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About your Pink Diamond post:

We see two forms of Pink Diamond in 'A Single Pale Rose'. Her original form as seen in the flashback in Jungle moon, the 'Circle-Shoes Elf', and Rose Quartz, the form she gets when she rotates her gem to go Incognito.

Neither of these two forms is 'Titan Pink'. Pink Diamond was born overcooked, like Amethyst, with a form remarkably smaller than all the other diamonds. Yellow Diamond towers over her in Jungle Moon, making Pink seem like some kind of small annoying vermin. Pink's natural from is a little taller than Rose Quartz, but only a little. She's nowhere near Diamond Size.

We see Pink is a runt both in Jungle Moon, and the tower flashback in 'Change Your Mind'. This was definitely the form Pink had before coming to Earth. The flashback of Titan Pink is on Earth, this was a later form.

Titan Pink, seen so far only in the flashback in Gemcation (but hinted at in Garnet's other flashbacks in 'Your Mother and Mine?') is Yellow Diamond-sized. She towers over the assembled Crystal Gems like a monster. And she has a traditional four-sized Diamond gem, like the other three. This is a THIRD form for Pink Diamond, and can't be explained by gem rotation. There is no way to rotate Pink's gem to make this four-sized shape.

But unlike her innacture flashbacks in 'Your Mother and Mine', Gemcation's flashback shows Titan Pink being witnesses also by Pearl, Bismuth, and several other Crystal Gems we're not yet familiar with, as well as Garnet herself. Pearl's right there in the house, if Garnet's story was wildly innacurate, she would have said something, or at least tried to. So the Gemcation memory is very strongly corraborated by the other CG's.

Which means there's some chapter of Pink's story that we're missing. Shapeshifting cannot explain Titan Pink, because a gem's material core cannot be shapeshifted. Someone messed with Pink's gemstone itself. And it's hard to imagine anyone with both the power and motivation to do this, other than White Diamond.

Now, White didn't shatter Pink, remember how surprised White was when Ligth Steven came out of Steven's gem.

And remember in 'A Single Pale Rose' when Pink rubbed some dirt in her hands to create a fake rose quartz gemstone shards that looked just like hers, showed them to Pearl, and Pearl said they were very convincing? A match to her own?

There's a shade difference between Pink's gemstone in 'Jungle Moon", which is a very light pink, and Pink's gemstone in 'A Single Pale Rose', which is dark pink. Something that I accidently threw into sharp contrast when I put both on the screen here: https://youtu.be/DADtNXeF0nw?t=1887

So Pink was actually shattered for real before her 'Fake Death' in 'A Single Pale Rose', and had already given her powers to the real Rose Quartz before this time.

She was already two beings that were one being, and fusing with Greg upped that number to 3.

The scene where Steven gets his gem removed makes the point that he hasn't been poofed, he's simply been split in half. With see what Light Steven sees on the left side of the screen, and what Human Steven sees on the right side.

Human Steven has Steven's love and compassion. While Light Steven has all of Steven's power. This why Human Steven calls out to Light not to hurt the others when he counterattacks, because Light Steven isn't pulling any punches, and is striking with the same absolute determination that White Diamond is.

White Diamond realized that she was wrong about Steven, when as The Pure Force Of Perfect Intellect she shouldn't even be capable of being wrong. But she was. Then, when she didn't get her way, and nothing made sense and she had a tempertantrum, Steven said "I am a child. What's your excuse?" to the oldest of all the Diamonds. And that made White Diamond blush.

White Diamond still has some compassion in her, but she's been pushing it down, blind to it, feeling that it's somehow a flaw, even when this is the very thing that gives Pink Diamond her strength.

All four of the Diamonds are parts of a larger being. And there's some of each of them in the others. Even White.

So when White realized that she wasn't perfect, that perfection itself was a myth, she stood down and releazed the others, then did what she could to fix the mess.