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princefoxy042:

I’d like to talk about is White and her pearl and how similar they are along with her weird pose, but first, a thing.
White Diamond while talking to Steven is definitely putting on the Motherly “I know we’re in public right now but I will whoop your ass when we get home” Voice™ and no one can tell me otherwise

Now the Important Thing™.

Blue Diamond says at one point, “White hasn’t left Homeworld in eons”, (or something similar, I dont have the clip right now). And we also see that when they’re first getting to homeworld that the ENTIRE planet is cracked.

And that’s insane, right?

Well, here comes my theory. 

White Diamond is in a.. kind of a weird pose, huh?

She’s like.. T-Posing, I guess you could say. White Pearl is also doing the same.

Well, what if I said that it seems like they’re holding something up?

Maybe something round and spherical shaped, perhaps?

Like a planet? A cracked planet?

Yeah. Like Homeworld. And she’s been holding it together for eons.

Remember this? From the moon base?

Look at what is in White’s hands. Something spherical. And she’s holding it together, or maybe with force.

My Theory: White Diamond hasn’t left homeworld in eons because she can’t. She has to PHYSICALLY hold the planet together. She has to “Hold down the fort” so to speak. Much like a mother would, right?

jenhedgehog:

Remember this scene way back in Catch And Release?

We never got any sort of elaboration or explanation as to what “harvesting” (which is clearly something absolutely terrifying) actually is.

Let’s take a look at the definition of “harvest” for a moment:

If we look at the verb definition: of course, Gem harvesting isn’t going to be of the crop variety, nor would it be to prepare Gems for “human consumption”!

So, that leaves us with two other possibilites…

• remove (cells, tissue, or an organ) from a person or animal for experiment or transplant; or
• collect or obtain (a resource) for future use. 

If we consider the idea of removing cells etc from someone…

…that leads us nicely onto White Pearl here, who is very clearly missing an eye (which, for all intents and purposes, should be impossible for a Gem).  Is she missing anything else, perchance – like part of her actual mind?  The way in which she speaks is incredibly robotic, and her movement has an eerie stillness about it (as you can see in the above gif, she also just stares forwards with an unblinking eye). 

Does harvesting take a Gem and repurpose them into a different (perhaps more obedient) form – taking a part of their mind and/or physical form away in the process?

Could White Pearl have been repurposed from being Pink Diamond’s original Pearl…?

Their outfits are incredibly similar, and their Gem placement matches up.  Which begs the question – did White and Pink Diamond swap Pearls, leading to something quite horrific happening to Pink’s original Pearl (White’s current Pearl) for reasons unknown?

If White Pearl hasn’t had her physical/mental form repurposed, I have to wonder if she’s suffered a similar fate to Lapis – by which I mean, her Gem has been placed inside a shell and is being used to power a tool of-sorts.  In Lapis’ case, it was the mirror; in White Pearl’s case, could it be a robot that her gemstone has been inserted into and is now powering?  In other words, her actual gemstone was “collected or obtained or future use” (the other remaining definition of harvest), just like Lapis before her. 

This would perfectly explain how she’s been able to take some physical damage – as I mentioned earlier, this should not be possible for a Gem, but it would be possible for a robotic shell.  It also, of course, explains her strangely robotic speech and movement.  And ties in nicely to something that we’ve seen previously on the show (the mirror).