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rose quartz probably kept a lot of her powers a secret, along with 99% of the rest of her shit… her hairs so big cuz its full of secrets. 

but then steven inherited her powers, and lapis was rly shocked to find out he could heal her

everyone seemed pretty surprised when he made a bunch of sentient watermelons

things like giving life and healing gems are pretty big powers, akin to something a diamond might use to grow her army by bestowing life into the gems in kindergartens, and to remain relatively immortal by healing herself if she’s damaged

i mean, these r literally godlike powers, and a quartz soldier has no business wielding anythin of the sort on the battlefield imo

dont’ forget about the mind jumping ability. It’s entirely possible that she created a quartz soldier for the sole purpose of creating a hero to fight the diamonds and then found a way to make it permanent by shattering diamond body.