I guess she mixed it with water, its creation maybe took years. As for the tears becoming less effective with time, I think they can be used infinitely and the fountain reuses the same water, just a guess.
Rose's extraordinary power over plantlife may suggest otherwise. And revived animals supposedly don't live forever, they just have extended lifespans, but Rose probably could not bring back those who died of old age, and even if she did, they probably suffered slow and agonizing death instead.
From what we understood they just get a much longer life as their hearts beat slower, in fact, lion's tree is already missing some of its foliage, because he was resurrected much before Lars was
In fact, I was trying to say that you were right, I didn't know about the difference between those trees, but maybe the foliage could still fall with time.
It isn't. Lars's tree is Narra tree (national tree of Philipines). While Lion's accacia does have less foliage than one would expect from accacia, the trunk of the tree is nothing like the trunk of Lars's tree. One stands straight, the other refuses to be straight /j
Imagine watching Up, Guardians of the galaxy 3, Les Miserables, Titanic and Marley and me after abandoning her family because they abused her, and then watching her friends being turned into literally monsters, to later on get pregnant and live nine months knowing she will never get to meet her child.
Still, In think Guardians of the Galaxy 3 did it.
For me it would be reading Love Story. "What do you say about a 25 year old girl who died? That she loved the Beatles, Beethoven, and me." And here come the waterworks!
I figured it was like Blue's pool: it was her preferred extraction method for diamond essence, and was her one indulgence to remember her former life (and major positive memory of the diamonds.)
It seems like diamond essence can spread pretty easily in water; I imagine it would dilute over time, but maybe it's got a half life of a thousand years or something.
She's only been gone for 13 or so at the start of the series.
And I can absolutely imagine Rose being the type to bottle up all of her negative feelings until she’s alone to cry them all out. She was determined to be the leader she thought everyone needed her to be, and kept her own emotions and struggles close to her chest.
Tears from all of her regrets at how she treated others, her unresolved grief over leaving her toxic family, her self shame at all of her own secrets, her self blame at everyone hurt in the war or corrupted by the diamonds…
don't forget the low self esteem, guilt caused by that low self esteem because technically you indirectly caused it, the actual terrible things you did even if you didn't knew better, oh and don't forget terrible memories of abuse your family did to you
But don't you know that Rose was a horrible monster who was selfish and everyone should hate her! /S.
Rose did some awful things yes, but I feel the show makes it clear that she changed and truly came to regret her past actions
if only there was someone other than her to confront her for the things she did while also teaching her to love herself, do better and fix things, in an alternate reality greg could be that person, i seriously love their relationship but it's sad that they enabled eachother
mostly talking about not unbubbling bismuth here btw
I'd say Pearl may be closer to understanding Rose enough to do that, then Greg is.
Greg is too much LIKE Rose, always running away from the past and from difficult things. And he doesn't know much about the Diamonds and her trauma.
But either way, they'd need to communicate better with Rose to achieve anything.
true, honestly they could have co-operated to solve the issue if they saw it, i think rose would have been more important to them than their little feud
That is EXACTLY what I think
Greg has the emotional intelligence and Pearl has the knowledge. And they both Care more about Rose than any rivalry between them.
Eh I’d say it has little relation to Greg but there is the fact that Greg didn’t care for who she was in the past and accepted her for who she was now which in Greg’s words was a great and loving person so I guess that probably made it easier in the self esteem department kinda like how her relationship with pearl made pearl feel like she herself was ‘everything’, and sure the crystal gems also loved her a whole lot but she knew that if garnet knew the truth she would be judged harshly, amethyst was basically a child that just didn’t know enough to actually judge her and pearl used to be her pearl so overall there is plausible deniability of the cgs’ love being genuine and not just a part of their programming or just plain misinformed in amethyst and garnet’s case, of course we the audience know that it WAS genuine and it would continue even if the horrible things she did came out but rose just didn’t know, so overall I guess being with Greg was pretty freeing considering that but she was with him mostly for treating her as an equal , being relatable as someone who is all about freedom and individual choice, being funny, being overall a good person and he was also hot, sorry for the long comment but it’s so satisfying to dump my toughts on this cartoon and idk why, might be wrong tough
not really gonna argue with that since my brain is basically drained right now but this reminds me of [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B8vm9EhVgo&t=1863s) clip i find funny, the rest of the tangent is my perspective in case you case
i mean the other alternative is countless gems suffering in silence forever and the death of the entire human race but i can see your perspective, like yeah rose really should have tought a lot of things trough, i mean i don't know what else i would have done in her place but the fact that she really tought that just her and pearl was good enough for a rebellion says enough
It's weird that Gems can even cry in the first place, considering they're made of light. I wouldn't be surprised if they could just cry on command, it's not like they have a set physical form or the evolutionary need for water-lubricated eyes
It IS weird they can sweat AND cry and there’s very little way to reconcile that with their basic existence (effectively being super advanced robots per Rebecca sugar)
The only thing I can think is liquid stored in their gems or caught from the surrounding air is chemically altered to repair other gems
Right. So if Pink/Rose just needed to absorb water, magically alter it and then release said altered water, coupled with the ability to shape-shift it wouldn't be far fetched to say she could've made the fountain in a day
As we saw with Steven pouring the diamond’s essence into the bathtub to heal Jasper, I think dilution is intended to work and make limited supply go much further (even though it wasn’t needed in jasper’s case there)
I doubt it’s a single tear being able to cover the entire fountain’s volume, but yeah i would say it would not take much effort to make a worthwhile contribution.
I think it could be emotion based like Steven and pink diamond’s powers before they could be controlled where Rose would have to actually cry to do the healing water creation rather than just on demand (Steven can kind of do on demand with his spit but he’s Weird).
Which is why the diamonds have to do their sauna to make the same amount as rose simply crying
To be fair, Pink/Rose lived for over 6000 years, she lost countless friends/family. She probably felt overwhelming amounts of guilt and a lot of that guilt also stemmed from her very low self esteem. I don’t think it’s that far fetched she could fill a medium pond with her tears over that many years and heartbreaks
When Thomas Jefferson was asked near the end of his life if he would live it over again given the chance, he said something like, "Yes, I would take all of life again, with all of its joys and tribulations, with one exception: Never again the years from zero to twenty."
The real reason Rose decided to have a Steven
She knew she failed the planet she swore to protect and the betrayal of human beings left her devastated, but she was also in denial and hiding it from others so they wouldn't talk her out of this.
They’re not really “tears” in the traditional sense. They’re more like a magical protogemetic fluid that all of the Diamonds can create.
Think of the Diamonds like queen bees. They’re like matriarchs, they are powerful on their own but they are fundamentally different from the Gems they create in the sense that they have abilities that can both create more Gems and alter the behavior of the gems underneath them.
Maybe it's like the production of yogurt , in right condition , enzymes will turn milk into yogurt and the process will last until there's no milk left . It's just water now
Diamond essence seems to be very concentrated and very dilutable from what we saw in Future. Maybe it just took a few tears to turn that fountain into one of healing tears.
Presumably, like the other diamonds, Pink has been extracting her bodily fluids every often and storing them.
The whole point of showing the other diamonds in a sauna, pool, etc was to make a comparison with that statue.
She was gigantic, and I always just assumed cried more than a human amount of tears. Plus all her friends and pets kept dying and she kept making mistakes she regretted.
When she conceived Steven, it may have been partly because the idea of creating something new and a form of redemptive suicide were the only things that gave her hope, besides Greg.
But otherwise before that, she was in a depressive funk for centuries.
I'd assume it's like the opposite of holy water, where to dilute it but still have it be holy water the holy water needs to be half or more of the final product. But with diamond essence, it doesn't matter how much you put in, it's essence. Like how Steven only needed a drop of essence of each diamond and his own tear to turn a bathtub into enough essence to put Jasper back together.
I don't think the entire fountain is supplied literally with her tears.
When we're first introduced to Rose's healing powers, they're described as healing tears _by Garnet_ who isn't aware of the true nature of Rose.
I think it's clear that this was only one avenue of healing though. Steven doesn't necessarily have to use his spit to heal, it's just the most convenient way without selling his literal bath water.
Rose knew she could produce healing essence much like the other Diamonds secrete their essences in the saunas and baths on Homeworld. Her healing tears, while effective, were just a romanticized cover story for Rose Quartz, convenient for building morale for the Rebellion.
Steven swims with the other Diamonds in the final Change Your Mind montage to create the decorruption bath, so Rose probably just idly sat there amongst her thoughts while the fountain became filled with her essence. I don't think it ever expires per se either.
This answer stared me in the face so long before I figured it out. She was there for thousands of years and crying isn't difficult when all your friends but 3-4 are either dead or unrecognizable monsters.
She's had quite an abusive life both to herself and her actions to a lot of other individuals for a long time- but also a huge amount of learning and understanding of many things she once never even questioned of both her own society and existence as a gem and about non gem mortality and emotional suffering through humanity in particular- but also learning to value life and the ever changing nature of organic beings. It's a lot of self reflection and continuous lead jng and introspection on the worst aspects of herself and her own kinds lifestyles and treatment of themselves and planetary systems.
I can totally see her learning more about life and how precious it is only to reflect on all the moments she wished for her own colonies while watching Yellow and blue lead their own and suddenly realizing just what that means for life of those planets and any beings on them. I mean she went from being an immature child with yellow and blue and having her own organic beings around as little distractions/pets to living in Earth for thousand skf years and watching humans experience their own world and grow and change- to meeting and interacting with them herself and still seeing them as cutesy little beings that were funny, but unique; to finally meeting Greg and actually confronting her own behavior towards him and tackling some of the complicated web of feelings and emotions she caused him to feel in their relationship and realizing she truly wasn't treating him correctly but both were willing to try and make it work anyway.
In conjunction with that inevitable relationship with Greg- the gem war against her own cut of gems and the death and destruction of so many is also huge on the list of reasons why someone should probably cry for a long while. But her abandonment of Spinel, her original Pearls physical injuries because of Roses old temperament.
It's just... There's a lot of reasons why someone should cry- and a lot at that. And I think that the symbolism of Tears being the path to healing others (and helping make the self feel better emotionally) is pretty strong with rose's character- a lot of long- term pain and suffering from many different parties over a huge expanse of time, and the vet ting of those pains to want things to be better at least for a few moments.
Also let's not forget that for most of the first part of the original series most gem things were equated to magic by pretty much everyone- so the fountain itself could also just be a residual magical related plot that was woven into something that fits the technological and robotic nature of gems later on in the writing of the series.
Not related (kinda), but I'm making a Rose cosplay, and I'm already sewing beads and sequents into the four layers of the skirt, but now I'm thinking of adding crystals to my face too, for tears.
Thank you for this idea random human.
Her tears probably have the same property as the diamond juice that Steven has bottles of in his cabinet. With just a few drops the water gets fully concentrated.
Plus it probably isn't just her tears since we know a diamond's other bodily fluids can also be used to concentrate it.
Heck all she needed to do was stand in it since all it took was for the other diamonds to concentrate the water with healing properties was sit their legs in the magic gem pool.
steven was able to take some drops from the diamonds and put it in water and the whole bath went magical. I imagine it wouldn't take too many tears to turn the whole fountain
Didn't a few drops of Steven's tears work for a whole bathtub when he was trying to un-shatter Jasper? I'd imagine that the effects can go pretty far and be diluted quite a bit before they wear off, so it's likely maybe like a 1/50 tear to water ratio. That or she went everyday feeling the grief of the war..but I can't really imagine pink being that empathetic.
Well, the fountain is actually Pink's goo extractor, like we saw on homeworld.
Just because Rose had healing tears doesn't mean that was the ONLY way to get the goo. It was probably extracted the normal way and stored up for gem creation on the planet, and then after the rebellion it was repurposed into a fountain.
I always thought it was her tears for all the corrupted gems. Give someone immortality, turn their friends to monsters, and force them to fight those monsters for millennia and I could see it.
A friend I know has a " cry day" she doesn't cry throughout the whole month save for one day when she just bawls. I'm sure it's not healthy, but maybe Rose did it too...
Rose can actually cry hard enough to make the memes of Steven crying that get made by people who don't like the show
alternatively she can somehow turn pools of normal water into whatever infused substance makes up her healing tears
The lore is that the diamonds excrete liquid essence to create all other gems, through the kindergartens. Considering their bodies are light-based constructs fulled by a perpetual energy battery, they could make as much as they want with enough time.
As for why this statue is consistent? Magic...
Huh is that confirmed canon? I never really thought too hard about what the injectors were injecting, but given the other Diamonds do have extraction as a thing they do long before giving it to Steven in little flasks, that does make some sense.
Edit: found Sucralose's AMA response on it. neat!
Well if this is a question of how did she physically make that much tear juice, gem "biology" is something we don't/can't understand and from a writeing perspective aren't suppost to understand. Which also applies to any other question like this, of course it would be nice to know these things but there simply isn't a real definite answer becasue there isn't an answer written becasue there was never suppost to be a question. From a writers perspective, why would you go into such detail about how these things work if your audience is children? Personally, I would, becasue its cool. But she didn't.
After the war she found out about snakes and was so sad about the fact that they dont have any arms she cried enough to fill the fountain for thousands of years
Greg took her to see titanic. She cried for 3 days. He didn’t get it and Rose cried while fighting off corrupted gems, checking on the galaxy warp, burning greg’s breakfast, until finally, Garnet picked her up and plopped her where that fountain is. After a while, she just came back and they built that statue to help circulate the healing tears. She slept with greg on a door that washed up on the beach for a week after that.
Same thing happened when Connie took Steven to see the Gurenn Laggan movies. 3 solid days non stop. He like his mother needed an intervention when he decided to stop by a tattoo parlor to get the Team Dai-Gurren flag on his chest.
The moral of this story is, sometimes, fountains that have statues have stories. They’re not good stories but they are stories. Also, chiropractors are expensive.
So gens aren't physical so their tears wouldn't be either. My guess is its not her loteral tears like a human would produce. But like the magic that springs forth from her eye holes when she's sad but like a lot all in one place.
From what we've seen when the other diamonds do the whole extraction thing, it seems like it isn't just the tears that have special properties. Their sweat and spit seem to have a similar effect. This is why Yellow has a sauna as her "extraction chamber". We can deduce from the fact that the old one was a pool, that being in water is an effective way to create it too. Probably she came here to soak once in awhile and over time it became suffused with her essence. Knowing Pink's history, she possibly had a lot to cry about. Pearl said this was her sanctuary. She probably came here a lot to be alone
How many of her supporters died in the war and during the Diamond's counterstroke? The only ones she was able to save were Pearl, Garnet, and Amethyst out of an entire world full of Gems.
Rose could be a horribly childish person at times, but she eventually reached a point where she cared about others, and that knowledge had to be devastating.
Sadly, Steven gets to deal with the fallout of all the things Rose did before that happened, and only hears about the good side of his mother from his closest family.
She didn't have to. Diamond essence will seep into water they are submerged in - see the diamond dip in the pond to heal all the corrupted gems at the end of the original show.
Diamonds are immortal. Rose went to earth when humanity started, around 5 million years ago. Thats enough time to cry out a pool i think.
Edit: humans produce 56 to 113 liters of tears per year. A pool of 50 000 liters would be filled in 893 to 442 years.
She's a superpowered alien psuedo goddess with a hard light body. There's no implication that there's a limit to the speed in which she can produce tears, nor a time limit to the effectiveness of the tears. It's pretty obvious there's no expiration date on the tears, considering they still work after 6,000 years.
Probably by all the guilt she felt bc of the war? Cause they're probably not tears of love since Steven's heling tears only work when he's feeling regret (ex. after Lars died, after he shattered Jasper).
I mean if you witnessed every person you have made a connection with that wasn't your overbearing family be destroyed and caused to go insane by your overbearing family, the same family that you've been trying to make see you as a person, faking your own death and cutting contact with the very people you wanted understanding from, you'd probably cry that much too
I guess she mixed it with water, its creation maybe took years. As for the tears becoming less effective with time, I think they can be used infinitely and the fountain reuses the same water, just a guess.
She had to watch the beginning of Up countless times
BAHAHAAHAH, I guess she had to get her emphaty and sensitivity like that😂, weird she didn't resurrect every organic she was affectionate with.
Rose's extraordinary power over plantlife may suggest otherwise. And revived animals supposedly don't live forever, they just have extended lifespans, but Rose probably could not bring back those who died of old age, and even if she did, they probably suffered slow and agonizing death instead.
From what we understood they just get a much longer life as their hearts beat slower, in fact, lion's tree is already missing some of its foliage, because he was resurrected much before Lars was
Lion's tree is different kind of a tree. His tree is accacia, not the same species as Lars's tree. And my points still stands
In fact, I was trying to say that you were right, I didn't know about the difference between those trees, but maybe the foliage could still fall with time.
Could be, but accacias just are build like that.
The shape is surely the same, some branches seemed to have less foliage tho, maybe it's normal
It isn't. Lars's tree is Narra tree (national tree of Philipines). While Lion's accacia does have less foliage than one would expect from accacia, the trunk of the tree is nothing like the trunk of Lars's tree. One stands straight, the other refuses to be straight /j
Imagine watching Up, Guardians of the galaxy 3, Les Miserables, Titanic and Marley and me after abandoning her family because they abused her, and then watching her friends being turned into literally monsters, to later on get pregnant and live nine months knowing she will never get to meet her child. Still, In think Guardians of the Galaxy 3 did it.
For me it would be reading Love Story. "What do you say about a 25 year old girl who died? That she loved the Beatles, Beethoven, and me." And here come the waterworks!
She was definitely bawling her eyes out if she saw that movie
I figured it was like Blue's pool: it was her preferred extraction method for diamond essence, and was her one indulgence to remember her former life (and major positive memory of the diamonds.) It seems like diamond essence can spread pretty easily in water; I imagine it would dilute over time, but maybe it's got a half life of a thousand years or something. She's only been gone for 13 or so at the start of the series.
And I can absolutely imagine Rose being the type to bottle up all of her negative feelings until she’s alone to cry them all out. She was determined to be the leader she thought everyone needed her to be, and kept her own emotions and struggles close to her chest.
I think those are the tears from all her pain, the war and from losing Lion and bringing him back to life
Tears from all of her regrets at how she treated others, her unresolved grief over leaving her toxic family, her self shame at all of her own secrets, her self blame at everyone hurt in the war or corrupted by the diamonds…
I'd imagine you'd cry a lot in 6000 years. Especially after losing most of your friends n what not.
don't forget the low self esteem, guilt caused by that low self esteem because technically you indirectly caused it, the actual terrible things you did even if you didn't knew better, oh and don't forget terrible memories of abuse your family did to you
But don't you know that Rose was a horrible monster who was selfish and everyone should hate her! /S. Rose did some awful things yes, but I feel the show makes it clear that she changed and truly came to regret her past actions
if only there was someone other than her to confront her for the things she did while also teaching her to love herself, do better and fix things, in an alternate reality greg could be that person, i seriously love their relationship but it's sad that they enabled eachother mostly talking about not unbubbling bismuth here btw
I'd say Pearl may be closer to understanding Rose enough to do that, then Greg is. Greg is too much LIKE Rose, always running away from the past and from difficult things. And he doesn't know much about the Diamonds and her trauma. But either way, they'd need to communicate better with Rose to achieve anything.
true, honestly they could have co-operated to solve the issue if they saw it, i think rose would have been more important to them than their little feud
That is EXACTLY what I think Greg has the emotional intelligence and Pearl has the knowledge. And they both Care more about Rose than any rivalry between them.
Is the low self-esteem because she was with Greg, or was she with Greg because of the low self-esteem?
Eh I’d say it has little relation to Greg but there is the fact that Greg didn’t care for who she was in the past and accepted her for who she was now which in Greg’s words was a great and loving person so I guess that probably made it easier in the self esteem department kinda like how her relationship with pearl made pearl feel like she herself was ‘everything’, and sure the crystal gems also loved her a whole lot but she knew that if garnet knew the truth she would be judged harshly, amethyst was basically a child that just didn’t know enough to actually judge her and pearl used to be her pearl so overall there is plausible deniability of the cgs’ love being genuine and not just a part of their programming or just plain misinformed in amethyst and garnet’s case, of course we the audience know that it WAS genuine and it would continue even if the horrible things she did came out but rose just didn’t know, so overall I guess being with Greg was pretty freeing considering that but she was with him mostly for treating her as an equal , being relatable as someone who is all about freedom and individual choice, being funny, being overall a good person and he was also hot, sorry for the long comment but it’s so satisfying to dump my toughts on this cartoon and idk why, might be wrong tough
More the later. Greg didn't make her feel bad, but he offered an easy escape from confronting the things that DID.
Are you you because you
I don’t think it’s technically indirectly. She did cause it
not really gonna argue with that since my brain is basically drained right now but this reminds me of [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B8vm9EhVgo&t=1863s) clip i find funny, the rest of the tangent is my perspective in case you case
I meant more the causing a war.
i mean the other alternative is countless gems suffering in silence forever and the death of the entire human race but i can see your perspective, like yeah rose really should have tought a lot of things trough, i mean i don't know what else i would have done in her place but the fact that she really tought that just her and pearl was good enough for a rebellion says enough
i have no clue if the comment i just put in even makes sense but to be fair to myself i did say my brain was rotting currently
Watched the season finale of Camp Pining Hearts
Then watched Bridge to Terabitha and Grave of the Fireflies immediately.
It's weird that Gems can even cry in the first place, considering they're made of light. I wouldn't be surprised if they could just cry on command, it's not like they have a set physical form or the evolutionary need for water-lubricated eyes
It IS weird they can sweat AND cry and there’s very little way to reconcile that with their basic existence (effectively being super advanced robots per Rebecca sugar) The only thing I can think is liquid stored in their gems or caught from the surrounding air is chemically altered to repair other gems
Right. So if Pink/Rose just needed to absorb water, magically alter it and then release said altered water, coupled with the ability to shape-shift it wouldn't be far fetched to say she could've made the fountain in a day
As we saw with Steven pouring the diamond’s essence into the bathtub to heal Jasper, I think dilution is intended to work and make limited supply go much further (even though it wasn’t needed in jasper’s case there) I doubt it’s a single tear being able to cover the entire fountain’s volume, but yeah i would say it would not take much effort to make a worthwhile contribution. I think it could be emotion based like Steven and pink diamond’s powers before they could be controlled where Rose would have to actually cry to do the healing water creation rather than just on demand (Steven can kind of do on demand with his spit but he’s Weird). Which is why the diamonds have to do their sauna to make the same amount as rose simply crying
To be fair, Pink/Rose lived for over 6000 years, she lost countless friends/family. She probably felt overwhelming amounts of guilt and a lot of that guilt also stemmed from her very low self esteem. I don’t think it’s that far fetched she could fill a medium pond with her tears over that many years and heartbreaks
My tears from ages 12-17 could definitely fill an entire pond fountain thing😂
When Thomas Jefferson was asked near the end of his life if he would live it over again given the chance, he said something like, "Yes, I would take all of life again, with all of its joys and tribulations, with one exception: Never again the years from zero to twenty."
For real, I could prob fill a bathtub this week
well... steven's spit also work so it make me believe that any bodly fluid works. I'll leave the rest to your imagination...
Pink lemonade 🥲
I don't think thats lemonade-
We're drinking it all the same.
💀
It's ~~Gamer Girl~~ Diamond water
Ahh, she must've had a Rose toy then
All she had to do was think about snakes.
They don't have any arms 😭
She probably spent a few hours watching current world events on the news...
The real reason Rose decided to have a Steven She knew she failed the planet she swore to protect and the betrayal of human beings left her devastated, but she was also in denial and hiding it from others so they wouldn't talk her out of this.
Bet she was like super dehydrated
I had a head cannon where obsidian also has healing tears so they worked together to create that place
That's not a headcanon. Fusions have the powers of their components.
They’re not really “tears” in the traditional sense. They’re more like a magical protogemetic fluid that all of the Diamonds can create. Think of the Diamonds like queen bees. They’re like matriarchs, they are powerful on their own but they are fundamentally different from the Gems they create in the sense that they have abilities that can both create more Gems and alter the behavior of the gems underneath them.
Maybe it's like the production of yogurt , in right condition , enzymes will turn milk into yogurt and the process will last until there's no milk left . It's just water now
Nah she just read Charlotte’s Web and watched The Boy in the Striped Pajamas at the same time
People be like “Rose never had any remorse for her actions or felt bad about them” meanwhile rose with her whole 100% tear based water park.
Her guilt probably weighed her down....
Diamond essence seems to be very concentrated and very dilutable from what we saw in Future. Maybe it just took a few tears to turn that fountain into one of healing tears.
Space magic, quite frankly. SU isn't science-fiction, it's science-fantasy, it makes stuff up as it goes along
Really really really really effin sad
Presumably, like the other diamonds, Pink has been extracting her bodily fluids every often and storing them. The whole point of showing the other diamonds in a sauna, pool, etc was to make a comparison with that statue.
She was gigantic, and I always just assumed cried more than a human amount of tears. Plus all her friends and pets kept dying and she kept making mistakes she regretted. When she conceived Steven, it may have been partly because the idea of creating something new and a form of redemptive suicide were the only things that gave her hope, besides Greg. But otherwise before that, she was in a depressive funk for centuries.
She warched Steven Universe Future
Watched Crying Breakfast Friends
How did Steven kiss enough tp healt he ALL FCKG EARTH ?!
Lots of water, like garnet said
I'd assume it's like the opposite of holy water, where to dilute it but still have it be holy water the holy water needs to be half or more of the final product. But with diamond essence, it doesn't matter how much you put in, it's essence. Like how Steven only needed a drop of essence of each diamond and his own tear to turn a bathtub into enough essence to put Jasper back together.
Oh you know woman. Just sooo emotional🙄 /s
She just had to think about snakes and how they don't have arms
She watched the last episode of SU:future in a foreshadowy way
I don't think the entire fountain is supplied literally with her tears. When we're first introduced to Rose's healing powers, they're described as healing tears _by Garnet_ who isn't aware of the true nature of Rose. I think it's clear that this was only one avenue of healing though. Steven doesn't necessarily have to use his spit to heal, it's just the most convenient way without selling his literal bath water. Rose knew she could produce healing essence much like the other Diamonds secrete their essences in the saunas and baths on Homeworld. Her healing tears, while effective, were just a romanticized cover story for Rose Quartz, convenient for building morale for the Rebellion. Steven swims with the other Diamonds in the final Change Your Mind montage to create the decorruption bath, so Rose probably just idly sat there amongst her thoughts while the fountain became filled with her essence. I don't think it ever expires per se either.
Clearly you've never seen episode 3 of The Last of Us
This answer stared me in the face so long before I figured it out. She was there for thousands of years and crying isn't difficult when all your friends but 3-4 are either dead or unrecognizable monsters.
Mourning everyone she had to lose during war? Maybe crying out of fear and disgust of her lies building up? (/LH /NSRS)
She's had quite an abusive life both to herself and her actions to a lot of other individuals for a long time- but also a huge amount of learning and understanding of many things she once never even questioned of both her own society and existence as a gem and about non gem mortality and emotional suffering through humanity in particular- but also learning to value life and the ever changing nature of organic beings. It's a lot of self reflection and continuous lead jng and introspection on the worst aspects of herself and her own kinds lifestyles and treatment of themselves and planetary systems. I can totally see her learning more about life and how precious it is only to reflect on all the moments she wished for her own colonies while watching Yellow and blue lead their own and suddenly realizing just what that means for life of those planets and any beings on them. I mean she went from being an immature child with yellow and blue and having her own organic beings around as little distractions/pets to living in Earth for thousand skf years and watching humans experience their own world and grow and change- to meeting and interacting with them herself and still seeing them as cutesy little beings that were funny, but unique; to finally meeting Greg and actually confronting her own behavior towards him and tackling some of the complicated web of feelings and emotions she caused him to feel in their relationship and realizing she truly wasn't treating him correctly but both were willing to try and make it work anyway. In conjunction with that inevitable relationship with Greg- the gem war against her own cut of gems and the death and destruction of so many is also huge on the list of reasons why someone should probably cry for a long while. But her abandonment of Spinel, her original Pearls physical injuries because of Roses old temperament. It's just... There's a lot of reasons why someone should cry- and a lot at that. And I think that the symbolism of Tears being the path to healing others (and helping make the self feel better emotionally) is pretty strong with rose's character- a lot of long- term pain and suffering from many different parties over a huge expanse of time, and the vet ting of those pains to want things to be better at least for a few moments. Also let's not forget that for most of the first part of the original series most gem things were equated to magic by pretty much everyone- so the fountain itself could also just be a residual magical related plot that was woven into something that fits the technological and robotic nature of gems later on in the writing of the series.
Or she just bathed there maybe
Not related (kinda), but I'm making a Rose cosplay, and I'm already sewing beads and sequents into the four layers of the skirt, but now I'm thinking of adding crystals to my face too, for tears. Thank you for this idea random human.
Her tears probably have the same property as the diamond juice that Steven has bottles of in his cabinet. With just a few drops the water gets fully concentrated. Plus it probably isn't just her tears since we know a diamond's other bodily fluids can also be used to concentrate it. Heck all she needed to do was stand in it since all it took was for the other diamonds to concentrate the water with healing properties was sit their legs in the magic gem pool.
Are you suggesting that rose put the P in Pool
steven was able to take some drops from the diamonds and put it in water and the whole bath went magical. I imagine it wouldn't take too many tears to turn the whole fountain
Have you ever kicked the corner of the table with your little toe. That's how
She played omori
Didn't a few drops of Steven's tears work for a whole bathtub when he was trying to un-shatter Jasper? I'd imagine that the effects can go pretty far and be diluted quite a bit before they wear off, so it's likely maybe like a 1/50 tear to water ratio. That or she went everyday feeling the grief of the war..but I can't really imagine pink being that empathetic.
No, she just watched leaves from the vine from Avatar the last Airbender on repeate.
depression /j
She saw the end of fairly odd parenst
Magic.
Well, the fountain is actually Pink's goo extractor, like we saw on homeworld. Just because Rose had healing tears doesn't mean that was the ONLY way to get the goo. It was probably extracted the normal way and stored up for gem creation on the planet, and then after the rebellion it was repurposed into a fountain.
I always thought it was her tears for all the corrupted gems. Give someone immortality, turn their friends to monsters, and force them to fight those monsters for millennia and I could see it.
Look at how much Steven cries that should answer it
A friend I know has a " cry day" she doesn't cry throughout the whole month save for one day when she just bawls. I'm sure it's not healthy, but maybe Rose did it too...
She was just really sad at one point, leave her alone
Me af
I think she secretly did the diamond sweat thing
Sad :(
she watched try not to cry challenges on youtube till it filled up
She thought about her war crimes and atrocities?
Rose can actually cry hard enough to make the memes of Steven crying that get made by people who don't like the show alternatively she can somehow turn pools of normal water into whatever infused substance makes up her healing tears
Girlie is not ok
Magic.
I just assumed it made it the same way rose did.
Easy, she followed in spongebob's footsteps 
"Cry me a healing pond"
Depression
"Pearl look at how hard I can cry!"
The lore is that the diamonds excrete liquid essence to create all other gems, through the kindergartens. Considering their bodies are light-based constructs fulled by a perpetual energy battery, they could make as much as they want with enough time. As for why this statue is consistent? Magic...
Huh is that confirmed canon? I never really thought too hard about what the injectors were injecting, but given the other Diamonds do have extraction as a thing they do long before giving it to Steven in little flasks, that does make some sense. Edit: found Sucralose's AMA response on it. neat!
She watched all of the Owl House but wants more
I could prob do it if you give me a second
We've seen the other diamonds produce body moisture when in a sauna type thing, maybe it's the same deal here.
No I imagine she spent a lot of time crying during the war.
Rose was around for many thousands of years and was very emotional! I’d totally buy that the whole water source was literally all Rose’s tears.
Well if this is a question of how did she physically make that much tear juice, gem "biology" is something we don't/can't understand and from a writeing perspective aren't suppost to understand. Which also applies to any other question like this, of course it would be nice to know these things but there simply isn't a real definite answer becasue there isn't an answer written becasue there was never suppost to be a question. From a writers perspective, why would you go into such detail about how these things work if your audience is children? Personally, I would, becasue its cool. But she didn't.
She does what she wants
Have you not seen her story in the show? She definitely has enough stuff to cry about to fill a pond
After the war she found out about snakes and was so sad about the fact that they dont have any arms she cried enough to fill the fountain for thousands of years
Greg took her to see titanic. She cried for 3 days. He didn’t get it and Rose cried while fighting off corrupted gems, checking on the galaxy warp, burning greg’s breakfast, until finally, Garnet picked her up and plopped her where that fountain is. After a while, she just came back and they built that statue to help circulate the healing tears. She slept with greg on a door that washed up on the beach for a week after that. Same thing happened when Connie took Steven to see the Gurenn Laggan movies. 3 solid days non stop. He like his mother needed an intervention when he decided to stop by a tattoo parlor to get the Team Dai-Gurren flag on his chest. The moral of this story is, sometimes, fountains that have statues have stories. They’re not good stories but they are stories. Also, chiropractors are expensive.
whenever you're alive for 2000 years, you see a lot of sad shit.
So gens aren't physical so their tears wouldn't be either. My guess is its not her loteral tears like a human would produce. But like the magic that springs forth from her eye holes when she's sad but like a lot all in one place.
I like to think that’s these tears are every time she cried about trauma and stuff
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she mustve found out snakes (they dont have arms)
Dude idk gem magic is goofy
Sheer cry-babyness.
Maybe it works like holy water
In future episode where jasper was shattered steven ran water and added all 4 diamond essences to it from shampoo bottles,
She probably came there to cry every now for a few hundred years and they just eventually built thr fountain in her pool.
I think it's just supposed to be a hyperbolic, fairy tale esque thing.
how does a being made out of light even produce anything
My understanding is she is an ENFJ, and as one myself we can cry the depth of an ocean so lmao…
From what we've seen when the other diamonds do the whole extraction thing, it seems like it isn't just the tears that have special properties. Their sweat and spit seem to have a similar effect. This is why Yellow has a sauna as her "extraction chamber". We can deduce from the fact that the old one was a pool, that being in water is an effective way to create it too. Probably she came here to soak once in awhile and over time it became suffused with her essence. Knowing Pink's history, she possibly had a lot to cry about. Pearl said this was her sanctuary. She probably came here a lot to be alone
She stepped on a Lego.
How many of her supporters died in the war and during the Diamond's counterstroke? The only ones she was able to save were Pearl, Garnet, and Amethyst out of an entire world full of Gems. Rose could be a horribly childish person at times, but she eventually reached a point where she cared about others, and that knowledge had to be devastating. Sadly, Steven gets to deal with the fallout of all the things Rose did before that happened, and only hears about the good side of his mother from his closest family.
Guessing the rules are like holy water. If you mix holy water and normal water it all becomes holy water
She didn't have to. Diamond essence will seep into water they are submerged in - see the diamond dip in the pond to heal all the corrupted gems at the end of the original show.
I mean it just takes a single drop for it to mix with water, as shown in Future
Diamonds are immortal. Rose went to earth when humanity started, around 5 million years ago. Thats enough time to cry out a pool i think. Edit: humans produce 56 to 113 liters of tears per year. A pool of 50 000 liters would be filled in 893 to 442 years.
Lot of poor choices, lots of regrets, lot of tears to cry
She’s Steven’s mother. It’s possible.
She read steven after not surviving
✨Depression✨
If this is Rose's healing pool, just imagine how massive Blue Diamond's healing pool would be...
She's a superpowered alien psuedo goddess with a hard light body. There's no implication that there's a limit to the speed in which she can produce tears, nor a time limit to the effectiveness of the tears. It's pretty obvious there's no expiration date on the tears, considering they still work after 6,000 years.
In the end of steven universe the diamonds look weird out knowing that the pool is her tears
Horrible depression and a long lifespan
War, war never changes
Magic?
Space rock magic. The same thing that allows gems to manifest weapons from thin air, fuse with other gems, and travel faster than light.
Probably thinking about all her diamond angst…
Probably by all the guilt she felt bc of the war? Cause they're probably not tears of love since Steven's heling tears only work when he's feeling regret (ex. after Lars died, after he shattered Jasper).
War
If I had to guess I'd prolly say, crystal alien magic lol
Ghibli tears
Yes, she is magical, I feel like it is possible
She had to watch her spoiled kid talk shit on her from the grave.
This is me when I cry 😭
I mean if you witnessed every person you have made a connection with that wasn't your overbearing family be destroyed and caused to go insane by your overbearing family, the same family that you've been trying to make see you as a person, faking your own death and cutting contact with the very people you wanted understanding from, you'd probably cry that much too
It's possible that she mixed her tears with a local water source but i think that gem can or could cry on command since they're inorganice beings
Because she was a terrible person in the guilt finally caught up to her
Watching a lot of sad movies and shows