More #ExtinctionRebellion art. What is the lengths humanity will go to destroy and protect nature?

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You don’t need to always shiny Let me give you a hug

You don’t need to always smile Let me give you a Gently kiss

here have some more nonsense.

Someone requested a ‘master post’ of my mimic and minerva doodles so far.

I was thinking about how Yellow and Blue Diamond’s Pearls were not only made for them to match the Diamonds’ appearance, but were also made with a personality to compliment their respective Diamonds as well.

Like her Diamond, Yellow Pearl is also strict and temperamental. Although she remains subservient to her Diamond, she’s willing to bark at anyone else going against the rules (i.e. Peridot using the direct Diamond communication line)

So Blue Pearl…

She’s as different in personality to Yellow Pearl, as their respective Diamonds are to each other. Blue Pearl is very quite, and when she does speak it’s very softly, similar to Blue Diamond’s own gentle nature. When her Diamond is grieving, she kneels along side her.

But what does this all have to do with White Pearl? Well we’ve already made the observation that based on White Pearl’s gem placement and her outfit design, ignoring color, looks much more like a custom made Pearl for Pink Diamond. However, if the pattern of Pearls’ personalities being made to compliment their owners, Pink Pearl’s personality and behavior would be unacceptable from a Pearl by Homeworld standards.

If Pink Pearl were to be anything like her Diamond, her resulting personality could have ranged from being stubborn, impulsive, questioning. All traits that would have been undesirable in any Gem, let alone a Pearl.

Pink Pearl was made personally for her Diamond. She may have been “altered” by White Diamond upon meeting this Pearl, deeming this one unfit.

But then, why would White keep what would have been seen as a defective Pearl, an Off Color Gem?

To make an example out of her.

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.