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Since I haven’t posted in a while here’s a quick doodle of the best dog!
So I was going back through all the diamond scenes ( ~for research~ ) and I noticed something interesting and sad.
As far back as her non-flashback introduction in “Steven’s Dream”, Blue Diamond refers to Pink Diamond by name.
In contrast, Yellow Diamond never says Pink’s name in the timeline proper. With Yellow, it’s always “she” or “her”.
This is a nice little detail that highlights the difference in how Blue and Yellow cope with their grief: Blue clings, Yellow erases. Blue is denial and depression, Yellow is anger and bargaining.
Then “Reunited” aired. Things changed.
Aside from Stevonnie’s “Jungle Moon” dream, this is the only time Yellow Diamond ever calls Pink Diamond by name. And this reference to her lost sister/daughter is accompanied by a miserable, crushing sense of guilt.
No wonder Yellow tries so hard to obscure Pink’s memory—to avoid every mention of her and what happened to her. She holds herself personally and exclusively responsible for Pink Diamond’s demise. The only way she can attempt to move on from her self-blame is to forget about Pink.
But she can’t. Her excuse to come to Earth may have been the Cluster, but the first thought of hers Steven accessed was about Pink Diamond. For a gem who has a lot on her mind constantly (and was in the middle of a battle), this suggests that she thinks about Pink way more often than she lets on.
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