Pink Diamond

Pink Diamond Nickname(s)

Pink
Starlight (White Diamond)

Alias Rose Quartz Characteristics Species Gem Sex Sexless Gender Pronoun She/Her Traits Complexion Bubblegum pink Hair Pale pink Eyes Deep pink Gemstone Pink diamond Gem Type Diamond Professional Status Affiliation(s)

Gem Homeworld (formerly)
    The Great Diamond Authority (formerly)

Occupation(s)

Matriarch (formerly)
Head of Earth colonization (formerly)
Guardian (formerly; secretly)
Leader of the Crystal Gems (formerly; secretly)

Alignment

Homeworld Gems (formerly; publicly)
Crystal Gems (secretly)

Personal Status Status Deceased Friend(s)

Pearl (former servant)
Pink Pearl (former servant)
Pebbles (former servants)
Spinel (former servant)
Blue Diamond (formerly)
White Diamond (formerly)
Yellow Diamond (formerly)

Media First Appearance

"It Could've Been Great" (pictured)
"Jungle Moon" (dream)
"A Single Pale Rose" (official debut; flashback)

Music Theme "No One Can Know (Pearl & Pink Diamond's Secret)" Voice Actor Susan Egan Less Others like you also viewed Rose Quartz Rose Quartz Steven Universe (character) Steven Universe (character) White Diamond White Diamond Pearl Pearl Blue Diamond Blue Diamond Spinel Spinel Gems Gems Pink Pearl Pink Pearl Steven Universe Wiki Steven Universe Wiki This article is about Pink Diamond. You may be looking for her alter ego.

No one can ever find out we did this. I never want to look back.

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Pink Diamond was a Homeworld Gem and a member of the Great Diamond Authority that continued to rule over the Gem race in her absence.

Originally in charge of Earth's colonization, she took the form of a Rose Quartz after her fellow Diamonds refused to allow her to abandon the colony and spare life found on the planet. As her plans escalated into an all-out war, P

Appearance

Pink Diamond had bubblegum pink skin, deep pink eyes with diamond-shaped pupils, and pale pink hair. Her hair was styled in a voluminous, fluffy bob around her face. Her lips were accentuated with hot-pink that emulated lipstick. Her gemstone was located on her torso where a human navel would be and appeared in the shape of a convex pentagon (being an inverted-side view of a round-cut diamond). Her physical form's projection was significantly smaller than the other Diamonds but she still towered over lower-ranking Gems.

Pink Diamond wore a cerise half-skirted leotard that displayed her midriff and gem in a pentagon-shaped opening. She had pink-and-white puffy sleeves and wore elbow-length cerise gloves. Her half-skirt was also pink-and-white atop cerise un-paned breeches with white pantyhose. Her shoes were pink ballet slippers with floating white pom poms. Her outfit resembled a ballet dancer and harlequin. Regeneration (Debut)

After being poofed by Pearl during the climax of the Rebellion, Pink Diamond chose to reform as her rebel alias, permanently adopting the name and identity "Rose Quartz."[1] This was the only time Pink Diamond regenerated with a different form.

Personality

When a Gem is made, it's for a reason. They burst out of the ground already knowing what they're supposed to be and then that's what they are, forever. But you, you're suppose to change! You're never the same, even moment to moment. You're allowed and expected to invent who you are! What an incredible power! The ability to grow up...
Rose Quartz, "Greg the Babysitter"

Pink Diamond evidently appeared to be bubbly and over-friendly, possessing a worldview much like that of her human son Steven's. She had a bright, positive and adventurous personality that wanted nothing more than to explore and have fun with her fellow Gems. Her growing love for the life on Earth and efforts to save it from the other Diamonds seemingly matured her, even fighting against Homeworld and gathering the Crystal Gems. As seen when she fought as Rose Quartz she was courageous, fighting on the front lines of the war which unfortunately caused heated arguments between her and Pearl. Now We're Only Falling Apart (132)

Unlike the other Diamonds and even before rebelling, Pink rejected the Gem hierarchy and was extremely informal with her servants. She treated everyone equally, being somewhat exasperated at Pearl's overly formal nature and instead acting as her friend. She wanted to greet and play around with her Gems emerging on Earth, saying how happy she was to be "fitting in" with the Prime Kindergarten Amethysts without them gesturing through the Gem salute while she posed as a Rose Quartz. As seen in her discussion with Pearl in "A Single Pale Rose", Pink was excited and happy about leaving her life as a Diamond behind, living rather happily with her friends after the war for thousands of years in which she told a younger Greg Universe she never missed her previous home or life.

When the stories about how she first ruled over Earth as a colony were told, Pink was portrayed by former rebels as being a mercilessly cruel tyrant who callously laughed at Rose Quartz's pleas to spare her colony from eventual destruction, yet a surprisingly massive coward as she immediately called for help from the other Diamonds when faced with outright conflict. It could be implied this would've been true had she gone down a much darker path, though she may have spread these stories herself. As Rose Quartz, she hid her true nature from everyone except Pearl, the one who originally suggested she take on the form of a Quartz to begin with. She later made her swear to secrecy so none of her other allies and not a single one of her enemies knew of her real identity. This continued for thousands of years after the war until Pearl revealed the truth about her fake shattering. Change Your Mind 036

Though she was playful towards them and wished for their happiness as mentioned in "Change Your Mind", Pink seemed to have a dim and jaded view on how her kin White, Yellow and Blue Diamond viewed her. This might've come from their frequent scoldings, her feelings of never fitting in with Homeworld, constant punishments for little acts such as letting alien worms loose in the Diamonds' Palace and how her pleas to spare Earth always fell on deaf ears. In consequence, Pink assumed her fellow Diamonds didn't care for her so she wouldn't be missed if she was gone; something which led to her faking her shattering but inadvertently the corruption of many Earthbound gems.

In spite of her optimism, centuries of repressed trauma had left Pink with the capacity to be short-tempered, immature, shortsighted, and over-emotional, often to the point of inadvertently causing destructive tantrums and even shunning her previous relationships to cover up her own past. This was shown when she angrily punched a glass panel of Yellow Diamond's jungle moon base, damaged her first Pearl by screaming, abandoned Spinel for several millennia in her garden, and left her human son Steven to deal with the fallout of her mistakes 6,000 years later. In spite of her selfishness, she cared for both her friends and Earth, the very reasons she fought for both. Overall, her kindness and fascination with humanity's ability to grow and change stems from her desire to change from the angry and selfish being she was.