I’ve heard a lot of people bouncing around a theory that White Diamond in the new episode is really a hologram, but if she is then we’re asking the wrong question. The real question is where she’s projecting from. My theory: somewhere far far away from Homeworld, if she was worried about an assassination attempt like Pink’s. Maybe somewhere where gems hadn’t been reported for millennia after an extinction-level event. That’s right, Earth. But how? It’s kind of hard to just hide when you’re the biggest gem in the universe. Obviously she would need a form that could somehow defy geometry and hide her gem within her form. Something that would probably cripple the rest of her abilities, even speech.
This conclusion is pretty heavy, I’ll put it under a cut: