To Steven and Garnet, it matters quite a bit. So how much does it matter that much of it is wrong? Regardless of the facts, it’s a great story, an honest-to-goodness legend presented gorgeously. It gives Steven a version of the shattering that paints Rose’s actions as heroic-Lars, whose first huge character moment with Steven involved insulting his “weird mom,” thinks she’s awesome for doing it. And Amethyst only knew Rose from after the war, so like Steven she had to learn about it secondhand.Īnd so, a question presents itself: what’s the value of a story that isn’t true? In this episode, Garnet’s false narrative galvanizes the Off Colors in the same way it galvanized her for thousands of years. Garnet’s is what she saw with her own three eyes, so she thinks it’s accurate, but she’s missing critical information. Pearl’s is the most accurate, but she can’t tell anyone.
They can’t even get their own stories straight, adding to the mystery of a figure that Homeworld would do anything to disavow and vilify, but the three main Gems in Steven’s life also have different concepts of Rose. The distortion of truth that defines the episode is established by the Off Colors, who parrot three variants of Homeworld propaganda that mythologize Rose Quartz in the same way Garnet does, albeit for opposite reasons. It can be hard to look for flaws in something you’re actively rooting for, that you’ve tied your whole identity to, so she doesn’t. And when she really gets going with her story, Garnet shows the exact same level of breathless, blinding glee. She’s so happy with the idea of misfit Homeworlders escaping oppression that she can’t step back and see that they aren’t handling her praise well until Padparadscha says it outright (for the second time in three episodes, she displays her ability to “predict” the emotions of the recent past on top of the events). The most capable character to tell this story and believe it.Īnd her introduction in Your Mother and Mine hammers down why she believes it: when she’s excited about a cause that’s close to home, her enthusiasm overwhelms her usual calm. Learn that the other is bound to silence, so Garnet is Remaining Crystal Gems that survived the war and isn’t bubbled, and we’ll soon Garnet is the perfect narrator for the final depiction of Rose as we knew her before A Single Pale Rose. Even if you already suspect that Rose is Pink when you watch it for the first time, the fact that it’s not written in stone yet means there’s still a possibility that Garnet’s story is true, and the episode only becomes great when you know for sure that it isn’t. Which means that the episode’s major theme of truth versus fiction is something we can’t even comprehend fully without retrospect. We’re five episodes away from learning that Rose Quartz was Pink Diamond, and the episode after that is about Pearl correcting the version of events we hear right now.
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It combines all the pieces of Rose’s story that we’ve heard over the course of the series to give us a definitive take on the narrative just in time for it to be undermined. Your Mother and Mine is a simple episode made fascinating by its proximity to the truth. And the story is told by a character that can only reach her audience by impersonating the bearer of Pink Diamond’s gem. So on paper, an episode that recaps this information is redundant.īut Your Mother and Mind isn’t about Rose Quartz’s history, it’s about her story. And we know that after the war, her shield could only save two of her friends. We know that she ended the war by shattering Pink Diamond.
We know that she was drawn to Gems that Homeworld shunned, wanting to make sure everyone had a place. We know that she was “just another quartz soldier, made right here in the dirt” and rose to greatness by rallying fellow Gems to join her cause. We know she was a rebel who battled for many years against the forces of Pink Diamond. We already know the story of Rose Quartz.
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