Rose's star

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Erm, awkward but....

Try this yourself: google “Rose Quartz Cosplay” and switch to images.

I’m not including any images because I don’t want anyone to think I’m shaming them, but...you might notice looking through the Rose cosplays that a surprising number of the cosplayers designed their Rose costumes with a yellow star on the dress, with the Gem placed on top of it.

Like, a really, really large number of cosplayers chose this variation.

It’s totally fine to cosplay a character however you like, of course! But I think the sheer number of people who put a gold or yellow star on their dresses suggests that at least some of them are not doing this as a creative tweak; they’re doing it because they think the character’s star shape is a yellow star, like Steven’s shirt.

It is not.

The star shape around her Gem is a cutout to expose her Gem. Which does not work very well in real life because the material doesn’t stay star-shaped and flops around and looks weird–it is in fact better to put a star the color of your skin on the dress and put the Gem on top of that.

Again, I want to emphasize that if someone just likes that idea to jazz up their costume or wants it to reflect a connection to Steven, they’re fully within their rights to do that, just as they can make any other changes to a cosplay that they want to and have no obligation to keep their cosplay accurate to the character design!

But if you intend to have a costume that reflects the intended details of Rose Quartz’s design, please don’t misinterpret that as a yellow or gold star. :)