I was just thinking about how, like, if Pearl is a sort of manufactured subspecies of Gem like we’ve been discussing then maybe she’s not technically a Gem but a facsimile of one. Like Pearl is her species rather than name? Something similar to Gems
tags: steven universe, the return spoilers, wild speculation, I doubt this is the case but I wanted to share because I've been thinking about it, nacre theory
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