Why was Pink so abusive?

Because she was a lesbian, and Steven Universe is a right wing show, so of course they'd reference abuse in lesbian relationships.

Call it a space rock, call it a space alien, it still walks, talks and emotes like a woman, so she is gonna be abusive as one.

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because the pearls probably didn't scream - look at how she talks about it to steven. she waves it off and laughs, and she probably did the same thing with pink.

Ego

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Always did wonder what happened to them

Their welfare ran out and had to get a real job working in KFC.

Pink's abusive behavior was primarily because she was self-centered, impulsive and never thought about the consequences of her actions. To her, punching a Pearl was more about needing to punch SOMETHING, and didn't think about how her power could easily shatter a lesser gem if she wasn't careful.

Pink isnt abusive she just had some anger issues, but blue and yellow never helped her with them and just ignored her. Pink reminds me so much of my mom, everything about her is the same.

I want pink to be real and come back so bad I miss her everyday, ive thought about telling rebecca myself, that I have never felt more depressed than after knowing pink was gone forever.

At first she didnt seem like much, I liked rose but never saw enough of her and then the episode where it all comes together and I see my beautiful pink space princess, words cant describe.

I have nightmares and breakdowns about her being my mother and leaving forever, its like an awful scar ive held since the day I saw her cute cotton hair.

I dont think ill ever move on. I waifu white diamond now, because the pain of waifuing someone who is for all intensive purposes dead before the series even starts brings me more pain. I love white with all my heart, my big towering monument of motherly love and of course aunty blue and yellow, but pink will always have a place in my heart that causes me great pain to think about, I can hardly watch the show anymore..

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Creepy

Is this pasta?

1) She’s like a Greek or Egyptian or Aztec god. Her and the Diamonds appeared alone, not knowing why they existed, who they were, who created them, or what they could do. When they started creating lesser Gems, they saw them like gods see mortals.
2) Each Diamond came up with an explanation of the meaning of life. White, due to her powers and the way light works, assumed she is the brainstem for all intelligent things as part of a hivemind. Yellow and Blue created the Gem religion that the Sun and Moon Goddess Statues hint at. Pink didn’t care about the why, and nobody could make her. As a result when the Diamonds began to Colonize to realize White’s ambition, Pink sat at home doing nothing and never learned the early mistakes the Diamonds made, leaving her behind and alone.
3) The Diamonds developed a cycle of abuse at some point. White became mentally ill, keeping her personality blank because she thought “White being sad would make all intelligent life everywhere stop working and start crying, and if lesser extensions of me feel sad then we all will” for example, so she enforced emotionlessness. She used her power to force Yellow and Blue to act as her proxies. Because she had no power over Pink who is immune to her control, White used Blue and Yellow to bully her as well as with a constant stream of belittlement and passive aggression.
4) When Pink realized that the only way to earn their respect, to “be loved” again was to do what Blue and Yellow had been doing. But they wanted perfection at this point, and were not forgiving of what was on par with their early stumbles let alone the fact Pink would make new fuckups. So they wouldn’t allow her to be a Colonizer for fear of wasting resources.
5) Each Diamond learned their own negative traits. White dominated others passively. Blue abused emotionally. Yellow abused physically. Pink lashed out uncontrollably, but also emulated what was done to her.

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Pink is the Diamond of Passion. But she is also the smallest and viewest as least-mature - the 'fun little sister'. That is very frustrating.

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One could absolutely blame her mental problems on her treatment by the other diamonds and she even responded to it in what's probably the best way to in that type of situation, which was to distance herself. She tried everything she could to fix herself, really but it wasn't enough. As I've said many times once women's hearts are broken they cannot be fixed. So she had a child and literally put all of herself into him in hopes that maybe he could be a better person and he is - but because of being half human or from having Greg as a father or just from being a man. Take your pick.

Ultimately it comes down to what lessons Pink learned and when.

She basically went from being a Greek God who may punish mortals arbitrarily or for amusement to a folkloric/helper spirit like Anansi, Prometheus, Rainbow Crow, Tam Lin, Utgard-loki, and Mwindo.

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Your sexist generalizations - which are either very subtle satire or worryingly earnest - undermine your argument.

Shine that light more on yourself

Pink learned the fragility of life, and loss, when she harmed Volleyball and lost her, seemingly forever.

Pink learned beings other than the Diamonds were people when Pearl started blurting out her fantasies of being a real rebel, being respected, being Pink’s equal. Something Pink had also been fantasizing about. How the moment she remembered herself she not only was terrified of Pink’s judgement, but was willing to destroy herself and throw the dream away at a moment’s notice to maintain Diamond order.

She learned Gems can choose to be something for real, not just play a game of pretend, when Ruby and Sapphire expressed desire to just be Garnet together.

The Crystal Gem celebrations and camaraderie made her realize how toxic the Diamond order was.

Bismuth’s betrayal made her see that any Gem could become just as cruel as Diamonds.

The Corrupting Light taught her that actions have severe and unintended consequences.

Finding Amethyst taught her that life does go on, and she was not unique in her experiences.

Finally Greg didn’t teach her anything. He challenged her to be better by wanting to grow as a young adult alongside her, something nobody else did. He had no expectations of her other than to reciprocate, and be open about her feelings.

What Pink did NOT learn was self-love or honesty. Straight from Sugar, Pink was so damaged from the Diamond lifestyle that she deeply believed at her core that she was weak, a failure, and evil. The Crystal Gems loved her fascination and respect for them, but she learned lessons from them slowly because her self-loathing caused her to adore them as being better than she could ever be, ironically. She learned deceit to protect herself from judgement and anger. She never unlearned it. She also lost the ability to trust long ago. Given her power of empathy relies on trust and openness, and when used dishonestly is just the bargain bin version of White’s power, she was worse because of it.

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why...why don't I remember this

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Steven knew most of Pink’s lessons asa child. But as a young adult he started making her same mistakes.

But ultimately his ability to speak from the heart, utilizing Pink’s power only to reveal he had no ulterior motives and let his emotions speak for themselves, is why he was able to reach Blue and Yellow. Why Lapis always trusted him, why Peridot saw him as her first friend. Why his relationships with the Crystal Gems were so healthy.

But these trends reversed. In the artbook Sugar says White is still mentally unhealthy, still depriving herself of a true life. Just not dangerous to others anymore.
The same kind of happened with Steven. His raw openness let others confide fully in him, and they made him their group therapist as a child. He spent so much time on them that he pushed aside all issues of his own, falling back on Pink’s behavior that he was so ashamed of in the same way. He even exhibited the abandonment and assault typical of Blue and Yellow against Jasper.

He did overcome that, since Steven has one thing Pink never did; an open support network. The reason the “group hug” worked is because it was each member of his family, who each had dealt with a problem he had in the past, reaching him. Without his past honesty they never could have done that.

To summarize, Pink is mostly a “little” shit because she’d learned really fucked up ways of living by being a self-raised god that was smacked around and belittled by her family. She did learn lessons and become better, but her past damage meant she had difficulty keeping real connections that were necessary to become what she had always wanted to be.
Rose Quartz was a metaphorical and kinda-literal mask she wore representing who she wanted to be, a perfect self. But the only thing that prevented her from becoming it was revealing 100% of who she was to those who cared, without anger or lies. The only way she could have really been Rose Quartz was to have been Pink Diamond.

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Its just kind of a few seconds to show how alien Homeworld is.

Sugar says the Diamonds and Homeworld is meant to be a Disney motif. Including using a layering effect to suggest cell animation on White.

The walls and things like Blue’s comb being Gems emulates stuff like Little Blue Coop, Little Toot, The Little House, shorts like Flowers And Trees, the Disney Christmas ones from the 40’s, the Sack Of Flour, and the various other living objects from those old cartoons. Along with some Mario and Legend Of Zelda feel.

She made sure in Future you see one walking around as a tourist. They also cut the living statues and bridges and shit.

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Hot.

The diamonds saw other gems as disposable and without individuality, Pink probably had to grapple with that mindset.