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Okay no one can convince me that it’s normal how awkward Pearl and Pink interact in Now We’re Only Falling Apart (before they bond later in the episode).

Diamonds and their pearls have similar personalities. Yellow Pearl is snarky and bold, Blue Pearl is shy and quiet. I think that Pink’s original Pearl, who was made for her, not “given” to her, had a personality like Pink. Pink was childish, playful, and obviously not very... Diamond-ish. 

Pink not being a proper diamond examples: - How childish and informal she was. - Trying to talk to Pearl like she’s just a pal -- I’ll get into that later - “None of that dumb salute!” (Now We’re Only Falling Apart, 5:24) - I mean, do you really need a lot of examples? I feel like this is common knowledge that she was not the perfect Diamond.

I think White Pearl was playful and childish, and not really... A proper pearl. Pink didn’t have a colony at the time, and it wasn’t like she could really be buddy-buddy with Yellow and Blue they were more mentor roles than “friends”. Not to mention they were busy with their own things. She was lonely, and White Pearl became the only friend she had. I think her and White pearl were more friends than anything professional. White pearl would call her “Pink” not “My Diamond”, she spoke freely (not when spoken to), she and Pink had conversations, laughing and messing around with each other.

I think White eventually found out. Don’t know why, don’t know how, it’s just what I think happened. She was pissed off that this pearl was so incredibly out-of-line, wasn’t what she was supposed to be. More importantly, she wasn’t a very good influence on Pink. Pink needed to grow up, to realize who she needed to become. They fed off of each other's immature personalities instead of having Pink mature. White Pearl got in the way of that when she was a friend, not a servant; blurring the lines of how powerful and authoritative a diamond was supposed to be, and where gem’s places were. White punished Pink’s pearl, decided she would fix her (I think as a warning to Pink), and tossed her own pearl to Pink since it wasn’t like she cared about her servant, and at least Pearl knew what she was and wasn’t.

Pink didn’t have a friend anymore, she had a proper obedient servant. And it was depressing. Maybe she even had some resentment to Pearl, considering her best friend had just been taken away from her. Pearl was confused, for thousands of years she tried to be the perfect servant that she had been taught to be, and yet she wasn’t doing her job of making Pink happy. She slowly lost the training that White had done to her (training through abuse I’m guessing since it was confirmed she’s abusive with her pearl). Pearl had become more awkward and insecure, more unsure of who she was supposed to be when every time she did what she knew, it didn’t make Pink... Happy. She was failing at her job and she had no idea why.

I think Pink made attempts to make friends with Pearl, after the resentment was gone since it wasn’t like she had anyone else. In We’re Only Now Falling Apart, we see one of these attempts. Pearl responds like she’s supposed to, asking for permission to so much as think and not realizing that Pink is attempting to have just... A conversation. She doesn’t understand what that means. And Pink is visibly not happy about the robotic answer she gets. She is basically silently saying “forget it...” as she drops the subject and goes back to what she was doing, once again failing to bond with the pearl she’d had for thousands of years.

With this theory in mind, I think the scene in the rose brushes at the end of that episode makes more sense. Pearl admits that she’s having un-servant-like-thoughts. She’s distraught about it, remembering what White would do when she was out of line. She goes back to her roots, telling Rose that she needs to be replaced. This is the first glimpse of what Pink wanted from Pearl. She wants a friend. She misses her old Pearl, she misses their bond. She hasn’t had that with Pearl, but now... After thousands of years, Pearl is finally becoming an individual. She’s not just a pearl. Not just a servant. She’s becoming a friend.