Dark: Yo, welcome to day 2 of the Halloween special!
Authoress: Quit stealing my shtick!
Moon: Does it bother you?
Authoress: Yes *pouts*
Moon: We own nothing except for this theory and/or our basis for said theory-
Authoress: No one cares about that *turns to you guys* have fun!
Heyyyyy, okay so this is a very controversial theory. Still, this is obvious. Regardless of Rose's desires, Pearl obviously treated Rose as her master and was blindly loyal to her. This was shown in sworn to the sword, with the famous "do it for him," song. Also, in the episode where they reunite Rose's sword and sheath, we get to see some of the interaction between Rose and Pearl that indicates slavery. Yup, that's right, slavery. How you ask? How could a kind lady such as Rose take in Pearl for the purpose?
It's simple really, Jasper specifically called her a "lost, defective Pearl," and she would know. Even Peridot talked about the low status of Pearls on home world. She called them "made to order servants," but what if one of those orders just happened to be defective? I would like to point out how Pearl's gem is slightly oblong. Now for some actual pearl knowledge. In real life, Salt water pearls are the ones who are large and round. Fresh water pearls tend to be smaller and have far more imperfections. Still, saltwater pearls can have them too, such as being oblong. Which isn't bad if it's very slight, but the further a pearl is oblong, generally the lower the value.
Now think about this: we saw with Amethyst how much the state of the gem affects the form. Now, we know Rose Quartz has healing tears, and she was a valued general or at least someone important. So she may have had pearl brought to her by some other gem, or maybe she was a gift to Rose. Whatever the case, Rose obtained Pearl somehow. Now you have to think of the fact that she has an oblong gem, perhaps that setback made her all the more eager to impress Rose.
Whatever the case, she took it upon herself to improve as much as possible in anything and everything, which is really cool. Still, she calls the stuff around her that used to be Rose's clingy and or useless. Perhaps she is placing her own feelings hypotheses things, or projecting he negative self image onto them. Okay so how does any of this connect to the theory? It's simple, and I'll prove it with the power of Black Butler.
Many of you probably have no clue about this show. It is the story of a troubled young boy named Ciel, he ended up with a non-human butler named Sebastian through some rather unfortunate circumstances. Well, needless to say that because Ciel is an orphan it falls to the very qualified Sebastian to act as his guardian. So how does this connect? Pearls were obviously designed with a subservient nature to be used and flaunted on home world. According perIdot, their purpose is to: stand around, look nice and hold your stuff for you. Pearl blatantly defies this as she's good at fighting, likes cleaning the house, can build things, is good at strategy, can create small items, and the list goes on and on. I know, more fact restating, but she has mentioned a liking for housework, she seemed to enjoy building the spaceship with Greg and Steven, and seems to enjoy a multitude of other tasks that would be mundane in the life of a gem.
Why does this matter? Because with each of these tasks she can be and feel useful. Did you notice how Pearl turns to Garnett for ideas whenever they're in trouble? Or how Pearl seems to wait for commands from her, and how Garnett seems to keep telling her "You are your own gem?" There's a reason for that. Perhaps while designing the gem, home world decided to make it part of their nature to be dependent upon other gems. That would make them far easier to control and use in the purposes of what little we know of gem society.
That would make it come together almost perfectly. Home world made Pearls specifically more subservient in order to complete their appointed task in existence. From there an imperfect Pearl, Rose's Pearl was created. Somehow they met, and Rose managed to get her. Now this most likely fairly mocked Pearl who had probably gained abandonment issues (the first of many) would obviously do her best to be even better than the other Pearls at her appointed task. She would conform completely to the desires of Rose, the one who kept her in spite of everything.
So when Rose disappeared and left Steven in her place, Pearl probably freaked out for a while. Soon enough, she would have most likely seen the Rose in Steven. She did mention in Rose's seaboard how much he acts like his mother. So then, why do I think she is trying to become Steven's Servant? Well for one, she's become Steven's ideal of the perfect mom. In fact his only problem with taking her to meet Connie's parents is that Pearl doesn't like to eat. There is also the kind of funny scene where she is carrying Steven up the cliff so that way they can get to Rose's Secret Armory. I mean, that's pretty dedicated. She is also the one who took over completing all of the household chores. She protects Steven in battle, and makes sure that his punishments are fair, and for the most part reasonable. I'm sorry guys, but this is a little too much evidence to claim falsehood.
Authoress: Anyway, that's it for this theory! Tell me what you think and feel free to follow for more!
