What are your thoughts on this theory? Let me know!

"I've wanted to tell you for so long..." *Theory. Fricking. Confirmed.*

I DIDN'T LOOK AT THE UPLOAD DATE, I DIDN'T REALIZE THIS WAS FROM _BEFORE_ A SINGLE PALE ROSE. DAMN.

How to interrogate a Pearl: Tie their hands first

Wait.....this is BEFORE a Single Pale Rose.......

I just realized that this...this is why Pearl was so offended by the thought of Rose having secrets she wouldn't know about. Pearl LITERALLY KNEW HER GREATEST AND DARKEST SECRET. And for Rose/Pink to ask her of THAT much. To keep silent about that and then have the GALL to keep other secrets from her???? That is actually kind of messed up.

It's crazy how accurate this is. One of the writers confirmed that a function of a Pearl is that they can not disobey an order from their master. We see this in A Single Pale Rose.

Wait, so in the end, even after millennia of being free..... she's still a Pearl.

hey, would you look at that, they just revealed the reason why

I’ve got tbh, that scene with pearl being “silenced” was quite disturbing

I can't believe nobody mentions Rhodonite. She is part Pearl and she covered her mouth on multiple occasions. Remember?

Who is watching after watching A single pale rose?

Wow this is so weird to watch again after last night's eps

Uncle Grampa shattered Pink Diamond.

"There are some things that are impossible for me to explain... but I want to!"

I like how this all makes sense now

Look closely at the pearls in "The Trial." After Zircon states: "And where was her Pearl?" Yellow Pearl's eyes went wide, as if she couldn't see anything. And the Blue Pearl just stood there, as if nothing has been said. Yellow Pearl: See no evil Blue Pearl: Hear no evil White Pearl : Speak no evil Edit: Just my interpretation on this matter. Yellow and Blue could be the other way around

DAMN NOW WE KNOW WHY

Remember Rhodonite? When the Rutile twins brought Steven and Lars to the off colors, she almost covered her mouth when in shock and used another to try and block them away. What if fusing with Ruby has lessened the natural instinct of fully covering her mouth when in a stressful situation?

Who else is watching this after the reveal?

I widely accept the theory that all Pearls cannot speak of the Diamond's secrets. Since they are always around the Diamonds they hear things that only the Diamonds should know. If they try to speak of a secret from their Diamond their hand is forced to shut the mouth.

This becomes very real after today's episodes. Right down to the imagery. :(

I really hope that Pearl is being muted by the Diamonds, that would be pretty great. But a small part of me can't stop thinking that it was just bad acting from the animators e_e Pd: The "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" is definitivly a strech, but if it's true it would be pretty awesome!

It's reeeeeeeealy weird watching this after A single pale rose

You know, there's a forth part to the "hear no evil speak no evil see no evil" saying which is "do no evil". This could tie into your theory. If pink diamond is actually not evil as some had speculated then it would follow that her pearl would do no evil as well

Actually, that theory at the end there doesn't sound stupid at all. I never noticed that, but the three pearls together do represent see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. Although, I doubt what they would have to reveal would be evil, but rather forbidden knowledge.

Judging by the fact that this was before A Single Pale Rose, I’m honestly impressed with how much you got right with the context of the reveal It was an order to her from a diamond to cover her mouth It was mostly related to the diamonds or Rose

Now that "A Single Pale Rose" is out, this makes much more sense. Pearl, before she "shattered" pink diamond as rose quartz, Rose put Pearl's hands over her mouth, and asked her, as her last duty as a diamond, to never speak of that to anyone. So now, even when Rose is gone, she still has this sense of not wanting to betray her beloved Rose. Her silencing herself is a painful reminder that she still has to keep that secret. Even though Steven himself, is half rose quartz/pink diamond, Pearl now knows him as a different person, and is painfully covering up her secrets, even though she believes he deserves to know the truth.

WE! NEED! PEARL! BACKSTORY!!!

I was literally thinking about this theory on the bus home today, and then, boom, my favorite KZfaq channel makes a video on it!

This made me realize how horrible it was for pearl in the last example you used. Think about how pearl raised Steven up. Became a mother to him. And she has to watch him leave to be killed. She can't scream to him to stop, that pink was never shadered. That he is actually pink. It's truly horrible.

Now I want to see the pearls in a fan art of them being the "no evil" thing.

This just popped up on my reccommended after watching the newest steven universe episode, really good theory!!

Does anyone notice that the way pearl covers her mouth to stop herself, she positions her hands in the same way as in a single pale rose, pink diamond held her hands and kept them on her mouth

Seeing this now....it really was a big thing.

I thought pearl was really talking 0:01

Pearl: about to say something about homeworld Steven: suddenly bursts out," CONNIE HATES ME! Me: ummmmmmm, okay?

It’s nice to know this wasn’t unnoticed before A Pale Rose. How crazy

soooo, i'm here to say SORRY, i saw your vid a few months ago, and though it was "nonsense" aaaand turns out you are FREAKING RIGHT, GOD DAMN IT GIRL, WELL DONE!

the real force behind pearl's hands is the power of rebecca sugar using her scripts, who only wants to reveal this at the end of the season. the 5 second fight between rebecca sugar, the hand and pearl was awesome

Well, this is a rather relevant video now..

2:55 Ready for me to change how you see this scene forever? Okay here we go, the two fingers under Pearl's nose are her lips. The third one is her chin. Now she has giant lips. :3

Aye! Haley’s returned with another theory? Love it!!

Im from the future, she wantes to tell him that rose quartz is actually pink diamond

Well, it would make sence that pearl shattered pink diamond.. She wanted to save the earth, because she joined the Rebels (Rose Quartz) so she shape-shifted into Rose and shattered her. That would explain that Eye ruby thinks that Rose shattered pink :D And why pearl doesn't shape-shift

Lol you made The Roundtable look like rookies. They were not even close.

I can kinda agree with the "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" theory with one small adjustment Blue Pearl has her eyes covered, our Pearl covers her mouth and, if we go with Yellow Pearl having her ears covered, it lines up with the theory, however we all know that our Pearl can project images from her gem which, theoretically, could double as "speaking" and during 'The Trial' Blue is the one drawing what Steven describes, thus "seeing", and Yellow is transcribing what is being said, thus "hearing" Not sure what it all means but it could be interesting

gahhHHHHH I KNEW IT, DURING MY BINGE OF SU THEORIES, THIS ONE POPPED UP IN MY HEAD AS SOON AS I WATCHED THE NEW PROMO. _OH MY _*_STARS_*

She covers her mouth in so many birthdays too

Now that we know the (presumable) biggest secret that Pearl had, we can understand how she'd be shocked that she hadn't been told about Rose's armoury.

You called it!

What if Rainbow Quartz was actually the gem that shattered pink diamond? This is just a sudden thought, but it could explain why pearl covers her mouth with her hands as she could be traumatized by what she did while fused. That could be her secret. Maybe Rose Quartz had taken the blame for the shattering. Pearl could feel guilty for being mixed into the whole mess.

YOU’RE A GENIUS

When you've just watched the new episode

Knowing what we do now, in Rose's scarab, she probably wanted to scream/shout/vent about what happened. And would have confessed when Steven gave himself up, if not for that last command

NOW THIS HAS A REASON IN A SINGLE PALE ROSE AAA 3:48 - 4:03 , 4:36 - 4:40 , 5:00 - 5:13!!! MOST OF IT WAS *BECAUSE* PINK DIAMOND AAAAAAAAAAA

After A single pink rose~ yeppp

This is still a really good video after the latest reveal. It shows how much Pearl's secret was foreshadowed.

Why am I reminded of Dobby punishing himself when he tried to warn Harry Potter?

You forgot the most important and final evil, “Do No Evil” perhaps if your going with the “See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil,” Pink Diamond, from what has been speculated, was nicer than the other Diamonds, so perhaps her pearl would have been the same and would have not acted violently, “Do No Evil” and going back to “See No Evil”, most blue gems have something with there eyes, Sapphires singular hidden eye, Lapis’ cloudy mirror like eyes when her gem was cracked, Aquamarine has her gem directly under her eye, Blue Zircon had a thing held up to her eye, even Blue Diamonds eyes were covered and she cries quiet frequently. Blue gems try to steer away from seeing evil, and Blue Pearls eyes are covered as to never see any evil, like her Diamond who was glad to have not witnesses Pink Diamonds shattering, and perhaps that she rarely leaves homeworld? We haven’t seen anything from White Diamond so that fits the speak no evil already, and yellow gems, like Yellow pearl, Yellow Diamond, Yellow Zircon, even Topaz who tried to feign not hearing, gems on her ears, as to never hear any evil, they rarely let the others talk and when they do, the Yellow gem doesn’t listen to reason. While Pink Diamonds Court mostly seem to be nice, like I assume the Rubies, Rutile, Padparacha Sapphire, and Rhodonite all seem very nice, as in, “Do No Evil”

Now we know.. all the times she covers her mouth and it’s not when something about the diamond authority happens... it’s always about Rose... (foreshadowing A Single Pale Rose.)

6:20 "unable to talk about huge secrets regarding the Diamonds" You are forgetting non-Diamond Gems can acquire Pearls. I think its less about keeping Diamond level secrets and more about being "pre programmed" to never speak out against their owners. Pearl isn't "owned" anymore, but that doesn't mean that "programming" went away. I see two possibilities: 1. The nature of why she can't speak about certain things is to keep the secrets and plans of her owner. She can't speak out about her previous owner, or the things and gems her previous owner was associated with, due to this programming. Her previous owner may be poofed, shattered, or back on Homeworld and as such can't change or tell her what she CAN speak about, forever locked into keeping those secrets. Her previous owner doesn't have to be a Diamond. They could just be an elite that was under one of the Diamonds during the war. 2. The nature of why she can't speak about certain things is to prevent Pearls from speaking out and against their owners. Its not about secrets so much as obedience. When Pearl was freed, however that may have went, the programming stopped being associated with her previous owner. It started being associated with the Crystal Gems during the rebellion and eventually Steven and his friends and family. The programming has likely become warped due to thousands of years of old conflict and trauma coming to head against Steven's attempts to bond with her. She can't stop the programming from censoring what she can say and has inadvertently caused the programming to associate Steven as her owner(likely the same thing occurred during the rebellion with Rose). Steven's association as her owner is likely not something she did consciously, rather the result of considering him "family", and the programming using that definition as the closest thing she would have to an actual owner.

I CAN'T BELIEVE PEOPLE PICKED UP ON THIS IT TOOK ME FOREVER

Love how you talked through most of the beginning of the video! That's exactly why I came here, to hear you talk over clips of Pearl!!!!! Not to see Pearl cover her mouth mid discussion, but to hear yours! What quality content.

So after the last episode, I wonder if she is literally THAT faithful to Pink or if she is "cursed" to never speak of this.

7:38 While I find this to be a fascinating parallel, I must then postulate that Pink Pearl had the fourth part (that never gets bloody mentioned except in tumblr proverbs posts): Do No Evil (sitting on your hands), which could be an interesting connotation that she had literally *nothing* to do with PD's shattering. That also implies that the other D-Pearls would have had something to _do_ with her shattering... eh?

While pearl was covering her mouth Spinel was still waiting😂

Honestly seeing pearls character design change at the start like.,., guys what u doin

this has been in my reccomendeds for MONTHS and i thought it was some crackpot theory or some weird counting-thing (like every time homer says d'oh) but as i'm looking at it IT ALL MAKES SENSE! spoilers YOU DID IT! i'm so glad after watching the newest episode i started to wonder if the other times she covers her mouth means something, and it's right here in a convenient format! thank you.

White diamond’s power could be disabling gem powers. For instance, Pearl’s speaking is disabled, and the corrupted gems access to taking their preferred physical form is disabled. Idk what do y’all think?

Man, when you watch this after A Single Pale Rose, a lot of quotes from Pearl starts to come to mind. "You shouldn't be anywhere near the fighting! You're too important!" "Rose kept many things secret. Even from us." (Garnet) "But not from me! I was the one she told everything!" (Pearl) I'm sure there are a lot more, but I'll have to rewatch the series to find them all.

Wow this is before what just happened recently. This is pretty crazy.

In highsight, it makes the recent revelation have alot of groundwork, knowing that Pearl's been hiding so much for quite often throughout the show.

It is crazy how close to right you have been. xD

She does that with her hands when she's close to saying it because that's how pink put her hands when she told her to promise she'll never speak of it again

This theory was one of my favorites long before I saw A Single Pale Rose. It was this video that made me believe that Pearl had been forced to silence herself about pink diamond. I'm so happy this theory was confirmed! Now I just hope my suspicions about the true origins of our pearl gets confirmed soon.

Nice to see you come back. I'm not into this theory, but this video gave me an idea. You mentioned that some people believe Pearl was designed to remain silent. Knowing Rebecca Sugar is inspired by anime, what if she was inspired by Princess Tutu. Long, amazing story short, Princess Tutu is about a Duck who was turned into a human, but she has to turn into Princess Tutu to find her love's, Prince Mytho, heart shards. But if she confesses her feeling to him, she will die. There's a lot of similarities here. First, Princess Tutu wears white and also has pink hair and blue eyes. She also covers her mouth a lot. And a lot like Steven Universe, the anime relies more on resolving conflict through talking and dancing more than fighting. It's only 24 episodes and I recommend both the dub and sub. You should really check it out because I really do see a connection between the two shows.

OH MY GOD I HAD NO IDEA THIS WAS BEFORE A SINGLE PALE ROSE WTF THIS IS SO ACCURATE WTFFFFF

gems are programms, pearl showed that she stores older versions of herself inside her gem, version 1.0; 1.1; 1.2 etc and the diamonds can just alter those programs and add a code like 'if pearl trys to speak X hands go to place Y" Pink dismond placed pearls hands where she programms them to be and "orders as diamond" to set the extra program in motion - this could also mean rose/diamond 'created' the christal gems by adding a 'rebell' subroutine - and also explains how steven/rose/pink D can enter a gems mind (dreams) and alter their characteristic/let their personality grow - best shoen in stevens mind control power. Once steven gets all memmorys activated from pink D (happens slowly) pink D will be able to alter the minds of organic beeings just like those of gems

So uhh. How does it feel to have possibly won the internet? You definitely nailed it.

we had no idea. this video shows how much of a genius Rebecca Sugar is

Heck damn dude, i looked at the date and then realised this video was uploaded WAY before A single pale Rose and i'm shook- -

I hadn't realized all the times Pearl places her hand over mouth in this whole series. It's so amazing how much that little detail about her might not just be coincidence.

wow. you actually got pretty close. especially that part about it being the wish of the diamonds for her to be quiet about pink

Welp. This makes sense now.

You poor, sweet, innocent child from the past.

This was actually confirmed! One of the writers said that pearls are designed to not be able to disobey a diamonds order, and PD's last order was "let's never speak of this again". Pearl is PHYSICALLY INCAPABLE of saying it.

who's here after the new episode?

I suspect that Garnet knows what’s going on. I think she knows why pearl isn’t able to share information. Every time pearl is covering her mouth and garnet is there garnet seems to look at her and one time she even said “you are making pearl very upset” maybe when it was just garnet, pearl and rose rose told garnet what was happening with pearl but did not tell her what the information pearl was hiding. One thing I am sure of is that Garnet knows what’s up with pearl, hence her distressed looks at pearl when she covers her mouth

I have been waiting for this ever since the theory came up!

Thank you for being one of the only Steven Universe channels that still uploads

4:12 ehehehehehe....abouuuut thaaaat

Thought that this was a 10 minute compilation of pearl not talking. I knew it couldn't be true because she doesn't shut up! Damn bird won't stop squawking!

2:21, Meanwhile *AMETHYST IS HUGGING THE THICC THIGH*

Coming to rewatch this video after "A Single Pale Rose" makes this video that much better.

4:55 Oh my god. The meaning behind that one...

Everyone go watch su a single pale rose. It explains everything

hmm. looking back at the one near the end of the first season where pearl is upset because she learned "Rose had secrets even she didn't know" i think the hand thing is subconsciously related- given what we know now.

My personal thought after a single pale rose thing is that orders from diamonds are bound to whom they’re ordered too. Though this might only apply to pearls. I love the idea that If a diamond orders a pearl they HAVE to do it regardless if they want too. Anyways I’m sure I’m not the first person to think this but figured I’d say it anyways

In single pale rose, it's revealed she was pink diamond/rose quartzs pearl. Makes a hell of a lot of sense!!!