A/N: Pink knows these words now but not then. She's just translating her observances into something you, the reader, can understand. She also did that with the primeval dialogue.
I'm also trying to make the least assumptions as possible, so sorry if the other diamonds appear flat.
At first, as Pink's eyes were forming, all was light. As her matter started solidifying, she soon felt the walls of her hole pressing close on her body. It felt comforting and constricting at the same time.
But when Pink was done coming into being, it went dark. This frightened her slightly, and so she closed her eyes, wanting the light to come back. Eventually, it did. But it didn't come from her. It came from outside her hole. It seemed interesting, though. So she stepped out.
And there was beauty. Above her head was a tall mountain, perhaps a thousand times her height. A few steps ahead of her was some water. She walked over to it. It was completely still, with only two lily pads upon the surface.
Pink leaned down, and was shocked to see that it now reflected pink, instead of of blue and grey. The thing that was new moved when she moved, but when she tried to touch it all it seemed to do was cut itself in circles and get her a new sensation.
She tried to wipe it off on the ground, but all it seems to do was was get dirt on her finger, somewhat getting rid of the sensation. She then wiped it against a leaf, and was satisfied to see that most of mud came off, as did the rest of the sensation. (Wetness)
A noise whistled through her ears, lifting her shoulder length ringlets off her neck. It was pleasant, but soon gone.
A thought suddenly struck her. She was Diamond. She didn't know where it came from, but that was her. She laid on her back, watching the wind stir the otherwise motion- and soundless forest. It felt good to know who she was.
Then, near dark, she heard another noise. The sound of something else moving. And it wasn't her.
Pink looked around, and saw another. It didn't look exactly like her, a different color, but it had the same amount of appendages and such as she did. Still, she kept back.
The thing waved its left arm at her. It pointed at her belly, where her gem was, and then at itself where it's own gem was. She now saw. This thing, it was like her!
The thing pointed at itself and said, "Diamond".
But that was her! She quickly copied the motion, and made gestures at herself. The thing seemed to realize what she was saying, and then It pointed to itself. It said "White". Then it pointed at her. "Pink". And that was the start of her life.
Over the next few days, she met two other things, Diamonds,like her. One was named Yellow, and another was Blue. The names were so blatant, but they worked well currently.
They all built shelter together, because sometimes the wind was annoying, and their emerging holes were all on different sides of the mountain, so they couldn't all be sheltered together. Blue had emerged first, walking around for 3 days before she stumbled upon White emerging. The pair of them walked around for another couple of days when they saw Yellow running around. And then they found her, Pink.
Eventually, the shelter was built into a comfortable living space. Yellow went out daily to chop wood for the shelter and fire. White stayed home and cleaned and improved it awhile the others were about their business. Blue and Pink helped do this initially, but then Yellow's discovery was made.
Yellow was at first in charge of chopping the trees down. She had found a large stick and a reed and a sharp rock, and had tied the rock and stick together. When you hit stuff with it, it eventually fell over or splintered into more manageable pieces.
One day, Yellow took her out to chop with her, because the wind seemed to be getting colder and they needed more fuel for what Blue called Fire. It seemed to warm their shelter, and it was fun to watch.
Yellow was showing her how to chop, when suddenly a big part of the rock chipped off.
"That's the third time it's broke this week!" Yellow exclaimed angrily. She threw it to the forest floor.
Pink, not sure how to calm her, said, "Why don't you make a new one?"
"Because I'm angry. I just... Want to chop stuff!" A big glow came from Yellow's gem, and suddenly, a better, improved version of the ax came into being.
Its blade was sharp, with a design of triangles upon the shorter part of the blade. Sort of rounded, but it was on a long handle.
"Go get the others. They may want to see this."
And from then on, when Blue saw the sophisticated ax, she was dedicated to finding all the limits and powers of gems.
Pink was a different story. Blue had her own little shed to work in, hitting herself and her gem and occasionally shouting of success. Sometimes she needed Pink to come heal her (her healing powers was their second discovery), because she crack her gem, but otherwise she kept to herself. Her biggest discovery was if you hit anywhere except the gem hard enough, they would poof and retreat into their gem.
Yellow was off gleefully cutting down trees with her new ax. Only her and White were at home anymore, and White liked to spend a lot of time by herself when they were done cleaning. It was extremely boring.
One day, when Pink had gotten done sweeping that day., she went over to see Blue. Occasionally she likes to test the others to see if they could do what she can.
But Blue was busy. "Why don't you go find someone else to bother?!" Apparently she had been busy trying to pull out an ax of her own.
That's a silly question, Pink thought. "But there is no one else!"
"How do you know? Go away and look, or something!" Blue then shut the door in her face.
'Is there others? Is there more to life than the 4 of us?' Pink wondered.
So she went back the house. She made a deal with White: if she did White's chores for the next month, she would be allowed to go the next month. Pink wasn't sure why she asked permission, but it sort of was just... Expected. White agreed, and it was a plan.
So Pink swept, dusted, and maintained the whole house for a month. Then, she was ready.
Pink set off. All of her sisters waved as she left, and then the distance between them became long, and so she looked forward.
Spinning and twirling, she wandered through vales, hills, meadows, and saw lots of different plants and beautiful sunsets and rises. But no one was there. Nothing else moved, besides wind and rivers, except for her. It sort of disturbed Pink.
Then she started to wonder whether this was all real. One time she had thought she had seen Yellow sneaking up on her, but when Pink turned around no one was there. But it was worse.
Loneliness was horrible. And so she started talking to herself, in the rhythm of her plodding feet. Soon she had formulated something she called a song, and it helped ease the desolateness of her quest.
So when Pink started hearing something that wasn't her, or a river, or the wind, she had thought that maybe it was time to turn back. She had gone too far, and should get Yellow to come with her. Yellow made the dark seem smaller somehow, and less threatening sometimes. Maybe she could scare this weirdness in her brain away.
But then she saw movement. Pink was starting to think that maybe she couldn't trust her senses anymore, but she ran after it anyway.
It took her into a jungle, and up a large tree. It took her a while longer to climb up to the top. By the time she was up, it was gone.
Or so she thought. Pink was making her way back across what she called the Stonies, a largish mountain range that was only a few days journey from that jungle. But then she saw it. It was following her, from a distance. She only noticed it because the wind changed and she smelled something different than what was around her.
She whirled around, and an reddish streak quickly moved behind a tree.
"Hi, I won't hurt you. My name is Pi-"Pink tried to say, then felt her words fall flat when she realized that it probably wouldn't be able to understand her.
Every time Pink tried to get close to it, the thing moved away. Eventually, she gave up and laid on the ground, slightly winded. Out of anger and frustration, she started humming, a sort of singing with out formulating words. She had been humming for several minutes when the thing started humming too.
It slowly crept closer to her horizontal body, and laid down near her. It kept on scooting closer to her, until Pink knew that they had reached a pivotal moment.
If Pink reached out now, she may scare it away. But if she didn't, it might go away all the same. So, tentatively, she reached out the the smaller thing. The motion scared it, but it soon came back to her. Eventually, it laid beside her. Pink introduced herself as Pink Diamond. After figuring out how pink did that, she said Carnelian. She soon followed Pink all over.
Pink eventually, after a few days or so of teaching Carnelian to talk, heard her story. She had been born alone, and when she heard Pink, she got excited and started following her. Her gem was on her tail, a strange appendage that seemed to help her keep her balance but also seemed to be a bit bothersome.
One time Pink asked Carnelian why she wasn't named Diamond. She couldn't give an answer.
They eventually reached the house. The other diamonds were astonished to see such a gem. Blue was surprised by the tail, and immediatly asked her to explain it.
White offered her a chair, a new invention they had made while Pink was away. It looked like Yellow had simply just gotten a thick log and kept half of a taller part, but she didn't complain. It helped her dress not get dirty on the ground.
The other diamonds peppered her with questions, a little fast for Carnelian understanding, as she had only been speaking for a few days. After the night passed, Pink looked over at her friend and realized that her sisters were overwhelming the poor thing.
She stood up, and said " My fellow Diamonds, I think what we need to do now is get her a room of her own, for some privacy. You all remember what your first few days were like. She can have my room while me and Yellow create her own."
The others, realizing their mistakes, agreed. Yellow apologized by patting poor Carnelian on the back. Unfortunatly, she didn't check her strength. That was always one of Yellow's flaws. She knocked Carnelian over, so hard that she slid into the wall and created a sort of dent in the log there, and also in the process poofing herself.
Everyone stared at Yellow. She shrugged. "If she wasn't so weak, that wouldn't have happened. If I had done that to you, you guys would've only reacted a little! I guess she isn't as strong or advanced as we are."
Pink thought about this. It made sense. After all, if she wasn't a Diamond, it was reasonable to assume that Tiger wasn't as good as them. If one isn't strong, then they aren't anything.
Hey guys! So this is my origin story for Rose Quartz, in the Universe of United I Stand, the best darn Rupphire story ever written, by Cavedwellers. This is sort of fanfiction for fanfiction.
Just to make things clear, Pink Diamond= Rose Quartz, in the past. And this is the story of how she gets over her prejudice and has the Rebellion