okay you’re all aware of yellow pearl, the shitlord1950s secretary 

“that’s no excuse”

she has a smugness about her that seems funny compared to a) what we know about pearls and b) the stoic sad blue pearl everyone is fawning over. and its true that yellow pearl seems exactly like that kid in elementary school that would tattle on you in a second to get a pat on the head from the teacher–but y’all are forgetting something. 

the moment yellow diamond speaks, saying pearl’s name

she flinches. immedietely. unthinkingly. yellow diamond doesn’t even sound that angry, just vaguely annoyed, and yellow pearl’s automatic response is to shrink

when yellow diamond asks her why someone is calling on the diamond line, she rushes to answer, doing her best to avoid being blamed for what’s happening. when she says “i don’t know” she sounds almost panicked, and she quickly tries to shift blame to peridot

and when yellow diamond reaches her hand down, yellow pearl backs the hell up

like yellow diamond hasn’t even moved the camera at that point the only thing that moved is pearl, she moved the fuck back the second yellow diamond reached her hand down. and fuck i would too if the hand was bigger than my fucking body

in conclusion, blue pearl isn’t the only pearl that needs protection