Yellow Diamond puffs; family life is hard.
In her majestic palace located in the largest city on Homeworld, Yellow observes her daughters, had from a marriage with Attendant, a Turquoise Pearl that had made her fall in love against all odds.
In order to have children, Gems must split a part of their stone and merge it with that of their beloved, and it's not that this always happens successfully.
In fact, for the two brides, the process was interrupted with the birth of the second daughter, who had risked not being born precisely because Attendant's gem hadn't split up a second time, so poor Pearl had been forced to sacrifice her life as not to kill the new creature.
2500 years have passed since Attendant's death, and Yellow Diamond never remarried, never fell in love again.
Yellow Diamond is tall and statuesque, with saffron-colored skin and a geometric cut of golden hair.
Her eyes resemble those of a feline and are very feminine, in contrast to the androgynous physique.
Yellow stops on the balcony of the building and observes her daughters.
The eldest, born 13500 years earlier, is called Yellow Pearl, and every time her mother looks at her she feels a painful contraction in her soul, as she is a perfect fusion between her Pearl and her primary color.
The second daughter, born precisely 2500 years earlier, is called Peridot and is green, as expected from the daughter of yellow and blue.
Yellow Diamond grits her teeth: she has never beared her completely, since she has always seen her as the cause of Attendant's death, even though she has never clearly said it to her face.
Peridot, however, is not stupid, she knows it and although she loves her mother she constantly feels the coldness to which she subjects her daily.
The two sisters leave the building: Yellow Pearl is her mother's assistant, while Peridot is a technician and must go to the laboratory like every day.
Yellow Diamond's daughters make many Gems turn their heads; Yellow Pearl has the same feline and sly look of her mother, underlined by Attendant's graceful features and by a softer version of the Diamond's hair.
But it's Peridot the real surprise: that haughty and monotonous green Gem, which doesn't show particular emotions, captures the attention of a large number of wannabe lovers, who see the possibility of snatching her a smile or a feeling different from indifference as a challenge.
"What are you looking at?" Yellow Pearl exclaims on the street, making Peridot's fans turn again.
"Jealous, sister?" Peridot asks, peering at her sideways with her dark green eyes.
"I prevent them from distracting you, Peri." that one replies, with the look of the older sister protective and severe.
To herself, Peridot laughs bitterly. Yellow Pearl has nothing to envy her, on the contrary... It is she who envies her, for being the favorite of their mother and for having known the other parent, the one who gave birth to them, the Turquoise Pearl that has given Yellow millennia of happiness.