Rose is such a First Girlfriend, isn't she? Like, the junior to Pearl's closeted college freshman, who Pearl was sure had all the answers to the question of how to be in the world. And Pearl thought all the magnificent things she found out about herself while she was with Rose somehow belonged to Rose, not to herself.

There was a thing somewhere on tumblr about how you could easily write an AU where Rose was the organizer of the queer zine collective on campus, and Pearl came to college, started dating Rose, came out to her parents, and stopped going home for Thanksgiving. And then a Bad Communication Poly Meltdown, and the best thing for Pearl to do in a human AU would probably be to move to a new town where all of her friends weren't also Rose's friends, but in canon that would be terrible military strategy.