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[skygiants]

OK, so I spent two hours standing outside on a volunteer shift with "It's Over" stuck on loop in my head, and then allchildren suggested that this episode might be foreshadowing Rose's return, which has led to the following over-analysis:

war and glory reinvention fusion freedom her attention
out in daylight my potential bold precise experimental

I'm not adding punctuation because I kind of like the mess of words/concepts, which could mean a whole bunch of different things; ‘this is a list of things that have happened to Pearl’ / ‘this is a list of things that Pearl was or believed she was fighting for’ / ‘this is a list of things that Pearl is still fighting for’ all have very different (though not mutually exclusive) implications

but then

who am I now in the world without her
petty and dull with the nerve to doubt her

is INCREDIBLY interesting, because while Pearl obviously seems to be thinking ‘the nerve’ as in ‘the UNMITIGATED GALL,’ boldness, we already know, is one of the things that Pearl has gained/fought for/is fighting for

SO

now I am suddenly desperately hoping for an arc in which Rose does return, and Pearl (and Garnet and Amethyst, but especially Pearl) finds, to her horror, that she has grown past the point where she can unquestioningly follow Rose; suddenly she's doubting Rose, and defying Rose, and maybe getting into enormous fights with Rose??

If we're very lucky, this will happen in song!

Comments

[sapote]

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.

[skygiants]

Oh man, ONE HUNDRED PERCENT a First Girlfriend. The AU really does pretty much write itself.