I’ll put it this way, if Pink Diamond we’re to say “Pearl, I ORDER you to do such and such…” because she’s her Pearl, she would have to do it. Of course her servant mentality played a role in her allegiance to Rose, how could it not. BUT, that relationship clearly grew and changed as naturally as any relationship will, and it wasn’t due to Pink Diamonds powers or influence.
Have no fear, Pearl is her own gem and wasn’t being puppet controlled by Pink/Rose her whole life. It’s not mind control.
We like to joke about how Western CRPGs are slowly mutating into high school dating sims, but I think we should contemplate exactly what we’re suggesting here. Can you imagine what Todd Howard’s idea of a high school dating sim would look like? Can you envision Elder Scrolls High?
Like, folks keep getting the “you’ve gained a reputation for abusing people’s hearts and now everyone hates you” bad ending and can’t figure out why, until somebody digs into the code and discovers that due to a programming oversight, horses are capable of jealousy.
Stone age toddlers may have attended a form of prehistoric nursery
where they were encouraged to develop their creative skills in cave art,
say archaeologists.
Research indicates young children expressed themselves in an ancient
form of finger-painting. And, just as in modern homes, their early
efforts were given pride of place on the living room wall.
A Cambridge University conference on the archaeology of childhood on
Friday reveals a tantalising glimpse into life for children in the
palaeolithic age, an estimated 13,000 years ago.
“Some of the children’s flutings are high up on walls and on the ceilings, so they must have been held up to make them or have been sitting on someone’s shoulders,”
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