had to be taken care of in order to maintain the pristine looks of Homeworld and the other planets before any new conquests had been made, and at some point, the Gems in charge of fixing it might just declare it to be enough.

And yet, there wasn't much that the others could do. A grandiose personality change, that would be required to bring Pink in line with the other Diamonds, was pretty much unprecedented, and as one of them, she needed to be there for her court. And besides, they couldn't just shatter her for another reason: if they did that, then they would, by necessity, have to admit that she was fallible, and what applied to her would apply to them, too. The integrity of the Gem Empire depended on the unwavering authority of the Diamonds, and the Gem who challenged that authority wasn't going to be any single one of them.

So, for the time, they beared Pink, knowing that Gem history, written by them and taught around the empire, would vindicate her as the beacon of her own set of virtues, one way or another.

However, in the face of all of this, Pink was not even remotely unfazed. After all, she only saw not getting a colony, at any point in her life, as just a minor hiccup, and otherwise, she basically had the time of her life. Though the others would initially be annoyed when she brought up anything else, over time, she and her closest guardians, Blue and Yellow Diamonds, developed games to play. And though they were thoroughly annoyed by having to turn away from colonization in order to tend to her, in the end, they still appreciated her, right?