I’ve been thinking about this for awhile now, but the Crewniverse has done an excellent job of complicating Blue and Yellow Diamond. They’re equally:
• cruel, selfish, and despotic dictators
• beings who mourned a loved one for 6,000 years
• shatterers
• soft, occasionally playful, when it comes to Pink—vulnerable
• entrenched in unconscionable prejudice
• ignorant to horrors wrought by their hierarchy
• complicit in that ignorance for not caring to become knowledgeable.
It’s this kind of incredible nuance that makes it so much fun to root for this big assholes. Are they deserving of their comeuppance? Heck yes.
But can that comeuppance eventually culminate in an arc where they not only own up to their mistakes but actively begin to atone for them?
Heck yes to that, too.
The Crewniverse is not letting them off the hook by any means, but time and time again, they’re also denying a narrative concerned with one-dimensional villainnesses.
I do genuinely think the WD we saw in LFHTH is real; I don’t think she was a puppet or a projection. But my tinhat says White Diamond didn’t attend the ball in-person because she’s trying to hold herself together… literally.
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