History Characters / StevenUniverseRoseQuartz

* DeaderThanDead: [[spoiler:The Diamond's powers can resurrected organic lifeforms killed by injuries and even long-shattered gems. Rose's DeathOfPersonality on giving birth to Steven is the ''only'' thing we know they cannot reverse at all.]]

* TheSouthpaw: In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E9SwornToTheSword "Sworn to the Sword"]], Pearl's hologram shows Rose using her shield in her right hand and her sword in her left. Given that her shield is usually referred to as her primary weapon, [[SubvertedTrope the right hand might actually be the dominant one]].

* {{Adorkable}}: The goofy, confused grin she gives Greg when he first gives her his t-shirt lets you know exactly why he fell in love with her almost instantly.

--->'''Sapphire:''' SHE LIED TO US!

** If the ending credits song, "Love Like You", is from her perspective (as theorized by fans), she may have held her loved ones higher regard than herself, despite everything that she'd accomplished.

* HumanityIsInfectious: Rose loved humans very much and wanted to be just like them but could not quite fully grasp how emotionally complex they are. She wanted to share in human culture and even be a human herself partly leading her to have Steven.

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* BiTheWay: Rose was romantically involved with Greg in the recent past and Pearl sometime before that, though she and Pearl are genderless.
** [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E5StoryForSteven "Story for Steven"]] hints that Rose has had human lovers before, but generally avoids doing it because it makes a MayflyDecemberRomance given the human lifespan vs. the Gem lifespan, and she felt that humans shouldn't throw away their dreams to be with her.
** [[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E8MrGreg "Mr. Greg"]] reveals that she had male lovers in the past, but being before Greg, they'd all been passing fancies at most, and that Pearl had always "won", with Rose's genuine feelings for Greg coming as a genuine shock.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Susan Egan

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* DeaderThanDead: [[spoiler:The Diamond's powers can resurrected organic lifeforms killed by injuries and even long-shattered gems. Rose's DeathOfPersonality on giving birth to Steven is the ''only'' thing we know they cannot reverse at all.]]
* DeathByChildbirth: Rose Quartz "gave up her physical form to bring Steven into the world", as Greg puts it. It turns out that she became half of Steven, since she and Steven can't both exist at the same time.

* DeathOfPersonality: A Gem's [[HeartDrive gemstone]] is the physical basis of their existence, and Rose's remains unaltered in Steven's body, but she has not existed as the same person since it became part of Steven. [[spoiler:This is completely irreversible, regardless of what happens to Steven's organic half. Even the gemstone by itself is no longer Rose, it's just a fragment of Steven.]]

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* LackOfEmpathy: It seems that Rose, for all of her admiration of humans, couldn't really understand what ''made'' them special to begin with; as showcased with Rose's interactions with Greg, this naturally resulted in an inability to form a healthy long-term relationship until she grew out of it. [[spoiler:This also extended to other Gems, and it was her wrong assumption of how the other Diamonds would react to Pink Diamond's "death", which lead to the attack that corrupted all the remaining gems on Earth as well as the creation of the Cluster.]]

* {{Leitmotif}}: A piano piece accompanied by strings that plays whenever anybody thinks or talks about Rose. It was incorporated into [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7dmHmNoL2g "Lion's Mane"]] and an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8ASguRgpMo Acoustic]] has also been used. An ominous DarkReprise version is used in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_24rJEKuGaE "Night Drive 2"]].

* {{Leitmotif}}: A piano piece accompanied by strings that plays whenever anybody thinks or talks about Rose. It was incorporated into [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7dmHmNoL2g "Lion's Mane"]] and an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8ASguRgpMo Acoustic]] has also been used.

* {{Leitmotif}}: A piano piece accompanied by strings that plays whenever anybody thinks or talks about Rose. It was incorporated into [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7dmHmNoL2g Lion's mane]] and an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8ASguRgpMo Acoustic]] has also been used.

* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7dmHmNoL2g A piano piece accompanied by strings]] that plays whenever anybody thinks or talks about Rose.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Played with. When Rose Quartz is first formally discussed, she appears to have been the most loving, charismatic and empathetic person possible, with everyone holding her with high regard. [[spoiler: As the series continues however, we gradually learn that she was a far more conniving, deceitful and cruel person then she let people onto, from faking her (Pink Diamond's) death, which left her sisters and soldiers emotionally destroyed, forcing Pearl to be unable to tell anyone what happened, trapping Bismuth into a bubble for thousands of years, abandoning Spinel in a garden for 6,000 years after getting bored with her and not contacting her before she [[AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence (functionally, if not literally)]] died, and leaving her son and closest friends with a severe inferiority complex that they still haven't fully worked out. While it's not fair to call her a bitch overall, and she did protect the Earth from her families attempts at destruction, she was far from a model individual or even a particularly good person.]]

** This gets deconstructed even more after [[spoiler: it's revealed she was actually Pink Diamond]], as there is increased focus on how Rose's actions affected those around her, and how little she actually thought about the consequences [[spoiler: Such as her forcing Pearl under an unbreakable order to keep it a secret, the effects faking her death had on the other Diamonds, her casual abandonment of Spinal,]] and the fact that she never really had a long term plan for any of this in regards to Steven. By the events of the Movie, Steven reveals that he actually believes she was capable of such actions.

* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler:[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E19NowWereOnlyFallingApart "Now We're Only Falling Apart"]] shows that not only does Ruby, unlike [[BrokenPedestal Sapphire]], take the news of her being Pink Diamond well, but feels okay after talking it over for a couple of hours with Greg. In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E21TheQuestion "The Question"]], Greg relates to her because, as he says, "I never told her I used to be Gregory [=DeMayo=]." Amethyst ''hasn't'' really gotten over Rose lying to everyone, but refuses to dump "another thousand-year-old complex" on Steven, a fourteen-year-old child. Even Bismuth, though she was shocked that the rebellion was a "sham", at least understood now why Rose bubbled her over the Breaking Point.]]

* MysteriousPast: Very little about her past has been revealed. Back when their relationship was starting out, Greg expressed concern that he knew so little about her, and her only reply was "[[that's a good thing]]".[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E18ASinglePaleRose "A Single Pale Rose"]] reveals her true origins: [[spoiler:she wasn't made as a Rose Quartz; she used to be Pink Diamond.]]

'''Rose:''' That's a good thing.

* MysteriousPast: Very little about her past has been revealed. Back when their relationship was starting out, Greg expressed concern that he knew so little about her, and her only reply was "that's a good thing".
** [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E18ASinglePaleRose "A Single Pale Rose"]] reveals her true origins: [[spoiler:she wasn't made as a Rose Quartz; she used to be Pink Diamond.]]

* {{Polyamory}}: Rose was in a [[EternalLove very long-term romantic relationship]] with Pearl, but simultaneously took a series of human lovers, ultimately including Greg. Far from being an ideal poly relationship, it was more of on-and-off LoveTriangle where Pearl resented sharing Rose with anyone else, only tolerated most of them because their love didn't go deep or last long ([[MayflyDecemberRomance nor did the humans themselves, from Pearl's perspective]]), and outright despaired when Rose and Greg made a more meaningful connection. Greg, however, didn't seem to mind that Rose also loved Pearl, just Pearl's ensuing acrimony, and even found [[RomanticFusion them forming Rainbow Quartz]] rather impressive. That Rose was unconcerned with or (more likely) unaware of this animosity is one of the biggest signs of how [[InnocentlyInsensitive self-absorbed]] she could be.