#(but this is the default of what happens according to this blog's verse where Rose is alive!)

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♦ REVOLTWITHLCVE’S VERSION OF DIAMOND DAYS EVENTS ♦

So fair warning, THIS IS REALLY FRIGGIN LONG. But if you want a low down of how Diamond Days occurs in accordance with this blog, than read on through!

- Begins very similarly to canon, with Rose revealing herself to the other diamonds when she realizes its the best way of keeping all her friends and family safe. Yellow and Blue, too relieved to see Pink alive, don’t question her too thoroughly about the rebellion itself and Rose takes the opportunity to try having them use their powers to heal a corrupted gem. Upon seeing the huge progress that was made when the three of them work together, she comes to the conclusion on her own that in order to make a permanent cure, she would have to face White Diamond and this makes her nearly outright refuse to go through with it, her fear of White so rampant that it almost blots out her concern and guilt over the corrupted gems. Steven however is able reason with her and convinces Rose that she needs to at least try, and at last she guides everyone to her old ship so that they can all prepare to leave for Homeworld. Back at Beach City, Rose tells Connie and Steven that they shouldn’t come, humans in space are very vulnerable and they could very easily get hurt, but Steven is insistent that he’s a Crystal Gem too (having been trained with a specialized gem device that mimics Rose’s shield), and that he and Connie were insistent on coming whether she liked it or not. And thus, the whole crew goes off to Homeworld, Garnet, Pearl and Amethyst pushing through any animosity they feel towards Rose for the sake of the corrupted gems.

- Upon landing on Homeworld, Rose is horrified when she sees Pink Pearl cracked and being controlled by White, having been unaware of her old Pearl’s fate. While caught off guard by this, it only serves to make Rose angry when she’s brought to White and she attempts to confront White then and there, more stubbornly refusing to be interrupted but she is still sent off in an orb to her old room, White all but ignoring her. While this does surprise her (as she’d been expecting a punishment of some sort, this making her realize how strangely White was acting), Rose is still very angry and upset, and is a crying mess by the time she notices the pebbles running around. It’s through the pebbles and reconnecting with her old friends that she’s able to calm down enough to be more rational about the situation, and it is then that Pearl arrives in her room. The two have a somber conversation at how little things had changed on Homeworld, and Rose asks Pearl if she had been aware of what happened to Pink Pearl (this can be elaborated in a thread). This eventually leads onto Rose being summoned to Yellow’s sauna.

- This is the first instance of Rose trying to tell the Pearls to call her Rose instead of Pink Diamond, but this of course doesn’t end well and she instead plays a joke and tells them to call her Lasagna then. In the sauna, Rose has a conversation the centers around White and how much she’s changed, Rose realizing that she hasn’t seen or talked to anyone in person in millenia. This eventually goes into Rose saying “Maybe you should try failing.” which gets a laugh out of Yellow who’s remark earns her a very fiery glare from Rose, but Yellow doesn’t seem to notice. From here Rose is summoned to see Blue, and already back in a very foul mood, she rants to Pearl about how “Yes, literally nothing has changed. Right back to ignoring and belittling me.”

- With Blue, it’s a little less tense, if more so awkward as Blue tries to bring up fond memories of the diamonds spending time together. This leads into their conversation being around why Rose left, to which Rose is quick to grow more quiet and stoic as she solemnly states “Why should I say? You wouldn’t understand nor care anyhow...” (How things proceed from there could be in a thread). This thread of discussion is soon interrupted with Blue having to leave as well, though she does state firmly “We will talk more on this later” to Rose before she leaves. Rose returns to her old quarters with Pearl, her frustrations from having to reopen old wounds making her gradually more upset as she asks about where the others had been put, especially Connie and Steven. Pearl goes off to retrieve them, as Rose retreats into her old secret room with the pebbles and nostalgically goes through her old belongings.

- When Steven and Connie, along with the other CGs are brought by Pearl she’s quick to make sure they’re all comfortable with the help of the pebbles, though before Steven and Connie go to sleep they ask her to tell them about the other diamonds and her exact relation to them. Its here that Rose goes into her past as a diamond (her creation for example) in front of everyone, eventually reaching the point where she finishes with “And one day, I just... decided I wanted to stop being Pink Diamond. That wasn’t who I wanted to be anymore.”

- Rose does decide to attempt having a ball, as she recalled that White used to attend those and wonders if this nostalgic event would perhaps coax her back out. She is of course more familiar with how the balls are run, but it’s Steven and Connie that get B!Pearl and Y!Pearl to talk about their interests and hobbies, which becomes far more interesting to Rose than planning anything and Blue comes in at this moment of distraction. The two fall into having an argument about Rose looking the way she is (she hasn’t gone into her old uniform as Rose), and having the others accompany her, Rose vehemently insistent that the children stay near her and that her friends be allowed to come, and coming to Garnet’s defense when Blue begins to criticize the fusion. Garnet still decides not to come, and its in that moment after Blue departs that Rose and Garnet actually talk for the first since Rose revealed herself to be Pink Diamond. Rose doesn’t try to sway Garnet into coming to the ball, it’s moreso about her apologizing for Blue’s behavior, and that Garnet had to come to Homeworld at all and deal with this type of treatment (this then extends to everyone else as well). In turn Garnet says she knows this all has been very difficult for Rose too, and says that she would much rather be with them all to help instead of being back on Earth. Its here that their friendship starts to show signs of mending.

- During the ball itself, Rose plays along with her old role and regulations, Steven and Connie being seated next to her and whispering comments with her throughout the whole event. Though she does take time to make funny faces with Amethyst along with a mouthed ‘I’m sorry’ when she sees Amethyst had been forced to wear limb enhancers. She grows far more remorseful when she spots Ruby and Sapphire in the crowd, though Steven helps to comfort her and keep her focused. With Yellow and Blue however she doesn’t respond to them, instead pretending to stay focused on the ball’s events. When White doesn’t end up coming to the ball, Rose falls into a far more morose mood, quietly wondering if fate would repeat itself and if she’d be forced back into her old diamond lifestyle again. Steven and Connie now work together to try and cheer her up by making her dance, which Rose ends up going along with mainly because she’s sick of doing everything by what White wants.

( tbh I’m not sure what should happen next, I haven’t established that Rose could fuse with Steven or considered that train of thought, but who knows. Either way she does something to upset White, Blue and Yellow and gets tossed into the cell, all while holding Steven and Connie close since the others have been poofed and Rose doesn’t trust leaving them alone with the other diamonds the slightest bit. )

- After trying everything to force the doors to open in desperation to get Steven and Connie to safety (she knew how long Blue and Yellow tended to keep her in there and the fact that Steven and Connie would starve and get dehydrated if she didn’t do something), Connie and Steven fall asleep to rest leaving Rose to her own thoughts, where she decides to attempt contacting Bismuth on Earth to send help. She’s hesitant about this, knowing that Bismuth doesn’t like nor trust her, but with Steven and Connie’s lives being in danger Rose goes through with it anyhow, and astral projects herself into Lion. Through Lion she is able to communicate to Greg first, and with his help gets Bismuth’s attention as she writes in the sand that the Crystal Gems were in trouble and needed help. Once she knows for certain that Bismuth clearly understood, its then that Rose pulls away from Lion’s consciousness and returns to her gem.

- Rose does her best to keep Steven and Connie as comfortable as possible, the three of them discussing Rose’s past occasionally and other random things to pass the time. When Blue comes in Rose’s first concern is that Blue let Steven and Connie get food and water. This devolves into Blue getting upset about ‘Pink’ making up excuses again to try and earn Blue’s pity, to which Rose reacts with growing anger as the two argue and it culminates to the point of Blue saying “Why do you care about these organics so much?”, and Rose responding with “Because they actually love and care about me, Blue! Which is more than I could say for you!!” From here she begins crying, actually speaking her true emotions to Blue as she describes how whenever she did something Blue or the others didn’t like, they would all just toss her in her to be alone and in the dark, they would all just forget her when she was in pain. “I was always there for you when you cried or were hurt Blue, where were you when I needed you most?!” The rest of the conversation follows a similar line to canon, where Blue comes to the realization of what Rose was talking about, why she had changed so much and left, and eventually decides to help her and her new family return to the safety of Earth.

- In the confrontation against Yellow, it centers primarily around Blue and Yellow while Rose, Steven and Connie work to rescue the poofed CGs. When Yellow begins to shock Blue Rose finally intervenes by protecting Blue with her shield, and telling Yellow that she has to stop. The conversation following this is very similar to canon, where Yellow says they all have to work according to White’s expectations, that she has to do this for the sake of a perfect empire, which Rose then questions with “Does this look perfect to you??” Steven’s the one that brings up the porkchop and hotdogs line, which Rose elaborates on as Blue agrees with her and mentions that was how they had lost Pink in the first place. When Yellow collapses and begins to cry, both Blue and Rose go to her for an embrace, Rose feeling spurred to comfort Yellow for the first time in a very long while.

- Now with all the diamonds working together, they run to Pink’s ship where White intervenes by taking control of it with her own ship. Bismuth, Lapis and Peridot come to the rescue in Blue and Yellow’s ships, and at this moment it can be seen through their expressions that Bismuth and Rose are beginning to come to an understanding, when Rose genuinely thanks Bismuth for coming and Bismuth states “Couldn’t just abandon you guys here.” When Yellow and Blue insist that Rose takes their ships and leave, at first Rose looked ready to go through with that, but just as she turns to leave she freezes and realizes that to run after going through all this, after finally having gotten through to Yellow and Blue and connect with them after so long... she couldn’t run away. She had to see this through, abandoning Blue and Yellow to deal with White wouldn’t be right and so she sternly says no and comes to stand with the other two, saying that they all had to talk to White, at least try to make her see that the way things were right now were wrong.

- The attempt at speaking with White goes as expected, and the crew are sent tumbling down with Rose going after her friends, pleading with them to wake up until eventually she first fuses with Pearl and realizes that fusing was how she could help the others emerge from their gems. From Pearl she goes to Amethyst and fuses with her to save Ruby and Sapphire, and lastly is able to save everyone from being crushed under the ships foot by fusing with Garnet to form Sunstone (same name but different appearance and personality of course). After unfusing and Rose having a much needed moment of bonding, relief and friendship with the others, they finally form into Obsidian to climb White’s ship to directly get to her head. Steven and Connie work together with Bismuth, Lapis and Peridot to distract the hands and ultimately wind up in the grasp of Obsidian, who reaches the ship’s head before being crushed and forced to separate. Connie and Steven fall further down, but assure Rose that they’ll be safe and will follow the others soon after, so Rose and the other CGs go on into White’s ship.

- Finally confronting White, Rose attempts to talk to her and reason with her, though ultimately that ends with Amethyst, Garnet and Pearl all falling under her control as White tells her that she surrounds herself with flawed gems merely to make herself feel better, feel higher than someone. Rose combats this with saying, “No, that’s what you do! You keep saying everyone but you is flawed and imperfect, but that means you’re worse than I am! At least I know I’m flawed, and I’ve accepted that I can’t be perfect! You’re just forcing yourself into a warped delusion!” At this point Steven and Connie enter the room and briefly fight against Pearl, at which point Rose begins to try coming to their aid and but stops when she’s faced with Garnet and Amethyst and having to fight them. Eventually Steven and Connie are brought in front of White, who then suggests that it was from surrounding herself with lowly organics that ‘Pink’ had gotten these thoughts into her head, and stating that they were a bad influence is about to kill them when Rose panics and completely lashes out, throwing Garnet and Amethyst off her and diving on top of the children as a wave of a pink wall erupts from her and pushes nearly everyone back. Rose is furious, and holds the children close with a thick shield around her as White begins trying to zap her with her light, growing increasingly frustrated with ‘Pink’s’ stubbornness and using all the controlled gems in the room to attack her at once. This hardly does any damage to Rose’s shield as she protects Connie and Steven, and it is in that moment of desperation that she realizes something she could do, something that would force White to see the situation outside of her perspective, force her to feel some sort of emotion. She knows initially, this was something she never would have done in the past, but with the children in danger, with her friends and family in danger... she had no choice.

- Leaving a protective bubble around Steven and Connie as the rushes out, dodging around the blasts of white light that were aimed at her, Rose leaps up at White Diamond’s chest and forcefully fuses herself into the elder diamond’s light, combining their minds and hearts into one being that initially writhed and lashed about before collapsing to the ground, the hold White had on the other gems breaking as the fusion fell into an immovable trance. Inside the fusion, White and Rose’s conciousness’s clash with each other until Rose finally manages to break through the wall White had forced around herself, and shares her thoughts, emotions, and memories directly into White. All this, along with Rose’s desperation for White to just listen and the surprising, long buried love she’d had for White finally stun the eldest diamond, enough so that she finally stops struggling and allows Rose to say her piece. Now with the two having their minds fully conjoined, emotions being felt directly with each other as they spoke, the two are finally able to reach a moment of bonding, this being the moment where Rose sings “Change Your Mind” as the two unfuse into their separate forms once more.

- At first there is a lot of tension in the room as Rose and White return, though it seems that Rose’s attempts were successful in rousing a change of heart in White, a remnant of Pink’s aura remaining within White as she now glowed softly with a pink light. From here White shows the deep uncertainty and strain she had with having to be flawless, her identity now feeling broken with the emotions she could no longer keep at bay. While everyone else was shocked and didn’t approach her, Rose comes forward surprisingly, and the two share a tender moment of confiding and comfort. This, finally, helps White agree to come to Earth with them and assist in healing the corrupted gems.

- From here it follows canon fairly closely, where the four of them go into a pool while bringing all the corrupted gems they’d collected over the years and watching them return to their original forms. At long last Rose genuinely feels happy, hugging and embracing all of her old friends, crying with them, and especially holding Pearl, Garnet, Amethyst and Steven close when she can. When it comes time for the Diamonds to leave, Blue extends the offer for Rose to return to Homeworld, even if she knows that Rose will likely turn it down. Rose does, explaining that while she’s happy that the four of them were on better terms, her true home was Earth. She does however state that the three of them were welcome to visit anytime they liked, tenderly saying that it would mean a lot to her if they could take the time to. The Diamonds leave, and Rose spends the rest of the evening celebrating with the other CGs, Greg and Steven, Steven staying close to Rose as the two mainly spend moments quietly enjoying each other’s company and singing songs.