They created literal slavemaster beings. Agates. Literally programmed to be the most awful thing imaginable. They created literal monsters. They had a program template designed specifically to be horrible.

"An Agate Terrifies"

And now that the Gem Wars are over, they have no place in the universe. Being literally created with an obsolete and horrible purpose.

I think that was a major missed opportunity to explore someone like an Agate learning how to heal from something like that. If that's even possible. The philosophical implications would be really cool.

  • crime [she/her, any]
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    2 years ago
    spoiler

    Steven's mom was considered a war criminal for having shattered Pink Diamond. However, we later find out that she was actually Pink Diamond larping as a quartz soldier (in fact created the whole Rose Quartz cut of gem just to give herself an alias.

    Pearl was her Pearl, and was made to help fake PD's shattering so she could live on earth as Rose Quartz forever. PD gave her a magically binding order to prevent her from ever talking about it, so none of the other gems knew (and Pearl of course has A Lot of issues in part due to that).

    This caused the other three diamonds to retaliate by trying to wipe out all the rebel gems remaining on earth.

    Edit: oh yeah and movie spoilers

    spoiler

    She also was given a gem called Spinel as kind of a jester/pet/servant, then got bored of her, then told her they were playing a game of "stand and wait" and left her on a deserted asteroid garden for like 5000 years