>>126759636Pearl being the killer demolishes everything home world's caste system stands for in one fell revolutionary swoop. There is no such thing as "ONLY" an anything, they're all people, with feelings and ideas and direction and potential. And their strength is in their bonds.
Pink diamond staging her death just reinforces it all.
Rose, Pink's #1 general, is the only one who treats Pearl like a person.
Rose gets chummy with the humans.
Rose gets pulled into Pink's palanquin to explain failing to solve the "human infestation" problem.
Rose gives a Peridot-esque, OptimusPrime-esque speech about how they should stop colonizing and let the humans live or at least coexist.
The Tyrant Brat Pink goes to shatter Rose for disobedience/defectiveness.
Pearl surprise attack shatters Pink. Her last look is one of supreme disbelief.
Pearl collapses, distraught at her actions but sobbing that it wasn't right, Rose was a good person, she didn't do anything wrong, she couldn't just... stand there and watch her die.
The guards are alerted by the sound. Rose tells Pearl to flee, that she'll take the rap. They come in to see a crushed diamond and a general that was called in for reprimanding with her sword drawn and making a poorly acted villain speech about regicide to buy time. She fights them to a nonlethal poof and escapes herself.
Homeworld never figures it out because a rose quartz shouldn't have been able to take on a diamond in a brute force head-on attack, and of course that's what she did she's a quartz they're not known for subtlety. Until the trial when zircon brings up the surprising lack of a pearl attendant in either the survivors or the corpses, and she's immediately silenced as the remaining diamonds realize what occured and silence her immediately even though she's barking up the wrong tree because of what such an event implies. The sapphires didn't predict it because just like with garnet, they couldn't foresee with calculations breaking programing over love.
